Juzhou, the former Xujia 15th Tun, the headquarters of the New Army.

In a few more years, the headquarters of the Forces nouvelles will be reorganized into a more modern General Staff, a separate rather than a temporary body.

Xu Shiyang served as the Minister of War under the Governor's Office of Qi Province and concurrently served as Chief of General Staff, with the rank of Major General, and led all military affairs of Qi Province.

Then, the General Staff will be relocated to Dengzhou, across the sea from Liaodong.

However, that will be two or three months later, and it is not impossible for everything to be properly prepared and postponed until the beginning of next year, so the military conference of the new army will still be held in Juzhou.

Today's meeting is a summary of the previous war, and all officers of the Forces nouvelles and above are at the rank of major (this rank is equivalent to all officers above the rank of deputy battalion, as well as those who have performed well in previous battles and are about to be promoted).

According to the tradition, all the principal officers at and above the battalion level sat at a round table, but the round table was not large enough, and the newcomers who had just been qualified to participate in the meeting had to sit in a circle around them.

"The troops generally reflect that the best performance in the battle is the god soldier, followed by the selection of the front and the trap, and the performance of the sharp soldier is ......, well, not very good."

Now it is Gongsun Sheng who speaks, during the last battle of the Yellow River, he was in charge of the command of the southern front, facing the Tatar Tianhui Khan Wanyan Wu Qimai, due to the distance problem, he is a rare general in the new army with experience in commanding the big war alone.

"What's not so good?"

Xu Shiyang asked, while taking a pen to write and draw in a notebook, originally this task was Zhao Lin's, but a few days ago Zhao Lin was found to be pregnant, and Mama Rong forced her to leave work to recuperate.

"Their spears are too long, and they can't shoot long, so they can't be used in trenches, and they can't advance or retreat, so they can be used when defending the breastwork."

Gongsun Sheng replied:

"Someone in the team suggested that the Rui Shi should be reduced and the surplus people should be divided into Xuan Feng and Shenji."

"We can't expect to dig trenches every time and wait for the Tartars to hit us."

Xu Shiyang said without raising his head:

"It won't be long before we have to fight the Tartars in the field, and when there are no spears, what will we use to defend against the Tartar cavalry?"

"Bayonets will do, too." Xu Ning, who had just had the opportunity to participate in such an important meeting, immediately said: "Horses are very smart and timid, as long as there is a sharp thing in front of them, they will definitely not dare to rush hard, and the subordinates looked at the bayonet on the musket, that thing is enough." ”

"There is not enough production of bayonets, now only flintlock pistols are available, and even arquebusiers have to be equipped with waist knives to defend themselves." Tang Long, who represents the First Arsenal, said.

The arquebuses and flintlock pistols of the Forces nouvelles differed only in the bolt frame, the other parts were of the same specification, and they could use the same bayonet at all.

The reason why flintlock pistols have bayonets and arquebuses don't have is because of the production - the simplest sleeve bayonet also needs to be tapped, which is really not fast to produce, and worse, it is actually a consumable in the face of Tartar armor.

"Speaking of bayonets, there's one more thing." Feng Sanhu, commander of the recruit battalion, said: "Each battalion is a mixture of flintlock pistols and arquebuses, so it is too inconvenient to command, and it is ...... to check the status of the guns before the war." ”

"I'll talk about this later, and the things will be solved one by one."

Xu Shiyang interrupted him temporarily and ordered directly:

"Whether Ruishi needs to be downsized, you have to try to know."

"There are just a few hundred Tartar armor soldiers who have surrendered to us, I plan to organize them into a blue army camp, the weapon combat method is still the same as the original Tartar, how to make the new formation in the future, try it with them on the training ground first."

"But there is one thing, whether it is downsized or not, the current sharps can't just practice spears - they also have to participate in musket shooting training, so that if they encounter a situation where the spear can't be used and the comrades around them are killed or injured, they can use the sharps to temporarily top."

"Can they learn that much?"

"Why can't you learn it? It's just a matter of adding some reloading and shooting training, and the pikemen are originally trained in the same queue as the musketeers, and the training intensity does not increase much. ”

Everyone has not yet learned to speak freely, and in most cases, Xu Shiyang's speech is the conclusion.

In fact, Xu Shiyang is also thinking about the future.

If the production capacity of the Qingzhou Arsenal is increased, not only can the spears be canceled, but even the arquebusiers in the Shenji soldiers should all be upgraded to flintlock guns.

At that time, sharps with a foundation in shooting training can quickly become musketeers, which is of great benefit to maintaining the combat effectiveness of the troops.

Then again, the development will involve the question raised by Feng Sanhu just now.

"On the issue of mixed firearms, Battalion Commander Feng raised it very well, but the current production of flintlock guns is not enough to meet the scale of the new army and the needs of future expansion, and if all flintlock guns are concentrated in a certain battalion, it is easy for the troops with only arquebuses to have the illusion that they are not taken seriously."

"Also, arquebuses are not suitable for novices, all battalions are mostly recruits, and giving arquebuses to recruits is prone to safety accidents."

Feng Sanhu thought for a while, and finally suggested: "Commander, do you think this will work: just like the Blue Army Battalion, first select a battalion as an experimental battalion, fully equipped with flintlock guns, and see if the combat effectiveness of this battalion is much higher than that of mixed equipment." ”

If it's really much higher, you have to change it if you don't change it.

Anyway, there is no big battle to be fought now, and the temporary decline in the combat effectiveness of some battalions is acceptable, and it is a big deal to make up for it in the future.

"That's a good suggestion." Xu Shiyang agreed.

"Do you want to form a new battalion?"

"No, pick one of the existing infantry battalions, well, let's settle for it, this battalion is the oldest, and the other battalions shouldn't have too much dissatisfaction with this."

Xu Shiyang turned his head to Tang Long and said:

"There's my problem here, because I can't give you too many resources to produce the best weapons. But there are also your problems, your military factories still have potential to be tapped! You and Lao Dai should pay more attention to this aspect! ”

"Yes." Tang Long smiled bitterly and nodded.

"Don't make all that messy weapon." Xu Shiyang continued: "The experimental equipment you gave to the militia this time is actually the same thing, except for two or three of them that can be mass-produced on a small scale, the others should be abandoned." ”

"Including a big lift?" Tang Long asked.

This thing was a great thing to kill the Tartars.

"Including the big lift." Xu Shiyang nodded in an affirmative tone: "I have no objection to you designing and experimenting with new weapons, but you have to remember that the weapons that are equipped to the troops must have the advantages of being easy to produce, easy to equip on a large scale, and easy to operate, otherwise I would rather not." ”

Unless it's a big killer, what is the use of a special weapon that can only be equipped with a very small number of troops?

The new army is not the Midi Emperor of World War II, and it is qualified to try so many strange-shaped weapons, and the high error tolerance rate is scary.

The existing limited resources in Qi Province still have to let everyone try to be as restrained as possible.

It's good to show off your skills.