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If there is good news, it is a blessing. Since Xiao Tugeng brought good news about firearms, it is only natural that the urgent newspaper sent bad news.

Fortunately, this news is not bad at all, it's just a small trouble: Emperor Chongzhen ordered to drive to Yanzhou, just like the crown prince's plan that day, but after the brigade just left Tai'an Prefecture, this person refused to settle down. His Majesty, the emperor who was divided, led a group of servants to seize horses and go northward to Shulu County.

Liu Ruoyu sent the news immediately, but he was powerless to stop it.And the civil servants of the Eastern Palace Department can only contact around, find someone to escort them, and dare not recover them, otherwise who will be charged with detaining the emperor?Coupled with the fact that Jiang Riguang and a group of officials from the south were fanning the flames, it can be regarded as a complete confirmation of the fact that His Majesty the Emperor went north.

"When His Majesty the Emperor was a prince, he often went abroad in modest clothes. Now that he does such a thing, I can't be surprised." Zhu Cihong said helplessly.

Wu Xuan also had no choice but to say: "Your Highness, should we send troops to respond?"

Facing a group of staff officers, Zhu Cihong asked, "Now that a big battle is imminent, where can we draw troops?"

"Can the Firearms Division?" You Shiwei said: "In this battle, the soldiers of the Firearms Division were not counted."

"It's too demoralizing to let them turn back when they first arrived." Zhu Cihong shook his head and said, "And I also want to see the tactical effect of flintlock guns on the battlefield."

"Then the reserve battalion transfers a division?" You Shiwei said again: "Although they are all new recruits who have not experienced battle, but as long as there are enough people, no one dares to provoke them."

The preparation of the reserve battalion is larger than that of ordinary battalion heads. In addition to a standing teaching department, there are three to five recruit departments.This time as the general reserve team, the main purpose is to let the recruits see the battlefield and experience the atmosphere, and they don't expect them to increase their combat effectiveness much.

"That's fine. Call out a soldier reserve department to be a training officer." Zhu Cihong called Min Ziruo and asked him to deliver the order.

Five minutes later, Tang Ma, who had contacted first, galloped out of the camp.

Fifteen minutes later, the First Division of the Reserve Battalion Soldiers finished their outfits and walked out of the gate in neat steps.

Zhu Cihong quickly put the news of the emperor's visit behind him.Study the phalanx tactics with the general staff and the officers of Xiao Mo's [-]st Battalion.The Dashun peasant soldiers who were poorly organized and could only fight "stupid battles" before were actually quite similar to Qi Jiguang's dealing with the Japanese pirates back then. The main combat targets were actually a small number of professional soldiers with high combat literacy.

Li Zicheng just had a few more refugee soldiers than the Japanese pirates.

The Qing army was much higher than Li Zicheng in terms of individual combat literacy and overall combat effectiveness.As a fishing and hunting nation who lived by robbery, the Manchus had to learn from the harsh natural environment or other tribes to take the means of living from an early age, which was equivalent to learning and practicing in the preparatory camp.When you are an adult and go into battle in armor, as long as the commander gives an order, you will know what to do.Able to grow into veterans.

In this case, Qi Jiguang's early mandarin duck array revealed a side that was beyond his power.In fact, after Qi Jiguang was transferred to Jizhou, facing the Mongolian Tartar cavalry, he also made rectifications on the mandarin duck formation. In addition to expanding the establishment, he also focused on the construction of the car camp and the heavy firepower camp.

Zhu Cihong also considered strengthening the car camp, using chariots and side boxes to form a mobile "vehicle city".At the same time defend with great firepower.Judging from Qi Jiguang's record, as long as the firearms equipped rate reaches 50.00%.It is enough to deal a devastating blow to the enemy.

Qi Jiguang's firearms allocation rate in the car camp was 40.00% 40.00, and that in the infantry camp was 50.00%. The night doesn’t stop. It’s for everything.”

Now the East Palace is still a cold weapon army. If you remove the battalion artillery, there are only some tiger squatting guns and mines, and a small number of swarms, and the firearms ratio is less than 5.00%.

"There are not enough firearms. We definitely can't use chariots." You Shiwei said: "As Qi Jiguang said, all he relies on is firearms. If firearms are useless, how can chariots be used? Sun Du's train camp was in Jia The defeat of the county was also due to the continuous rain and the disuse of firearms. The long spear phalanx that His Highness once said is a good idea."

"And the training is faster." Xiao Mo added.

In terms of training speed only, the mandarin duck formation is definitely more difficult to practice than the long spear formation. Just changing the formation requires soldiers to have enough understanding and long-term training.The long spear formation has a simple formation, fewer tactical moves, and far less tactical cooperation with each other than the mandarin duck formation.

It can also be seen from the European battlefield that in the era of alternating hot and cold weapons, whether it is the Spanish phalanx or the Swedish phalanx of Gustav II, both have their own era significance.

"This kind of formation is actually a city based on people." Zhu Cihong had indeed described the Spanish phalanx to the Morris row, and even the Swedish phalanx of Gustav II.And these are not the privileges of the traversers, because someone in Ming Dynasty learned the story of the 30-year war from the Dutch and Portuguese population-although the battlefield has only been fought for 26 years now.

"Without enough firearms, it is still impossible to guarantee a blow to the Manchurians." Zhu Cihong concluded.

"Your Highness, whether it is the cavalry of the Liao and Jin Dynasties or the cavalry of the Eastern Cavalry today, there is a rule not to line up." You Shiwei knew his role and paid more and more attention to reading books. Fortunately, the Song people had quite detailed military records. , opened his eyes.In particular, the Song-Jin and Song-Xia wars have something to learn from.

Later generations often thought that the military strength of the Song Dynasty was weak because of the old coins, summation, and emperor Beishou of the two Song Dynasties, and called it "Weak Song".In fact, carefully calculating the winning rate of foreign wars, the Northern Song Dynasty was even higher than that of the Tang Dynasty.

"I think," You Shiwei said, "imitating the Song Dynasty to assemble infantry with heavy armor, hold spears, form a square formation, and advance slowly. The square formations are supplemented by artillery, mandarin duck formations, crossbowmen, and ourselves. The formation of cavalry is enough to defeat the cavalry of Donglu."

When You Shiwei proposed heavy infantry, Li Changling, Wang Shiqin, Wang Shiguo and other veterans in the staff department also nodded their heads. It seems that they have discussed it in private.

"After the popularity of firearms, even heavy armor is meaningless, and it is destined to be eliminated." Zhu Cihong hesitated.

"Your Highness shouldn't think so." You Shiwei said seriously: "Who can know for sure what will happen in the future? The current situation is that Donglu pays attention to heavy armor. I used to be in Liaodong, and I saw their white armor Baya. The bravest among the captives often wears two sets of heavy armor! He is almost invulnerable, even firearms cannot penetrate him."

At that time, the quality of the bird guns of the Ming army was not good, and the soldiers did not dare to put enough gunpowder for fear of exploding their guns, so the range and power of the guns would naturally be greatly reduced.However, the Manchurians focused on rushing with armor, which did cast a great shadow on Ming soldiers who lacked heavy armor.

"Our army can be equipped with heavy armor first, even if it is useless in the future, we will lose some money if we eliminate it later." Li Changling said.

Zhu Cihong pursed his lips lightly, and made a decision: "It's because I'm petty! Just follow the advice of the staff department and equip the heavy armored spear barracks!"

"Your Highness, please select a new battalion from the reserve battalion to form a side camp." You Shiwei said.

"A single battalion, without heavy armor or firearms, may cause too many casualties." Zhu Cihong shook his head and said, "This time the enemy has only 4000 people in total, and it is difficult to test the tactical effect of the phalanx. In this way, I plan to set up a new one." The Department is the General Armament Department, which is responsible for allocating and raising military funds, who do you think can be in charge?"

The original equipment supply of the East Palace Armed System was all collected from the local area, and then the financial department made a list and distributed it to each battalion.It was not a big problem when the scale was small, but now the finance department has basically been merged into the household department to perform the functions of the household department. In addition, the force of the East Palace is getting stronger and stronger, and Yao Tao is probably exhausted.With the increase of cannon factories, weapons factories, and gunpowder factories, it is imperative to have an independent equipment department.

"I am willing to go." Wang Shiqin recommended himself: "When I was in Liaodong, I also supervised the handling of weapons."

The General Armament Department will definitely need to fill the civilian staff of the Eastern Palace system, and will also recruit skilled staff from the Gunpowder Factory and the Cannon Factory.Sending a veteran as the chief is nothing more than setting up the shelf first and setting the specifications.At the same time, it would be even better if it could bring some heroism to this new department.

Zhu Cihong nodded, Wang Shiqin was originally the rank of general, and he was awarded the rank of general, which is enough to take on this position.As for whether you can do well, you can always see it in the face of strict supervision and strict examination methods. (To be continued..)

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