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Chapter 249 Improvement of formation (please subscribe)
"Hahaha, no problem. When the Military Academy opens, I can give special permission to let a few of your children in. The rest will depend on their abilities."

When Zhu Youxiao heard what Marquis Yongkang said, he immediately laughed out loud. He didn't expect Marquis Yongkang to be so cooperative, and he also went along with the flow to give him face.

Other honorable nobles who had no children enrolled in school saw that someone was taking the lead. They were afraid that they would be dissuaded, so they also paid tribute to Zhu Youxiao.

"Don't worry, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future. Let's not talk about it for now. Let's watch the martial arts performance at the school."

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and said that he would talk about it later. He didn't want to pay attention to the requests of these latter people. If they all agreed, wouldn't the Military Academy become a vegetable market in Jiekou?

After saying that, he moved to sit on the throne that had been prepared long ago. Wei Zhongxian and the nobles stood on both sides, looking at the soldiers who had been prepared below, Zhu Youxiao nodded and said:

"let's start!"

Chen Liangbi, the governor of Beijing camp, heard this and immediately responded:

"As ordered!"

After speaking, he walked slowly in front of the platform and shouted loudly to Jiang Lin and other generals and all the soldiers below:

"Your Majesty has an order. The Zhenwu and Yaowu armies have always been elite. Today we are here to watch their military performance. We hope that all the soldiers will fight with all their might. Don't live up to your Majesty's expectations. Let the military performance begin!"

Jiang Lin, Tan Mian and others immediately bowed their heads upon hearing this. In order to have a good performance today, they had been practicing day and night for a long time.

Seeing Chen Liangbi's order to start, he immediately ordered the soldiers and horses to leave the field, with guards on the left and right. Then a large area of ​​​​the field in front of the emperor was vacated, and the end of the field was the shooting range.

The martial arts performance procedures have been planned long ago, including formations, tactics, mounted archery, muskets, artillery, etc. Among them, the last one is what Zhu Youxiao is most looking forward to.

He knew very well that there were very few countries in the world that could assemble such large-scale artillery, and he, the Ming Dynasty, was one of them, so he really wanted to see the scene of large-scale artillery fire.

As soon as he put forward this idea, he was immediately dissuaded by Chen Liangbi and others. They disagreed with the emperor to see forty artillery salvoes. This was too dangerous. It was okay to encounter an explosion. At most, it would only damage a few artillerymen. , but if someone aims the muzzle at the platform with ulterior motives, the consequences will be disastrous.

So in order to avoid accidents this time, although they had forty artillery in the field, there were no shells in all the chambers. Every soldier's gun was checked one by one to see if there was no gunpowder or projectiles, just for fear that someone would attack the emperor.

It's just that they didn't agree with Zhu Youxiao, let alone agree. He finally came here once, how could he give up without showing it to him. In the end, Chen Liangbi and others couldn't defeat the emperor, so they could only agree to fire ten cannons, but they were the gunners. Carefully selected to ensure there are no surprises.

"Boom boom boom!"

With the sound of the war drums, Zhu Youxiao knew that the martial arts performance had begun. He was originally not very interested in the formations, tactics and other aspects of the previous steps, but when he saw the soldiers of Yongyi Battalion, commanded by Huang Degong, demonstrating the formations, he came instantly. interest.

At first glance, this formation looks like the three-stage shooting formation formed in the grass field at that time, but a closer look reveals that it is very different and many improvements have been made.

The formation is divided into three square formations, left, middle and right. The middle square has about 2000 people, and the left and right squares have 1000 people each. There is also a sentry at the back as artillery. In addition, Huang Degong also brought two sentries as artillery. Reserves.

Originally, this formation was just a common formation, but he found that the ratio of gunmen to spearmen in the middle square formation was about two to one, that is, there were more than [-] gunmen and about seven spearmen and shieldmen. More than a hundred people.

The ratio of gunmen to spearmen in the square formations on the left and right is about one to two, that is, there are more than [-] gunmen and more than [-] spearmen and shieldmen.

The reason was that he had previously discussed with Sun Yuanhua and others at Licaolan Field about the design of a three-stage attack formation, and found that although bird cannons had a longer range, they also had disadvantages such as slow reloading speed and large smoke. If the enemy charged at all costs, It's still easy to get close.

So after thinking about it, before the flintlock gun is developed and popularized on a large scale, we still cannot completely copy the three-stage strike formation. Instead, we must refer to the Spanish square formation and equip the formation with the same number or even more spears and knives as the gunners. Shield bearers to prevent being approached, but the number of spearmen in the Chinese army is completely insufficient.

Thinking of this, he was very confused, so he asked Chen Liangbi to call Jiang Lin, the commander-in-chief of the Zhenwu Army, and asked him about his doubts. When Jiang Lin heard the emperor's question, he immediately explained it.

"Your Majesty really hit the nail on the head. The general had studied this matter with Huang Degong and others before, but since the Zhenwu Army battalions were equipped with Kru cannons, they found that the coverage of the seventeen cannons was very wide. As long as the artillery bombardment is maintained, Coupled with the three-stage shooting of the Chinese army's musketry, the enemy troops are often defeated and routed when they approach the Chinese army, and cannot get close at all.

Even if they have strong combat power and desperately approach the front of the Chinese army's formation, the spearmen in front of the Chinese army's formation can temporarily block it, allowing the gunmen behind them to continue firing projectiles. In this way, they can withstand the enemy's attack. "

When Zhu Youxiao heard this explanation, he lowered his head and thought for a while, and felt that it made sense, but he still had doubts.

"I heard that the Jianlu were protected by shields and chariots. During the previous Battle of Hunhe, the Zhejiang Battalion responded that the cannons could not destroy the shields and chariots. Only after repeated bombings by the Krug cannon, coupled with the attack of the Folang machine cannon, The bombing was barely enough to sustain it.

Now there is no chariot cover in front of the Chinese army. If it is just a bombardment by Krulu artillery, what if Jianlu rushes to the front of the formation with a shield chariot? "The power of Jianlu's shield chariot was heard in the court. The Ming army in Liaodong was very troubled and didn't know what to do. It wasn't until they got the Krulu cannon that they had a way to deal with it.

Jiang Lin, Chen Liangbi and others had already imagined the emperor's doubts.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. You have previously issued a decree asking the Ordnance Bureau to solve this problem. Last month, the Ordnance Bureau sent a gun. This kind of firearm is similar in shape to a bird blunderbuss, but it is larger and heavier than a bird blunderbuss. heavier.

The fired projectiles can easily break through Jianlu's three-layer cotton armor, and even the shield vehicle.Now every battalion in the Beijing camp has specialized sentry equipment and guns. They are naturally not afraid of the Jianlu shield vehicles now. "

Chen Liangbi immediately began to answer the conversation, and while explaining, he waved his hand for Jiang Lin to find a gun and bring it up.

There were soldiers below with the guns raised. In order not to keep the emperor waiting, Jiang Lin directly called a strong soldier in front of the formation and brought him over immediately.

The soldier held a huge gun that was higher than his head in one hand, and walked up slowly holding a wooden frame in the other hand.He was already worried and nervous, but now he saw so many dignitaries looking at him, their eyes searching everywhere but not daring to look directly. He felt very nervous and his hands could not help but tremble.

"Don't be afraid, bring it over and show it to me."

Zhu Youxiao looked at the big man who was trembling with fear, smiled and comforted:
"Don't be afraid, bring it over and show me."

The soldier looked at the aristocratic young man in front of him wearing a dragon robe, and knew in his heart that this man must be the real Dragon Emperor, so under the guidance of Jiang Lin, he brought the gun in front of Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the gun in front of him. Sure enough, it was much larger than an ordinary gun. It was about two meters long and looked quite heavy.He walked up and looked at the weapon with interest.

"How much does this carry gun weigh?"

Seeing the emperor's question, the soldier didn't know whether he should respond, so he looked at Jiang Lin for help. Seeing Jiang Lin quickly nodding for him to answer, he mustered up the courage to answer:
"Your Majesty, this carrying gun is not heavy, only thirty kilograms."

"Huh? This isn't serious. You can fight it alone?"

When the soldier heard this, he nodded in confusion.

"Your Majesty, you can't do it alone. You can either use this wooden stand and put it on the gun body, or find a soldier to use it as a stand and put it on his shoulder to fire."

Only then did Zhu Youxiao understand. Zhu Youxiao had naturally heard of this thing. It was a heavy-duty bird gun. He didn't expect that such a thing could be made now.

His excitement about the firearm was over, and he no longer had the urge to shoot. After a brief look, he nodded and turned to Chen Liangbi and others.

"That's very good. It seems that the promotion of Xu Guangqi to the Minister of Industry was the right one. Since he took charge of the Ordnance Bureau, he has played a great role, and he deserves the most credit. However, the Ordnance Bureau not only needs to support Beijing Construction, but also needs to pay close attention to Made in Liaodong, with this thing and the Kru cannon, we don’t have to be afraid of building a shield vehicle, hahahaha.”

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Seeing that the emperor had said this, everyone bowed down to celebrate.When Jiang Lin saw that the matter was over, she waved her hand to the soldier and told him to go down quickly and not stay here. The emperor would continue to review the Beijing camp later.

"Wait a minute, don't be impatient, I want to ask you something."

When Zhu Youxiao turned around and saw that the soldier was about to go down, he immediately stopped him. Seeing that the emperor wanted to ask the soldier questions, everyone was very confused. Although Chen Liangbi and Jiang Lin didn't know what to ask, they were also confused in their hearts. Uneasy, I could only secretly tell this person not to talk nonsense.

The soldier didn't know why at this time, but he didn't dare to neglect the emperor when he spoke. He knelt down and bowed his head to the ground and waited for the emperor to ask.

"What's your name, where are you from, and why do you want to come to Beijing to serve as a soldier?"

"My name is Zhang Dazhu. He is from Cangzhou Prefecture, Hebei Province. The harvest in Cangzhou Prefecture last year was not good, and life at home was really difficult. So I thought about coming to the capital with my father in the winter to see if I could find some work and beg for food. .

Unexpectedly, when I passed by Baoding Prefecture, I saw the notice of recruitment in the Beijing Camp, saying that there was one tael of silver per month. I thought that the monthly money was quite a lot, and I was very excited, so I applied directly. Unexpectedly, I had a strong body and strong bones. He was recruited and recruited to serve as a soldier. "

"Hahaha, your body looks like good material for a soldier. How do you train every day? Isn't your monthly salary enough? To be honest, I won't blame you."

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