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Chapter 317 Firecrackers and Spearmen

After the exercise, according to Huang Laifu and the generals' summary, this kind of gunfire and bayonet array is extremely powerful, and it should be invincible in the current Ming Dynasty.But it's not without its flaws.

The first is the low hit rate of the tunnel fire gun.Since black powder is burned in combat, it leaves a residue in the barrel after firing.This residue doesn't have time to clear in the heat of battle.

In order not to interfere with shooting, the only solution is to use smaller projectiles.This increases the gap between the projectile and the barrel, which ensures smooth shooting and greatly reduces the hit rate.

Although Wuzhaibao Tunnel Fire Gunners can reach the elite level of three bombs and one hit when shooting human-shaped wooden signs eighty steps away in normal practice, but in actual battles, considering the battlefield The environment, as well as factors such as smoke, fear, and noise, have an impact on soldiers' minds, and the hit rate is much lower than this ideal usual training.

Moreover, in fierce battles, gunners will also have many problems when loading and firing, such as the gunpowder in the firing door does not ignite the main charge, the flint is worn out and forgets to be replaced, and the muzzle residue is too silted, etc. However, after a long period of fighting, it is estimated that the failure rate of the tunnel-fired guns in the hands of the sergeants will reach about one-fifth.

Due to the low hit rate of tunnel-fired guns, the power of single-shot shooting can be ignored. Therefore, in combat, it is necessary to rely on dense and strict formations to improve the firepower effect of shooting, which has great requirements on the combat environment.

It's okay to defend normally, and you can calmly form a three-row horizontal team to face the battle. If you are attacking, it is more difficult to ensure an effective formation. It is also enough to disrupt the neat formation and make the formation chaotic.

Without a strict and dense formation, the formation of firecrackers will not be powerful.

This requires the usual formation training to be more severe.

Finally, in combat, once the battle rages, whether the generals can effectively control the sergeants to shoot calmly in three formations is also a problem.

These can only be perfected by the usual very strict training and a lot of actual combat.

In any case, although the tunnel-fired gun and bayonet array has various shortcomings, it is undeniable that he was born out of nowhere. In this era, he is still very advanced and extremely powerful.

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After the fire drill, all the generals were shocked, but they all envied the Laifu camp soldiers, especially Yang Xiaolu, who led the Laifu camp, smiled happily.Everyone was secretly jealous.

However, the Laifu camp is the governor's battalion, and all of them are Huang Laifu's servants. The master will give his personal guard camp the best treatment and equipment, which is also a matter of course, and no one will say anything.Everyone can only hope that the tunnel fire guns in Wuzhaibao will be produced soon.

Next is the exercise of the Wuzhai Camp led by Jiang Dazhong. Huang Laifu's direct descendant camp has three battalions, the Laifu Camp, the Wuzhai Camp, and the Zhenlu Camp!The Laifu camp has been fully equipped with tunnel fire guns, spending [-] of them in stock.For the remaining two battalions, each battalion can only get [-] firecrackers.

As for the Ningwu Battalion in Ningwuguan, they can only be regarded as semi-directed. Their battalions are not equipped with tunnel-fired guns yet, and we can only see the production progress of the tunnel-fired guns at the Wuzhaibao Military Factory in the future.

The production progress of the tunnel-fired guns can't keep up. Even the Wuzhai Camp and Zhenlu Camp of Huang Laifu's direct line can only be equipped with half of the tunnel-fired guns. Now Huang Laifu is the governor of the two towns. under his management.However, it is foreseeable that in the far future, even the armies in Shanxi Town, where Huang Laifu is relatively close, will only be equipped with half of the tunnel-fired guns in the end.

Right now, there are nearly 15 soldiers in the two towns of Datong in Shanxi Province combined. Huang Laifu's plan is to equip half of the soldiers in the two towns with tunnel-fired guns within ten years.

This is different from the Laifu camp's full tunnel-fired beak guns and bayonet formations. If half of the soldiers and horses in a battalion are equipped with tunnel-fired guns, such a combat formation will naturally require another set of combat training methods. up.

At this time, another exercise was held, taking the Wuzhai Battalion, which was half equipped with gunfire guns, as an example!
In the past, most of the training and combat in the various armies used the mandarin duck battle array handed down from the Qi family army, with bird guns, bows and arrows, spears, long knives, rattan cards, wolf whisks, etc., standing in layers.

Due to the expansion of the scale of firearms players now, especially the Wuzhaibao tunnel fire guns are of good quality, powerful, fast-firing, and have bayonets, so the relevant training battle formations and related arms can go through some appropriate training. adjusted.

First of all, the archers in the battle are gone. Wuzhaibao’s tunnel fire guns and paper shell cartridges are powerful, fast to reload, and can shoot far. Especially the quality of the firearms produced by Wuzhaibao is no problem at all. There is a danger of explosion.Therefore, it is laborious, difficult to train, and expensive archers are no longer necessary.

Secondly, the Wolf Whip was also withdrawn. The Wolf Whip was too bulky and overlapped with the Spearman.Besides, wolf traps used to deal with Japanese pirates in the south of the Yangtze River, but now it is really inconvenient to deal with rangers on the grassland.

The two-handed long swords are gone. It used to be the bird gunners with two-handed long swords.But now that they have bayonets, there is no need for two-handed long knives.

The dagger is gone.After these years of actual combat, Huang Laifu and the generals discovered that when fighting hand in hand, using a long spear in combat is more powerful and more practical than a short knife.

Finally, considering that most of the Nine Frontiers are facing nomads on the grasslands, they come and go like the wind and are good at archery.No one can see the route of the fireball projectiles, but when the sharp arrows are shot, the soldiers can see them. There is nothing to cover them, and the psychological pressure on the soldiers is still very huge.

Therefore, the rattan players in each team are still kept, and they are still equipped with a sharp waist knife and a few sharp javelins.It can be used as a cover for musketeers or spearmen, and can also be used as a combatant in hand-to-hand combat.

In this way, in the current Wuzhai camp, there are only three types of arms: gunners, spearmen, and rattan players.Of course, there are also artillery and cavalry on the side.

At this time, when Yang Xiaolu led the Laifu Camp to play the "Mongolian Cavalry" attack, and Jiang Dazhong led the Wuzhai Camp for defensive exercises, the arrangement in their formation was that among the 112 people in each round, the spearmen and the tunnel-fired musketeers , There are also rattan soldiers mixed into a round. In addition to the officers, each round has 56 gunfire soldiers, and the rest are spear soldiers and rattan soldiers.

At the same time, in each round, the spearmen and rattan soldiers are in the center, and the musketeers are on the sides.In this way, the tunnel gunners are in this position, protected by spearmen and shields on both sides, even in close combat, they can still shoot effectively and kill the enemy calmly.

In the battle formation, there are not many ranks in depth, but the width of the battle line is very large, up to two hundred paces. At the same time, the cavalry in the battalion are arranged on the two wings, and the artillery chariots are arranged in the middle of the front row. In addition, there are some heavyweights Some of the artillery is configured on the two wings.

Such a battle formation can effectively take advantage of the large number of firearms in the Wuzhai camp, and maximize the power of tunnel-fired guns with paper shell cartridges and artillery.Of course, in the discussions of Huang Laifu and others, such a battle formation is not without problems, mainly because it is shallow in depth, so it is easier to break through, and it is not easy to rescue each other if the flanks are attacked.

However, Huang Laifu and others believe that such a battle formation can maximize the power of the firecrackers, and their opponents are nomads. Few people can break this formation, so the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

Of course, Huang Laifu had some new ideas. In addition to placing part of the cavalry on the two wings of the infantry, he also placed part of the cavalry behind the infantry line to mix with the Musketeers.

Under the cover of the smoke and dust rolled up during the bombardment of artillery and tunnel fire guns, the cavalry can rush to the enemy's position under the cover of gunpowder smoke.Such several attacks caused confusion to the enemy's center and two wings.

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After the exercise started, Yang Xiaolu led the "Mongolian cavalry" played by Laifuying to attack, and Jiang Dazhong led the Wuzhai Battalion to defend. Unlike Laifuying, they were still all in armor.

The "battle" between the two sides was fierce. Although there was no rejection of horses and chariots, the "enemy" still had nothing to do with the Wuzhai camp.After the final fierce battle, the "Mongolian cavalry" fled, and their own side successfully pursued them. Like the Laifu Camp, the Wuzhai Camp was all equipped with horses, and this pursuit was even more ruthless.

After the exercise, Huang Laifu, Yang Xiaolu, Jiang Dazhong and other officers summarized.

In general, this kind of weapons and arms battle array configuration is much sharper than the original battle array arms. Although the power is not as powerful as Laifu Camp's full-tunnel fire gunners, it is already very powerful.

In the end, Huang Laifu decided that after the output of Tunfa firecrackers came out, except for Huang Laifu's direct descendants Laifu Camp, Wuzhai Camp, Zhenlu Camp, and Ningwu Camp, the rest of the troops in the two towns of Datong, Shanxi will adopt this type of arms. and battle array.

Of course, the production of tunnel-fired guns will not increase in a short period of time. For a long time, the soldiers of the Wuzhai camp and the Zhenlu camp have to adopt the joint combat method of tunnel-fired gunmen and spearmen.

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After this exercise, all the generals were elated after seeing the power of the tunnel-fired gun with a paper-shell cartridge and a bayonet. Apart from urging Liu Tianlu to increase the production of tunnel-fired guns and bayonets, they were thinking about how to train own subordinates.

Right now, there are rules and regulations for the equipment and training of the infantry in each battalion, and they only need to follow the strict training. As for the cavalry in each battalion, their equipment and tactical formation are relatively simple, and there are not as many changes as the infantry.When the cavalry charged, it was basically two horizontal formations, and perhaps only when they were marching or waiting for battle, they formed several rows of small columns.

As for the cavalry equipment, due to the opponents on the nine sides, the nomadic cavalry have no heavy cavalry, and they will not form any heavy infantry phalanx, so there is no need to use heavy cavalry, and the usual light cavalry will do.

Therefore, the equipment of the cavalry in each battalion, except for some light armor-a small amount of horse armor, knight half armor, etc.However, according to the trend of cavalry in later generations, Huang Laifu decided to equip them with gunfire guns, two hand guns, and some cold weapons, such as sabers and spears.

However, due to the future management of the Great Wall and the future grassland strategy, Huang Laifu decided to learn some tactics of the Cossacks and Soviet cavalry of later generations.

Especially the Cossack cavalry, fierce, savage, and flexible. Back then, they swept across the Eurasian grasslands and swept thousands of troops like a mat. They conquered the entire Siberia with hundreds of people, especially the Mongols who often chased tens of thousands by hundreds of people fled in embarrassment. , Their tactical combat power is worth learning by yourself.

As for the infantry and cavalry in the battalions of the direct line, you don't have to worry about it. It is the power and use of artillery that drags your army back. This is a problem that needs to be improved.

(End of this chapter)