Chapter 2030

Bayano received relatively high courtesy after arriving in the Qing Dynasty. On the night of landing, he was received by a certain important person who was said to be a member of the royal family, and then the next day he was arranged to demonstrate the colonial authority to a group of Qing generals.

The performance of this batch of weapons was sent. It is obvious that the other party also attaches great importance to this cross-border cooperation and can't wait to confirm the effectiveness of this kind of military assistance.

The weapons brought by Bayano are naturally far superior to the current equipment level of the Qing army. In the hands of veterans like him who have been in the army for many years and have actual combat experience, the power they can exert is not even worse than the individual weapons of the Haihan Army.

How much. Of course, training someone who has never used a musket to his level of proficiency will definitely not happen overnight.

However, the generals of the Qing army who had seen Bayano's demonstration were quite optimistic about the prospects. They generally believed that as long as a large number of such weapons were installed in the army, it would only be a matter of time before they could defeat Haihan. Even if the performance of the weapons was not as good as that of Haihan's army

There are still some shortcomings in comparison, but the Qing army can completely eliminate this gap by relying on its strength advantage. As for how much money it will cost to establish and maintain a fully-organized musketeer unit, these generals have no corresponding concept.

That's what Huang Taiji has to worry about, and they can't control that much.

Qing generals who were not familiar with firearms did not understand the market, but Bayano was a professional and he knew very well how much such investment would be. The Qing Dynasty wanted to install new weapons on a large scale in the army, but it may not be able to afford to form a musketry unit.

Subsequent military expenditures. And he did not believe that the Philippine colonies could provide the Qing Dynasty with a sufficient amount of weapons and equipment. After all, the colonial administration’s military manufacturing capabilities had been greatly reduced after the war, and it was difficult to meet the needs of its own armed forces, let alone

Foreign aid.

The Qing Dynasty really wanted to directly obtain the technology for manufacturing muskets and artillery, and let the Spanish assist in building arsenals in Liaodong. But the problem was that the colonial authorities did not intend to provide these special skills to the partners, otherwise they would learn the technology and the future would be ruined.

You no longer need to rely on yourself to provide weapons, and the cooperative relationship will naturally not be established.

Unable to provide a large number of weapons required by the Qing army, and unable to transfer relevant manufacturing technology to the Qing Dynasty, this attitude quickly weakened the enthusiasm of the Qing army generals for this cooperation project. Therefore, within a period of time after Bayano arrived in Liaodong

, this so-called military cooperation project is actually training dozens of young men with aristocratic backgrounds to enrich their resumes. Until recently, this musketry team participated in an operation in the name of actual combat training.

, finally regained the attention of the Qing army's top brass.

During this operation, the musketeers personally commanded by Bayano successfully ambushed a Haihan Army cavalry patrol, killed and wounded double digits of the enemy during the battle, and captured more than a dozen Haihan Army standard equipment.

rifles, and even captured a few alive. It was rare for the Qing army to achieve such results in a small-scale operation in the history of previous wars.

How to deal with the Haihan cavalry equipped with muskets in the wild has always been a headache for the Qing army. If the infantry is used to encircle and suppress the enemy, the opponent will use kite flying tactics to slowly kill them without any suspense, but the cavalry can follow them.

However, if you catch up a little bit, you will become a living target for the opponent. The tactic of ambush has been used before, but the number of troops involved in the ambush was too small to defeat the opponent, and the number of troops was large and the tracks were easily exposed, so the effect was not ideal.

But the musketeers seemed to have solved the problems that had troubled the Qing army very well. Although they were small in number, their firepower output was far superior to that of the archers. Moreover, the equipment of the team led by Bayano was all that he brought from the Philippines.

The performance of the muskets they brought was far superior to the equipment level of the musketeers of the Qing and Han banners. Coupled with the more advanced tactics brought by Bayano and the on-the-spot command based on actual combat experience, this weapon

The combat effectiveness displayed by the team naturally impressed the Qing generals.

After learning about the results, Huang Taiji greatly appreciated the performance of Bayano and the Musketeers, and immediately rewarded Bayano. In addition to cattle, sheep, money and land, Bayano also received a "Baya Lajiala"

Zhang Jing" official position. Of course, this official position was not a position of real power, and Huang Taiji did not intend to actually mobilize a team of Bagala soldiers to command him. After all, it was just an honorary official position.

However, Bayano is quite satisfied with this reward. These physical rewards given by the King of the Qing Dynasty have already exceeded his entire income during his previous stay in the Philippines. It seems that although Liaodong is a bitter and cold place, the employer is quite happy.

Bold, this move is much more grand than Aragones's.

He can make a lot of money, and he can also attack the Haihan people, the old enemies of the Spanish colonial authorities. His employer also treats him with great courtesy, almost responding to every request. For Bayano, this current job is indeed a rare comfortable environment in recent years. As for Bayano,

Bayano is not too worried about the risk. He has experience fighting in the European battlefield, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is used to life and death. Apart from being a soldier, he has no other skills, so he has already prepared it.

Psychological preparation for being shrouded in horse leather.

Being able to achieve results so quickly also made Bayano start to re-evaluate the comparison of military strength in this region. He knew that the group of musketeers he trained was not outstanding, but the opponent did not seem to be as strong as expected.

Compared with the Haihan army that attacked Manila, their combat effectiveness seems to be much inferior. This may allow them to find a chance to truly defeat the Haihan army in the war in this area.

Of course, if he only relies on the few troops he has now to defeat the Haihan people who are said to have thousands of armed troops stationed in the south, it will definitely be a fantasy. It is impossible for the Haihan people to send out small patrols all the time.

Let the Qing army lay an ambush. Once they enter a frontal battlefield confrontation, his few men will not be able to fight head-on with the Haihan army. They may be wiped out directly after a battle.

The only way to continue to win the war is to expand the army. Bayano believed that the Qing army could not defeat the Haihan army with only the cold weapons such as swords and bows currently equipped, even if it had obvious advantages in military strength. Therefore, he struck while the iron was hot and took the initiative to

The Qing army suggested that it hope that the Qing army would increase its efforts in building the musketeers and expand the size of the musketeers as soon as possible.

But even if the top brass of the Qing army agreed to his proposal, they were still unable to do many things, such as the supply of weapons and equipment. This was no longer a problem that the Qing army and he could solve. They could only count on the Philippine colonial authorities to deliver it.

With more weapons, it is possible to arm more Qing troops.

What Bayano can do now is to arrange basic formation training for those reserve musketeers who currently have no weapons available, so that they can master the most basic combat formation switching and marching. In this way, one day the Qing army will get enough

After using the weapon, it can be equipped with actual combat capabilities in a very short time.

At the same time, the Qing army was actually trying to solve the problem of too long acquisition cycles for weapons. According to the intermediary, the Spanish could provide the Qing Dynasty with at most 300 to 500 muskets and about ten large guns each year.

caliber artillery, regardless of the price, this quantity is really difficult to meet the combat needs of the Qing army.

The Spaniards were unwilling to teach weapons manufacturing techniques, so they had to rely on their own efforts. There were also gunsmiths in the Qing army who had defected to the Ming army. They disassembled the Spanish and Haihan firearms into parts one by one, and then passed them through

By imitating it by hand, you can still make a decent musket. As for the artillery, the casting technology involved is too complicated, so it cannot be something that can be copied from a sample.

But even if the appearance can be successfully imitated, the performance is unlikely to reach the same level, because the craftsmen have no way of knowing what methods have been used to process the materials of these rifles, and what processing methods are used, so they can only simply imitate the appearance. Especially

It is a standard rifle equipped by the Haihan Army. Its processing process is far more complicated than outsiders imagine, and many mechanical processing methods have been used to achieve standardized production. However, the production efficiency of manual craftsmen cannot achieve large-scale manufacturing.

, and it is difficult to pose a real threat to the Haihan Army.

Bayano also personally tried the musket imitated by the craftsman. After all, the performance of this counterfeit product is still far behind, and the killing distance is far inferior to his own musket. If you want to use this kind of musket to fight against the Haihan army on the battlefield,

That's actually not much better than fighting with a sword and bow.

Of course, these low-quality knockoffs are not completely useless. They are also suitable for allowing the newly selected reserve musketeers to become familiar with the operation of weapons. In fact, Sun Bing observed that among the musketeers training at the foot of the mountain these days,

Some people use this kind of imitation musket for training, and from a distance it is impossible to tell the difference between locally made and Spanish-made muskets, so it is very confusing, and Sun Bing is completely unaware of this.

Another thing that made Sun Bing's judgment wrong was that Bayano was so active in arranging the winter training of the Musketeers, not because he would arrange for this team to go out to perform combat missions again in the future, but because he hoped to be able to do it as soon as possible in a short period of time.

Reserve teams are trained in multiple places, and then some soldiers with outstanding qualities are selected from the reserve teams to replace the idiots in this team who do not distinguish between left and right.

But this kind of survival of the fittest is not so easy, because almost all of the first batch of soldiers selected into this musketeer team have a certain background, and they are all trained by the Qing officials as future commanders who know how to fight with firearms. This involves

With the interests of many dignitaries and even the royal family in mind, it is not easy for Bayano to change people without obviously violating military discipline and military regulations, and he needs to face great external resistance.

Bayano's replacement plan did not go smoothly. As an outsider who knew nothing about the Qing Dynasty, he did not know the specific origins of his soldiers and what their powerful background was. However, after he proposed this plan, he suffered

He overcame everyone's objections, including the Qing army general who had treated him as a guest, and flatly rejected his plan. Later he learned that the general had a son and a nephew who were among the first to be selected.

The people who join this team just don't usually show this kind of relationship.

"Our warriors should die on the battlefield, rather than being eliminated because of insufficient training. If they are not capable enough, then you should try your best to teach them how to fight and how to defeat the Haihan people. This is

We spent a lot of money to bring you here from a distant place. Please remember this and don’t mention any plans to replace us!"

The response of the Qing army general was still clearly recorded in Bayano's mind. After thinking about it carefully, aside from considerations of personal interests, he had to admit that the other party's statement actually made some sense.

The purpose of coming thousands of miles to this cold place is to teach these barbarians how to fight the Haihan people. As for defeating the Haihan people, he really can't teach this. After all, in the history of fighting against the Haihan people in the past, Spain has never won.

A true victory.

Stubborn barbarian! Every time Bayano thought about this section, he couldn't help but curse secretly in his heart. He admitted that what the other party said was reasonable, but he really didn't want those rat shit in the team who did not have qualified abilities to continue to be in the team.

Hang in here. All he can do now is arrange more intensive training to slowly increase the lower limit of this team's combat effectiveness.

But these days, Bayano feels that the state of command training is not ideal. He always feels that someone is watching his every move. He thinks that this may be some Qing generals secretly observing the training status of the musketeers. Although this

It's a reasonable move, but it makes him feel a little uncomfortable. So Bayano is planning to take the team a little further away from the camp for a marching practice that is close to actual combat.

It's just that Bayano never imagined that although his intuition was right, the person observing in secret was not the Qing general, but his enemy. Moreover, this opponent's patience was so frightening that he actually stayed in the ice and snow for almost a month.

For months, I was just waiting for an opportunity to take action.

Sun Bing could not predict when a suitable opportunity would appear. Maybe there would not be such an opportunity throughout the winter, but he still arranged preparations for war every day as always, and stayed at the observation point for at least half a day. But for the time being, he

I haven't figured out how to capture the foreign instructor alive yet.

One morning in mid-January, Sun Bing arrived at the observation point at dawn as usual. He knew that he would have to wait about two hours before seeing the musketry team leaving camp for training.

So he still had enough time to take a nap and let his men keep an eye on the Qing army camp down the mountain.

But today the musketeers appeared earlier than usual, and it was rare for all members to travel on horseback. After Sun Bing noticed this, he immediately realized that this might be the arrival of a fighter plane.
Chapter completed!