Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 199 Shi Kefa

The content of the training is still the wall formation and mandarin duck formation, especially the simple and easy-to-understand wall formation, Yang Chao also added some changes.

After several months of fighting with Lao Jin, Yang Chao has a deep understanding of the wall formation. The strength of the wall formation is that it is an unfolded formation, so there is no need to prepare when attacking, just charge directly, while the mandarin duck formation needs to be based on the enemy's situation. Constantly changing the formation, it can be said that the wall formation is an attack formation, while the mandarin duck formation is a combination of offense and defense.

However, after later rehearsals, Yang Chao improved the wall array, that is, before the wall array, a row of long players was arranged as a shield wall.

Behind the shield wall are three rows of spearmen. Such a simple combination enriches the content of the wall formation. It is not only an attack formation, but also a defensive formation.

Later, when Carpenter Guo delivered all the guns, Yang Chao added another row of gunsmen to the wall formation.

Now the routine of the wall array has two sets of defense and attack.

When defending, the musketeers and archers shoot the enemy from a long distance first, and then use the pikemen to charge after the enemy approaches.

When attacking, the musketeers still fire one round first, and then the spearmen charge directly. Originally, Yang Chao planned to use the archers to cover the charge, but when the wall array charges, they are usually close to the enemy after all, so the archers who are not skilled He always shot his own back, so Yang Chao gave up the plan of letting the archers cover.

"The bird gun is ready--"

Wang Pu shouted loudly.

Behind the shield wall, the gunner who had loaded the gun immediately raised his gun and placed the gun on the shield that could protect the shoulders.

"put!"

Wang Pu shouted loudly.

Crack clack clack, a hundred bird guns were fired at the same time, but the sound was uneven.

Although the price of the bird gun is much lower than that of the iron armor, the craftsmanship of the bird gun is much more delicate than the iron armor.

Iron armor looks complicated. A pair of iron armor has hundreds of armor pieces, which are superimposed and connected in series through leather ropes. However, the barrel of the bird gun, the bolt, etc. are all precision parts, and it is extremely troublesome to process. Among them, drilling the barrel requires It takes one month, and it must be operated by skilled workers, otherwise it is easy to produce waste products.

So even though Yang Chao gave Guo Jiangtou a large deposit, it still took Guo Jiangtou more than half a year to deliver all the bird guns to Yang Chao.

This resulted in short training time for Yang Chao's musketeers, not only the loading speed was slow, but also the casting was not neat enough.

However, using firearms to massacre enemy troops is a way of thinking for future development, so Yang Chao attaches great importance to the role of bird guns.

As early as when Marshal Qi Jiguang organized the car battalion in the north, the firearms and equipment had already reached half, including a large number of artillery.

It's a pity that Yang Chao couldn't get cannons. Yang Chao was very interested in cannons, and even surpassed bird guns, but Bingzhanju refused to sell them to Yang Chao, saying that there must be written by the Ministry of War, otherwise he would not sell them for any money. , and the Ministry of War refused to equip the water battalion with artillery. Artillery is a defensive weapon in the south, and field troops are not equipped with it.

Yang Chao did not have a battalion of soldiers, and the geographical conditions in the south were not suitable for the car battalion, so Lao Jin did not follow the northern weaving method to organize the car battalion, but adopted the mandarin duck formation suitable for the south, and added a bird gun to each team. hand.

"Change formation! Triple formation!"

Yang Chao called out to Wang Pu.

The so-called triple stack is somewhat similar to the Western three-stage strike technique.

However, the three-stage attack in the West is to let the three rows of soldiers take turns. After the first row is finished, they turn to the last row to start loading, the second row starts to fire, and after the second row is finished, they return to the final loading, and the third row Gun, after the third row is finished, the first row has been loaded, and one rotation forms continuous firepower.

The three-stage attack is the most important form of using muskets in the West, but in the East, a similar triple formation is used, which does not require soldiers to rotate, but allows the muskets to rotate.

After the first row of gunmen finished shooting, they transferred the empty guns to the second row, the soldiers in the second row returned to the third row, the soldiers in the third row loaded, and the loaded guns passed through the second row and returned to the first row.

Yang Chao also knows the western three-stage strike, at least he has seen it in movies. Compared with it, Yang Chao thinks that the Chinese three-stage formation is more efficient, after all, the extra time for people to rotate back and forth is removed.

Wang Pu immediately ordered the soldiers to form a triple formation.

One hundred bird gunners were immediately divided into three rows, and each row became 33 people.

Fire a shot and then charge, this is the attack formation of the wall formation when the two sides engage in battle, and the rotation of the triple formation is the change formation when preparing for a protracted battle.

Yang Chao watched three rows of people start practicing, the third row was in charge of loading, the first row was shooting, and the second row was in charge of rotation.

It's still not smooth enough, because the time for programming is still too short.

After less than three days of practice, Shi Kefa fired cannons, was promoted to commander-in-chief, and recruited generals.

Shi Kefa is in the middle, and a group of generals sit on both sides.

Those sitting in the row are all first-class military officers who are deputy generals of the general army, and Yang Chao can only sit at the bottom with the addition of the title Qianzong.

"Gentlemen and soldiers, this governor is planning to go north to wipe out the enemy. The eastern captives divided their troops to attack Shouguang, Dezhou, Wuding, and Laiyang, and killed Song Mei, the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, Song Yingheng, a doctor of the official department, Zhao Shiji from Zhongshushe, Zhang Hong, the county magistrate, etc. When Liu Zeqing fought in Anqiu, the captive soldiers had lost their strength, and it was time to go north to gather and wipe out the captives."

Shi Kefa talked boastfully.

Sitting down, the general had a look of fear on his face.

Daming's army never won a single victory when they encountered the Eastern captives, and the peace talks gathered to annihilate them. It would be good not to be annihilated.

The general sitting closest to Shi Kefa stood up and cupped his hands: "Master Shi, the last general dares to ask where Donglu is now?"

Shi Kefa shook his head and could not answer. The message he received was half a month ago, and no new message has been delivered so far.

Another general also stood up: "Master Shi, the enemy's situation is unknown, why dare to enter the army lightly!"

Shi Kefa nodded, showing a hesitant look.

Then the third general stood up: "Master Shi, the last general dares to ask if Donglu can join forces to attack Nanji?"

The Eastern Captives entered the frontier in November last year. They rushed forward and searched around the capital of Beijing. They reached Shandong in less than a month, and then boldly continued to divide their troops to plunder. Even the captive soldiers and rangers did not dare to resist, allowing the opponent to wreak havoc in the countryside.

The Eastern Captives divided their troops in Linqing, Shandong, and rushed all the way without staying in Shandong. They directly entered Nanzhili, invaded Shuyang, Yizhou, and Feng counties, and killed Liu Guangxian, the county magistrate.

All the way along Dongchang and Yanzhou all the way to the south, looting and advancing, entered Mengyin, Sishui, and Zou counties in the same month, and invaded Linzi County in December. Breaking into Yanzhou, Zhu Shouyong, King of Lu, Wang Weixin, the prefect of military preparation, Deng Xifan, the prefect, Ding Wenming, the deputy general, and Fan Shutai in Zuogeshizhong, the official department, were killed.Break through Teng County, break through Yi County, break through Shan City, and then enter Huai'an Mansion and enter Nanzhili.There is a tendency to go directly south to threaten Jiangnan.

In just one month, the Eastern Captive Army was approaching the south of the Yangtze River, frightening the civil and military forces in the south of the Yangtze River. Shi Kefa sat in Huai'an and was anxious.

Although the Eastern Captives have returned to the army now, no one can say whether they will turn back, and their marching speed even exceeds the speed of the Ming army's message transmission.

When the Donglu invaded South Zhili, Yang Chao even just saw the report of the Donglu invaders.Those in the Ming army who wanted to kill thieves were not sure about the news, fearing that the enemy would be gone long before they arrived, while those who had no intention of killing thieves found a very reasonable excuse.

Because Shi Kefa couldn't guarantee that Donglu would not go south again, Shi Kefa couldn't answer.

The fourth general stood up: "Lord Shi, if the captives from the east go south, they should protect the river transport or wipe out the enemy."

Shi Kefa thought for a while and said, "When the river is transported!"

The first general said again: "My lord, since we must protect the river transportation, we should put Huai'an and Yangzhou as the most important things, and we must not enter Shandong lightly."

The second general said: "That's right, my lord, what should I do if I go north and the Qing soldiers from the east surround Huaiyang?"

Shi Kefa hesitated.

The third general said: "My subordinates have the courage to advise that Mr. Wang Shi puts the safety of the water transportation as the most important thing, and the imperial court is dispatching a large army to attack the enemies in Shandong. We must not leave our posts without authorization, so as not to fall into the plan of the Eastern captives to divert the tiger away from the mountain."

The fourth general also said: "Think twice, my lord. Water transportation is the foundation of the country, and Nanji is an important place in the world. The Taizu Mausoleum is located. It must not be lost. If the Eastern Captives take advantage of the opportunity to go south and disturb the ancestral mausoleum, we will die. what!"

The heartbroken words of several generals made Shi Kefa hesitant the more he listened.

Yang Chao muttered to himself, Shi Kefa is famous in history, he is not afraid of death.

But at this moment, when he heard these reasons, he hesitated. He must have worried too much, not for his own safety.

"I didn't expect the famous national hero to be an indecisive person!"

Yang Chao immediately judged in his heart that Shi Kefa didn't have the courage to make a decision. To put it mildly, he was brainstorming and being good at listening to his subordinates' opinions.

Yang Chao has been paying attention to the mansion newspaper, and saw that in less than a month, almost all the provinces in Shandong have reported the appearance of Donglu. Even Shuyang in Huai'an Prefecture was breached, and then the troops turned back and went north.

This time the eastern captives invaded, led by Nurhachi's concubine Abatai, the total force was said to be [-], but excluding the coats and miscellaneous servants, the real soldiers were actually [-] to [-] dead.

And Abatai divided his troops to plunder, obviously he didn't pay attention to the Ming army, and gave the Ming army a great opportunity to divide and annihilate, but the Ming army should be looked down upon, basically no one is willing to fight, the generals here in Huai'an Mansion It's just a very small part, but it's very representative.

Yang Chao didn't say much either, because his group of more than 600 people went to Shandong, but it was actually a dead end.

If the civil and military affairs of the Ming Dynasty were integrated and the civil officials could take care of the overall situation, Yang Chao's army would be allowed to enter the city. The recruits also had enough opportunities to correct mistakes and finally defeated the Jiang bandits.

However, the civilian officials of the Ming army did not allow generals to enter the city at all. Defense against his own army was the same as defense against thieves. If Yang Chao encountered enemy cavalry and failed to fight, he would not be able to escape.

(End of this chapter)