Wei Liangdong made a gesture and said excitedly: "What kind of general do you want? What do those little thieves have to fight? Besides, Ben Hou has also read military books, and he is competent enough!"

"That's different, reading the book of war may not make you a good general!" Hearing his words, not only Chang Wei was startled, but even Xu Hongji, who was deep in the city government, changed his face slightly. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Chang Wei hurriedly said: "The book of war is dead, the battlefield situation is changing rapidly, commanding operations is the most complicated thing in the world, many martial arts masters can learn the most difficult and clever martial arts, but when they are put in front of the two armies, they see thousands of troops and horses directly smearing their eyes, and they only know how to rush and kill indiscriminately." ”

"The same person who can be admitted to the top rank, even if he is well-read, has read eighteen cars of military books, and goes to the battlefield like the north and the south, and the generals do not know the soldiers. Master Hou, you think about the battle too simply!"

"What's so difficult?" Wei Liangdong was swept away by Chang Wei's interest, his eyes widened, and he said: "I often go to see the Shenji Battalion drill in the Beijing Division, first bombarding from a distance with artillery, then firing three volleys with gunners, and finally the cavalry charges. After this attack, the enemy was almost destroyed. ”

Huang Qiulin immediately flattered: "Master Hou is really a natural general, the old slave has also watched many drills, but he doesn't understand such a complex military formation. ”

"How can it be so simple!" Chang Wei asked again and again: "Do you know how far the artillery bombardment? How much influence does the wind direction and weather have on the accuracy of the artillery? What is the appropriate distance for the firing distance of the gun?" What terrain is suitable for cavalry charge?"

Wei Liangdong retorted confidently: "I don't know, and I don't need to know, these things are under the command of my subordinate generals! I just need to order the troops, just in line with Qisheng!"

Liu Tingyuan sneered and said: "Lord Hou is clever, for the generals, they should use military strategies to win, and these bloody things are done by their own soldiers." Hou Ye lupine scarf, talking and laughing between the thieves and the ashes, what a majesty that!"

"Okay! Even if those are the affairs of low-ranking officers, do you know how to distinguish between the main force and the bait? What is a defeat and what is a lure to the enemy? When to divide the troops, when to charge, when to retreat, and when to pursue, can you grasp these opportunities? How to command the decisive battle of the main army and the surprise attack? How to protect the baggage and cut off the enemy's grain route? What is the difference between the decisive victory and defeat in the First World War and the guerrilla suppression of bandits? Do you know how much influence geographical advantages have on the victory or defeat of the war......

Chang Wei's series of questions made Wei Liangdong speechless and didn't know how to answer, and even Huang Qiulin and Liu Tingyuan were speechless on the spot, because they didn't understand war at all.

However, Grandpa Xu, who was born in a family, nodded secretly and cast an approving look at Chang Wei.

After being stunned for a while, Wei Liangdong suddenly said: "It turns out that you know how to use soldiers, that's better, can't you just command the battle with me?"

Chang Wei shook his head and said, "If you want me to command a hundred people, this will definitely be no problem." Let me command a thousand people, and I am qualified. Commanding the 5,000-strong Shenji Battalion, I'm barely qualified, at least there won't be any major mistakes. However, when we go to Fengyang, we will definitely command five or six surrounding guards, more than 10,000 horses, which is definitely beyond my ability. ”

Wei Liangdong said reluctantly: "So, you have to find a good general?"

Chang Wei smiled: "What's so embarrassing about this? Just ask Grandpa Xu to borrow a general." ”

Wei Liangdong was persuaded by Chang Wei, Xu Hongji suddenly put his mind at ease, in fact, when Wei Liangdong said that he wanted to personally command the Shenji Battalion, he was most worried about Xu Hongji, the Shenji Battalion was the trump card in his hand, killing a soldier, destroying a firearm would make him feel distressed, how dare he hand it over to Wei Liangdong's hands?

"No problem, I don't know if you have a crush on that general?" Xu Hongji asked lightly.

Chang Wei said: "Fu Zhouzi, the judge of the Fifth Army!"

"Fu Xijue, yes, earlier he fought against Jiannu on the Liaodong front all the year round, and he has rich experience, so I can rest assured that he can lead the troops. Xu Hongji's heart was completely put into his stomach.

Wei Liangdong was not happy to go, "Fu Zhouzi has some skills, but this guy has a bad temper and is not very obedient!"

Chang Wei packed the ticket, "Don't worry, I'm ......"

Chang Wei found Fu Zhouzi and only used one sentence: "Xijue, you are going to go on an expedition!" made Fu Zhouzi extremely excited.

If you want to go on the expedition, of course, you must first be familiar with your own army, and obtain the military talisman seal letter from Grandpa Xu and Liu Tingyuan, and Fu Zhouzi and Chang Wei will become the commanders of the Shenji Battalion respectively.

The establishment of the Shenji Battalion is very different from that of ordinary guards: in peacetime, it is trained by three military attachés on the left, center, and right, and two chief officers in charge, and the middle officer commands the whole battalion; in wartime, it is commanded by the commander of the military headquarters on the left and right.

The battalion is organized into five armies: the middle army, the left sentry, the right sentry, the left outpost, and the right outpost, each with a camp minister and a military minister, and there are five baggage divisions under it, each with a division officer to command.

The whole battalion had 130 chariots, with thin plates on the compartments and guns on them, and ten people were assigned to use them, and the left and right sides were matched, the front and rear were connected, the hooks and loops were intertwined, and the vehicles were equipped with clothing, food, equipment, and antlers.

When the new officer took office, the Shenji Battalion naturally worked hard to exercise, and as Wei Liangdong said, first the artillery bombardment, then the bird's gunner fired three volleys, and finally the cavalry charged.

There is also a swarm of bees, fire dragon arrows, hundreds of tigers running arrows, two tigers chasing sheep arrows, divine fire flying crows, three-eyed eyes guns, five-eyed guns and other strange firearms.

The officers and soldiers of the drill were complacent, Fu Zhouzi watched it with relish, but Chang Wei secretly frowned, "The research on firearms in the Ming Dynasty is really crazy, blindly pursuing novelty, these things look like multi-pack rockets, and they look infinitely powerful." However, the range is different, and the accuracy is extremely poor, and whether you can hit it or not depends on fate, which is really flashy. It is better to find a way to improve the accuracy, rate of fire and range of the arquebus. ”

The three-eyed guns used by cavalry are only lethal within one zhang, and the three guns become burning sticks after a salvo, which can only be used to smash the enemy, and the five-eyed guns are also the same shortcoming.

The rest of the Franc machines, Shenfei cannons, etc., are too cumbersome and unsuitable for this operation.

Only Qi Jiguang's improved tiger squat cannon made Chang Wei more satisfied.

After watching a day's drills, although Chang Wei was not satisfied, he didn't say anything, and that night he exchanged his reputation for the guns and artillery in the system, and combined with what he saw and heard from a day's drills, he wrote the method of improvement overnight.

On the second day, after a long discussion with Fu Zhouzi, it was decided to adopt a new practice method.

The first thing Chang Wei reformed was the loading method of the bird gun, which was the arquebus.

The structure of the arquebus is: there is a metal hook on the gun, one end of the hook is fixed on the gun, and can rotate around the axis, the other end clamps a burning arquebus, when the soldier fires, the metal hook is pushed into the fire door by hand, so that the fire rope ignites the black powder, and then the projectile contained in the gun chamber is fired. Since the arquebus is a piece of hemp rope soaked in a salt solution and then dried, it burns slowly, so that the soldier can hold the gun in one or both hands after pressing the metal hook into the fire door, keeping his eyes on the target. The range is between 100 and 150 paces, which is comparable to that of a bow and arrow, but it has a lower rate of fire than a bow and arrow because it needs to be reloaded with elixir and re-ignited and fixed after a single shot.

The difference is that an archer can shoot up to ten arrows before running out, while a musketeer can shoot all the time and can develop combat effectiveness after a short training time.

The first step in firing an arquebus is to pour the charges: the powder is poured from the canister into the tubes, and each tube is fired, and the Bird Gunners of the Divine Machine Battalion can only carry ten tubes on them, and when they are used up, they have to be reloaded.

Chang Wei's improvement is the first item, he puts a certain amount of gunpowder into paper shells, and then packs these bullet-like paper shells into specially designed cloth bags, which are wrapped around his body like bullet belts, and can be extracted next to each other when used.