"The soldiers obeyed the order and went out with swords, iron whips, iron maces, shields, bows and arrows, and only armed with flintlocks and bayonets!"

"Check the guns, purges, bayonets, fixed ammunition..."

"Soldiers, obey the order and line up in four columns!"

"Look to the right, stand at attention, turn right, walk in step, one, two, one..."

As the passwords rang out, the 2,300 cavalrymen of the 7th and 8th Cavalry Regiments in front of the tent were transformed into the world's first line infantry that could use the "queue to kill" tactic!

Of course, Zhu Youjian would not really let his front cavalry convert into line infantry. He would just let the front cavalry with higher individual soldier quality take on the task of exploring new tactics and tactics.

The 7th and 8th Cavalry Regiments in front of the tent happened to be tasked with exploring the fusiliers' tactics. Since two years ago, they have been using the Chongzhen 12-year-old self-generating muskets produced by the Tianjin Artillery Bureau of the Ministry of Industry.

The line infantry tactics "created" by Zhu Youjian began to be trained accordingly.

The Chongzhen 12th-year-old self-fired musket was designed by Bi Maokang, the right minister of the Ministry of Industry and director of the Tianjin Artillery Bureau, and Song Yingxing, the general manager of the Tianjin Artillery Bureau, with reference to the samples, drawings and processing of the flintlock muskets purchased by Grand Duke Luo from the Netherlands.

After installing the equipment, we designed a new type of musket that is the most advanced in the world!

The barrel of the gun is carefully processed by rolling, forging welding, drilling and reaming. The various castings on the gun body are all made of high-quality brass. The main parts of the gun body are

The materials used are of the highest quality and must be carefully crafted. Therefore, the cost of the gun is very high. Including the bayonet, purge bar, and strap, the entire gun costs 18 taels of silver!

In addition to the high cost, the output of Chongzhen's 12-year-old self-generating muskets was also very low. Except for some of the craftsmen who produced this new musket were foreign craftsmen hired at high prices from the Netherlands, the rest were craftsmen who originally produced Lumi muskets. Although the craftsmanship was

Not bad, but the efficiency is not high, and the output cannot be compared with the various ironworks in Foshan that produce turtledove guns and the Shanghai Gun Bureau founded by Zheng Zhilong.

Therefore, in the three years since Chongzhen's 12th-year-old fire gun was put into production, the total output has only been more than 10,000, and it is impossible to equip a large number of troops. Therefore, only the two regiments of the Guards Regiment, the Youth Guards Regiment, the Youth Army and the Zhangqian Army are equipped

Among them, only the seventh and eighth regiments of the cavalry in front of the tent were the only two regiments that completed the re-equipment of the entire regiment.

In addition, the Chongzhen 12-year-old self-generating fire gun has not been tested in actual combat, which is also a reason why this weapon is not mass-produced and equipped with a large number of troops.

Although Zhu Youjian knows best about flintlock rifles and lining up to shoot, in his previous life he only learned knowledge from books. At most, he would ask his sons who had attended military schools and led soldiers. He had no chance to practice it himself. So he cannot blindly practice it.

Copying the book knowledge from the previous life... It is still necessary to conduct experiments and trials when conditions permit. After all, Zhu Youjian does not know everything. Among the many things he learned in the previous life, there are many

He only had a partial understanding.

However, after nearly two years of trial training, Zhu Youjian felt that he really knew how to kill, and could already command a battle to kill the enemy with a flintlock!

...

When Zhu Youjian was leading more than 2,000 dismounted infantrymen equipped with flintlock rifles to kill the Japanese, Masayuki Hoshina was also full of ambition and preparing to fight a battle that could change the situation.

In the process of marching to the right front of the Ming army, Hoshina Masayuki adjusted the ten thousand-man phalanx under his command into two front and rear columns - the two large horizontal columns were almost the standard configuration in the phalanx era. Hoshina just followed the gourd. A scoop.

After completing the adjustment of the array and moving the troops seventy or eighty steps in front of the right wing of the Ming army's large phalanx, Baoshi ordered the iron gunners of each thousand-man phalanx to go to both wings of the spearmen and line up ten rows. , and then began to adopt the tactic of advancing in turns, advancing in turn, firing in turn, in a sequential cycle, and pressing on the Ming army step by step.

However, Baoke's soldiers only fired two rounds of volleys, and the fusiliers led by Zhu Youjian felt the front line by singing the military song "Yi Shui Han".

"Wan, long live my lord, why did you come up here in person?"

The regimental staff general Shang Kejin, who was responsible for commanding the right wing of the Ming army, the Ping Liao Army, was commanding his third regiment of the Ping Liao Army to strengthen the fortifications before Zhu Youjian arrived, preparing to rely on the breastworks made of sandbags and A great battle broke out between the Japanese and Qing allied forces.

Unexpectedly, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty actually brought more than 2,000 fire rifle soldiers to support him... This incident made him very depressed.

Because he never asked Zhu Youjian for help at all!

He has more than 4,000 people under his command, equipped with more than 2,000 turtledove guns, and several 3-pound cannons for support. Where does Zhu Youjian need to take action?

Now Zhu Youjian comes over by himself... He's a bit suspected of grabbing the credit! Once you become the emperor, you don't take the credit, but you still compete with the people below. Is it really okay?

Zhu Youjian smiled and patted Shang Kejin on the shoulder, "I know that you are loyal and brave, and I also know that the Pingliao army is good at fighting and can withstand the enemy in person. But I still want to test the spontaneous gunfire... So You just have to fight as usual, I will lead my own troops out of the large square formation, go around to the enemy's left wing and shoot the enemy with cannons!"

ah!

Shang Kejin was startled by Zhu Youjian's words. He went out of the hollow phalanx to attack the enemy's flank at night... Isn't this too bold? What if he encounters the cavalry of slave thieves?

At this moment, there were bursts of gunfire like fried beans coming from the front. This was the Japs shooting shotguns, approaching step by step!

Zhu Youjian didn't want to talk nonsense anymore, but got on his horse and shouted: "Cavalry in front of the tent, keep the formation, run forward! The target is the enemy's left wing! Follow me to kill the enemy!"

Before the shouts had finished, Zhu Youjian had already clamped his horse's belly, spurred his horse, and headed east with more than 2,000 of his men, preparing to circle out of the hollow square formation.

And his dismounted cavalrymen carrying flintlock muskets could indeed run, and they could also maintain formation while running.

This ability... is also very impressive!

Because mobility is combat effectiveness!

Before the emergence of flintlocks and bayonets, two weapons that could be combined to dominate the battlefield, infantry not only had to wear armor, but also had to carry some very bulky weapons, such as spears several meters long.

So mobility is a very worrying issue!

Another worrying problem is the lack of flexibility - an infantry unit of about 1,000 people often includes spearmen, archers, sword and shield bearers, musketeers and other arms. A lot of different arms are put together. , it’s very troublesome to direct, difficult to coordinate, and not flexible enough.

And when flintlocks and bayonets replaced almost all types of infantry weapons, the infantry became very flexible - the line infantry that later generations thought was ridiculously rigid was actually more flexible and capable than almost all infantry that had appeared before.

Easy to maneuver.

Line infantry can run and march! Moreover, they can easily change formations during the march. They can even switch from marching mode to combat mode in a short period of time, and even form a majestic formation.

These two abilities were vividly demonstrated in the battle in the early morning of June 27, the fifteenth year of Chongzhen.

More than 2,000 dismounted cavalry wearing slatted half-armor (actually half-armor was redundant) and carrying flintlock muskets, ran forward at a speed almost as fast as the cavalry, and emerged from the Ming army's square formation.

Then these more than 2,000 fusiliers rushed towards the Japanese left flank at extremely fast speeds. Before Masayuki Yasukina could figure out what was going on, the 2,000 fusiliers advancing in four columns had already

A slender two-row shooting formation was quickly pulled out on the left wing of the Japanese army, and it was also advanced to a distance of less than 30 steps from the two thousand-man phalanxes on the far left wing of the Japanese army!

When Hoshina was in a hurry to adjust his formation to prevent his flanks from being raided by the enemy, 2,000 flintlock guns had already fired the first round of volley!
Chapter completed!