"I've seen adults."

"Your Excellency is here?"

The weapons workshop and the firearms workshop are placed in one place, and the land is very extensive, and it is also the place with the most investment, the most land, and the most people and materials in the workshop.

Everyone understands that the biggest and hardest capital in Min Yuanqi's hands is the trained flag army, and with the passage of time, a large number of new troops have all entered the camp for training.

Because there are more than 400 veterans as the foundation, Gao Cuncheng and Yang Zhijin of the Military Training Department are also quite effective, as well as Guo Shangyi, Shen Liang, Xie Xiang and other experienced and ruthless middle-level officer helpers, selected a group of veterans to serve as the new army's army commanders, team officers, and flag captains, so that less than ten days after the new army entered the camp, the standing line was already very good.

Every morning, more than 3,500 people do running, and the momentum is quite terrifying.

Fortunately, Yunti Pass, a piece of offshore place, was originally quite barren, and the place was very large.

The manpower is also sufficient, in addition to the expansion of the original barracks area, three more school fields have also been built.

At present, there are three large school grounds and two small school grounds in the barracks area, one of which is a special school field used by cavalry to practice basic skills such as getting on and off horses.

There is another one, which is related to Shen Yong, which is mainly a place where the firecracker banner soldiers practice firecrackers.

The banner army of more than 3,570 people, a battalion headquarters, and a number of clerks were not in the army's establishment, but were organized into a general affairs bureau, which was subordinate to the Central Military Department and was under the management of Min Yuanzhong.

The archives department, the receiving and receiving department, and the attendant section are all under the military department in the battalion, in addition to the attendant division, most of the officials are hired to serve, and the students who come out of the school run by the 300th household in the future can also be enriched to serve as clerks under the divisions.

This is also Min Yuanqi's line of thought.

The commanders of the Ming army cannot be said to be all illiterate, but ninety percent of them are illiterate and have not run.

Most of the military orders and postings issued by the generals are handled by the masters, and some officials will be hired in the camp, but they are not systematic and relatively scattered.

Qi Jiguang has a fixed clerical position in the army, but he also has no department, and he is a person who is attached to the military generals.

If corresponding departments are set up in the army, each performing its own duties, and the generals are in charge of military camp training and conquest, then we will be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort in military affairs.

Only the military training and military justice departments are afraid that they will mainly use officers, even if they are military officials, they must select literate and clever people in the army to be appointed.

In front of me is the small school field dedicated to the firecrackers, which is also close to the barracks workshop, less than 200 steps apart, and the security is extremely tight, and it is already very large-scale.

If you want to say that the importance of each workshop, the weapons and firearms workshop must be the first, and even the barracks not far away are still building houses, and there are already a large number of new houses for craftsmen to live in, even if they are apprentices, it is also a new house with five rooms and a row of two people, and the furniture inside is given priority to the craftsmen on the construction site, in order to give the craftsmen and apprentices an early peace of mind and work well.

In addition to housing, various food benefits are also first-class, and the salary is also quite generous.

There must be people who are jealous of these things, and there are also people who say strange things, but most of them are pinched in the middle of the road before they reach Min Yuanqi's ears.

Everyone knows that the strength of the armor is the last word, and if everyone wore thick armor and iron helmets, the last battle against the bandits would not have killed more than 20 people one after another.

Although he cut down more than 1,000 people on the other side, and killed a lot, and although the kill ratio was as brilliant and beautiful as 1 to 50, who would want to be one of those 20 people?

There are only 20 people who look good in the battle report, who wants to be one of them?

Although it is only one, but everyone's life is not all for the family?

The Armor Workshop is a place to build weapons and make armor, which can be said to be a very important place.

The Firearms Workshop is the place where the firecrackers are made, and although they have not been established for a long time, the power of the firecrackers has been fully demonstrated in the last battle against the bandits, and everyone knows the importance of firearms.

There are some people who are strange, the fire gun is powerful, lethal is not small, and the momentum is also terrifying, why don't those battalion generals like to use it?

Later, I slowly learned the reason, it is slow to build a firecracker, time-consuming and laborious, and the quality must be grasped well, otherwise the unqualified firecracker will be far inferior to the bow and arrow.

It also has to be rigorously trained, although it takes three months to train quite elite guns, and archers need at least three years to be considered elite, but the cost of firearm training is far more than that of bows and arrows.

The projectiles are all lead, and the large pieces of lead are bought back for the soldiers to grind themselves, which is a small cost.

There is also a large amount of sulfite, which has to be bought constantly, the price is expensive, and you have to practice it every day.

According to Min Yuanqi's cognition, he usually practices 100 times a day, but it is not as good as 10 times of live ammunition.

If you want to not panic on the battlefield, you can succeed in loading and reloading, and don't think about saving money in ordinary practice.

Daily live-fire training, simulating the battlefield, and then the firecracker reloads and shoots, although there is still a gap with the actual battlefield, but it can usually play dozens of rounds every day, keep playing and loading, and really go to the battlefield, naturally it is much stronger than the weak chickens of the Ming army who are almost untrained at ordinary times.

Not training, not willing to spend money, and the fire francium is not qualified, such a gun is certainly not the opponent of the Jurchen archers, after many battles, a convention and contrast are formed, and the generals pay less attention to this, forming a vicious circle.

Min Yuanqi arrived near the workshop, and in the greetings of everyone, the firearms in the small school field also rang out in ping-pong.

Large clouds of white smoke rose from the air, and then a strong smell of gunpowder and sulfur permeated.

The Zhu family is not afraid of spending money, but the training in front of him is at least more than 1,000 taels of silver a month, and he has changed to an ordinary guerrilla general, if he doesn't take advantage of the chaos to plunder, or if he was originally from a general's family, he can raise a cavalry family of one or two hundred people by drinking hundreds of soldiers' blood, so how can he be willing to train firecrackers for hundreds of taels a month?

"Two thousand headquarters, each thousand headquarters has a herald cavalry flag team, and then an independent cavalry division, three hundred headquarters, more than three hundred horses, at least six hundred war horses and one thousand horses, less than half of them are in place now."

Min Yuanqi stood on the small school field and watched the firecrackers keep playing.

In the small school yard on the other side, the cavalry is constantly practicing the most basic riding skills such as riding on and off the horse and controlling the war horse to go straight and turn.

When Min Yuanzhi heard that Min Yuanqi was coming here, he also ran over cheekily.

"No way yet." Min Yuanqi listened to it funny, and scolded with a smile: "What are you talking about, it's less than half of the horses, and the war horses have almost bought more than 500 horses, you have a total of more than 300 people, the training is enough, do you really want to send troops on an expedition now?" ”

"Always practice a long-distance training with one person and two rides, and it will only work when it is used in the future, and it will be pulled out!" Min Yuanzhi grinned and said: "Besides, except for the herald flag team in the thousand headquarters, the deputy hundred and above are equipped with herald riders, and the two divisions each have a team of Tang horses, and these war horses must be deducted from me, and the calculation is less than four hundred." If the cavalry of the new army in front of us is well trained, there will be an even greater shortage of war horses in the future. ”

"Don't worry about it." Min Yuanqi said: "You just have to follow the experience you got from the last battle and rush into battle, and see how to use the cavalry frontal attack, in addition to the armor of men and horses, what else is important?" ”

"If in addition to the cavalry and war horses are armored, weapons are also important. My idea is that when the front row rushes into battle, you must hold long soldiers, so that you can fight with the enemy's infantry with long soldiers, and you can break through the formation. In the back row of three rows, it is best to hold short soldiers, because the enemy formation has been broken, the important thing is to kill the enemy, and it is really inconvenient to assassinate the scattered enemy with an overly long riding spear, and the effect is also very poor. Therefore, the front row is long to ride a gun, and the back two rows are armed with waist knives, which is the best way. As for the charging formation, in addition to the strength of the armor and the soldiers, it is necessary to advance in unison. ”

Min Yuan said straightly, simply squatted down, and drew a simple circle with a branch.

"Breaking the formation with cavalry, whether attacking the flank or covering behind, breaking the foot with cavalry, the most difficult thing is how to break the formation when it comes into contact. If you are scattered and rushed, throw your bow and arrow far away and wait for the enemy's position to be confused, which is the most laborious method. With our riding and archery skills, if we want to practice such a riding formation, it will take three years to say the least...... In fact, I feel that if I want to practice to advance and retreat as freely as a Tartar, I immediately throw the ability to shoot seven or eight out of ten, three years and three years, I am afraid that I will not be able to succeed, or in other words, it may not be enough to practice for a lifetime. ”

Min Yuanqi nodded slightly, squinting at this cousin.

The inheritance of the family is a point, and it is more important for you to be willing to put your mind into it, otherwise Min Yuanzhi has been studying before, and he has not been involved in archery at all, but he has played some weapons in the art of war and learned riding skills.

The family has not been a general in the nine sides, and it is already one in a hundred who can maintain the level of the Min family.

If the Ming army wants to compete with the Mongols in cavalry and archery kung fu, it is indeed too far behind, and it will not even be able to catch up in a lifetime.

However, the Mongols at this time were also weak chickens, not to mention fighting with the Jurchens, if it was a small number of Mongols against the elite of the border army of the Ming army, the two sides would fight, and the Mongols would also be defeated.

Only when the Mongols gathered tens of thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of people could the Ming army's elite fighting style be restrained.

It can be seen that the things in the world are not certain, don't think that riding and shooting is unequaled to win the world.

"Our method of breaking the enemy, one lies in the strength of the armor and the soldiers, we here are heavy armor and heavy weapons, heavy war horse rationing, this way Brother Yuan Qi is on the right track. The second is to make the array neat, don't do any Rava tactics and projectile methods, simply the cavalry will not learn to shoot, just engage in a mallet business, rampage and hard collision, and break the formation, we will win! I refer to the historical cavalry war horses, the iron harriers made by the Xia people in the Song Dynasty, connected by hooks, heavy armor and long soldiers, and heavy cavalry to break the formation, is this what it means? ”

Min Yuanzhi's eyebrows danced, and Min Yuanqi also looked at this cousin with appreciation.

Of course, the people of later generations know the modern cavalry tactics, that is, the cavalry formation and cooperation, in fact, history is a cycle, and the training and tactics of modern cavalry have unique features, but in the final analysis, there is no lack of precedents in history.

"We don't need to use it, the Xixia people are also based on the local mountainous area, which is not easy to develop a war method." Min Yuanqi said with a smile: "Only practice heavy cavalry to break through the formation, and can practice to gallop and charge the array without chaos, and advance side by side, this cavalry can be regarded as trained!" ”