In fact, those conjectures also know that most of them are misinformation, and the wars recorded in the early and middle Northern Song Dynasty in later history, the Song army really suffered few defeats in the field battles, and most of the battles were dragged down in the movement, and suffered defeats because of logistics and other reasons.

The military households often written in later novels can't even distinguish between the left and right feet, which is often because the dynasty is in the later period, it is impossible to maintain military expenditures at all, and military training is completely abandoned. However, even at that time, it is impossible for all the armies in the country to be abandoned, and there are always a few elites who can still maintain their combat effectiveness.

The army is like steel, it has been abandoned for a long time, and it will always rust, but as long as there is sufficient military spending and logistics, as long as you can persist in training, then there will be good soldiers in any era.

Today's Great Song Dynasty is now in its prime, the country is thriving, the Anwang Domain, the entire vassal country has a population of tens of millions, hundreds of millions of years of income, and it is more than enough to maintain a few elite soldiers like the Japanese army.

"Well, that,"

Seeing this situation, Li Zhe didn't know what to say, as far as these Song soldiers in front of him were to go in by himself, he would not be better than these soldiers, maybe even worse, after all, he was not a profession.

"Well, let's do a fire gun formation drill!"

Li Zhe had no choice but to quickly flash and switch to the next one.

Replaced by the fire gun phalanx, Li Zhe finally saw a little way.

I saw that there were nearly 100 people, and after taking their respective equipment, a small phalanx was formed in a few minutes, four spearmen, one in each direction, lined up on the front, and four small groups of musketeers were behind the spearmen, and then there were four artillery groups, on the four corners of the phalanx, each artillery group operated a small cannon, which looked similar to the Franc machine.

A mere hundred people, specific and small, even formed a formation similar to a hollow phalanx.

After this phalanx was formed, it began to practice under Li Zhe's nose, there were forwards, backwards, and rotation of the direction of the phalanx, don't look at this simple formation change, but in fact, the effect is very good on the battlefield, so that the enemy can not find the weakness of the phalanx.

When the phalanx attacked, the firecrackers stepped forward, the whole row of firearms fired, and then retreated to load, the spearmen stepped forward from the interval, re-resisted the formation, so that the enemy could not take advantage of the situation to pursue, as for the artillery group on the corner, it was specially used to bombard the enemy's dense charge formation with artillery, although it was a small cannon, the firing range was short, the power was limited, but the victory was convenient to deploy, two people could act at any time with it, the frequency of shelling was high, and the power was definitely not small when the frontal close-range scattered bombardment was carried by the enemy.

This is the Song army's sharpest weapon to deal with the grassland cavalry, such a small group of Song soldiers on the grassland, even if there are hundreds of Hu people grassland cavalry surrounding, it is difficult to capture in a short time, the impact of the grassland cavalry is poor, far less than the European heavy cavalry, and the grassland people's horse shooting, against the arquebus that kills with guns, it is even more difficult to resist.

Build a strong position with the sharpness of a spear, impregnable, resist the cavalry onslaught, and then use muskets and artillery to carry out long-range strikes to kill and injure the enemy, in Li Zhe's eyes, this, isn't this a miniature version of the Spanish phalanx?

Spanish phalanx, Li Zhe has been famous for a long time, the miniature phalanx of the Song army such a small army, it has the charm of the Spanish phalanx in later generations, this formation is indeed a sharp weapon to deal with cavalry charges in history, Spain once dominated Europe with this tactic, becoming the overlord of the early Age of Discovery. It is no wonder that the Song army was able to sweep the Mongols in northern Xinjiang with this method of warfare.

And then Ma Zhong ordered the firecrackers to perform for Li Zhe in a row of guns, which made Li Zhe even more amazed, these firecrackers lined up in a row, and according to the regulations, each row had a whistle officer with a whistle in his mouth.

The operation of the whole firearm is divided into more than a dozen standardized movements, and as soon as the whistle of the sentry officer sounds, the soldiers follow closely to make an action, which is neat and uniform, and looks very beautiful.

The firecrackers in these Song soldiers hung a circle of small porcelain bottles, each containing the primer and propellant needed for a launch, and the cross bag on the waist was a projectile.

Listening to only a whistle, the soldiers skillfully bit open the porcelain bottle cap with their mouths, and the next whistle sounded, the soldiers pierced the membrane of the bottle cap with the ring needle on their fingers, and then the whistle sounded, and the soldiers followed the sound of the whistle, step by step let the medicine hidden inside pour into the medicine pot, close the lid of the pot, and then flip the musket, pour the propellant in the porcelain bottle from the muzzle, and then load the projectile, and use a strip to go deep into the muzzle and compact.

Next, light the fire rope, put the fire gun flat on the gun stand, pull the trigger, the fire rope on the fire rope clamp falls, ignite the gunpowder in the open primer pot, and then bang, a whole row of fire guns bang loudly, the momentum is shocking, after the shooting, the first row of fire guns quickly bowed their heads, did not even look at the results of the shooting, and retreated from the gap in the second row of fire guns behind them.

The second row of firecrackers stepped forward and repeated the movements of the first row of firecrackers just now, and after a series of smooth tactical movements, there was a loud bang, and dense projectiles swept over the playground like a hurricane.

Then the third row, then the first row, then the second row, the third row...... The entire three rows of musketeers began in this way, continuously, for a while, it seemed as if the muskets never stopped, Li Zhe held a pocket watch next to him, and the three rows of musketeers fired seven volleys in one minute. If such a gun speed is placed on the battlefield, it will definitely rain down bullets, and the power is amazing.

With arquebuses can be played with such high efficiency, it is no wonder that the Song army is invincible on the battlefield, in this era, no army can maintain its formation under such a musket fire.

In the final analysis, the quality of the individual soldiers of the Song Dynasty is amazing, the basic skills are solid, the shooting steps of these primitive arquebuses are complicated, and it is easy to make mistakes, but in the exercise, Li Zhe did not find that there was a soldier who acted out of shape, all the soldiers were meticulous under the command of the grassroots officers, and resolutely completed every tactical action, which was simply perfect, such an army, who could resist it?

As a result, the arquebus, which is still backward, has a great impact on the density of fire and the rate of fire, and if these officers and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty are replaced with the revolver flintlock pistol designed by Li Zhe, how powerful should it be? It is conservatively estimated that the output firepower can definitely increase by more than two times, and at this moment, Li Zhe himself couldn't help but think of the awesomeness of these soldiers in front of him after changing their guns.

The rate of fire of more than a dozen rounds a minute, if the width of the frontal force is sufficient, such firepower is enough to sweep all the enemies in the front, such a gun formation is enough to become the main output force on the battlefield, and even without the assistance of spearmen, it is impossible for cavalry to rush in front of the musketeers through such a density of firepower.

That kind of musketeer is Li Zhe's ideal line infantry.