"Zhonghe, is the musket working?"

"It's not easy to use, but it's easy to practice."

"It's easy to practice? It seems to be quite troublesome to use."

"No matter how troublesome it is, it takes a few months to practice. Judging from the current training situation, if a musketman is faster, he can practice it in 6 months and become anything in one year. If an archer has not practiced at all, he will not be able to go to the battlefield for three or five years."

"That's right, archery is a boy's skill, and I have to practice it for a while. I just become a monk halfway through the journey, and no matter how I practice it, I will be half-baked."

"In other words, musketeers can be recruited in large quantities. As long as muskets and H medicine are enough, millions of people can practice it in one year!"

"Millions of people!? All firearms?"

"All firearm...but it's not possible to use the Tiandao Two-Year Musket. This thing is too heavy and there is no way to install a short knife, so it cannot be used for melee combat. If you can use a musket with about 10 kilograms and can be equipped with a short knife, you may be able to form a full firearm unit."

While Liu Dou was practicing hard, Guo Kan, Zhang Xizai and Chen Qianyi were discussing the use and equipping muskets. Guo Kan was the officer with the richest combat experience and the highest level of tactical command in the Ming army system. He was also an expert in leading troops to train troops. After having to equip his troops with muskets, he naturally discovered its advantages.

First of all, the musket is powerful, and if it is hit, it will be ruined even if it is not killed. If it is hit, it will be calculated in this life! This is incomparable to bows and arrows and swords and guns. Moreover, the musket's armor-breaking ability is super powerful, and even steel armor cannot withstand the attack of the musket, let alone other armors.

Secondly, musket soldiers are easy to practice. Although Liu Dou and others are so moaning, it seems nothing to Guo Kan. Compared to practicing archery, it is really easier, and there is no requirement for the physical fitness of soldiers to get a hard bow. It cannot be practiced by just finding a farmer, and it is not possible without certain physical conditions. If you don’t have a boy skill in playing a young boy, among the adult Ming people, at most one out of ten males can become a truly useful archer. If you practice muskets, as long as you are not stupid or stupid, ten out of ten people can succeed. And you can go to the battlefield after six months to one year of training.

Guo Kan stroked his beard and looked at the musket soldiers who were practicing hard, as if he was feeling a little emotional: "If this musket and cannon had been born more than a hundred years ago, the Jingkang shame would not have been there anymore. Our northern Hans would not have fallen under the iron hoof of the Tartars for more than a hundred years."

Chen Qianyi sneered, "It's the Song Dynasty who only knows that noble people are gentle and gentle. He treats military men as thieves. Even if there are muskets and cannons, it will be useless!"

"It's not completely useless. At least it can kill more people, right?" Zhang Xizai shook his head, stretched out his hand, and a staff officer next to him handed over a two-year-old convex gun.

Zhang Xizai held the musket hard, aimed at the front, then put it down, threw the musket back to the staff officer, and said with a smile: "If this gun can reduce weight by half, it is not impossible for the entire infantry firearm. At least two battalions of muskets and one battalion spear... A division, with twenty or thirty cannons and a light cavalry regiment, is enough to suppress the same number of barbarians!"

He paused for a moment, his tone was heavy, "The saint said, this firearm is the general trend! Because... Sir, the force of the Eight Banners will eventually decline. The founding generation was all people who could endure hardships, and their children would definitely be inferior to that of the hardships. At that time, the force of the Ming Dynasty would only be maintained by excellent professional officers and infantrymen with firearms."

Although the system of Sir and Eight Banners was established by Chen Dexing, Chen Dexing never thought that these Sir and Eight Banners could produce elite troops from generation to generation. Even the Sir and Eight Banners, who are still at the top of the current generation, can their combat effectiveness last? Most of them are older young people who are 30 years old, and in another ten years they will be 40 uncles. In this era, they are all grandfathers, and they can still fight?

Therefore, it is time to consider making the Ming infantry transition to full firearms! Of course, the transition process can only be gradual, and it will not work in one go. Before the smoothbore gun technology matures, throwing away bows and arrows is not a rational way.

In history, the half-baked firearm army of the Zhuming Dynasty was defeated by the cold weapons of the Qing Dynasty!

Guo Kan seemed to have a deep feeling and nodded, "That's right...they're so...they're so weak. The Mongols at Genghis Khan's Mongols were not the same as they are now! When our Ming Dynasty was on the rise, the Mongols were no longer able to fight. Although their weapons, armor and martial arts were good, they could not endure the hardships and began to be afraid of death. In fact, they were all relying on the Han army to support their stores, and some Mongolian generals were very powerful. Our Sir and Eight Banners are very powerful now, and they may not have been in the footsteps of the Mongols in the future.

So this full firearm infantry is the only choice for us Han people to keep their military strength alive! Because the full firearm infantry is fighting for life... We have ten thousand people now, how many people in Mongolia are there? Not to mention one life for one life, even if two lives for them and one life, we can destroy the Mongolians!”

Chen Qianyi also smiled and nodded, "The saints mean the same thing, so they asked a certain family to come to General Guo to learn from the scriptures... The guard infantry division of a certain family will also form a musket regiment. In a short time, the eighteen infantry divisions under the Sixth Army of the Ming Dynasty will also be equipped with a musket regiment."

A division first equipped a regiment of musketeers, equipped with 1,000 muskets, of which 900 were equipped to 15 companies. The remaining spare Tiandao two-year muskets were too heavy and inconvenient to operate, so they had to be used together. Therefore, there were only 60 guns in the first company. In order to enhance the firepower of the musketeers, they could only expand the organization. A Ming army musketeers are all large-scale units of the 15th Company of the 3rd Battalion, with 140 people in each company. The entire regiment was fully equipped with 2,400 people. The number was twice as many as ordinary infantry regiments!

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The gunshots were like beans, and the bullets were weaving. Coupled with the roar of bronze cannons, the army of Budge Tie Mu's army could not even lift its head.

This is the bank of the Volga River outside Salai. A war that determines the ownership of the Khanate of the Golden Horde is at its most critical moment.

As Naha Khan and Kublai Khan ruled Siros joined forces, Bengottimuir fell into a full passive position. Because Naha Khan's army had been fighting against the Poles and Bulgarians, it was the most powerful and equipped army among the Golden Hordes. They attacked East Ross from the west, and Kublai Khan attacked Salay from the south, making Bengottimuir unable to use Ross' manpower, financial and material resources to fight Kublai Khan.

The plan for a protracted battle was completely ruined, so I had to summon the troops of the Badu Sect King to fight against Kublai Khan outside the city of Salai.

In this battle, Mangge Timuer concentrated a total of 130,000 troops, while Kublai Khan only had 80,000 infantry and cavalry.

But Kublai Khan had an ace Han Eight Banners firearms! This Han army established by the Eight Banners of the Ming army was even ahead of the Ming army on the road of full firearms. The six flags that followed Kublai Khan this time had more than 24,000 people, which were all firearms.

Moreover, Kublai Khan has been playing muskets for a longer time than Chen Dexing. Although he doesn't know what the ultimate mode of the smoothbore rifle soldier is, he and his generals have been improving the muskets' tactics in the past two years.

The initial gun-raising tactic was abandoned at this time. The gun-raising tactic was too stupid. Why did a person carry the barrel on his shoulder? Can't they use a shield and a spear to form a line of defense, and then put the barrel on the shield?

Kublai Khan's general, Bo Yan, proposed this improvement method not long ago. Therefore, the Eight Banners Firearms Army became a combination of shield gun soldiers and musket soldiers. Each gang (about 1,000 people) of the Eight Banners soldiers were composed of two gangs (more than 300 people per gang) and one gang gun shield soldiers. Musket soldiers were handed with one gun, which was the original gun lifting. When they went to the battlefield, they fired in turn to maintain the sustainability of firepower output.

While the Eight Banners Firearms opened fire, some Mongolian cavalry would dismount and stand behind the firearms front with insidious bows to shoot arrows. At the same time, there would also be large groups of Mongolian cavalry lined up on both sides of the firearms front and ready to launch an attack at any time.

The tactics of Kublai Khan's Mongolian army have changed from the cooperation of bows and horses to the cooperation of guns and cavalry. Guns and cannons are in front and horses are behind. Guns and cannons are killed and disturbed by the enemy, and cavalry assaults are final!

After the sound of gunfire, the roar of horse hooves sounded like thunder.

The bodies of the Censors wearing Turkic battle robe and armor fell on the grassland like cut wheat, densely packed and shocking. Kublai Khan's cavalry rushed forward and launched a wave-like charge.

While the cavalry was attacking, Kublai Khan's Eight Banners Firearms Army began to advance forward, with guns and shields in front, and the musket soldiers followed behind, and with artillery soldiers, they advanced forward together.

In a battle of more than 200,000 people, of course, the winner will not be decided in one round. It must be repeated attacks. The battle between you and me will last for a long time before one side will retreat without support.

For the grassland warriors under the command of Mengge Tie Muer, the only thing that can make them collapse is the shocking casualties! The lethality of the Eight Banners Firearms Army has obviously exceeded the imagination of these grassland warriors. No matter how strong the armor they wear, no matter how powerful the martial arts are, there are a pile of flesh and blood in front of the lead bullet driven by the H-drug! The troops in front were killed and injured! The wounded were lifted down by hundreds of thousands, all of them were covered in blood and screamed in succession, and all the shamans and witch doctors who followed the army were helpless.

The wound caused by lead bullets cannot be cured at all. As long as you hit the top, you will definitely die! This is completely different from the killing of bows and arrows!
Chapter completed!