Lord of Ming Dynasty

Feng Quan said.

"What three ways?" Aobai couldn't help asking.

"Well, the regular army of the Huaxia Army has three formations, Guards Brigade, Field Brigade, and Cavalry Brigade."

"Among them, there are currently only two brigades of the Guards Brigade. The First Guards Brigade is led by Zhang Qiang, the governor of the Huaxia Army. It can defend the capital of the Huaxia Army, Jinhua Prefecture, and can also participate in battles; The former steward Zhu Dayou led the defense of Jinhua Prefecture and Xianju County, Xianju County is an important place for the Huaxia Army to manufacture muskets and artillery, and it is heavily guarded."

"The [-]st Guards Brigade is also a fighting force, the [-]nd Guards Brigade is a garrison force, the [-]st Guards Brigade has casualties, it is replenished from the [-]nd Guards Brigade, and the [-]nd Guards Brigade is supplemented by elite soldiers and generals selected by each field brigade. Soldiers are trained by Retired soldiers or generals who were wounded in battle, or who have gained military exploits, will serve as them."

Aobai interjected, "Isn't this equivalent to the Imperial Guards of the Ming Dynasty, or the current Imperial Guards and the Five Great Battalions of our dynasty?"

Hong Chengchou stroked the beard on his chin, "Almost, but the imperial guards of the Huaxia Army are directly led by their coach, and their combat effectiveness is quite strong, just like the personal guards of my founding ancestor Taizu, or Huang Taiji of my dynasty Taizong." The two flags are the same."

Feng Quan nodded, and waited for the two of them to stop talking before continuing: "According to the confessions of those captives from the Huaxia Army, the First Brigade of the Guards has the best guns and artillery, with a staffing of 1 people. The Second Brigade has more cold weapons, more knives and guns, and slightly fewer firearms.

But the weapons used, whether it is armor, weapons, muskets, or artillery, are the same as those of the First Guards Brigade, and they are quite advanced, and their weapons and equipment are all self-produced.

According to the Portuguese, their muskets and cannons are of much better quality than theirs. They used to buy the muskets and cannons of the Huaxia Army. At present, the Thai and Western people in the southeast coast prefer the muskets and cannons of the Huaxia Army. Weapons and armor. "

"Can we make it?" Aobai added in a very unrealistic way.

Feng Quan's face was as red as a pig's liver, and he remained silent for a long time.

"Hmm, Master Feng, continue." Of course Hong Chengchou knew that the muskets and cannons they are producing now are all imitations from the Huaxia Army, and those who imitated others would say that someone else is good, which is a slap in the face.

Has anyone ever seen a copycat that is better than the original?

"Well, let's talk about the field brigade of the Huaxia Army next. Because the Huaxia Army guards the guard brigade very closely, our army is careful, and it is Shanxi businessmen, or the captured soldiers of the Huaxia Army's field brigade. Knowing the specific situation, we can only know a rough idea, so I won’t repeat it here.”

Aobai didn't speak either, but he was worried in his heart, that is to say, those new troops are actually created after the second-rank troops of the Huaxia Army. Doesn't this mean that the combat effectiveness of the Huaxia Army is even higher?

"The field brigade has two types of organization, the large field brigade with firearms as the mainstay, and the small field brigade with cold weapons and cavalry as the mainstay.

The large field brigade, which mainly uses firearms, has a staffing of about 500 to 9000 people. It has three regiments, and one field brigade is directly under the regiment.And the field brigade, brigade headquarters battalion, plus several establishments of the main general's personal guard.

The supply battalion, engineer battalion, artillery battalion, cavalry battalion, and scout cavalry battalion directly under the brigade.

It is said that the artillery battalion has [-]-pounder guns and [-]-pounder guns, which have a longer range and greater power.Although the number of these artillery pieces is not large, there are only a few directly under the jurisdiction of each brigade.

After the reorganization of the Huaxia Army, the large number of artillery in the past has been eliminated or allocated to the ever-increasing field brigades. The division of labor has become more and more refined, and the combat effectiveness has doubled.

The third regiment is composed of two regiments mainly composed of firearms, and the first regiment is divided into cavalry battalions.

The cavalry battalion is divided into a hundred squadrons of Lancers, a hundred squadrons of Dragoons, and a scout cavalry; an artillery battalion is equipped with a hundred squadrons of three nine-pound guns, a hundred squadrons of six six-pound guns, and a hundred squadrons of transportation supplies .

A regiment of 2000 people, two large battalions of 800 people, the battalion has the largest artillery team directly under one hundred households, one pro-guard team, and one logistics team organized by the general banner.

As for the number of soldiers with knives and guns in their establishment, there are fewer and fewer soldiers. A brigade used to have more than half of these soldiers. Now there are only two thousand soldiers in a large brigade of the Huaxia Army. The rest are either cavalry or artillery. A musket can hold as many as four thousand soldiers.

For the small brigade, the number has increased to 8000, and the number of muskets has increased from less than [-] to [-]. The artillery is equipped with a little less, but the cavalry has increased, and the number of soldiers with knives and guns for other cold weapons has relatively decreased.It was only three thousand. ""

Aobai asked: "That is to say, the Huaxia Army is developing firearms and attacking the enemy from a distance. As long as we rush to the front, the Huaxia Army will be at a loss. Their close combat ability is weaker than our army?"

Hong Chengchou did not wait for Feng Quan to answer, and he had the last say on this point, "The Huaxia Army has more cold weapons than fewer, and they will have local garrison troops and local militia troops participating in the war.

These troops, the garrison troops guarantee the food roads, the militia troops transport the grain and grass, and help the regular army's supply troops and engineering troops to transport the grain and grass. If you ignore them, you will suffer.

Because the supply troops and engineering troops are mainly archers and crossbowmen, supplemented by pikemen and sword and shield soldiers.

Moreover, these garrison troops are all former Jinhua Rebel Army troops. They are brave soldiers who dare to fight our army head-on with knives and guns. They are equivalent to our army's Han army flag troops and are also combat troops.

As for the militiamen, they are all veterans or disabled soldiers who retired from the regular army or the garrison, and the leaders of the wounded soldiers participated in the suppression of bandits, or soldiers who fought against the servants of the landlords and gentry on the territory of the Huaxia Army. They are also soldiers. Compared with the green camp troops in our army, they have more courage and combat effectiveness than those cowardly green camp troops. "

Aobai was already so shocked that he could not close his mouth from ear to ear, "This, this, this, all the people are soldiers."

Chapter 379 The Firearms of the Qing Army

Hearing Oboi's exclamation, Hong Chengchou stroked his beard disapprovingly and said, "So what if all the people are soldiers? With the expansion of his territory, he will also feel the difficulty of governing the country. Not everyone can accept them." under strict management.

What is the purpose of studying and becoming an official?

They treat officials as slaves, so that they can't make money and get a certain salary. What can they do with that dead salary?So, they are okay for a while, but after a long time, many people will turn to us or Nanming Kingdom, and they will be chaotic, and we will have an opportunity to take advantage of it. "

Feng Quan didn't listen to Hong Chengchou's self-deception, at least now the Huaxia Army will not have this kind of problem, and now the Qing army has to face hundreds of thousands of Huaxia troops with better equipment and advanced tactics than theirs. There are a lot of people, but as I said to Hong Chengchou just now, hundreds of thousands of troops are still eating empty wages and drinking blood. Can such an army fight?

Even if there were some elite troops, they were the ones who went up to die. Oboi's Manchurian army was elite, but it was only tens of thousands, not enough to influence the situation.

"My lord, at present we need to solve the problem of the manufacture of our army's firearms. Now our army's firearms do not have good materials. The previously stockpiled materials have been used to make firearms. Now there is no good and high-grade iron material. The firearms are not only heavy, but the quality is not very good. If this continues, we will not be able to complete the refitting of all the new troops, and we will not have enough troops to deal with the upcoming decisive battle in half a year."

When Hong Chengchou heard Feng Quan's words, he also felt that it was not the time to be emotional, and it was not the time to magnify the words to Ao Bai, and asked, "How is the quality of our army's muskets now?"

Feng Quan said: "Our army's muskets are heavier than the Huaxia army's muskets, because our army does not have the exquisite mintie that the Huaxia army has. At the same time, our army uses black powder, and the granular gunpowder produced is not as good as the Huaxia army's. The power of our army's matchlocks cannot keep up with the manufacturing and procurement work, resulting in a lot of matchlocks that cannot be ignited, or burn too fast, and so on.

In short, various problems have caused our army to imitate the Huaxia Army Jinkai 1 matchlock gun at a cost of 15 taels of silver, and it is said that the cost of making the Huaxia Army's matchlock gun is only six taels of silver, and the scrap rate is too high, even if it uses a craftsman The responsibility system requires craftsmen to engrave their names on each gun. If the quality is not good, the craftsmen will be killed, but it still can’t solve the problem. Our army’s matchlock guns can fire 2, and the Chinese army can fire 3. In terms of quality, it cannot be compared with Huaxia Army. "

Hong Chengchou stroked the beard on his chin, "That's not a problem. We have many soldiers. You can manufacture them according to the current method, and inferior materials are fine. The quality now is better than the firecrackers made by the Ming army and the guns made by our army before." The quality of the firecrackers does not have to be too good. How can each soldier have the opportunity to fire two hundred, and those who can fire thirty without dying, or not fleeing, are considered good soldiers, and a battle will not take so long to resolve. , the key point is to make the artillery well, and the artillery is the best weapon we can rely on in future battles."

"How is our artillery made?" Hong Chengchou asked again.

"Cannon, we have completely abandoned all the previous standard artillery, and now we are fully producing artillery of the same standard as the Chinese Army. From three-pound guns to eighteen-pound guns. At present, the artillery that our army can produce is from three-pound guns to Nine-pounders, twelve-pounders and eighteen-pounders The artillery produced by our army is too heavy.

Especially the [-]-pound gun, which is huge, bigger than all the biggest guns of our army or the Ming army before, but fortunately, the barrel is long and can hit far, but it is not suitable for fighting with the army.

And it’s inconvenient to move. It needs 36 pack horses, more than 100 people, pulling and pulling, weighing 1 catties, and can hit 3000 meters away. It’s powerful, but he is too heavy and the operation is too complicated to fight with the army . "

Feng Quan said in embarrassment.

Aobai was dumbfounded, patted his thigh and said, "What a cannon, it's even more powerful than the Great General's cannon. The Great General's cannon is only five miles away, about 500 meters to 600 meters away. It is said to be ten miles away. If the cannon can really hit that far and put it on the city wall, that person dares to attack the city, "

Hong Chengchou said: "Master Feng did a good job. This kind of cannon can replace the previous red cannon, the general cannon, and guard the city."

"How about the twelve-pounder?"

Feng Quan said: "The 24-pound gun weighs 2000 catties. It needs [-] horses to drag it. It can hit [-] meters, about four miles. It can only guard the city and the coast."

"Oh, then send this kind of cannon to the mouth of the Pujiang River, put it on the shore, and guard the coast. Although Zheng Chenggong is obsessed with going overseas to find a piece of paradise and establish his Zheng family dynasty, we have to prevent them from suddenly coming from Jiangkou and other places. Climb 6 and attack the Yangzhou government."

"It's my lord." Feng Quan said.

Hong Chengchou asked again: "According to this guess, the nine-pound gun is not very convenient, right?"

Feng Quan blushed a little, but immediately said comfortingly: "Well, there are two kinds of heavy artillery from before. The villain ordered the craftsmen to make the other cannons lighter. Although the nine-pound cannon is still not as light as the Huaxia Army's, it can It’s not too heavy, at 1000 jin, four horses can still be dragged, and the range is two miles away, about 200 meters to [-] meters, and the power is quite good.”

"Oh, this is better than the Huaxia Army's artillery, right?" Hong Chengchou suddenly found that although his own artillery was bulky, it was much better than the Huaxia Army's in terms of range, at least not bad.

Feng Quan said: "It's not much more. Huaxia's nine-pound gun can also hit this far. Their most accurate artillery has a maximum range of 800 meters to 500 meters. The accurate range is similar to ours, 1000 meters to 200 meters. [-] meters."

"It works, it's not bad, four horses are four horses, it's a little bit, it's a little bit, we don't have to attack the Huaxia Army in the future, what we have to do in the future is defense, nine-pound guns plus twelve-pound guns , Ordinary large cities can still take care of it. Putting it on the city and fighting the Chinese army can also cause them heavy casualties. Let's use the nine-pound gun as their eighteen-pound gun, and the six-pound gun as their twelve-pound gun. Cannons are used, although the range and power are not as good as them, but we can build more on the battlefield."