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Chapter 141 The biggest stumbling block to science and technology
It is so domineering and unreasonable. I have to say that Qi Jiguang is definitely a military genius who is underestimated. When modern people mention him, they usually only talk about the anti-Japanese hero, and often ignore his dazzling achievements.

Li Chaosheng said it was amazing. After reading the character information, Li Chaosheng began to watch Qi Jiguang's famous big mandarin duck formation.

The mandarin duck formation is recorded in Qi Jiguang's military book "Ji Xiao Xin Shu", which uses the orderly combination of various ancient arms to complement each other's strengths, and can play a terrifying role in narrow terrain.

In the mandarin duck formation, eleven people form a team, and one person in front is the captain, holding a long gun and giving orders, which is the brain of the team.

Then there are two shield soldiers, one holding a heavy shield and the other holding a light shield. The heavy shield must be large enough to mainly defend against enemy shooting. This shield can protect everyone behind it when it is put down.

The other side is a dexterous light shield. The shield hand holds a shield in one hand and a javelin or a waist knife in the other, which can be used for melee combat.

Immediately following is the soul of this large formation, followed by two wolf whisk soldiers, fighting with wolf whisks. Wolf whisks are made of moso bamboo grown in the south.

The requirement is to choose the old and solid moso bamboo, and sharpen the bamboo head, but keep all the branches around the bamboo, and then do some metal treatment on the front part, such as tying some blades or something, so that it has a certain lethality.

Then each wolf whisk should be at least three to four meters long. During the battle, the wolf stick soldiers hold the wolf stick to assassinate the enemy, and at the same time restrict the enemy's movement and prevent the enemy from approaching, so as to cover the shield hand and those behind. Pikemen, and light shields to harvest heads.

There are four pikemen behind the Wolfman, and there are two on the left and right of the four pikemen. These two men hold longlances and are mainly responsible for assassination and taking care of the two shieldmen and wolfmen in front. After all, their main function is to control , playing support, the lethality is worse.

There are two boring palladium hands behind the spearman responsible for guarding, supporting and other work. If the enemy attacks in a roundabout way, it will be more difficult for the wolf to turn around. These boring palladium hands fill in the control and buy time for the team, and the boring palladium is also lethal. In the battle formation, it can help the spearman to make up for the damage.

By the way, the so-called boring palladium is a three-pronged fork, which can have the effect of forking the enemy's weapon and stabbing the enemy.

Moreover, the mandarin duck formation is called the mandarin duck formation, in addition to combining contradictions, coexisting long and short, and giving full play to the advantages of various weapons. Squads, or three squads to fight.

Divide into two small formations, that is, the shield on the left has a wolf soldier, two pike soldiers, and a boring soldier, and the shield soldier on the right has a wolf soldier, a spear soldier, and a boring soldier on the right. At this time, the left and right are symmetrically split , it is more flexible without reducing its lethality. This change is called Liangcai Formation.

If there are fewer enemies, they can continue to be split, becoming the main force in the middle of wolf soldiers and pike soldiers, and two shield players and two boring palladium soldiers for flank protection. They are divided into three parts to fight, called the three-talented formation.

In this way, the Japanese pirates who fight are always suspicious of life.

Moreover, this formation can also be improved. Qi Jiguang is a general who likes firearms very much, especially the advanced blunderbuss at that time. He once tried to let the captain who gave orders in the middle hold the blunderbuss in the formation and fire directly. better.

After reading the information, Li Chaosheng sighed, this mandarin duck formation is very powerful. In the era of hand-to-hand combat, there are almost no obvious weaknesses, which can allow the team to exert a strong combat effectiveness.

However, this is not an invincible formation. There is no invincible formation in this world. This formation is suitable for small-scale combat. Equipped only with compound bows, cavalry with an effective range of 150 meters.

Long-distance kites can also kill the same number of mandarin duck formations. After all, only two sides of the shield of mandarin duck formations cannot withstand large-scale bow and arrow shooting.

Of course, apart from such large-scale cavalry, the most effective method is firearms, especially cannons.

And the Qi family army was finally destroyed by the cannons and crowd tactics of the Manchu Qing Dynasty
According to records, on March 1621, [-], Nurhachi led a large army to besiege Shenyang City.

But at this time, Qi Jiguang had died of illness for many years, and the team was led by Qi Jiguang's nephew, Qi Jin. Qi Jin was not an incompetent person, he inherited his uncle's mantle, and he was also a titan.

However, in the process of rushing to help Shenyang, a shocking change happened. At that time, Shenyang defenders He Shixian and You Shizhong went out of the city to fight the enemy underestimated. Cut off the moat bridge to lead the Tartars into the city. Shenyang City, which was known as impregnable at that time, was destroyed in a day.

These two pig teammates directly caused embarrassment to the Sichuan army and the Qi family army who came to support. They had just rushed to the south bank of the Hun River at this time, and they were at a loss. Shenyang City in front was gone, and the Tartar army surrounded them behind.

Now there is a dead end in front of everyone. Chen Ce and Tong Zhongkui, the generals at the time, discussed with the generals to make a strategic method of replacing defense with offense, taking the initiative to attack, delaying time, and waiting for reinforcements.

The team of less than [-] people was divided into two parts and began to launch a suicide attack on the Manchu Qing. One part was the supporting Sanqianchuan Army, and the other part was the Qi Family Army led by Qi Jiguang's nephew.

Qi's army first set up a chariot formation on the south bank of the Hun River, pushing out the chariots as obstacles, and then Qi's army used their troops who were good at firearms to start shooting at the charging Qing army.

The equipment of the Qi family army is still good, equipped with large-scale bird guns, bird guns are a kind of long guns very similar to modern rifles, gunpowder is put in the barrel, and then a very slow burning matchlock is lit on the bolt, As long as the trigger is pulled, the matchlock is buckled like a firing pin, igniting the gunpowder in the barrel, and the bullet is fired.

This is very close to the current firearms, but the ignition method is relatively primitive. If it is improved, the rope used for ignition is replaced with a flint, which is what we call a flintlock gun.

When the battle broke out, the Qi family army was responsible for guarding the position against the Manchu and Qing troops behind them, while the Sichuan army built a pontoon bridge on the Hun River, prepared to fight the Qing army in Hunhebei.

But everyone knows that the Sichuan army is risking their lives, and this charge will never return.

The Sichuan Army, already determined to die, defeated the Zhengbai Banner and Zhenghuang Banner of the Manchu Qing successively, and killed more than 2000 people of the Manchu Qing. Seeing this situation, the Manchu people were very anxious. At this time, our Ming Dynasty surrendered The time has come for Li Yongfang to express his loyalty, and he directly commanded Shenyang City to fire the artillery, and the artillery fire engulfed the entire Sichuan Army's position in an instant. , The Sichuan army lived up to the country.

The Sichuan army was defeated, and the Qi family army was attacked on two sides, no, on all sides. Countless Manchu soldiers surrounded them, and then the Manchus attacked the left flank of the Qi family army. The guns met the enemy, and the battle was stalemate for a while.

At this time, the cavalry of the Manchu Qing began to charge, broke through the firepower net and rushed to the front of the chariot formation. At this time, a large number of soldiers using wolf whisks appeared in the Qi family army. Stabbed down from the horse's back, Manchu suffered heavy casualties for a while, and nearly 3000 people died after a while.

But at this time another bad news came, that is, the 3000 reinforcements who were going to rescue Qi's army were ambushed by [-] people led by Huang Taiji in the Baitapu area of ​​Shenyang.

At this time, the Qi's army had no way out, and Nurhachi also made a real move. He issued a death order, and the Eight Banners took turns to attack, and wiped out the Qi's army at all costs.

The battle between the two sides continued, and the Qi family army ran out of bullets. When the ammunition was exhausted, they were killed by Manqing. The car formation was broken, but the Qi family army did not panic. They directly formed the world-famous mandarin duck formation and started hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. , Manchu soldiers finally saw the horror of mandarin duck formation.

After fighting like this for two days and two nights, the ground was covered with corpses. After two days and two nights of fighting, the Qi family army had no water and rice, and their physical strength was seriously exhausted. There were dozens of soldiers, but at this time they still maintained the formation of mandarin ducks, without any disorder, like a solid rock in a stormy sea, no one can shake it.

The head coach of the Qi family army yelled: The big man served the country just recently, and he led the crowd to fight for a while. At this time, Man Qing was scared out of his wits and lost the courage to fight hand-to-hand with these lunatics.

In the end, everyone retreated silently, all arrows were fired...

The prestigious Qi family army was wiped out in this way. In this battle, the Ming army suffered tens of thousands of casualties, and the Manchu Qing army also suffered tens of thousands of casualties. However, the Qi family army was out of ammunition and food, fighting hard for several days under the bombardment of cannons, and the entire army was wiped out.

Later on in the history books, whether it is the Ming Dynasty Records or the Ming History compiled by the Qing Dynasty, all of them expressed high respect for this battle of Hunhe, calling it the first bloody battle of Liao Zuo's military use!
After this battle, the Qi family army was almost wiped out, but there were still some Qi family troops left behind. The imperial court sent people to comfort them and asked the Qi family army what else they wanted. As long as they said it, the imperial court would try their best to satisfy it.

As a result, these Qi family soldiers only said one sentence: they don't ask for rewards, they just want to go to battle again and avenge their hatred!

Ten days later, in the battle of Liaoyang, all the Qi's army died in battle, and none survived. Since then, the Qi's army has lost even the last kindling.

Later, someone in the imperial court wanted to reorganize this magical army, but the county magistrates in Yiwu and Ningbo, Zhejiang Province wrote a letter to fight for years, and there were no men in ten under their rule, and there were no more soldiers who could fight. When the person arrived, the Qi family army ceased to exist from then on.

"Ah~ strong, strong."

Li Chaosheng couldn't help sighing, when the stewardess came over and said, "What's the matter, sir?"

Li Chaosheng waved his hands and said, "It's okay, is there any water? Bring me some."

"some."

The stewardess quickly brought the water back. At this time, Li Chaosheng took a sip of water, and then began to study. You said that the Qi family army is so powerful. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the first army of the Ming Dynasty. Why has it not been reorganized since it was destroyed? How about it?
According to the data, the imperial court once wanted to reorganize, but the obligatory and Ningbo men are gone, so it is not reorganized, so why not use conscripts?
Why do you have to use conscripts? Is there any difference between conscripts and soldiers in other places?
Li Chaosheng wanted to check the information, and after reading it for a while, he found that the main reason was that the Ming army was afraid of death, and there were many people who cowered in every battle, but the obligors were different. A stranger in the silver mines.

Therefore, the soldiers in this area are relatively excellent, which is the foundation of Qi's army.

Li Chaosheng looked at it, but shook his head. This is not the main reason. To explore the root cause, there is a reason why soldiers are afraid of death. It is not divided by region, although region is also related.

But the core part is the interests and the sense of belonging.

The Ming army used the guard system the most. The disadvantages of the guard system have been mentioned before. It is extremely oppressive. Many soldiers are slaves of hundreds or thousands of households in the guards where they work. It's all a question, and we'll give you our lives, are you talking nonsense?

Moreover, soldiers have no sense of belonging at all, and they just follow along in wars. Anyway, if we win, the officials will get the rewards.

But Qi Jiguang's Qi Family Army is different. It uses the recruitment system, and the soldiers are paid, and it is not low, 18 taels of silver per person per year.

With money, there will be motivation, and the source of volunteers is indeed excellent, so they can be trained into Qi's army.

To put it bluntly, the imperial court was unable to train the Qi’s army, mainly because the finances at the end of the Ming Dynasty did not support it, and the equipment of the Qi’s army also cost money.

You must know that a firecracker needs at least four taels of silver after it is made from material costs to labor costs. At that time, the imperial court only allocated one tael of silver. The cost of materials is not enough, let alone the wages of the craftsmen. In desperation, the Ministry of Industry can only cut corners. High-quality fuel is expensive, so use cheap, high-quality iron ore, and buy the cheapest , and buy the cheapest of everything.

The result can be imagined, the quality of the firecracker produced is very impressive, the sulfur content in the barrel of the gun is seriously exceeded, and it is extremely easy to explode the chamber.

When the soldiers lighted the firecrackers, it was a bet with the god of death. If it exploded, it means that you have never played with the god of death.

In this case, the soldiers are not even willing to use firecrackers, they would rather use big blades to risk their lives. This is why, the fourth brother Li Guixiang said that they are unwilling to use firecrackers, because every time they use it, they must be prepared to be blown to death preparation.

This is still an ordinary gun, but many people in Qi Jiguang's army are equipped with more advanced bird guns (matchlock guns). Qi Jiguang had someone in the court at that time. They are all high-quality bird guns, which is one of the reasons why Qi Jiguang's army is strong.

And this kind of Qi family army is almost irreproducible. Back then, when Qi Jiguang happily took his own armament improvement plan and the bird guns from the south to Hebei to train the army, the local soldiers may have been overshadowed by the previous fire guns. Directly refuse to use advanced firecrackers.

In desperation, Qi Jiguang had no choice but to bring his old troops to Hebei to serve as the main force of the firearms army. These Qi Jiguang direct descendants who had not been bombed became the only group who dared to play with guns. The full staff is 4, of which 1 are drawn from the south.

I have to say that this is very ironic. In fact, it was entirely possible for Huaxia to go further at that time. It was possible to install flints on the basis of bird guns and evolve into flintlock guns. If the Ming Dynasty evolved flintlock guns, it would be absolutely important to history. meaningful.

However, this did not conform to the interests of the literati at that time, or the literati rejected any progress and social change, because any change would be a huge threat to these vested interest groups.

In order to secure their interests, they reject any progress, just to keep their own position.

This is the limitation of feudal society. Don't explain the dynasty, in fact, the Qing Dynasty also had such problems.

The Qing Dynasty developed to the middle of the Qing Dynasty. During the Qianlong period, for the huge Chinese market, the United Kingdom sent a large-scale mission to China in 1792 in the name of Qianlong’s birthday. The British mission brought many technological products at that time, such as Astronomical instruments, Parker lenses, Herschel telescopes, steam engines, repeating rifles, rapid-fire artillery, etc., and accompanied by more than [-] outstanding scholars, engineers, doctors, etc., the purpose is to let Huaxia see the science and technology , it can be said that this is an excellent opportunity to connect with the world.

If Qianlong studied Western technology seriously this time, he might be able to avoid the subsequent history of humiliation. However, according to the historical records of his visit to China, Qianlong's attitude was extremely arrogant, looking down on the West, and everywhere Claiming to be the kingdom of the heavens finally caused China to miss the opportunity to connect with the world.

Is this really the case?No, some clues can be seen from the history books, but Qianlong was actually shocked by Western technology, and he just pretended to be nonchalant, even arrogant, to cover up his uneasiness.

Qianlong was actually very concerned about and understood the international situation. The Qing Dynasty also maintained contacts with France. Qianlong even had correspondence with the French King Louis XVI at the time, so Qianlong still had an understanding of Europe.

However, just as Qianlong was about to learn more about it, the Great Revolution broke out in France, and King Louis XVI of France was sent to the guillotine. Sixteen is a lesson from the past.

So Qianlong began to resist science and technology. Although he knew that this technology product was very powerful and would change the world, he also knew that technology might bring people's hearts up and down, cause political turmoil, and make him lose the throne, so for his benefit , he firmly resists technology.

That's why he was extremely arrogant when he visited the technological products brought by the British mission. After looking around, he left a sentence: These things are only suitable for children to play with.

Qianlong is not a fool, on the contrary he is a smart person, can he really fail to see how advanced and subversive these things are?

The bursting rifle, the rapid-fire artillery, compared with the firecrackers and artillery of the Qing Dynasty, can't he see the difference?How is it possible, it's just that he is afraid, the lesson of Louis XVI.

So he began to resist technology and foreigners. Like a tortoise, he shrank his head tighter and started a stricter isolation.

For those in power in the dynasty, technology is not important, and even the wealth brought by technology is not very important. They are most concerned about the issue of whether their regime is stable or not. As long as it is stable, everything is not important.

When a kingdom refuses to communicate with the outside world, that is when it declines, and the same problem also existed in the Ming Dynasty, is the bird gun advanced?

Advanced, but will he help those with vested interests?It didn't help much, and it was even harmful. After all, civil and military in the Ming Dynasty were still two opposites. Would the literati ruling class allow the status of warriors to rise and their strength to increase?
Obviously not, so when Qi Jiguang brought the bird gun to the north, he didn't get much support, so Qi Jiguang could only say one sentence helplessly: The wind in the north makes it difficult to light the bird gun.

This is the sorrow of the soldiers in the late Ming Dynasty. Without the support of the court princes, they could not complete their own upgrades at all.

However, the princes of the imperial court only cared about how much money they could earn and whether their rights would be lost, and they didn't think about it at the national level at all, so Qi Jiguang failed.

And for the same reason, why it was so difficult for the Ming Dynasty to form the Qi Family Army, and it was even difficult to replicate. First of all, the recruitment system, the military expenditure of 18 taels that year, the imperial court could not afford.

Secondly, as the Qi family army, if it is formed, it must restore the bird guns and other equipment. An ordinary fire gun costs four taels of silver, but the bird gun costs even more. The court can't use defective products to deal with it. , Daming's face is dull.

With the prestige of Qi's army, the whole world and the emperor will pay attention. The officials don't have much tricks to play, so it's better not to come.

And the imperial court couldn't afford this military expenditure, so in summary, the main reason why Qi's army could not be reorganized was money.

Don't even mention the Qi family army, Daming's final demise was also due to this money, no money!

Where did the money go? I'm sorry that it all went to the homes of the princes of the court. If the people are poor and the princes are rich, there is no reason why they will not perish.

But these are not a problem for Li Chaosheng. Li Chaosheng is sure to copy Qi's army, isn't it because the soldiers are afraid of death?
Then the military pay keeps up, at least the soldiers can't be hungry, and the logistics support is sufficient, so that the soldiers can use their lives and have no worries. In this way, our Shaanxi soldiers may not be worse than conscripts.

Then there are the weapons and equipment. Currently, there is no technology or large-scale production of bird guns, but you can find a way to produce a batch of automated or semi-automatic weapons. Can ak47 be inferior to bird guns?
In fact, with the current technology of domestic manufacturers, it is not a big problem to imitate bird guns or even pistols and rifles. It can be done with a lathe and drawings. This is not difficult for lathe workers.

This is so embarrassing, is it worth the candle?

Li Chaosheng thought, now he has the basic conditions to form a mandarin duck formation, a group of brave soldiers with their own beliefs, some weapons that are not difficult to copy, there are moso bamboo in the south of the wolf, and there are also in the north. Needless to say, it is me There are bamboo forests on the Black Mountain near Tanggou Town, and there are countless bamboos in the Qinling Mountains not far from Lantian.

Therefore, it is not difficult to make wolf whisks. In addition to wolf whisks, there are shields, spears and stainless steel spears. As for boring palladium, it is also easy to copy. Isn’t it just a shorter three-pronged fork?

In the end, if I want a high-end version of the mandarin duck formation, I should also add firepower, but it is difficult to copy the bird gun at present, but I have a bow and crossbow. Shooting at close range, the lethality of my bow and crossbow is not weaker than that of a pistol.

Moreover, this kind of close combat collision is a close combat. At this time, the crossbow is less than ten meters away, and it is absolutely no problem to pierce through the leather armor.

Thinking about starting to plan, first of all, the mandarin duck formation, the captain holds a long gun and gives orders, and is also equipped with a bow and crossbow for close-range sniping.

Then there are the left and right shield soldiers, and the heavy shield soldiers on the left, using ballistic shields, are responsible for resisting the enemy's bow and arrow shooting, and curbing the enemy's charge. The ballistic shield is large enough, and if necessary, the entire team can hide behind the ballistic shield.

Next to it is a short-range harvesting soldier with a short knife and a police anti-riot shield. The anti-riot shield can be used to make up for the dead angle that the ballistic shield may expose.

Followed by two wolf-whip soldiers, they play a deterrent role in the formation. When encountering cavalry, they can also stab people down with three-to-four-meter-long wolf-whip soldiers. Then four pike soldiers are used as the main damage, and two boring palladium soldiers are responsible for supplementing Control and damage.

Such an 11-member mandarin duck team was established successfully. Thinking of this, Li Chaosheng took out his mobile phone and sent a boring palladium picture downloaded from the Internet to Manager Cao, saying: "Manager Cao, you are here again, help me contact the manufacturer , make a hundred of these boring palladiums."

Li Chaosheng sent it over, and soon Manager Cao came back: "Boss, aren't you flying? How can you still send WeChat messages?"

Upon seeing this, Li Chaosheng replied directly; "International flights have wifi, by the way, hurry up and do things."

"Understood, boss, don't worry."

Manager Cao replied, followed by an ok gesture, which was also related to Li Chao's raw skin.

Li Chaosheng was thinking about getting up, when the stewardess came over and said, "Do you need anything, sir?"

Li Chaosheng glanced at the stewardess and said, "Where is your toilet?"

After hearing this, the stewardess pointed to a toilet not far away. There are four toilets on this plane, including two in the economy class and two in the first class. side.

At this time Li Chaosheng got up, walked to the toilet, entered the toilet, closed the toilet door, and found that the small toilet was really small, Li Chaosheng found a suitable position at this time, and directly summoned the time-space gate.

The time-space gate is the size of a normal gate, 2 meters high and 0.8 meters wide. Because of the size limitation of the time-space gate, Li Chaosheng never transported large equipment to the end of the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, he would drive an off-road vehicle in and modify it slightly. Even bumping can knock people in the late Ming Dynasty to their knees.

The gate of time and space was summoned, Li Chaosheng stepped in, and returned to the warehouse the next moment, when Li Chaosheng came out and saw Guzi: "Guzi."

"Hey, Battalion Commander."

Gu Zi responded, at this time Li Chaosheng said: "Go and get the company commander."

"Yes."

As Guzi said, Li Chaolong was found soon. At this time, Li Chaosheng said to Li Chaolong: "Brother, come quickly, time is limited, take time to mobilize the folks and make me a weapon."

"Weapons? What weapons?"

Li Chaolong was a little puzzled, what kind of weapons can a group of farmers make, Li Chaolong was curious, Li Chaosheng said: "Wolf stick!"

"Wolf whisk?"

Li Chaolong frowned slightly, at this time Li Chaosheng said: "It's actually bamboo, come on, cousin, I will explain to you while drawing."

Li Chaosheng said to Li Chaolong at this time: "This wolf trap is very simple to make. Choose three to four meters long moso bamboo about two years old. After cutting it, you don't need any treatment, such as removing branches and vines. Fasten some iron thorns, or barb hooks, to the bamboo heads and these branches and the work is complete."

After hearing this, Li Chaolong was taken aback: "So simple?"

Li Chaosheng nodded: "It's that simple."

Li Chaolong said: "Can that work? This weapon can't even kill a pig, let alone kill people. It can only cause some scratches at most."

Li Chaosheng said: "Scratches are enough. They are not mainly used to kill the enemy, but to deter the enemy's attack. A three or four meter long wolf whisk can block most of the enemy's attacks. The pikemen behind the wolf trap are the killers..."

Li Chaosheng began to explain the mandarin duck formation and wolf trap to Li Chaolong. After hearing this, Li Chaolong's eyes widened: "This is absolutely invulnerable."

In fact, bamboo branches and vines are very difficult to cut. When you cut them with a knife, the bamboo branches will slide the knife aside. What's more, the Wolf Whip is soaked in tung oil before each use, which makes it even more slippery. It is basically difficult to chop it off, and if you make trouble, it will slap back on your face. At this time, the barbed hooks and spikes on the wolf's whisk will immediately add a blood mark to your body.

This is the horror of wolf whisks. In fact, when I was a child, I saw a big broom made of moso bamboo branches. I should have an impression of the elasticity of bamboo branches. It is difficult to cut off with a knife. Enhanced version of the big broom.

After hearing this, Li Chaolong expressed his admiration. This thing is so powerful, you can tell whoever studied it.

"How is it, big cousin, is there a problem?"

After hearing this, Li Chaolong said: "That's no problem. There are several old bamboo craftsmen in our village who are experts at playing with bamboo. It's not easy for them to lead the team."

(End of this chapter)