Chapter 363: Military Parade

In the square, someone whispered: "If the Tartars take advantage of the military parade to attack and the team is on the march, won't our army be defeated?" ”

Another said, "What are you worried about? Since the prince dares to parade, he must have a means to deal with it! ”

In fact, Wang Yu was not afraid that the Qing army would take advantage of his parade to send cavalry to sneak attack, the scouts of the Ming army on the periphery of Yuezhou were not vegetarians, if the Qing army dared to come, they sent a signal, and the troops under review could immediately turn into a combat state, so the Qing army, which only relied on cavalry to run long distances, would automatically hit the muzzle of the gun. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoWhat's more, there are still infantry and artillery in the north of the city who are on standby and did not participate in the parade.

The infantry phalanx marched through the reviewing stand in a neat manner to the beat of drums, and the muskets on their shoulders hung with shining bayonets, passing in a neat formation, like a forest of moving bayonets.

"Wan Sheng! Wansheng! When the team passed through the review stand, thousands of people shouted in unison, and the roar resounded through the sky.

After the musket phalanx passed, followed by the ironclad troops. The number of ironclad soldiers was relatively small, only 600 people, 15 people in a row, 40 rows in depth, lined up in a neat formation, and the heavy armor made a metallic collision sound, and slowly walked through with a sonorous sound.

Each ironclad soldier was draped in plate armor with a glittering silver light all over his body, and the armor on his chest was still protruding forward, allowing the weapons attacking on it to slide through. The Ironclad wears a white helmet on his head and an iron mask on his face, revealing only two eyes. The arms and legs are protected by iron armor, and even the shoes on the feet are made of iron, and the whole body is wrapped like an iron can.

"Oh my God! A body of iron armor, such a fine iron armor, how much silver does such a body get? Some of the onlookers exclaimed.

Another person said: "Such iron armor, no matter how you say it, you can get two or three thousand taels of silver on your whole body, right?" Six hundred and one people, even if one person has two thousand taels of silver, this will be one million and two hundred thousand taels of silver! ”

In fact, the iron armor is not so expensive, the iron armor on the iron armor is forged by hydraulic machinery, due to the use of hydraulic machinery forging, coupled with the development of smelting technology, the birth of a large blast furnace and a series of technological advances, the iron armor on each iron armor is worth six hundred taels of silver, plus the equipped horse cutting knife, bow and arrows and grenades, on average, each iron armor soldier is worth more than 1,200 taels of silver, and it is not as expensive as the horse lance cavalry.

The ironclad soldier carried a long knife for chopping horses, this kind of knife weighed more than 20 catties, and was made of fine steel, and the cost of a knife was about 400 taels of silver. The whole body of the ironclad soldiers, including weapons and armor, weighs more than 60 catties in total, so every ironclad soldier is a strong man, they are strong in combat, and they are the most elite melee infantry.

The next to pass was the mountain soldiers, those mountain soldiers composed of Yi, Miao, Yao and Gu, who were born warriors in the jungle.

Like the infantry troops, the mountain corps was a 1,000-strong platoon, with a horizontal squad of 20 men and a column of 50 men. The mountain soldiers wore green military uniforms and green-painted rattan armor, and the first row of mountain soldiers carried axes on their shoulders, a rattan plaque on their left arm, and grenades and short guns around their waists; The second platoon of mountain soldiers carried heavy swords on their shoulders and grenades and short guns around their waists; The third platoon of mountain soldiers carried muskets on their shoulders and grenades and waist knives around their waists; The fourth platoon of mountain soldiers carried bows and arrows on their backs, and grenades and waist knives hung from their waists; The fifth platoon of mountain soldiers had Miao knives, short guns and grenades hanging from their waists, and rattan plaques hanging from their left arms. The sixth platoon of mountain soldiers is the same as the first platoon, the seventh platoon is the same as the second platoon, and so on.

Each mountain soldier wears a different color of feathers on his head, and these colors symbolize the colors of their nation. As the mountain soldiers passed, the colorful feathers of their hats jumped with the pace, like colorful clouds.

"These are the elite of the so-called madman army!" An audience member in the square said.

"Are they better than the Ironclads?" Someone asked.

An old man with white hair and beard said: "Compared with the ironclad soldiers, they have their own merits, but the things on these crazy soldiers are not so expensive, and they can be trained in large quantities. ”

While they were talking, someone shouted: "Cavalry, look, the cavalry is coming!" ”

The old man looked up, but saw a group of officers and soldiers on horseback on the road. The old man looked at the soldiers on horseback, and saw that they were not wearing red uniforms, but colorful green uniforms, and these cavalrymen carried muskets on their backs, and they also had short guns and grenades hanging from their waists, and a short knife. The cavalry drove the tall Don hippopotamus, their hooves trampling the ground and making rhythmic crashing sounds, and clattered past the reviewing stand.

This cavalry squad consisted of ninety-eight people, two cavalrymen in the front, and a row of eight in the back, a total of twelve rows of cavalry, which was not very many.

The old man said: "This is not an ordinary cavalry, this is a night that does not collect!" It's the most elite soldier! ”

After the night rangers passed, they were followed by a row of fifteen men and twenty columns of musketeers, these musketeers were also wearing red military uniforms, and wore black large-brimmed soft felt hats on their heads, which looked a bit similar to large-brimmed six-petal helmets, but this kind of soft felt hats had no protection, and these musketeers did not have armor, no bayonets on their muskets, no grenades on their waists, only two double-barreled short guns and a short knife.

"None of these soldiers are armoured?" Someone asked.

The old man said, "These soldiers should be long-range gunslingers, and they don't need armor. Except for the cannons that the Tartars could hit them with their cannons, neither bows and arrows nor firebolts could hit them that far. ”

The group of musketeers in the past are all skirmishers, in fact, rifled gunners, they do not fight in formation, but roam freely on the battlefield, shoot freely, take advantage of the long range of rifled guns, specialize in shooting the opponent's archers, destroy the formation of the opponent's musketeers, and even concentrate stragglers to kill the opponent's artillery.

After the rifled gun platoon passed, it was followed by a platoon wearing colorful green uniforms, riding horses, and carrying muskets, and the scale of this platoon was not large, there were only seven people in a row, a total of ten platoons, plus the first two people, a total of seventy-two people. The muskets they carried were also strange, half of them with a monocular.

Needless to say, it is also known that these used to be sniper squadrons.

Next, in the past, it was Bai Wenxuan's wolf soil soldier team, although the wolf soil soldiers were elite troops like the mountain soldiers of the Qiongzhou army, but in terms of equipment, Bai Wenxuan's wolf soil soldiers were obviously inferior to Wang Xinyu's mountain soldiers, and the neatness of the team and the coordination of actions were obviously inferior to the mountain soldiers.

After that, the newly attached military teams such as the Guangdong Army and the Fujian Army were not neat enough, and the pace was not very consistent, and after walking about fifteen steps, they had to stop and rearrange the formation.