The bravest warriors! This Zheng Chenggong is a little interested.

Judging by their physical strength, they may be stronger than most of their men.

Zheng Chenggong thought for a moment and said, "You come with me, I'm going to try your catties!" ”

When Louis heard it, he immediately called out to his men to follow Zheng Chenggong.

The group went to the Yanwu Pavilion in Xiamen. Zheng Chenggong asked Louis to pick up a 100-kilogram stone lock and walk around the pavilion three times.

Louis walked over, put his hands in his hands, and walked around three times, lowering the stone lock and only catching his breath slightly.

Louis looked at Zheng Chenggong and said, "Honorable Earl, my strength is just ordinary among us, please believe me, we have more powerful people." ”

Zheng Chenggong nodded and said, "Very good, you have proved the value of your existence with practical actions." How many more people like you are able-bodied? ”

Louis lowered his head and thought for a moment, and said, "There are probably more than three hundred." ”

There are only more than three hundred, which is too little, and it takes at least three thousand people to form a battalion.

Zheng Chenggong said: "Luis, I believe you are a smart person. You follow my people to Macau, to Southeast Asia, and buy me blacks. I need at least three thousand strong black slaves. You've found all of them, and I'll let you be their commander and be a guerrilla general. ”

When Louis heard that Zheng Chenggong was willing to reward himself as a guerrilla general, he nodded excitedly and said, "Honorable Earl, I, Louis, am willing to be your most loyal soldier." It won't be long before you'll see 3,000 warriors at your service! ”

Louis knew that a guerrilla general was the equivalent of a regimental commander in the West, and that was a noble profession.

Zheng Chenggong nodded and said, "I hope you won't let me down, okay, you go down first." As for the deduction of wages, I will definitely investigate it clearly. ”

"Yes, Lord Count!"

In Zheng Chenggong's future plans, the musketeers were in the front and the artillery battalions were in the back. Those who are far away are bombarded with muskets, and those who are close are shot with muskets.

Combining far and near, Zheng Chenggong initially felt that this was the simplest, most direct, and most effective tactic in the next hundred years of war.

But later, after Zheng Chenggong watched their shooting effect in the artillery workshop, Zheng Chenggong suddenly realized that what he was thinking was a little too simple, a little too whimsical.

This tactic is not a problem when defending, but it can be a problem when attacking, especially in the suburbs or in rainy weather.

You attack, but the enemy won't stand up and fight you. The enemy will lie in ambush and will attack in a roundabout way.

When the enemy uses various terrain or various methods to close the distance between them and you.

At this time, whether it is a tunnel musket or a fire system, there is only time to fire two or three rounds.

The Qing army's iron cavalry rushed over to fight hand-to-hand with casualties, and their own soldiers were miserable at that time.

During the Opium War, British soldiers went to Sanyuanli to rob property and rape women. Aroused public indignation, more than 10,000 popular organizations gathered to besiege and attack the British army. The people armed with traditional weapons such as broadswords and spears, took advantage of the rainy weather and the fact that the flintlock muskets could not shoot to give full play to the advantages of weapons, and then beat the British soldiers.

The musket of 1841 did not work even in rainy weather, let alone 1648.

The muskets and artillery could not completely resist the Qing army's iron cavalry for the time being, and Zheng Chenggong thought about it again and again, feeling that if the Zheng army could defeat the Qing army in all weather and all-terrain. There must be a force that can confront the Qing army's iron cavalry head-on, otherwise there will be trouble.

The south does not produce war horses, and it is impossible to use cavalry against the cavalry of the Qing army.

When he saw that those black men were strong, Zheng Chenggong suddenly felt that maybe he could form a heavy infantry to resist the Eight Banners Cavalry head-on.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, in order to fight against the Turkic cavalry, strong and powerful people were selected from the army to form the Modao Army. Dressed in heavy armor and wielding Mo swords, these Mo Dao soldiers are like a mountain of knives that can crush all enemies.

At its peak, one or two thousand Mo sword soldiers could kill tens of thousands of Turkic cavalry. With the Modao Army, there is a prosperous Tang Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, due to the loss of horse-producing areas in the north, the Song Dynasty was extremely short of war horses, and the Song Dynasty army could only continue to thicken the armor of its soldiers to fight against the northern enemy countries with a large number of cavalry. Famous generals Yue Fei and Han Shizhong were good at leading heavy infantry with iron armor, spears and crossbows as the main equipment, and repeatedly defeated the cavalry of the Jin Dynasty in dense formations.

All this proves that hoplites can fight cavalry.

Of course, the hoplite was not invincible, and its shortcomings were obvious.

The heavy armor of hoplites will lead to a decrease in movement speed and an increase in physical exertion, making them unsuitable for pursuit, reconnaissance, harassment and other tasks, and it is difficult to exit the battlefield in time in the event of a rout. It is still in a passive position in the battle against the cavalry, and the requirements for the group are quite high, and if the group advantage is lost, it will inevitably suffer a fatal blow.

At the same time, the disadvantage in speed allowed the infantry to only defeat the enemy, but not to completely destroy the enemy.

Zheng Chenggong knew the shortcomings of hoplites, and he didn't think about using hoplites to pursue the Qing soldiers. All he needed was to be able to confront the cavalry head-on and protect the musketeers and artillery battalions behind him.

Zheng Chenggong flipped through the new book on armaments, thinking about what style of iron armor should be best for the hoplites of the Zheng family's army.

Cotton nails? Mingguang armor? Chain mail? Gothic armor?

After Zheng Chenggong filtered all the famous armors in history, he found that these were not the kind he wanted.

Zheng Chenggong decided to find someone to redesign a type of armor.

Zheng Chenggong called someone to call Feng Shideng and saw him. Zheng Chenggong said, "I need you to find someone to help me design a piece of armor." Its upper body should be forged with all steel plates as much as possible, the helmet should be equipped with a demon mask, the arms and lower body should be made of chain mail as much as possible, and a horse chopping knife should be used, and the weight of a complete set of armor should be controlled between 30-40 kg as much as possible. ”

Feng Shideng heard it and said, "Yes, but General, with such heavy armor, it will be very inconvenient for the soldiers to put on it." ”

"It's okay, this armor is not for us, it is for those Kunlun slaves to wear. I have already asked people in Southeast Asia to buy 3,000 Kunlun slaves, and I am ready to form a heavily armed ironclad army to fight against the Qing army's iron cavalry. ”

Hearing that it was for Kunlun Nu, Feng Shideng thought of those guys who turned over in the dark and were extremely powerful, and felt that if they were to wear them, it should be no problem. So he said: "The humble post will definitely make armor as soon as possible according to the orders of the great general." ”