Chapter 634: Contest in Different Era

The reason why this became the standard for evaluating ancient troops was because controlling the troops, especially controlling the troops on the march, was really a very difficult thing.

If it is in another time and space without Jiangfeng, the military strategist Qi Jiguang has special requirements for marching in the military book, that is, when fighting on the battlefield, the marching must be carried out slowly, every ten steps must be paused, and the queue must be adjusted and continued to move forward, otherwise the formation will collapse.

The Ming army officers in the mighty camp did better than Qi Jiguang required. The soldiers could walk thirty steps in a row before stopping to correct the queue. Of course, this is also the reason why the artillery speed was not fast.

But after a command, the four infantry regiments of the Huazhou Army began to rush forward with great strides. There was no chaos or stopping to complete the entire team. They just kept it steadily. It can be imagined how much shock it would be for the Ming army.

However, the shock was not only that. The drums of the Huazhou Army quickly became rapid and rapid. The four infantry regiments began to trot and approached quickly. There was still no need for the entire team to align, and the speed was faster.

The military formation of the Majestic Camp that had been stable from the beginning, and the infantry formation that the other party quickly pressed over began to get a little turbulent. The soldiers of the Majestic Camp were all veterans who had fought on the battlefield, and they had also seen the White Lotus Cultists rushing over the mountains. However, although those who were so powerful, there was nothing that scared people.

But when everyone saw the Huazhou army charge, everyone's disgust. The opponent's running speed was not as fast as those running priests, but the formation did not disperse and the line was neat, and it broke out like this.

When trotting forward, keeping the team uneven is a very simple thing today. After getting around the Middle Ages, this was synonymous with elite soldiers, and even many veritable elite soldiers could not do this. In this era, only the Spanish Kingdom in Europe began similar training, and the scope was not large. Before that, only the Swiss infantry did this, but they were only the Swiss infantry of that era.

To achieve rapid progress and maintain formation, you need to practice queues in daily training, such as alignment, turning left, turning right, etc.

Jiang Feng started such training when he was training in Dengzhou. At that time, many people, even Jason Hogan from Europe, did not understand. When Jason Hogan was in Spain, the queue practice was just beginning in the army and it was not yet popular.

Moreover, many soldiers couldn't even tell the difference between the left and right, and some instructors were even like this. The training queue was considered to have been delayed a lot of time. It would be better to let the soldiers practice fighting skills and skills than to have this time. However, like many things in Huazhou, Jiang Feng insisted on doing it and did it.

Jiang Feng did not have any theoretical support for the importance of queue exercises, but he knew that before he traveled through time, students should also have queue exercises in military training, and team exercises in physical education classes. The first training for recruits to join the army was queue exercises. His wisdom is naturally not comparable to thousands of years of accumulation, so it is always right to use this.

In fact, in the queue practice conducted by European troops in the fifty and sixteenth century, soldiers from most countries could trot and charge forward while they were in a stable formation, which was considered an important sign by military historians that the ancient army transitioned to modern troops.

The Huazhou Army took the initiative to attack, and the long-range firepower of the Weiwu Camp was the best time to be used. The officers of the Weiwu Camp naturally knew this and stopped the team from being ordered.

At this time, the quality of the Huazhou Army was different. Originally, they used the speed of artillery movement in the central front as the benchmark, which could be said to be very slow, but when the opponent pressed over and the officer suddenly stopped, chaos still occurred.

The actions of setting up cannons and loading ammunition seem a bit chaotic, and the archers and musketeers were also preparing in a hurry.

Accompanied by the rapid drums of the Huazhou army, the Huazhou army's square formation was getting closer and closer, and the people in the Ming army formation became more and more chaotic.

But the soldiers of the Powerful Camp were trained for a long time. Although they were panicked at this time, they still loaded the cannons. Looking at the Huazhou Army's formation opposite, they didn't need any aiming or correction. They just ignite and fired directly, and there was a loud bang. Dozens of metal balls, large or small, flew out, some of them missed, and more accurately landed in the Huazhou Army's formation.

The people swept by this projectile were all flesh and blood. After this round of artillery attack, the Huazhou army immediately suffered no less than 300 casualties. For the shells of this era, they were powerful enough and the effect was very good.

However, the Huazhou army's charge did not slow down, and there were indeed casualties. However, all the Huazhou soldiers did not look back, nor did they have a scattered formation, nor were they even aroused the momentum of the same hatred of the enemy by their colleagues. They just calmly maintained the formation charge. Seeing the opponent's appearance, the Ming army in the mighty camp felt that their breathing was much more urgent, and their movements were stiff and slow.

The muskets of the mighty camp were still fired, and the archers also began to fire. Since the war began, Huazhou has attacked the opponent's formation, and this is the first time that Ming munitions have been fired.

Many of the Huazhou soldiers rushing in the first row were shocked and fell straight to the ground. The first row of the Huazhou army was empty almost instantly, with great damage. However, the soldiers behind were still constantly, the drum rhythm was still the same, and the soldiers continued to charge indifferently.

The cannons and muskets could not quickly hit the second round in tension and panic, and only the archers trembled and shot the second round of arrows.

The Huazhou Army and the Ming Army finally collided. The soldiers of the Huazhou Army who had been quiet finally broke out at this time. The sound of killing sounds shook the sky in an instant. The soldiers of the mighty camp may be a strong army in the normal army of this era, but the Huazhou army opposite surpassed this era.

This is not the gap in military strength or equipment, but it is actually the gap of the times. This gap cannot be compensated and is the biggest key to victory or defeat.
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