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The formation of the cavalry corps represents the beginning of a large-scale mobile force in the Mawei Army group, although the cavalry division has no combat effectiveness now, but a year later, there will be a powerful cavalry in front of the world. Geng Jingzhong went to Luzon to inspect, and Bai Xianzhong came with the cavalry of the old battalion, which had recovered their training. These 1,000 people are the teachers and instructors of the recruits, not only teaching them military training, but also teaching them horsemanship. However, the positions of the junior officers in this army are not all theirs, and the rank of squadron leader is basically divided by the upcoming cadets of the real yàn class. Although the cavalry was a veteran before, it was okay to be a squad leader at the level, and the position of squadron leader was reluctant for most of the old cavalrymen.

After Geng Jingzhong sent out all the graduates of the Shi yàn class, he came to Pingtan Island and began to plan and organize an army military exercise with Li Guangdi. It is normal for the Navy to conduct exercises at sea, but the Marine Corps rarely has this opportunity. There is simply no such large place in Fujian that can supply 13,000 troops to the Marine Army for military exercises. The reason why it is 13,000 is because of the 22,000 people of the Marine Army, 4,000 have been stationed in various dangerous passes in Fujian to replace the original inspection and guard. In addition, Luzon Island also divided 3,000, and there were 15,000 left at one time, of which 13,000 were left after excluding the two battalions of the Guards Battalion, which had been unable to move. Even this 13,000 is not a small number, not to mention that it has not been counted in the 8,000 artillery division on Yang Jian's side!

This time on Pingtan Island. Geng Jingzhong wants to carry out. It is a military exercise of the Marine Army. Includes cavalry, infantry, and artillery. Of course, there is no cavalry in Fujian now, but Geng Jingzhong is ready to let some soldiers ride on Yunnan horses, and the group impact allows the soldiers to feel the power of the cavalry group impact. In the future, conquests will mainly be conquests on land, especially field battles, which require the coordination of all arms of the armed forces, and must not be sloppy. Until now. It seems that the Ponytail Army has not cooperated once! Geng Jingzhong had long wanted to organize the Marine Army into a new field corps, but the time was not ripe, and in Li Guangdi's opinion, the prince did not attach too much importance to the field corps.

For the formation of field corps, the infantry of the Marine Corps will be the main body at that time, after all, there are no mechanized troops now. And the first thing they had to accomplish was to set up the infantry column. In the past, the border troops of the Ming army fought in linear queues, and they also had musket battalions, the most commonly used being the three-stage shooting invented by Mu Ying two hundred years ago. This can effectively exert the power of the firecracker. However, the firearms of the Ming Dynasty were shoddy and waste. Minimal threat to the Tartars. The new musket of the Mawei Army can have six rounds a minute for ordinary soldiers, and it is enough to arrange them in two rows. Because of the long range and great power of the new muskets, if they were arranged in three rows, the people in front could block the shots of their comrades behind them, causing accidental injuries.

Each battalion of the Mawei Army was a thousand people, so that was a thousand muskets. It is divided into two brigades, ten squadrons, and one hundred squads. In the case of large-scale field battles, they are arranged in a semi-arc, with 500 men in each row, arranged in two rows. With one shot, five hundred rounds of Mini can be fired. If the back row also shoots, it is a thousand rounds of Mini bullets at the same time.

The Mini bullets fired by the new musket have a considerable lethal effect at a range of 250 meters, and they have been tested many times at the shooting range and have also been tested on the battlefield. The musket has an advantage against the cavalry, and for such an obvious target as shooting the cavalry, the hit rate can basically be guaranteed to be about one and a half percent. In other words, the enemy's cavalry, after entering the range of 250 meters, may be directly knocked to the ground by Minnie bullets. Generally, the charging speed of the Mongolian cavalry does not exceed ten meters per second, and the distance of two hundred and fifty meters takes about twenty-five seconds under normal circumstances. Some people want to say that when the light cavalry charges, the speed can reach more than fifteen meters per second at the fastest; However, this speed can be achieved by a single cavalry at most, and it is unlikely that a large number of cavalry will gather together and attack in groups. If there is a disturbance in the middle of the way, the speed will be slower.

In twenty-five seconds, each soldier can shoot three mini rounds, and the continuous fire of a thousand people can pour three thousand mini rounds. Even if there is only one percent of the hits, three hundred cavalry will fall, in fact, it is better to hit the horse without fighting the cavalry. If you go down in one round, before the cavalry arrives, you will fall by six or seven hundred. Of course, the cavalry of the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty or the Guanning Iron Cavalry of Wu Sangui were able to shoot arrows after entering a distance of sixty meters. This can cause some casualties to the fighters, or cause confusion, which can affect the density of the Mini bullets. But the impact will not be huge. In a battle in a formation, it is impossible to directly let the infantry face the cavalry, and the artillery is not watching the excitement after eating a dry meal.

At this moment, in the central wilderness of Pingtan Island,; Two thousand improvised cavalry were fighting against a thousand infantry.

"Lord Wang, please give an order!" After Zeng Yangxing finished arranging the phalanx, he asked Geng Jingzhong for instructions.

"The warriors are good, today these cavalry are all impostors, just to let the soldiers experience the momentum of ten thousand horses galloping, to be familiar with this momentum, not to be afraid of it! For infantry, every time they go to a place, they must first familiarize themselves with the terrain, and the terrain is their best weapon against other arms. Luckily, it's just a walkthrough. ”

Geng Jingzhong himself was well aware of the psychological pressure of the infantry in the face of cavalry. The condescending nature of the cavalry, the tall men and horses, the speed of the galloping wind, and the rumbling hooves of the horses will cause great psychological pressure on the infantry. Even if the infantry is very brave, if they have not received strict training against cavalry beforehand, they may have psychological abnormalities when facing a large number of cavalry. Once the psychology is abnormal, the level will be unbalanced. Once the level is unbalanced, the combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced. Can't stop the enemy from approaching, the problem is not big, the most feared psychological collapse, in extreme panic, involuntarily turn around and run. The most taboo thing about such an infantry phalanx is that someone turns around and runs away. Once someone collapses, the entire phalanx is equivalent to opening a crack, and it will also collapse quickly. Therefore, it is very important to train the psychological endurance of soldiers.

Throughout history, the best way to prevent problems in soldiers has been through brutal training combined with ruthless discipline. Brutal training, training day and night, repeated training, and training all the time, can turn a person's nerves into a state of numbness. And the cold discipline made every soldier dare not have the idea of running away at all. If the soldiers were trained to be machined, there would be no need to worry about this problem. During the Warring States Period, the Wei Wushu phalanx of the Wei State was so powerful that it was not good enough to fight against the cavalry, and the cavalry of the Qin New Army trained by Shang Ying was completely collapsed with a shock.

Of course, everyone knows that it is extremely difficult to train a person of flesh and blood into a machine person who only knows killing, does not know danger, does not know pain, and does not know fear. However, in order to have the last laugh, no matter how difficult it is, things must be done. Like now, the daily training of the Mawei Army is the best way. Few troops recall that in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, when Dong Zhuo trained the elite soldiers of Xiliang, he used killing people to sharpen the soldiers. Nor could he have tried to excite the Spartan warriors with such harshness.

"Let's go!"

At the sound of the order, the two thousand cavalry began to charge, first starting, then accelerating, then increasing and speeding, and the sound of rumbling horses' hooves was like a dense drum beat, and the earth shook with it. Although the 2,000 infantry on the opposite side had long known that this was an exercise, they were still pale, swallowing spit, and the muskets in their hands were tightly clutched. At the moment, their muskets were unloaded.

"Ready! Raise your gun! "The two battalion commanders of the Marine Infantry Battalion gave orders respectively, and the difference between one and the other was only one or two seconds. But at this time, they didn't notice that many of their fighters were trembling in their legs! (To be continued......)