Of course, cavalry does not mean that all of them are formed, and in addition, there are quite a number of scouts in the family army, which also belong to the category of cavalry, but they are not incorporated into the cavalry team, but are scattered in each battalion and become a separate scout team, providing reconnaissance cover and pursuit for each battalion.

Most of the scout team is now a horse scout, and they are equally well-equipped, but in terms of armor, they are not as good as the official cavalry team, because they are on the battlefield, they want speed and patience, and they can't be equipped with too heavy armor, so everyone is issued with leather armor with steel plates, which is not heavy, but the protection is relatively good.

These scouts, this time in the battalions, also had about one or two hundred people.

The artillery battalion has now been fully mule-horseed, equipped with 300 mules and horses, used to tow artillery and baggage vehicles, an artillery battalion has five companies, three are full-time artillery companies, one battalion is an artillery baggage company, which is responsible for carrying ammunition and supplies for the artillery battalion, providing accompanying supplies, and there is also an infantry service company, which is specifically responsible for protecting artillery positions, and acting as engineers when necessary to open the way for artillery.

The baggage battalion is now also equipped with 300 strong mules and horses, mainly responsible for transporting all kinds of ammunition and materials for the army, as well as a large number of grain and straw used by men and horses, equipped with 100 four-wheeled carriages, each cart is pulled by two horses, and can be loaded with tons of materials at a time, with strong transportation capacity.

Of course, if this is not the discovery of Jeju Island, Yu Xiaotian will not be able to get so many mules and horses at the moment, and he will definitely not be able to bring so many cannons, and he will definitely bring a large number of wheelbarrows, in that case, his military appearance may not be as clean as it is now, it is estimated that with the army, there will be a lot of auxiliaries, and they will follow the wheelbarrow.

But even so, they still brought a lot of wheelbarrows, requisitioned some of the people, and accompanied the army to carry some supplies for them, as a supplement to the baggage battalion, and tried to ensure that when the army moved, the supplies were more abundant.

The negative impact of the level of high-quality equipment is that the demand for logistics supplies exceeds that of other ordinary cold weapons-based armies, and the demand for materials is greater, which will have a certain impact on the field capability of such an army.

This time Yu Xiaotian also specially brought a full-time staff company and siege heavy artillery company, the engineer company is in the modern army, absolutely indispensable professional and technical arms, they shoulder a lot of ordinary soldiers can not complete the task, such as opening roads in the mountains, building bridges in the water, attacking the city and breaking obstacles, digging trenches and other tasks, not responsible for direct combat, but it will have a great impact on the operation.

For this reason, Yu Xiaotian equipped them with a lot of special tools, sapper picks, sapper shovels are the most basic equipment, and there are some special crowbars, saws, axes, and other ancillary materials such as iron nails and ropes, and the most important thing is to equip them with a lot of explosives bags for breaking barriers, even if black powder is not as powerful as the high explosives of later generations, but it is much stronger than manpower, especially the special explosives bags made of exquisite black powder, which are much more powerful than the bulk powder kegs used in this era.

Therefore, when necessary, the engineer company may play an unimaginably huge role in the battle situation, Yu Xiaotian attaches great importance to this, and the soldiers recruited were mostly miners in the past.

The siege heavy artillery company is a relatively special type of troops, and it must be under the artillery system, but the main equipment, a company, has only three 24-pounder medium-barreled heavy guns, and this kind of 24-pounder army heavy artillery is specially made for army artillery.

The gun weighs about 2,300 pounds, is mounted on a special heavy gun mount, and still belongs to the receding artillery, but the pitching mechanism has also been changed to a bolt and handwheel adjustment method, and there is no lateral angle adjustment mechanism, and the operation is more complicated than the ordinary army twelve-pounder howitzer, but the power is much more than the ordinary twelve-pounder howitzer, which is specially used to attack towns.

As long as you concentrate your firepower and bombard a point repeatedly, it won't take long to collapse a gap in the solid city wall, and you can basically do it to solve the problem with one shot, at least you can blast a big hole in the walled wall.

Once in the field, this kind of cannon can also temporarily make a cameo appearance in the field artillery, replaced with grapeshot or scattered bombs, bombardment of the enemy's rushing over the living force, a cannon past, can sweep a very wide area, kill a large number of dense enemy troops, so it is a very terrible weapon, at least in this era, it is an absolute big killer, not to mention that it can also be equipped with flowering bombs, which is naturally more powerful, at least very frightening.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian went north to quell the rebellion this time, bringing all the elite troops he has created over the years, and the purpose is very simple, that is, to pass the battle of guò and test the combat ability of these generals at hand and the ability to cooperate on the battlefield.

As for the infantry, I'm afraid it will disappoint some people, four full-fledged infantry battalions, 5,000 infantry, only 3,000 flintlock muskets, of which only half are wolf's tooth rifles, and the remaining half are still old South Japanese smoothbore flintlock pistols.

The remaining 2,000 infantry consisted of 1,500 pikemen and 500 sword-bearers, who were also grenadiers, who were responsible for dealing with the enemy forces approaching the front of the formation, while the pikemen were mainly responsible for dealing with the enemy cavalry.

This is also a more helpless thing at the moment, this time to the north to quell the rebellion, the number of cavalry in the rebel army is relatively large, and more elite, these rebel cavalry is about thousands of people, the impact on the battlefield is huge, and most of them are some of the old Dongjiang Army, the ability to do it immediately is really not small, the Dongjiang Army followed Mao Wenlong in Liaodong, but dared to hedge with the Jiannu cavalry, with a strong combat capability.

The Seawolf is limited to the bottleneck of rifle production capacity, and although the wolf tooth rifle has now become the main product, it has not yet been able to replace all the old South Japanese smoothbore guns, so the army has now formed a situation of mixed rifled guns and smoothbore guns, and each company of musketeers is equipped with half of them.

In addition, although the rifles of the sea wolf are already equipped with bayonets, so that the infantry has a strong melee ability in close combat, but when dealing with cavalry, the configuration of rifles and bayonets still seems to be a little too short, even if it resists the enemy cavalry charge, but the casualties for the infantry will be very large.

As the best class to deal with cavalry, there is nothing better than the pikeman, the spears used by the Yu family army are all spears that are one and a half zhang long, and when they encounter enemy cavalry, they don't need to hold their spears to assassinate the enemy cavalry, they just need to gather together, put the spear at the end of the spear on the ground, and the pikemen crouch down and point the tip of the spear obliquely in the direction where the enemy cavalry is rushing.

Then next, the enemy cavalry will either turn the horse's head and detour, or the war horse will not do it and turn to run, or it can only cover the horse's eyes, forcing the war horse not to see the spear formation, and directly rush into the formation with men and horses, although the pikemen will be injured or even killed, but the enemy cavalry will definitely not survive even with men and horses.

So at present, pikemen are still one of the temporarily indispensable arms in the army, and the equipment of this branch is really cheap, and the training of personnel is much easier.

Generally speaking, this time Yu Xiaotian led the composition of the military branches that came to Denglai to quell the rebellion, such a level of military configuration, looking at the whole earth at the moment, I am afraid it can be regarded as the most luxurious lineup, if you don't get one, its firepower output capacity is so strong, it can be said that looking at the world, there is absolutely no second one.

If he Yu Xiaotian can't defeat those rebels, Yu Xiaotian himself will be embarrassed to run back to Fujian alive, if this is the case, he should hurry back to Fujian to make some money, wash and sleep!

Jiaozhou Zhizhou learned that the Fujian soldiers and horses had arrived outside Jiaozhou City, and with Zhu Dadian's handwriting, he wanted to fully cooperate with Yu Xiaotian's actions, so he did not dare to slack off, and quickly led the officials out of Jiaozhou City.

But now that the rebel army is pressing, the officials in Jiaozhou are so frightened that they are urinating, begging their grandfather and grandmother to ask for help everywhere, hoping to send reinforcements, but they don't even expect a single hair.

Now all of a sudden, there is such a Fujian army and horses, it is said that they are all elite soldiers, quite capable of fighting, and even the new governor of Shandong, Zhu Dadian, personally sent them a handwritten message, so that they can wait for their lives, Jiaozhou can not hold on, just look at the Fujian soldiers.

So now the officials and gentry in Jiaozhou don't dare to hold the fart shelf, as soon as they heard that Yu Xiaotian's army was coming, they ran out of the city to meet the Fujian army.

In addition, they also sent a batch of food to Yu Xiaotian's Fujian army, although it is not much, but it can be regarded as dedicated, at present, there is a shortage of food everywhere in Shandong, they can make up these hundreds of stones of grain, and it can be regarded as doing their best to raise it, I am afraid that these Fujian Qiu Ba will be unhappy, slap their butts and leave, they will be miserable.

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