Since Xiao Tugeng has brought good news about firearms, it is natural for the urgent report to send bad news.

Fortunately, this news is not completely bad, just a small trouble: Emperor Chongzhen ordered to drive to Yanzhou, just like Jihua of the crown prince that day, but after the team of people just left Tai'an Prefecture, the emperor Bixia, who refused to settle down, led a group of internal servants to seize the horse and rushed to Shulu County.

Liu Ruoyu sent the news as soon as possible, but he was powerless to stop it. And the civil officials of the East Palace Department can only contact around and find someone to escort them, but they don't dare to recover it, otherwise who can afford to be charged with detaining the Son of Heaven? In addition, Jiang Yueguang and a group of officials from the south fanned the flames on the side, which can be regarded as a complete confirmation of the fact that the emperor Bixia is hunting in the north.

"When the imperial father Bixia was a prince, he often visited in micro-service, and now I have to do such a thing, what can I be surprised about." Zhu Cihong said helplessly.

Wu Fu had no choice but to say: "Your Highness, let's send troops to respond, right?" ”

Zhu Cihong faced a staff officer and asked, "Now that the big war is imminent, where can I draw troops?" ”

"Is it okay for the Firearms Division?" You Shiwei said: "Originally, the soldiers of the Firearms Division were not counted in this operation. ”

"It's too demoralizing to let them turn back as soon as they come." Zhu Cihong shook his head and said, "And I also want to see the tactical effect of the flintlock pistol on the battlefield." ”

"Then the reserve battalion will transfer a division?" You Shiwei said again: "Although they are all recruits who have not experienced the battle formation, as long as there are enough people, no one dares to mess with them." ”

The reserve battalion is larger than the average battalion head, and in addition to a standing teaching department, there are three to five recruit divisions. This time, as a general reserve, the main thing is to let the recruits see the battlefield and experience the atmosphere, and I don't expect them to increase their combat effectiveness.

"It's fine. Dispatch a soldier reserve division, and the right to train is required. Zhu Cihong summoned Min Ziruo and asked him to pass the order.

Five minutes later, Tang Ma, who had made contact first, galloped out of the camp.

Fifteen minutes later, the first division of the reserve battalion was fully equipped and walked out of the gate with neat steps.

Zhu Cihong quickly put the news of the emperor's arrival behind him. Study phalanx tactics with the officers of the General Staff and Xiao Mo's first battalion. In the past, the Dashun peasant soldiers, who were poorly organized and could only fight "stupid battles," were actually quite similar to Qi Jiguang's handling of the Japanese pirates, and the main combat target was actually a small number of professional soldiers with high combat quality.

Li Zicheng just had more rogue militia than the Japanese Kou.

The Qing army, both in terms of individual combat quality and overall combat effectiveness, was much higher than Li Zicheng. As a fishing and hunting people who robbed for a living, the Manchurians had to learn from an early age to seize the means of subsistence from the harsh natural environment or from other tribes, which was equivalent to learning and practicing in the reserve camp. When you become an adult, you put on your armor and go into battle, and as long as the commander gives the order, you know what to do. Able to grow as a veteran.

In this case, Qi Jiguang's early mandarin duck array exposed an unreachable side. In fact, after Qi Jiguang was transferred to Jizhou, in the face of the Mongolian Tartar cavalry, he also made rectification of the mandarin duck array, in addition to expanding the establishment, more emphasis was placed on the construction of the car battalion and the baggage battalion with large firepower.

Zhu Cihong also considered strengthening the car camp and using chariots and side cars to form a "car city" that could be moved. At the same time defend with large firepower. Judging from Qi Jiguang's achievements, as long as the firearms armament rate reaches 50 percent. It is enough to deliver a devastating blow to the enemy.

Qi Jiguang's firearms armament rate was 43.6 percent, the infantry battalion was equipped with 48 percent, and the baggage battalion had the highest firearms allocation, which was as high as 58.7 percent. but for all things".

At present, Donggong still belongs to the cold-weapon army, and if the battalion artillery is excluded, there are only some tiger squat artillery and mines, as well as a small number of swarms, and the firearms armament rate is less than 5 percent.

"There are not enough firearms. You can't definitely use the car city. You Shiwei said: "As Qi Jiguang said, all he relies on is the firearm, if the firearm is scrapped, how can the car be controlled?" On that day, Sun Du's train battalion was defeated in Jiaxian, also because of the continuous rain and the discarding of firearms. The phalanx of spears that His Highness once said was a good idea. ”

"And the training is faster." Xiao Mo added.

In terms of training speed alone, the Mandarin Duck Formation is definitely more difficult to train than the Spear Formation, and the various formations alone require soldiers to have enough understanding and long-term training. The spear formation is simple, there are fewer tactical movements, and the tactical cooperation between each other is far less than that of the mandarin duck formation.

It can also be seen from the European battlefield that in the era of alternating hot and cold weapons, whether it is the Spanish phalanx or the Swedish phalanx of Gustav II, they all have the significance of the times to which they belong.

"In this formation, it's actually a people-oriented city." Zhu did describe the Spanish phalanx to the Maurice side, and even the Swedish phalanx of Gustav II. And these are not the privileges of the time-traveler, because the story of the Thirty Years' War has been learned from the Dutch and the Portuguese in the early Ming Dynasty - although the battlefield has only been fought for twenty-six years.

"There is not enough firearms, and there is still no guarantee of a strike on the Manchurians." Zhu Cihong concluded.

"Your Highness, whether it is the Liaojin cavalry or the current Dongyu cavalry, there are rules for not rushing into the array." You Shiwei knew his role and paid more and more attention to reading, but fortunately, the Song people were quite detailed about military records, which opened his eyes. In particular, the Song-Jin and Song-Xia wars are quite worthy of reference.

Later generations often called it "weak Song" because of the two Song Dynasty's annual coins, peace, and the Son of Heaven's northern hunting, thinking that the Song Dynasty's military strength was weak. In fact, carefully calculating the victory rate of foreign wars, the Northern Song Dynasty was even higher than that of the Tang Dynasty.

"The minister thought," You Shiwei said, "to imitate the Song people in heavy armor to assemble infantry, hold spears, form a phalanx, and slowly advance." The phalanxes were supplemented by artillery, mandarin duck formations, crossbowmen, and our own cavalry arrays, which were enough to crush the cavalry of the eastern captives. ”

When You Shiwei proposed the hoplites, veterans such as Li Changling, Wang Shiqin, and Wang Shiguo in the staff department also bowed their heads one after another, and it seems that they had already discussed it in private.

"After the introduction of firearms, even heavy armor is meaningless, and it is destined to be eliminated." Zhu Cihong hesitated.

"Your Highness shouldn't think so." You Shiwei said seriously: "Who can know for sure what will happen in the future?" Today's status quo is that Dongyu pays attention to heavy armor. In the past, when the ministers were in Liaodong, they had seen their white-armored bayala, and they were the most brave among the eastern captives, and there were often those wearing two sets of heavy armor! It's so invulnerable, not even firearms can penetrate him. ”

At that time, the quality of the Ming army's bird guns was not good, and the soldiers did not dare to put a sufficient amount of gunpowder, for fear of exploding, and the range and power would naturally be greatly reduced. However, the Manchurians relied heavily on armor to kill, which did cause a great shadow to the Ming soldiers who lacked heavy armor.

"Our army can be equipped with heavy armor first, even if it is useless in the future, and then it will be nothing more than a loss of silver taels." Li Changling said.

Zhu Cihong pursed his lips lightly and decided: "It's my little family who is angry!" According to the proposal of the General Staff, it will be equipped with a battalion of heavily armored pikemen! ”

"Your Highness, please select a new battalion from the reserve camp and form a faction." Yu Shiwei said.

"There is a lonely battalion, and there is no heavy armor and no firearms, I am afraid that the casualties are too heavy." Zhu Cihong shook his head and said, "This time, the enemy has only four thousand people in total, and it is difficult to test the tactical effect of the phalanx. In this way, I plan to set up a new department as the General Armament Department, which will be responsible for the deployment and raising of all military funds. ”

The original equipment supply of the Donggong armed system was all collected from the local government, and then the financial department made a register and distributed it to the battalions. When the scale was small, it was not a big problem, and now that the financial department has basically been merged into the household department to perform the functions of the household department, coupled with the fact that the East Palace's armed forces are getting stronger and stronger, Yao Tao is estimated to be exhausted. With the increase of cannon foundries, weapons factories, and gunpowder factories, it is imperative to have an independent equipment department.

"I want to go." Wang Shiqin Mao then recommended himself: "When the minister was in Liaodong, he also supervised the weapons. ”

The General Armament Department will definitely fill the civilian personnel of the Donggong system, and it will also have to recruit skilled clerks from the gunpowder factory and the cannon foundry. Sending a veteran to serve as the commander is nothing more than putting up the shelf first and setting the specifications. At the same time, it would be even better if it could bring some heroism to this new department.

Zhu Cihong nodded, Wang Shiqin was originally the rank of general soldier, and he was awarded the rank of general, which is enough to take on this position. As for whether or not we can do a good job, we can always see it in the face of strict supervision and strict examination methods. (To be continued......)

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