On the large playground of the military camp of the Nanjing Outer Outline University, the neat footsteps stirred up the dust. One by one, the phalanx of pikemen and musketeers, first formed a single army formation, and passed through a group of inspectors. Each soldier was fully armed, wearing a new red jacket covered with a half-length plate armor made of iron sheets, carrying a spear, a turtledove's foot firecracker, or a bird with a cone on it, and his eyes did not squint, but he was engrossed in the officer's command.

These young officers, selected from the new army, stood on the left side of the first row of their respective phalanxes, dressed in plate armor stronger than ordinary soldiers, and were accompanied by a foreign general, a general, a drummer, and a trumpeter.

At the sound of their commands, the marching infantry phalanx suddenly began to change and reorganize. Two smaller (a company of 120 men) and a larger (two companies) pikemen combined to form a battalion Maurice phalanx – pikemen in the center and musketeers on the flanks. The pikemen formed five horizontal columns, while the musketeers on the two flanks formed twelve columns, each consisting of ten men.

After completing the formation, the battalion-level phalanx continued to advance, with the pikemen marching forward in unison. The musketeers, on the other hand, rotated as they went along—the first soldier of the column made a pretended firing motion, and then walked from the gap between the columns to the last row and pretended to reload.

This tactic was translated by John Tong as the "ten-man round shooting and reloading method", in order to provide continuous and dense firepower as the phalanx advanced.

After the phalanx had traveled some distance, a rapid war drum sounded. Immediately afterwards, the whole phalanx suddenly stopped advancing, and began to change the formation for the second time, and the firecrackers who were originally located on the two flanks of the phalanx marched forward in a platoon-level four-way column, starting from the tops of the two wings, and then turned to the left and right respectively, so that the two four-way columns walked opposite each other, until they met and then turned together into a four-column horizontal formation. When all the platoon-level four-way columns followed up for the first time, all completed the steering and changing formation.

A horizontal array of firearms in front and a spear in front of the nine horizontal formations were formed. The pikemen in the rear of the formation spread out slightly under the command of the officer, forming a relatively loose horizontal formation of five columns of pikes with large gaps.

Suddenly, a piercing suona sounded. The musketeers who had formed four horizontal formations scattered in a hurry, turned around and passed through the gap between the pikemen, ran to the rear of the spear formation, and formed a team again......

"Good! Good! The guns and spears work extremely well together, firing both volleys and rounds...... You can also use spears against enemy cavalry! General Shi, this tactic is not a typical Morris tactic, right? ”

The one who was asking Shi Ruien was Zhu Cihong, the prince of the Ming Dynasty. He is now leading Wu Sanfu, Wang Qi, Wu Guoyong, Hao Shaoqi, and other generals of the New Army to review the first corps of the Model Army, which has just completed the first phase of training, in the Daxiaochang barracks.

And the one who was demonstrating the formation for Zhu Cihong was the first battalion under the First Rank Corps.

The foreign general Shi Ruien is wearing a very fancy flying fish suit - his current official title is the commander of the Generalissimo's Mansion, and the commander of the model army is the same as the commander of the model army, and according to Zhu Cihong's regulations, he can wear a fancy flying fish suit.

Hearing Zhu Cihong's question in English, the foreign general Shi Ruien immediately laughed proudly and replied, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, as you said, this is indeed not a typical Morris tactic. Because your musketeers are mostly armed with bayonets and possess some hand-to-hand combat ability. Therefore, they will play a greater role in future operations...... Your infantry phalanx will be more aggressive than Maurice's phalanx.

Of course, when the socket bayonet was introduced to Europe, Dutch and Swedish tactics would be improved accordingly. The role of pikemen on the battlefield will become less and less, and perhaps one day they will disappear completely. ”

Zhu Cihong nodded, Shi Yangren's judgment was similar to the situation in history, and he asked again: "How long will it take to disappear?" ”

Shi Ruien shrugged, "Your Highness, I can't answer your question...... At least for now, we still need spears. So I suggest that you reorganize all four musket regiments into European teams after the training of the four European teams is completed. A musket regiment can be split into two European regiments after obtaining a certain number of pikemen. Your four musket regiments can quickly become eight musket regiments, so you will soon have twelve European regiments, one artillery regiment, and two cavalry regiments. It's going to be a huge army! ”

Twelve infantry regiments had 30,000 men, and two cavalry regiments plus an artillery regiment had 5,000 men, so that the number of model troops could quickly reach 35,000.

This scale is large enough in Europe, but in China, it is far from being huge, not enough to support the restoration of the Central Plains, but Prince Zhu can still rely on them to resist a round of onslaught by the Eight Banners Force!

"Sanfu," Zhu Cihong called Wu Sanfu to his side, "8,000 pikemen and 2,000 baggage soldiers were drawn from each division, and they were all incorporated into the model army...... Later, the four firearm regiments will be reorganized into eight model regiments, and some foreign generals and officers will be sent to the new model regiment from the original model regiments. ”

Wu Sanfu is no longer the commander of the new army, because the new army no longer has a commander. However, Zhu Cihong did not let him be idle, but made him the chief officer of the model army - of course, he was still a "herald chief soldier", he couldn't manage anything and couldn't make any money.

"Commandment." Wu Sanfu respectfully accepted the order and didn't ask much. Because his mind is not on military affairs at all, but on his sister's belly.

Wu Sanmei is already in her early nine months pregnant, and she will give birth at any time - whether she can give birth to a son is related to the future status of the Wu family in the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, Wu Sanmei has a strong rival in Zhu Cihong's harem, that is, Zheng Sen's sister-in-law Zheng Chagu.

Although Zhu Cihong still endured it and didn't keep his mouth shut, but asked the tea aunt to follow Ning Xiangyu to learn the etiquette in the palace. But Wu Sanfu had already inquired, and Zhu Cihong also looked at this little girl of the Zheng family differently...... And this little girl of the Zheng family is also a good person, she is very generous, and she doesn't care about money! So it didn't take long to enter the palace, but no one up and down didn't say that she was good!

If Wu Sanmei can't give birth to a son this time, and Zheng Chagu has a son first, the status of the third sister's harem wife will be in jeopardy!

In addition, Zheng Zhilong has a lot of wives and concubines, and many daughters, and he can't count two slaps! If Aunt Cha can't give birth to a son, he can send his other daughter into the palace again, and he can send a few more!

And Wu Xiang is afraid of his wife, so he doesn't have many children, only two daughters, among which Wu Sanjie is older than Wu Sangui and has been married for many years.

What if Wu Sanmei really can't give birth to a son? Who can help with fertility? Wu Sangui has two daughters, but he is too young, and he is not on the side of the Ming Dynasty......

Wu Sanfu didn't dare to think about it!

Just when Wu Sanfu unintentionally agreed to Zhu Cihong's order, a sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded, Zhu Cihong looked back, and saw Chen Shifang, the commander of Dongchang, riding a horse.

Before the person arrived, he shouted on horseback: "Chitose Lord, Wu Xuanzhi is about to give birth!" ”