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Of course, cavalry does not mean that all cavalry are organic. In addition, there are quite a number of scouts in the Yu family army, which also belong to the category of cavalry. However, they are not incorporated into the cavalry team, but are scattered in various battalions and become

A separate scout team provides each battalion with reconnaissance, cover and pursuit purposes.

Most of the scout teams are now mounted scouts, and they are equally well-equipped. However, in terms of armor, they are not as good as the formal cavalry team, because what they need on the battlefield is speed and endurance, and they cannot be equipped with too heavy armor, so everyone is equipped with

What was issued was leather armor with added steel sheets. It was not heavy, but its protective power was pretty good.

These scout teams, this time, numbered about one to two hundred people in each battalion.

The artillery battalion has now been fully equipped with mules and horses, equipped with 300 mules and horses for pulling artillery and baggage vehicles. There are five companies in an artillery battalion, three of which are full-time artillery companies, and one battalion belongs to the artillery baggage company.

The division is responsible for carrying ammunition and materials for the artillery battalion and providing accompanying supplies. There is also an infantry service company, which is responsible for protecting the artillery positions and acting as engineers when necessary to clear the way for the artillery.

The baggage camp has now also been transformed into mules and horses. It is also equipped with 300 strong mules and horses. They are mainly responsible for transporting various ammunition and supplies for the army, as well as a large number of grains for the people and horses. They are also equipped with hundreds of four-wheeled carriages.

, each cart is pulled by two horses, can load tons of materials at a time, and has strong transportation capacity.

Of course, if it had not been for the discovery of Jeju Island, Yu Xiaotian would not have been able to get so many mules and horses at the moment, and he would definitely not be able to bring so many cannons, and he would definitely have to bring a large number of wheelbarrows. In that case, his military appearance would probably be

It is not as orderly as it is now. It is estimated that there will be many auxiliary soldiers pushing wheelbarrows along with the army.

But even so, they still brought a lot of wheelbarrows, requisitioned some civilians, and carried some supplies with the army as a supplement to the supply camp, trying to ensure that when the army moved, the supplies would be more abundant.

The negative impact of the level of high-quality equipment is that the demand for logistical supplies is much higher than that of other armies that mainly use ordinary cold weapons, and the demand for supplies is also greater, which will affect the field combat capabilities of such an army.

It will have a certain impact. If the mules and horses are not implemented, the field distance of such an army will be seriously affected.

This time Yu Xiaotian also brought a full-time engineer company and a siege heavy artillery company. The engineer company is an absolutely indispensable professional and technical unit in the modern army. They shoulder many tasks that ordinary soldiers cannot complete.

, tasks such as clearing roads through mountains, building bridges when encountering water, attacking cities and breaking barriers, digging trenches, etc. are not responsible for direct combat, but they will have a great impact on combat.

For this reason, Yu Xiaotian equipped them with many special tools. Engineer picks and engineer shovels are the most basic equipment, as well as some special barrier-breaking crowbars, big saws, big axes, and other accessories such as nails and ropes.

Supplies, the most important thing is to equip them with a lot of explosive bags for breaking obstacles. Even if black gunpowder is not as powerful as the high explosives of later generations, it is still much stronger than manpower, especially the special explosive bags made from exquisite black powder.

It is much more powerful than the bulk gunpowder barrels used in this era.

Therefore, when necessary, the engineer company may play an unimaginable and huge role in the war situation. Yu Xiaotian attaches great importance to this, and the soldiers recruited were mostly miners in the past, doing this kind of digging holes and breaking obstacles.

It can be said that I am familiar with the business.

The siege heavy artillery company is a relatively special unit, and it must be under the artillery system. However, the main equipment, a company, only has three 24-pound medium-barreled heavy artillery. This kind of 24-pound army heavy artillery is considered

Specially manufactured for Army Artillery.

The gun weighs about 2,300 kilograms and is mounted on a special heavy-duty gun mount. It is still a retractable gun, but the pitch mechanism has also been changed to a bolt and handwheel adjustment method. There is no lateral angle adjustment mechanism, and the operation is compared to ordinary

The Army's twelve-pound howitzer is more complex, but its power is much greater than that of ordinary twelve-pound howitzers. It is specially used to attack towns.

Once this kind of cannon is fired, it can create a big hole in the city wall. As long as you concentrate your firepower and repeatedly bombard a point, it won't take long to knock down a gap in the solid city wall, which can be used to deal with ordinary village forts.

The stockade wall can basically be done. One shot can solve the problem. At least it can blow a big hole in the stockade wall.

Once in the field, this kind of gun can also serve as a temporary field gun, loaded with grapeshot or shotgun, to bombard the enemy's attacking forces. With one shot, it can sweep across a wide area and kill a large number of densely packed troops.

It is a very scary weapon, at least in this era, it is an absolute killer, not to mention it can also be equipped with explosive bullets, which naturally makes it more powerful, at least it is very scary.

Therefore, when Yu Xiaotian went north to put down the rebellion, he brought with him all the elite troops he had built over the years. The purpose was very simple. Through this battle, he wanted to test the combat capabilities of the soldiers and generals he had on hand and on the battlefield.

The ability to cooperate.

As for the infantry, I'm afraid it will disappoint some people. Four fully-equipped infantry battalions and 5,000 infantrymen are only equipped with 3,000 flintlock rifles, only half of which are Wolf fang rifles, and the remaining half are old-fashioned South Japanese rifles.

Smoothbore flintlock gun.

The remaining 2,000 infantrymen are composed of 1,500 spearmen and 500 swordsmen. The swordsmen are also grenadiers and are responsible for dealing with enemy troops approaching the formation, while the spearmen are

It is mainly responsible for dealing with the enemy cavalry. After forming the formation, it will be on the outermost edge and use long spears to form a forest of spears to prevent the cavalry from rushing into their infantry square formation.

This is also a relatively helpless thing at the moment. This time when they went north to counter the rebellion, the rebels had a larger number of cavalry, and they were relatively elite. There were probably thousands of these rebel cavalry, and their impact on the battlefield was huge, and they were numerous.

They were some of the old troops of the Dongjiang Army, and they were quite capable on horseback. The Dongjiang Army followed Mao Wenlong in Liaodong, but they dared to confront the Jiannu cavalry and had very strong combat capabilities.

The Sea Wolf is limited to the bottleneck of rifle production capacity. Although the Wolf Fang rifle has now become the main product, it is still unable to replace all the old South Japanese-style smoothbore guns. Therefore, the army now has rifled guns and smoothbore guns.

In a mixed situation of guns, each company of musketeers is equipped with half of the equipment.

In addition, although the rifles of the Sea Wolf are already equipped with bayonets, which allows the infantry to have strong melee capabilities in close combat, when dealing with cavalry, the configuration of rifles and bayonets seems to be a bit too short, even if it is

It can resist the enemy's cavalry charge, but it will also cause heavy casualties to the infantry.

As the best weapon to deal with cavalry, there is nothing better than spearmen. The spears used by Yu Jiajun are all one and a half feet long. When encountering enemy cavalry, they do not need to hold up their spears to assassinate the enemy.

For the military cavalry, they only need to gather together and punch the spear at the end of the spear shaft on the ground. The pikeman squats down and points the tip of the spear diagonally in the direction in which the enemy cavalry is charging.

So next, the enemy cavalry will either turn their horses' heads and take a detour, or the horses will turn around and run away, or they can only cover the eyes of the horses, forcing the horses not to see the spear formation, and charge directly with the men and horses.

When entering the formation, although the spearmen will be injured or even killed, the enemy cavalry, including men and horses, will definitely not survive.

So at present, spearmen are still one of the temporarily indispensable arms in the army. Moreover, the equipment of this arm is really cheap, and the training of personnel is much easier. Even civilians recruited temporarily can only abide by the discipline and be issued

Once they have a spear, they will immediately have quite strong combat capabilities.

This is generally the composition of the military services led by Yu Xiaotian who came to Denglai to counter the rebellion this time. With this level of military configuration, looking at the entire earth at the moment, I am afraid it can be regarded as the most luxurious lineup. Maybe there is not one of them.

The firepower output capability is so strong that it can be said that if you look at the world, you will never find another one.

If Yu Xiaotian still can't defeat those rebels, Yu Xiaotian himself will be embarrassed to run back to Fujian alive. If this is the case, it's bullshit to compete in the Central Plains. He'd better go back to Fujian to make some money and wash his sleep.

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Jiaozhou Zhizhou learned that the Fujian soldiers and horses had arrived outside Jiaozhou City, and with Zhu Dadian's handwriting, he had to fully cooperate with Yu Xiaotian's actions, so he did not dare to neglect, and quickly led the officials to welcome out

In Jiaozhou City, if it were in the past, even if Yu Xiaotian was a general soldier, he would not be able to enjoy this kind of treatment. The small magistrate could still not rape him.

But now that the rebel army is approaching the border, the officials in Jiaozhou are scared to death. They beg their grandfather and grandma every day for help, hoping to send reinforcements, but they don't even get a single hair.

Now suddenly, such a group of Fujian soldiers and horses came. It is said that they are all elite soldiers and are quite capable of fighting. Even the newly appointed governor of Shandong, Zhu Dadian, personally sent them a letter, ordering them to serve them well and guard Jiaozhou.

If he couldn't help it, he would look at the Fujian soldiers and generals.

So now the officials and gentry in Jiaozhou don't dare to show off. As soon as they heard that Yu Xiaotian's army was coming, they ran out of the city to meet the Fujian army.

In addition, they also sent a batch of food to Yu Xiaotian's Fujian army. Although it was not much, it was considered a dedication. At present, there was a shortage of food everywhere in Shandong. They could scrape together a few hundred dan of food, which was considered a waste of money.

I raised it with all my strength, but I was afraid that these Fujian Qiuba people would be unhappy and leave, and they would be miserable.

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