A red line!

This is a red line array, which appears in the open field in a grand manner, but unlike the ordinary battle line, this red line formation is composed of groups of birds.

In the past few days, these loyal soldiers have surrendered their spears and replaced them with bird guns that have just been transported to the Qing River. Then began to train in a cohort on the field, which had been abandoned by the slaughter of its inhabitants, and this kind of cohort training was very different from the training of the past.

Just like now, the training they are conducting is the most basic queue training in the line array era, although they don't know much about the combat methods of the line array era, but with some materials from the Napoleonic era that he has read in the past, Zhu Mingzhong still knows a little bit about the basic combat rules of the line array era.

The technology of this era can only be mass-produced rifles with poor accuracy and slow rate of fire, and the low firing rate and low hit rate make the firepower of a single smoothbore gun negligible. And a good compact formation could cope with the onslaught of cavalry.

Line tactics look simple, but in practice they are difficult. The most important thing is to maintain the formation, several horizontal formations of several kilometers long, not to go too fast, not too slow, you have to listen to the drums, according to a fixed stride in unison, this requires a long period of repeated training to do. Once the sheep are herd, they will only have the fate of being slaughtered, and it can be said that the formation is the combat effectiveness.

It is precisely for this reason that platoon training is the most important thing in the training of musketeers, and now this team of more than 3,500 soldiers is divided into five battalions in this open space, and the training is a four-point column, which is one of the most commonly used mobile formations in the British army a century and a half later, and the formation is each company in turn.

Standing on a high platform made of wood, Zhu Mingzhong, who was holding a telescope in his hand and observing the training in the queue, would give some orders to the scribes around him from time to time.

"Write it down: the commanders and adjutants of the battalion are to be on horseback at all times, in order to serve as a pivot in the change of formation, to maintain formation, to correct mistakes, to carry out orders—and most importantly to maintain order when the ranks stop and change into columns. It is difficult for an officer to do this without riding a horse, and he will not be able to detect mistakes and perform his duties. ”

Although I have read some books in the past that mention the infantry tactics of the line formation era, it still takes a period of time to apply those things on paper to practice, and Zhu Mingzhong is now observing their training and correcting the problems that may arise during training in a timely manner.

“…… The battalion officer usually rode in front of the queue on the right, with the deputy battalion officer following him and the adjutant at the rear. The officer of each squad walked in the center of the front of his company, alone and unlined ......"

Although the magnification of this monocular in his hand was at most 4 times, it still enabled Zhu Mingzhong to observe the training of several battalions on the entire training ground, and from time to time issued new orders through the heralds.

This telescope is a gift from Zheng Chenggong to him, as a congratulatory gift for him to recover Huai'an Mansion and other important places in Jiangbei, even after the invention of the telescope, in Asia, the telescope is also a rare thing worth a thousand taels, of course, this also faintly shows his other meaning - hope to put an end to everything in the past.

In fact, Zhu Mingzhong did not have the slightest ill feeling towards Zheng Chenggong, and even all along, he would find an excuse in his heart for Zheng Chenggong's previous suppression and rejection.

He was deceived!

The upright are the most easily deceived!

If it weren't for the demagogy of others, Zheng Chenggong would never treat himself like that!

Who is bewitching him?

Is it Qian Qianyi? Or someone else?

None of this matters now, for Zhu Mingzhong, who has now controlled almost the entire Jiangbei region, he is no longer the chief soldier of the loyal battalion who looked at people everywhere under the fence. Instead, he controlled the Huai'an Mansion, Yangzhou Prefecture and the Jiangbei pacification envoy in Changzhou, Jiangnan.

Maybe there are less than 30,000 horses under his command, but for Nanjing, now Zhu Mingzhong and his loyal army are the first barrier in the south of the Yangtze River, at this time, naturally no one will treat him like in the past, even if the people in Nanjing are confident that the sailors are enough to resist the attack of the Qing army, but who minds that on the way south of the Qing army, in the north of the Yangtze River will be the first to be hit hard?

O human heart!

Sighing in his heart, Zhu Mingzhong's brows locked slightly, looking at the bird soldiers who were training, his mind sank slightly, with these thousands of bird soldiers, can he resist the Qing army's southward advance?

"The Qing Interior Minister Dasu led more than 60,000 troops, and he was heading south day and night......"

Information related to the so-called "General Annan" has been continuously transmitted to his case since half a month ago, after the restoration of Qinghe, and these information were collected by both the Cao Gang and Shi Lei's Military Justice Department.

60,000 Qing troops!

What was the combat effectiveness of the elite of the Qing army?

Thinking of the Qing troops who came with knives and armor at Tongji Gate, Zhu Mingzhong's mind sank, if only one-third of the 60,000 Qing troops were such armored Qing troops, then I am afraid it would be another bitter battle?

Armour......

Can a bird gun pierce the armor of the Qing army?

When a row of bird guns poured gunpowder into the bird guns with bamboo tubes under the canal embankment, looking at the bird guns in the hands of the bird guns, thinking of the description of how inferior the bird guns were made in later articles, Zhu Mingzhong deliberately turned his head and asked Xu Youzheng beside him.

"Zishu, these birds can't blow up pipes, do they?"

The reason why I ask this is because most of the bird guns of the Loyal and Righteous Army were captured from the Qing army, most of which were handed over to the Nanjing Eight Banners Armory, although tens of thousands of bird guns were seized in the warehouse, and they were all three-money bird guns, but these bird guns were manufactured in the year from the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty to Shunzhi, spanning half a century. Not to mention whether their manufacturing is qualified, even if they are put for such a long time, it is not reassuring to use.

"Back to the military gate, although these birds are a mixture of old and new, they have all entered the test release. Like these three-money bird guns, they are all charged with one penny first, then added two coins, and then added three coins, so after trying to release, after a while, then add to four coins, and try again with bullets; After this test release, it will be sent to the soldiers......"

As the best at firearms in the Loyal Army, Xu Youzheng naturally knows the bird gun very well, and these tens of thousands of bird guns are all tested by him, and even the bird gun soldiers are also trained by him.

"Junmen, there is a saying, I don't know whether to say it or not!"

"What can't you say?"

Seeing Xu Youzheng's cautious appearance again, Zhu Mingzhong said with a smile.

"Zhu has long said that with our army, everyone can only speak freely! Zhu will never do anything to sinner people! ”

The reason why Xu Youzheng was reminded so much was because Zhu Mingzhong couldn't stand the people of this era, and he always liked to beat around the bush, so he didn't know how many things would be delayed, and it was because of this that Zhu Mingzhong would tell them more than once, so that no matter what suggestions and ideas they had, they could speak freely.

"Junmen, humbly accepting advice, it's really a blessing for us!"

Looking at the row of cotton armor and iron armor under the embankment in the distance, Xu Youzheng, who knew the intention of the military gate, first patted his ass, and then continued.

"This Qing captives have always used heavy armor to march and fight, according to the predecessors, the Qing captives have a lot of bright light heavy armor, and the short ones of the bird guns have not been able to penetrate, in addition to the Qing captives also use to wear multi-layer armor, first with heavy armor outside the cotton armor, and wear a large thick cotton hat outside the helmet, so heavy armor is by no means able to penetrate the bird guns, at least a hundred steps away, it is impossible to penetrate the heavy armor......"

When his words fell, there was a burst of gunfire from there, as if to verify Xu Youzheng's words, a hundred steps away, even those Lu Mi guns with five-foot long pipes failed to penetrate those few pieces of iron armor weighing thirty catties.

100 steps, 70 steps, 50 steps, until 50 steps, those more than 1.5 meters in length can penetrate the iron armor, although at seventy steps, it can penetrate the cotton armor, but seventy steps...... But it's only about 50 meters!

What's the use of asking for a bird at such a close distance?

Finally, when it was close to thirty steps, those three-money bird guns made in the Wanli and Apocalypse years finally broke through the iron armor of the Qing army captured from Nanjing, and in the face of such a result, Zhu Mingzhong only had one thought left in his heart - to have another fart for this bird gun!

Even said that he hurriedly lined up to be shot with high hopes before, and this would become very hopeless because of the power of the bird, and even Zhu Mingzhong's face looked very ugly.

"If the military gate wants to break the heavy armor of the Qing Dynasty, I have seen the hook gun in the "Artifact Spectrum", that is, the big bird gun, but after the Qing prisoner entered the customs, because I was afraid that the Han people would use the big bird gun to break its heavy armor, it would have been completely destroyed, leaving only two or three money bird guns, so I was equal to Nanjing has not been captured, if the military gate is interested, you might as well make a big bird gun, so that the heavy armor of the Qing capture will be broken by it,......"

Big Bird Gun ......

Isn't it just a large-caliber arquebus?

Looking at the bird soldiers who had already closed the team, Zhu Mingzhong nodded, and then said.

"This big bird gun must be made, but the time is not in a hurry......" As early as Jiangyin, Zhu Mingzhong had thought about making Western-style large-caliber arquebuses, but there was no time to make them at that time, and the same is true now.

"However, you can also try it now, aren't we invited from Nanjing to have an expert in making guns, see if we can try to make a big bird gun, you are personally responsible for this matter, be sure to make a big bird gun as soon as possible......"

As he spoke, seeing the soldiers who were about to leave with bird guns, Zhu Mingzhong said.

"Zishu, take a three-money bird gun and send it to the house, and I'll see what this bird gun looks like!"

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