"Military order: The entire third squad of the second company of the first battalion of the right brigade of the former army failed to arrive at the designated area in time during the battle, failed to complete the set combat objectives, and the whole squad cowered and feared the battle! A collective demerit! Conquer the military field! Inform the whole battalion and the whole brigade to set an example!! ”

In front of the entire first battalion of the first battalion, which was arranged in several rows, Fan Baoyi, commander of the first battalion of the former right brigade of the army, announced the punishment of the entire squad for the next squad.

The faces of the dozen or so people who were punished in public were gloomy, and there were fifteen acres of military merit fields! If you can't be rewarded for meritorious service in the next war, then isn't this trip in vain?

"The fifth squad leader Tong Wei and all the five squads, you can obey this punishment!"

Tong Wei, the leader of the fifth squad, looked at Fan Baoyi, gritted his teeth and said, "I'll obey!" ”

He had to take it.

Now is not the time to serve in the Eight Banners Army, and punishment and reward must first depend on the relationship.

This Ming army regulation clearly stipulates: rewards and punishments must be made public, in front of all soldiers!

In a previous battle against the Russian Cossacks.

The recruits under his command all showed a war-like mentality, causing a battle in which the instinct could easily annihilate the opponent's scouts turned into a pursuit battle, and in the end, the opponent ran more than a dozen of them.

So now that they have been counted and deprived of their military merits, they have nothing to disagree with, and it is magnanimous not to directly demote them to herdsmen.

If you stay in the army, you will have a chance to make meritorious contributions!

Fan Baoyi's gaze swept in front of the soldiers of the whole battalion.

He turned out to be Fan Baoyi in the Baoyi Army formed by Qianlong.

But now he is the major battalion commander of the Western Capital Division - as a veteran who has participated in almost every Ming and Qing Dynasty war from the Battle of Jiangxi to the present.

Fan Baoyi can be regarded as catching up with the trend of the times.

Of course, this is also because he is lucky enough - like the new Eight Banners of his identity, he usually gives priority to playing as cannon fodder to fight in the front.

Most of the contemporaries of Fan Baoyi, except for some who surrendered to the Ming army early, died on the battlefield.

So Fan Baoyi is a veteran who has survived hundreds of battles.

And in the later Zhengxi Division, when the "Sinicization degree" exam was conducted.

Fan Baoyi also achieved a high score - because he was originally the new Eight Banners of the Han people who became the Eight Banners.

Count his combat experience and the results of the sinicization exam.。

Fan Baoyi participated in the "Ming Officer Crash Course" as the first batch.

Then he became a major and became the commander of this battalion.

Since he became a Ming army.

Of course, the name of this coating cannot be used.

Although the name Baoyi was given by his parents, Xiao Fan's parents didn't expect the Qing Dynasty to close the stall so easily.

The Ming Dynasty didn't make coatings.

So Fan Baoyi changed his name to Fan Baoyi.

Hey.

Don't say it.

The name suddenly became tall.

And Fan Baoyi, who became a major in the Ming Army, also realized the dream that he failed to realize when he was a coat: there are dozens of acres of land, and there are people who come to kiss him, as for the Manchurian Eight Banners tigress that she took before, she doesn't know how docile she is now, and those wild cubs don't dare to babble in front of him.

It's really impermanence.

However, Fan Baoyi, who became a major battalion commander, didn't feel that he had much ability.

He basically acted in accordance with the regulations of the Ming Army - he was originally a coat, and it was instinctive to do things according to the master's orders, and he had to guess what the master was thinking before, but now it's okay, how to march and how to fight, all of which are stipulated in the regulations.

Just do what you do.

It's quite rigid, though.

But after the encounter with the Cossacks the other day.

Fan Baoyi suddenly found that his battalion was so capable of fighting!

These days, with the advantage of the range of the rifled gun in hand.

In the battle with the Cossack scouts of the Russian army, it can be said that they have the advantage!

After the punishment of the third shift was announced.

Fan Baoyi also announced rewards for several platoons and squads that were active in combat.

It varies from third-class merit to second-class merit.

Military merit is not only good for promotion, but also for giving land!

After that's all that has been dealt with.

Fan Baoyi received an order from the brigade headquarters and led the army to assemble!!

"Brigadier Commander!"

At the brigade headquarters, Fan Baoyi met the young brigade commander Chen Liansheng.

This green battalion, who used to serve in the Qing army, and later switched to the Ming army in the Battle of Jiangxi, is now promoted to colonel because of his meritorious rank, and he has been stuffed into the first brigade of the Western Capital Division.

"How? All arranged? Military heart available? ”

Fan Baoyi hurriedly said: "The rewards and punishments are clear, the military spirit is stable, and it can be fought!" ”

What Fan Baoyi said was not polite, but sincere.

When he was on an errand in the Qing army.

Cannon fodder and dangerous tasks are all driven by them.

But the credit is always attributed to the old surname Eight Banners with a background.

And now here in the Ming army, I dare not say that there is no such situation, but when the whole army announces the reward and punishment, it can still greatly prevent the occurrence of things that take credit.

"Gather the troops, there is a brigade on the opposite side, it should be an infantry brigade of the Russian army and a Cossack cavalry regiment!"

"Chief of Staff, the Rakshasa has set up camp about twenty miles away from us, and it seems that almost all of Irkutsk's troops have been brought out!"

At the General Staff Headquarters of the Western Capital Division, a staff officer is reporting to Chief of Staff Chen Dewang.

Jin Sanxin, the commander of the Western Capital Division, is now in the Northern Capital.

Therefore, the heavy responsibility of commanding the operation naturally fell on Chen Dewang.

It's my responsibility.

"The whole army is attacking, is the investigation clear? What is the origin of the Rakshasa Ghost who came? ”

"What came was an infantry division of the Russian army, and the number should be the 11th Infantry Division of Tsarist Russia, with three brigades, including two infantry brigades and a chasseur brigade, and an artillery regiment, in addition to this infantry division, there is also a Cossack cavalry regiment, with a total strength of more than 20,000."

"Now the brigade that has broken forward is an infantry brigade, there is no brigade artillery, all are musketeers, and there is also a Cossack cavalry regiment to cooperate with it."

"No artillery? The Russians do not deploy artillery below brigades, regiments? ”

A staff officer said strangely.

"The Rakshasa uses infantry divisions as their basic combat units, and their artillery is a direct force under the jurisdiction of the division headquarters."

Chen Dewang couldn't help but show a smile on his face when he heard this.

"Although I don't know where these Rakshasa ghosts got their courage, since they dare to go out of a brigade in front of the big horn, we don't need to be polite! Order Chen Liansheng to let him defeat this cavalry brigade, and then go around to the rear of the Rakshasa Ghost's base camp and camp in this position! Always ready to flank your opponent with the main part! ”

Chen Dewang gave the order in a loud voice.

A dragoon brigade stared at the rear of the Russians.

Then they will know what it means to have no way to go to heaven and no way to go to earth!

"Is that the army of the Chinese? It looks pretty decent. ”

Anatoly, commander of the 1st Brigade of the 11th Infantry Division of the Russian Imperial Army, held a telescope and observed the enemy opposite him.

His gaze remained fixed on the small-caliber mortar, which was carried on the shoulders of some infantrymen.

"The Chinese's artillery firepower allocation is more reasonable than ours, they not only have campaign-level heavy artillery, but the infantry battalions on the front line are equipped with supplementary artillery firepower!"

Anatoly said with a frown.

"Looks like our opponent isn't something too easy to beat!"

"Sir, it's nothing, the final battle still has to be solved by bullets and bayonets, and we only need to endure two rounds of shelling to reach the range of their fire!"

Speaking was Pernov, commander of the 5th Infantry Regiment of the 11th Infantry Division, under the 1st Brigade.

At this time on the battlefield in Europe.

Chasseurs, artillery harassed, line infantry lined up to shoot, and then bayonet charge.

Such tactics have formed a fixed routine.

Although the bombardment technology that emerged in the Eastern theater had begun to be used on a small scale in Europe, it did not attract the attention of the officers who had been trained in the era of line infantry for a long time - the change was painful, because it meant that a large number of officers of the old era would be eliminated.

After all.

In Europe, there was no army as completely new as the Ming army, and there was no traditional baggage to bind them.

Nor did they have the impetus to make changes in the face of an existential crisis like the Qing court.

So while shelling has been around for three or four years.

However, due to the fact that the European side has always stayed in the era of "wooden tail bombs".

The range is much shorter than firing solid bullets.

The advantages of the bombardment were not fully apparent.

As a result, no tactical changes have been made.

"How do you feel like you're back a few years ago."

Fan Baoyi, who was holding a telescope and observing the Russian military formation, muttered a few words.

This tactic of lining up and shooting with the hunters in front and the line infantry behind proved two years ago that it was no longer suitable for warfare in the era of bombardment.

Right now.

The conductor's flag waved, quickly.

The drumbeat of the march sounded intensively.

"Take the squad as a unit, scatter the formation, and advance a hundred steps! Cover the mortar battery for shelling! ”

Fan Baoyi immediately said loudly after seeing the flag of the brigade headquarters in the distance.

Soon.

Groups of soldiers in red uniforms kicked muskets, hunched slightly, and moved forward in small columns.

And along with the movement of the infantry were front-line mortar batteries!

Unlike the Russian line infantry, which was slowly arranged in a tight horizontal formation, with a distance of about 20 meters between the horizontal formations, the Ming army's advance speed was much faster.

Soon.

The front-line hunters of the Russian army were within range of the musketeers of the 1st battalion of the right brigade of the former army!

Fan Baoyi held a musket and used a small dirt slope as a cover to give a loud order to shoot the Russian hunters.

Soon.

The soldiers of the first battalion of a platoon bent down and quickly moved forward, approaching a distance of about 150 paces from the enemy's hunting line, in a half-crouching position, holding their muskets flat and placing the muskets' crosshairs on the bodies of the Russian hunters 150 paces away.

Accompanied by the first gunshots.

Chasseurs who were advancing in a skirmish line in front of them and preparing to harass the line infantry of the Ming army - although the Ming army now had no line infantry at all, so the Russian seekers, who were now somewhat helpless, were quickly met head-on.

Bang Bang Bang!

Under the dense gunfire.

The hunters of the Russian army were quickly sniped one by one, in the open desert steppe.

The range advantage of the rifled guns in the hands of the Ming army was completely brought into play!

(End of chapter)