It is unparalleled to have good fortune. Since Xiao Tugeng brought good news about firearms, it is natural for Xingzai to report bad news urgently.

Fortunately, the news was not completely bad, it was just a small trouble: Emperor Chongzhen ordered the journey to Yanzhou, just as the crown prince planned that day, but after the large group of people left Tai'an Prefecture, the emperor, who refused to be at peace, led a group of eunuchs to seize the horses and headed north to Shulu County.

Liu Ruoyu sent the news as soon as possible, but he was powerless to stop it. The civil servants of the Eastern Palace Department could only contact each other and asked someone to escort them, and did not dare to recover them. Otherwise, who would be able to bear the charge of detaining the emperor? In addition, Jiang Yueguang and a group of officials from the south were fanning the flames, which completely confirmed the fact that His Majesty the Emperor was hunting north.

"When His Majesty the Emperor's Majesty was the prince, he often visited in contemporaneously. Now, if I do this, what can I be surprised about?" Zhu Cixuan said helplessly.

Wu Xuan had no choice but to say, "Your Highness, should you send troops to help me?"

Zhu Cixuan asked in front of a group of staff officers: "The war is imminent, where can I draw troops?"

"Can the Firearms Division?" You Shiwei said: "Originally, there was no weapon in the Firearms Division in this battle."

"I just came and asked them to turn back, which was too harmful to morale." Zhu Cilang shook his head and said, "And I also want to see the tactical effect of the flintlock rifle on the battlefield."

"Then draw a division in the Preparatory Battalion?" You Shiwei said again: "Although they are all new recruits who have not experienced the battle formation, as long as there are enough people, no one dares to mess with them."

The organization of the reserve battalion is larger than that of ordinary battalion heads. In addition to a standing teaching department, there are also three to five recruits. This time, as the general reserve team, the main purpose is to let the recruits see the battlefield and experience the atmosphere, and they do not expect them to increase their combat effectiveness.

"Okay. I'll draw a military preparation department to serve as a training department." Zhu Cixuan called Min Ziruo and asked him to pass on the order.

Five minutes later, the Tang horse, who had contacted first, ran out of the camp.

Fifteen minutes later, the First Division of the Preparatory Battalion War Soldiers was completed and walked out of the gate in neat steps.

Zhu Cixuan quickly put the news of the emperor's father's arrival behind him. He studied the tactics of the phalanx with the General Staff and the officers of Xiao Mo's First Battalion. The Dashun peasant militia, who had poor organizational skills and could only fight "stupid wars", was actually quite similar to Qi Jiguang's dealing with Japanese pirates back then. The main combat goal was actually a small number of professional soldiers with high combat qualities.

Li Zicheng just had more militia than the Japanese pirates.

The Qing army was much better than Li Zicheng in terms of individual combat qualities and overall combat effectiveness. As a fishing and hunting nation who made a living by robbery, Manchus had to learn to seize living materials from harsh natural environments or other tribes since childhood, which was equivalent to learning and practicing in the preparation camp. After adulthood, they wore armor and went to battle. As long as the superior gave orders, they knew what they should do. They could grow into veterans.

In this case, Qi Jiguang's early mandarin duck formation exposed an inability to reach. In fact, after Qi Jiguang was transferred to Jizhou, he also made rectifications on the mandarin duck formation in the face of the Mongolian Tartar cavalry. In addition to expanding the organization, he focused on the construction of chariot camps and large firepower supplies camps.

Zhu Cixuan also considered strengthening the car camp, using chariots and sideways to form a movable "car city" and using large firepower to defend. Judging from Qi Jiguang's record, as long as the firearm equipment rate reaches 50%, it is enough to carry out devastating blows on the enemy.

Qi Jiguang's vehicle firearm equipment rate was 43.6%, and the equipment rate of the archery camp reached 48%. The highest firearm configuration was the logistics camp, up to 58.7%. In the end, "the sound of artillery continues, that is, it will be delivered all day and night. This is the perfect thing."

Now the Eastern Palace is still a cold weapon army. If the battalion artillery is removed, there are only some tiger squat cannons and landmines, as well as a small number of swarms, and the firearm equipment rate is less than 5%.

"If there are not enough firearms, you will definitely not be able to use Checheng." You Shiwei said: "As Qi Jiguang said, all he relies on is firearms. If the firearms are disabled, how can the car be controlled? The train camp of Sun Duke's train camp was defeated in Jia County that day, because it was raining heavily, and the firearms were destroyed. The long spear formation that Your Highness once said was a good idea."

"And the training is faster." Xiao Mo added.

Just in terms of training speed, the Mandarin Duck Formation is definitely difficult to practice than the long spear formation. The various changes of the formation alone require soldiers to have sufficient understanding and long-term training. The long spear formation is simple in shape, with fewer tactical actions, and the tactical cooperation between each other is far less than that of the Mandarin Duck Formation.

It can also be seen from the European battlefield that in an era of alternating hot and cold weapons, whether it is the Spanish phalanx or Gustav II's Swedish phalanx, they all have their era significance.

"If this formation is actually a city of people." Zhu Ciyang did describe the Spanish phalanx to the Maurice, and even the Swedish phalanx of Gustav II. And these are not the privileges of time travelers, because people learned about the story of the Thirty Years' War from the Dutch and Portuguese people in the Ming Dynasty - although the battlefield has only been fought for twenty-six years now.

"If there is not enough firearm equipment, it is still impossible to guarantee a blow to the Manchus." Zhu Cixuan concluded.

"Your Highness, whether it is the Liao and Jin cavalry, or the Donglu cavalry today, there are rules to not rush into the array." You Shiwei knew his role and paid more and more attention to reading books. Fortunately, the Song people's military records were quite detailed, which opened his eyes. Especially the Song and Jin and Song and Xia wars were quite worth learning from.

Later generations often seek peace because of the annual tributes of the Song Dynasty and the emperor hunted north. They thought that the Song Dynasty's military strength was weak, so they called it "weak Song". In fact, carefully calculating the winning rate of foreign wars, the Northern Song Dynasty was even higher than that of the Tang Dynasty.

"I think," You Shiwei said, "I follow the example of the Song people assembled infantry with heavy armor, holding long spears, and forming a square array, and slowly advancing. The square array is supplemented by artillery, mandarin duck formation, crossbowmen, and our own cavalry array, which is enough to defeat the Donglu's cavalry and armor soldiers."

When You Shiwei proposed to re-arm the infantry, veterans such as Li Changling, Wang Shiqin, and Wang Shiguo in the General Staff also came to their heads. It seems that they had already discussed it privately.

"After the firearms are in large numbers, even heavy armor is meaningless and destined to be eliminated." Zhu Cilang hesitated a little.

"Your Highness shouldn't think so." You Shiwei said seriously: "Who can know the future? Now the current situation is that the Donglu focuses on heavy armor. In the past, my white armored Bayala was the most brave among the Donglu. They often wear two sets of heavy armor! They are simply invulnerable to swords and guns, and even firearms can't penetrate him."

At that time, the quality of the Ming army's bird guns was not good, and the soldiers did not dare to put enough gunpowder, for fear of explosion, so the range and power would naturally be greatly reduced. However, the Manchus focused on heavy armor and charged, which did cause great shadows on the Ming soldiers who lacked heavy armor.

"Our army can first match heavy armor. Even if it is useless in the future, it will only cost some silver." Li Changling said.

Zhu Cixuan pursed his lips gently and decided to make a decision: "I am a petty man! As the General Staff discusses, he is equipped with a heavy armored spear barracks!"

"I ask Your Highness to select a new camp from the preparatory camp and form a square camp." You Shiwei said.

"I am afraid that there will be too many casualties, no heavy armor or firearms," ​​Zhu Ciyang shook his head and said, "This time the enemy has only 4,000 people in total, and it is difficult to test the tactical effect of the square formation. In this way, I plan to set up a new unit as the General Equipment Department to be responsible for the allocation and raising a large amount of military funds. Who do you think can be appointed?"

The original equipment supply of the Donggong armed system depends entirely on local solicitation, and then it is compiled by the Finance Department and allocated to each battalion. When it is small, the problem is not big. Now the Finance Department has basically been incorporated into the Ministry of Revenue and performs the functions of the Ministry of Revenue. In addition, the Donggong military power is becoming more and more powerful, Yao Tao is probably exhausted. With the increase of artillery factories, weapons factories, and gunpowder factories, independent equipment departments are imperative.

"I am willing to go." Wang Shiqin recommended himself: "When I was in Liaodong, I also supervised the weapons."

The General Equipment Department must fill in civilian personnel in the Eastern Palace system, and also recruit skilled staff from the gunpowder factory and the artillery factory. Sending a veteran to serve as the chief officer is nothing more than to put the shelf first and set the specifications. At the same time, it would be even better if it could bring some heroic spirit to this new department.

Zhu Cilang nodded. Wang Shiqin was originally the rank of general and was awarded the rank of general, which was enough to take on this responsibility. As for whether he could do well, it can always be seen in the face of strict supervision and strict examination methods. (To be continued...)
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