Chapter 40 The Staff System of the Ming Army

After encamping on the predetermined battlefield.

The Ming army constantly sent scouts to investigate the situation of the opponent.

I waited for almost seven days.

The vanguard of the 80,000-strong army on the opposite side arrived one after another and set up camp ten kilometers outside Pontianak City.

However, the Ming army did not immediately dispatch.

Rather, they stood still.

This is another three days.

It took ten days for the Qing-Borneo coalition to gather all the troops, and the 80,000-strong army set up a huge camp.

Later, Lin Guoliang, Liu Guangliang, and a Dutch army major named Glopp, the three of them rode horses and brought a few guards to personally observe the camp of the Ming army.

Unlike the Ming scouts, who had already transmitted the situation on the other side back to the command post in almost real time, the coalition forces had no scouts to use at all.

Before that, there had been a small exchange of fire between the two sides.

But the scouts of the Ming army were all elite shooters of the hunting artillery company.

The Chasseur Artillery Company was a unit formed at the suggestion of Napoleon and armed with large-caliber muskets and small-caliber mortars.

It is different from the queue to be shot in the imagination of later generations.

In the European theater of this era, there were classes called "hunters".

Such soldiers were generally armed with rifled guns or larger caliber flintlock pistols.

In the form of skirmishers, use muskets with longer range and higher accuracy to hunt down enemy officers and high-value targets, such as gunners, as long as possible before the line infantry of both sides engage.

And now after having mortars.

Napoleon suggested mixing small-caliber mortars with hunters armed with rifled guns.

The weight of a small-caliber mortar is not large, and two soldiers can run around with a cannon on their backs, and with a few auxiliaries carrying shells on their backs, a mortar squad of five people can maneuver around on the battlefield on their feet.

And the range of the mortar is not as good as that of a rifled rifled gun equipped by the Ming army.

But it has a much longer range than a regular flintlock pistol.

Therefore, in the tactics of the Ming army, the original hunting tactics became hunting artillery tactics.

Hunters armed with rifled guns with long range and artillery squads with small-caliber guns combined to form a ten-man squad.

The combat effectiveness of such a ten-person combat squad is not comparable to those underworld thugs who have just picked up their guns.

Even if there were no cavalry.

Before the two sides went to war.

The Ming army had already controlled the information monopoly on the battlefield.

The scouts sent by the coalition forces could not fight the Ming army's churine artillery company at all.

After heavy casualties.

The coalition forces simply did not send out reconnaissance forces, and gathered into several large lumps like hedgehogs, and came to Pontianak regardless of it.

So what's the situation on the side of the Ming army.

Lin Guoliang, Liu Qianxing and others don't know.

Dutchman Glop was the commander of the native army, so this time he also came to observe with Lin Guoliang and others.

This observation does not matter.

Holding a telescope to observe the Ming military camp from above, Glup's brows furrowed.

"Gentlemen, we are now facing a real army."

Glopp said.

The messenger who followed him immediately translated Dutch into Chinese.

After hearing this, Liu Guangliang couldn't help but complain in his heart: "What you said, isn't my 20,000 Qing Heavenly Soldiers a real army?" ”

He turned his head to look at Lin Guoliang.

I saw Lin Guoliang frowning.

"Lord Lin, how is the situation of the traitor?"

"It's hard to fight! Although this camp is small, but it is very orderly, the ravine is convenient, all kinds of materials and personnel are in order, the combat power of this rebel is not known for the time being, but at least this camp is stable, this battle... It's not easy to fight! ”

Lin Guoliang is knowledgeable.

After all, he is the military attache of the fifth grade.

I've never eaten pork, at least I've seen pigs run.

"If such a camp is not attacked by heavy firepower, the casualties will be very large."

Putting the binoculars down in his hand, Glopp said.

"But we can't help it, we have a lot of troops, we can surround them first, if they don't fight, we will bypass and attack Pontianak!"

Lin Guoliang clapped his hands and praised: "Seconds! This is the book of war in which the enemy must be saved!! I'll go back to reorganize my troops now, and tomorrow morning, the whole army will go to battle!" With 80,000 to fight the Ming army of 4,000, this battle is very certain! ”

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Early the next morning.

The sky was just dawning.

The coalition army began to cook the rice, and carried the rice balls wrapped with salted dried fish in baskets to various camps, and the army ate the rice balls, and the people of the Liu family came to encourage them again, and after sending out the reward money.

The army went out with great energy.

The situation is similar on the natives' side.

After learning that there were only 4,000 people on the other side, the natives were screaming and eager to rush into Pontianak immediately.

The base camp of the "King of Pontianak" Luo Fangbo was looted.

The Ming army was also prepared.

Their staple food is also rice, but the side dishes are much more abundant than the other side.

One meat, one vegetable and one soup.

The meat is whale meat.

There are whale pods in the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean on the west side of Malacca, and the whaling industry in the east has not developed much, so there are many whales.

The profits of the whaling team of the Daohua Trading Company will soon cover the investment.

The dish is a stir-fried shredded kelp, and the soup is a seaweed egg drop soup, a pure natural seaweed soup, sprinkled with salt to supplement the salt.

It's a good dish.

After you have eaten and drunk.

The news of the whole army leaving the village on the opposite side came.

"All of them are dispatched, and it seems that the other side is very confident."

Napoleon smiled slightly.

"My lord, I suggest that we also dispatch the whole army, with the fourth and fifth battalions as the vanguard, three infantry companies plus a hunting artillery company as the front, three infantry companies plus a hunting artillery company to detour to the left side, three infantry companies plus a hunting artillery company to detour to the right side, and the sixth battalion and howitzer battalion as the reserve."

Zhu Daohua said with a smile: "Bonaparte, the command of this battle is in your hands, you don't have to let me agree to everything." ”

Napoleon nodded: "Understood! ”

He turned his head to look at the staff officers of the Ming army.

"According to the order I just made, the staff operation will be carried out, and the goal of this battle is to pursue and expand the results of the battle by defeating the enemy's six infantry companies and two churser artillery companies on the two flanks of the enemy head-on!"

"Obey!"

The staff officers roared in unison.

Subsequently, the General Staff quickly broke down and refined the orders, and sent orders to the units through the General Staff and the heralds.

The general staff of each unit made a more detailed assignment of combat tasks in accordance with the orders given by the general staff at a higher level and handed them over to the military commander-in-chief, and after the military commander-in-chief agreed, the army began to move.

It's like a cog.

From top to bottom.

The whole army was under the control of the staff system.

It's running like a machine.

In fact, this is close to the structure and structure of a modern army.

Under such a system.

The military may seem a little dull at some point.

But there is one word that stands out: stability!

Zhu Daohua believes that there should not be too many adventures in such a thing as war.

Isn't it nice to win a war by steadily relying on superiority in equipment, firepower, and even troops?