The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 47 Fast Lane

Zhu Linmi herself stood where the soldier was injured just now, raised the firearm obliquely upwards, and pointed the bayonet at the sky at a 45-degree angle, and shouted: "Squat down in one or two rows. Follow my movements, bayonet upwards. Wait a minute." Without my order, no one is allowed to move a step!"

Then he ordered Zhu Jiadi, "Regroup and charge."

The cavalry gathered a hundred steps away again, and began to charge from slow to fast, shouting.

The soldiers of the independent company saw the cavalry approaching like rolling thunder, and the horses kept zooming in before their eyes, and they all wanted to throw away their guns and run away immediately.

"Don't move!" Zhu Linming shouted, "I'm here with you! If you're afraid, close your eyes!"

The highest commanders of the Dragon Guard Army are all standing here. Although the soldiers have the desire to run, it is really difficult to put them into action.

Some people also speculated that the commanders of the legion are all here, and the cavalry must be pretending not to rush forward.

In the end, most of them said in their hearts, "I'm not a coward," and simply closed their eyes, only the hand with the slanted gun trembling.

All the soldiers watching the battle were stunned, seeing that the cavalry was about to step over the Independence [-]st Company.

Zhu Jiadi thought that the infantry would dodge by themselves, but when he got to the front, he found that no one was moving, and it was too late to order his men to slow down.

But a miraculous scene appeared at this moment!
When the horses were more than ten meters away from the infantry's bayonet, they suddenly stopped, some braked on the spot, and some yanked the reins and turned to both sides.In short, no horse is willing to rush into the hedgehog-like knives in front of him.

Only when the last horse of the cavalry company stood on the spot did the soldiers of the independent company open their eyes tremblingly.

To be honest, Zhu Linmi herself was in cold sweat.However, he believes that there is absolutely no problem with the fact that dense bayonet clusters can effectively resist cavalry charges.

He believed that Napoleon would not lie to himself, nor would the Mamluk cavalry.In the Battle of the Pyramids, the French army relied on a similar bayonet phalanx to resist the Egyptian cavalry charge.

So he remained where he was, with his hands shaking like everyone else.

He stabilized his nervousness, took a deep breath and walked out of the queue, stood up straight and said loudly to the officers and soldiers of the Dragon Guards: "It is the nature of a horse that it will never dare to pounce on a sharp knife formation!

"Not only horses, but riders are even more afraid to pounce on them. Therefore, as long as you can hold your breath and maintain a good formation, the cavalry charge will not be able to break through the bayonet bushes!"

This is simply subverting the common sense of the soldiers, especially the soldiers who have been on the battlefield know that if they encounter a Qing cavalry assault, unless they can be stopped by superior firepower at a long distance, their own side will be defeated immediately.

But just now, the infantry stopped the cavalry's charge without firing a shot!

You know, the cavalry will pay a high price for rushing up like this.They will eat a lot of bullets in the process of approaching the infantry. If they rush over but cannot break the infantry, it means that they will eat a few more rounds of bullets.

Then the rout is likely to be the cavalry!
Zhu Linming added: "Even if it's an excellent cavalryman, or if the cavalryman is blindfolded and the cavalryman really rushes into the infantry formation, I can tell you that he can push down two or three people at most.

"Even after he was stabbed by the bayonet, he would block the cavalry behind him, causing the speed of the entire cavalry team to sprint to decrease rapidly!
"Now, everyone should understand the importance of a neat formation, and you must train more frequently in the future!
"Remember, the formation is your life! It is the life of your comrades in arms! How much combat power can one person have? But if everyone becomes a part of the battle formation, and the whole battle formation acts as a unit, it can defeat the enemy several times!

"No matter how many ants there are, they are no match for a fist. I hope that the Dragon Guards can make an iron fist at any time!"

Throughout the day, no soldier had the slightest contempt for training such as gathering formations and formation changes.The scene in the morning made each of them deeply understand that this seemingly simple and useless queuing is so important.

Zhu Linmei nodded in satisfaction as she looked at the increasingly uniform formation of infantry.

As long as they continue to train at this pace, he believes that these soldiers will soon become a combatable army.

But this morning, the unfamiliarity of the soldiers in the company with shooting made him frown a little, and he thought to himself that he must distribute flintlocks to all of them as soon as possible, so that they can greatly increase the amount of live ammunition shooting training.

The batch of craftsmen from the Ganzhou Weapons Bureau arrived in Longnan yesterday, and Zhu Linmi directly assigned these manpower to Lu Ning, Xiong Zhong and others, and they made specific arrangements.

Now Suji Iron Works already has two water wheels, which work day and night with hydraulic forging machines.A third water wheel will also be built soon.

It's just that Xiong Zhong's speed is a bit slower.Without Zhu Linming's guidance, it took him half a month of trial production to figure out the full technical details of the plate armor.Until now, the first batch of finished products has not been sent to the Dragon Guards.

The progress on Lu Ning's side can be smoother, and three boring machines have been put into use.These boring machines only need six craftsmen to operate, and can make eighteen gun barrels a day!
Now with the help of the newly joined craftsman, Lu Ning can continue to make the boring machine.

According to Zhu Linmi's calculation, if there are six boring machines and craftsmen make it by hand, about forty gun barrels can be made every day.This used to be the workload of about [-] craftsmen.

The power of industrialized production can be seen.In fact, this is far from being industrialized, it just uses more advanced processing equipment.

Of course, the initial investment in manufacturing these devices is also very large.The income from the sale of steel ingots in the iron yard during the recent period has basically been invested in forging machines and boring machines.

Fortunately, the main raw material for making plate armor and flintlock guns is steel, and Suji Iron Works can produce them in large quantities at a very low cost.

Otherwise, Zhu Linmi would have to add at least 3 taels of silver to make these three hundred sets of plate armor plus three coins of flintlock guns.However, under the one-stop production mode of raw materials and products, the cost is only less than 8000 taels.

In addition, with the help of Song Yingxing, a technical control, Zhu Linmi no longer has to worry too much about production technology.

Now every afternoon, after he teaches the "Guiding Envoy Work Guide" to the guiding envoys, he gives Song Yingxing a course of mathematics, physics and chemistry for more than an hour.

If there are technical difficulties in the iron field, Song Yingxing will take them back to the Longwei barracks.After Zhu Linming solves it, he will guide the craftsmen to deal with it in detail.Overall, Dragon Guard armament production is now officially on the fast track.

Song Yingxing never tires of this.A few days ago, he saw the boring machine for the first time in Suji Iron Works, and he almost didn't hold it to eat and sleep.

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