Borrow the day to change the day

After Zhong Jinwei learned about the situation of the Denglaiming Army, he also sent a consultation on the training situation to the Guan Ning Army in the name of the Ministry of War.

After receiving the reply, after comprehensive consideration, he issued orders in the name of the Ministry of War to the three directions of Ningjin, Haizhou and Denglai.Under the leadership of veterans of the new army, they are required to go out of the city to the control area of ​​Jianlu, and start a small-scale fight with Jianlu's scouts, in order to seize control of field intelligence.

If you feel that you are not strong enough, you can send more soldiers out. The purpose is to make Jianlu blind, and at the same time exercise the courage and fighting skills of the newly trained soldiers.

The ultimate purpose of all this, only a few senior generals know, is to prepare for the decisive battle next year.

Therefore, whether it was Yuan Keli, the governor of Liaodong, Zu Dashou and He Kegang who were stationed in Haizhou, or Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Denglai, they all actively dispatched the fusiliers and set off small-scale wars on the land of Liaodong.

On this day, two ships approached the Yalu River in Dandong area.It didn't take long for the Ming army of about [-] people to come down.After a while, he rode his horse and disappeared on the shore.

This Ming army was led by Zhu Yuanzhong, the personal guard of Cao Bianjiao of the new army. His subordinates included [-] old soldiers of the new army and forty new soldiers of Denglai. field artillery.

The reason why so many people are dispatched at one time is because the fusiliers need a large number of people to be powerful. Otherwise, they will encounter Jianlu's scouts on the road and fight one-on-one. Except for the old soldiers of the new army, the others may not be those with rich experience. Jianlu explored the horse's opponent.

Another reason is that the Ming army has enough people to send so many people.

"Brother Zhu, do you think we will encounter Jianlu's scouting horses?" A soldier of Denglai's new army asked Zhu Yuanzhong a little nervously.

He was not nervous because he was afraid of Jianlu's scouting, after all, he was also an elite selected from the veterans of the Denglaiming Army.He asked this because he was excited and nervous about using his new weapon, the flintlock, against the enemy for the first time.

Zhu Yuanzhong smiled and said: "Although Jianlu has already removed those boring catapults, their scouting horses are still active. We will definitely meet Jianlu along the way."

"It's best if you meet him, beat his mother, and make more military exploits to earn some wine money." An old soldier of the new army also said with a smile.

From last year to this year's war, the old soldiers of the new army have already exercised their psychological advantage over Jianlu.In their eyes, it seems that Jianlu is their medal, just waiting for them to pick it up.

This can't be blamed for their contempt, because they do have this advantage.

Qi Jiguang, the god of war during the Wanli period, has requirements in Volume [-] of his military book "Ji Xiao Xin Shu". For the training of bird guns, it is required to reach a distance of [-] steps. If it hits a human-shaped target, one of three shots is qualified, and two of three shots is qualified. Or seven out of ten rounds are fine, and all three rounds are excellent.

However, the requirements for crossbows in the book are only that at a distance of [-] steps, if you hit a humanoid target with two out of three shots, you are good at shooting.

The training of the new army, under Zhong Jinwei's willingness to spend money on training, is generally at the level of three shots and two.More importantly, the range of the flintlock guns in their hands was [-] steps longer than that of Jianlu's bow and arrow.

The range of the musket at the end of the Ming Dynasty could not be caught up in the West until the Napoleon era.

Daming possessed such technology, but was eventually defeated by Jianlu's bow and arrow.The reason for this is actually explained by Qi Jiguang long ago: the bird gun is definitely better than the arrow, but the gun essence is better than the arrow.Gun tools are not as good as style, if you don't practice them well, they are not as good as arrows, and let the enemy use their long skills.

That is to say, if the quality of the bird gun is good and the training is sufficient, then the bird gun is worse than the bow and arrow; but if the quality of the bird gun is poor and the training is insufficient, then it is not as good as the bow and arrow, and will be overcome by the bow and arrow.

Corruption was rampant at the end of the Ming Dynasty in history, not to mention these firearms, even armor, bows and arrows, etc. Anyway, all the war preparation materials were short of catties and the quality was extremely poor.As a result, many people in later generations could not understand why hot weapons were defeated by cold weapons.

Now because of Zhong Jinwei's crossing, the weapons in the hands of the new army are better than the bird guns of Qi Jiguang's era.The first is that the flint replaced the matchlock, and the second was that a bayonet was added.

When these reasons are combined, the words of this veteran soldier of the new army make sense.

Zhu Yuanzhong rode on the horse, looked at his subordinates, especially those newcomers to Denglai, and reminded them: "As long as you don't panic when you are facing the enemy, and quickly reload according to the training, it is very easy to make military achievements!"

When Denglai's new army heard this, they were all very happy.When they fought side by side with the new army, they had always envied the new army to kill Jianlu as easily as chickens and sheep.Now I didn't expect that there would be such a day when I used the flintlock gun in my hand.

Sure enough, as Zhu Yuanzhong expected, they hadn't traveled much before they encountered a group of Jianlu's scouts, about 15 of them.

The two sides found each other almost at the same time. When Zhu Yuanzhong saw it, he immediately ordered to charge.

The number of people on our side is much larger than that of Jianlu Tanma, and the flintlock guns in everyone's hands are loaded, and they can shoot as long as they pull the trigger.Even if you can't shoot accurately while riding a horse, if you get close and shoot with sixty guns together, at least half of the Jianlu Tanma can be killed.

To change to the past, when the Ming army did not accept the night and Jianlu Tanma met in the wild, even if there were more people than the Jianlu Tanma, the first choice for the Ming army to accept the night was to escape.

But today is different from the past, when the Ming army sees Jianlu visiting the horse, it is as if they saw the medals and the Jiusibao banknotes, and they will turn around and run away!

This Jianlu team was brave enough to scout horses. Although they saw so many Ming troops, they were not afraid and urged their horses to meet the enemy.

The legendary stunt of riding a horse and piercing Yang with a hundred steps may exist, but at least this team of Jianlu explorers does not have such a master.

Both sides are urging the horses to get closer and then the archers are ready to shoot arrows, and the ones who shoot are shooting.

The outcome of the battle was no accident, Jianlu reimbursed ten people on the spot, three were injured and captured, and the other two survived and escaped.

One member of the Ming army was seriously injured because the horse was shot in the crotch and fell down.Another five people were slightly injured. After the arrows were pulled out and the wounds were treated, they were able to continue marching.But two of them couldn't shoot because they hurt their arms.

More and more wars like this are happening on the land of Liaodong.So that later, when Jianlu went out on missions, it was no longer a team of only a dozen people as before, but a team of dozens, or even hundreds of people.Otherwise, few people go out, and basically few people can go back.

Because of this, sometimes, the Ming army occasionally encountered Jianlu Tanma who was several times their own.It is inevitable that there will be a defeat, and the flintlock guns in the hands of the new army will inevitably fall into the hands of Jianlu.

As a result, these flintlock guns seized by Jianlu Tanma were treated as treasures and rushed to Shengjing immediately.