Kunming City, on the shore of Cuiwei Lake, now there is a half-school, half-barracks building complex. They have a common name - Yunnan Jiangwutang!

That sounds like a great name!

In fact, this martial arts hall is also extremely simple, just look at who the head of the martial arts hall is. The head of this Yunnan lecture hall is the Dashun Emperor Li Guo himself!

Li Guo's idea to open this martial arts hall is, of course, from Zhu Cihong's Nanjing martial arts hall, and he also has the same needs as Zhu Cihong - the Dashun army is more chaotic than the Ming army, they were originally cobbled together by many streams, and even the internal orders were different at the beginning, and they must be unified. After entering Sichuan and Yunnan, in order to adapt to the changes in the terrain and the change of its own role, it was necessary to carry out military reform.

Originally, the Dashun and Daxi armies were all rogues, and in order to "flow", of course, mobility had to be emphasized. Therefore, both families are equipped with a large number of mules and horses, and the main force of the old battalion is also dominated by cavalry, and the ability to fight, siege, and defend the city on foot is relatively poor.

In history, the main reason why they quickly collapsed when they encountered the Qing army that entered the customs was that after the most effective horse battle was restrained by the Qing cavalry, there was no way to use it, and it was impossible to defend the city......

However, in this time and space, due to the long-term war between the Ming and Qing dynasties, they were given ten years to evolve slowly, and the result was really progressive. Not only did it complete the military transformation of the government (the system of the Dashun Dynasty originally learned from the Tang Dynasty, and it was normal to develop Juntian and Fu soldiers), but also developed a combination of sword and brand soldiers and fire guns that adapted to the rugged terrain of the southwest, and even introduced Western guns and artillery through the Burmese trade routes.

Moreover, Li Guo, Li Laiheng, Li Dingguo and others also got inspiration from the Nanjing Lecture Martial Arts Hall, and opened the Yunnan Lecture Martial Arts Hall in Kunming three years ago.

However, there is still a difference between Yunnan Jiangwutang and Nanjing Jiangwutang, Nanjing Jiangwutang is more of a copy of European phalanx tactics - this tactic is not entirely applicable to China, because European phalanx tactics require strong cavalry, and the Ming army just lacks strong cavalry.

At the same time, the opponents of the Ming army did not have a strong shock cavalry, and even the Old Manchuria of the Eight Banners did not use cavalry as the main means of combat. They are more like dismounted knights, marching on horseback, dismounting to fight, and their strongest ability is hand-to-hand combat!

If on the battlefield of Victorious Lake, Duoduo was willing to let go of his old Manchuria, and used the tactics of approaching on horseback and dismounting to beat the Maurice phalanx of the Ming army, the possibility of victory was still there! Of course, the premise is that the warriors of the Eight Banners can withstand a round of musket salvo from the Ming army and the dense random guns that followed, and they may also have to rush up against the shotgun of the Ming army's 3-pounder guns, stepping on the corpses of their own people. After three such victories, the Old Eight Banners of Manchuria will become extinct...... Shi Kefa failed all the way and leveled Liao, which can be regarded as a miracle!

But who made these Eight Banners Old Manchuria rarer than giant pandas? There are more wild pandas in the wild than in the old Manchurian warriors.

Therefore, Duoduo basically knew the weakness of the Maurice phalanx of the Ming army, and he did not dare to fill it with the lives of the old Manchurians......

But there are many soldiers in Dashun!

They claim to be a peasant uprising, and there are many peasants in China!

Therefore, Li Dingguo, a native of Dashun (Daxi), a tactical expert, invented the musket knife card array on the basis of summing up the lessons and lessons of the battle to pacify Yunnan.

On the tenth day of October in the sixth year of the reign of Dashun, Li Guo, the co-ruling emperor who ruled the arch, was too lazy to go to the court, went down to Wuhua Mountain early in the morning, crossed Cuiwei Lake by boat, and went to the martial arts hall to watch Li Dingguo's military exercises.

Li Dingguo's musket and knife array is not a battalion-level array, but a hundred-person array, that is, a company-level military array. It wasn't a complete lack of spears, and each formation consisted of thirty musketeers, sixty swordmen, and ten pikemen.

In addition, the shape of the musket knife array is also relatively diverse, not only a square array, but also a circular array and a wedge array. The phalanx is used for fire output with muskets in front. The circle is circled with a shield, the spear is extended from the shield, and the musket is also mounted on the shield, which is used against the cavalry. The wedge-shaped formation is the spear in front and the sword card in the back, which is used when launching an attack......

Seeing the rapid changes in the hundreds of people composed of several officers of the Dashun Army who were trained in the lecture hall, a phalanx for a while, a circle formation for a while, and a wedge formation for a while, like a cloud of flowing water in the same place, Li Guo shouted hello.

Li Dingguo on the side was also quite proud, patting his chest and saying to Li Ai: "Emperor, as long as the Northern Expeditionary Army can master this set of musket and knife card arrays, it will be invincible!" ”

Li Guo nodded, "That can't be taken lightly...... This time, we have to go deep into the enemy territory, and if we are a little careless, I am afraid that we will have to go and have no return! ”

"The emperor can rest assured," Li Dingguo said, "As long as our 50,000 Northern Expeditionary army is trained, the enemy will be vulnerable even if there are 200,000 people!" ”

"When will the Northern Expeditionary Army complete its training?" Li Guo asked, "Is the fire gun enough?" ”

Li Dingguo said: "According to the plan, our Northern Expeditionary Army will be organized into a total of 400 hundred-man teams, plus some artillery, cavalry, baggage soldiers, etc., to form a hundred battalions and twenty-five regiments...... A total of 12,000 turtledove guns are needed, and our blackworks in Chongqing and Kunming have limited output, so we can only shoot 4 or 500 turtledove foot firecrackers in a month, and make up 12,000 guns for two years. Now there are nearly six thousand in stock, and in another year it will be about the same. ”

Li Guo nodded: "That's good, even if there are not 10,000 by then, there will be 8,000......"

"Emperor, so fast?" Li Dingguo was obviously a little surprised.

Li Guo said in a low voice: "Huang Shu has arrived in Shalian, and he also sent someone to send a concerto...... At the latest next autumn, the Ming army will attack Beijing on a large scale, and the Ming Emperor will also personally conquer at that time, this is our opportunity! King Jin, you must grasp it! ”

"Don't worry, the emperor will live up to his expectations!"

......

"Your Majesty, according to reliable information, Liukou has recently imported a large number of artillery and muskets, and has also opened a martial arts hall in Kunming, Yunnan, to train officers and organize the so-called Northern Expeditionary Army! Now the Liangchuan military town and the armies under the jurisdiction of Guizhou are very frightened, and I hope that Your Majesty can send a new army to help......"

It was Ma Shiying who was reporting to Zhu Cihong on the military affairs of the southwest in the Huangji Hall of the Laoshan Palace, he had been supervising the army in the southwest for many years, and he was old and useless, and he had lost a lot of territory.

However, now the imperial history of military affairs is not qualified to ask, and the civil officials can't say much, and the only one who is really qualified to assess is the military division's office.

And the Military Division's evaluation of Ma Shiying and the Southwest Army is not bad...... Although he didn't win much, he still tried to maintain the situation. Therefore, Ma Shiying has been sitting in the position of the governor of Yunnan-Guichuan for many years, and it was only recently that he had a new errand and became the governor of Jiangnan!

This is a very oily dispatch, even if you are not greedy or greedy, you can have an income of tens of thousands of taels a year!

Ma Shiying's ability to receive such a dispatch was obviously a reward for his hard work in the southwest.

Replacing Ma Shiying as the governor of Yunnan-Guichuan was a local military attache from Sichuan, named Zeng Ying. Zeng Ying is only thirty-four years old this year, but she has been famous for many years! As early as the last years of Chongzhen, he defeated Zhang Xianzhong and recovered Chongqing Mansion.

In the years that followed, he and another Sichuan-born general, Yang Zhan, grew up to become the twin of the Sichuan Ming Army. Later, they went out of Sichuan to participate in the Confucian cram school, but the tactics they learned from the Prince of Confucius were not easy to use after they went to Yunnan-Guichuan.

Therefore, the situation in the southwest was still unfavorable to the Ming army.

Recently, the Ming army's Yunnan-Guichuan Governor's Mansion heard the news of the Northern Expeditionary Army organized by Liukou and was very nervous, so the new governor Zeng Ying and the outgoing governor Ma Shiying took advantage of the opportunity to enter Beijing to face the monarch and urgently ask Emperor Zhu for help.

After Ma Shiying said ten thousand, Zeng Ying continued his words: "Your Majesty, now that the Liukou are becoming more and more stable in the southwest, and there is already a strong momentum, if the imperial court does not send troops into Sichuan to suppress the thieves, I am afraid that the rebellion in Yunnan-Guichuan will last for a long time, and there is no period of peace!" ”