At the emperor's request, Wu Fangyuan, the commander of the new army, immediately selected a company of the new army to come out and prepare to conduct a confrontation exercise with the company selected by the Beijing battalion.

In order not to lose face in front of Chongzhen, Yu Zhigao picked out the most outstanding company in the queue drill under Shi Hongmo.

The new army sent Yan Yingyuan's company, as the left company of the first training battalion, it happened to be at the front of the new army column, in order not to disturb the new army's queue, Wu Fangyuan casually pointed to this company.

For the generals who stood on the rostrum and watched this company-level confrontation exercise, except for Mao Yuanyi, everyone else was not very optimistic about the new army.

This is because the company establishment of the Beijing battalion is 264 people, while the company establishment of the new army is only 232 people, which is nearly one-eighth less in terms of establishment.

Unlike the Beijing Battalion, which has four general outposts in one company and uses sentinels as its basic combat unit, the company of the New Army is divided into two hundred households, with Xiaoqi as its basic combat unit.

The command level of the Beijing battalion company is three layers: the sentinel, the general general, and the company, while the new army has four layers: small flag, general flag, 100 households, and company.

Each small flag of the new army has 10 people, each general flag has 5 small flags, plus 53 auxiliary commanders, and each 100 households has a total of 112 people under the jurisdiction of 2 general banners, and 200 households have a total of 232 people.

The Beijing battalion company was organized in full accordance with the "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness", and although there were some discrepancies in numbers, the quota of one heavy arquebusier per post had not changed. As for the close-range firearms carried by other people, they can basically only be used to disturb the enemy because of their lack of power and range.

Considering that it was an exercise in front of Chongzhen, and that the power of the Tiger Squat Cannon was difficult to calculate during the exercise, both sides omitted the configuration of this firearm.

Therefore, the long-range attack unit of a company in Beijing should have 16 heavy arquebusiers and 32 part-time archers, a total of 48 people.

On the side of the Forces nouvelles, there were 5 spearmen, 3 light arquebusiers, and 2 heavy arquebusiers for each flag. The 3 arquebusiers were also equipped with socket bayonets, which allowed them to engage in hand-to-hand combat as hand-to-hand combat after the shooting was complete.

Therefore, a company of the new army had 100 spearmen, 100 musketeers, and 32 commanders and fighters.

When Yan Yingyuan commanded his company to enter the exercise venue, after looking at the complicated military formation set up by the other party, he only thought for a moment, and then ordered his company to line up in a simple horizontal formation.

The spearmen were divided into three horizontal columns, arranged in the center, with 40 men in each of the first two rows and 20 men in the last row.

The musketeers, on the other hand, were flanked by the spearmen and divided into two horizontal teams. 40 heavy musketeers in front and 60 light musketeers in the rear.

The distance between the left and right of the spearmen is 064 meters, which is just enough for them to perform the simplest stabbing movements, and they cannot perform their personal skills of moving left and right, and if the movement is too large, they will be blocked by their colleagues on the left and right.

The distance between the front and rear of the spearmen was 192 meters, and according to the military system, the marching stride was 075 meters per step. In other words, the spearman in the front row could only take a step back at most, and then he was firmly held up by the soldiers in the back row.

Through strict queue training, soldiers are forced to move only in this small space of square meters that are constantly moving forward during combat, so that each soldier has become an organic part of the queue.

Uninterrupted training will continue to deepen the physical memory of the soldiers in the queue, making them remember that in addition to fighting forward to gain freedom, there are human walls on his left, right, and back that prevent him from escaping.

Moreover, this dense queue can not only reduce the probability of the collapse of the army, but also have a strong resistance to the cavalry.

As for the horizontal line of musketeers on both sides, the distance between the front and rear is the same as that of the spearmen, except that the distance between the left and right has been expanded to 096 meters. The double horizontal line of musketeers on both sides happened to be parallel to the first and second rows of spearmen, and when viewed from the front, it became a plane.

A gap of 25 meters was left between the spearmen and the musketeers on both sides to ensure that the musketeers did not disrupt the order of the spearmen when they fired.

Unlike the front and back of the spearmen, the front and rear of the musketeers are arranged in a diagonal line. The musketeers in the back row were just in the gap between the front lines, after all, the musketeers were asking for firepower, so they had to shoot alternately, not restrict them from retreating.

Yan Yingyuan himself commanded in the middle of the spear queue, while his two hundred households were placed in the musketeers on either side to command. When the entire company of the Forces nouvelles is lined up, its front should be exactly 69 meters.

Compared with the simple horizontal queue of the new army, the Beijing camp is obviously more complicated. The four divided the general post into four parts: the left and right wings, the front and rear armies.

The distance between the front army and the left and right wings is about 1 zhang, and the distance between the front army and the front and rear armies is 3 zhang.

In the space enclosed by the four parts of the front, rear, left and right, is the command center of this Beijing battalion company. Except for the rear army, which formed a phalanx formation, the other three military formations all formed a five-element formation.

The so-called Five Elements Array is actually three horizontal formations and two columns. Four musketeers formed a horizontal formation, positioned in front of the main soldiers, and prepared to disrupt the enemy ranks by attacking with muskets during the engagement.

The next two sentinels are divided into two layers, two flat mandarin duck formations, two rattan players to protect both sides of the team, and in the middle are the long and short soldiers similar to the horizontal team. There are 20 steps between the two floors.

The remaining two sentinels are arranged on both sides of the horizontal team in the form of mandarin duck columns, with a distance of about 10 steps from the horizontal team, these two sentinels are also the so-called ambush soldiers, and after the horizontal team is engaged with the enemy, they will break through from the two flanks of the enemy engagement queue and strike the enemy from the rear of the enemy's flank.

The distance between the regular soldiers of the horizontal team is about 1 step, and the clear step is about 156 meters, which means that the front of the main post is about 36 meters.

The frontal width of the company in Jingying is 115 meters, which is almost two-thirds the length of the front of the opposite company of the New Army.

However, the formation set up by the Beijing camp was too complicated, and even with the help of various banners and golden drums, it took more than three times the time of the new army on the opposite side to line up. It has not taken more than 10 minutes for the new army to enter the exercise site and expand into formation.

It took more than half an hour for the Beijing camp to complete the queue, and the chaos of sorting out the formation during the period made the faces of several generals in the Beijing camp a little ugly.

However, after the queue of the Beijing camp was completed, it suddenly overwhelmed the new army company on the opposite side in terms of momentum. If you just look at it from the formation, the thin array of the new army has just been swallowed by the queue spread out by the Beijing camp.

Even a few staff officers of the General Staff who had been on the battlefield felt at this moment that as long as the company of the Jingying kept moving forward in formation, the main troops resisted the frontal attack of the new army, and the troops on both flanks went around the flank of the new army to attack, then the battle would be considered a sure victory.

After all, the school field is not a real battle, and many things cannot be revealed, and it can only be used as the basis for judging victory or defeat based on whether a certain side has an advantage. When one side is outflanked, according to the tradition of the Ming army on the battlefield, it can almost be ruled that this force has been completely annihilated.

Under the rostrum of Chongzhen, the distance between the two armies was 200 paces, about 300 meters. When the trumpeters on the rostrum fired their cannons, the two armies began to slowly advance against each other.

The first 50 moves were at a normal pace, so the formation was very intact. When the distance between the two sides was about 100 paces, both sides entered the charging phase.

Entering the brisk pace at a normal pace, the two sides will enter a head-on engagement in about 2 minutes.

When the two armies entered within 100 paces, the trumpeters of the Chinese army on the side of the Beijing camp suddenly blew the horn. Each time the horn sounded, one of the four musketeers in front of the main soldier fired a shot, and then began to reload.

When the horn sounded, the four pikemen in the first stratagon stepped forward with bows, and the boring palladium stepped forward with rockets in hand, and ran to the place where the musketeers were standing.

According to the regulations, the pikemen fired 9 times before engagement, and the palladium borer fired once. When the two armies are 60 paces apart, the Chinese army beats the drum, and the second horizontal team will step forward to pass through the gap of the front team, block the front team and engage the enemy, generally speaking, it will meet and confront the enemy army about 20~30 steps in front of the front team.

At the same time, the two flank columns began to outflank the enemy, and it was necessary to shake the morale of the enemy army. The pikemen and palladium boring men, who had finished firing their arrows, returned to the queue, ready to take over the attack of the sentinels ahead.

36 bows and arrows, 2 rockets, 4-6 muskets, and the front of the Forces nouvelles received 40 attacks before engaging the enemy. According to Qi Jiguang's own calculations, the hit rate of this projectile attack is about 20-30%.

According to theoretical calculations, the first platoon of spearmen of the new army should have lost a quarter of its numbers. If on the battlefield, such losses naturally lead to demoralization and confusion among the first platoon sergeants.

However, since it was only an exercise, 10 soldiers in the first platoon of the Forces nouvelles were singled out as killed, and the exercise continued.

The musketeers on both flanks of the new army did not open fire when they were 100 paces away from the enemy, and it was not until the two armies were 60 paces apart that the heavy musketeers in the front row stopped and fired a volley. At this distance, according to the multiple tests of the Ordnance Inspectorate, it should be 40-45% of hits.

Considering that the mandarin duck formation of the soldiers in Beijing was relatively sparse, the hit rate was judged to be 35%, and then within 30 paces of the two armies, the light arquebusiers of the new army came forward, and the hit rate was as high as 50-60%.

These two shots had almost wiped out the front and rear two layers of the two flanks of the Beijing camp, and only the 4 sentinel columns were left as ambushes.

As soon as the light arquebusiers on both flanks of the new army finished firing, they took out their bayonets and pressed their muzzles, and turned into a 5x6 phalanx to protect the flanks of the spearmen.

At this time, the heavy arquebusiers of the new army, who had been loaded, were divided into three rows and inserted into the middle of the phalanx of spearmen and light arquebusiers, and continued to fire alternately in front under the protection of the two flanks.

The musket with the bayonet was about 186 meters, while the Ming standard spear was 4 meters, and the musketeers of the new army obviously suffered a loss in terms of length. But if it's just for defense, it's obviously not that bad.

The elimination of the regular soldiers on both flanks has led to the fact that the new army is now surrounded by the front army of the Beijing camp. The Beijing Battalion Array, which was originally relatively sparse in formation, was soon fully broken through by the new army.

The Chinese army, which had lost the protection of the front army, had to abandon the flag and drum music of the command and run to the rear army. Without the central command of the Chinese army, the outposts of the Beijing camp were suddenly separated and surrounded and eliminated by the new army.

If this was not an exercise, then the Beijing camp should have been completely defeated when the Chinese army wavered, but now it can still stalemate and add some casualties to the new army, so that its loss is not so ugly.