When the cannon sounded, Chen Mingxia's face quickly turned from iron blue to pale.

The military and political boss is still calculating how to punish these bold generals, or at least reaffirm the system in front of the prince...... Chen Mingxia is this temper, if he doesn't give real power, it is better to resign.

Training of this scale is rude if it is not reported to the Military and Political Department.

However, the whistling cannonball pressed back the words that had poured into his mouth, and the rumbling cannon shattered Chen Sizheng's already organized words, and in the face of the cannonball, everything was reduced to zero!

Not only him, but all the divisions behind Zhu Cihong were pale, and the might of the artillery was of course the main reason, but the infantry phalanx that was advancing proudly under the cover of artillery fire was the real reason why everyone was terrified.

"What is this doing?"

Gu Gao's face turned pale, how could this son-in-law, who has always been pampered, ever seen such a scene?

Of course, they have seen a lot of the Nanjing Forbidden Army, but speaking of which, the former Nanjing Forbidden Army was used to set up a team to marry a concubine for the Baoguo Gong, or to fill the number of people when fighting in the market, at most they could catch Jiang bandits and thieves near Nanjing, and there was no other use at all.

And the current situation has not been seen in Gu Gao's life!

The infantry of the two battalions had already formed two echelons of phalanxes, and in the rumbling artillery fire, the drums in the phalanx were as clear and audible as the hearts of the people!

"These guys are really bold."

Zhu Cihong was also surprised when he saw the situation in front of him, but after all, he had already experienced many battles, and the situation in front of him could not scare him.

This kind of military training is indeed quite impressive.

In the past few days, he has been planning the training methods and weapons of the infantry battalion of the new army, but he did not expect that the group of generals below and the officers who joined the Taixi like Gordon fit with each other, and actually began to cooperate with the artillery training first, and the first thing to practice was not the cooperation of the military formation, but the courage of the new army!

The current new army, under Zhu Cihong's deliberate request, has been proud of the queue and physical fitness, incomparable, in the eyes of Wei Yue and others, the strongest Guan Ning soldiers in the Ming Dynasty Towns, in terms of physical fitness and array, are also far behind.

is the elite of Jianzhou, I am afraid that there is still a comparison in physical fitness, and in the queue, it is far behind.

Feng Kaizhang has always been unable to understand things, in fact, Zhu Cihong has already made a decision.

Jianzhou Dongyu was invincible in the field, although the Ming army [***] was incompetent, the generals were cowardly and the soldiers were untrained, the firearms were out of order and the army was deep in twilight, and the soldiers were unarmored and strong.

When Liaozhen first discussed Jianzhou, the knife used to sacrifice to the sky could not kill the cow, and it would be strange if such an army could defeat the enemy.

As for the beginning of the establishment of the state to win with heavy armor and strong soldiers, the so-called invincibility of cavalry is all nonsense, the early bow and arrow is just to disturb the enemy, deterrent people's hearts, and later defeat the enemy, practical heavy infantry, with spears and heavy spears with heavy iron armor, every time with the Ming army to abandon the horse and fight, every battle will win, and it has nothing to do with cavalry and archery at all.

In the last years of the Mandate of Heaven Khan, many times the grass valley was harvested, and there were blacksmith shops that stretched for twenty miles outside the city of Shenyang, creating strong soldiers and armor, and after that, heavy cavalry gradually appeared in Jianzhou, and the infantry army cooperated with each other, and it was a hundred victories.

At this time, whether it is infantry or cavalry, Jianzhou is at least a veteran of more than ten or twenty years of war, especially the white swing tooth soldiers, everyone is the elite who dare to fight, the cities in Hebei and Shandong, there have been dozens of white armor climbing into the city, easy to break the record, when it comes to personal combat strength and cooperation with each other, the Ming army has been far behind Jianzhou.

Even if the elite of Li Zicheng and Guan Ningbing were under the command of Zhu Cihong, if there was no strong city to defend, Zhu Cihong would not have any confidence in the field battle against the main force of the Eight Banners.

And even if you defend the city, the current Eight Banners is not no way, after the surrender of King Sanshun, the Qing army has mastered the technology of casting artillery, and a lot of artillery has been cast in Liaodong, and now Shanhaiguan and Jingshi are under the two divisions, both places are the center of gravity of the Ming army's artillery storage, and the artillery cast by the Ming Dynasty in the past 20 years, the ** of ten fell into the hands of the Qing army.

Fortunately, the thousands of pounds of artillery can only be fixed to defend the city, and there are not many artillery pieces that can be dragged out of battle, even so, Li Zicheng's general Ma Shiyao who guarded Tongguan originally had no intention of surrendering, but when he saw that the Qing army had artillery, he had no choice but to switch out and surrender.

At this point in the war, sticking to the old rules is no longer helpful for state affairs.

And Ma Shiying, Shi Kefa and others, who thought that they could rely on the natural danger of the Huai River to the Yangtze River, and carve land for self-defense, were even more foolish.

Zhu Cihong has also made up his mind a long time ago, and his experience in fighting with the Qing army in the past, as well as the lessons of history, show that the Qing army will rarely have a chance to win with the old method of warfare.

His strategy for defeating the enemy lies in firearms.

History has proved that in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, it was originally the age of the war between firearms and cold weapons.

However, the quality of the Ming army's firearms manufacturing was uneven, and the ability of the army commanders to command troops was uneven. And the training of soldiers is a complete tragedy.

What needs to be reversed now is the manufacture of firearms, the training of generals, and the training of sergeants.

The most important one is to form an army with iron and blood, and to control the enemy with firearms, which does not mean that there is no white-knuckle war. Until the 19th century, white-knuckle warfare was still a treasure trove of great victories for the powerful armies of the world.

The strong army in Zhu Cihong's mind is a phalanx assault with artillery as the suppressive firepower, muskets as the output of short-range strikes, and bayonets and spears as the assault force!

It's just that I didn't expect that these generals had already made their own decisions about what they hadn't started yet, so it seemed that Feng Kaizhang and Wei Yue and others really had the talent of great generals!

………… The phalanxes of the two battalions were advancing in horizontal columns, each column was 60 people, and the vertical column was more than 20 columns, about 150 meters wide, and the depth was similarly different.

The entire phalanx was under the command of the drumbeat, and the pace was the same, although the phalanx was more than 1,000 people, but the whole array was like one person.

"After a while, the Military and Political Department will know, and Chen Baishi's nose will be crooked."

Before the phalanx, Wei Yue was also in parallel with Feng Kaizhang.

The cannon weighing about three catties roared overhead with a terrifying scream, and the two general generals did not even lift their eyelids, but still followed the prompts of the drum beat and kept moving forward at a standard pace.

In the phalanx, they were one with all the officers and men of the New Army, and there was no difference at all.

When the phalanx marched, there were no generals and officers on horseback, and everyone fought on foot, of course, this rule was also set by the prince during the queue training, and the generals could ride horses when marching, but when they were in war, unless they were cavalry officers, otherwise, the officers of the infantry and artillery corps were only allowed to command on foot.

And the infantry generals, the battalion officers, must be in the phalanx, with all the soldiers.

"Who cares about him?" Hearing Feng Kaizhang's words, Wei Yue remained silent, but his tone was sharp, not at all like his ordinary person: "Do you think Your Highness will allow civil officials to bully military generals?" Of course, martial arts must be subject to the constraints of the text, but it is only in the area of logistics and management, and today's training is no different from actual combat! ”

"That's right." Feng Kaizhang nodded, looked around him, and said loudly: "Could it be that Your Highness already knows the Bird Rausch phalanx that Gordon said?" Our first two months of queue training scared these military attachés from Taixi a lot! ”

Wei Yue just smiled and replied, "The prince has always acted like this, let's guess what's the use?" Anyway, now that this array can be used, let's continue to practice. According to what Gordon said, let's use a little flexibility in this formation, with 800 spearmen, 100 halberders, 100 sword and shield hands, and 400 firecrackers, to move forward horizontally, and its direction is invincible! ”

"The Firearms Bureau is already experimenting with the production of self-made firearms, and it would be even better if it was feasible."

The firearms of the Ming Dynasty were lost in uneven quality, not in the weak level of casting. In fact, the effective range of the Lu Mi gun is the first in the world, and it can definitely penetrate the iron armor within 100 steps, how can the arquebus at that time have this level?

Even if it is the kind of heavy gun used in Europe that is more than 20 catties and needs to be supported by a wooden fork, the gunpowder is much more than that of the Lumi gun, but the range and penetration are not as good as the Lumi gun.

As for the self-generated musket, it is a flintlock pistol, which replaces the fire rope with flint, and has been successfully developed in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, but it has not been large-scale and further developed.

In this era, Europe has begun to mass-produce flintlock muskets, which can fire as fast as three rounds in two minutes compared to arquebuses, from charging to re-firing from the chamber to the re-firing speed, the speed is doubled.

Even if the range of killing is similar to that of arquebuses, there is a completely irreplaceable advantage in speed.

There are not many excellent craftsmen in the Firearms Bureau, and the really experienced and high-level traps have not been brought out in Yanjing, and if some were not brought out from Tianjin, I am afraid that this research would not have been carried out.

In the sky is the rain line that falls obliquely, the school field is full of trampled mud, the soldiers of the new army in the two phalanxes are moving forward, although the artillery on the opposite side keeps moving, the muzzle of the cannon from time to time emits fire and white smoke, and the shells are also whistling overhead, but all the new army officers and soldiers are moving forward with their heads held high, and no one is afraid to move forward.

This is the accumulated results and wonders of phalanx training. Of course, a person has a certain sense of honor, but in the current danger, there are only a few individuals who can not flinch.

However, since the establishment of the new army, not to mention the food and accommodation of peers, the training is hard-working and sweaty, even if it is beaten and beaten with military sticks, it is all in one place. And under the deliberate lecture and publicity, there is also a sense of wholeness formed by military uniforms, military ranks, flags, military horns, and military songs.

In addition, the team spirit and cooperation are the most important in the queue training, so more than three months is enough to turn a group of croppers into forbidden soldiers.

Wei Yue's face was cold, his eyes seemed to contain thunder and lightning, his arm waved, and he only said in a loud voice: "Pingyu Army, go forward bravely." ”

"Pingyu Army, move forward bravely!"

The two huge phalanxes kept moving forward amid the sound of cannons, and the sound of slogans and drums, together with the sound of drums, resounded through the clouds, and finally overpowered the drums.

(To be continued)