Borrow the day to change the day

After the military parade, the new army officially began to expand.

Zhong Jinwei naturally did not break his promise, and reorganized the soldiers who performed the best in this military parade into the new army.

The reason for doing this is not just talking casually, because Zhong Jinwei must first ensure the quality of the new army.

The military parade can best demonstrate the discipline and self-consciousness of soldiers, and these are the two qualities that the new army values ​​most.

After this expansion, the new army reached as many as 5000 people.Among them, referring to Sun Chengzong's book of war, a chariot battalion was formed.

Because once you confront the main force of Jianlu, it will no longer be a sneak attack like before.Because the requirements for sneak attack and ambush warfare are too high, whether it is the terrain, force, battlefield situation or the requirements of the commander-in-chief of the enemy and us, it is basically impossible to meet these conditions in a large-scale battle. requirements.

This is also the war that is often said in military books, it is impossible to blindly surprise, because it is simply impossible.Only the combination of Zhengqi and Qi is the kingly move.

When confronting the main force of Jianlu on the frontal battlefield, it is necessary to prevent Jianlu's cavalry from attacking, and prevent Jianlu from facing the firearms troops in close proximity.

Although the new army did not relax its training in the technique of close-up assassination, Zhong Jinwei still made it his top priority to prevent Jianlu from close-up.It's not that he doesn't have confidence in the new army's assassination techniques, but that he doesn't want to increase the new army's casualties.Zhong Jinwei had already expressed this requirement at the beginning of the establishment of the new army, that is, the goal of the new army was zero casualties.

Expanding from [-] new troops to [-] at once will put a lot of logistical pressure on it.The allocation of military uniforms and weapons, the changes in the treatment of soldiers, and the consumption of training, money was spent like water.

But these are not Zhong Jinwei's worries. What he is concerned about now are some problems exposed in this Thunderbolt operation.

The training of veterans leading recruits was in full swing in the new army camp, and their boss had already arrived at the military battle bureau, and was sitting and talking with Fan Jun, the palm print eunuch, while drinking tea.

"Eunuch Fan, you don't know! Don't look at us this time, we are very beautiful on the surface, but when we came back, we were chased like dogs by Jianlu, running desperately, and we couldn't run anymore. Stick out your tongue to catch your breath and run again. .I don’t want to experience such an experience again.”

As soon as Zhong Jinwei said this, Fan Jun, who had just had a sip of tea and hadn't had time to swallow it, spit it out again. Fortunately, there was no one in front of him, and the tea was sprayed on the ground.

Gu Baichuan and Zhong Jinwei's guards were also speechless. A war they were so proud of was actually described so unbearably by Hou Zhongxing.If another person said such a thing, it would be no different, probably a lot of people would rush to flatten him.

"Master Hou was joking, Master Hou was joking!" Fan Jun quickly put down his teacup, and took out a handkerchief to wipe his mouth while talking.

Unexpectedly, Zhong Jinwei turned a blind eye to the scene in front of him. He said seriously: "We are old acquaintances, so I told my father-in-law. This is the truth."

Fan Jun didn't know what to say for a while, so he had to wipe his mouth with a handkerchief embarrassingly to cover up his speechlessness.

Zhong Jinwei picked up the tea and took a steady sip, put down the cup and said to Fan Jun: "The reason why I told Eunuch Fan this is so that Eunuch can do me a favor."

When Fan Jun heard this, he immediately put down his handkerchief, his mouth was almost swollen from rubbing, and finally had a chance to change the subject: "Master Hou, please tell me, if there is anything we can do for you, just ask."

Zhong Jinwei immediately picked up Fan Jun's words and said: "When I came back from the escape, I thought that if I had a weapon, we wouldn't have to escape so embarrassingly! So I came here today to ask my father-in-law to help me develop this thing .”

When Fan Jun heard it, he thought it would be a very powerful weapon, right?It is estimated that the difficulty will not be low, so he felt a little uneasy in his heart, and he replied cautiously: "Although Master Hou said something, our family will try our best to do it."

"It's a weapon that is buried in the soil and looks like an enemy of ten thousand people, and can explode when the Jianlu step on it..." Before Zhong Jinwei finished speaking, Fan Jun interrupted with relief: "Master Hou is talking about landmines? "

Zhong Jinwei blinked and couldn't help asking: "Is there this thing now?"

It turned out that Hou Zhongxing didn't know, Fan Jun thought about it and said easily: "Master Hou, there were mines in the Song Dynasty, but they were called gunpowder cannons at that time, and they were detonated by lurking personnel to ignite the fuse. In the early days of the dynasty, there were real landmines, which exploded when people stepped on them, without the need for people to ignite them."

Zhong Jinwei only remembered that there seemed to be sea mines in the late Ming Dynasty, but he didn't know much about land mines.Therefore, in order for Fan Jun to organize personnel to research the landmines as soon as possible, he first described the previous war as miserable to show the urgency of needing such landmines.Unexpectedly, as soon as I made this request, I found that I was worrying in vain. It turned out that there was already a mine.

As soon as he heard what Fan Jun said, he said modestly: "It's because I'm ignorant, why don't Eunuch Fan introduce it to me?"

Being in a high position and being frank about his shortcomings, Zhong Jinwei's approach not only did not make Fan Jun despise him, but made him secretly admire Zhongxinghou's magnanimity.

Hearing what Zhong Jinwei said, he quickly said modestly: "I dare not be, I dare not be."

Then Fan Jun recalled it, and then introduced to Zhong Jinwei: "Most mines in this dynasty are made of stone, pottery, and iron. They are buried in the ground, and they are detonated using ignition devices such as stepping, tripping, pulling, and ignition." kill the enemy."

Zhong Jinwei was secretly surprised when he heard this, he didn't expect that there were so many types of landmines in the Ming Dynasty, and he was worried that there would be no landmines in the Ming Dynasty!

If he had read the military book "Wu Bei Zhi" in the Ming Dynasty in later generations, he would not have thought so.Because what Fan Jun said was recorded in "Wu Bei Zhi" and passed down to later generations.

"Damn, I didn't say it earlier!" Zhong Jinwei swears, and when a group of people around him are puzzled, he said, "If I had known that there were so many trigger types, I would have brought a few in the last operation and buried them in Huang Taiji's seat." Come on, if you can't kill him, you have to scare him to death!"

Gu Baichuan nodded secretly, then shook his head.For a person like Nu Chief, his personal guards will check everything he comes into contact with, so it may not be so easy to blow him up.But let him be suspicious, worry about whether there are landmines everywhere, but it can also adjust his mental state.

What Zhong Jinwei said is actually useful to Nanming.There are also special names called Guanting Pao and Office Pao.It was specially buried under the public case in the government hall or in the official pavilion. After the Jiankuo occupied it, as long as it touched the ignition mechanism, the landmine would explode immediately to kill the enemy.

After hearing Zhong Jinwei's words, Fan Jun first smiled politely, and then said to Zhong Jinwei: "Master Hou, landmines are actually not very powerful. They can't kill a few people, and their role is mostly to scare the enemy."

When Zhong Jinwei heard it, he understood.Because the detonator in the landmine is black powder, its power itself is not great, and it is buried in the soil and then detonated, which further weakens the lethality of the shrapnel after the explosion.

However, Zhong Jinwei combined the knowledge of later generations, and immediately had a way to improve it.