The next morning, Wang Huan got up, last night's booze, had no effect on him, before the crossing he was known for his large amount of wine, after coming to this era, often drink sorghum wine made of grain, more mellow, better than the blended liquor of later generations I don't know how many times, although the taste is poor, but not on the head, so drunk at night, the next day dawn, and nothing like a living tiger.

After a morning exercise with his sergeants, Wang Huan sweated profusely, felt even more refreshed, and shot a crossbow again, then wiped his sweat with a towel and walked to the edge of the school field to drink water and rest.

As soon as he arrived at the place, he saw Li Tingyu and Li Yan carrying the stone lock together, practicing their arm strength, and seeing him coming, Li Tingyu put down the stone lock and looked at him with a smile.

"It seems that the chief soldier is not only physical, but also drinkable." Li Tingyu said with a smile: "I thought that young people were sleepy, but I never thought that adults would get up earlier than me, no wonder I heard that the Kuizhou soldiers are fierce, and it is natural to have such a main general." ”

Wang Huan smiled bitterly and said: "The general doesn't have to praise me, you still taught me this common sense of leading troops, when I was on the ship, I could ask you for a lot of tips on training and leading troops." ”

"No, any military book is a dead truth, and there are many people who are blind to do it." Li Tingyu waved his hand and said solemnly: "If you want to integrate it in the actual leadership of the troops, you can't do it unless you are a general, and it is not easy for you to understand such a training method from my few words." ”

Wang Huan's old face turned red, even if he was thick-skinned, he was embarrassed to say that the method of practicing the military posture of standing in the queue was clear to him, so he hurriedly looked left and right and said to him: "The general is really timely this time, plus the three thousand soldiers you brought, I have a total of nine thousand people in my hands, the original military system is a little too much to welcome, I am thinking about regrouping, I want to hear your opinion." ”

Li Tingyu was distracted, and as if he remembered something, he took out a bamboo tube from his arms, and said to Wang Huan with admiration: "This exterminating bomb of yours is too powerful, I tried it, once the explosion is wiped out within a radius of five zhang, no matter how thick the iron armor is, with it, what are you worried about?" ”

Wang Huan shook his head and said: "It's not enough, it's not enough, the exterminating bullet is just a firearm thrown by hand, the distance depends on the arm strength, the distance is too short, the infantry battle in this mountain forest is barely enough, if you encounter a large force of cavalry, use cavalry to harass the tactics, the exterminating bullet will not be used, and it will be consumed by people." ”

Li Tingyu frowned and thought: "Yes, you are right, the exterminating ammunition to defend the city is unparalleled, and the field battle is somewhat insufficient, and once the enemy army sees through this firearm, throw it out once, the enemy will retreat, it will only be empty and wasted, and when we run out of exterminating ammunition, the enemy army rushes up in large numbers, and it still ends up in hand-to-hand combat." ”

Wang Huan said: "Therefore, firearms can't rely only on this, long-range projection firearms are the king, in these battles, I captured some of Zeng Ying's bird commanders, and I want to organize it into the army, and use it as a projection firearm beyond the range of mountain crossbows and exterminating bullets." ”

"Bird's Rule?" Li Tingyu frowned, his eyes were a little frozen, and he obviously remembered some bad memories: "That kind of thing is useless, Liu Liangzuo's army has bird commanders, and they are useless, and they run away after a round of smoke and fire on the battlefield, and they can't fight anything, and it is easy for the bird commanders to run back to disperse the pikemen formation, and gunpowder and lead are still very expensive, which costs money and people." ”

"That's because the people who use it are too stupid to blame the birds for being useless." Wang Huan said: "The towns of the Ming Dynasty, the generals who will really use the good bird command can count them on one hand, and basically they all died in Songshan, general, you think about it, the bird commanders do not dare to charge enough, the lead is not far, the penetration is poor, it is strange to kill the armored soldiers, and the guns are released from a long distance, they can't be hit at all, the soldiers lack training, and it takes half an hour to load the charge after the unification, how can this battle be fought?" ”

Li Tingyu frowned, thought for a while and said: "You say something reasonable, I once heard that when Qi Junshen, the bird commander cooperated with the mandarin duck array, and the southeast Japanese and the Hulu outside the Saiwai changed their voices, how could such a useful firearm become a burning stick when we arrived?" ”

Wang Huan patted his thigh and said: "That's it, firearms are not guilty, the sin is in those who use firearms!" I plan it this way, 9,000 men are divided into three battalions, each battalion has a total of one battalion, and the following is the basic combat unit with eleven people as the basic combat unit, called the squad team, one person as the captain, three as the commander of the bird, three as the sword and shield hand, four as the spearmen, the sword and shield men and the pikemen are all hanging from the waist to destroy the mountain crossbow, the mountain destroying crossbow is short and capable, and will not affect the wielding of their own weapons; Ten squads form a hundred-man team, ten hundred-man teams are a thousand-man team, and three thousand-strong teams are a battalion. ”

"When fighting, the squad can be dispersed and fight independently, or it can form a phalanx to meet the enemy, and when the phalanx is fighting, the bird commander is in front, the pikeman is second, and the sword and shield hand is the hand-to-hand combat arms again. When the enemy army is released to one hundred and fifty paces, the bird will start to shoot, and the gunner will shoot in three rounds, and immediately turn into the two wings of the army formation, and continue to shoot at will, at this time the enemy has entered the distance of 100 paces, and the sword and shield hand will hold the crossbow and release the crossbow arrows, if the enemy continues to approach in the rain of arrows, then until the gunner hangs the crossbow and raises the spear to resist the enemy, and the sword and shield man keeps the crossbow and shoots until the enemy advances to within 20 paces, at this time, the pikemen do not move, and the sword and shield hand throws the captivating bomb, so that the three fires kill, It is estimated that there are not many remaining enemy troops left. ”

"The squad is dispersed and mainly used to pursue and destroy the enemy army and small-scale combat, and among the ten people, the sword and shield man, the pikeman and the bird commander can be combined into a small phalanx, and the same number of enemy troops will not suffer."

Li Tingyu listened fascinated, almost forgot to speak, and even Li Yan next to him felt that he was stunned, it turned out that different arms could be combined to wield such great power, but Li Tingyu was silent for a while, and then asked a question: "This kind of tactics is okay to deal with infantry, even if it is a Tatar heavy armor soldier and us, it will not take any advantage, but what about the Tatar cavalry?" I fought with the Tartars and the Mongol cavalry in Liaodong, and they grew up on horseback, and began to draw their bows from the time they could ride horses, and they were skilled in riding and archery, and they used horned bows with great strength, and they could shoot their bows into the woods from about a hundred and fifty paces. Besides, what if you encounter a cannon with a longer range than the bird's system? ”

Wang Huan said in a loud voice: "The general is worthy of the general, and he thought of the key so quickly!" Indeed, this issue is very important, the cavalry is good at maneuvering, focusing on harassment, and the time can break the foot soldier with one blow, and the foot soldier can only form a formation to protect himself, which is not equal at all, and it is very difficult to defeat the cavalry in the field battle on the plains. ”

"But if there is a sharp firearm assistance, the cavalry is not invincible, but at present, we have not yet considered this problem, Sichuan is more mountainous and less flat, the cavalry can't run, and it's better to fight in the mountains than a foot pawn, and when we can go north to Hanzhong and go east to Kuimen, we must have a magic weapon to defeat the enemy."

Li Tingyu was a little confused, he couldn't understand where Wang Huan's self-confidence came from, of course, he didn't know about Li Huaien's arrival, but he didn't think much about it, experience told him that since Wang Huan was sure, he must be sure.

"Three battalion commanders, I have been thinking about it for a long time, Ma Xintian can be counted as one, I have one by myself, and the other has not been able to settle down, Zubian is too anxious, Ma Long is not hot enough, and other generals are not mature enough, when I think about it, it happens that the general arrives, I wonder if the general can deign to be a battalion commander?" Wang Huan said with some embarrassment, Li Tingyu is a general and a veteran, so it is a little unnatural to let him be his subordinate.

Li Tingyu was overjoyed, got up and hugged his fists and said: "The adults are serious, and being able to lead the strong soldiers practiced by the adults is a fortunate thing in the last general's life!" ”