Daming Yuanfu

As soon as Gao Wushi finished speaking, Cheng Wen shook his head and said, "Rixin, although I am far inferior to you in knowing soldiers, but in this matter, I feel...you may be worrying too much."

Gao Wushi was really surprised, and asked, "How can you see that?"

Cheng Wendao: "I didn't know anything about soldiers, but in the past few years, because the Ministry of Households has always supervised the handling of ordnance-related matters, I have heard some musket battle methods from various parties. For example, Ye Bangrong of the Southern Army once came to lead the army. Thirty thousand muskets, and I talked to him about musket battles.

According to him, this musket battle is the most clumsy, nothing more than the two sides spread out their lines, keep approaching, and keep shooting at each other.No matter how powerful the soldiers on both sides are, they are not allowed to use them at will at this time. They can only forcefully shoot and charge together with their comrades on the front line.

As for the outcome of this battle, it depends on who is able to maintain military discipline on both sides, resisting the opponent's firepower, resisting the continuous casualties, and resisting the flow of blood to defeat the enemy's front.As long as the opponent's current collapse, one's own side will naturally win... Is that so? "

Gao Wushi nodded and said: "The musketeers fight the musketeers, that's probably the case."

"That's right." Cheng Wen also nodded, and said: "So in this kind of combat, the comparison is military discipline, morale, firepower, and shooting speed. But in my opinion, if the previous things are about the same , then in the end, whoever has the most guns will win..."

Gao Wushi was startled, and said to himself: This seems to be true, but it also seems to be a correct nonsense.If you want to say that the two sides are at the same level in other aspects, of course the side with the larger number of troops has a greater chance of winning.It's like everyone is a musketeer, and they are all platooning guns. In a decisive battle on the Great Plains, I have [-] and you only have [-]. Then I will blow you up for granted.

But before Gao Wushi had time to express his affirmation, Cheng Wen laughed and said: "Although I don't know why this musket can only be used so stupidly, but if it is true, then the Mongols and I, Daming, will fight with each other. It was a big loss."

When he said this, Gao Wushi immediately understood what he was going to say.

In Gao Yushi's previous life, he had watched many war movies and TV shows in the era of queuing up and shooting. For example, in a certain movie during the American War of Independence, both the Continental Army and the British Army stood neatly and fired fiercely at each other without dodging bullets. It seems that the tactics are extremely dull.

It is also because of this that in the cold weapon era, the cavalry that needed the cooperation of arms to restrain it, now only needs the infantry with flintlock + bayonet.A great benefit of the flintlock is that it is a unified tactical weapon.

If you have to say that there is something that cannot be broken... maybe it is feasible to thicken the fender shield of the van that Qi Jiguang made, but this puts forward very high requirements for the output of refined iron and steel.Moreover, the requirements for such a heavy-duty side van in terms of marching and selection of combat locations are bound to be much stricter, and its combat adaptability will definitely be greatly reduced, and its operability is really not good.

Some people say, why not put a shield in the front row?This is because the smallest shot of even the less powerful Chinese arquebus (bird gun) was a 14mm lead bullet, while the flintlock was much larger.

However, as a matter of fact, for now, the only ones who can confidently say that their army has "funded" are the Southern Border Guard Army and his elite armed servants in Daming.The official army of the Ming court could not generally do this, only the direct family troops of individual generals, and a very small number of special troops—such as the imperial guards—could do it.

Two of the more famous ones are the Lobster Soldier’s brown bass flintlock, with a caliber of 19mm, and the French’s 1777-style flintlock, with a caliber of 17.5mm.Within five to sixty meters, the huge kinetic energy is enough to shatter all shields used by individual soldiers, even the shields of heavy shield vehicles like the Manchu Eight Banners can be shattered.

Therefore, the cruel tactic of "queuing up and shooting" with a very high battle loss rate requires very high discipline and morale of the entire army.The ones who did this better were the British Red Shirts. Because of their red uniforms, they were dubbed the "Lobster Army" in later generations.

Of course, the standard musket Wanli II currently used by the Ming army is more advanced than the Lumi blunderbuss sent by Jin Yiwei this time. The most obvious advantage is that the Wanli II specially made adaptive improvements to the paper shell fixed charge.

Secondly, the penetrating power of a flintlock gun within tens of meters can shatter all plate armor suitable for humans to wear, and being hit by lead bullets from a flintlock gun while wearing plate armor will cause much more serious damage than wearing no armor .

Therefore, the tactics at that time were to arrange the infantry in the tightest line formation, and strive to obtain the greatest firepower density.In this way, according to the probability, even if you miss the original target, you may hit some unlucky guy next to the target.

At the same time, since musket battles are very stupid, as I said just now, the fight to the end is nothing more than one person with more guns... Hey, I still don’t believe it, Chahar can fight well in this respect Pass me Daming! "

However, if Chahar changes his tactics and dismounts and fights with muskets with our army, then their cavalry advantage will disappear, and our army will no longer have the disadvantage of "there is no big victory if you win, and you will be defeated if you lose."

First of all, a set of plate armor is very expensive, more expensive than recruiting, training and arming several musketeers.Someone has calculated that the weight of plate armor that can block a flintlock is not what the human body can bear.

In short, in any case, what is most needed in queuing and shooting in the age of flintlocks is discipline, and other clever ideas are basically courting death.

Although the name is a bit funny, during the war at that time, the "Lobster Army" at its peak often had the confidence to let the opponent shoot first, or enter a very close range and then shoot.

This tactic requires a fairly high level of army organization and individual quality as well as willpower, otherwise the team may collapse after the first round of salvo.Because the old-style army often emphasized personal bravery and despised discipline, it basically failed to meet this requirement, and even did not even have basic laning capabilities.

This allowed the Ming army musketeers not only to charge the powder faster and measure more accurately, but also to use the posture of kneeling to charge the powder, so as to form a "double three-stage strike" shooting on the battlefield with two layers of high and low layers and advancing alternately.Simply put, it means doubling the firepower density.

And this is because the rate of fire of the musket is very low, and it takes a long time for soldiers to fire again after each shot.At the beginning, it took one or two minutes to fire again after each shot. Later, after many improvements and upgrades, the charging time was gradually reduced step by step.

Our army was defeated, and the Mongols turned their horses and ran away. Our army couldn't catch up, and they couldn't even grab much of their heads.It was obvious that many were wounded and killed, but in the end, when the results were counted, there were not many battles with hundreds of heads.

People in later generations often say that only countries with established national ideology and soldiers who know who to fight for can achieve such military discipline. In fact, this is only half true at best.

Sure enough, Cheng Wen raised his chin and said, "What was the most troublesome thing for me to fight against the Mongols in the past? It's nothing more than the fact that there is no big victory in victory, and there is a big defeat in defeat. Why is this so? Naturally, it is because I can't run on two legs four legs.

If the Chinese army loses, the cavalry on these two wings can also be used to cover our army's pursuit. Whether it is charging the two wings of our central army's large formation, or attacking from the side, or biting the tail, it is all right, and it will cause serious harassment to our army's pursuit .So, how can it be assumed that they will give up the use of cavalry? "

Our army was defeated, let alone.The Mongolian army's cavalry broke through the middle road, and the rangers on both wings covered up the kill. My defeated army fled in all directions, but there was no escape.

The only question is how much money deserves to be called "money."

That's right, for the tactic of "queuing up and shooting", as long as the musket manufacturing technology is similar, and the training level and military discipline of the two sides do not widen the gap, then the final comparison is really which side has "more people and more guns", because this tactic is essentially It's just a stupid tactic to fight consumption.

According to high-level practical experience, the answer is: when a soldier’s income can reach twice or more than that of ordinary people, and the pension and pension treatment are so generous that even if he is disabled or even dies due to combat, his family especially It is the children who can grow up with enough food and clothing, so in this era, it can be called "money is in place".

In this way, a salvo from too far away is meaningless, and the probability of flying or hitting the ground is too high, so whoever fires first will suffer.Experienced commanders will definitely require their troops to be as close to the enemy as possible before launching the first round of salvo, wishing to put their muskets on the enemy's face and fire a salvo.

Gao Yushi was quite surprised. He really didn't know that Cheng Wen, a pure civil servant, had become a "knowledgeable soldier" now, and he could actually understand the core behind the stupid tactic of "queue to shoot".

Therefore, the tactic usually adopted by a well-trained side is to advance in a neat line array while enduring a large number of casualties, try to get as close to the enemy's line as possible, and fire at the shortest distance, trying to use three to four rounds of relatively accurate shooting Defeating the enemy's army formation, and then conducting a bayonet charge according to the situation, can determine the victory of a battle.

"If you only talk about the decisive battle of the Chinese army, it is true, but this is not the case." Gao Wushi smiled, but shook his head, and said: "The Chinese army uses muskets to fight on foot, so it may not be necessary to let the two wings fight. Do the same thing. Mongols are famous for cavalry and archery, and the two wings can continue to use cavalry. In this way, if the central army wins, his cavalry can still cover the left and right. Compared with the past, it is more vicious.

Some people also said, why not equip soldiers with plate armor?

An army that knows who to fight for can certainly achieve such military discipline, but who can say that everyone in the European army in the colonial era has the consciousness to fight for the country and the people? Isn’t this nonsense?
In fact, most of the time, as long as the money is in place—at most, the future is in place, and combined with strict or even strict and strict military discipline, most armies can do this.

At that time, many people in the comment area thought it was unbelievable, so they had a lot of questions. They thought why the tactics of both sides could not be more flexible, why they didn’t disperse or hide, why they didn’t lie down, didn’t dig trenches, and just stood there and were beaten. Isn’t that courting death? ?How could there be such a stupid tactic?Isn't this made up by the movie?
In fact, the war scenes of musket shooting at that time were real, which is why it was nicknamed "queuing up and shooting".In the era of musket guns queuing up to shoot, due to the low hit rate of front-loading musket guns, you have to aim at a certain person at a distance of 100 meters. Whether you hit it or not depends entirely on luck. Even 50 meters cannot achieve accurate shooting. 30 meters, there may not be a decisive hit.

Of course, on the other hand, because the smoke produced by the black powder is too thick, after a few rounds of shooting, the party that shoots first is basically shrouded in the smoke and cannot see the target at all. Yes, you can see the enemy's salvos clearly.

The answer is indeed not.It is still the era of front-loading guns. If soldiers lie on the ground, they generally cannot reload.Therefore, the large-scale scattered formation of light infantry did not make sense until the invention of the Mini bomb.In other words, lying down became a meaningful tactical action after the invention of rear-mounted ammunition.

Iron armor torn by bullets will aggravate the degree of gunshot wounds, so after the popularity of muskets, armor was quickly eliminated.Correspondingly, the elimination of armor also gave the infantry the ability to maneuver. After the infantry had intensive and continuous firepower, they were not afraid of the frontal charge of the cavalry and could stand in formation calmly.

At that time, the British army's requirement for its own army was that the battle loss rate must not exceed 50%, and it must not retreat, because the collapse of a row of lines can easily lead to the collapse of the entire line of the back row, and to complete such a standard, the army's The degree of training can be imagined.

Then someone said, can't soldiers lie on the ground?

Hearing this, Cheng Wen couldn't help but look bright, only then did he realize that he was still an "ignorant soldier" compared to high pragmatism.According to his guess just now, that is to do subtraction, thinking that the Chahar Department directly lost the cavalry advantage for the purpose of weaponization, and instead moved closer to the Ming army model.In this way, it is natural to use one's own weaknesses to attack the enemy's strengths.

According to what Gao Yushi said, Brihatu would only choose to do addition, that is, on the premise of maintaining the superiority of the cavalry, he would create an additional formation of musket infantry from the Chinese army to face the musket and bayonet formation of the Ming army. .

After all, the Chahar Department had already tried several times. Even if they took the most elite heavy cavalry to charge the bayonet formation of the Ming army, they would only be sent to death.Now that all the original tactics have failed, of course we have to come up with new tactics to deal with the Ming army's bayonet formation in the middle. Otherwise, would we retreat when we see the Ming army?

Now that Cheng Wen was clarified by Gao Yushi, he turned his head and thought of a question, and quickly asked: "If so, how much advantage does our central army have over the Mongolian central army... and what about the two wings? The money we spent on the cavalry in [-] was in the millions, how is it compared to the Mongolian cavalry now?"
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PS: The holiday ended yesterday, and today is the start of work, so the time to start coding is a bit late. This chapter is not as early as yesterday's Chapter 1.Correspondingly, it seems impossible for Chapter 2 to be coded out before 0 o'clock. I will try my best to catch up with a late shift, but the time may not be accurate, please forgive me.