Iron Dynasty

Dong dong dong... dong dong dong...

On the Qingzhou school grounds, five hundred pioneer battalion soldiers were marching forward in a column. The soldiers held their flintlock guns on their shoulders, and stepped on the drums to their destination step by step.

Zhu Siwu stood on one side of the column, also marching with the vanguard battalion on the drum beat.

This kind of formation training began three days ago after the Pioneer Battalion was equipped with flintlock guns. At the beginning of the march, the officers carried slogans, but two days later, two small drums were sent to the barracks.

Niu Ben randomly ordered two soldiers from the Pioneer Battalion to be specially responsible for drumming.

Because it is a line operation, in future wars, it will be difficult for the army to step in step without a unified voice, and the role of the drum sound will be reflected in time.

And when Zhu Wuliu asked why, Niu Ben answered him like this. It is said that this was what His Highness said at the Army Academy of Bowen College, and that this drum was also made by His Highness.

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly saw the queue walking crookedly, he immediately picked up the stick and walked over, facing the three soldiers who were walking crookedly, each with a stick.

Being slapped hard on the buttocks, the three soldiers kept baring their teeth in pain, and immediately readjusted their pace and merged into the queue.

Turning back, Zhu Siwu stared closely at the queue of soldiers again.

Although he did not understand the purpose of such a slow and rhythmic march, he believed that all decisions made by His Highness were correct.

The only thing he was looking forward to was when it was their turn to study at Bowen Academy.

While he was thinking about it, Niu Ben, Luo Xin, Lu Fei, Xian Guangyi, Di Ying, Bai Mu, Zhao Gong and others were receiving a new war teaching at Bowen College.

After Niu Ben took over the Qingzhou Army, he quickly promoted several outstanding captains from the Kokang captains in Qingzhou, and selected some Kokang captains from among the excellent centurions.

After all, the current Qingzhou Army has expanded to 20,000 people, not the thousands of people in Lu Fei's time. Without enough generals, it is impossible to effectively command soldiers in the war.

Xiao Ming has reviewed all those promoted by Niu Ben, and he is very satisfied with Niu Ben's choice.

Because this list coincided with what he thought, Niu Ben had no selfishness.

Your Highness, what is this?

At this time, there was a huge sand table six meters long and wide on the Army Academy. The content on the sand table was the terrain from Bingzhou, Jizhou, Cangzhou to the land occupied by the barbarians.

And the terrain marked the number of barbarian troops in front of him that he could detect.

In the first two days of teaching, Xiao Ming mainly reduced some basic training knowledge of the musket team, and let Niu run back to implement it.

On the battlefield, the array of the musket team is the most important. After all, the flintlock does not rely on accuracy, but on the density and continuity of bullets on one surface.

This thing is called a sand table, and it is used for battle deductions. You have some wood carvings by your hand, and these wood carvings represent the Qingzhou army and the barbarians.

Niu Ben picked up a wooden sculpture, which was the image of a soldier carrying a flintlock gun, only the size of a finger.

This is an artilleryman. Luo Xin picked up an artilleryman's wooden sculpture and played with it.

Lu Fei was not idle either. He picked up the wood carvings of two cavalrymen and collided. The shapes of the two cavalrymen were barbarian cavalry and Qingzhou cavalry.

Niu Ben glanced at the sand table, then looked at the wood carvings, and quickly understood the usage of these wood carvings.

He picked up a wooden sculpture of an artillery soldier and placed it in the position of Cangzhou City, and took a wooden sculpture of a barbarian cavalry and placed it in the place of the Chagatai silver tent of the Blood Wolf Tribe.

The other captains suddenly froze, showing excited expressions.

It has to be said that Niu Ben is a natural general, and he has a very quick understanding of the reform of the army. Xiao Ming said: You can probably understand Niu Dudu's demonstration. This sand table is just a more specific map. Today we are in the sand table. Let's deduce how to drive the barbarians out of Youzhou.

After a pause, At the same time, on the sand table, this king will also demonstrate a musket formation to deal with cavalry. You must keep in mind that when you go back, focus on training soldiers how to quickly form this hollow phalanx.

Everyone nodded when they heard the words, and Niu Ben said first: Your Highness, the cavalry is indispensable to defeat the barbarians in Youzhou. Lei Ming has gained a lot on the battlefield during this period of time, and now the number of Guanning cavalry has risen to 6,000. People, from the point of view of the last general, although the musket team has the range and power to fight the barbarians outside Cangzhou city, it is still difficult to chase down the scattered barbarian cavalry without cavalry. Qingzhou cavalry trains together, after all, if it is wartime, the scattered Guanning cavalry will suffer.

What Dudu Niu said makes sense. Now not only the musket team needs to be trained, but the cavalry must also be trained strictly. They cooperate with each other on the battlefield. To defeat the barbarians, they must rely on the cavalry to pursue them. Xiao Ming said.

If so, should the cavalry also be equipped with flintlock spears? asked Qi Guangyi, who was the cavalry general.

Xiao Ming shook his head, Yes, you are also equipped with flintlock guns, but unlike the musket team, you are equipped with short-barreled muskets, because you can't operate long-barreled flintlock guns right away, and your Plate armor will also be eliminated.

Take off the plate armor? Qi Guangyi was very excited to hear that he could be equipped with a musket, but Xiao Ming's next sentence shocked him. He argued, Your Highness, how can our cavalry resist the arrows of the barbarians when we take off the plate armor.

Xiao Ming pondered for a while, and said, The reason why the plate armor is eliminated is that the flexibility of the plate armor is too low to mount a horse, but the elimination of plate armor does not mean that you have no armor. In the future, you will be equipped with cuirass, sabres, and become cuirassiers. .

Xiao Ming actually had his own ideas for cultivating his cavalry in this direction.

On the battlefield of the eighteenth century, the cuirassiers were very active for a while, and Napoleon's restoration of the cuirassiers in the eighteenth century also proved that the cuirassiers had a good defense on the battlefield and a higher survival rate.

Facing the arrows of barbarians, the cuirassiers with helmets and cuirass have a good defense, and their flexibility and mobility are also greatly improved. They are more than enough to chase and clean the battlefield.

However, the only drawback is that the short-barreled musket, like the three-eyed musket, is only two shots in front of the battle and cannot be used continuously. However, since there is a labor-saving musket, it is unnecessary to use it in regular combat, and it may scare the barbarians. war horse.

As for the pulley crossbow, it was originally used by Guan Ning's iron cavalry to fight the autumn wind, and it was used for sneak attacks.

In response to this question, Xiao Ming explained to Qi Guangyi, and then Qi Guangyi nodded slowly.

Niu Ben said with a smile: His Royal Highness said, but no matter what kind of cavalry, discipline and training are the real weapons. Qi Guangyi, you can't rely too much on weapons.