"Zhonghe, is the musket still working?"

"It's not easy to use, but it's easy to practice."

"Good practice? It seems to be quite cumbersome to use. ”

"No matter how troublesome it is, it took a few months to practice. Judging from the current training situation, if a musketeer is faster, he can train in 6 months, and he can do anything in 1 year. An archer, if he has not practiced at all, will not be able to go to the battlefield for three or five years. ”

"That's right, archery is a child's skill, you have to practice a little, I am a halfway monk, no matter how I practice, I am a half-hanger."

"In other words, musketeers can be recruited in large quantities, as long as the muskets and H medicine are enough, millions of people can be trained in a year!"

"Millions!? Full firearms? ”

"All-firearms...... However, you can't use the Heavenly Dao two-year-style musket, this thing is too heavy, and there is no way to add a short knife, so it can't be used for melee hand-to-hand combat. If you can use a musket of about 10 pounds and can be loaded with short knives, it will be possible to form an all-firearms unit. ”

While Liu Dou was training hard, Guo Kan, Zhang Xizai and Chen Qianyi were discussing the use and equipment of muskets. Guo Kan was the officer with the most extensive combat experience and the highest level of tactical command in the Ming army. Moreover, he is an expert in leading troops and training troops, and after having to equip his troops with muskets, he has naturally discovered its advantages.

First of all, the musket is huge, and if it is hit, it will not die or be disabled, and if you take it, this life is over! This is incomparable to bows and arrows, swords and spears. Moreover, the armor-piercing ability of the musket is super strong, and even the steel armor cannot withstand a single blow of the musket, let alone other armor.

Secondly. Musketeers are easy to train. Don't look at Liu Dou and these people practicing hard, but in Guo Kan's opinion, it is really nothing. It's so much easier than practicing a bow and arrow. Moreover, there are no requirements for the physical fitness of soldiers - a hard bow with one stone is not something that can be trained by a random peasant, and it is not possible to do it without a certain physical condition. If it weren't for the small boy skills, among the adult Ming people, at most one out of ten men could become a truly useful archer. If you practice musket, as long as you are not stupid or stupid, ten out of ten people can succeed. And there are six months to a year of training to be able to go to war.

Guo Kan stroked his beard. Looking at the musketeers who were training hard, he seemed to say with some emotion: "If this musket and artillery were born, they would have been born more than a hundred years earlier. The shame of Jingkang will not be gone, and our northern Han'er will not fall under the iron hooves of the Tartars for more than 100 years. ”

Chen Qianyi sneered, "That's the one who only knows how to be a light martial artist." The Great Song Dynasty who regarded the warriors as thieves. Even if there are muskets and cannons, they are useless! ”

"It's not all useless, at least it can make the Tartars die more, right?" Zhang Xizai shook his head, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, a staff officer beside him handed over the two-year-old arquebus of the Zhitiandao.

Zhang Xizai held the musket vigorously, aimed ahead, put it down again, and threw the musket back to the staff officer. He smiled and said, "If this gun can be reduced by half, it is not impossible for the infantry to be fully firearmed." At least two battalions of muskets and one battalion of pirates...... A division is equipped with twenty or thirty cannons. One light cavalry regiment is enough to suppress the same number of barbarians! ”

He paused for a moment, and his tone was lower, "The sage said, this all-firearm is the trend of the times!" Because...... The force of Shijue and Eight Banners will eventually weaken. The founding generation of the People's Republic of China are all people who can endure hardships, and their children are definitely inferior to those who endure hardships. At that time, the Ming Dynasty's armed forces could only be maintained by excellent professional officers and all-firearms infantry. ”

Although the system of Shijue and Eight Banners was established by Chen Dexing, Chen Dexing never thought that these Shijue and Eight Banners could produce elite soldiers from generation to generation. Even if the current generation is still at the peak of the Shijue and the Eight Banners, how long can their combat effectiveness be maintained? Most of them are now the older young men of Ben San, and in ten years, they will be Ben Si's uncles. In this era, they are all grandfathers, and they can still fight?

Therefore, it is time to think about the transition of the infantry of the Great Ming to all-firearms! Of course, the transition process can only be gradual, and it will not work overnight. Until the technology of smoothbore guns matured, it was not a rational thing to throw away the bow and arrow.

In history, the half-hung firearms army of the Zhu Ming Dynasty was defeated by the cold weapons of the Manchu Qing Dynasty!

Guo Kan seemed to be deeply touched, nodded and said, "It's such a reason...... Their Mongols are so weakened, and the Mongols of Genghis Khan's time are not the same thing at all! When our Ming Dynasty rose, their Mongols were no longer able to fight, although their weapons, armor and martial arts were good, but they couldn't endure hardships, and they began to be afraid of death. In fact, they are all relying on the Han army to support the façade, and some Mongolian generals are very powerful. Our Shijue and Eight Banners are very powerful now, and they may not have the time to follow in the footsteps of the Mongols in the future.

Therefore, this all-firearms infantry is the best choice for our Han people's long-term military strength! Because all-firearms infantry is fighting for human lives...... We have 10,000 people now, how many of them are in Mongolia? Not to mention one life for one life, even two lives for one life, we can also wipe out the Mongols! ”

Chen Qianyi also smiled and nodded, "That's what the sage meant, so let a certain family come to General Guo to learn scriptures...... A certain Guards Infantry Division is also going to form a musket regiment. In the near future, the eighteen infantry divisions under the Sixth Army of the Ming Dynasty will also be equipped with a musket regiment. ”

A division is first equipped with a regiment of musketeers, equipped with 1,000 muskets, of which 900 are equipped for 15 companies, and the rest of the spare - the Tiandao two-year musket is too heavy and inconvenient to operate, so it has to be used by two people, so a company has only 60 guns, and in order to enhance the firepower of the musket regiment, it can only be expanded. A Ming Army Musket Regiment is a large establishment of 3 battalions and 15 companies, each company has 140 people, and the whole regiment has 2,400 people when it is fully loaded. There are a full double as many people as an ordinary infantry regiment!

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The sound of gunfire sounded like bursting beans, the rain of bullets was like weaving, coupled with the roar of bronze cannons, so that the army of Timur, who was busy fighting, couldn't even lift its head.

This is on the banks of the Volga River outside the city of Sarai, and a war to determine the ownership of the Golden Horde Khan is at its most critical time.

Due to the alliance between Nahai Khan and Kublai Khan, who ruled Western Rus, Timur fell into total passivity. Nahai Khan's army was the most combative and well-equipped of the Golden Horde, because it had been fighting against the Poles and Bulgarians. They attacked Eastern Rus' from the west, and Kublai Khan attacked Sarai from the south, making it impossible for Timur to use the Rus' manpower, money, and material resources against Kublai Khan.

The plan for a protracted war was completely lost, so he had to gather the forces of the Batu clan and meet Kublai Khan's army outside the city of Sarai.

In the battle, Timur concentrated an army of 130,000 people, while Kublai Khan only had 80,000 cavalry.

But Kublai Khan had a trump card - the firearms of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty! This Han army, which was established in imitation of the Eight Banners of the Ming Army, was even ahead of the Ming Army on the road of full firearms. The six banners that accompanied Kublai Khan this time, totaling more than 24,000 people, were all firearms soldiers.

And Kublai Khan played with muskets for a longer time than Chen Dexing, although I don't know what the ultimate mode of smoothbore gunners looks like. But for two years he and his generals have also been improving the tactics of the musketeers.

The original tactic of lifting the gun has been abandoned by this time - the tactic of lifting the gun is too stupid, why let a man carry the barrel of the gun on his shoulder? Can't they use shields and spears to form a line of defense, and then put the barrel on the shield?

Kublai Khan's general, Boyan, had recently proposed this method of improvement. Therefore, the Eight Banners Firearms Army has become a combination of shield gunmen and firearms, and each Eight Banners (about 1,000 people) has two (more than 300 people each) firearms and one spear and shield soldiers. The firecrackers are the original guns, which are the original guns, and they take turns firing on the battlefield to maintain the continuity of firepower output.

At the same time as the firearms of the Eight Banners fired, some Mongolian cavalry dismounted and stood behind the firearms battle line with their bows to shoot arrows. At the same time, there will be a large group of Mongol cavalry lined up on both sides of the firearms line, ready to attack at any time.

The tactics of Kublai Khan's Mongolian army have changed from the coordination of bows and horses to the coordination of guns and cavalry.

The gunfire was followed by the thunderous roar of horses' hooves.

The corpses of the Kipchaks and Rus' wearing Turkic robes and armor fell on the steppe like wheat that had been cut down, dense and shocking. Kublai Khan's cavalry rushed forward and launched a wave charge.

At the same time as the cavalry charged, Kublai Khan's Eight Banners Firearms Army began to advance forward, with guns and shields in front, and firecrackers and artillery soldiers advancing together.

The battle of more than 200,000 people, of course, will not be divided in one round, it will inevitably be repeated attacks, and the contest between you and me will take a long time before one side will end in retreat.

And for these steppe warriors who often fought under the command of Timur, the only thing that could make them collapse was the shocking casualties! The lethality of the Eight Banners Firearms Army has obviously exceeded the imagination of these steppe warriors. No matter how heavy armor you wear, no matter how strong your martial arts are, in front of the lead bullet powered by H medicine, it is a pile of flesh and blood! The troops at the front suffered heavy casualties! The wounded were carried down by hundreds, all bloody, screaming, and the shamans and witch doctors who accompanied the army were helpless.

The wounds caused by lead bullets cannot be healed at all, as long as you are hit by one shot, you will definitely die! This is not the same thing as the killing of a bow and arrow!

The screams reached the ears of the busy brother Timur, who looked quite elegant and believed in the Heavenly Sect, and his face became more and more pale. He knew that his momentum was gone. (To be continued......)