I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

On the 19th, Wu Changqing brought the main force to Kunshan and joined forces from other places.

At this time, his total army has reached more than 2,500 people, of which more than 400 are scattered in various places to garrison the city, and the two thousand gathered in Kunshan are the main force.

In addition to bringing the soldiers over, Wu Changqing also brought 900 flintlock guns and a batch of grenades.

Seeing that Wu Changqing had brought in a new batch of flintlock guns, Liu Hansan immediately asked Wu Changqing to allocate some of the equipment to his subordinates.

Now everyone in their rebel army knows the power of this new type of fire gun, and everyone wants it.

Liu Hansan's request made Wu Changqing begin to consider the issue of military reorganization.

The army of the current era is completely different from the army of later generations. The army of later generations belongs to the country, and the soldiers are all loyal to the country.

In the current era, soldiers actually don't have much national concepts in their minds, and they are more loyal to their superiors and those who pay them.

This is likely to cause the general to hold great power, and those soldiers become the general's personal soldiers.

This is very unfavorable for a regime, and it is easy to make the regime useless.

Just like the previous Hongguang regime, on the surface, it was possible to command those generals with heavy armies, but in fact they could not control them at all.

If they want to resist the Qing, they will resist the Qing, and if they want to surrender, they will surrender. Even if they are dissatisfied, they can play the Qingjun side with heavy soldiers, such as Zuo Liangyu.

Instead of resisting the Qing army, he took hundreds of thousands of troops south to Nanjing to ask the Qing emperor's side. Zuo Liangyu scared Emperor Hongguang half to death.

"Bring Li Shaobin and Wang Dayong to discuss it together."

Wu Changqing summoned several major generals, and he wanted to change the organization of the army and put the power in his own hands.

After everyone arrived, Wu Changqing said: "These new fire guns must be used intensively in order to exert their power, so I have to make some adjustments to the troops."

Hearing that the army was going to be adapted, Liu Hansan and others were all confused, they were all used to the previous model. That is the soldier he recruited, and that is his subordinate.

"I will use the original Jiading army as the main force, and then select some new recruits, make up a thousand people, and form a fire gun army, which I will train and command myself. The other thousand people are divided into three battalions, each with more than 300 people. One of the battalions used old-fashioned fire cannons, and the other two battalions used swords, shields and spears."

As soon as Wu Changqing said this, Liu Hansan became depressed.

Wu Changqing had all the main force of 1,000, so at most he could only recruit a battalion officer to command more than 300 people.

Moreover, the combat effectiveness of an army without a new type of fire gun is completely different from that of a new type of fire gun. Wu Changqing's arrangement directly firmly grasped the power of the army in his hands.

Liu Hansan very much hoped that Li Shaobin and Wang Dayong could raise some objections together, but he was disappointed.

At this moment, both Li Shaobin and Wang Dayong admired Wu Changqing very much, but they didn't realize that Wu Changqing was seizing power.

"These two idiots."

Seeing that Li Shaobin and Wang Dayong had no objection, Liu Hansan couldn't help cursing.

"The old-fashioned gun battalion was led by General Li, and the other two battalions, General Wang and General Liu, each led a battalion."

Wu Changqing said that after expanding the army, he promoted the three of them from Baihu to guerrilla generals.

However, this position is empty, and the strength of the troops is the fundamental. These official positions are just for their own entertainment, and the court does not recognize them.

"Everyone, the guerrilla generals are just a small start, as long as you follow my footsteps. After we take Suzhou and Nanjing, will the imperial court be able to lose one of our titles? When we drive the Qing army out of the customs and recover Beijing , the court still dares to lose us a throne?"

Wu Changqing drew a big cake for them, but he did not say that he would seal them a throne, and now he still needs to rely on the orthodox banner of Daming.

As for the future, as long as he has mastered the real power of the army, someone will naturally add a yellow robe to him.

"The last general must swear allegiance to the general."

Li Shaobin was the first to express their loyalty, and Wang Dayong and Liu Hansan also quickly expressed their loyalty. The anti-Qing situation is very good now, and they will not be stupid enough to challenge Wu Changqing's authority.

"Very good. Next, we will hurry up and train our soldiers, strive to form an army as soon as possible, and then take Suzhou in one fell swoop."

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How to train the Fusiliers, probably only Wu Changqing knows about this in the whole of China.

If you want to say what the biggest feature of the flintlock unit is, then it is undoubtedly the lining up to be shot.

People without military knowledge will laugh out loud when they see battle scenes in the 18th and 19th centuries, laughing at why those soldiers are so stupid.

To be shot in line is to form a dense formation on both sides, blowing bugles and drums, and then walking forward together for a distance of tens of meters, and then you fire one round of guns, and I fire another round.

It seems that those soldiers are extremely stupid, but in fact, this method of warfare is the most threatening method of warfare in the era of front-loading guns. The British lobster soldiers colonized more than half of the world with this trick and beat the invincible players all over the world. .

Because in the period of the breech gun, whether it is an arquebus or a flintlock, it is loaded from the front. Because the barrel is very long, soldiers cannot reload while lying down.

Moreover, the hit rate of the front-loaded guns is very low, and if you want to cause damage, you rely on a dense formation. Then salvo, forming a barrage that sprinkled over.

If a soldier fires a thousand shots at an enemy 100 meters away, he may not hit even ten shots.

But if a thousand soldiers fire a salvo at an enemy 100 meters away, they can hit at least 100.

If you want to kill each other, you must use a dense formation. After both sides use a dense formation together, the battle looks like a queue to be shot.

And the army that can keep its formation in this kind of queuing and shooting is the real elite.

In fact, the tactic of lining up to kill is only to destroy the morale of the enemy, they will not complete a battle by shooting from beginning to end.

Often, one of them couldn't bear the huge pressure of lining up to be shot and chose to escape, and then the other party rushed up to harvest with a bayonet. This was the battle in the era of muskets.

Currently in Huaxia, Wu Changqing does not have to train his soldiers to that level, because there is no army that can shoot against him.

He only needs to train these people to be able to obey the military orders and act in a unified manner. If they encounter the same number of enemy troops, they will be invincible. It is easy to fight against two with one, and it is possible to fight against three with one.

As long as he directs his troops to get close to the enemy, and then comes with a salvo or two, the enemy will absolutely collapse. Afterwards, to deal with the enemy army that has no formation, just rush to harvest and it will be done.

Two rounds of salvos can kill at least one third of the opponent's front row. Wu Changqing does not believe that there is any army that suffers this kind of killing in an instant and still does not collapse.

The only thing he needs to beware of now is the large group of cavalry, and he will have a headache when he encounters a large group of cavalry.

Fortunately, the southern water network is dense, and the cavalry is not easy to use. Therefore, the large-scale cavalry units of the Qing army were deployed in the north of the Yangtze River, and there were very few in the south of the Yangtze River.

And as long as the Jiangnan areas are taken, Wu Changqing will have enough technology points to develop new weapons to deal with the cavalry.