After completing the reform of the official system, Li Xuan did not rush to immediately promote the next step of military reform, but continued to focus on his guards.

Why?

Because if you want to carry out military reform, especially the establishment and tactics, you must have a charter, and these things are not something that Li Xuan can come up with by thinking about it casually, even if he can come up with it, but Li Xuan doesn't dare to mess around.

Establishment, tactics are related to the life and death of the Tang Dynasty, and it is also related to whether he Li Xuan can survive, which cannot be sloppy at all.

Therefore, Li Xuan still decided to use the Guards Army as a pilot first, and then talk about the basic establishment first.

"Your Majesty, before we had fifty-two people in the Guard, divided into six squads, ranging from five to ten people in each team, and now in accordance with Your Majesty's holy decree, we have recruited another thirty people." Wang Danxu stood in front of Li Xuan and respectfully reported the situation of the guards.

Li Xuan said: "Well, yes, since the number of people is enough, then start the next step of preparation and training as soon as possible!" ”

Wang Danxu said: "The minister obeys the order!" ”

After saying that, Wang Danxu looked up at Li Xuan, and then said: "Your Majesty, now that our army is short of muskets, is there more than 20 people trained now?" ”

Li Xuan shook his head and said, "There are only more than 20 people, not much!" ”

"But this musket is slow to load, and it can't be hit accurately, so it's better to replace the musket with a bow and arrow......" Wang Danxu wanted to continue, but Li Xuan waved his hand to stop him from continuing.

Li Xuan doesn't know any tactics, but the Wang Danxu in front of him doesn't understand it even more, so Li Xuan would rather believe in the tactics he saw in film and television dramas in his previous life, rather than believe in this bandit leader-born guard general.

The establishment he made for the Guards was somewhat similar to that of modern armies, but it was not like that.

According to his plan, he was going to use spearmen and musketeers as the main force, and engage in a multi-column line tactic in depth, with spearmen in the middle and musketeers on the two wings, and the ratio of the two should be one to one. The spearmen were in a team of thirty people, a total of six teams, and they were in the middle army. There were ninety musketeers on each wing, also divided into six teams.

But it's a pity that there aren't so many muskets in Huangzhushan at all, and it can't be achieved at all in the proportion that Li Xuan envisioned, so he can only lower his requirements and use as many muskets as he wants.

According to his predictions, in two months, the Guards should be able to equip about twenty arquebuses, which was still not enough, but barely able to fight with the spearmen.

At the same time, due to the small number of guards, it was impossible for him to play the line tactics of five or six columns in depth, and he could only barely play the line tactics of three columns.

To this end, he prepared to divide the Guards into three parts, one musketeer, one spearmen, and one sword and shield men, and use line tactics.

Among them, the main force was the spearmen, three teams of fourteen men each, and they were in the center of the battle, and they were lined up in three columns in front and behind.

There were four teams of seven musketeers, and when they fought, they belonged to the two flanks of the spearmen, two columns in front and two.

Finally, there are the sword and shield soldiers, each team of fourteen people, a total of two teams, with the rear of the musketeers, used to protect the flanks of the line, but more importantly, when the enemy army is scattered, go forward to pursue and kill the enemy, and expand the results of the battle!

Each of the above squads consists of a team leader and a team vice-member.

According to Li Xuan's own assumptions, when the Guards were fighting, they strictly followed the line tactics, and when they were engaged with the enemy, if the enemy was advancing slowly, they would use arquebuses to fire in multiple rows, but if the enemy was charging at high speed, they would be inseparable from the guns within 50 to 100 meters, and wait for the enemy to enter within 50 meters, or even within 20 meters to fire a salvo, in other words, only one shot!

The reason why the enemy did not use rotational fire but salvo fire when charging was because Li Xuan felt that the musketeers of the Guards were originally like this, and if there were still multiple rows of rotational fire, there would only be a few sporadic gunshots per shot, and it would be better to play a big game at the last moment.

Launching a salvo at the last minute can not only inflict heavy damage on the enemy, but also effectively dampen the enemy's courage and effectively reduce the pressure on the spearmen when they attack!

After the musketeers fired a volley, the pikemen began to charge in dense formations, while the musketeers followed the spearmen with their muskets with their spearhead bayonets, and the swords and shields followed forward to protect the musketeers and kill scattered enemy troops.

The musket is equipped with a bayonet, which is a matter that Li Xuan has decided a long time ago, and because the sleeve-type bayonet with high technical difficulty is not considered, if only the plug-in bayonet is used, the technical difficulty can be basically ignored, in fact, the musketeer who is equipped with the bayonet can be used as a spearman.

But the problem is that the production of muskets in Huangzhushan is too low now, and as a last resort, Li Xuan can only continue to mix musketeers and spearmen.

The establishment and tactics of the Guards are the result of Li Xuan's hard thinking for many months, and in the process, he has thought about almost all the war movies and television dramas and novels he has watched in his head, and only then did he come up with such a plausible thing.

However, the establishment is there, and the tactics are there, but when the time comes, whether it will work or not, Li Xuan will not know, and this matter can only be left to fate.

After tossing around on the side of the Guards for three days, Li Xuan raised the schedule of the reorganization of several other standing armies!

At the court meeting, when the ministers dealt with those trivial matters, as the confidant of the uncle of the country and the Empress Dowager Bai, Bai Yunqi, the commander of the rear army, took the lead in saying: "The ministers have something to do!" ”

After a quasi-word, Bai Yunqi began to talk broadly: "My Datang has been training the standing army for several months, and there are a total of five armies in the front and back, and in the west of Zhenxi, but each army has its own establishment, and the tactics are not clear, so that the armies do not cooperate properly.

In the event of a big war, if the armies do not cooperate properly, the light ones will delay the fighters, and the heavy ones can lead to the defeat of the whole army. ”

There is no need to doubt, no need to guess, Bai Yunqi, an illiterate person, can say such a half-literate thing wrongly, and a discerning person will know as soon as he hears it that someone has taught him to say this, and there is no one else who taught him to say this.

Li Xuan said at this time: "What General Bai said, what do you think of Aiqing?" ”

At this time, Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren did not speak for the first time, but pondered, but it was Qian Mengjiu, this civil official who had fought with the army many times, spoke for the first time:

"I think what General Bai said is very true, before our army in several battles, there are poor command, poor cooperation, fortunately, our army soldiers are brave, several times are a great victory, but the Ming army will be very likely to enter the mountain again in a few days, our army is like a hesitation, then in the face of the Ming army, I am afraid that it will be overwhelmed!"

Liu Bagou also spoke: "The minister is not familiar with military affairs, but the army in the world is strong, and it must be strict and neat!" ”

Immediately, Wang Wenhua picked up the conversation and said: "Although I have an eternal saint like Your Majesty and Your Majesty's blessings, I will definitely be able to win a hundred battles, but the soldiers will use their lives and the command will be smooth to turn small victories into big victories, and big victories into complete victories!" ”

Of the three mainstays of the Tang Dynasty, the only bachelor Wenchen unanimously agreed with the unification of the military system, which was within Li Xuan's expectations.

After all, for Liu Bagou and them, the stronger the Tang army, the better, so that they can fight against the Ming army, as for what impact the military system reform will have on the existing generals, they don't care about this.

Liu Bagou will agree, Li Xuan has expected it, and now the question is, will Fang Dongquan and them agree?