? Chapter 283: The Armor of the Musketeers

The competition is divided into two major items: groups and individuals, among them, the group competition, although it looks a little 'fancy' and looks a little better, but there are not too many people to pay attention to, after all, even if they win each other, in addition to the name is better, as a member of the group, it is not much good, the benefits are not big, and the natural interest is not much. But the individual competition is different.

According to the current situation of the Fengzi Battalion, under the allocation of Yu Feng, the Preparatory Office for the Great Competition headed by Chen Minzhi has set up a lot of subjects in detail, such as cavalry department, infantry department, firearms department, etc., and even in order to "excite" the craftsmen of the craftsman battalion, they have also specially placed a technical competition subject for them, in short, as long as you are a member of the Fengzi battalion, you can always find your own good at the subjects of these competitions, of course, these projects, according to the practical "sex" difference, the various rewards given are also slightly different.

In addition to the official positions of ten hundred households, there are also a number of official positions of general flags and even small flags that are about to be released in this competition, and the entire preparatory office has put on such a posture: the silver and official positions are placed here, as long as you have the ability, you will come and get it!

In the past few days, Yu Feng has made some improvements to the combat effectiveness and battle formation of his army after careful consideration and brainstorming. This is the strength of the person who has crossed in later generations, he will not rest on his laurels, stick to a certain shackle, and stop after making a little achievement. His eyes are not on this corner of North Korea, or even this corner of the Ming Dynasty, but on the whole world.

Speaking of which, there is also the credit of Sir Langton and his men, and the contact with these professional soldiers of the Portuguese Kingdom, Yu Feng is very clear that the power in his hands is not as strong as he imagined, at the very least, in the face of those Tartar attacks, he cannot guarantee that his army will not collapse like the other armies of the Ming Dynasty.

Like the battle of Pyongyang this time, he first held on to the fortified city, and then used stratagem to lure the enemy into an ambush, and although he won the battle, he always felt that it was not a dignified confrontation. Yu Feng is not a man who eats the ancients, although he is not so pedantic that he thinks that he has to set up a position to fight with the opponent in a field and defeat the opponent to call victory. But, taking a step back, this time there is a strong city to defend, what about the next time? What if you encounter these Tartar cavalry on the march? Can his Fengzi battalion still have such combat power, and can he still achieve such results?

He remembered Yuan Chonghuan, a national hero at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and it seemed that this one was also his approach, all of which were to hold on to the city, and then wait until the enemy army besieging the city was exhausted, and then come to a defensive counterattack. Relying on such tactics, Yuan Chonghuan won the title of "Yuan Manzi" at that time, and later generations won the big hat of a "national hero". No matter how unbearable his fate was, as the forerunner of this set of defensive counter-attack tactics, he still deserves to go down in history, at least, Nurhachi's death under his cannon is not very wronged.

Thinking of this, Yu Feng worked hard to find some information that could be found, and after careful study, he found a phenomenon that looked strange, but in fact, seemed to be very normal in the eyes of everyone: since the Ming Taizu, after becoming an ancestor, in the face of the invasion of the grassland nomads, the Central Plains regime is basically a guard, and there are only a handful of people who can go out of the city to fight while guarding it. Finally, Ming Yingzong made a great deal of power, gathered 500,000 Ming troops, and drove a personal expedition, but he was beaten by someone in Tumu Fort, and finally even himself was arrested.

From this point of view, the Central Plains army, which is dominated by foot soldiers, and the nomads who are mainly cavalry, have a congenital difference in combat power, which has little to do with the combat power of the soldiers themselves.

So, in the era when there was no Guanning Iron Cavalry, how could Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di rely on the Yuan Dynasty forces, which were dominated by cavalry, to defeat the army and fall into the 'flowers'? Fortunately, the information about these two eloquent monarchs is not difficult to find, Yu Feng removed the gods and ghosts in these materials, and the things that praise virtue, and carefully studied the battle examples of these two, and he came to his own conclusion.

Protection, firearms, maneuvering! Putting aside all the red tape, these three words, in the battle against these cavalry-based, have always implemented their operational thinking, especially Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, who has brought this military thinking to the extreme.

In the Ming army's treatment of the 'Mongolian' ancient cavalry, it always used a simple and crisp tactic, but also very efficient tactics.

In the field, once encountering the 'Mongolian' ancient cavalry, the firearms troops (let's not delve into what kind of firearms they used, anyway, the firearms they used to fire and 'shoot', and the range power was far greater than that of the 'Mongolian' ancients) quickly assembled in the forefront of their own army and carried out the first strike. At this time, if the speed of the enemy cavalry encountered is too fast, then it is undoubtedly a fatal blow to the firearms troops whose melee ability is almost zero, then, as a protective sword and shield soldier, it is necessary to provide a barrier for the firearms troops, prevent the enemy cavalry from approaching, and always provide a safe environment for the firearms troops.

After the completion of the first strike of the firearms troops against the enemy, as they protect their sword and shield soldiers in front of the formation, they will immediately retreat to the two flanks to make way for the cavalry behind them Everyone knows that if the cavalry does not have a structure and fights separately, they will not necessarily have much advantage in the face of foot soldiers with long soldiers.

In the end, the main force appeared, foot soldiers, armed with all kinds of long weapons, such as hook spears (halberds), spears, axes, hooks, forks, what to take, these foot soldiers, will completely suffer two blows, lost the formation of the cavalry sent to hell, at this time, even if the enemy wants to get out of the battlefield, the cavalry who has completed the impact task will intercept them back, and the cavalry without any advantage, in the face of the swarming foot soldiers, there is no formation, no mobility, and even the distance for the horses to run, They had no choice but to be killed.

After comparing them one by one, Yu Feng found that his Fengzi battalion, compared with the Ming army that had repeatedly defeated the Yuan army, had some places where they were better than the other party, and some places where they were inferior to the other party.

The place where the other side is better than the other side is undoubtedly the discipline and the soldiers' combat 'excitement' (morale), and the training method condensed by the military wisdom of later generations emphasizes discipline and teamwork, although this may obliterate the 'character' of some soldiers in the army, but this kind of discipline has been instilled by these soldiers all the time since the first day they put on military uniforms and picked up weapons on the first day. On the battlefield, these disciplines are likely to be the instinctive reactions of soldiers, and their physical reactions are even faster than their brain reactions.

Or take the army of the Ming Dynasty as an example, in the ordinary army, when the casualties reach one percent, the army begins to rout, and the value of this casualty can be kept at three percent, and there has been no rout, that is, a first-class strong army, the Qi family army in the Wanli period, the Yu family army, and even Yuan Chonghuan's Guanning iron cavalry are such a typical example. But Yu Feng is absolutely confident that even if the battle is fierce, even if his Fengzi battalion suffers more than half of the casualties, it can be regrouped, and it still has combat power, of course, if it really comes to that point, he will be considered to be greatly injured. As long as he doesn't die, he believes that his wind battalion will not collapse.

Of course, it is also obvious that the place where the other party is not as good as the other. Yu Feng has always paid attention to the construction of musketeers, and even once took the construction of musketeers as the focus of his army building, and he obviously neglected a lot of other cooperative arms. The hook spearmen were influenced by the halberd soldiers of the Spanish phalanx, but for the protection of the musketeers, it is obvious that Yu Feng has not paid much attention to it, and even the sword and shield soldiers that have been used in the Spanish phalanx all the time, Yu Feng has selectively ignored them.

As a person who has crossed over from the era of hot weapons in later generations, the establishment of a hot weapon unit is his original intention, and judging from the days when the Fengzi Battalion was formed, the battles carried out, such a firearms unit, the effect is indeed very good. However, none of these battles, when really counted, was a veritable field battle. And after occupying Pyongyang, if Yu Feng doesn't want to stop there, he will no longer be able to avoid this problem.

The use of hook spearmen as the protection of musketeers is undoubtedly a mistake in the use of troops, and placing the attacking troops in a defensive position, although there is no big drawback in the short term, but once it becomes a habit, after this weakness is grasped by the enemy, it is very likely that this problem that he does not pay attention to now will become the source of his failure, and he will never tolerate this.

Therefore, Yu Feng needs a group of sword and shield soldiers, a group of tall, powerful, and extremely disciplined. In the future battle, these sword and shield bearers are the armor of the musketeers, protecting the musketeers, and, if nothing else, these sword and shield hands will become the largest casualty rate in the Fengzi battalion, which is also another expectation of Yu Feng for this competition, these people, it is best to be selected from the Koreans and the training camp, only this arrangement will ensure as much as possible that after the continuous battle, but also maintain the vitality of the Fengzi battalion.