According to the drill plan drawn up by the Operations Division, this exercise is only for the purpose of testing the individual combat capability of the regiment-level troops.

I think that judging from the current establishment and tactics of the Tang Army, it is actually a regiment as the main tactical core establishment.

This can be seen from the early regimental level troop configuration, when an infantry regiment had not only three main infantry battalions, but also two reserve battalions, a battalion artillery team, a cavalry team, a baggage battalion and other auxiliary units, with a total strength of more than 3,000 people.

Later, after the establishment of the infantry brigade, the baggage troops and cavalry units were collected under the direct jurisdiction of the infantry brigade, and in addition, the infantry brigade would be additionally assigned to the heavy artillery unit depending on the situation.

For example, three of the five existing infantry regiments of the Tang Army are performing tasks independently, the Third Infantry Regiment is in northern Guizhou, the Fourth Infantry Regiment is in central Guizhou, and the Fifth Infantry Regiment, which is the unit in front of them, is currently tasked with defending Xingquan Mansion.

Therefore, in any case, the regiment-level troops are the core establishment of the current Datang Army, and the various tactics and collocations of the regiment-level troops are naturally very important.

For example, should some of the heavy artillery in this artillery battalion be allocated to the infantry regiment when it is used? Or is it that all those heavy artillery are used in a centralized manner?

If it is assigned, how much negative impact will the resulting decrease in mobility cause, and if it is not allocated, will it be able to pressure the firepower of the Ming army by relying solely on the six battalion guns of the infantry regiment itself?

These need to be considered one by one.

While Li Xuan was pondering, the various exercise units below also began to move, and the number of troops participating in the exercise added up to tens of thousands, and the huge training ground was actually still not enough to show the real situation.

As a field encounter, it is assumed that both sides discover each other's presence at the same time, and then fight each other in an area of only a few kilometers to determine the winner.

In order to better simulate the Ming army, the 7th Garrison Regiment will be actually commanded by a staff team composed of several Ming army generals!

At this time, in the Seventh Garrison Regiment, Xu Mingzhe, who was originally from a thousand households in the Ming Army and is now a major of the Tang Dynasty, held his hands behind his back, surrounded the simple sand table in front of him, and then said: "Send a thousand elite cavalry to attack quickly, disrupt the enemy's deployment, and take advantage of the chaos to attack the enemy's artillery units!" ”

And on the side of the 5th Infantry Regiment, there was a lot of noise!

A staff officer walked up to Zhou Yibao and said, "Report, thousands of enemy cavalry have appeared thousands of kilometers away, and they are coming towards the inner rear of our army!" ”

Zhou Yibao immediately said: "Order the infantry on the right flank to form a four-corner phalanx to meet the enemy, and the artillery troops will stop advancing on the spot and set up artillery!" ”

In this exercise, it is naturally impossible to really let the cavalry launch an assault and fight with real swords and guns, but the cavalry of the 1st Cavalry Battalion still worked very hard in the exercise, and nearly 200 war horses galloped wildly, and the momentum was also quite huge.

On the side of the 5th Infantry Regiment, the advance has been completely stopped, the infantry has begun to form formations, and the artillery has begun to set up guns on the spot!

However, at this time, Zhou Yibao heard the order again: "The enemy cavalry has retreated, wandering 800 meters away, and is heading towards the rear of our army!" ”

Hearing this, Zhou Yibao wanted to curse, how could the attack of this cavalry be stopped, but the command said that the cavalry of the Seventh Garrison Regiment, which belonged to the elite cavalry of the border army of the Ming Army, was naturally forbidden by order, and all of them were masters of cavalry archery.

There was no way, he could only send part of his troops to follow and go around backwards!

You can't let the cavalry go around the rear and completely destroy his artillery position.

However, at this time, Xu Mingzhe on the other side also said: "Order the infantry to advance steadily!" ”

At this time, on the exercise ground, you can see that more than 2,000 soldiers of the 7th Garrison Regiment are slowly advancing, but although there are actually only more than 2,000 people, the hypothetical situation is more than 10,000!

Zhou Yibao of the Fifth Garrison Regiment said: "The artillery unit will ignore those cavalry first, and shell the enemy's frontal infantry!" ”

"Two reserve battalions are lined up in the rear of the artillery unit to prevent the enemy cavalry from attacking!"

"Three main battalions against enemy infantry!"

On the side of the rostrum, Li Xuan was also looking at the soldiers who looked below, but they were just acting, and he was still listening to the reports of the people around him.

As the referee department, the Operations Division is constantly accepting orders from both sides and then making judgments.

Hearing that Zhou Yibao only met the onslaught of more than 10,000 infantry of the enemy army with only three main battalions, Li Xuan frowned, this Zhou Yibao is a little bold!

On the other hand, Xu Mingzhe heard the referee's report: due to the continuous shelling, more than 300 infantry in the front row were killed and wounded, and it was ruled that the 2,000 people in your unit were unable to continue fighting because of low morale

Xu Mingzhe didn't care: "The rear row of troops went up, ordered the cavalry to divide 500 troops to go around the left flank, and then launched a companion attack towards the enemy's flank!" ”

The cavalry is coming again?

This is Zhou Yibao's worry on the other side!

And instead of artillery, the cavalry was going to attack the flanks of their own infantry phalanx, which is not good!

Immediately said: "Draw the second reserve battalion to the left flank, and still meet the enemy cavalry with a phalanx!" ”

At this time, the frontal troops of both sides had already entered a white-hot stage, and as Xu Mingzhe did not care about the casualties at all, and piled up the troops in one go, the casualties of the three main battalions also increased rapidly!

The Operations Division continued to tell Zhou Yibao the results: "Continued frontal fighting, was covered by the enemy's bow and arrows, and ruled that 200 people were killed and wounded. ”

"Fired by the enemy's bowl cannon, 100 casualties!"

"The enemy is more than ten times outnumbered, and the second battalion of Erbu is no longer able to maintain a full formation, and is currently in a melee"

Zhou Yibao listened to the referee's voice and couldn't help but roar: "Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!" ”

"Under the continuous killing and wounding of our artillery and musket team, the enemy has suffered at least 1,000 casualties, and the casualty ratio has reached 10 percent.

"Even if it is a hand-to-hand combat decision, judging from many previous examples, the hand-to-hand combat ability of the Ming army is definitely not comparable to our army. The casualty ratio on both sides is only one to two, which is not normal! ”

At this time, the referee of the referee group said expressionlessly: "The blue army is the border army of the Ming army, the infantry and cavalry are elite, and they can give you a one-to-two casualty ratio, and they have been given preferential treatment!" ”

Paralysis, who set the exercise data, even if there are more than 12,000 people on the opposite side, there are 1,000 elite cavalry in it, and the cavalry who are good at riding and archery is counted, can these infantry be so fierce and not afraid of death?

In the face of artillery and musket fire, they can still rush up, he believes, but Nima faces the bombing attack of his own grenadiers, and then after the last salvo, the opposite side does not collapse, this is not scientific, okay!

At this time, there were at least more than 2,000 dead and wounded on the opposite side, and he could still rush up to hand-to-hand combat in such a situation, he had never seen such a powerful Ming army.

Also, even if you rush up to hand-to-hand combat, why is the casualty ratio between your own side and the enemy so small, and your own side is killed or wounded, and the enemy army only has two dead and wounded, this is not scientific!

In the past few large-scale head-to-head battles, the Tang Dynasty has never fought so badly!

Even if Hao Bonian said that he encountered 3,000 soldiers before, those soldiers also fought to the death and did not retreat, but it is one thing to fight to the death and not retreat, but the proportion of casualties is another matter!

Li Chunjing's unit, which annihilated 3,000 soldiers, suffered only two or three hundred casualties!

Even if only the dead and wounded soldiers are counted, this exchange ratio can reach more than one to five.

But now, the referee team directly gave a one-to-two exchange ratio, so how can you fight!

Not only that, the referee team was biased to the point of madness for the seventh garrison regiment that played the Ming army, when Xu Mingzhe ordered the cavalry to charge, and it was attacked by cavalry shooting, and did not directly charge, the referee team actually judged that his reserve battalion could not resist, and finally collapsed.

Collapse hairy!

In the great Ming Dynasty, you found a cavalry unit for Lao Tzu that could strictly follow the battlefield discipline and was extremely skilled in archery and horses?

Find a Ming cavalry that can still charge, turn, shoot arrows, and retreat under the fire of your own artillery.

In the end, his two reserve battalions guarding the artillery positions were crushed by the cavalry!

Then when Xu Mingzhe's cavalry launched a charge against the artillery position, the result was naturally needless to say, the small artillery position was completely finished in one fell swoop, and then the cavalry continued to outflank the three infantry battalions that had fallen into a bitter battle.

The result was without any surprises, the 5th Infantry Regiment suffered a crushing defeat!

Although Li Xuan already knew the result of this exercise before the exercise began, it would inevitably end in a fiasco for the Fifth Infantry Regiment.

Because the purpose of this exercise is not to show how awesome the Tang Dynasty Royal Division is, but to explore how to deal with such an extreme situation once it occurs in actual combat.

The border troops and cavalry of the Ming army will come sooner or later.

Moreover, the Ming army will always have a few troops that can fight, and if they fight against them, they will still be as light as ever, so if they are not careful, they will capsize in the gutter!

After the exercise was completed, after the troops of the various units returned, Li Xuan also watched the live firing of the 1,300-pound heavy artillery in the First Artillery Battalion.

However, after watching too many artillery shots, I didn't feel anything, wasn't it just that there was more charge, the shells were bigger, and the shots were farther away!

But Li Xuan thinks it's nothing, but others don't think so!

Especially some Ming Dynasty officials who have just surrendered to Chengcheng, they have long known that the pseudo-Tang thief army, no, it is the sharp firearms of our Tang Dynasty royal division, but when they really see this kind of heavy artillery of more than 1,000 catties roaring, they know that this is not bragging, but a fact.

Of course, they didn't know that with such an awesome thousand-pound heavy artillery, the monthly output of the Tang Dynasty could only build so much a month, and it would take half a year to get together an artillery team!