Chapter 2031

Based on his observations during this period, Sun Bing knew that the Qing Army's musketeers usually marched on foot when they came out of the camp for training, and only the foreign instructor and his escorts would choose to ride horses. After all, this training ground is far away from the Qing Army's main camp.

The camp is very close, and the time it takes to load and unsaddle the horses must be longer than the time on the road. There is really no need to travel on horseback. And the scene of all members on horseback shows that this musketry team is probably going to a place far away from the camp.

Local activities - maybe this is another combat operation after a long time, and it is also the fighter opportunity that Sun Bing has been waiting for.

Sun Bing immediately ordered people to rush back to the temporary base on the coast as soon as possible to summon everyone to prepare for battle. As long as this musketeer team is far enough away from the Qing army camp, Sun Bing will look for an opportunity to take action and strive to solve this problem at once

Hidden danger.

However, the Marine Corps' hiding place is in the mountains and forests. It is not easy to keep up with the Qing army's cavalry on two legs. Fortunately, the location is condescending. Through observation, the direction of the Qing army's march can be judged in advance, and the opponent

The horse is not galloping, so it is unlikely to be lost for the time being.

However, the Marine Corps' observation point is several miles away from the temporary base on the coast. If you wait to send the message back and complete the assembly before rushing over, you will definitely miss it in time. Therefore, Sun Bing could only take a few people to follow on foot and leave guidance along the way.

Directional markers allow large groups to follow as quickly as possible.

About ten miles to the southwest from the Qing army camp is the fortress defense line built on the Daheishan Mountains. There are large dense fortress areas in the southeast and northwest of the Daheishan Mountains. There are as many as hundreds of large and small fortresses.

Even if Haihan had superior weapons and equipment, it would be difficult to completely clear out the Qing army's fortresses in this area in a short period of time.

The Haihan Army had organized several large-scale offensives before, but soon discovered that conquering these fortresses required a large amount of artillery shells and gunpowder, and casualties were inevitable. Moreover, the enemy would continue to build new fortresses to maintain the depth of its defense lines.

, the cost of conquering this place was completely out of proportion to the gain, and in the end, we gave up the plan of attacking the fortress defense line.

After that, the two sides tacitly stopped taking the initiative and began to rely on their respective defense lines to enter a strategic confrontation. Although small-scale armed conflicts still occurred from time to time, most of them were only brief encounters at the patrol level. Both sides were very cautious.

He refrained from investing more troops.

There is a gap of less than ten miles between the Daheishan defense line controlled by the Qing army and the Jinzhou Isthmus defense line stationed by the Haihan army. However, this area is basically a plain terrain, making it difficult to hide their tracks. Patrol teams from both sides generally do not

It was too far away from one's own defense line. Last time, the Qing Army's musketeers set up an ambush outside the fortress's defense line, catching the Haihan patrol off guard.

However, after that battle, it was not easy for the Qing army to use this method to ambush the Haihan patrol. After confirming that the Qing army was equipped with standard muskets, the Haihan army had issued a military order,

The patrol team is strictly prohibited from moving away from the scheduled patrol route without authorization. The relatively open and flat environment between the defense lines of the two armies makes it difficult for the Qing army to set up an ambush in advance. Such an elite small force does not dare to easily pull out to fight Haihan head-on.

, and it has already entered winter, so the musketeers returned to the rear camp and have not been dispatched again recently.

If the Musketeers really wanted to go near the Daheishan defense line, Sun Bing would be unlikely to follow since the terrain easily exposed their tracks. Fortunately, the enemy did not seem to intend to attack, and after marching for a while, they turned south towards the coast.

In this way, the marching route was actually a large circle around the mountain forest where Sun Bing and others were hiding, from the front of the mountain to the back of the mountain, covering a total of about ten miles.

This place is only seven or eight miles away from the temporary base of the Marine Corps near the coast, but the reinforcements will definitely go to the observation point in the direction of the Qing army camp before they can follow the markers and circle here. Sun Bing estimated

Even if we hurry up and hurry up, it will take at least two hours for the reinforcements to arrive here. Now we can only hope that the enemy will stay here for a day and a half, so that we can have enough time to prepare for action.

The change of environment made Bayano feel a little relieved. He originally planned to let the soldiers complete the march on foot, but then he thought about it. There was still a certain thickness of snow in the wild, and walking more than 20 miles round trip was too much.

Inhumane, the ride was arranged in the end. Of course, the main reason was the identity and background of these soldiers. If the training conditions were too difficult, there would be a group of big shots that Bayano couldn't afford to offend who would be dissatisfied with him afterwards.

Baiano finally chose a place at the foot of the mountain that was similar to the training ground, a mountain col with a flat bottom. The subject he was going to arrange for the musketeers to train today was the advancement and retreat of the combat formation during the battle, which also troubled the musketeers.

This has been a tactical subject for a long time. There will always be someone who cannot keep up with the marching rhythm, which will lead to chaos in the entire formation.

The tactics that Bayano taught to this musketeer team of the Qing Army were the relatively "advanced" line infantry formations of this era, that is, the tactic of queuing to kill, which is still the most important combat method among Haihan's ordinary troops. Only

However, the Haihan Army's combat philosophy has always been to avoid head-on confrontation with the enemy in open areas. Even in plain areas, they will try to create bunkers. Therefore, most of the time, they rely on fortifications to fight the enemy and suppress them through the performance of weapons.

to gain an advantage on the battlefield.

The use of this combat method requires excellent battlefield command and coordination capabilities, civil engineering and construction capabilities, excellent weapon and equipment performance and other conditions. Even if contemporary opponents know that Haihan's combat method is more efficient, it will be difficult to imitate it.

According to the tactics mastered by Bayano, if the horizontal team wants to maintain a neat formation during the march, it must march according to a fixed stride and frequency to achieve consistent speed. In order to help the soldiers master this rhythm, this

The Musketeers are also equipped with two drummers, and the drum beats serve as the marching rhythm standard of the team.

Bayano's requirement for soldiers is that they must obey orders on the battlefield and follow instructions to advance, load and shoot. If a soldier in the front row falls, the person in the corresponding position in the back row must take the initiative to fill the vacancy to ensure the density of firepower output.

Not affected. Of course, if there are those who are afraid of death and turn around and run away when they hear gunshots or fall down and pretend to be dead, they will definitely be included in the elimination list.

For Bayano, the advantage of these Qing soldiers is that they are very brave. Almost all of them are ruthless people who are not afraid of death. They have been trained as soldiers since they were young, and they basically have no fear of war. These soldiers

It even reminded him of those ferocious northern barbarians on the European battlefield. It seemed that races that grew up in the north would have a stronger willingness to fight.

However, at this time, Spanish infantry square tactics still included spearmen, but the Qing army regarded this musketeer team as a treasure. All personnel were equipped with war horses, and they could not maintain sufficient mobility with spears.

.And according to the thinking of the top brass of the Qing army, the standard for forming this musketeer team is to compare with the opponent's configuration. Since the Haihan Army has not included spearmen in the army, it means that the configuration of this type of arms is not smart enough and should be decisive.

give up.

I have to say that the idea of ​​​​the senior officials of the Qing army was very smart, and they were fully aware of the advanced status of the Haihan Army in tactics. However, what they did not know was that the Haihan Army also had spearmen as a unit in the early days.

To cooperate with the musketeers. The reason is that the weapon performance and the number of musketeers at that time did not meet the tactical requirements of line infantry, so the relatively primitive Spanish square formation tactics could only be adopted, with a small number of musketeers paired with spearmen, combined with

It provides long-range killing and close-range combat to ensure that the overall combat effectiveness of the team will not be greatly affected by changes in the combat distance.

But later, Haihan gradually solved the problems of weapon performance and troop strength, and decisively abandoned the spearmen in the regular army. However, he still retained this combat unit in the militia establishment.

Of course, the Qing army did not deploy spearmen in the musketeers. In fact, there is another reason that is not humane to outsiders, that is, when fighting the Haihan army, there is rarely a chance to shorten the combat distance to the killing range of the spearmen.

Equipping the musketeers with spearmen does not seem to have much practical significance other than blocking bullets. For the Qing army, it is better to equip the musketeers with more cavalry, which is at least less maneuverable on the battlefield.

Spearmen are useful.

But in addition to the advantage of bravery, these Qing soldiers seem to have more shortcomings that give Bayano a headache. The most troublesome thing is that these people are used to a free-flowing fighting method.

The troops who all need to be uniform are extremely uncomfortable. They are more eager to charge in the traditional way on the battlefield, rather than taking small steps forward. After loading the ammunition, they have to wait for the commander's order to open fire.

This also made the soldiers extremely puzzled as to why they couldn't just load the ammunition and fire directly. Isn't this waiting time just a waste of time for the fighter?

Many details of line infantry tactics are difficult for these Qing soldiers to understand. This is completely different from the concept of combat in their consciousness. Even if they know that this is an advanced tactic used by the enemy, they are not familiar with these basic tactics.

It’s still hard for a guy with muscular muscles to accept it.

This difference in combat concepts has made this musketry team unable to fully meet Bayano's requirements during training. It always stumbles on details. Either the marching steps are not neat enough, or some people turn around after the order to turn is given.

Going in the wrong direction makes it difficult for the entire formation to maintain operational requirements.

This kind of rule of order and prohibition does not seem to exist for these Qing soldiers with background. They will not fully follow the instructions of the Spanish instructors during training. Even if Bayano commanded them to win a battle before, he did not

can fundamentally change their minds.

Of course, in the previous ambush battle, they only hid in the forest and did not really form a combat formation. There was no marching or formation change, and there was no exchange of fire between the enemy and them. It was completely

It was just a unilateral shooting of the opponent. In this special fighting situation, the line infantry tactics they usually practiced almost did not work at all. Naturally, it was impossible for these Qing soldiers to change their original views.

Bayano really wants to persuade these guys to change their inherent ideas, but the problem is that it is difficult for him to have deeper communication with his subordinates. This is not only because there are big differences in concepts between the two sides, but also because of another important reason.

The reason is the language barrier.

The communication between him and the Qing soldiers needs to be carried out through a translator, but the problem is that this translator is a candidate provided by a middleman, and he is only proficient in Manchu and Spanish, so it is difficult to accurately convey the ideas of both parties. Even if it is matched

Exclusive translator. As a commander, Bayano can often only communicate with his subordinates in succession, which is very troublesome.

Although Bayano's salary as an instructor in the Qing army was good, he also knew that this job had too many problems that he could not handle. Now not only the Qing army, but also the top brass of the Qing state had high hopes for this unit and believed that

As long as the army expands, it will be able to fight against the Haihan army, but Bayano understands that this is just wishful thinking of the Qing army. If they face the Haihan army on the front battlefield, this musketeer unit whose training level is not up to standard will probably be very fast.

He will die completely.

Of course, as the commander of this unit, he must stand with the soldiers when going into battle, and according to the rules, he must stand in the first row to direct the fire, so if this unit is destroyed, then he

He should die earlier than most people here. So regardless of public or private interests, he must try to improve the combat effectiveness of this unit through training.

Since it is difficult to change the soldiers' minds through communication, Bayano can only use the clumsiest method, which is to increase the amount of training. Use a large amount of repeated training to allow the soldiers to form conditioned reflexes to various instructions, so that they can

I don't have the energy to consider the specific significance of every tactical detail arrangement. This is the only solution that Bayano can think of at the moment.

When training near the camp, Qing army generals would often come over to give advice. Bayano did not want senior military attachés to intervene in his work during training, so he took the troops to a farther place.

I no longer have such worries, at least my ears are much quieter.

Sun Bing felt a lot more relieved when he saw the Qing troops dismounting en masse on the mountain and then starting their daily training. Usually this kind of formation training would last for more than half a day. The Qing troops traveled more than ten miles to train here today, so it must be

I won’t leave after practicing for a while, now I can wait for the backup to arrive with peace of mind.

Sure enough, two hours later, when the reinforcements coming from the temporary base met Sun Bing, the Qing troops at the foot of the mountain were still conducting formation training. Some people were setting up camping stoves nearby, apparently intending to bury the pot here.

It’s time to make food.
Chapter completed!