Daming: Apocalypse of Longevity

Chapter 141
As these thousand soldiers were transferred to Yinchuanyi, Zhu Tianqi also wrote a secret letter to Sun Yuanhua, in which he wrote some suggestions for the training of the new army.

Because the main purpose of Zhu Tianqi asking Sun Yuanhua to train his troops was to deal with Jiannu, and the most powerful Jiannu were mainly cavalry, so the new army trained could not focus on artillery, but had to have strong mobility.

To face a cavalry attack, if you can't resist it, you can quickly evacuate and move your position; if it's enough to defeat the enemy's cavalry attack, you must also have the ability to pursue and annihilate it!
Therefore, based on these suggestions in Zhu Tianqi's mind, Sun Yuanhua finally subdivided his [-] elite soldiers into four arms: heavy artillery, light artillery, infantry gunners and cavalry gunners.

The heavy artillery mainly operates new steel cannons and Hongyi cannons for position bombing in groups of two to three. There are also logistics troops responsible for ammunition transportation and handling, a total of one thousand people.

The light gunners mainly use the new Tiger Crouching Cannon for field operations, in teams of two. Because the Tiger Crouching Cannon is lighter and the gunpowder shells are smaller, there is no need to set up additional logistics troops. The two gunners are responsible for it themselves, totaling 1000 people.

The infantry musketry and the cavalry musketry are uniformly equipped with new flintlock muskets. The infantry musketry is mainly used for positional shooting, while the cavalry musketry is more mobile and facilitates rapid harassment and pursuit of the enemy. Each has 500 men, totaling 3000.

The Ming Dynasty was the first country in the world to establish a firearms force. At that time, Zhu Di was the first to design the "round firing tactic", also known as the "three-stage attack", to ensure continuous rapid shooting.

However, in the past, fire gunners used matchlock guns, which took a long time to prepare for shooting. Therefore, even if the "round firing tactics" were used, continuous and rapid shooting could not be achieved. However, now that they use flintlock guns, it is different. Not only can Achieve continuous rapid shooting, and only need two rows of soldiers to complete the "round shooting"!
Because fixed gunpowder and fixed bullets are used, a skilled gunman can complete loading and shooting again in just a few seconds. Therefore, after the front row is finished shooting and loading, the rear row will shoot, and the rear row will shoot. Completed, the front row has been loaded and continues to shoot. In this cycle, there is almost no shooting gap. Faced with such intensive shooting, it is difficult for the cavalry to break through the shooting position.

Because these 5000 people have almost no recruits, they will not start training from scratch. They are all very skilled in the use of artillery and firecrackers. The main thing is to train new formations and teamwork.

As for the cavalry musketry, it can be regarded as a new type of arms. Although the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty was also equipped with firearms in the past, the cavalry rarely used firearms as their main weapons. Even the Guanning cavalry who used three-eyed fire guns could only fire a few guns. After that, he used the three-eyed gun as a hammer.

But now Sun Yuanhua is building a cavalry team with fire guns as the main weapons. He mainly uses Zhang Boyu's [-] cavalry, as well as elite cavalry transferred from the Fifth Military Camp of Jingying and Datong Guards. These cavalry are all good at riding. Shooting, shooting an arrow immediately is a piece of cake, but the range of the bow and arrow is too short after all, and its power is limited. If it is replaced with a new flintlock gun, it will be even more powerful.

It is not too difficult for them to shoot arrows and fire on horses, but they are all cavalry and have never touched fire blunderbuss, so the use of fire blunderbuss is a problem for them.

Fortunately, the new flintlock gun is much simpler to use than the previous matchlock gun. It can almost be said to be fool-proof. The gunpowder and bullets are fixed. You only need to put the gunpowder and bullets into the gun, and then pull it. Shooting can be completed by pulling the trigger. As for marksmanship, it can only be improved through years of practice.

In fact, most of the Ming army's marksmanship is not very good, whether they are novices like Zhang Boyu and others who have just touched guns, or veterans who have served in the firearms camp, because apart from participating in actual combat, the army rarely allows them to practice shooting and touch guns. The number of times is very limited, and the marksmanship is naturally not much better.But now that he is under Sun Yuanhua, it is different. Sun Yuanhua was ordered to organize and train the new army. He really trained them seriously, and he never spared gunpowder and bullets, allowing them to fight every day.

Because after Sun Yuanhua developed the flintlock gun, the production line for custom-loaded gunpowder and bullets was also built. Although the manufacturing of flintlock guns is relatively difficult, only a few hundred have been made so far, but the custom-loaded gunpowder and bullets have long been There is a mountain of them, so there is absolutely no need to be reluctant to use them.

After the establishment of the new army was established, Sun Yuanhua reported the details to Zhu Tianqi. Now that the establishment was established, the number of firearms required was also known. In order to satisfy the use of the 5000-man New Army, at least heavy artillery was needed. Three hundred guns, five hundred tiger squat guns, and three thousand flintlock guns are still very difficult for the current productivity of the Northwest Military Industrial Base.

Therefore, despite the need for military training, Sun Yuanhua did not dare to slacken the slightest slack in production. The Northwest Military Industry Base has been operating at full capacity, stepping up the production of artillery and firecrackers.

After Zhu Tianqi received Sun Yuanhua's secret message, he also began to count the days. Now it has entered the twelfth lunar month, and it will be the New Year again in the blink of an eye. After all the calculations, he only has more than ten months left, but he thinks that the time should be Still enough.

On the other hand, the collection of autumn taxes has also come to an end. Although the collection of autumn taxes every year lasts until February of the following year, in very few places the payment is slightly later, which is in line with local people's sentiments. The harvest time of crops also plays a role.

However, taxes in most places can be collected before the end of the year. Especially since the imperial court attaches so much importance to taxation this year and even sent Zhu Youjian to Jiangnan with Jin Yiwei to supervise, the efficiency of tax collection has also improved a lot. It can be said that most of the autumn tax has been collected, and there is not much money left in the confiscated part, so there is no need to worry or care.

When Jin Yiwei cooperated with the Taxation Department to transport the tax money received so far back to the capital, Zhu Tianqi sent Xu Guangqi to lead the Household Department to make statistics. Although Zhu Tianqi now established a Taxation Department directly under him, he had the right to tax. In my own hands, it will no longer be managed by the Household Department, but the specific work cannot be completely separated from the Household Department.

However, Zhu Tianqi naturally trusts Xu Guangqi, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, otherwise he would not send him to collect tax statistics, and because tax departments and yamen everywhere have clear tax records, even if someone wants to embezzle, it will be difficult to do so. .

Relying on the tax records of tax bureaus in various places, Xu Guangqi led officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs to quickly collect tax statistics and calculate the total. Therefore, it took only two hours for Xu Guangqi to return with the statistical results.

(End of this chapter)