The Tang Dynasty, and even the entire East Asian region, because of Li Xuan's arrival, has already had a historical fork, and there has never been a queue shooting tactic on the Chinese battlefield, which was introduced and carried forward by Li Xuan, and even played a higher level than his European counterparts of the same era.

When the armies of the Europeans were still stuck in the Spanish phalanx tactics, when they still did not have bayonets, crosshairs, and rulers for arquebuses, the Tang Army was already under the leadership of Li Xuan, using arquebuses with bayonets, crosshairs, and rulers, and also using paper shells to set ammunition.

In fact, there are no technical limitations to the above-mentioned bayonets, crosshairs, rulers, and even paper-shell ammunition, and the biggest limitation here is a matter of knowledge, as long as someone raises it, then it is actually very easy to come out.

The appearance of paper shell ammunition also makes it easier for the musketeers of the Tang Army to reload, which also brings a higher rate of fire.

The crosshairs and rulers make it easier for musketeers to aim, and although limited by the inherent accuracy defects of smoothbore guns, the accuracy of shooting at long-range targets is still unsightly, but at medium and close ranges, the shooting accuracy has been greatly improved.

And the emergence of more important bayonets, bayonets, can directly allow the musketeers of the Tang Army to replace the spearmen, sword and shield soldiers and other cold weapon infantry to a certain extent.

This series of arquebus technological innovations has actually allowed the arquebus of the Datang Army to cross the early and middle stages and directly enter the peak maturity period of the arquebus.

If you want to replace the existing arquebus, you can only wait for the flintlock pistol to come out, and it must be a flintlock pistol with mature technology that surpasses the arquebus in terms of firing rate, and the early flintlock pistol cannot replace this mature arquebus because the firing rate is too low.

Under the guidance of Li Xuan, the Tang Dynasty Royal Division carried out a series of equipment and tactical innovations, and entered the ranks of the modern army.

As the old opponent of the Tang Dynasty, the Ming army did not stupidly continue to use traditional cold weapons and those bowls and guns to continue to fight against the Tang Dynasty.

When they suffered several losses, the front-line generals had already begun to follow the example of the Tang Army to build guns and train new troops, and the muskets and artillery were basically copied as they were.

In this way, in fact, they also learned the techniques of bayonets, crosshairs, rulers, and paper shell ammunition by the way!

Purely in terms of the technical level of the arquebus, in this era, the Tang Dynasty considers itself to be the first, then the Ming Dynasty should be the second, as for the European peers, it is already backward!

The tactics of the Ming Army and the New Army, which used new guns, also directly copied the Tang Army, and they also played line operations.

This tactic has been used in several skirmishes, but not once!

Guns can be imitated, tactics and formations can be copied, but these are the most superficial things, and there are many factors that affect the combat effectiveness of an army.

High-quality officers, rigorous training, combat experience, these things are actually more important than mere equipment and superficial tactics.

And the Ming army lacks these things, so although Zhang Yue now has tens of thousands of governors and border troops in his hands, he is still so cautious, and in the face of the pseudo-Tang thief army rushing to Nanchang, he is still unwilling to reduce the number of main forces in his hands, and only sends 10,000 guards back to Nanchang.

But he also knew that if he only sent 10,000 guards back, it would actually be useless, so he also sent a thousand cavalry back to Nanchang!

But it is not so easy for these thousand Ming cavalry who are equipped with single horses to rush back smoothly!

Don't think that the cavalry marches fast, in fact, the speed is like that!

The main role of cavalry on the battlefield has never been to march quickly over long distances, but on the impact of short-distance high-speed maneuvers and explosive power.

In order to be in a hurry, the cavalry of the Thousand Ming Army did not stop all the way, and the cavalry did not stop all the way with the horses, and this cavalry did not have a large amount of baggage like the infantry, and a small amount of baggage was carried forward by the cavalry itself, if you said that the cavalry lord did not want to walk, wanted to march on horseback, or did not want to carry the baggage forward, but wanted to let his mount carry it away, believe it or not, the military judge cut him to death in minutes!

Although the marching speed of the cavalry of this Qianming Army is not fast, because the situation is urgent, and the weight is small, the total distance is not too long, so they go faster, and they are expected to be able to walk about forty kilometers in one day, and it will take about two days to catch up with the fourth mixed regiment!

It's not that the cavalry of the Ming army doesn't want to be faster, and this is almost the limit of the marching speed of the Ming army's standard cavalry in the case of maintaining normal combat effectiveness, a cavalry unit that is only equipped with a single horse, if you want to maintain combat effectiveness after arriving at the battlefield, you need to ensure that the war horse still has enough physical fitness.

The cavalry of the Governor is a single horse, and the marching speed is worse, which is about the same as the cavalry of the Tang Army, because the cavalry of the Tang Army is only equipped with one horse!

However, if it is replaced by a border cavalry with two horses, then the normal marching speed will be increased a lot, but the improvement is limited, at most it is only sixty or seventy kilometers a day!

No matter what type of cavalry it is, in fact, its marching speed can be roughly compared with the walking speed of humans!

For cavalry with two horses, one of the horses does not have any weight, and the other horse carries light weights such as carrying equipment and baggage, so please note that the cavalry still has to lead the horse.

If it is a super luxury cavalry with three horses, there will also be a combat horse that marches without weight from beginning to end, a horse carries equipment and baggage, and the rest of the horse, the cavalry can occasionally ride when they are tired, pay attention, only occasionally, can not be ridden all the time, most of the time, even when a cavalry with three horses marches, they have to walk by themselves.

Of course, this is the standard modern and modern way of marching cavalry, and it is not the same concept as the countless iron horsemen who run wild all the way described in a fantasy literature, and the cavalry directly rides horses, or changes to multiple horses to run or chase the enemy army hundreds of kilometers away!

To distinguish whether it is a war example or a fantasy, you can directly look at whether the cavalry rode combat horses on the march.

If you ride, it's 100% a fantasy!

The cavalry horses cannot be ridden under any circumstances until they reach the battlefield and charge, and even the mounted horses of the cavalry units with three horses are not always able to ride, but can only be ridden occasionally!

So, don't expect to be able to ride a cavalry all the way on horseback, that is this cavalry with three horses, and then carry out the so-called transfer!

Of course, the above situation is just an ordinary situation, if it is an emergency, if you run desperately and the cavalry falls behind, the speed will become faster, and it can be increased to sixty or seventy kilometers!

But in this case, after a day of continuous maneuvering, this 1,000-man cavalry unit can leave more than half of the cavalry for battle, and if this state of high-speed marching lasts for four or five days, then the remaining cavalry can be left with one-tenth of the incense!

The Ming army's supervising cavalry used a normal marching speed, even if it was accelerated, but it was also on the premise of ensuring the physical fitness of the war horses and the cavalry!

But compared to the cavalry, if they want to ensure physical fitness, then those scouts or heralds can not care about the physical strength of their horses, because for them, time is the most important.

After discovering the enemy's intelligence, you need to send it back as soon as possible!

That's why they tend to ride horses, and even use relay passes!

Otherwise, whether it was Zhang Yue, Hao Bonian, or Gu Shizhong, they would not be able to get the news from the front line in time, but even so, because the entire battlefield was hundreds of kilometers wide, the news they got often needed to be delayed by a day or even two days.

The information is not usual, which also means that the current Gu Shizhong still hasn't discovered that there is a Ming cavalry that has already killed his fourth mixed group!

After running wildly for a day, in order to prevent any accidents after nightfall, Gu Shizhong began to order the troops to stop marching and then start camping when it was close to evening.

That night, while continuing to discuss the military situation with the staff officers and officers under his command, he was also waiting for the report of the reconnaissance cavalry sent yesterday to the direction of Nanchang.

If you calculate the time, the scout should not be back now.

Gu Shizhong's estimate was not wrong, when it was almost night, a few dusty cavalrymen with a tired look came back, and then reported the situation in the direction of Nanchang to Gu Shizhong!

"Lord Qiyu, the Ministry did not find a large-scale Ming army outside Nanchang City, in addition, it also interrogated several people outside the city, and captured two Ming soldiers who went out of the city to patrol, after interrogation, they said that the puppet Ming thief army in the city is about 10,000 people, and the Governor and the border army are not there!"

What reported to Gu Shizhong was a cavalry sergeant, who was powerful and powerful, and he could be regarded as an old cavalryman in the Tang Army!

After Gu Shizhong heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, the Ming army in Nanchang City was really the same as Lieutenant General Li Chunjing expected, there were not many main forces, in this case, he would work harder tomorrow and strive to reach within ten miles of Nanchang City, so that he would set off before dawn the day after tomorrow, and strive to arrive outside Nanchang City in the morning and make preparations for the siege, if nothing else, he would be able to carry out large-scale artillery bombardment in the afternoon, and then launch a general attack early in the morning the day after tomorrow!

In this way, it will only take three days to complete the full count!

As long as the reinforcements of the Ming army cannot arrive within three days, then there is great hope for capturing Nanchang, as long as he conquers Nanchang and then relies on Nanchang for defensive operations, then the main force of the Ming army will come to the rescue, and he will also have the confidence to defend it.

But now Gu Shizhong didn't know that behind him, a Ming cavalry was hurrying over, and according to the direction and speed of both sides, if nothing else, tomorrow, the two sides would have a great chance of meeting!