Chapter 214: The Phalanx Becomes Stronger Again
"Yes!"
Each standard is lined up in a unit of posts, and each post is in the order of the team, neatly advancing to be reviewed.
Zhou Yijie said loudly: "The first to enter the military flag bearer, drum and bugle bearer!" ”
The Ming army cleared the road and the golden drum flag in front, that is, the two flags were clearly written on the words "Qingdao and Golden Drum".
The trumpet statement was loud and loud, and the five-party flag followed. It is the green dragon on the left, the white tiger on the right, the vermilion bird in the front, the Xuanwu in the back, and the snake in the middle, and the five divine beasts on the banner are lifelike, which makes people feel amazing at first sight.
There are also several flag bearers in the middle of the five-party flag, holding three large flags.
The first banner is an indigo background, with a golden sun and a white moon in the center, radiating red and white light in all directions.
"The Sun and Moon Banner, I have seen it on the Ming merchant ship." Some merchant missionaries recognized it at a glance and knew that it was the banner of foreign trade of the Ming Dynasty.
The second flag, juxtaposed with the Sun and Moon Flag, is a red background with white and black characters, and a big "Ming" character is written in black handwriting. This flag is not used by the Ming Dynasty, but the imagination of later generations for the Ming military flag.
It's fake, but it's majestic.
Wang Hongyu directly made it out, and together with the Sun and Moon Banner, it was one of the most important flags.
The third, the flag of the Hunhe Army.
This flag has red and black characters on a white background, two big characters "Hunhe" on it, and "The big husband serves the country today" in the style of red blood characters.
The flag of the Hunhe Army carries the will of the bloody battle of the Hunhe River, and the words of General Qi Jin always remind the soldiers of the Hunhe Army.
Although the people in the stands had never seen it, they were deeply shocked.
Following the three-pole flag and the five-square flag is the leopard tail flag. The leopard's tail flutters in the wind, mighty and fierce and agile and lively, demonstrating that this army is both innovative and traditional, both atmospheric and alert.
The war drums rumbled, and the neat big drums were very different from the small snare drums in the West, and each blow was shocking rather than a stepping point.
Zhou Yijie said loudly: "The first soldier to enter is the bird gun skirmisher!" They are good marksmans in the army, scattering in formations to focus on concealment, sniping at the enemy's scouts and the front of formations. ”
After Wang Hongyu organized the Hunhe Army according to the new system, of course, he also trained it according to the new tactics.
These Bird Skirmishers are a new class.
Although skirmishers are not suitable for close combat, they generally restrain phalanx infantry and heavy infantry due to archery skills and formations, and their role is similar to that of a sword that goes off the front and kills with one blow.
Soon after, the skirmish will be reloaded with flintlock pistols for even more effective sniping.
"Next up is the phalanx infantry!"
Everyone in the stands was attentive and looked at the incomparably majestic phalanx.
I saw that this was a medium phalanx of 150 people.
The first three rows of the phalanx were firearms soldiers, some of them pushing the Franc machine gun cart, some pushing the tiger squat cannon, and some carrying turtledoves and special brackets.
The Franc machine is also known as the son-mother gun, this weapon has the limitation of airtightness, but as a rear-loading gun, the rate of fire is amazing, the operation is also very convenient, the gunner can be used in one day of training, in strict accordance with the order of operation, there is no risk of explosion at all.
The Franc cannon can use a variety of shells such as solid shells, scattered shells, and poisonous smoke shells, and fire a dense salvo in a line formation, which will cover up its lack of power to the greatest extent and give full play to the striking effect of a line of muskets.
At this time, a sentry phalanx of 150 people placed 20 100-pound franc machine gun trucks in front of the formation, and what they pursued was the density of firepower.
Then there are 8 Tiger Squat Cannons.
This kind of cannon was carried forward and popularized by Qi Jiguang, and it can be fired directly or curly like a grenadier on the battlefield. It weighs only 36 catties, which is convenient for use in mountains, water networks, siege and defense of cities.
When fired, it fires fist-sized solid iron bullets, enough to shoot up to 400 paces away. There are also small lead weights weighing 5 yuan, or 100 small pebbles the size of fingernails, two types of special scattered bullets falling from the sky, because the force is not as uniform as the solid bullet, the drag in flight is greater, so it can shoot a distance of 200 steps.
There is also a kind of fragmentation shell that Li Tiezhu has newly created, and a variety of artillery shells can be used flexibly, which is a unique artillery in the East that is not available in the West.
A phalanx of 150 people, in addition to 50 artillerymen, there were 30 heavy smoothbore gunners.
The turtledove foot gun, also known as the heavy smoothbore gun, or Mushkert according to the transliteration. This heavy arquebus had to be held on a wooden fork mount for firing, and it took longer to reload and shoot than an arquebus, making operation and reloading training more cumbersome.
But powerful! It's a big killer.
The Torigun was a Japanese firearm that reduced the weight of the arquebus, and once it was promoted, the crossbow was quickly eliminated in the East and the West.
But it is too light to weigh more than a dozen pounds, and only a shot that hits the vital point of a person can make people unconscious, and they can't wear heavy armor and heavy shields outside 50 steps, and they can only hit without armor outside 100 steps. Coupled with the quality of workmanship, the bird gun is afraid of exploding the chamber and does not dare to fill it with gunpowder, so the power is reduced again, and it is really about to become a gun to fight birds.
To deal with the heavy armor and eight banner soldiers, the effect can be imagined.
The heavy smoothbore gun of the turtledove foot gun is different, the caliber is large in the first place, close to 20 mm, and even the use of black powder is not inferior to the 7 mm rifles of later generations. As long as you are shot within fifty steps, you will be directly seriously injured and lose your combat power. It's still no problem to hit heavy armor in 100 steps, and a distance of 150 steps can effectively kill.
Knights in plate armor are all shot with a big hole.
Under Huang Kezhang's operation, the War Bureau secretly purchased dozens of pieces from Luzon and tried to replicate them. At present, there are only a few Luzon craftsmen in the War Bureau, which was brought in by Wang Hongyu through his brother-in-law Liu Ruoyu 50.
But this gun was nearly two meters long, weighed forty pounds, and with a wooden fork frame, gunpowder, and bullets, it was only possible for very strong people in the East and West to use it. In peacetime, it also needs to be carried by auxiliaries, so it is not a weapon that can be promoted.
The 20 arquebusiers in the phalanx were the strongest in the army.
The rest were holding 6-meter-long spears, which formed a square straight up to the sky, like a neat wood, and could be raised flat at any time to protect the artillery at any time.
"Run, go!"
The sentinel in the team gave an order, and the phalanx began to run in unison.
Regardless of spears, guns, and artillery, all the staff advanced neatly, not only was the formation not chaotic, but everyone's shoulders were almost parallel.
"It turned out to be neat when it ran up!"
The missionaries exchanged ears, and this medium phalanx of 150 people was indeed considered a strong army in Europe at first, but it was estimated that it was not as good as the strongest Spain.
But it can run! Or run neatly to advance!
That's a big cow.
The musketeers of the Spanish phalanx fired backwards, and the pikemen marched in unison. The secret lies in neat coordination, the defense of the long gun is unshakable, when attacking the musket retreats to shoot, the spear phalanx slowly presses up, which is equivalent to changing from a phalanx to a musket in the back, and the spear in front.
But if you really run, the formation will be chaotic.
These Ming troops can run!
Wang Hongyu saw the missionary's expression of surprise, and sighed in his heart: "You did enter this period first, but compared to the military training queue, it must be the first in China." ”