In addition to Li Guo's 40,000 infantry, the 3,000 elite cavalry entered Annan, and Li Guo's Chinese army. The remaining 7,000 men formed a mixed brigade of cavalry, infantry, and chariot soldiers, which was also a very new tactic. This kind of tactic was even something Li Guo didn't expect.

This mixed brigade consisted of 3,000 cavalry and 4,000 infantry, (2,000 were killers, and 2,000 were gunners and birdmen on carts.) One hundred and twenty-eight heavy chariots and two hundred and sixteen light chariots.

The first is the use of combat vehicles, which became an important part of such tactics.

The performance of this combat vehicle is mainly defensive. The shape is similar to that of a folk cart. The difference lies in the fact that there are box boards on both sides of the trunk of the folk cart, and this kind of chariot only has eight foldable screens, a total length of 15 feet, which is usually placed flat on the wheel, and is opened and erected behind one wheel to replace the trunk during the battle, so it is also called "partial box car".

Dozens of chariots can be connected side by side, arranged in a round or square defensive stronghold. The two farthest sides of the screen can be swayed back and forth, like door leaves, for infantry to enter and exit.

Among them, one light tank can carry two Tiger squat guns, and the entire mixed brigade has 216 light combat vehicles, 432 Tiger squat guns and ammunition. The Tiger Squat Cannon is powerful, and it can blow up the enemy's city wall with two rounds of fifty Tiger Squat Cannons. This lightweight artillery has a thin running tube, a firing range of about 500 meters, suitable for mountain combat, mobile and flexible, due to the front loading, it can be launched at a large elevation angle and equipped with a large number of lower-level troops, and modern mortars have the same use.

Large Franc aircraft with a range of about nine hundred meters. This artillery is very powerful. There were only twenty infantry brigades, which were used to attack extremely strong fortifications and fortresses. Large Franc machines were carried by heavy chariots. Of the one hundred and twenty-eight heavy chariots, only twenty carried Franco-sized cannons.

The largest type of heavy artillery carried by the mixed brigade, commonly known as the "Great General". There are only eight doors in the entire mixed brigade. This kind of heavy artillery weighed 1,000 pounds, was transported on a mule cart, and when it was pointed, it was necessary to use a large wooden wedge into the ground to fix itself. The barrel of the gun is not filled with projectiles, but is tightly filled with small iron balls and stones, which is used to kill and wound a large number of enemy soldiers and horses at zero distance, and the gunner must jump into the nearby fortifications after igniting the gunpowder to avoid injury.

The rest of the hundred heavy chariots, all drawn with gunpowder and lead, were scattered throughout the ranks according to the plan. In order to provide an adequate supply of gunpowder at all times.

The guns of the artillery and auxiliary artillery fired buckshot behind the screen on the vehicle, and the screen was opened to serve as an exit for the buckshot.

Twenty soldiers were each assigned to a chariot. Ten of them were directly attached to the tank. The mission is to cast the Furlong cannon. The other ten are the killer team in the Mandarin Duck Formation, and their mission is to meet the enemy with rattan cards, palladium and long handles.

The distance of the killer team and the chariot are kept within eight meters, and if they advance, the chariot will also advance. Other infantry units still used the tactics of the Mandarin Duck Formation. The slight difference is that the rattan player is supposed to crawl forward to cut the hooves of the enemy's horse, while the pikeman is mainly responsible for stabbing the enemy and causing him to fall off his horse, and some of the wolf whisks made of bamboo have been easily made of iron.

When facing the enemy, the cavalry stopped the enemy in front, so that the chariots had enough time to form a battle formation. When the enemy approached, the cavalry retreated into the chariot formation.

When the number of enemy cavalry was less than 100, the mixed brigade refused to engage in battle, and only when a large number of invading enemy cavalry came within about 80 meters of the range of firearms, the Franco, the bird, and the rocket were fired at the same time.

When the firearms were brought into play, the infantry rushed out from behind the chariots. It forms several attack waves and fights with the enemy, and directs the action with the sound of a horn.

When the enemy's offensive was thwarted and the formation was scattered, the cavalry also attacked from behind the cart. This cavalry was actually horse infantry. They also fought in the formation of mandarin ducks with different weapons and enemies.

The cavalry mandarin duck formation on the horse was also twelve.

The first was the captain, who also held a spear in his hand, a sword at his waist, and a bow and thirty arrows on his back.

Behind the captain are two bird-swordsmen, with two long knives hanging from their saddles, which can be killed when the enemy approaches.

In the back were two fast gunners. Make the three-eyed firebolt, after the three-eyed firebolt is released. Use the whole body iron fire gun as an iron rod, and if you don't kill the enemy, you can at least break a bone if you go down with a stick.

Behind the fast gunners are the palladium boring hands, or each carrying thirty rockets on their backs, first firing and then melee with the palladium.

Behind the palladium boring hand were two pikemen, and behind the pikemen were mace men, both carrying bows and arrows, shooting arrows from afar, and stabbing with spears or maces when they were close.

Finally, there were the firemen, who had two baskets of gunpowder on their horses, which supplied the whole team. Of course, the firefighters still used two iron poles with sharp ends, smashing and stabbing them.

The Tartars outside the pass used cavalry to charge in formation, overwhelming their opponents with rapid strength and momentum, and Qi Jiguang's art of war was never imitated.

And Qi Jiguang's mandarin duck formation and mixed tactics are a new tactic formed after careful research.

It is only because the Ming Dynasty reconciled and exchanged markets with the Tartars outside the Guanxi not long after the creation of this method of warfare, so it did not pass the strict test of actual combat, nor did it have a decisive impact in military history, and from a purely military point of view, this result is somewhat regrettable.

But Li Guo wants to make up for such regrets.

When Li Guo saw Qi Laohan's training method, he really admired the five-body throw. Li Guo did not expect that in the Ming Dynasty, the application of firearms and tactics would be so advanced. This is almost impossible to see in the history books.

If it weren't for the rotten system at that time, Li Guo believed that with the firepower of the Ming Dynasty and Qi Jiguang's tactics, let alone sweeping Asia, it would not be too difficult to unify the whole world.

Tu Shaoxuan, who followed Li Guo to Annan, greatly admired it in his heart, and kept praising Li Guo along the way, "It's really amazing, in just a few months of hard work, I actually trained such an elite soldier." ”

Li Guoqian said, "It's not my credit, it's all my subordinates who can do things." ”

Tu Shaoxuan admired even more, "There are many talents under the supplement, and all the heroes are used to make up for it, and the supplement is really a great talent!" ”

Li Guo's face turned red as soon as he said it.

As he was talking, far away, Gaoping City arrived. Ruan Zhengping, the envoy of the Mo Dynasty who was accompanying him, shouted: "Our king Mo Zhengkuan has already gone out of the city to greet him. ”

Li Guo and Tu Shaoxuan looked over, only to see the blowing and blowing outside Gaoping City, the gongs and drums were noisy, surrounded by a group of people, a person was also wearing a yellow dragon robe and a black gauze soft hat, it was Mo Zhengkuan, the king of the Mo Dynasty. Mo Zhengkuan is very anxious these days, and when he heard that the reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty were about to arrive, he didn't say a word, and hurried out of the city to greet him, and he was looking forward to it.

Li Guo was angry when he saw it, grandma, you are still wearing a dragon robe, Lao Tzu is not wearing it yet!

Tu Shaoxuan rode over, shouting to Li Guo, "Make up for it, look, Mo Zhengkuan is here to greet us!" ”

Li Guo nodded, his face was grim, and he walked over with someone. (To be continued)