Li Zhe and Ma Zhong's training on the playground was in full swing, and the Song soldiers had to say that the quality was indeed amazing, and in less than a month, the infantry formation converted from the phalanx had taken on its shape, which filled Li Zhe and Ma Zhong's hearts with a sense of achievement.

When everyone was training here, suddenly, Didi-Didi-The terrible whistle suddenly sounded on the playground, which made everyone on the field look sideways.

The sentry in the army, there is nothing to do, and no one dares to sound easily. When everyone turned around, they saw a group of mermaids rushing in at the gate of the playground, and the one at the head was wearing a navy blue officer uniform, with a row of dazzling medals on his chest, and three silver-white silver moon epaulettes on his shoulders - this posture is not the commander of the left wing of the Japanese army, the third-class colonel Lu Xuan, who is it?

Lu Xuan heard that Li Zhe and Ma Zhong were in a rage underneath, and finally couldn't sit still, so he ran down to see it in person.

As the highest-ranking officer of the left wing, when he came down to inspect, of course, he was surrounded by people from front to back, and the regiment, the battalion, and a group of officers who followed down all came to this small Wudu to inspect.

The grievances between Lu Xuan and Li Zhe in the Japanese army have long been rumored, these officers don't say it openly, but secretly they all know the trick in it, I heard that Lu Xuan is going to come down to inspect, and he will come with him today, but he came to see the excitement.

But Lu Xuan himself was unconscious, and thought that these people were all coming to cheer him on. Consciously walking in the crowd looking forward to self-pride, a majestic appearance, which makes people feel quite funny.

A group of officers walked into the training ground of Wudu, just like a large group of sharks swimming into a pond, and a majestic aura immediately spread on the field.

When Lu Xuan saw it, his eyes immediately lit up, and he immediately opened his mouth to reprimand:

"Where are the Marquis Yu and the heads of the five capitals? This is the elite soldier you trained for me? Monkey business! ”

Li Zhe and Ma Zhong just now saw clearly who was coming, and they had already been mentally prepared in their hearts, knowing that Lu Xuan was definitely going to do something.

At this time, when they heard him say, both of them turned a deaf ear, but they should not hear. He still trains his own soldiers.

That Lu Xuan took people to watch the training of the soldiers of Wudu on the side, these people were still thinking of coming down to see the excitement at the beginning, but they didn't look at it for a while, they were all shocked at first, and then their faces became solemn one by one.

These people were all promoted from middle and low-level officers, and no one did not know how to train soldiers, and the drills of the soldiers in Wudu in front of them made them even frightened even if they were used to seeing elite soldiers.

Is this the soldier trained by the novelist named Li Zhe?

I heard that he was still a student who had just graduated from state school.

Impossible? What was in front of them was much more than these officers expected!

In fact, when the officers in the Japanese army heard about King An's decree that Li Zhe was honored in the army, almost everyone thought it was just a joke.

It's a joke that a recent student of state school, who has never attended martial arts or a military school, wants to take the first place in the military school review.

In terms of the current level of professionalism in military training, it is very rare for an ordinary student to be able to adapt to the rules of the barracks and integrate into the army in more than a month after joining the Japanese army. It is simply impossible to make results in training.

This is not a war, it is full of luck factors, and the training of the soldiers is real, without the slightest accident.

As for Li Zhe, who is also a hereditary aristocratic general, no one takes these so-called generals seriously.

It must be known that the so-called military experience inherited by these generals was outdated hundreds of years ago, how can the war of the present era be the same as the war of the year, the war of the year was still cold weapons, and there were no weapons such as artillery and firearms, and now, these hot weapons have become the mainstream, and the appearance of the whole war is completely different.

Therefore, no one can make achievements in this exercise because of Li Zhe.

Who knew that looking at it like this today, the training of the soldiers in these five capitals today really shocked everyone!

Shi Xiu, the commander of the second regiment, looked at the strange formation in front of him, and asked Yue Lundao, the commander of the first regiment beside him:

"If I'm not mistaken, I'm afraid there are twenty people in this row of Wudu."

Yue Lun counted and replied:

"That's not it, it's two squads, this formation is too dense," Yue Lun muttered, in his impression, it was never possible for the actual firecrackers to stand so densely. Speaking of which, Li Zhe's five capitals are subordinate to his group, and he is the direct boss of Li Zhe and others. But today's Wudu drill, even he was taken aback.

The expression on Shi Xiu's face suddenly became excited,

"Then hurry up and count again, how fast is their phalanx firing rate,"

Shi Xiu continued,

Yue Lun and a few others listened to the words and silently counted the number of shots fired by the soldiers of the five capitals on the field.

After a moment, everyone froze,

No, make no mistake, 10 volleys in a minute, oh my!

The officers froze, and as career officers, they knew exactly what it meant.

"Oh my God!" Shi Xiu's eyes widened, and the excited Nan Nan said to herself, "What kind of guns are these soldiers using, thirteen volleys of fire in one minute!" This firepower was enough to repel any cavalry. Twenty muskets were concentrated on the front of a platoon, and then the spearmen were removed, and all the soldiers, except the artillerymen, were replaced by musketeers. Is this the all-firearms advocated by those people in martial arts? ”

Yue Lun looked at this Wudu blankly, his face with a complicated expression,

"I think, if we're not mistaken, this might be the so-called all-firearming!"

"All firearms"! That is the most fashionable and fiery word in the mouths of the upper-level elites of the entire Great Song Dynasty military circles from Tianzhu to the Central Plains, from Nanyang to Beihai in recent years.

The question was raised by those officers who specialized in the study of military theory in the Central Military Academy, and it was believed to be the direction of the evolution of military tactics in the future. With the military of the Great Song Dynasty, more and more proficient and more important to the tactics of firearms, those radical officers in the army have long found in the deduction that the so-called phalanx tactics, the main force that really bears the firepower output, is undoubtedly the firecrackers!

The reason why the drills of the firecrackers are getting more and more attention in the army is that it is obvious that since the firecrackers are the main force responsible for the firepower output of the phalanx, how much firepower the firearms can play directly affects the lethality of the entire phalanx.

Then the next problem comes, theoretically speaking, there is always a limit to the number of enemies that a phalanx can face head-on, even if it is thousands of enemies, and at the same moment, there are always only so many enemies who can really face the phalanx head-on.

With the row of Li Zhe's five capitals, twenty soldiers, about ten meters wide, such a width on the battlefield, the frontal enemy will not exceed ten people, if it is cavalry, it is possible that there are only five or six people.

With such a density of enemies, in the face of the line of infantry's platoon guns, if the firepower of the firebolt is fierce enough, it can project twenty projectiles at a time, and the rotation within a minute is a terrifying two hundred projectiles, even if the musket hit rate of this era is touching, but such a dense and deadly rain of bullets is distributed on the way of these enemy soldiers' charge, you can imagine the terrible casualties they have to endure!

The muskets of this era have never been eaten by precision. Covering a large area and finding the probability of hitting is a practical approach in battle.

Two hundred projectiles were distributed to five or six cavalry and their horses, it was a death trap, there was no possibility of rushing to the front at all, only sixty percent, oh no, it didn't need sixty percent, even if it was only fifty percent, then no army, I'm afraid, could not withstand such a loss for more than ten minutes.

This is the so-called power of mathematics, the lethality that any army can withstand is always limited, and on the steppe, the main enemy of the Great Song Dynasty, the Mongols, and even their cavalry are less dense, then the natural result is that the enemy cannot rush to the front of the phalanx at all, and the spearmen are actually useless.

In fact, on the battlefield, the real large army battle, this situation has been revealed, a large phalanx is the moving city, and the fire soldier is the tip of the knife of this city. If the firecrackers maintain a sufficient density of bullets at all times during the battle, then no matter what enemy they are on the opposite side, they will not be able to charge against death!

Such a war would become a game of pure attrition, in which the might of the firecrackers would become the true masters, and no one would be able to defeat such an army until the soldiers ran out of bullets and stamina.

Of course, such an idea is still only discussed by a small number of elite officers in martial arts, and so far, no one has thought that such an ideal "all-firearms unit" can be realized.

At least no one had really seen it before the Song soldiers were equipped with better guns and more terrifying cannons.

But now, these officers are looking at this strange formation that appears in front of everyone's eyes, this, is this it!