Qi Jiguang's march was not slow, but it was not that fast, but it was just the marching speed of the ordinary infantry of the Ming army.

But this is not because the Qi family army is slacking off, but because Qi Jiguang brought the car camp with him in this battle.

Not talking about the chariots of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it only shows that the car battalion should be traced back to Zeng Milling at the earliest.

After Zeng Miao's death, the second time the Cheying Battalion tactics were formally proposed and practiced, it came from the hands of Yu Dayou, who was transferred to Shanxi at that time, and Yu Dayou made many improvements to the Cheying and made improvements to many details.

Yu Long Qi Hu, killing people like dirt. Yu Dayou was transferred out of northern Xinjiang, and Qi Jiguang was transferred north again, and they all set their sights on Cheying.

Personal personality has a great influence on the general's combat style, for example, Ma Fang's strong personality is strong, so the enemy's cavalry is strong, the more he has to "ride with horses" You can do it, I can do it, and I even have to do it better than you.

Qi Jiguang is different, it can be seen from his style of being an official and a man that this is a person who can judge the situation and not compete with the general environment and the direction of the wind, he prefers to adapt measures to local conditions and find ways to solve problems based on existing conditions.

What are the existing conditions? For the Japanese invaders, he emphasized the role of small-scale elite soldiers, and created the Mandarin Duck Array, which has since been invincible and invincible.

It was much more complicated for the Mongols, because the Mongols' innate advantage in cavalry was too huge, and no matter how the Ming looked at it, they could only stand on the defense first, and then they had the opportunity to gain a foothold on the attack.

If there is an analogy between Mongolia and Daming, it is as if Mongolia is a lightweight but extremely flexible fighter, and Daming is a heavyweight but less agile fighter.

Theoretically speaking, Da Ming can withstand a hundred punches from Mongolia without falling, and as long as he hits Mongolia with one punch, he can beat Mongolia to the point of being out of breath for ten years.

But the problem is that in fact, Mongolia's flexibility and strength have been seriously supermodeled, comparable to plug-in players, Da Ming ate a hundred punches, but he just couldn't hit the punch of others.

Daming's physical fitness is there, let Qi Jiguang be the coach, and he can't give you a rebirth and strengthen your weaknesses. can only find a way to continue to strengthen the advantages and strive to make Daming also appear as a supermodel in some aspects. For example, if you wear a set of heavy armor for Daming, and this set of heavy armor is still thorny, in this way, no matter how flexible he is, the Mongols will not dare to punch easily.

Therefore, there is the matter of overhauling the border defense and building thousands of hollow enemy platforms.

But just like a boxing match, if you want to win, not only do you have to stand still, but you also have to knock people down, so Qi Jiguang has been thinking about how to break the cavalry.

Gao Pragmatic has corresponded with him privately many times over the years, and has proposed to him a tactical idea called "Hollow Phalanx".

Qi Jiguang already knew that Gao Shishi's mind would often come up with some seemingly nonsense, but in fact brilliant ideas, and his proposals were always quite cautious before making conclusions.

So Qi Jiguang spent more than two years to test the practicability of this "hollow phalanx" tactic, and finally he came to the following conclusions:

First of all, this tactic is only suitable for elite troops who are not afraid of death, and this army must have strict military discipline with simple bayonets and smoothbore n, and do not waver in the face of cavalry charges, otherwise the seemingly thin two or three lines of lines against cavalry charges, psychological pressure alone can cause the general army to collapse.

Secondly, this tactic has very high requirements for firepower, in a highly pragmatic way of expression, that is, the requirements for "unit bomb volume" are very high, otherwise there is not enough firepower, and even if the soldiers of the hollow phalanx do not collapse because they are afraid of charging into the formation, they will not be able to cause enough damage to the enemy, and then make them fearful, frightened, and dare not fight.

Finally, this tactic requires itself to be on the side with artillery superiority, otherwise if the opponent has artillery superiority, a few rounds of artillery bombardment will be meaningless, and the passive hollow phalanx will be useless. Of course, this does not seem to be a big problem, can the Mongols still achieve an artillery superiority? What are you kidding, it has become the situation that swept the world during the founding period of Mengyuan.

Are there any elite soldiers? Yes, but Qi Jiguang has been training for so many years, and the elite soldiers who have basically been trained are some of the elites of Jiliao, Xuanda, Shaanxi and other towns, and because Qi Jiguang was only able to control them during the training period, no one dares to guarantee whether they will soon become corrupt and degenerate after returning to the town.

So in the end, it is difficult to say how many soldiers can use this hollow phalanx tactic. Qi Jiguang only dared to say that the Qi family army he personally led had the ability to complete the hollow phalanx and deploy it well.

As for the firepower problem, since the advent of the Longqing two-type fire, the improvement of firepower intensity is obvious, especially the firearms produced by Jinghua are of excellent quality and properly maintained, and there is basically no need to worry about the occurrence of explosions and other phenomena during the safe use period, so it can barely be regarded as enough.

However, since the hollow phalanx requires bayonets, it is used to stand upside down on the ground when facing the cavalry charge, and the tip of the bayonet is tilted forward, forming a bayonet forest to deter the opponent's war horses.

This should be explained a little: horses are very intelligent creatures, they will subconsciously dodge the bayonet this bright sharp metal, so when the "bayonet forest" appears, the war horse will resist to rush at them.

In the era of cold weapons, the front formed by a firm heavy infantry line could never be easily shaken by heavy cavalry, which was the conclusion of later generations. Not to mention Archer-Jones's Western art of war and other things, in fact, even the Mongol cavalry will form a shield formation to defend in a desperate situation, for details, see the Battle of Ain Jalu Of course, there is a premise for this, the "staunch heavy infantry" is definitely not the same guard soldiers as the beggars of the Ming Dynasty now.

Therefore, Qi Jiguang has been waiting for Gao Pragmatic to come up with the bayonet he proposed ten years ago, as well as the new type of fire that can be used with the bayonet, because only when these two weapons are combined, the hollow phalanx will not be an empty word.

But Qi Jiguang couldn't wait stupidly, so he began to think about how to apply the reasonable idea of the "hollow phalanx" tactic without a bayonet.

Thus, an improved version of the car battalion appeared.

"In the past, the enemy's iron cavalry clashed with tens of thousands, and the situation was difficult to bear. Our army's formation has not been decided, and it is easy to break through, take advantage of the situation and ravage, until there is nothing left. And the enemy wants to fight, our army has to fight, the enemy does not want to fight, I only look at it. The enemy often changes to the other, our army is afraid of weakness, and the heart is overwhelming, and the momentum cannot be resisted. "Qi Jiguang's actual record of military training is one of the six car battalions.

"And the enemy wants to fight, our army has to fight, the enemy does not want to fight, I only look at it." This sentence perfectly presents the most embarrassing part of the Ming Dynasty when facing the Mongol cavalry.

The main consideration of Qi Jiguang's training battalion is that the battlefield environment in the north is very unfavorable for the Ming army, especially the desert and boundless northern battlefield is suitable for large-scale mobile horse warfare, and the Ming Dynasty in the agricultural society is not good at horse shooting, and it is far inferior to Mongolia in horse battles.

This is very similar to what happened to the Japanese in the south, who also used their boats and boats at sea to maneuver quickly, so that the slow Ming infantry could not resist at all, and there was nowhere to resist, and they were often beaten by the high-speed maneuvering Japanese invaders.

However, unlike the chaotic and chaotic small group combat characteristics of the Japanese in the south, the Mongolian army was a large group elite force with clever tactics, which was far from being comparable to the indiscriminate fighting of the Japanese pirates.

Qi Jiguang's Qi family army trained in the south set up a camp formation, which could effectively curb the attack on the camp by the Japanese invaders, but it could not stop the large-scale horse war assault in the north. The existing camp formation is the foundation of the Qi family's army's battle and defense, once the camp is kicked, there is no chance of winning this battle.

In order to cope with this grim battlefield situation, Qi Jiguang referred to the combat experience and resources of the northern border army, and with the idea of high pragmatism of "unit bomb drop" as the core, he joined the law of the original Qi family army to set up a battalion formation, and organized a new concept of vehicle battalion to correspond.

Note: In Qi Jiguang's military books, the most inked ones are the car battalion and the baggage battalion, which shows that Qi Jiguang attaches great importance to the tactical use of the car battalion, which is a strong support backing for the horses, infantry and other units that are planned as the main force in the field battle. In other words, the battalion cannot guarantee that it will "win", but it can guarantee that it will be "undefeated".

Generally speaking, the chariot battalion is a mixed battalion with the main combat battalions such as horses and infantry, and the chariot battalion is the core of the battalion's combat and defense.

However, the planning of the car battalion itself is a unit with both offense and defense, and an independent vehicle includes two teams, the positive and the odd soldiers, as well as two powerful Jinghua imitation Furlong machine guns as fire support backing, which is enough to exercise tactical independent combat missions in terms of combat capability.

At the same time, according to the different tasks, you can flexibly join the main combat small units such as horses and infantry teams as additional offensive and defensive weapons for the car battalion.

In the past, the car battalion of the Zeng Milling and Yu Dayou periods was relatively biased towards heavy and large "cars", one is the partial van car, which refers to the left or right side of the vehicle, which is called the partial compartment If there are guards on both sides, it is called a chariot.

After Qi Jiguang created the car battalion, he felt that the partial van was too large and bulky, although it was conducive to escort and defense, but the mobility was seriously insufficient, which was lacking in the use of tactics, in order to make up for this shortcoming, so Qi Jiguang founded a light car battalion in addition to the old-fashioned car battalion.

This kind of new light car is conducive to going far and passing through dangerous passes, and is sometimes used. Two hundred and sixteen vehicles per battalion, fifty-four vehicles on each side, one for each vehicle, one captain and one helmsman, that is, a fireman. The first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth club players, the seventh and first club palladium archers, and the ninth and tenth team are all wolf fighters.

But even the light vehicle battalion, after all, is not the era of internal combustion engines, there is no engine available, so the marching speed can only be maintained to the same level as ordinary infantry.

However, Qi Jiguang is not worried about this problem, he has two purposes in this battle, one is to complete the instructions issued by Gao Shishi through the hands of the emperor, so that the headquarters of the Chahar Department is unstable If Li Chengliang's father and son can be successfully completed, the strength of the Taining Department and the Duoyan Department will be greatly damaged, and as long as Qi Jiguang is stuck in time, let Changang know the defeat of the quick Jianghai and Dong Fox, whether he dares to defend Daning or not, it is not easy to say.

If he doesn't dare, he can only flee and leave, and if he goes, he will go to the Tumen to cry, then the task on Jiliao's side will be completed, and they must have seriously disrupted the Tumen's plan.

It would be even better if Changang still dared to defend Daning, Qi Jiguang happened to test the power and effectiveness of the Cheying camp in Saibei.