"Good!" Liu Xu immediately said: "When we go back, we will rush to make knives, guns, firearms, and practice basic combat skills." Wait until the foundation is completed, divide the troops into dozens of squads, 100 people per team, suppress bandits everywhere, calm the place, and when it comes, everyone will see blood, I will first destroy the natives, then level the Netherlands, and then wave the army to the north, which is the time to sweep the world! ”

Seeing that his suggestion was adopted by Liu Xu, Bolong made persistent efforts and continued: "My subordinates are in charge of the army's stroke discipline and listen to the military's remarks on a part-time basis. Some people feel that there are too many firecrackers and too few killers in the army formed by Liu Gong, I don't know what Liu Gong plans to do? ”

"Oh?" Liu Xu was stunned, this was what he didn't expect in advance, he was now following the military establishment of Western Europe in the same era, and the killer team was the name of the Ming Dynasty army's hand-to-hand combat unit for cold weapons, which accounted for half of his establishment, he still thought it was too much, but he didn't expect that there were too few people, and he couldn't help asking: "Who said that?" ”

"It was Gao Zhong who said, he is now a company commander, and there are eighty-one soldiers under him, he said that 'bullets are cowards, and big guns are heroes', and he resolutely supports Liu Gong's spear formation, but he feels that the firecrackers are useless and unbearable. There are some markets for this statement in the army, I don't know how Liu Gong will deal with it? ”

Liu Xu likes this young man called Gao Pet very much, and it can be seen from the fact that he dared to take dozens of untrained teenagers to face the Jiannu cavalry, he is definitely a loyal and brave general, and he is also filial and faithful, as long as he is cultivated, he will definitely be a general who can take charge of himself in the future. However, there are two sides to the matter, he defeated Jiannu with a big gun, and naturally felt that the big gun was the core that determined the victory or defeat of the battlefield, plus the firearms of the Ming army were really of poor quality, and the explosions were frequent, and he did not take any advantage in the battle with Jiannu, so it is understandable to say such things.

Thinking like this, Liu Xu asked Bolong casually: "What do you think?" ”

Bo Long thought for a while and said: "The subordinates feel that this fire gun is naturally beneficial, for example, if a person wants to cultivate the gun formation, there is no three months that he cannot complete the basic queue, order, and battle formation training, and the fire gun is much simpler, as long as the training queue is completed and the operation of the fire gun is familiar, he can go into battle in a month." In terms of the difficulty of training, it is indeed easier to be a firecracker. But," Bolong continued, "the fire gun is a light soldier, and the light soldier can attack and harass, and kill and wound from a distance, similar to the clutch soldiers of cavalry, but it cannot form a battle formation to guard the old camp. If the battle goes well, everyone will fight with the wind, how to fight and how to win, but if they fall behind, the fire soldiers are no better than the killer team, they can stick to their own position, and they will not retreat! ”

Liu Xu knew that the firearms of this era were not developed enough, and the rate of fire of the arquebusiers was really worrying, even if it was the elite army of Prussia, three shots a minute was the limit, not counting the mistakes caused by the army's pressure on the battlefield and the mute rate of the musket itself. If the two armies are facing each other, sixty paces can be fired, and at most two shots, the enemy will be able to rush forward, which does not seem to be very useful.

But no matter what, a musket is a musket, no matter how much you have cotton armor all over your body, your martial arts are peerless, and you will definitely not be able to hold out under a small piece of lead. Although you can wear a double layer of armor on the opposite side, and a layer of chain mail and armor on the outside, you can also increase the charge here. Increasing the charge is much easier than increasing the armor, which is also a reflection of the fact that the spear is good for the shield. In the face of a large-charge musket, no one can survive a single shot unless a full-body water-forged plate armor is used. However, with the productivity of this era, a set of full-body plate armor in Western Europe requires more than a dozen skilled craftsmen to work for half a month, and there is no decent plate armor in the East, how can it block its own musket!

What's more, no matter where it is, the pre-industrial economy is not enough to produce enough plate armor to fit the front-line infantry, even if it is a luxury to equip only mid-level officers, how can it be against their own musket team!

The most important thing is that when a large number of modern artillery pieces are installed, even if you are a super-heavy plate armor weighing 80 pounds of your body, you will be vulnerable in front of a big iron ball weighing seven or eight kilograms, and a shotgun fired at close range can also cause fatal damage to the plate armor. Therefore, in any case, the power of firearms is irresistible to the armor of the cold weapon era. Even if the appearance of water-forged plate armor renews the life of cold weapon equipment, it cannot change the historical trend of this vast soup.

Thinking like this, Liu Xu said: "Firearms is the inevitable direction of our Datong Army, you don't have to worry, I know this in my heart." When our own firearms factory is completed, the guns will rain down, and the guns will be fired at the same time, no matter whether he is an invincible iron army or a million iron horses, he will not be able to stop my iron fire storm, you will know when the time comes! ”

"Yes!" Bolong has the advantage of carefully asking and even giving advice before the order is given, but as long as the order is given, it will be carried out, and there will be no bargaining. Nodding his head, he stopped talking, just frowning, contemplating the direction of this firearm.

Chen Kong never thought that there would be such a scene, he thought for a while, and sighed: "I believe in Liu Gong's ability, but if there is really that day, the armor will be useless, and martial arts will not play a role on the battlefield. ”

Liu Xuxin said that of course, if it were not for the prevalence of gunpowder, how to break the knightly system in Western Europe, it would be impossible for the bourgeoisie to transform from economic superiority to military superiority, and finally have political superiority. It is not so much that the knighthood was defeated by gunpowder, but that the knighthood, a noble class, was defeated by the musketeers who had completed three months of training. As for the knights, the class would also occupy the position of commander in the army because of their political superiority, and it would not slowly decline until the total victory of the bourgeoisie.

But even so, well-trained samurai still have great significance, such as special forces deep behind enemy lines, scouts and horses, stragglers, this kind of military that requires personal combat skills needs a sufficient martial arts foundation, so he said: "I can't just say that martial arts are useless, I have a special forces of 100 people, most of them are good at the rivers and lakes, and those who are ready to fight behind enemy lines in the future will have to train well and make contributions to the country!" ”

"The subordinates will definitely live up to expectations!" Seeing that his lifelong martial arts were useful, Chen Kong bowed to the ground and was excited.

As they were talking, they had already walked several miles on the mountain road, passed through a small cedar forest, turned a frozen stream, and saw a few buildings in front of them, and apparently reached the ground.

Chen Kong turned his head and said with a smile: "Meigong is waiting for the driver in front, everyone, please come with me!" (To be continued.) )