Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 151 Well-trained
In the camp of Zheng Sen's group, Qin Wang Shizi is helping each other put on armor.

Although the weight of the cotton armor is less than ten catties, it is much lighter than chain mail and iron armor that weigh more than twenty or thirty catties, and even lighter than cloth face armor, but if one person wants to complete the Putting on the armor is still quite difficult, especially the ring arm armor. There is no way for one person to finish putting on the armor.

"Brother Ciwei, help me put on my ring armor."

Xu Yingwei came to Wu Yingji for help with a pair of ring arm armor.

"Okay." Wu Yingji immediately picked up the arm armor and helped Xu Yingwei put it on.

Daming's cotton armor is different from Jiannu's cotton armor, not only in different styles, but also wearing ring arm armor.

At this time, Wu Yingji has completely lost the original opinion of his disciples, and he has no grudges against Xu Yingwei, a son of a poor family who was born in the Xu family, his grandfather.

With Wu Yingji's assistance, Xu Yingwei quickly put on his armor.

Wu Yingji took the bowl and helmet to put on for Xu Yingwei, and fastened the leather belt tightly.

If you look closely again, what appears in front of you is a majestic soldier of the Ming Dynasty!
Although Xu Yingwei is an authentic Zhejiang native, he has a burly figure close to six feet, with a mighty cotton armor and a bowl helmet with a red tasseled spear, really like the door god walking out of the New Year pictures.

Xu Yingwei grabbed the spear again, and asked Wu Yingji with a smile, "Brother Ciwei, are you majestic enough?"

"Prestige!" Wu Yingji gave Xu Yingwei a thumbs up sincerely, "Brother Youzhen, you really don't look like a southerner."

Xu Yingwei smiled and said: "Brother Ciwei, when you meet Jiannu on the battlefield of the Northern Expedition, you can just fire the gun at ease, because I will stand behind you. As long as I am here, no enemy will come near you!"

"Alright." Wu Yingji said with a smile, "I will leave my life to you."

While speaking, Wu Yingji grabbed the Lumi blunderbuss that was resting at his feet.

"It's easy to say, which of us will be with whom." Xu Yingwei hooked Wu Yingji's neck.

While talking, the other scholars in the same group also finished their cloaks and gathered around one after another.

Zheng Sen's group consisted of 102 people, 33 of them were musketeers, 63 were spearmen, and 5 drummers, and Zheng Sen, the scholar chief, was added at the end.

This staffing is still obviously different from that of the frontier army.

The musketeers of the Ming Frontier Army accounted for [-]%, the spearmen accounted for [-]%, and the saber players accounted for [-]%.

During the battle, the swordsman will be at the forefront, and the spearman will make up for it when there is a reduction in personnel, and the shield wall will always be kept intact. If a car battalion is equipped, the car battalion will be responsible for ensuring the safety of the musketeers.

But Qin Wang Shizi has neither a car camp nor a swordsman.

Maoxiang then asked Zheng Sen, "Brother Damu, why don't we have sword players?"

Zheng Sendao: "The Holy Majesty said that after arriving in Xuzhou, there will be a car camp to cooperate with our scholar camp."

"Cheying?" Wu Yingji's eyes lit up, and he asked, "Is there any Hongyi cannon in Cheying?"

"Does it need to be said, there must be." Zheng Sen said firmly, "And there are a lot of them."

After a pause, Zheng Senyi yelled sharply, "Trumpet player, blow the rallying call, all gather!"

The two trumpeters immediately blew their horns, and the sound of swans resounded throughout the camp, and the scholars who were joking and chatting just now hurried forward and lined up.

In less than a moment, the scholars lined up to finish.

There are six rows in the front and back, the first three rows are musketeers, each row has 11 people, the distance is about three feet, the last three rows are spearmen, the distance is about one foot and five inches, and they are sideways with each other, a total of 3 in 63 rows The spears with a length of one foot and four feet [4.48 meters] pointed directly at the sky, like a dense forest of spears.

Looking at it gives people a strong sense of oppression.

Zheng Sen, a scholar, lives in the front left.

Behind Zheng Sen are two trumpeters, and behind the two trumpeters are three drummers. The six people are divided into three rows in a tower shape, which is also to make the trumpeters as close as possible to Zheng Sen.

Because there is too much interference on the battlefield.

If you are far away, you can't see the captain's order clearly.

"Drummer, go drum!" Zheng Sen shouted again.

The three drummers immediately beat the drums hanging on their chests.

Accompanied by the sound of "dong dong dong" drums, the phalanx began to march forward.

Wang Shizi has been practicing for nearly two months in such things as walking in the queue, and he is already extremely proficient.

With the beating of the drums, the phalanx of scholars walked out of their respective camps one by one, and finally gathered in the open space outside the camp to form a large phalanx of [-] people.

This visual impact is extremely strong.

The entire large square is composed of a total of sixty-four small squares.

The sixty-four small squares were divided into four rows, each with sixteen small squares.

Zheng Sen's phalanx of scholars walked in the middle of the first row and became a phalanx of pacesetters. Zheng Sen immediately took two trumpeters and three drummers and walked a few steps quickly, walking in front of the entire phalanx.

Xu Yingwei, who was walking in the queue, looked away from Zheng Sen. While walking forward, he looked behind him. He saw that behind him were scholars wearing cotton armor, tasseled helmets on their heads, and holding spears. Still spears, thousands of spears pierced the sky, it really became a forest of spears.

Looking at this seemingly endless forest of spears, Xu Yingwei's heart suddenly surged with boundless heroism, where can such a powerful army not go?What enemy is invincible?nice!

After walking dozens of steps, Zheng Sen suddenly shouted: "Drummer, beat the drum!"

The drummer stopped, but the rhythm of the drums suddenly became excited.

The chiefs of the other sixty-three phalanxes followed suit, and the sixty-three groups of drummers followed suit.

The sixty-four square formations of scholars who had been marching forward immediately changed their formations. The sixteen square formations in the front row were standing still, while the forty-eight square formations in the back spread out towards the two wings.

Soon, sixty-four small phalanxes formed a long snake formation along the undulating mountain, with a length of nearly [-] steps.

From this, it is enough to see how serious and hard the training of Prince Qin's sons has been for more than a month, and the messy and undulating mountains have not had much impact on their formation.

At least from the training of the queue, Qin Wang Shizi has already surpassed Bian Zhen.

Even if they pull a border army from Xiazhen, they can't do better than Qin Wang Shizi.

After the sixty-four scholar phalanx formed a complete one-character long snake formation, Zheng Sen once again ordered: "Drummer, let go of the blunderbuss!"

Immediately, all the chief officers gave orders, and nearly [-] drummers changed their rhythm again, and the sound of the drums became more intense, like a torrential rain, which could ignite people's blood.

Amidst the dense drumming, the first row of musketeers took a step forward.

Then according to Zheng Sen's warrant, light the matchlock, raise the gun, aim, and then release the gun.

"Bah bah! Bah bah!" Accompanied by the loud sound of firing guns, the front line was quickly covered by thick gunpowder smoke.

There was a faint scream, and immediately two Qin Wang scholars fell to the ground covering their faces and wailing, but the other scholars on the left and right sides were not moved at all, and they retracted their guns and retreated to their original places.

These two unlucky scholars must have exploded their Lumi guns.

But the training is not over, no one will come to treat the wounded soldiers.

"Second row, light the fire, raise the gun, aim, release!" Zheng Sen continued to give orders.

Following Zheng Sen's warrant, the [-] musketeers of the second team pulled the triggers at the same time again, and then there was another loud "bang bah bah bah" sound, and the smoke in front of the battle became thicker.

After all the three rows of guns were fired, Zheng Sen drew out his waist knife again and said, "Trumpeter, blow the charge!"

The charge horn of "beep beep beep beep beep" resounded through the sky, and the three rows of spearmen who had been standing still immediately began to howl, and then charged forward like a tide over the musketeers.

It's just that the spearman's charge can no longer maintain a complete formation.

Scholars with tall legs, long legs and strong feet quickly rushed to the front, such as Xu Yingwei.

The spearman rushed forward for about a hundred steps, and Zheng Sen shouted again: "Trumpeter, blow the rallying call!"

The swan sound of "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh?"

……

On the hill not far away, Chongzhen was watching the training of Prince Qin through the three-section telescope.

After more than a month of high-intensity training, more than [-] scholars have completely complied with the order and prohibition, which is no problem at all, but the training after receiving the ordnance is the first time.

Judging from the current situation, the Scholars Battalion has basically become an army.

The reason why the Shizi Battalion was able to quickly form an army in less than two months was inseparable from the hard work of Chongzhen, apart from the hard training of Prince Qin's scholars.

Because Chongzhen made a lot of simplifications to the complicated system of ordering the flags and drums of the Ming army.

After the simplification by Chongzhen, the team (company) as the basic combat unit only has trumpets and drums.

All other trumpets and drums were canceled by Chongzhen.

In a noisy battlefield, the more complex the drum, the more error-prone it is.

In the new book of performance, there are only musical instruments such as trumpets, drums, gongs, and Polo, but there are several types of long notes, swan sounds, team blowing, and single swinging, etc. With step drums, there are more various signals, and it is easy to mishear on a chaotic and noisy battlefield, resulting in confusion.

Chaos on the battlefield is often fatal.

Therefore, Chongzhen simplified the trumpets and drums to the greatest extent.

Judging from the current effect, this innovation is still fruitful.

"Let's go, let's go down." Chongzhen put away the binoculars, led Zhu Cijiong, Wang Chengen and Wu Batan to ride down the mountain, and slowly came to the phalanx of Prince Qin's scholars.

Seeing Chongzhen coming on horseback, the scholars gave chest flattening salutes one after another.

Chest flattening salute is a kind of military salute, because scholars hold weapons in their hands and cannot make a bow, so Chongzhen brought the flat chest salute into the scholar camp. Military salute is very important.

At this time, Fu Shan's military medical team had rescued the wounded scholar.

A total of seven scholars were injured when firing the guns, and one was seriously injured, mainly due to the blindness of one eye. The Qinwang scholar had to be sent back to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Nanjing for resettlement.

The firearms of the Ming Dynasty are so helpless.

This is still a Lumi gun, and the quality of the bird gun is even more worrying.

So there are a lot of unnecessary casualties in every battle.

(End of this chapter)