The exercise ground was set up in the coastal area of the Wanning Army, which was close to Boao, and Zhao Yu's palace was also convenient for personal inspection. www.biquge.info The exercise was divided into two phases: The first stage was a joint landing operation between the water and land armies on the coastal plains and complex mountainous terrain; and the second stage was a joint landing operation between the water and land armies on the coastal plains and complex mountainous terrain; the second stage was for the naval forces to carry infantry troops to maneuver through inland waterways, penetrate deep into the enemy's hinterland to seize key points, cut off the enemy's reinforcements, outflank the enemy's rear routes, and gather and annihilate the encircled enemy forces.

In June, Qiongzhou also entered the rainy season. Because Qiongzhou lives in the middle of the sea, if it wants to restore the country, it must develop to the mainland, so since the situation in Qiongzhou stabilized, Zhao Yu's military strategy has shifted from defensive operations in the past to landing operations, and the training content of various departments is also mainly based on landing operations, and the annual military exercises are also carried out around landing operations.

With regard to the landing in the plains, the various units of the Song Army have summed up mature tactics based on experience through actual combat in support of various base areas. During the reconnaissance phase, water ghosts are sent in to survey the hydrology of the intended landing site, and then clear the anti-landing obstacles set up in the beaches along the coast. After the army enters the landing area, it will send rocket ships and artillery boats to bombard the troops and outposts deployed along the coast to clear the landing ground.

Then, according to the hydrological conditions, medium and small gunboats were dispatched to shoot at close range to further sweep away the remnants of the enemy and fortifications. At the same time, the landing troops were transferred from transport ships to flat-bottomed boats for landing. After capturing and consolidating the bridgehead, the convoy docked at the port to build a simple trestle or use small boats to transfer supplies and unload heavy weapons, and after the landing force was strengthened, it expanded the bridgehead to the periphery, established a landing field, and built fortifications to fight the enemy counterattack. After most of them landed on the shore, the various units expanded their landing grounds under the cover of artillery fire, defeated the current enemy and advanced in depth.

However, in this landing exercise, Zhao Yu mobilized six divisions of infantry troops, including the Imperial Front Guard, two baggage brigades, three marine police districts of the navy, and artillery, cavalry, and training brigades of the New Army. In addition to increasing the number of landings on complex terrain, the content of the exercise also emphasized the combined training of the naval and land forces, the coordination between the infantry artillery and the infantry cavalry, and especially the rapid boarding and disembarkation of personnel and equipment of various branches of the infantry army, and the unloading, deployment, and replenishment of equipment. In addition, the landing tactics of forced landing and frontal breakthrough have been changed to emphasize the use of surprise attack tactics such as sneak attacks, roundabouts, and night battles......

About five miles from the coast, a four-masted Wanshi warship was anchored in the sea, its shape was taller than the Sheji, and it was equipped with more than 80 ballistas of various types and 20 rocket launchers. This is one of the results of Zhao Yu's series of redressing, due to the needs of future wars, some of the naval warships have been unable to adapt to the far sea operations, so at the cost of a year's salt tax revenue to rebuild more than 200 large and small warships. Including three Wanshi command ships, the Taishan is officially one of them moored on the sea at the moment.

"Your Majesty, at present, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Divisions have all landed, and the 4th Division is making a detour to the enemy's right flank to cut off the enemy's westward escape!" On the 'Taishan' warship, the military exercise headquarters was stationed on it, and Zhao Yu was also seated here at the beginning of the exercise, Zhang Shijie reported on the current battle situation.

"Well, the Fourth Division has not yet landed at this time, if the enemy army is defeated in a battle, will they be able to catch up?" Zhao Hao looked at the map and asked with a frown.

"Your Majesty, that's what the minister thinks." Zhang Shijie was stunned and said, "Your Majesty has entered the rainy season at this time, the water level of the Baiquan River has skyrocketed, and the water situation is complicated, so I chose to let the fleet enter the river in the early morning to avoid unnecessary casualties!" ”

"I have said many times that the exercise ground is a battlefield, and everything needs to be considered in accordance with actual combat, if it is because of the fear that the capsizing ship will cause the failure of the encirclement plan, resulting in the failure of the target of the total annihilation of the enemy, it is not as simple as delaying the fighters!" Zhao Hao said in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty, ...... minister" Zhang Shijie blushed when he heard this.

"Your Majesty, my subordinates think that the main goal of our landing has been achieved, and besides, the poor Kou Mo chases, even if he runs a few, it will be fine, right?" Liu Zhu saw that His Majesty's face was pale, and hurriedly helped Zhang Shijie distinguish it.

"Junshuai Liu, this won't be your idea, right?" Zhao Yu turned his face to look at Liu Zhu, and said with a sullen face, "It's better to break one of their fingers than to hurt their ten fingers, if they let them escape, they can be rebuilt, and escaping into the city will also cause difficulties for our next move." It's okay to run a few times, you guys are really light! ”

"Your Majesty, your subordinates know!" Liu Zhu hurriedly saluted. He is now the head of the first army and a member of the second rank, and before following His Majesty, he was just a newcomer, so he naturally understood in his heart that he could have today's achievements. In addition, the little emperor has grown up, and his majesty has become more and more awe-inspiring.

"You all remember that we are fighting to annihilate the living forces of the enemy, not to fight for a city or a place. And the enemy's multi-cavalry army is highly mobile, and it is not easy to catch them, so we must find ways to surround them, even if they can't be eliminated, they must be crippled and hurt, so as to achieve the strategic goal of gradually weakening their strength, and then achieve the tactical goal of occupying the city and grabbing land! Zhao Yu said.

He knew that the emperors of the ancients all took the expansion of territory as the greatest achievement in life, and also affected the courtiers, as the purpose of the war, and his purpose was to consume the enemy's vital force, when their elite was exhausted, the new army to be requisitioned would also lose the ability to attack, and they would no longer be able to hold such a vast territory, so they had to shrink the battle line, so it would be a matter of course to recover the homeland.

"Your Majesty, the counter-impact has begun!" At this time, Jiang Xuan stepped forward to report back.

"Well, let's go to the top deck!" Zhao Yu nodded.

Everyone obeyed the order and hugged Zhao Yu onto the deck of the cabin, he stood on the lookout platform and took the telescope handed over by Chen Dun and looked on the land. After two years of military academy life, Chen Dun served as a grassroots officer in the Second Division for two years, and participated in several battles to consolidate the base area. Then he joined the army for a year at the division headquarters, and his guard battalion commander was transferred to the fifth division as the commander.

The Qiongzhou Army's counter-shock battle plan was aimed at the Mongol cavalry, and the front line should be equipped with two foothills and a trench or a box for transporting supplies as a barrier, of course, these will be adjusted according to the different battle conditions. If they had just landed now, it would be impossible to carry these bulky things to the beach, so they had to use local materials to build an improvised barrier with felled trees and small boats for landing.

Thirty paces of the obstacle is followed by a battalion of three horizontal linear lines, one battalion defends a line of about fifty paces, and the rest act as reserves, using cross-fire to maintain the density of fire, and transmit orders with whistles. A gap of ten paces was left between the two to serve as a way to transfer troops, and a light ballista was placed in front of the formation. Thirty paces back in the phalanx were medium ballistae, followed by heavy ballistas, then rocket artillery positions, and in the center were the positions of the Chinese army. The two flanks were divided into forces to prevent the enemy from attacking from the flanks, and this time the sea was behind them, so they were free from worries.

The formation is arranged in this way precisely to carry forward the power of echelon firepower and give the enemy the greatest damage layer by layer. Of course, this is only an idealized state, where will the enemy wait for you to set up the ballistas, rockets before launching an anti-landing operation, I am afraid that in the initial stage there can be some light ballistae would be good, mainly need to rely on muskets to block the enemy's first wave of impact, for the deployment of heavy firepower to buy time.

If the covering fire of the naval forces inflicts a major blow on the enemy, and the enemy is anxious to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the landing force to drive it into the sea, the troops sent will certainly be the most formidable. However, the troops that landed in the first wave had to bear tremendous pressure, not only to be able to attack, but also to be good at defending, and even more to have a tenacious spirit, so as to stabilize the landing site and establish a bridgehead.

'Boom, ......boom' The cannon began to shoot, Zhao Yu frowned, and heard that this was not the explosion after the ballista was fired, but the explosion of the rapid-fire cannon, he picked up the telescope and looked at the landing site, and sure enough, he found a cloud of smoke rising in front of the formation. At the same time, it was also determined that the first landing force was his own Imperial Guard, because they were the only ones who had been equipped with metal barreled artillery.

This rapid-fire cannon is Zhao Yu's imitation of the Portuguese 'Franc machine'. This is an iron rear-loading smoothbore cannon, and the whole gun consists of three parts: the barrel, the belly, and the sub-cannon. When firing the gun, the gunpowder projectile is first filled into the sub-cannon, and then the sub-cannon is loaded into the belly of the gun, and the general mouth of the gun will be stretched forward to a certain distance in the mother gun, and the sub-gun is held up with an iron bolt to avoid recoil, and the sub-gun jumps out of the mother gun's bore, igniting the fire door of the sub-gun for shooting. There is a steering rod at the tail of the gun, and there is a crosshair and a light door on the barrel. When aiming, the soldier's eyes are in line with the door and the star, and they are aimed at the target and fired.

Zhao Yu faced the same problem as at that time, limited to the technical level, the gap between the sub-cannon and the belly of the cannon was large, causing gunpowder gas leakage, so it did not have a long range. However, he still made some improvements within his ability, and the sub-barrel was made of wrought copper and made a closure, using the expansion force of gunpowder combustion to increase the sealing. As for the effect, because there is no reference, he doesn't know whether it will be successful or not, but firing live ammunition can have an effective range of more than 200 steps, and reloading shotgun can also hit the enemy within 100 steps, of course, the best effect is within 50 steps.

The reason why rapid-fire guns are used as support firepower is mainly because there is only one point where this firearm is superior to other firearms, and that is convenience. In order to ensure the speed of launch, each Franc machine is equipped with ten sub-guns, and at the same time of launch, there are also special personnel to reload the beaten sub-guns. In this way, the ten sub-guns are fired in turn, and the sub-guns are exchanged at any time in the mother gun, which greatly improves the efficiency and is suitable for dealing with the Mongols who come and go like the wind. And the weight is appropriate, the gun body is only about 200 catties, which is easy for small troops to carry, and it can be played with a gun carriage, and it can be dragged away when it is loaded with wheels.

If there is one who can hit close, there must be one who can hit far, and Zhao Yu imitated the 'Weiyuan cannon' of the Ming Dynasty this time, which is in line with the successful model of 'small cannon hitting big bombs'. With the use of his improved hydraulic forging machine, the whole cannon was made of cold forging, so the gun body was strong. This allowed him to reduce the weight of the iron hoop on the original version, and only thickened the gun chamber to increase the charge.

The improved Weiyuan cannon weighs only 1340 pounds, which is very light, and is usually only placed on a cart or on the back of a mule or horse, and follows the army to move, which is convenient for action and very suitable for field combat. It also set up a crosshair for aiming, each gun is equipped with eight taels, one large lead bullet weighs three catties, and one small lead bullet weighs about three pounds, each weighing about three dollars. When you use it, you only need to take off the Weiyuan cannon and place it on the gun mount, and in case of emergency, you can even set up the cannon directly on the ground, aim at the crosshair to estimate the distance of the enemy, and then adjust the angle of the gun to strike.

The maximum range of the cannonballs of the Weiyuan cannon can reach a distance of four or five miles, and the small lead bullets are very close, but the maximum dispersion of the small lead bullets can reach more than 30 steps and about 45 meters, and the surface damage is still very considerable. The cannonballs went straight into the enemy's formation, hitting a blood channel, and the small cannonballs flew in all directions, clearing out a rain of blood, which was unstoppable like thunder, so Zhao Yu gave the name 'Thunder'. However, it was slow to reload, so it was only equipped with a separate artillery battalion.

The Imperial Protector gave priority to the new weapons, and although everyone knew that they could not compete with the Emperor's Imperial Forest Army, they must not be comfortable in their hearts, so Zhao Yu also 'developed' two small firearms to comfort the generals.

When it comes to 'swarming', the first thing that comes to mind is rockets, in fact, there is also a large shotgun called this name, and the Ming army has been equipped with a large number of them. The barrel of this gun is 2 feet 6 inches long, and it uses a large lead bullet weighing 2 taels, and there are 100 small lead bullets weighing 1 yuan and 5 cents, and the bullet weighs about a pound. When it is fired, it is aimed at the enemy, and the lead bullets are like thunder, and the range can reach half a mile.

The 'swarm' was lightweight, and was usually attached to the head and tail with a belt, which was hung on the back of a soldier to march the army. When it is used, it is erected on an iron-pointed shelf, the mouth of the gun is raised by two or three inches, and the tail of the gun is nailed to the ground with a wooden stake to prevent the recoil from jumping. Then it was enough to ignite and cast, and Zhao Yu felt that it was more appropriate to call it a shotgun, so he gave it the name 'Ben Thunder Gun'.

Due to its light weight, it is easy to carry, and it has fierce melee firepower, so it is easy to manufacture. Zhao Yu set up a special fire support detachment in each battalion, equipped with 15 thunderbolts, as a melee fire support weapon. If it weren't for the lack of steel production in Qiongzhou, he really wanted to set up a fireteam for each of them to be equipped with thunderbolts to improve their melee combat capabilities.

The other is the 'Baizi Gong', which also appeared in the Ming Dynasty, Zhao Yu sometimes has an impulse, if anyone says that the firearms are inferior, they will not sleep for seven days and seven nights, and they will have to argue with them, you must know that it is not easy to make these firearms under ancient conditions. The Hundred Sons use a long barrel, because the barrel grows, the straighter the trajectory of the cannonball, the farther it hits. The original Baizi gun and the musket at that time were made of several iron plates and forged each other, while Zhao Yu had a water conservancy boring machine and forging machine, which could be made of all steel, which could increase strength and reduce weight.

The Hundred Guns are also precharged, ignited with an arquebus, cast on an iron foot frame, and reoriented by a wooden handle mounted on the cannon tail bridle. The method of attack is to use the 100 small lead bullets loaded in the barrel of the gun to kill the enemy in pieces, and you can also load a large lead bullet of more than a dozen taels to snipe at distant targets. The applicability of the Baizi Gong is extremely strong, and it can be used in both city defense, field warfare and naval warfare......