Daming: My boss Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 99 Three-Three System

Li Wei couldn't help but feel dizzy when he looked at the formations of swords, shields and muskets mixed in front of him.

How can he train this thing!

"Song Zhong, please let these soldiers practice in the same way first and let me see."

Helpless, he could only take a look at how these people practiced before.

"Yes! Whatever... sir!"

Song Zhong took the order and commanded the phalanx to start moving.

The entire phalanx has a total of captains and deputy captains, plus ten swordsmen on the left and right, five shield soldiers in the front, and three rows of musketeers in the middle with 11 people in each row, plus flag gunners and a few soldiers in charge of logistics, a total of 56 A person is equivalent to a general banner made by a guard.

As the order was issued, the 56 people performed their duties and began to move. The shield soldiers stepped forward to defend in front, and the left and right sword-hands guarded the sides. The first row of flag bearers waved the flag, and the gunners in this row immediately Step forward and shoot across the shield soldiers, then go back after shooting, exchange guns with the people in the second row, exchange guns with the second row and the third row, load the third row with ammunition, and at the end are several tubes of ammunition...

It looks okay, but the shooting speed is very slow, far inferior to the original three-row shooting.

Li Wei frowned when he saw it. He also knew that actual combat on the battlefield was completely different from the military training courses he had in school. It was just such a mix of hot and cold weapons that he really didn't know how to intervene. Anyway, it was so sparse. The firepower will definitely not be able to stop the cavalry charge.

"Okay, let's do this for now. Just practice like this for now. I'll think about it before I talk." Li Wei frowned and said.

"Okay, sir, can I take you to the camp to rest?"

As the top leader of the Divine Fire Guards, of course he has his own camp.

Mu Ying handed the Divine Fire Guard to him and went to another military camp. He was in charge of more than one Divine Fire Guard.

Li Wei returned to the camp and asked Song Zhong to find him paper and pen. He scratched his head with the pen and began to think hard.

According to Lao Zhu, he only has one month to train and then he will send troops to fight. Time waits for no one!

He would definitely not be able to command this mixed hot and cold formation. The only way now is to completely abandon cold weapons and use all muskets. This may still have a glimmer of hope.

Writing the word "firepower" on the paper, Li Wei formulated the first combat parameters for himself.

Everything else is fake. As long as the firepower is strong enough, all enemies will be just chickens and dogs!
When thinking about firepower, we have to mention artillery. The most important firepower in land warfare is artillery. Even in later generations, artillery is also the absolute main equipment.

The current artillery of the Ming Dynasty is simply a mess. The rapid development of firearms in the Ming Dynasty started in Yongle. The current artillery can only be used to scare cavalry and disrupt people's formations. It really has to be accurate. , if there is no shooting range, except for setting it up on the city wall to defend the city, or pushing it over to blast the city gate, everything else is useless, and it can't even turn to aim.

If he could be equipped with advanced artillery, then he would not be afraid of anyone. But unfortunately, after working for so long, he only made a flintlock gun and those broken steel knives, and nothing else.

It's not that he doesn't know how to do it, it's just that he didn't have the need before, so of course he doesn't care about it anymore.

But now that we need it, it's too late.

There were only a few cannon casting methods in ancient times, such as earth molds, iron molds, lost wax methods, etc. One month was not even enough time to make molds.

But Li Wei doesn't like this. He can make it with a hydraulic lathe, so who can cast cannons?

It is impossible to cast a cannon. Once the hydraulic chamber bed is ready, it can be chambered directly. It is not without steel. After quenching and hardening, high-carbon steel can be used as a chambering knife, even if it is softer and easier to chamber. A cannon barrel made of whittled steel is several times stronger than a forged cannon!
The biggest disadvantage of the cast cannon is that the inner wall is not smooth, so round bullets must be fired and rolled out, and they must be slightly smaller than the muzzle, otherwise they will easily get stuck inside and explode. Such a barrel has extremely poor sealing, and its range and power are far inferior to that of a cast cannon. barrel.

Li Wei also studied hydraulic chambering during this time, but the purpose was not to build cannons, but to build steam engines.

The steam engine is said to have been improved by Watt, but in fact it relied on the help of many people and was not his fault alone.

Watt's earliest steam engine was very crude. The pistons were sealed with hemp ropes, the cylinders were uneven, and air leakage was serious.

It wasn't until a guy named Wilkinson, who built cannons and was the inventor of the hydraulic chambering machine, that he used the hydraulic chambering machine to create a cylinder with a smooth inner wall for Watt, which greatly reduced air leakage. After that, Watt's steam engine Pulled the wheels of the industrial revolution.

It's a pity that Li Wei's hydraulic chambering machine has not been completed yet. If the steam engine cannot be built, the cannon will naturally be useless.

After thinking about it, there is only one kind of cannon that can be used temporarily, which is the flying thunder cannon made of gasoline barrels, nicknamed the heartless cannon.

This thing is a large iron barrel that throws explosive bags. Since the explosive bag usually weighs about ten kilograms, this thing is very powerful, but the range is only less than 200 meters. It is also very troublesome to use, and it is also very dangerous. If you are not careful, You will blow yourself up!
After thinking about it, Li Wei decided to try it out first.

In addition, those swordsmen gave him the inspiration to equip the flintlock with a bayonet, so that if someone were to rush forward, he would not be helpless to fight back.

And the flag bearer can be replaced by a whistle. In short, there is no need to use one's own strength to hold a big flag alone.

There is also the trumpet, which is the artifact that gives orders on the battlefield!
Li Wei wrote a lot, and finally formulated a rough training plan for the Shenhuo Guards.

"Hey, it's a pity that time is so tight. Otherwise, if we could make rifled guns, mini bullets, and rifled cannons, then who would I have to fear?"

Li Wei shook his head regretfully.

He didn't expect Zhu Yuanzhang to throw him on the battlefield before. Now that he only had one month, it was too late to build many things.

After preparing the plan, Li Wei went to the Ordnance Bureau. The bayonet had to be made quickly. There was not much time, and after the equipment was equipped, the soldiers still needed to be trained and familiar with it.

There are also small things like trumpets and whistles that need to be made quickly.

For the sake of his own life, Li Wei acted quickly. While asking the Ordnance Bureau to build the things he needed, he began to redesign the formation of the Shenhuo Guards.

First of all, there is no need to move the thousand cavalry. The cavalry is still very useful at this time.There are another thousand archers. Li Wei plans to reorganize them, some of them will be used as logistics and some of them will be used as gunners.

For the remaining 3000 people, refer to the three-three system:

There are three people in a group, in the shape of a triangle. The two at the back are responsible for loading the ammunition, and the one at the front shoots. After taking the gun with the left hand, the right hand returns it to the back without looking back.

The two people at the back should change left first, right second, and there should be no chaos in taking turns!

Forming a shooting team in this way saves the time of switching back and forth, and the speed is estimated to be slightly faster than the previous three-stage shooting.

This is the shooting team, and then the formation of the large formation:

There is a team for every three groups, with a team leader, totaling ten people.

The three teams form a brigade with a brigade leader, totaling 31 people.

The three brigades, plus some officials and logistics, will be exactly one hundred households. In this way, the hundred households and the thousands of troops will not need to be moved. They can just follow the guard system.

There are whistles for thousands of households and hundreds of households, and whistles for captains and captains. Two whistles and trumpets with different sounds can be designed.

When holding on, the teams were arranged in a line, giving full play to their firepower advantage. When attacking, three teams formed a triangle around the team leader. Two groups fired to cover, and one group advanced, taking turns executing.

As for how to use the bayonet in case someone rushed forward, Li Wei decided to leave it to the generals below to study. After all, these generals were experienced in dealing with cavalry with cold weapons and did not need to worry about it.

But we have to wait until the bayonet is finished before we start. The bayonet is set on the barrel. Not only does the bayonet have to make a sleeve, but also the barrel has to be fixed with buckles.

With three thousand guns, it would only take three to five days.

Regardless of the bayonets, the triangle formation must be trained quickly.

So Li Wei first assessed the marksmanship of the existing musketeers and selected a thousand of the best as the main shooters. Each of them was assigned two specialized loaders, one of whom was the team leader.

Then, before the whistle and trumpet were ready, the turbulent training began.

However, due to the lack of command tools, it was inevitable that there would be some chaos when the changes were made at first, and the three-three system seemed chaotic to begin with. So, when Mu Ying came to the Shenhuo Guard again two days later, she saw this A scene:
Thousands of soldiers were in disarray on the entire campus. His neat array before had all disappeared. No shield bearer or sword bearer could be seen. Except for the cavalry, the archers were also watching with their hands empty. 3000 men, each armed with a flintlock gun, were running around in chaos.

Mu Ying was stunned for a moment, looking around and carefully looking at the surrounding environment. She was sure that this was the Divine Fire Guard, and her mind was suddenly confused!
Where are my archers?Where is my phalanx of muskets?Where is my sword-hand and shield soldier?
After being stunned for a while, he suddenly realized, oh, it turns out that these chaotic people on the field are the elite soldiers and generals he trained!
They didn't leave, they just appeared on the school grounds in a different way... what the hell!

"Li Guancao! Li Guancao!..."

Mu Ying shouted angrily.

Such a fresh and refined title quickly caught Li Wei's attention, and he felt that this title was extremely harsh!
In order to prevent him from shouting any more, Li Wei quickly jumped up and waved his hand: "Here it is, here it is!"

Mu Ying walked up to Li Wei angrily, suppressed her anger, pointed at the chaotic soldiers on the school ground and asked.

"Li Guancao, what are you doing?"

"Oh, I'm letting them train a new formation. By the way, Lord Marquis, you can call me Master Li, or just call me by name. Don't call me Guan Cao."

Li Wei said seriously.

"Li Guancao, do you still call this a formation? This is all a mess!"

Mu Ying ignored what he said next and asked loudly.

"Master Hou, please call me Guan Cao...ah, please call me Li Wei or Mr. Li!"

Li Wei emphasized again!
"I don't care whether you are Li Wei or Mr. Li, you are in charge here. How can you fight with the Shenhuo Guards like this?"

Li Wei rolled his eyes in anger, "Didn't you listen to what I said?"
"This is my new formation. Don't look at the chaos. In fact, there is order in the chaos! You will know later!"

Li Wei emphasized again.

"Do you think I'm blind? Li Guancao, how can I explain to His Majesty how you behave like this?"

Mu Ying was also very angry. Zhu Yuanzhang originally told him that he wanted to have a good relationship with Li Wei, but this guy was obviously a rookie and didn't understand military affairs at all. , made a mess of his well-trained military formation, how could he not be angry!
"Since His Majesty has asked me to take charge of the Divine Fire Guards, I am naturally responsible for it myself and you don't have to answer for it!"

Li Wei said angrily, "This guy is in charge of opening and closing his mouth, you are the one in charge!"
"Okay, Li Guancao, you are responsible for it, right? I'll have to wait and see how you explain it to His Majesty when he inspects it! Hmph!"

Mu Ying snorted coldly, turned around angrily and strode away.

He planned to have a good talk with Zhu Yuanzhang. Isn't sending such a thing here just to cause trouble?

Originally, he thought that Li Wei was just here to go through the motions. In fact, he didn't have to worry about anything and just let his subordinates train step by step. But he didn't expect that he turned the army into such a messy and bear-like state!

Li Wei looked at Mu Ying leaving, curled his lips in displeasure, and cursed in a low voice:

"You're in charge, you're in charge, your whole family is in charge!"

(End of this chapter)