"Knock knock... Knock knock knock ......"

On the Qingzhou school ground, the soldiers of the 500 pioneer battalion lined up in a column and marched forward, and the soldiers put the flintlock pistols on their shoulders and walked to the destination step by step in an orderly manner to the beat of the drum. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhu Siwu stood on the side of the column, and also marched with the vanguard battalion to the beat of the drum.

The training began three days earlier when the pioneer battalion had been equipped with flintlock muskets, and the officers had marched with slogans in their mouths at first, but two days later two small drums were sent to the barracks.

Niu Ben randomly ordered two soldiers from the pioneer camp to be specially responsible for beating drums.

Since it is a line battle, in future wars, it will be difficult for the army to "march in unison" without a unified voice, and the effect of the drum will be reflected at that time. ”

And when Zhu Wuliu asked why, Niu Ben replied to him like this, it is said that this was said by His Royal Highness in the Army Academy of Bowen College, and this drum was also requested by His Highness to be made.

Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly saw that the queue was crooked, and he immediately picked up a stick and walked over, facing each of the three crooked soldiers.

There was a hard twitch on the buttocks, and the three soldiers kept baring their teeth in pain, and immediately readjusted their pace to merge into the queue.

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

Although he didn't understand the purpose of such a slow and rhythmic march, he believed that everything His Highness had decided was right.

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

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

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

After all, the current Qingzhou army has expanded to 20,000 people, not a few thousand people in the Lu Fei era, and without enough generals, it is impossible to effectively command soldiers in the war.

Xiao Mingju reviewed all these people promoted by Niu Ben, and he was very satisfied with Niu Ben's choice.

Because this list coincides with what he thinks, Niu Ben has no selfish intentions.

"Your Highness, what is this?"

At this time, there was a huge sand table with a length and width of six meters long and wide placed on the army academy, and the content of the sand table was the terrain from the line of Bingzhou, Jizhou, and Cangzhou to the land occupied by the barbarians.

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

In the first two days of teaching, Xiao Ming mainly lowered some basic musket team training knowledge, and asked Niu Ben to go back to implement it.

On the battlefield, the array of muskets is the most important, after all, flintlock pistols do not rely on precision, but on the density and persistence of bullets on a single surface.

"This thing is called a sand table, it is used for battle deduction, and there are some wood carvings at your hands, which represent the Qingzhou army and the barbarians.

Niu Ben picked up a wooden carving, which was an image of a soldier carrying a flintlock pistol, the size of a finger.

"It's artillery." Luo Xin interestingly picked up an artillery wood carving and played with it.

Lu Fei was not idle, he picked up the wooden carvings of two cavalry and collided, the two cavalry were the barbarian cavalry and the Qingzhou cavalry.

Niu Ben glanced at the sand table, looked at the wood carvings again, and quickly figured out the use of these wood carvings.

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

The other lieutenants suddenly showed excited looks.

I have to say that Niu Ben is a natural general, and he understands the reform of the army very quickly, Xiao Ming said: "Niu Dudu's demonstration you probably also understand, this sand table is just a more specific map, today on the sand table we will deduce how to drive the barbarians out of Youzhou." ”

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

Everyone nodded when they heard this, Niu Ben first said: "Your Highness, if you want to defeat the barbarian cavalry in Youzhou, this cavalry is indispensable, Lei Ming has gained a lot on the battlefield during this time, and now the number of Guanning iron cavalry has risen to six thousand, in the opinion of the last general, although the musket team is enough to fight with the barbarians outside Cangzhou City in terms of range and power, but it is still difficult to pursue the scattered barbarian cavalry without cavalry, and the last general suggested that Lei Ming should take the Guanning Iron Cavalry and Qingzhou Cavalry to practice together, after all, if it is wartime, the scattered Guanning Iron Cavalry will suffer. ”

"What Niu Dudu said makes sense, now not only the musket team must be trained, but also the cavalry must be strictly trained, and they will cooperate with each other on the battlefield, and they must rely on cavalry to pursue the defeat of the barbarians." Xiao Ming said.

"If so, should the cavalry also be armed with flintlock muskets?" Qi Guangyi asked, he was the cavalry general.

Xiao Ming shook his head, "That's right, you will also be equipped with flintlock pistols, but unlike the musket team, you are equipped with short-barreled muskets, because you will not be able to operate long-barreled flintlock pistols on the horse, and your plate armor will also be eliminated." ”

"Take off the plate armor?" Qi Guangyi was very excited when he heard that he could be equipped with a musket, but Xiao Ming's words behind him shocked him, and he argued: "Your Highness, take off your plate armor, how can our cavalry resist the arrows of the barbarians." ”

Xiao Ming pondered for a moment and said: "The elimination of plate armor is because the flexibility of plate armor on the horse is too low, but eliminating plate armor does not mean that you have no armor, in the future, you will be equipped with cuirass and sabers, and become cuirassiers." ”

The reason why he cultivated his cavalry in this direction was that Xiao Ming actually had his own ideas.

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

In the face of barbarian arrows, cuirassiers wearing helmets and cuirassiers have good defense, and their flexibility and mobility are greatly improved, which is more than enough to pursue and clean up the battlefield.

However, the only drawback is that the short-barreled musket, like the three-eyed musket, is only two shots in battle, and cannot be used continuously, but since there is a labor-saving musket, it does not need to be used in vain when fighting in regular combat, and it may be able to scare the barbarian war horses.

As for the pulley crossbow, it was originally used by Guan Ning Tieqi to fight the autumn wind and sneak attacks, and it didn't have to be eliminated, after all, the sound of the musket was too loud, and it couldn't be used to do sneaky things.

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

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

(To be continued.) )