After saying so much, Li Jing's mouth was a little dry, and after drinking tea for a while, he looked at the leaders of the stone pillars opposite to discuss and discuss. Let them digest and digest, after all, there is too much information today.

After half an hour, the other side also stopped. Li Jing said: Do you know how Jiannu fights, why, my Ming soldiers are always defeated. “

At this time, the stone pillar generals no longer had any contempt, and they respected Li Jing very much. They got up together and bowed and said, "Please also ask the son to teach me to wait, I am grateful."

Li Jing said: "The reason why Eight Banners uses cotton armor is because pure iron armor is too cold in winter to stick to the skin, and a layer of skin is torn off. In summer, the sun can burn the skin. So wrap the iron sheet with cotton. There are also gaps in the weaving of ordinary armor iron sheets, and I use a large number of shotguns such as tiger squat cannons, and the iron filings will enter the body along the cracks in the armor, and the cotton can effectively block the iron filings of the shotguns. ”

"To make cotton nails, you need to make cotton sheets first, put a few catties of cotton wool into the mold, soak in water and mold them repeatedly, and then sew them into thin sheets with thread and mesh, and take sun exposure without swelling as the qualified standard; When making nails, several pieces of molded cotton are cut and superimposed, and components such as legs, skirts, armpit protectors and other components are sewn respectively to form a collar full armor. Distinguished by material and sewing method, cotton armor is divided into two categories: cotton-iron composite armor and pure cotton armor. Cotton-iron composite armor is divided into dark armor and bright armor, the appearance of dark armor is no different from ordinary cotton clothing, in fact, it is either embedded with iron sheets in the lining with bubble nails, or between the inner layers of cotton sheets clamped with chain iron mesh to increase the protective performance. The Ming armor is based on the cotton gall, and the sheet metal iron sheet is connected to it in the form of a garment, or the iron mesh is directly wrapped outside the cotton gall, which is the Ming armor. Taking Baqi cotton armor as an example, the weight of a collar of cotton-iron composite armor is about 35 to 40 pounds. ”

Qin Minping asked: "Could it be that everyone in the Eight Banners is wearing armor, isn't this better than my Daming's equipment?"

Li Jing said: "The elite bannermen all have armor, a cow Lu raises forty horses, and is equipped with one hundred sets of armor. They were divided into horse armor and foot armor, that is, forty armored cavalry out of these three hundred men. Sixty armoured infantrymen and two hundred unarmoured bannermen, in groups of thirty, pushed four hardwood shield wagons for protection. If it is surrounded, it is just to protect in four directions. The shield is covered with raw cowhide and is very hard. There were also slave soldiers in leather armor or no armor, and they were called aha, or clothed. These people were not counted among the soldiers, and they were mainly porters and servants for the bannermen. They are also combative, and they should not be taken lightly. ”

Qin Bangping said: "I don't know how the equipment of these Eight Banners is and how to fight." ”

Li Jing said: "During the war, Jiannu will be based on the establishment of a Niulu detachment of about 300 people, as the most basic combat unit. ”

"There are 100 soldiers in the first class, including 10 elite people (Bai Bayala, accounting for 10% of the total strength), 40 people of the second class (Red Bayala, accounting for 40% of the total strength), and 50 people again (black battalion, accounting for 50% of the total strength)."

"100 armoured soldiers, equipped with 22 muskets, and the proportion of equipment is 22%; 43 spears (cold weapons), with an equipment ratio of 43%; Equip 4 shield vehicles (a total of 30 shield vehicles), and the equipment ratio is 30%. ”

"There are 10 people in Baibaya, equipped with 2 muskets, and the proportion of equipment is 20%; 3 spears (cold weapons), with a 30% equip ratio; Bai Baya is an elite and is not equipped with a shield cart. ”

"There are 40 people in the Red Bayala, equipped with 10 muskets, and the proportion of equipment is 25%; 20 spears (cold weapons), with a 50% equip ratio; Equip 2 shield vehicles (each shield car has 10 shield vehicles), and the equipment ratio is 25%. ”

"The black battalion has 50 people, equipped with 10 muskets, and the proportion of equipment is 20%; 20 spears (cold weapons), with an equipment ratio of 40%; Equip 2 shield vehicles (each shield vehicle has 10 shield vehicles), and the equipment ratio is 40%. ”

"Five oxen are recorded as one horn, and each horn carries two cannons."

Qin Liangyu asked, "What kind of cannon is the cannon and how powerful is it." ”

Li Jing said: "It's all relatively poor guns that captured my Ming hairspray, or small and medium-sized Franc cannons. The firing range is less than 200 zhang. The power is acceptable. ”

Qin Liangyu asked: "How many archers are there in each cow, and how are the archers?"

Li Jing couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Aunt Qin, there is no archer in the Eight Banners at all, everyone in Jiannu is good at shooting, everyone has a bow and arrow, and the arrows are divided into light arrows and heavy arrows. Light arrows have a long range and are used against infantry without armor, while heavy arrows have a range of less than 60 paces and are mainly used to break armor."

The Stone Pillar General gasped.

Li Jing continued: "My rough talk about their tactics:

"Siege warfare: the vanguard is heavily armoured to cover the follow-up troops, each cavalryman has a bag of soil, rushes to the city and accumulates, "almost more than the city in an instant". If this trick doesn't work, bring siege shovels and archer to cover and dig a passage in the corner. In addition, prepare the ladder cart in the front, the ladder of the ladder cart is very high, the car can accommodate a large number of soldiers, wrapped in several layers of cowhide, rolling wood and stone bows and arrows are helpless, and the warriors of half of Niulu can be directly transported to the city wall. ”

"Nurhachi is also good at attacking the east and west, besieging the city and sending reinforcements, and in addition to the Ming war, there is also a deception and surrender. During the battle of Sarhu, he took it by surprise and asked the captured Han soldiers to disguise themselves as Ming soldiers and lie about the military situation, leading Liu Ting to ambush and breaking the Ming army. In the subsequent siege battle, he repeatedly sent spies to mix into the city, and opened the city gate in the melee, so that the Houjin soldiers poured in, and captured the city. ”

Qin Liangyu said worriedly: "We are a guest army from afar, how can we tell who is a good citizen and who is a spy?"

"Field warfare, foot combat is the skill of Jiannu, in fact, they are not good at equestrianism, far inferior to the cavalry of the Yehe people. In the field, the heavy cavalry charged ahead, followed by the archery and crossbows, the hoplite "dead soldiers" as the vanguard, the shield carts equipped with bows and arrows, three-eyed guns and shotguns as cover, and the cavalry as scouts and harassment and outflanking on both flanks. The left and right troops are divided, galloping together, and the soldiers in the customs are called "crab formation". The whole tactic revolves around the word "fast" and the word "fierce", and our army bombarded it with artillery in the field, but after the first cannon was fired, the golden cavalry rushed up. ”

Ma Xianglin asked: "How can the army of Liaodong deal with the Eight Banners Army?"

Li Jing said: "I don't know much about these, you go to Liaodong to understand for yourself, I heard that they beat the Eight Banners, they all use three-eyed guns to put a row of guns, fifty steps to put a shot, twenty or thirty steps to put a shot, close to the front of a shot, and then put the three-eyed gun on the spur, put it on a long wooden stick, rush up or pierce the eyes of the Eight Banners soldiers and horses, or smash the horse's head, and then wait for the enemy to land, follow behind, and stab the enemy to death with the spurs." However, the bows and arrows of the fifty pace-moving people were all shot over, and they couldn't take advantage, and they didn't win a few battles, and they were basically crushed at the first touch. ”

"Don't remember, these soldiers in the north can't be trusted, don't count on them, there will be no reinforcements if they are surrounded, let them defend the flanks, they all run away at critical times, and there is no negotiation to kill teammates."

Qin Liangyu was silent for a long time, and said: "It seems that there is no good way, I can only fight hard, my stone pillar and soil soldiers, everyone dares to fight, even if it is a pity to spill the blood of the country." ”

Li Jing looked at the generals of Shizhu who were a little depressed, and said unhurriedly: "Actually, it's not that there is no way to counteract at all, I have a few strategies, even if I can't win, I have to bite off their three taels of meat." ”