Dashun Yongchang

For the loss in the transportation of materials, especially the materials that are prone to loss such as food, it must be measured and calculated to calculate the normal loss value. For the loss that obviously exceeds the normal value, it is not a matter of refunding compensation, but an investigation. question.

The Marshal's Mansion has enough strength to enforce the laws it has formulated, and the bureaucrats within the Marshal's Mansion have not formed a network of interconnections. Therefore, the logistics organization in charge of the General Staff is not only much more efficient than that of Daming, but also suppresses wastage. within the normal range.Correspondingly, however, the size of the General Staff is rapidly expanding.

When Yuan Yuzong was in charge of the military preparation of the Ming Dynasty, although he felt the influence of logistics supplies on the army, the most powerful weapon for civil officials to restrain generals in peacetime is logistics supply, because generals can counter threats by refusing to go to the battlefield during wars. During the period, except for mutiny, military generals had no means of threatening civilian officials, and the risk of mutiny was too great. Even those generals could hardly restrain the army after the mutiny.

But Yuan Yuzong never thought that the army could be completely restrained by the logistics organization.Unlike those generals who have all kinds of private desires, the needs of soldiers are actually not high. As long as the Marshal's Mansion can provide them with food and clothing, and not let them fall into a desperate situation, then they will not rebel.

And if the soldiers are under control, the general will have nothing to do.Although there were a large number of ex-Ming troops and local militias who defected when the Qing soldiers went south, none of the troops that had been included in the logistics supply system of the Marshal's Mansion defected.There were even grassroots officers and soldiers who took the initiative to report suspicious movements of their superiors to the Department of Examination and Punishment, so that the Marshal's Mansion could eliminate some hidden dangers in advance.

When those unreliable troops surrendered to the Qing army, to a certain extent, it was also a screening for the Marshal's Mansion. This is what Li Zicheng said. It is indeed a great thing.At least after these unreliable troops left, the Marshal's Mansion saved a lot of materials and land, and also allowed the General Staff to reduce the transportation routes, which greatly improved the efficiency of material transportation to the frontline troops.

While Yuan Yuzong was talking, he saw Zuo Ye lifted the cotton curtain and walked in, standing at the door and winking at himself, so Yuan Yuzong took advantage of the opportunity to end the lecture, and asked several veterans to take these novices to familiarize themselves with the situation. Own work, and then walked to the door.

Zuo Xie whispered to him with some excitement: "The former deputy minister, the main force of Azig and Wu Sangui has finally moved. According to the latest news from Bozhou, the cavalry of the Qing army has appeared in Xiangcheng, Shenqiu, and Shahe The first episode and other places, as long as the Qing army occupies these places, the next step must be to attack Chenzhou City."

Hearing this news, Yuan Yuzong suddenly felt relieved. The most worrying thing for the general staff these days is that the main force of Azig refuses to go south to Chenzhou, but focuses on Suizhou, Ningling and Guide. On the offensive line, then their plan to separate the Azig army and eat part of it will become quite difficult.

However, there was still no change on his face, he just said calmly: "Let Chenzhou continue to observe, we must confirm that the main force of Azig's army is withdrawing, and don't let Azig's partial division be scared away. In addition, tell the Bozhou garrison that the optical telegraph station must be well maintained to ensure that it is sent and received twice a day. Where is Your Majesty now?"

Zuo Xie blinked his eyes for a long time before he realized it, and replied to Yuan Yuzong: "Your Majesty, Liu Shuai and Li Shuai are watching the synthesis exercise of the newly formed army division at the camp north of the Yellow River..."

Outside the north gate of Xuzhou, not far from the Yellow River to the north is a slightly undulating plain, because this location will be flooded by the Yellow River every year, so a thick layer of yellow sand is laid on the ground, but during the dry season in winter, This place is very suitable for military exercises.

Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin, Li Guo and others stood on the high ground in the southeast of the plain. A semi-open bamboo shed had been built here to keep out the wind. Dozens of generals from the Dashun Army Council were standing in the bamboo shed. In front of them, the man held a monocular in his hand and watched the army on the plain below conduct a synthetic drill, making comments from time to time.

Standing beside Li Zicheng, Ren Jirong and Gu Kecheng, who were in charge of the army reorganization of the camp, explained to him: "In the past few months, we have mainly adjusted the organization of regiment units and conducted tactical research.

According to our continuous drills, we think it is most suitable for an infantry company to guard two rows of spearmen and a row of musketeers. If there are too few musketeers, they will lack attack power, and if there are too many musketeers, it will be difficult to defend against the attack of enemy cavalry.

An infantry battalion with two infantry and 4 to 6 tiger squat guns is most conducive to maneuvering. An infantry regiment with three infantry battalions can form a zigzag formation, which is quite convenient for offense and defense.

According to this calculation, there are about 210 musketeers in each infantry regiment, and six times as many pikemen as musketeers.Each infantry regiment has two defensive formations and one offensive formation.

The first defensive formation is that the spearmen of each battalion gather into a square formation, and then form characters to protect each other's flanks. The musketeers shoot in the middle, on both sides, or in front and back.The second defensive formation is to form a hollow phalanx with the regiment as the unit, and the musketeers shoot inside.

The offensive formation is that the three battalions of spearmen form a row, and the musketeers are in front. When the musketeers disrupt the enemy's formation, the spearmen advance to make an assault and break through the enemy's formation from the gap.What we're seeing now is the attacking formations..."

While listening, Li Zicheng calculated in his mind. According to the establishment of three regiments and one brigade, two brigades and one division, a division has about 1260 musketeers. If other arms are not counted, then the number of musketeers is about one division of infantry one-tenth of.It seems that Dashun's army is still at the stage of focusing on cold weapons.

However, watching the drills of the soldiers on the plain, Li Zicheng finally gained some confidence. At least these soldiers had learned to cooperate with the Musketeers instead of treating the Musketeers as an irrelevant unit like half a year ago.

The main force of the Shun Army actually came from the Northwest Ming Army, so the combat methods of the Shun Army were actually similar to those of the Ming Army. The Ming Army's distrust of gunpowder weapons also appeared in the soldiers of the Shun Army.Of course, the Ming army's distrust of gunpowder weapons still has to be divided into places.For example, the southern soldiers and the Liaodong soldiers paid more attention to gunpowder weapons, but the frontier soldiers in other regions only used three-eyed guns at most.

There is also a reason for this. Southern soldiers are not good at bows and arrows, so they like shotguns, while Liaodong soldiers are always inferior to Manchurians in bow and arrow skills, so they prefer cannons.As for the Northwest Ming army, firstly, they were frightened by the inferior gunpowder weapons manufactured by the Ministry of Industry. Except for the less powerful three-eyed blunderbuss, other gunpowder weapons killed more people than the enemy; secondly, gunpowder weapons It was too expensive, and the Ming army in the Northwest had to pay their salaries for several months, so who would use gunpowder for practice.If you don't practice in peacetime, using gunpowder weapons in wartime is suicide.

For example, after the Wuqiao mutiny, the Ming army in Shandong encircled and suppressed the rebels. As a result, they blew up twenty of the thirty cannons they collected from various places.Of course, this is not because the quality of the cannons is too poor. After all, the rebels like Kong Youde also use cannons of the same specification.The problem is that the Shandong Ming army did not practice charging and cleaning the barrel of the gun. They only loaded gunpowder, stuffed the shell, and then lit the cannon. There is no reason not to explode it.

Because gunpowder weapons are easy to explode, the Ming army generally does not like to join the musketeers. Coupled with the degradation of the Ming army's combat system, the Northwest Ming army and the Mongols almost always rushed up and slashed to win, because most of them The Mongols didn't have any armor, so the generals of the Northwest Ming Army liked Mang Yibo the most, instead of talking about the cooperation of various arms.When you lined up, the Mongols had long since disappeared, so the Ming army in the Northwest also forgot about the cooperation of arms.

Chapter 330 New Army One

Among the marching troops on the plain, Han Shangliang, standing at the head of the row, held a bamboo whistle in his mouth, and adjusted the pace of his subordinates with his voice from time to time to prevent his row of people from leaving the formation.

Han Shangliang is a native of Xuzhou, and his family belongs to a small landlord in the countryside. In the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty, Han Shangliang brothers and their clansmen naturally formed a village to practice martial arts to protect themselves.

Of course, Han Shangliang didn't like Li Zicheng's thieves. After all, the local thieves in Xuzhou were all plundering the village under the banner of responding to King Chuang. From time to time, some people escaped into the bandits and harmed the local people.

Therefore, when Li Zicheng fell into Beijing and sent people south to appease the local officials and gentry, Han Shangliang and other people did not show their sincerity to the officials sent by Li Zicheng.However, Han Shangliang didn't expect the Ming Dynasty's army to fight back, so he just warned the tribe to live a peaceful life at home.

But after Li Zicheng's army went south, Han Shangliang realized that something was wrong.Because the large number of northern population brought by Li Zicheng's army is beginning to occupy a large amount of land south of Xuzhou.

In the past, even if Li Zicheng's army allocated land to the landless peasants, those peasants who got the land still did not dare to offend the local gentry and landlords because of the problem of rural concept. Those neighbors of the gentry and landlords for generations were too active towards Li Zicheng's army, and could easily be settled by Qiuhou.

But when Li Zicheng distributed the land in Xuzhou and other places to these immigrants from the north, these immigrants would naturally form a group to fight against the local gentry, and in order to completely suppress the local forces, they also actively submitted to Li Zicheng's Marshal's Mansion. moved closer.

Before Li Zicheng went south to Huai'an, the Marshal's Mansion was not stable in Xuzhou and other places, so he took some gentle measures against the local gentry, rarely directly confiscating the land, but trying to get it from the landlord with a redemption policy. Land resettlement.

However, after Li Zicheng flattened Huaiyang and other places, the attitude of the Marshal's Mansion towards the landlords became tougher.With the materials shipped from the Huaiyang area, the Marshal's Mansion will have no worries about suppressing the landlords in Xuzhou and other places.

Han Shangliang's family also entered the field of vision of the Marshal's Mansion, because the Han family is not only a landlord but also has a militia group of nearly a hundred people, which is obviously an unstable factor in the local area.Han Shangliang's sense of smell is still very keen. When the Marshal's Mansion issued the conscription order to the Han family, he did not try to find someone to be exempted from military service, but actively brought the backbone of the militia to apply.

Han Shangliang's choice saved the Han family from disaster, and several villages adjacent to the Han family were wiped out by the army sent by the Marshal's mansion because they were unwilling to obey the orders of the Marshal's mansion, and they were forced to move to the south.In front of a professional army, the forts they build are no different from children's toys.

Han Shangliang, who was recruited into the new army, did not regret it, because the conditions in the new army were really good.Let's put it this way, although the Han family is not a small landlord, they can only let the brothers of the Han family eat meat once every three or two days. It's just based on the standard of being full. Most of the time, what I eat is sweet potato porridge and miscellaneous grains.

However, ordinary soldiers in the new army eat white flour, steamed buns and rice for three meals a day. They must have an egg or salted duck egg in the morning, and at least one fish at noon and evening. Yes, you must be able to eat meat twice a week.In the past half month, the meat meal has increased to three times a week.

The recruits who were still resistant to joining the army did not want to go home after staying in the barracks for three days.Brothers like Han Shangliang already felt that the food was too rich. For those tenant children who couldn't eat meat once a year, this kind of military camp was simply heaven.The only thing that pissed off the recruits was that they could eat as much as they could, but they couldn't take the food out of the cafeteria.

Many soldiers wanted to save some rations and take them back to their families, but the army did not allow them.Of course, behind such a good meal is the rigor of recruit training.At first, many soldiers could not stand the harsh discipline and physical exercise in the army, because they had not exhausted themselves in this way at home in the past, and they always felt that it was a kind of abuse.

But with the support of medical treatment and good food, after about 30 days, the recruits got used to the collective life in the barracks.Training injuries and illnesses can be healed, physical exhaustion can be supplemented by food, coupled with the discipline constraints in the army, there are almost no recruits who cannot be reformed.The soldiers quickly formed the idea that earnest training and obedience to military discipline are necessary obedience for them to obtain food and daily necessities. Otherwise, why would the Marshal's Mansion support you?

But for Han Shangliang, a son of a local tyrant in the countryside, he sees a way to rise.Although he gathered his clansmen and organized militia groups in the village to protect the village, he had thought of showing his skills in this troubled world.Although Han Shangliang admitted that it was impossible for him to be admitted to the imperial examination, he felt that he was no worse than those who were able to raise people and Jinshi.

After all, being able to organize a militia group of nearly a hundred people in the countryside to protect the peace within a radius of more than ten miles is not something ordinary people can do.It's just that Han Shangliang is self-taught and has not received systematic military education. Therefore, after entering the new army, he immediately realized that compared with real generals, his military knowledge is still far behind.

After joining the new army, Han Shangliang felt like a fish in water, because all the regulations implemented in the new army were treasures for him, which he could not imagine out of thin air after studying behind closed doors in the past.The Marshal's Mansion was not stingy with imparting this knowledge to the soldiers of the new army, and even promoted some of the best learners.

For example, Han Shangliang was promoted from a small soldier to the position of acting platoon leader. The positions above the middle platoon of the new army are all held by veterans. Only extremely outstanding recruits can serve as the platoon leader's deputy. Just one or two people.

Being able to overwhelm his peers, this gave Han Shangliang a great sense of belonging to the new army.Therefore, he is extremely cautious in this grand parade, hoping to once again overwhelm his peers and become the number one in the grand parade.Although he knew that the new army would soon be on the battlefield after Dayue, he did not feel panic, but was eager to try, hoping to prove whether the rules he had learned were useful on the battlefield.

As he was advancing, he quickly realized that someone in the row of subordinates around him was walking too fast, and he knew who it was without turning his head to look. The bamboo whistle in his mouth blew a short sound, and the soldiers turned their heads to look to the left. , adjusted his pace according to the position of No.1 on the left.

Han Shangyi also woke up after being reminded by his clan Han Guochen. He was thinking about what to eat today after Dayue, when he lost his mind for a while and lost his pace.He carefully glanced at his elder brother Han Shangliang, then quickly moved half a step back and returned to the queue.

To be honest, Han Shangyi, who has long hands and feet, is actually not used to walking in this kind of formation. He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he prefers to take the lead and attack the thieves on horseback.Relying on his own force and the laxity of the local bandits, Han Shangyi is still well-known around his hometown.

When he joined the army, someone once wanted to pick him into the horse army, but Han Shangyi said that he only followed his brother, so he became a member of the infantry.Unlike his older brother who thought too much, Han Shangyi fell in love with this place after staying in the military camp for a few days. There are so many people with him every day, and he can relax his stomach when eating. This place really suits him.

He didn't have any feelings about Dayue and the upcoming battle, he just thought it was good to be with so many brothers.Of course, it is also a great pleasure for him to guess what the meal is today.

Zuo Guangxian, who was standing more than [-] meters behind the Han brothers, was also amazed by the three regiments of the new army walking out side by side in the phalanx.He sincerely said to Ye Yunlin, the chief of staff beside him: "Looking at the posture of these new troops, they already have the demeanor of the southern soldiers."

Ye Yunlin was a little puzzled and asked: "What is the demeanor of the Southern soldiers?"

Zuo Guang turned his head and glanced at him before he came to his senses and explained, "The southern soldiers I'm talking about are Qi's army, not other southern guards."

Only then did Ye Yunlin realize something, but he still replied, "I'm afraid it's too early to tell. The Qi family's army shocked the enemy's courage in the battle at Hunhe. Our army has not yet experienced actual combat and needs to be tested."

Zuo Guang smiled and stopped talking, but in his heart he felt that it was pretty good to be able to train the new army to this level.Even Qi Jiguang suffered several defeats when he started training the army.

Looking at the array of these new troops, Zuo Guangxian was also a little confused, because after the reorganization of the Marshal's Mansion, he was suddenly a little uncertain about his position in the battle.

In the past, his position in battle was actually very clear, that is, to stand at the front of the team with his servants, let the soldiers see him, and then take the lead in the charge.As long as the soldiers can still see him, then everyone can keep fighting.If he was lost, or if he was seen fleeing, the whole army would quickly collapse.

In this way of fighting, the commanding role of banners and drums is reduced to the minimum, but the personal strength and courage of the generals are very high.Because the general couldn't bear it, the morale of the entire army was broken.

However, the combat method of the new army is different now. Because it is fighting in an array, the soldiers of each unit need to pay attention not to the position of the general but the position of their superiors, and obey the orders of the superiors to fight.In this way, it is no longer necessary for the generals to charge ahead, on the contrary, there are higher and higher requirements for the generals' commanding ability.

Zuo Guangxian did not object to such a change, but he was not used to changing from standing in front of the army to standing behind the army.Because this means that his appeal to soldiers is also declining.

Because the generals in the army admire the kind of fearless warriors and the generals who can bring victory continuously. The latter is actually difficult to achieve, but the former can be achieved as long as they dare to stand at the forefront of the army.Under the new combat method, the chief general is losing the aura that the whole army pays attention to.

Chapter 331 New Army II

Although Liu Zongmin and other generals of the Shun Army had visited the training of the new army in the camp before, but when they saw most of the daily training of a single battalion, company and platoon, at most it was just a confrontation exercise of a regiment-level unit. Interesting, but for the generals of the Shun Army who have experienced many battles, it is just a feeling that shines in front of them.

But this time, the division-brigade unit synthesis exercise really shocked them.They have never imagined that in an army of tens of thousands of people, each unit can settle in its own position, and switch smoothly between offense and defense without chaos.

It's not that the Peasant Army has never fought a battle with tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of people, but the enemy and us can only form a formation at the starting point before the battle. In essence, let a certain army stand in a certain area, and then wait until When the flag of the Chinese army waved, a certain unit would step forward and invite the opponent to fight. If they saw that the opponent's position was in disarray, the Chinese army would beat the drums to urge the whole army to attack, and a scuffle would ensue.

Unless the general still has a reserve team in his hands, the command mission of this war is almost over, and whether he wins or loses can only depend on the result of the battle.Or when it gets dark, both sides call for gold and withdraw their troops together, because when it gets dark, the soldiers can't distinguish the clothes of the two sides, and the general can't control his subordinates.

Therefore, the combat command of the Ming army and the Shun army is roughly that the general commands dozens of hundreds of soldiers around him, and then other soldiers follow the general to fight.The subjective initiative of the generals of the peasant army is higher than that of the officers and soldiers, because the latter is just to get promoted and get rich, while the former is to avenge the court, so when the leader of the officers and soldiers is defeated, the other soldiers flee quickly, while the peasant army Even if the main general is defeated, they will not flee easily, after all, they have nowhere to escape.

However, even though the peasant army's officers and soldiers have higher subjective initiative than the officers and soldiers, the peasant army did not establish such a well-organized combat command system in the past.Because the generals of the Shun Army, including Li Zicheng, regarded the army composed of ordinary refugees as hard labor and cannon fodder, and then selected strong and strong veteran soldiers from them to enrich themselves.

Even if the subjective initiative of the peasant army is strong, as a result of the continuous extraction of the backbone of the grassroots, it is impossible to make this army a professional army, but a smaller professional army and a larger army. large-scale militia.Although the composition of such an army is stronger than that of the Dingjia servants of the Ming army, it is not as good as the professional Eight Banners army.

The new army formed by Li Zicheng essentially regards the old soldiers as grassroots officers and backbones, and then selects new recruits to enrich them. Coupled with the compulsory military service system, a national army led by professional officers is formed.The core of this army is completely different from the peasant army and the official army in the past. It no longer relies on the leadership of one or two generals to conduct operations, but is built on a group of middle and low-level soldiers at the platoon, company, battalion, and regiment levels. Officers conduct command on the organizational system.

For example, in the past when the Shun army went to war, if Liu Zongmin had an accident on the battlefield, it would be difficult for the army he led to be taken over immediately, because other than Liu Zongmin, the soldiers could not be trusted immediately.It is difficult for a general who cannot gain the trust of his soldiers to lead his soldiers to the battlefield of fierce battles.

This is also the reason why the generals of the Ming army would rather embezzle the army's salary to support the family, because only the family will value his life more than his own life.The officer organization of the new army is to make up for the mutual trust relationship between soldiers and generals, and at the same time isolate the generals from having too much influence on the soldiers, so as to ensure that the army obeys the orders of the country.

Although the three-month training does not allow the new army to completely become a modern army, judging from the current joint army drills, at least the commanding ability of the grassroots officers has begun to show.

After Liu Zongmin watched for a long time, he couldn't help but said aloud: "Even with three walls, it is difficult to find a chance to attack such an infantry formation."

Liu Zongmin's comments on the new army received a lot of response from the generals around him. Ren Jirong, Li You and others felt that bringing such a division was enough to deal with the Ming army twice to three times larger.The Ming army they mentioned was compared with the Liaodong army.

In the impression of the generals of the Peasant Army, the most valiant of the Ming army was the Liaodong cavalry led by Zu Kuan. Often a thousand cavalry could defeat tens of thousands of peasant troops. The three walls were organized using the Liaodong cavalry as a model.This is not a low evaluation of the new army.

However, Li Zicheng was not as optimistic as the generals around him. While watching the infantry drill on the plain, he replied casually: "Although the dense formation of the infantry can restrain the cavalry, it cannot stop the artillery shells.

As long as Jiannu has enough red cannons, he can destroy the infantry phalanx, and then use the cavalry to clean up the mess.Therefore, if we and Jiannu want to fight in the wild, we must first use our cannons to destroy Jiannu's cannons, then attack with infantry, and then pursue with cavalry.

The current situation alone is not enough to defeat Jiannu. "

Li Zicheng's words made Liu Zongmin and others fall into deep thought. It was not that they didn't know the power of cannons, but before the Battle of Tianjin, they really never thought that the cannons would be so powerful when used together.

Liu Zongmin quickly nodded and echoed Li Zicheng's words: "Your Majesty is right. If Jiannu pre-arranges the cannon position and bombards our army's phalanx when the two armies are facing each other, then our army is indeed hard to resist. The red-clothed cannons used by the slaves are said to be better than those of the Liaodong Army. In the First Battle of Jinzhou, Jiannu’s cannons broke down the city wall and forced the Ming army to surrender. We are all using captured Ming army artillery. Really Can it suppress Jiannu's red-clothed cannon?"

Li Zicheng raised his head and looked to the north. Today is a good day, the sun is shining all over the earth, so he feels warm all over his body while basking in the sun, but the white touch on the hilltop in the distance still shows that winter has not passed yet.

After withdrawing his gaze, Li Zicheng said to the generals beside him: "Judging from the quality of the cannons, the cannons made by Daming really didn't make much progress. Instead, Jiannu overwhelmed them. However, just having cannons can't be called artillery." Yes, Jiannu can only make a big step forward by relying on the artillery knowledge obtained from Kong Youde who surrendered to the Ming army, and the artillery knowledge of Kong Youde and others came from Sun Yuanhua and the Portuguese in Macau.

In other words, no matter how hard Jiannu tried, their understanding of artillery would not exceed that of the Portuguese in Macau.In the current era of increasingly innovative gunpowder weapons, the knowledge they possess is outdated. As long as we surpass the artillery knowledge of the Portuguese in Macau, we will inevitably surpass Jiannu.

Artillery knowledge is the sum of the most advanced theories in various disciplines, including smelting metals, casting metals, mathematics, physics, chemistry and other disciplines.Therefore, what we want to surpass Jiannu is not the quantity of artillery but the quality of artillery, and more importantly, the quality of the people who use artillery.The current lag is only temporary.

Next, let's take a look at the artillery drill first, Mr. Peng, please explain to us the content of the artillery drill. "

Although Li Zicheng admitted that Shunjun's cannons are not as good as Jiannu's at present, but after his explanation, everyone is not too worried. After all, they have been paying attention to what the Marshal's Mansion is doing these days. Li Zicheng didn't prevaricate them with big words.

Peng Youmo was the former deputy commander of the Daming Shenji Battalion. He can actually be regarded as Sun Yuanhua's disciple. When Kong Youde was raging in Shandong, he rushed to Shandong from Sichuan, and then presided over the use of artillery by the Ming army, thus suppressing Kong Youde's army. The artillery was used, and then stationed in Laizhou, and then went south with the army when the governor of Denglai fled south.

Because he was extremely skilled in the use of artillery, Li Zicheng appointed him as the artillery director of the Marshal's Mansion. In addition to educating artillery officers, he also had the task of compiling artillery drills with others.

Under the leadership of Peng Youmo, Li Zicheng and other generals soon came to an artillery position. Of course, the artillery drills could not be arranged at the same time as the soldiers' drills. After all, the targets fired by the artillery still needed to be cleared.

A bamboo and wood shed was also built behind the artillery, one was used to store gunpowder and shells, and the other was a large table made of wooden boards, on which were placed various tools used by artillery.

Peng Youmo pointed to one side of the table and said: "The tools placed on this side are the tools needed for a cannon. 2 cannon brushes and bomb pushers, and 2 cannon brush barrels..."

Liu Zongmin and others watched it with great interest. It was the first time they knew that it was so troublesome to use a cannon. In the past, they thought that gunpowder, shells, kindling and brushes were enough.Of course, they cannot be blamed for this, because the Ming army did not use so many tools in the past, and many of the tools here were newly invented to save the time of firing cannons.

As a kind of equipment for defending the city, various small-sized cannons below the red cannon, such as the Flang machine gun, the tribute cannon, or the smaller tiger crouching cannon, almost do not need to be as detailed as the red cannon. Cleaning up, because the charge of these cannons is not much, so it is almost impossible for the gunpowder to not burn out.

But for the red-clothed cannons, gunpowder weighing several kilograms is fired once. Once the residual gunpowder cannot be cleaned out, it will easily accumulate to exceed the upper limit of the chamber pressure. too powerful a gunpowder explosion.Moreover, the red cannon is inconvenient to move, so the Ming army did not pursue shooting speed, but mainly focused on accuracy.

However, for the Shun Army who possessed firing tables, cannons were being incorporated into the ranks of offensive weapons, which meant that increasing the rate of fire became the first task of Shun Army artillery.Moreover, in order to ensure that the cannons could keep up with the army's marching speed, the Marshal's Mansion also specially designed the artillery vehicles and ammunition vehicles.So the end result is that there are all kinds of artillery tools that are now all over the table.

Chapter 332 Expedition One

While Li Zicheng and the others were watching the live-fire artillery drill, Li Laiheng walked up to Li Zicheng and whispered something in his ear.Li Zicheng's face remained unchanged. After watching the artillery exercise, he went down to the plain to talk with the soldiers in formation to express his condolences.

Even if you have never been a leader in the past, someone who has watched too much on TV knows what to say on this occasion.Serve the country faithfully, train well, the soldiers have heard this kind of words too much during the training, so when Li Zicheng faced the soldiers, he only asked: Do you usually eat enough, do you wear warm clothes, are you homesick? The problem.

After a long period of closed-door training, the soldiers were obviously very excited to hear these warm words, which made Li Zicheng a little closer to these recruits.Although he just walked around in front of the army, when Li Zicheng finished his inspection of the soldiers of the three divisions forming a square formation, he felt a little sore holding hands with the soldiers.

After the parade, when leaving the camp, Li Zicheng said to Ren Jirong and Gu Kecheng who presided over the camp training: "The three divisions that have already formed the army must be ready to go out, and the order may come down within three days. I hope that the other two divisions can be formed within the next month, if you have any difficulties, you can bring them up with Song Xiance and Wang Zeyao, and they will handle the coordination work well."

Just as Ren Jirong and Gu Kecheng agreed, Liu Zongmin had already reacted and asked Li Zicheng, "Is the Azig army moving? Can we go out next?"

Looking at the eager eyes of the generals around him, Li Zicheng was also very relieved. At least these generals were finally freed from the hidden worries of failure before. The drills of the new army really brought them a lot of confidence.

Li Zicheng nodded slightly and said: "Go back to the city first, I will have to listen to the report of the general staff to understand the specific situation. Ren Jirong and Gu Kecheng, one of you will stay and prepare for the army's expedition, and go to participate alone A council of war will suffice..."

With the sunlight shining through the glass window, while Song Xiance, Yuan Yuzong, Zuo Yi, Wan Rui, Bu Yongsheng, Li Bingdao, Fan Shoude and others were studying the movement of the Azig army in the map room, Li Zicheng led Liu Zongmin and others The general also stepped in.

This map room is really a sand table made of glutinous rice juice, lime, brick powder and sand on the ground. It not only simulates the ups and downs of the terrain, but also allows people to walk on it and use chess pieces. Deduce the speed and route of the march.

Being able to make such a sand table is inseparable from the map surveying and mapping work carried out by the Marshal's Mansion. Of course, it is still a long time before the topographic surveying and mapping work covering the whole of China. At most, the Jining, Guide, and Xuzhou triangles have been completed. Approximate mapping of the area only.In other areas, the General Staff continued to use old maps and impressions in some people's minds to come up with an estimated result.

But even so, this sand table is still a treasure for the Marshal's Mansion.After all, maps and classics have always been regarded as military secrets by the imperial court. Not to mention that ordinary people rarely see them, even generals of the army, at best, know their own defense areas and main post roads. If they want to know more, You will be suspected of having an evil heart.

That is to say, those scholars, because they do not have any restrictions on reading books and classics, as long as you can get in touch with them, you can use the records in these books to piece together the general shape of China and the world.Of course, because of poverty, many scholars have no access to these miscellaneous books, or they are unable to purchase so many books that have nothing to do with the imperial examination. Naturally, they don't know much about the shape of the world.

Many generals of the Peasant Army and the former Ming Army did not get a general idea of ​​the territory of their country until the General Staff created this large sand table.For them, this is naturally a great treasure.

Only someone who traveled across the world would not regard this map as a treasure, and ordered that geography courses must be taught in all elementary schools, so that those elementary school students can understand what the territory of their country looks like from an early age.Many officials and generals objected to someone's decision, thinking that educating the common people to understand geography is likely to create a group of unscrupulous careerists.

This sentence sounds familiar to someone. Some people in later generations also removed the cutest person from the textbook in the name of too cruel war, and replaced it with the honest and trustworthy American president who cut the cherry tree or The American inventor who used mirror reflection to perform surgery seems to be able to cultivate a group of positive, optimistic and caring Chinese young people.