After gaining a certain understanding of the recent developments in the Yiju and Myeongju regions, Chen Xin held a meeting with the assembled officers to discuss military issues. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"When I was at sea, I received several reports that there were some problems with the current preparation, and now you can talk about it in detail."

The captain stood up first and explained, "General, I'll report this matter, after you left, we expanded to the eastern mountains according to the original plan, and I am the military commander who carried out the eastward expansion plan, and I personally experienced all the battles during the eastward expansion period.

While marching on the hilly terrain of the mountain roads, it was found that the squadrons of the four companies plus the squadrons directly under them were slow to line up and had difficulty in turning after encountering a sudden attack; although we relied on superior weapons and tenacious style to repel countless enemy attacks, the major defect of inflexible steering was still not resolved. ”

Chen Xin wrote down this article and said, "Do you think it's a problem with the establishment? ”

The captain affirmed, "Yes, I think it's a staffing problem. ”

"So, tell me about the situation."

"The tactics that our army is training now are to take the squadron as the core, and after encountering the enemy, all the killer platoons will gather in the middle to stabilize the line, and the musketeers will play a firepower advantage on the two flanks.

However, in the actual operation in the mountainous areas, in the lofty mountains with high mountains and dense forests, sometimes the two sides did not find each other's traces until they were fifty or sixty meters apart, and at that time there was no time to set up a formation at that time, so they could only rely on the queue during the march and meet the enemy with companies or even platoons.

However, at this time, there will be a situation where the formation is thick in some places and weak in others, and the squadron command will simply not be able to do a good job of coordinating the four companies plus the directly subordinate teams at the same time.

By the time the formation adjustment is complete, either there are no firearms to stop them, and the enemy has rushed to the front to start hand-to-hand combat, or the enemy has been repelled by powerful firearms stacked together. ”

Chen Xin understood now that the establishment was large, there were too many units under his jurisdiction, and the officers strictly abided by the tactical principles, concentrating all the killer platoons in the middle and the firearms platoon on the two wings, so that they could not deploy their troops in the complex terrain as much as their fingers.

He asked, "So, what's your opinion?" ”

The big cat said, "We did several experiments in the later battles, and the analysis believed that the squadron level should be adjusted to two companies, but in this way, the firepower was a little weak, and we added a firearms platoon at the squadron level, so that after encountering the enemy, everyone quickly formed two basic formations in a company unit, and then slowly approached together, and another firearms platoon could strengthen the fire output in the front, and also serve as a reserve to prevent the enemy from attacking from the flank." ”

"How is the experimental effect of such a preparation?"

"In the face of sudden attacks, I was much more responsive and it was easy to adjust the formation. But in the face of emergencies, the speed is still a little slow. ”

Chen Xin thought about it.

12 students per class;

One platoon, 4 squads, counting the platoon commander and hand artillery, is 50 people;

One company, 2 platoons, including the company commander and 2 drummers, 1 gendarme, and 2 medical soldiers, is 105 people;

One squadron, two companies including the squadron leader, squadron lieutenant, four drum and bugle players, a 50-man firearms platoon, and a 12-man infantry artillery crew, that is 278 people.

A squadron has two platoons of killers, a total of 100 people, and if it is spread out in five columns in depth according to the regulations, it only has a frontal width of less than 20 meters, and the front line is too narrow when confronting Houjin and other enemies head-on.

Shaking his head, he said, "No, you can't reduce it, you only see the inflexibility in complex terrain, but what about in plain terrain?" Two companies of killer platoons can only form a 20-meter frontal line of defense, how many such squadrons do we need to form an effective line of defense with cold weapons to cover the fire of musketeers? ”

The captain has always been sympathetic to the soldiers, and when he saw that Chen Xin disagreed, he still insisted on asking, "But for a period of time in the future, we will still have to rotate in the mountainous areas, and if we can't quickly and effectively let the cold weapons protect the firearms front, I am afraid that our casualties will be relatively large." ”

Chen Xin thought for a while, and suddenly asked, "Our musketeers, what is the current firing speed?" ”

Big Cat, the director of the Military Training Division, immediately replied, "The passing score is 1 shot per minute, and there is still room for improvement, but it takes a long time to train." ”

Chen Xin nodded, calculated in his heart for a while, and said, "Since reducing the number of squadron levels will allow us to take care of one and lose the other, then we will directly make changes in tactics." ”

Everyone looked at it curiously.

Chen Xin took out a pen and paper or wrote and painted, "The firing of arquebuses requires a certain spacing, and in the face of troops equipped with firearms, a certain spacing also needs to be opened, so we will try to let a gap play all the roles."

You see, if you adjust it at the squad level, a killer squad of 12 people forms two groups of 5 columns in depth, with a distance of 90 centimeters between the left and right, and directly subordinates a firearms squad behind them, through a wide gap, to form two groups lined up in columns to carry out uninterrupted rotation shooting.

Wouldn't it be possible to form such two squads into a first-level formation, whether marching or fighting, to be one unit, and not only to react quickly but also to have powerful firepower? ”

After discussing it for a while, everyone thought they could give it a try.

"However, in this case, we have to make a new compilation table, does the general have a draft?"

"I'll start by throwing bricks and discussing it together, that's what I think.

In the future, the two platoon levels of sanitizing hands and firearms will be directly adopted.

The squad is directly composed of a killer squad and a firearms squad, of which there are 2 killer groups, 2 musket groups, a squad leader, and a hand cannon (1 person), a total of 22 people. It can form a column formation with a width of 2 meters or 4 meters, or a horizontal formation with a width of 10 meters or 20 meters.

The group is not an administrative formation, but it can be used as a tactical formation, and the team leader can be a veteran, which can also provide a large number of veterans with room for promotion.

As for the above establishment, it is still two by two, two squads form a platoon, a total of 45 people, two platoons plus heavy weapons groups, form a company, a total of about 100 people.

But when it comes to the squadron, it still needs to be changed. ”

The captain has been fighting a lot recently, and he is very sensitive to this issue, and immediately knew what Chen Xin meant: "The general means that our depth has doubled, but the width of the battlefield has been reduced by half, so do you want to increase the number of personnel at this level?" ”

Chen Xin nodded and said, "That's right, after ensuring flexibility and depth at the minimum level, we must ensure sufficient battlefield width at the squadron level, and we can't let the enemy easily wrap us in dumplings, so I decided to add a few companies at the squadron level, whether it is 6 companies or 8 companies, or even 10 companies, which needs to be practiced by the military commanders of your departments, captain." ”

"Here."

"I have given you this task, and in the subsequent mountain clearance, you will continue to experiment with the quality of various preparations, and come back to me with a report."

"Yes."

After the captain received the order to sit down again, Chen Xing said, "Now that all the weapons of our army will be in place soon, when the squadron is fixed, there will be a title ceremony, everyone should have got the plan, and now there is anything else to ask." ”

Before everyone could speak, a soft voice sitting at the corner of the table came, "General, is our armed guard unit also on the list of awards?" ”

Everyone looked at it in amazement, and it turned out that there was a woman in armor sitting there.

Chen Xin smiled slightly, in order to give full play to all the human resources, he had set up an armed guard force before, and after eliminating several groups of horse bandits, robbers, rebels, and officers and soldiers who had fled to the territory, the armed guard force had been supported by all the people in the territory, and the number of this team had rapidly expanded to 500 people.

And in order to absolutely control this team, which is more powerful than many men, he found a way to create a group of female tiger ben, who quickly became the absolute controller of the armed alert force by virtue of their huge deterrent power that could pull out 300 catties of tensile bows in a row.

The person in front of him is the squadron leader of the armed alert force, one of the female tiger ben, whose name is Li Tianwei.

"Of course there are armed guard troops, and you are also an indispensable part of our army, what's wrong? Does anyone chew the root of the tongue? Do you need an order from me in the name of the shogunate to help you? ”

"General Xie's kindness, no need, we can kick the eggs of any guy who chews the root of the tongue."

The men present suddenly felt a chill surging up from below, and they all snorted.

Chen Xin's face also stiffened, and he coughed dryly and said, "If there is nothing to do, the meeting will be dismissed." ”