For this proposal, Li Laiheng was very interested.

After all, he always has to gain something from a trip.

In fact, Yang Qing showed a posture that a dead pig was not afraid of boiling water, but he didn't care that Zhu Cihong returned to Nanjing, and it would be meaningless for them to blackmail again, so that it was a consolation prize to get a loan. Huaiqing and Wei Hui themselves were outside their original defense plan, which was only obtained by Yuan Zongdi when he crossed the Yellow River last time to attack the flank of the Qing army, and even the population was forcibly relocated to Guanzhong over the years, and only 10,000 troops were stationed in that area to prevent the Qing cavalry from attacking the shipping of this section of the Yellow River.

It was the same for Yang Qing.

It is nothing more than handing over the work originally done by the Shun army to the Ming army.

All they need to do is control Luoyang.

And westward expansion is also their internal established principle, they have the Sword Pavilion to the south, Zhang Xianzhong can be regarded as a strong soldier in Sichuan, at least it is difficult for them to fight, once they meet in the Sword Pavilion, then Dolgon and Yang Qing will not take advantage of the situation to attack.

The same is true of the expansion into Dorgon's territory.

If they and Dolgon get into a fierce battle in Hebei, then Zhang Xianzhong will happily send troops to rob Hanzhong, and Yang Qing will also happily take their Luoyang.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty checked and balanced each other.

Whoever breaks the balance first will be in danger of upsetting the balance.

But to the west is different.

The Yarkand Khanate also reigned supreme in the Western Regions, essentially a union of cities, and Abdullah's territory seemed to be vast, but in fact it was a cluster of scattered oases irrigated by glacial meltwater, with a total population of between fifty and one million at most. Half-farming and half-animal husbandry, and even pure agriculture in many places, the total number of troops that can be mobilized is at most 100,000, and this has to be counted all the men who can fight, and the elite who can really fight will not exceed 50,000.

This strength is not worth mentioning at all.

There are 100,000 Shun troops out of Yumen, and as long as the logistics can be supplied, they can easily sweep the Western Regions.

Of course, this is impossible.

Because the logistics are definitely not available.

But if it is not the same just to grab Hami and Turpan, or even just to grab Hami is enough to establish a communication channel with the Dzungar Ministry.

It's definitely good business.

Maoshan.

The 16th Infantry Corps of the Ming Army exercise ground.

"You're generous!"

Li Laiheng rode on his horse and said as he looked at a group of Ming infantry marching forward.

These soldiers in red uniforms were all covered with plate cuirasses, wrought-iron forged carburized iron armor reflecting a dazzling sunlight, and wore strangely shaped helmets on their heads, like an iron pot on their heads. In fact, in the East German style, this style is the easiest to make, a red-hot wrought iron plate is placed on the mold, the hydraulic hammer with another mold falls and smashes it, and the adaptation of the head is adjusted by cork and leather lining. Including the cuirass is also made in this way, the wrought iron furnace pours the iron plate, the hydraulic forging hammer hits to the appropriate thickness, and at the same time, the slag inside is squeezed out to obtain high-quality wrought iron, which is smashed into shape after being burned red, and then thrown into the carburizing furnace for carburizing.

The finished product should be regarded as medium carbon steel.

It's just that the quality is not as good as that made of crucible steel, because some impurities are difficult to remove by forging alone, and it is also impossible to add some things that change the characteristics.

But it's perfectly enough to make plate armor.

Because of the limited thickness, it is generally possible to complete a thorough carburizing in a few hours, and after the wrought iron penetrates enough carbon, of course, it is steel, but the carburizing is uneven. However, because carburizing is a permeation process, the surface carbon content is high and the internal carbon content is low, and finally there is both the hardness of high carbon on the surface and the toughness of low carbon inside.

This is high-quality plate armor.

Bows and arrows are almost completely immune.

Bullets also have to be penetrated at close range, stray bullets or something can be prevented, after all, at this time they are soft lead bullets, and the muzzle velocity is very low, and even up to five millimeters thick can really resist bullets. Of course, these plate armor is only one point and five millimeters, after all, the five-millimeter plate armor has to be dedicated to the loyal and brave marquis, and ordinary soldiers wear that thing basically say goodbye to mobility, and one point and a half millimeter is the thickness of the strictly tested anti-arrow, and the bird's gun is almost 100 shots away from the distance of the arrow is definitely not able to shoot through, but the bulletproof is really not the purpose of wearing this thing.

This is the first infantry corps to be completely equipped with new armor, and the other old cotton armor will be phased out completely.

Of course, this is not the reason why Lee Lai Heng sighed.

The equipment of the Shun army is not bad.

He sighed that Yang Qing would actually take him to see the latest tactics of the Ming army.

The infantrymen passing beside them, armed with arquebuses and spears, marched forward in orderly steps, forming a strange formation in the narrow mountains. At the foremost were the spearmen, behind whom the musketeers stood in a line, and on each side of these musketeers there was a group of spearmen, and the three spear phalanxes were finished with musketeers in the middle, but on each flank of the last two spear phalanxes there was a group of musketeers.

Behind this triangular formation, there was still a phalanx of spears, and behind this phalanx of spears was a phalanx of muskets.

The whole formation is a diamond shape.

And there are two cannons on each side of the diamond pointed forward.

Suddenly, the drums sounded.

The middle musket phalanx came forward left and right, quickly occupying both sides of the front spear phalanx, and at the same time, the four cannons opened fire, and nearly a thousand infantry simulating the attacking side in the mountains in front of them were charging with spear formations, and with the sound of cannons, a few people were reprimanded by the referee and withdrew unwillingly. The musket phalanx and the two musket phalanxes on the flanks quickly changed formations, and the original six layers suddenly became three, and one arquebus after another was raised, and the muzzles of the guns were also all aimed at the attackers in front.

But no fire was fired.

Until the latter's striker approached less than ten feet.

The dense flames at the front of the musketeers at the front suddenly erupted at the muzzle.

Dozens of people in front of them immediately stopped and withdrew after being shot while being scolded by the referee.

The musketeers at the front of the round, who had completed the round, did not continue firing, but retreated behind the spearmen as fast as they could, while the attackers quickly approached the front spear formation. But at this moment, the musketeers on both wings pulled the trigger, and the attackers who had been flanked again stopped and exited in large numbers, and continued to charge, but the musketeers, who had previously dodged behind the spearmen, finished reloading, and suddenly lined up again and left and right and pulled the trigger on the opponent who was close at hand.

The latter is still a large number of juggling hits.

"How can you have such a high hit rate?"

Li Laiheng said with a frown.

"Don't believe me? This is what we have calculated countless times, and the hit rate of such a distance is close to forty percent, and how many hits can be made in each round of fire are experimental. ”

Yang Qing said.

Li Laiheng stopped talking.

At this point the musketeers retreated again, and the attacking spearmen finally began to engage the spear phalanx at the front, but just as they were stabbing each other with their covered spears, the musketeers on the flanks and rear opened fire again. After a large number of soldiers were condemned dead, the attackers still divided their forces into two flanks, bypassing the front spear phalanx to attack the rear musketeers, but the spears of the spear phalanx immediately split into the two wings, and at the same time the two spear phalanxes behind the flanks pushed forward. The attack with a spear at the angle stopped the attacker's attempt, while the musketeers on both wings continued to fire, and the musketeers protected by the spears also fired on the flanks, and the attackers were still largely killed.

In fact, the attacking side has already lost.

Because at this time, their losses have already exceeded a quarter, and if such losses on the real battlefield are close to the psychological bottom line of rout.

"It's not fair, your people should also have dead and wounded to get out."

Li Laiheng said.

"That's right, but there are reserves to replenish at any time!"

Yang Qing said.

Li Laiheng glanced at the spear and musket phalanx that had not moved behind him.

"It's the mountains that limit the two wings, they can't attack from the two wings, if they are on flat ground they can close the circle, and then they only need one cavalry to break away!"

He said.

"Each side of this diamond array can be turned into the main enemy face, and even into a four-way enemy, as for the plain battle, do you think I will use a pure infantry to enter the plain? In fact, this is nothing more than an infantry battalion, and each infantry brigade is equipped with a battalion of cavalry artillery, and even plain warfare does not need to play a rhombic formation, on the contrary, it will become a line column. Imagine thousands of muskets firing at your cavalry at the same time from a few feet away, do your cavalry have the courage to face it? ”

Yang Qing said.

"And how do you deal with the shield car?"

Li Laiheng said quite unconvinced.

"I made it very clear, every infantry brigade has an artillery battalion, every infantry battalion has an artillery team, can the shield car block the shells?"

Yang Qing said.

In fact, the shield car can't even stop his musket bullets, believing that that thing can block bullets is as nonsense as believing in quilt soil tanks, they can block because the quality of the Ming army's bird guns in the past is too bad, and they are all terrible, even the Japanese iron cannons are much stronger than the Ming army's bird guns. And even if the modern ordinary nine-millimeter pistol bullet can wear more than ten centimeters through the wooden board, and the plank of this thickness will cost more than 100 catties if calculated as one square meter of dry pine, but the wooden board of the shield car is definitely not only one square meter, but also the weight of other parts of the shield car, that is to say, it must be at least more than 200 catties to block the shooting of a modern nine-millimeter pistol on a person.

The kinetic energy of the bird is even greater than that of the big-eyed pig.

If you want to block a bird gun with guaranteed quality, I'm afraid you have to push 300 catties of pine wood, and you're going to be a fart like that! It is said that the Europeans also played shield cars in the Hussite War, but no one played them anymore during the Thirty Years' War.

Yang Qing will also eliminate the chariot in the future.

His sidevan was a large defensive chariot pushed by a bunch of people, so it was more protective than an offensive shield chariot, but it couldn't stop his own arquebus at close range, but it could still be supported by carburized iron plates. Cutting the thickness of the planks and adding an additional three millimeters of armor would not increase too much, but it would be enough to resist the Qing army's bird guns, which would certainly not be of the same quality as the Ming army, and it would also maintain the natural advantage of this tactic against cavalry.