Before dawn the next morning, several hundred officers and men of the Shanxi guerrilla detachment took several river machine sailing boats and entered the Yellow River from the mouth of Yuntiguan and sailed all the way west to Henan.

This time, the board of directors committee of the company passed the plan submitted by Li Ming and Zhou Billy by unanimous vote at the time of resolution. Everyone is quite supportive of this plan and is looking forward to it.

The plan drawn up by Li Ming and Zhou Billy was extremely huge, that is, they wanted to take advantage of the great drought in Chongzhen to establish a number of subordinate people's army units in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, and strive to establish a base area in various parts of the Daimyo, so as to collect the displaced people on the one hand, train grassroots cadres in the Far East in the base area on the other, and implement the same administrative structure and political order as the Far East Company in the base area.

Once the Shanxi guerrilla detachment develops and grows, there will be Shaanxi guerrilla detachments, Henan guerrilla detachments, Hebei guerrilla detachments, Shandong guerrilla detachments and other displaced people armed forces in various parts of Daming in the future.

Until the base areas in various places develop to a certain scale, they will launch a "rebel army of displaced people" to kill the capital, just like Li Zicheng did in history, overthrowing the rule of the Ming Dynasty north of the Yangtze River in one fell swoop. Completely sweep away the gentry class, feudal bureaucrats, and vassal kings in the north, and then the Far Eastern Company will take advantage of the situation to enter the Central Plains and slowly operate north of the Yangtze River.

As for the Jiangnan region of the Ming Dynasty, it will have to wait for the northern part of the Ming Dynasty to be thoroughly digested by the Far East Company, and then it will cross the river. Of course, the Far East Company must also make use of the real outcasts in the Ming Dynasty, and it must also be vigorously supported. They are the real main force that troubles the Ming Dynasty, and they are specially used to attract the hatred of the Ming Dynasty. When the Far East invaded Beijing, they were driven to the south of the Yangtze River and let them continue to cause trouble to the Nanming regime.

The Far East will also form an armed force of tributaries in various parts of the southern part of the Yangtze River and establish base areas. Continue to encroach on the Nanming until the Far East frees up its hands, and then the same means will be used to eliminate the Nanming government.

Therefore, the Far Eastern Company attached great importance to the formation of the Shanxi guerrilla detachment, and not only transferred a large number of elite soldiers and strong generals from various units of the Central Military Commission, but also spared no effort to support all kinds of materials.

This time, the Shanxi guerrilla detachment was accompanied by a fleet of dozens of ships, loaded with a large number of cold weapons, front-loading muskets and artillery, grain, clothing and cloth, various production and living tools, seeds, and other materials produced in the Far East.

Among them, the cold weapon is carefully built by the Far Eastern Company. It's completely different from what was sold to the exile army before. Including the three-edged spear made of stainless steel, the total length of three meters five, using a 500 mm long three-diamond-shaped spearhead, because the Mitsubishi head is particularly sharp, the bottom of the spearhead is tied with red cherry blossoms, which can not only prevent the spear from piercing too deeply, making it difficult for the spearman to draw the spear, but also prevent the blood on the spear head from flowing down the barrel, causing the spearman to slip and unable to exert force.

In addition, there is a one-meter-long part at the end of the spear shaft that is covered with a thin layer of iron. Prevents being cut by a sharp blade. There is also a cast iron blunt hook added to the tail of the spear, which plays a balancing role, and can also insert the spear into the ground when the spear is in a horizontal formation, forming a spear array to resist the horse.

There is also an imitation of the American Cold Steel Company 88CWS machete, in fact, the shape of this machete is the style of the famous 29th Route Army of the Northwest Army. Far Eastern Company uses stainless steel and cold forging with modern machinery and equipment.

Then there is the square shield of one meter and five high. The wooden shield is made of thin iron sheet. Lined with cowhide, there are also two short iron spikes at the bottom of the shield, which are easy to insert into the ground and prevent cavalry from impacting when forming a shield wall.

Front-loading smoothbore cap guns, of course. This must have. Because the grassroots militia of the Far East Musket Militia Company have all been replaced with front-loading rifled musket guns that fire Mini bullets, a large number of arquebuses that have been eliminated have been converted into musket guns by the Far East Company's military factory and directly taken over.

From the several main weapons prepared by the Far East Company for the Shanxi guerrilla detachment, it can be seen that the Far East was prepared for the Shanxi guerrilla detachment to adopt the early Spanish phalanx. As the main field mode of the troops.

There were spearmen, arquebusiers, swords and shields, etc., which fully combined the long-range power of firearms at that time and the thrusting ability of cold weapons such as spears and swords.

In the future, the phalanx adopted by the Shanxi guerrilla detachment was also composed of a large number of spearmen and some musketeers, with the infantry phalanx as the core, steadily advancing or holding the position, and arquebuses and artillery as the main long-range strike force.

In the future, the cavalry units will be strengthened and arranged as reserves on the flanks and flanks to deal with the enemy's outflanking forces at any time. Such a formation gives full play to the firepower strike force and relies on the mutual cooperation between the arms to achieve a kind of complementarity and combat effectiveness on the battlefield.

Each spear phalanx was also equipped with a small number of sword and shield soldiers, and existed as an independent reserve. It can be used as a protective barrier to defend the spear phalanx, or it can be used to raise a shield to block the front of the attacking troops during siege street battles.

It is also possible to throw away the shield and pull out the machete behind their back, as the main assault force of the attacking force, and when the infantry phalanx collapses, the sword and shield soldiers will also become a reserve to stabilize the line of the infantry phalanx. Therefore, the sword and shield bearers of the Shanxi guerrilla detachment must be selected from among the displaced people who are tall and strong, and they can serve as two people.

Although with the further development of technology and tactics, the dense formation of the Spanish phalanx gradually became unfashionable, due to the increasing power and accuracy of firearms, under the blow of artillery, the spearmen had to pay a lot of casualties to maintain the dense formation, and the weakness of the phalanx itself in terms of mobility and flexibility was gradually exposed.

Especially in the Thirty Years' War, the new linear tactics created by Gustavus, the "Lion of the North", showed strong combat effectiveness, which greatly shocked European countries, and the Spanish phalanx gradually began to decline.

But the Far East did not have high tactical requirements for the Shanxi guerrilla detachment, after all, it was only in the Daming region. The main deal was against the local officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty and the landlords, and they only captured a county town and broke the landlord's encirclement or something. When encountering the strongest border army of the Ming Dynasty, you can also top one.

The Far East also does not expect to train all the displaced people into elites, as long as each guerrilla detachment can have a few thousand elite main forces that have undergone strict training and can fight tough battles, it is enough to meet the general combat needs, and the rest still rely on the refugees who have undergone simple training, with the help of huge numerical superiority and the armed forces of all parts of the Ming Dynasty to fight.

Moreover, the company also does not want the guerrilla detachments deployed in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not good if the firepower is too strong. The main task of the guerrilla detachments in the Far East is to gather the displaced people and build base areas. (To be continued......)

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