Qiming 1158

Chapter 967 God Machine Battalion Battles

After Su Yonglin captured the Central Capital, he began to build roads across the country.

In order to control and mediate population flow and even out road construction and maintenance costs, he also set up road cards to charge.

Luka not only has the function of charging, but also has the function of recording population flow files. It is a comprehensive grass-roots workstation. The staff are all officials and belong to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

The local area needs to send some armed forces to garrison Luka to be responsible for Luka's security.

In this way, as long as there are regular and safe roads, there are Lucas and security guards watching, and it is impossible to pass without the officially signed road guide.

If the escapees choose to take the regular road, it is absolutely impossible not to be discovered by the Luka staff and thus be intercepted.

Of course, they should also know this, so Su Yonglin judged that they might choose a mountain road that is difficult to walk in the deep mountains and old forests when they are desperate, and go out at night to avoid being discovered by the court.

Of course, this is not to say that it is impossible, but it is also a crisis.

In these years, human activities are not as intense as in the industrial era, and the natural environment has not been irreversibly destroyed on a large scale by industrialization. Therefore, there are still a considerable number of wild animals outside the human settlements.

That's why Su Yonglin set Luca charges.

Because the official road with road cards is officially guaranteed to be safe, and if there is a problem, the official should be held accountable. Therefore, even if the official business traveler pays some tolls, they are willing to take the official road, so that it is safe and reliable.

If you leave the official road and enter the deep mountains and forests or the mountain trails that no one walks, the ghost knows if there are large carnivores in those places?
There are a lot of carnivorous beasts such as jackals, tigers and leopards in the wild these days. The escape faction chose to go deep in the mountains and forests to escape to the Southern Song Dynasty, which is essentially a desperate journey, and for carnivores, it is tantamount to delivering meals to your door.

Compared with carnivores, the more terrifying thing is getting lost. This year, the mountain road has not undergone any formal development, and there are not many well-meaning people willing to make road signs to guide them. Direction tools such as compasses have not been popularized among the people. .

So once you get lost in the deep mountains, old forests or mountain trails, it is basically equivalent to death.

And to be honest, it was very difficult for Su Yonglin to mobilize additional forces to hunt down these desperados on a large scale, and it was no longer easy to extend the power of the imperial court to the corners of the Ming Kingdom along with Luca's setup.

It can only be said that if they can withstand the blows of carnivorous beasts and diseases, starvation and lost in the deep mountains and old forests, and then successfully escape to the Southern Song Dynasty, they should be considered dead, and it would be fine to let them live for a few more years.

The response of the Compromisers and the Runaways is logical, and there is no difficulty.

As for the hard-liners who choose to resist by force, of course, they will be resolutely attacked.

The local government and the branch of the Renaissance Association took the grass-roots peasant associations and the villagers' self-defense force as the main force to initiate the revolution, and organized armed forces to resolutely attack the armed landlords and gentry who were stubbornly resisting.

Since resisting, it is equivalent to exterminating oneself from the court and the people. There is nothing to say, all of them will be wiped out, all will be eradicated, and none will remain.

The landlords and gentry believed that they had a strong armed force, that their groups were large in number and blooming everywhere, and that the farms were small-scale military fortresses, which could make the government forces exhausted and could not destroy them.

But they were wrong.

Instead, they fell into the vast ocean, constantly being attacked and defeated.

In July and August, the armed landlords and gentry were killed by the armed peasants almost every day.

For some large-scale landlord gentry armed forces, it is relatively more troublesome.

Because they have some manors with strong defense, which are really comparable to small military fortresses, and they use a lot of money to win people's hearts, and the local peasant associations are too weak to quickly destroy them, so it dragged into a protracted war.

There are many such examples in the Guanzhong area.

The Qilu Corps under the command of Su Haisheng invested part of its troops to help the peasants eliminate these powerful diehards.

After hearing about this, Su Yonglin felt that this might be a good opportunity to train troops.

It has been almost half a year since his firearms army was formed. The number of musketeers has grown to [-], the number of heavy artillery has exceeded [-], and the number of light field guns has exceeded [-].

The scale of the entire firearms force has been initially formed, and the training with the traditional arms is also good, but the lack of actual combat experience.

So Su Yonglin gave an order and sent the newly formed Shenji Battalion to Guanzhong to conduct actual combat and accumulate practical experience.

The firearms were just completed, and it was difficult to take the lead independently, so the Shenji Battalion set up by Su Yonglin included one thousand musketeers, one thousand spearmen, one thousand crossbowmen and one thousand sword shieldmen. In addition to these 4000 people, there were also fifty There are 500 light field artillery and gun crews, and 500 cavalry.

So a field battle god machine battalion has 5000 people, but there are only 500 real firearms troops, and the remaining 500 people are cold weapon melee troops.

Su Yonglin thinks this configuration is more reasonable.

Firearms are mainly responsible for opening up the situation, and the real decisive victory and expansion of the results are the melee troops. It is only said that the existence of the firearms has greatly helped the melee troops, and can also greatly reduce the losses of the melee troops and indirectly improve the results.

The newly formed Shenji battalion was quickly transported into the Guanzhong area by Su Yonglin in the form of an all-mouse march, and used more stubborn landlords and gentry forces in the Guanzhong area to train troops.

On August 27, [-] troops and a large amount of equipment from the Shenji Battalion arrived in Chang'an and assembled in Chang'an City.

He Feihu, a young general from Su Yonglin's pro-huben army, who leads the Shenji battalion, was appointed as the commander of the Shenji battalion, along with the Shenji battalion instructor Lin Siyuan, to lead the entire Shenji battalion.

Generally speaking, a battalion of the Ming army has only 500 people, but the Shenji Battalion, as a special force, has a much higher number, so the rank of the leading general is far higher than that of a normal battalion commander.

So Su Haisheng personally went to Chang'an City to inspect this [sharp troops using new standard firearms].

When inspecting the Shenji Camp, the entire Shenji Camp was lined up with majesty. Su Haisheng found that this unit was well-armored and fully armed. At first glance, it was a remarkable elite.

However, he found that most people still use traditional weapons, and only a small number of people use the legendary muskets and artillery. The entire team is more like a mixed army than a magic battalion.

"Is this a musket?"

Su Haisheng took the standard matchlock gun from a soldier, fiddled with it a few times, and asked He Feihu curiously, "Your Majesty said, the power of a gun is far greater than that of a crossbow?"

"Accurately speaking, the power of the musket ammunition hitting the enemy is far greater than the power of the arrows hitting the enemy. The huge energy generated by the explosion of gunpowder is far beyond that of a bow and crossbow, so as long as you are hit by a musket projectile, you will bleed. , almost certain death, immortals cannot be saved."

He Feihu, who has become a firearms expert after receiving professional knowledge, gave a more professional answer.

"Oh? Sounds really good."

Su Haisheng seemed to understand, but after looking at the arquebus in his hand for a while, he returned it to the soldier, and then walked to the cannon.

This time with the army, it was a light field artillery, that is, a Fran machine-style gun cannon. Su Yonglin took a localized name for this artillery, called the General Cannon, while the heavy artillery was called the General Cannon.

Su Haisheng looked at the chariot and cavalry cannons that accompanied the army, stroking the cold body of the cannon, and then looked into the barrel of the cannon with his face against the muzzle.

"I heard that this artillery is a siege weapon?"

"This cannon was named by His Majesty. It is a chariot and cavalry general cannon. It is good at maneuvering and reloading quickly, so it is suitable for field battles rather than attacking fortresses. The sound is like thunder, and the general city wall is like a piece of paper in front of the general cannon."

"More than ten feet?"

Su Haisheng was taken aback: "Honey, how big is that guy? Then...I didn't bring it this time? I didn't see it?"

"It is said that only small military villages need to be attacked, and there are no large cities. What is the use of bull knives to kill chickens? The general artillery of chariots and cavalry is enough."

He Feihu smiled confidently: "As long as it doesn't rain, those small military villages are nothing more than turkeys and dogs in front of this chariot and general artillery, and one round of shooting is enough to destroy them!"

"Oh? So confident? Is this thing really better than a trebuchet?"

Su Haisheng smiled and said, "Then I'll have to see it with my own eyes. If it's not so useful, this waste of iron and copper will not count for me, but I will truthfully report the specific battle situation to Your Majesty."

"You will see the power of the artillery, and please report it truthfully."

He Feihu bowed his hands in salute.

Su Haisheng still laughed.

"That's what I said, but it seems that most people in your God Machine Battalion still use steel knives and spears, as well as God's arm bows, and five hundred cavalry... Why isn't this all firearms? Most of them are original soldiers. Blades, only a small part of them are new-style firearms, so this can’t be considered a magic battalion, right?”

"Considering the actual combat situation, this system was personally drafted by His Majesty. His Majesty believes that firearms are powerful, but their shortcomings are also obvious. Therefore, they are matched with all kinds of arms to maximize the advantages of firearms. Even in extreme situations, firearms will If it cannot be used, the Shenji Camp can maintain its combat effectiveness and will not be defeated."

He Feihu said neither humble nor arrogant: "In the musket phalanx designed by Your Majesty, muskets and artillery are in an auxiliary position, and the main attack is still sword and shield, spearmen, and cavalry. The biggest role of firearms is to defeat the enemy's defense. , to destroy the enemy's morale."

Su Haisheng knew that he was a layman, and he couldn't compare with Su Yonglin and He Feihu in this regard. He nodded and said nothing more, but began to arrange military tasks, preparing to use his own eyes to confirm the real situation.

He wanted to see if this magic battalion and these firearms were as good as Su Yonglin said.

(End of this chapter)