Chapter 120 Questions
"I have no more ideas." Min Yuanzhi pursed his lips and thought for a long time before saying: "If so, even if our cavalry is not large, you can consider equiping the cavalry with heavy armor, as well as war horses. If you can achieve strong armor and powerful soldiers, at least we will not suffer too much when facing a strong enemy or several times the enemy."
Without a good cavalry method, Min Yuanzhi's views are quite correct.
Although the war horses are not tall and have limited load-bearing capacity, considering that the weight of the knights and the heavy armor are not heavy, and in recent years, they have definitely been fighting locally, so there is no need to travel long distances. According to Min Yuanzhi, converting light cavalry into heavy cavalry will increase the equipment first, under the premise that the tactics and tactics are not excellent and the cavalry's cavalry and combat power are relatively weak. This is a good way to improve the cavalry's tactics in the short term.
"This method is feasible," Min Yuanzhong admired this clan brother who was very open-minded and devoted to the cavalry at this time. He nodded and praised: "Yuan Zhi was very thoughtful, and the discussion on the cavalry method is very good."
Min Yuanzhi's praise also encouraged the rest of them. Yang Zhijin continued: "Cabinets are assault forces, but we can't rely on cavalry alone. The problems exposed in this battle are not familiar with each other, and they are slow to expand and close when dispatching. This is enough to be hard-working. Inadequate defense against archers is a big problem. The front card sword and shield can block some, and the soldiers in the front row also have cotton armor and iron helmets, but the second row and third row flag troops were injured by the bow arrows. This is just a group of bandits. If there are bandits or riots, the archers will be at least ten times more powerful, and their skills and experience are many times stronger than bandits. My opinion is that before assembling cavalry armor, the sword and shield of the front card will be at least changed to the swallowtail card, and the sword and card players will be in front of the formation.
Wandering and covering the array, there are actually not many opportunities to fight with the enemy with a card shield. Even if the enemy comes and goes to the cards and retreats, the gunmen on both sides can help. If it is really impossible, you can abandon the long cards and fight with the enemy hand-to-hand. The swordsman is given priority to equip iron armor, and his skills are also superior to others. Some risks are always to bear. In addition, we are invincible god cards or tiger-headed wooden cards. If there are enemy archers covering the shooting in front of the array, or cavalry rushing over, it is best to use big cards to block the arrows or block the enemy cavalry. It is possible to use the card to hold the cards, or even set up camps! In addition, even the gunman armor should be quickly made, with iron armor on the head, second and third rows of cotton armor, so that we can fight with the bandits and soldiers so that we will not suffer a sudden loss."
Min Yuanqi is also a general family. The so-called cards, swallowtail cards, invincible god cards, and tiger head cards are all known at once.
Only then did he suddenly wake up, even patted his thigh hard and said, "Damn, if I had known it, I would definitely not have died of twenty flag army brothers this time!"
Seeing that Yang Zhijin's face looked a little ugly, Min Yuanqi waved his hand and said, "As the main general, I should have thought about these things in advance. It is Mr. Yang Bai's credit for filling in the gaps afterwards. It is not a mistake. Even if there is a mistake, it is my mistake and it has nothing to do with Mr. Yang Bai!"
Yang Zhijin and Min Yuanqi were actually a little bit confused. When they passed the water barrier for the first time, Yang Zhijin, Gao Cuncheng and others were not optimistic about Min Yuanqi's decision. Not only did they not come forward to help, but they also retreated together. On the battlefield, they would sell the master general. Afterwards, Min Yuanqi did not blame everyone. He could not convince the public, and he did not make any kindness. Why did he ask others to come up and work hard?
Min Yuanqi could figure it out himself, but Yang Zhijin and others were always feeling a little uneasy. At this time, when he heard Min Yuanqi's words, Yang Zhijin's sudden change of expression gradually calmed down. Yang Zhijin stood up and clasped his fists and said, "It's not that my subordinates had any suggestions before the war. In fact, when I gathered and cleaned the battlefield after the war, Guo Shangyi, the captain of the flag under his subordinates, said that Guo Shangyi had these thoughts after the war. He did not make any suggestions before the war. Please forgive me."
"I am guilty and meritorious." Min Yuanqi said in a deep voice: "After the war meeting, I didn't ask everyone to wash the blood on their bodies first. Why did it come? It was just to ask everyone to gather ideas and make up for the shortcomings of the lack of armor in our army. This is a good idea. This month, Captain Guo Qi's salary was doubled. Brother Yang, you and Yuan Zhi have made contributions to your advice, and the same is true."
At this moment, everyone felt Min Yuanqi's tolerance and really wanted to listen to suggestions, and the atmosphere in the office room became more and more lively.
Min Gande, Wang Sanyi and Li Guoding all retreated to a corner of the house.
The three elderly people over 50 years old all had smiles or a slight embarrassment on their faces, because their life experience and all of their experiences were not enough to support them to speak at such a meeting.
If you don’t know how to understand and forcefully speak, it will only make the younger generation secretly ridicule. The three people in front of you are not like this.
The three of them also had obvious sighs and emotion on their faces. Before that, they gathered together and talked about the harvest, the family affairs of the flag army of each household, some gossip about personnel changes in Huai'an Prefecture and City Guard Office, and of course, there were personnel changes in other offices, and even casual matters such as weddings and funerals.
Serious things are nothing more than farming and escorting the grain. They are all mature. At most, they can communicate information about merchants from north to north to contact them to see if they can bring more goods. The transportation of grain from south to north is quite hard. Only by bringing goods to merchants, bringing merchants, and escorting their sons to the north can at least make up for them. Otherwise, the transportation army would be more difficult than Coptis chinensis.
Their life experiences now are nothing more than these, such as the placing of troops, cooperation of troops, battlefield command, training, military law and tutoring, logistics and military supplies, and they all struggle to understand and apply these words, let alone understand and apply them.
Even the names of the shields just now, the three of them may have heard or seen the map. After all, the military families of the garrisons were quite limited. After all, when they were young, the military transport army completely gave up their military positions and had long been professional farmers and canal boatmen.
However, Min Gande, Wang Sanyi, and Li Guoding also had obvious relief on their faces.
In any case, it is quite gratifying to see the growth and growth of the younger generations with their own eyes.
For Wang Sanyi and Li Guoding, they were even more fortunate. They were not from the Min family. Fortunately, when Min Yuanqi rose, they successfully held this thick leg. No matter how developed the Min family is in the future, they will still have original shares.
Li Guoding had already planned to send both sons to the flag army, but Wang Sanyi looked a little ugly. He only had one son, and said that he couldn't bear to leave him. Even if he could bear to leave him, Wang Mingyuan, who was a scholar, came in to be a flag army, and was afraid that even if Wang Mingyuan was willing, the Wang family would become a joke.
I can only regret it.
The meeting here is still going on. Gao Cuncheng suggested that the flag army training increase some authenticity, such as throwing animal corpses or pig blood and chicken blood on the training ground, and make people shout loudly, so that during the training of the queue confrontation, there will be almost a feeling of a battlefield.
As the captain of the Musket Flag Team, Chen Liang also participated in such a high-standard military discussion.
Chen Liang's suggestions are naturally related to muskets. They add more musket players and vigorously invest in the construction of musket workshops, increasing materials, manpower, and money, so that the firearm workshop hosted by Shen Yong can create batches of qualified muskets in a short period of time.
This suggestion is more support than Min Yuanzhi has received.
Although the cavalry was sharp, Min Yuanzhi and others' performance today was also quite impressive and outstanding, to be fair, the bandits' array itself was almost collapsed when the cavalry attacked sideways.
The third, fourth, and two hundred generals on the right wing struck the bandit's left wing and surrounded it. Although the four hundred generals on both sides did not cooperate or had a close connection, the battlefield pattern was already quite unfavorable to the bandits.
Under such a premise, the cavalry can make contributions in the side attack and keep disrupting the bandits' escape line.
At the beginning of the battle, under the pressure of bows and arrows, the bandits who disrupted the bandits in front of them were Chen Liang and his musket flag team.
With this contribution and the importance of the musket has been highlighted, everyone present understands that it will be sooner or later for Chen Liang to become the deputy general manager of the musket or even the general manager of the musket.
Although the Chen surnamed Chen is an outsider from Shandong and not a native of Dahewei, he has the capital to become Min Yuanqi's confidant in the battle of Shuiguan.
In addition, the two brothers have their own abilities. In terms of battlefield experience, everyone here is not as good as Chen Liang, and commanding and training musketmen is Chen Liang's unique ability, which is far from others.
With Shen Yong's ability to cast the instrument, there is no second person in the Yuntiguan Institute. The Shen brothers have stood firm at Yuntiguan Institute.
In addition, what Chen Liang said is indeed reasonable, and everyone has a deep understanding of the power of muskets. In addition, muskets are easier to obtain than war horses, and the training of muskets is much easier than cavalry training. If we want to improve the combat power of the 300th household flag army in a short period of time, it is definitely more appropriate to place resources on muskets.
Even Min Yuanqi thought so himself, and immediately made a decision: "What Chen Liang said is reasonable, but the manufacturing of muskets is not as easy as you think. The gun barrel is too slow to drill. Yuan Jin, if you have free time these days, you can walk around the nearby market town, learn to do iron and blacksmiths to make business, and the rest of the thousands of households who can make weapons, iron helmets and armor will be collected for me. The treatment is easy, but the worst is that they are much better than the business they are doing now."
"Yes, sir." Min Yuanjin was not surprised by this order. Liang Shifa was a math and understood the worldly affairs like him. He was a clerk. Originally, Liang Shifa was the first candidate for military officers, but from the current situation, Liang Shifa had already achieved considerable results in inquiring about military affairs management and being a spy. I believe Liang Shifa would not be willing to let go of the current affairs to manage military affairs, so he had to take this position himself.
At the same time, Min Yuanjin also knew that he probably didn't have many specialties in military affairs. In today's battle, the 100th General was good at playing, and the 3rd and 400th Generals were quite determined in the development and interspersed progress. Obviously, Yang Zhijin and Gao Cuncheng were much more skilled in command than him.
Chapter completed!