"Cao Qing, this guy, is it good to practice?"

In Zhang Quanbin's hand is a telescope carefully built by the missionaries, and in the mirror, the movements of Cao Qing's department opposite him are also clearly seen by him.

Compared with the rare imitations on the market in Suzhou and other places, this telescope is a little rougher in the craftsmanship of these missionaries, but the production is very large.

In fact, there were people in the Wangyuan realm who imitated it in the Wanli period, and later in the Jiangnan market in the Chongzhen period had been accidentally traded and traded, but these things were miraculous and skillful, and there were not many people who could really master the skills, and they learned it was also secret, and it would not be popularized on a large scale.

According to the plan above, it will be sent to the level of sentry by the end of next year.

In addition to the telescope, there are many delicate objects that the Military Industry Department is trying to make, and Zhang Quanbin likes to go around and see for a long time when he has nothing to do.

Taixi's big chiming bell is a Xihan thing, which only flowed into China a few decades ago, and there are not many in the imperial palace, and there will be some in the homes of the richest dignitaries in Beijing.

Now the Department of Military Industry is also trying to produce pocket watches, which are delicate and ingenious, and can accurately grasp the time by hanging around the neck.

The manufacturing process of this watch is the same as that of a clock, but some key details have not yet been completed, and at the earliest, after two or three months, pocket watches can also be lowered to the rank of captain.

There are still a lot of gadgets, some of which Zhang Quanbin can't even name, and he has never seen a compass or something like that. There are also quite a lot of missionaries in the Department of Military Industry, and I heard that the crown prince is taking the service of these Thai and Western monks who allow them to preach freely, and this deal, in Zhang Quanbin's opinion, is very worthwhile.

He saw that the heavy infantry on the opposite side had already put on their armor with the help of the auxiliaries, and then formed a formation conducive to the charge, and the light armor and unarmored strong archers in front of the formation were also full of arrows on the ground, adjusting the iron bows, ready to shoot for a while.

The other party's formation gradually formed, and the assistant next to Zhang Quanbin didn't make a sound just now, but at this time, he also put down the telescope and said loudly: "Lead, let's go?" ”

"Up!"

Zhang Quanbin waved his arm quite imposingly and shouted: "The whole camp is pressed, give Cao Qing's kid a try!" ”

It seems that he has a heart, at the moment of Zhang Quanbin's camp pressure, Cao Qing also ordered the drums to beat, and the drums on both sides were like thunder, and more than 3,000 soldiers were all on both sides, which were originally about half a mile apart, and in the rumbling drums, they gradually got closer and closer.

"Fireman, fire!"

"Attention, archers, shoot seven from the back and shoot three from the side!"

About a hundred steps apart, Zhang Quanbin's battalion's firecrackers started first.

While advancing, the firecrackers had already lit the fire rope, and under Zhang Quanbin's order, they fired one after another.

The current firecracker medicine is a paper tube fixed, because it is a drill, there is no charge, but in the banging sound, there is a large stream of smoke rising, the people of the military and political department are at the forefront to observe the performance of the firecrackers, and calculate the casualties of Cao Qingying on the opposite side by the distance and the frequency of the launch.

"What?"

At a time when the archers were only about 100 paces away and could kill and injure Zhang Quanbin's battalion, who was wearing protective armor, hundreds of archers had already killed one-third of them, and more than half of them were wounded, so to speak, almost lost sixty or seventy percent of their combat effectiveness.

Hearing such news, Cao Qing was of course not happy, and he was not convinced.

"About one hundred and twenty steps, how can the power of the fire bolt launch be so great?" Cao Qing shouted to an official of the Military and Political Department: "Originally, the archers all wore light armor, but now Lao Tzu has replaced them all with thickened cotton armor, and no matter how good the penetration of the firearm is, it will not be able to cause such a large casualty at all." ”

He paused for a moment, and then said: "Unless the battalion on the opposite side is full of Lu Mi Gong, but Lu Mi Gong has only built less than 500 units so far, and it has been formed into a Shenji Battalion of less than two teams, is this kid Zhang Quanbin bringing the Shenji Battalion?" ”

"This question will be answered only after the exercise is completed."

The Military and Political Department and the serious army are two systems, and this division member put on a businesslike face, and was happy to see a military attache like Cao Qing deflated.

"Hmph, Ben will naturally ask in a moment."

In the first phalanx confrontation, the firecrackers beat the archers to a pulp, and the archers of more than 1,000 people were completely deprived of formation by half of the firecrackers before they could fire more than three rounds.

Because in the Jiannu army, the archers are all lightly armored or unarmoured, and when fighting in a serious formation, it is impossible to ask elite troops such as horse armor or infantry armor to be archers to do auxiliary work.

After several collapses, Cao Qing and other generals proposed to replace the armor stomach, and even reduce the number of archers to strengthen the number of musketeers in the Qing army.

Because Jiannu is not a fool and an idiot, on the contrary, they also have considerable materials and craftsmen, coupled with a flexible and progressive system, it is hard to imagine that Jiannu will be stupid not to strengthen their firearms and improve their defense methods after being swept away with firearms several times.

For this kind of proposal, the crown prince Zhu Cihong agreed as soon as he heard about it.

The large-scale phalanx drill and the confrontation of the arms were originally to find problems in the exercise, Zhu Cihong has always felt that the things he has read in the novel are too idealistic, and the musket swept away Jiannu, how could it be so cheap?

Before the appearance of breech guns and machine guns, firearms did not have an advantage over large-scale cavalry, and the Qing army not only had a large-scale cavalry team, but also an elite unit that had been tempered in the war for decades, as well as a group of princes and clans with rich war experience and brains, and it was impossible to expect them to be beaten all the time without adjustment and change.

Jiannu is mostly backward in the entire system, but in the military, it is a partial lead.

By strengthening the archers' armor and making adjustments to the array, and taking into account the number of musketeers, their directions, and even the terrain and wind direction when commanding, Cao Qing greatly weakened the lethality of the musketeers to his subordinates in the confrontation with Zhang Quanbin.

Under the limited rounds of attacks of the archers, even if the damage is not high, at least they can cover the assault force of their own side to move forward and seize the favorable terrain in advance.

Today, however, it is different from usual, under the continuous fire of the firearms, the archers have been disabled, which can be regarded as a big loss.

At the sound of bangs, the remnants of the archers, despite their arm failure, pulled their bows and arrows with all their might, and shot them out at a rapid pace.

"When the whole battalion listened, all columns marched forward with their heads held high, and they were not allowed to avoid it!"

If it is in the past, the phalanx of Zhang Quanbin's camp will also be adjusted accordingly, no matter how sophisticated the armor stomach is, there will be more and more sophisticated armor-piercing arrows that have been polished, and they are closer, and the bow and arrow are not children's toys, and they can also bring serious damage to the phalanx.

At the suggestion of the Tai Western monks and military attachés, a square shield soldier was added to the front column of the spearmen and halberdiers in the center, more than one person high, with wood as the shield, covered with thick cowhide, and reinforced with iron in key places.

The original Spanish phalanx did not have this configuration, several columns of phalanx were spearmen and halberders on the front, and the two wings were arranged with musketeers.

However, in Europe or South America in the same era, there were no large number of archers like Jiannu, and it is a lie to say that cavalry and archery are invincible, but it does not mean that Jiannu's cavalry and archery are completely bluffing.

As long as the Qing army is a serious Eight Banners, or a Sauron soldier, an Oroqen soldier, no matter which part of the Eight Banners is included, which clan's shooters are not first-class?

Since birth, he has to fish and hunt, and hunt all kinds of prey to survive, this kind of archery is different from the kind of archery practiced by the Han people.

The latter is at most an additional function of life, it is good to have it, and it doesn't matter if it doesn't.

Even if they are soldiers, archery is only a kind of ability to make a living, but for nomads and fishing and hunting peoples, archery is the foundation of a life.

The English longbowmen were indeed powerful, and even in the early days of the smoothbore guns, the longbowmen were still able to hold the musketeers to fight.

Later, considering that it was not easy to cultivate, the cost gap was too large, and the muskets were becoming more and more advanced, the longbowmen were gradually eliminated.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty in China, although riding and shooting was a myth, there was no doubt that a fishing and hunting tribe with tens of thousands of men had tens of thousands of men who were good at shooting.

With a certain amount of sword and shield hands, this can be regarded as an improved Spanish phalanx, and the remaining archers at this time desperately shot the bows and arrows in their hands, although the archers were almost disabled, the rest still shot a lot of arrows.

Although there were arrows flying high in the air, according to the drill regulations, one of the ten fake arrows was a real arrow, in case it was shot by a real arrow, although the probability of killing an arrow was no higher than that of a cavalry training to fall from a horse, after hearing the sound of the arrow breaking through the air, everyone was very cautious and leaned down.

"Dangdangdang......"

Feathered arrows with wooden arrows kept falling and falling on the human body, making a sound of striking the iron armor.

The officers of the Military Administration Department who were supervising and observing kept counting the dead and wounded, and called the people in the phalanx who were judged dead or seriously injured to come out of the ranks.

Arrows rained down, fortunately, the spearmen or halberders on this side of the phalanx were heavily armoured, that is, although the firecrackers did not have arm armor and shin armor, and the front of their chests was also protected by armor, plus the number of archers was too small after all, after a sudden rain of arrows, the sound of bangzi sounded, and all the archers retreated.

At the same time, the heavily armored infantry soldiers behind the phalanx of Cao Qingying also began to shout, and behind them, the drums rumbled, and everyone knew that the most critical moment had come.

Such a drill is already very realistic, and it is only bloody compared to the real battlefield.

When the infantry and artillery were coordinated, the sky was full of flying shells, and the exercise ground was filled with the choking smell of gunpowder and sulfur.

(To be continued)