Wu Guanlin pointed to a page on the manuscript describing the light infantry and said: "With the performance of the rifled rifles we are equipped with, it is enough to make our light infantry much more powerful, and even serve as the main force on the battlefield!" ”

"Because our light infantry will be able to combine the current chasseurs and light infantry, not only to complete various conventional combat missions like the traditional light infantry, but also to carry out various special missions like the chasseurs!"

"This will give us a huge tactical advantage!"

The chaspersers and light infantry in the towns of the Daheng domain are two concepts, and the current chaspersin in the towns of the Tang Dynasty refer to the troops specially equipped with rifled rifles, and the recruits are often soldiers from hunters.

Therefore, the number of chasseurs is relatively small, and they are not used in frontal battlefields, but are often used to perform some special tasks, such as ambushes, sneak attacks, sniping enemy generals, etc.

However, in the case of light infantry, it refers to a conventional unit that is still equipped with smoothbore guns, but fights in a skirmish formation and can carry out rapid maneuvering, usually a standard six-company system, a musket battalion of about 600 people, and its subordinate six companies often have a light infantry company.

This light infantry company is usually deployed at the front of the unit to carry out combat missions such as reconnaissance, harassment, and decoy of the enemy.

At that time, the rear slope tactics of the Orissa Empire, which was used to carry out the task of luring the enemy head-on, was the light infantry, which often went up and retreated after a few rounds of free shooting, and when the enemy's line infantry was stupidly chasing up, the main force of the Orissa Empire was already lined up behind the hillside, and it was to fire fiercely when they went up.

The new type of light infantry mentioned by Wu Guanlin is basically a combination of traditional light infantry and chasseurs!

After hearing this, Lin Ziran said: "This is not bad, in the previous few operations, this officer used light infantry tactics, and the effect is not bad!" ”

When he said this, Lin Ziran was a little bragging.

Before he fought with the bandits under his command and the subsequent fake soldiers, he didn't have a perfect tactical concept at all.

As for light infantry tactics, he didn't even have a decent light infantry under his hands before!

However, Wu Guanlin didn't know the truth of the matter, so Lin Ziran said so, and Wu Guanlin couldn't tell the truth from the false.

Wu Guanlin said: "In the new tactical system, the line formation is still the core, but the straggler formation also has an important position, and it is not inferior to the line formation. ”

"Not only taking into account the special advantages of our rifled guns, but also taking into account the many terrains in the field, especially the hilly area where Qingshan Town is located and the surrounding areas, which are full of mountains and dense forests, and many times it is difficult for the troops to list a complete line formation, so that the line infantry is reluctant to engage in irregular line formation, which also gives the light infantry tactical space!"

There are still some things that Wu Guanlin did not say, that is, aside from the short time of the establishment of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion and the lack of training, according to his observations in the past few days, the overall morale of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion is very poor, and the quality of the officers is really unsightly.

Such a unit cannot play hard-hitting operations at all, and it is better to fight some unconventional operations such as ambushes and harassment.

Otherwise, Wu Guanlin estimated that even though the Qingshan Patrol Battalion had the advantage of rifled guns, it would collapse as soon as the enemy launched a charge.

Don't talk about it!

Wu Guanlin really guessed correctly.

Earlier, when Lin Ziran led his troops to intercept the fleeing rebels in southern Guang'an, he occupied favorable terrain in advance, and his troops were comparable and had equipment advantages.

But in the face of the direct charge of the Guang'an rebels, those Guang'an rebels were still two or three hundred meters away, and the Qingshan Patrol Battalion had already run away.

Well, it was Lin Ziran himself who ran away first!

Wu Guanlin didn't know this, Lin Ziran still knew it himself, so bragging was bragging, but he still knew the problem very well, so he was very interested in Wu Guanlin's new light infantry tactics.

The two discussed this new type of light infantry for a long time, and during this period, Wu Guanlin also carried some of his own private goods.

What bootlegged?

Wu Guanlin has been tossing his new light infantry tactics for the past year or two.

He felt that the current line infantry had long since become obsolete, and that the light infantry using the skirmish line was the future.

It's just that this statement has always been called stupid!

In fact, if Lin Ziran knew that Wu Guanlin's previous light infantry tactics were based on light infantry equipped with smoothbore guns as the core, he would also think that this Wu Guanlin was crazy.

It is normal and necessary to have a light infantry company armed with smoothbore guns in an infantry battalion, but you are foolish to replace an entire infantry battalion with light infantry.

Not to mention that a single charge of cavalry can beat these traditional light infantry into fools, even the opposing line infantry can rely on dense firepower to gain a huge advantage.

Not to mention the subsequent bayonet charge, which can blow up the traditional light infantry in minutes!

As far as the range and accuracy of the smoothbore gun are concerned, the traditional light infantry can honestly play auxiliary, and they also want to be the main frontal force on the battlefield, thinking too much!

But that's the light infantry that was previously armed with smoothbore guns!

Now Lin Ziran is under the light infantry equipped with rifled guns, and the difference between the two is big.

This is also the reason why Lin Ziran did not feel disgusted by Wu Guanlin's statement of emphasizing light infantry combat, but felt that this person was a talent and grasped the future.

How to say it, half a step ahead is a genius, and one step ahead is a fool!

Tactical innovation is supported by new weapons, and skirmishers have truly become the core tactics of infantry, which is based on rear-loading rifled guns.

And the current Mini rifle can be regarded as a transitional period, even if it is only a transitional period, but it can barely play the tactical role of the skirmish.

After a detailed discussion with Wu Guanlin, Lin Ziran informed the whole army on the same day and appointed Wu Guanlin as the chief of staff of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion.

From this appointment, it can be seen that Lin Ziran is already preparing to adopt Wu Guanlin's new tactics, and this is indeed the case, Lin Ziran excerpted the training content from the new tactical system compiled by Wu Guanlin, and then compiled it into a new 'training drill code', and the subsequent Qingshan Patrol Battalion will train according to this training code.

The next day, he officially announced that the First Musket Company and the Second Musket Company would be reorganized into light infantry companies, and that the follow-up training of these two companies should adopt the training method of a new type of light infantry.

The other four musket companies remained unchanged and continued to train as line infantry, but much of the training had been transformed into new tactics.

The changes in the training and drill code and the reorganization of two light infantry companies already mean that the Qingshan Patrol Battalion has completely abandoned the traditional line-up tactical system of the Luo'an Army and embarked on a new tactical system that no one knows whether it will succeed.