Chapter 60: Dragoons plus three strikes
A few days later, those blacksmiths and researchers returned to Xishan with drawings under the protection of ghosts, leaving only some blacksmiths to prepare to set up a military industry branch here, in order to make and maintain firearms for warships and navies in the future, while Li Yong returned to the Suzhou Annex, and wrote in the study about some tactical changes after the Xishan Army's mounted firearms, especially the inevitable withdrawal of heavy cavalry from the stage, the light cavalry changed to dragoons, and the retired heavy cavalry plus some retired light cavalry formed into musketeers and artillery, Dragoons are a combination of a long spear and a short gun, a long spear shot at a distance, a short gun shoots after approaching, and then a short gun shoots, after the musket is fired, you can only meet each other in short arms, the tactics of the musketeers are the traditional three-stage shot, the team is divided into three teams, the first column is fired, rotated to the last column to load, the second column and the third column go up, the second column is shot and then come back to the back to load, the third column is on top, and the three columns are a reincarnation, which can not only maintain the output of firepower, but also make up for the shortcomings of slow loading, as for the artillery Li Yong has no better suggestions, just let the Xishan Army explore it by themselves, let them figure out a set of tactics combining infantry and artillery, he believes that Xue Rengui will definitely be able to complete it, the people from the Intelligence Bureau rushed back to the valley with the new tactics and army reform plan written by Li Yong to Xue Rengui, after Li Yong was busy with everything, now this stage can only wait, Li Yong plans to accompany Li Liqing and them, because he runs back and forth between Suzhou City and Xinhua Pavilion City, and even sometimes he doesn't go home in Xinhua Pavilion City for a few days, and he doesn't come out of the study for a few days when he goes home, so Li Lizhen and they are very worried, Just when Li Yong was accompanying Li Li and them in the other courtyard, after more than half a month, the blacksmiths and researchers finally returned safely to Xishan Valley, and the military workshop in a semi-suspended state was busy again, and Xue Rengui received Li Yong's new tactics and army transformation It was a package, because the training of recruits had long ended, and it had been delegated to the company, the most important thing was to cancel Liu Renliang's heavy cavalry, and the mountain artillery did not annoy him, fortunately, Li Yong asked him to directly remove Liu Renliang from the army and let him report to Xinhua Pavilion City, Liu Renliang was called to the office by Xue Rengui, he was training his baby heavy cavalry in full swing, but Xue Rengui was the boss, and he didn't dare to offend.
"Report!"
"Come in."
"Commander, what are you looking for me? I still don't need to clean up my bunnies. ”
"You sit down first, I'm looking for you today, it's the commander who has a new order for you."
As soon as Liu Renliang heard that Li Yong had a new order for him, he had already sat down and immediately stood up happily again.
"Are you going to go on another expedition?"
"Don't get excited, sit down."
"Where is this hit?"
Xue Rengui looked at Liu Renliang with an excited face, and didn't know how to speak, but Li Yong's order still had to be resolutely implemented, Liu Renliang saw Xue Rengui looking at him silently, he also felt embarrassed, and quickly sat down, Xue Rengui saw that he finally sat down, so he got up and made him a cup of tea.
"Tea first."
"Boss Xue, when can't you drink tea, is there a new order coming from the boss? You say, I'm in a hurry. ”
"The order is coming, but it's not a march, it's about you."
"Mine? What order? ”
"Alas, order, the heavy cavalry regiment under the Xishan Army will be disbanded on the spot and reorganized."
"What? My hoplite regiment was disbanded? Boss is not kidding, is he? ”
Liu Renliang was stupid on the spot after listening to this order, why was the heavy cavalry regiment gone, Liu Renliang couldn't figure it out, and he couldn't figure it out, just before he came, his heavy cavalry regiment was still killing murderously on the playground, and he came to lie in the office and was gone.
"In addition, Liu Renliang's position was rearranged, and he went to Xinhua Pavilion City to report three days later."
Now Liu Renliang is even more blindsided, why did he go to Xinhua Pavilion City? Since he took over the Heavy Cavalry Regiment, he has put all his hard work in it, and now it's okay, the Heavy Cavalry Regiment is gone, and he has also been transferred to Xinhuating County.
"I can't figure it out."
"I can't figure it out, go back and think slowly, you are a veteran, have you forgotten the discipline of our Xishan Army so quickly?"
"I haven't forgotten that it is the duty of a soldier to obey orders."
"Get out, leave the barracks today, and you're not allowed to stay here."
Okay, his own heavy cavalry regiment, his post was also removed, and he was not allowed to stay in the barracks, Liu Renliang was angry, but there was no way, so he could only go back to his dormitory to pack up his salute, take a last look at the heavy cavalry regiment training on the playground in the distance, and then leave the Xishan military camp where he had stayed for more than a year. Xue Rengui watched Liu Renliang leave the barracks with a salute on his back, and asked the herald to inform the whole battalion to gather in the playground tomorrow morning, and the next day, all the officers and soldiers of the Xishan Battalion stood neatly on the playground, Xue Rengui took Li Yong's order in his hand, glanced at everyone below, cleared his throat and said.
"All of them, stand upright, take a break, and now read the commander's order."
All the Xishan troops who had rested immediately stood upright, because they were going to read out their commander's supreme order next, many people guessed that they were going to go on the expedition again, but Xue Rengui's order surprised them.
"Order, from today, the heavy cavalry regiment will be disbanded on the spot, the regiment commander Liu Renliang will be relieved of all his duties, and he will go to Xinhua Tingcheng to report, the second regiment and the third regiment will be disbanded on the spot, and the first regiment will be reorganized into a dragoon regiment, and the regiment commander will be served by the new regiment commander Pei Xingjian, and the disbanded heavy cavalry regiment and the second and third regiments will form a musket regiment and artillery battalion, and finally the artillery will be re-selected by the artillery in place to re-select the right person as the battalion commander, and the musket regiment will be headed by the new second regiment commander Xi Junmai, and the deputy regiment commander will be the new third regiment commander Wang Xuance, and the order will be read out. Today, the reorganization and disbandment began according to the order of the commander. ”
These people are blinded, Pei Xingjian, Xi Junmai, and Wang Xuance were specially asked by Li Yong to explain to the Intelligence Bureau to find them, these are famous generals of the Tang Dynasty, it is better to keep them for Li Er, anyway, they want to come out in this period, it is a dream, those handsomes in the imperial court, generals, can't count, plus the last expedition to the Turks, the three regiment commanders sacrificed one, and two were left with lifelong disabilities and had to retire from the army, just let this brother make up for it, Xue Rengui was also curious about why Li Yong was particularly optimistic about these people, However, in the next training and officer night school, the results of these three people are indeed the best, so he has to admire Li Yong's vision of looking at people, in fact, that is what Li Yong has to see people, but he has a plug-in, that is, he knows history. Speaking of that brother, he finally became an acting head of the regiment, and now it's okay, the direct team has been reorganized, what musketeers and artillery, they have never heard of it, although Xue Rengui knows about firearms, but he doesn't know how powerful these firearms are, so he starts to adapt from the team now, and when the weapons are in place, he will make the next step, after the valley military workshop receives the order for firearms, it is full power, and the gunpowder workshop has been silent for a long time and finally has a place to come in, that is the military workshop that directly pulls the banner and selects the opposite side, Soon a company of muskets was transported to the Xishan camp, Xue Rengui and the others picked up the flintlock spears in the box one by one, and the commissioner sent by the military workshop to explain them picked up the freshly baked flintlock spears and aimed at the targets inside the built shooting range.
"Everyone, the musket in your hand is called a flintlock spear, with a total length of 1.5 meters, and the gun weighs 10 pounds, remember, the muzzle of the gun is not allowed to be aimed at people during training, this is a paper bullet shell, this is a strip, before the musket is fired, stuff the paper cartridge shell into the barrel, and then stab it to the end with a strip, and then aim at the front target, pull the trigger, and the shooting is completed, you try it."
Xue Rengui and the others looked at the explanations of the commentators seriously, and then arranged the operation step by step, knowing that the commentators felt that their operation was no problem, so they were loaded with live ammunition, Xue Rengui and others stuffed the paper shells according to the standard process, stabbed them to the end, and then raised the gun to aim, "Bang ~ Bang ~ Bang ~" One after another sound resounded throughout the shooting range, the wood chips that were hit flew up, and the lead bullet was directly penetrated, everyone was surprised to see the power of this musket, this hit people still have to go? And this is farther than the range of bows and arrows, they finally understood why Li Yong disbanded the heavy cavalry, with this musket, the heavy cavalry is a live target, one hit and one accurate, and then everyone tried the short gun again, although the distance is close, but it is very in line with the tactics of the dragoon proposed by Li Yong, and now the new brother is even more impressed by the commander boss who has never seen it.
"Commander, these are short guns specially worn for officers according to the meaning of Gongzi, and the handles of the guns have special patterns to distinguish them, and we will provide follow-up weapons one after another."
"I want to thank you so much, you have a hard time today, you see noon, enjoy your face, and have lunch together?"
Xue Rengui said, but he had already started it, and gave the officers on the side a look, those goblin officers didn't know what he meant, so he enthusiastically pulled the docent of the military workshop to the barracks canteen, Xue Rengui also deliberately let the kitchen open a small stove, and the money was still paid out of his own pocket, and now the Xishan Army has begun to pay military salaries, military industry of his level, military salaries are a lot, and he is single here, so he is now the richest officer, Xue Rengui They have seen the power of muskets, The power of the next artillery is not to be said, now hurry up and deal with this Xie Gong, there are still many things to trouble him in the back, after all, these things are not cold weapons like swords, they can be played with strength, and now these firearms are in their hands, they don't know what is going on if there is a problem, if it happens on the battlefield, it will definitely die, so Xue Rengui is worthy of being a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, and soon saw a lot of problems, for the people who make these firearms are the people who know these weapons best, So Xie Gong was enthusiastically detained in the Xishan camp by Xue Rengui and others for three days, if it weren't for the boss of the military workshop to ask for someone, Xue Rengui would not be ready to release people, but his three-day research also has a better understanding of the firearms in his hands, and he also has a clue about the tactics of the three-stage attack and dragoon that Li Yong told him.