My life skills in Daming Liver

Li Yangong was a little surprised. He had just finished reporting the results of the battle into Sichuan, and officials from the Army Ministry came to visit anxiously. Could it be that there was some important military order?

The last time Gao Wuguan attended his son's full moon banquet at his residence, he was hastily summoned away by officials from the Ministry of War.

He quickly invited the officials from the Ministry of War to come in, and the other party took out the military order from the Ministry of War.

"Li Yangong, the operational staff officer of the third brigade, received the order and immediately set off with the Ding'an Regiment of the sixth brigade to Xuzhou."

Li Yangong was stunned for a moment, and soon understood that a fight was about to begin on the Xuzhou front line!

The Sixth Brigade was trained by Qi Jiguang and was the main force in this battle to pacify Annan.

Among them, the Ding'an Regiment is the elite regiment of the Sixth Brigade. It was originally the second regiment of the Sixth Brigade and was an artillery regiment.

Because he fought bravely in Annan and was the first to invade Sheng Long Mansion, he was given the title of Ding'an Regiment.

For example, Li Yangong's independent regiment of the third brigade, the regiment led by Xiong Kuang, was also given the title of "valiant cavalry regiment" to commend them for their bravery in combat, and was given a special regimental flag.

After the Sixth Brigade ended the battle in Annan, two of its regiments returned to Nanjing for a rest, while Qi Jiguang and the other two regiments maintained security in Annan. A few days ago, the Ministry of War issued a transfer order to transfer the Sixth Brigade to Yunnan and Guizhou.

Now if Li Yangong is asked to go north to Xuzhou with the Sixth Brigade Ding'an Regiment, then there will definitely be a war in Xuzhou.

In private, Li Yangong and other officers also predicted that the internal situation in the Ming court was now in chaos, and the governor would definitely launch troops against the Ming court.

I didn’t expect it to be so fast!

The military orders were overwhelming. After receiving them, Li Yangong immediately said goodbye to his parents, hugged his son, and immediately reported to the military camp outside Nanjing.

Only when he arrived at the military camp did Li Yangong understand why the Army Ministry's military order was so urgent.

Because the troops of the Sixth Brigade originally returned to Nanjing for rest, Qi Jiguang had already returned to Guangxi with other troops to prepare for the invasion of Yunnan.

Therefore, the two regiments of the Sixth Brigade in Nanjing are extremely short of officers, and the entire Ding'an Regiment has completely insufficient officers at its headquarters.

So Li Yangong, a group of officers from the Third Brigade who returned to Nanjing to report on their duties, thought to the wise people of the Army Ministry that since the Third Brigade had officers and the Sixth Brigade had soldiers, they might as well get together!

Li Yangong, the combat staff officer of the third brigade, unexpectedly became the artillery battalion commander of the Ding'an Regiment of the sixth brigade.

It's numb. Li Yangong is really numb.

How could he, a combat staff officer like him, become the commander of the artillery regiment?

Li Yangong had no choice but to bite the bullet and take office.

If it were any army in the world, such outrageous operations would lead to a sharp decline in the army's combat effectiveness.

But the role of the modern military system established by the Grand Governor Su Ze was reflected.

Southeast is very institutionalized and top-down when it comes to military building.

The so-called institutionalization means that training procedures are institutionalized, order communication within the army is institutionalized, and military command and operations are also institutionalized.

Every army in the southeast undergoes the same training, so any officer can get started quickly.

The entire army is established through various military orders and regulations. As long as officers take the lead in complying with the regulations and use military orders to manage the troops, they can perform normal defense most of the time.

Of course, this is just a guaranteed lower limit.

Allowing an unfamiliar commander to command an unfamiliar army would greatly reduce the capabilities of both parties. Therefore, after Li Yangong entered the military camp, he began to do grassroots work to familiarize himself with the styles of subordinate officers, talk to the soldiers in the camp, and take control of the army as soon as possible.

It is worthy of the army led by Qi Jiguang.

The military discipline of the artillery battalion of the Ding'an Regiment is very good, and the quality of the grassroots officers is also very high. The front-line artillerymen are also able to write and calculate. Such an army can be considered elite in the entire southeast.

The artillery battalion of the Dingan Regiment uses a six-pound mountain gun, which is a relatively easy-to-carry artillery piece.

However, it is easy to carry. This is compared to the big thing like the city defense cannon. Even such a six-pound artillery requires two soldiers to move it.

The Sixth Brigade has been fighting in the mountains of Guangxi and Annan for a long time. The soldiers are mainly from the south, and some of them are Guangxi Yao soldiers recruited by Qi Jiguang.

However, in the big family of the army, the imprint of the nation is quickly washed away. To become an artilleryman, you need to pass the literacy and arithmetic exams, and you have fought together on the battlefield, and you have already been fully integrated into the army.

The position of artillery in the army is also constantly changing.

When firearms first started to be used in the Southeast, artillery and explosives were always valued as weapons for siege. At that time, as long as the artillery fired, the Ming army, which was still using swords, guns, swords and halberds, would fall into disgrace. They didn’t even have many muskets. An opportunity for infantry to take action.

During the period when Su Ze was laying the foundation, fighting consisted of bombing with artillery, then the musketeers began to charge, and then the Ming army surrendered.

However, as the Ming Dynasty also began to install muskets and began to use artillery, and when building bastions, the role of artillery began to decline.

After the invention of trenches, the status of artillery became awkward again.

Artillery fire was considered a routine operation, but after the artillery plowed the ground, the soldiers hiding in the trenches did not suffer many casualties.

If you want to capture a city, you have to fight with infantry in the end.

Artillery began to play a support role on the battlefield.

After the rise of cavalry, artillery had a new position. Some artillery using shotguns were responsible for guarding against the cavalry's bypass or flanking thrusts at the edge of the position. Artillery also had the function of close combat defense.

The status of artillery is constantly changing, and the tactics of artillery are also changing.

From the beginning, artillery was used to breach city walls, mainly bombarding fixed targets.

When the time comes for artillery to bombard enemy artillery behind enemy trenches and to bombard enemy charging infantry emerging from the trenches, artillery needs to begin attacking moving targets.

Today artillery still bombards fast-moving cavalry.

All this makes the training level and operational proficiency of artillery very important. A powerful artilleryman must be able to skillfully switch the muzzle angle, calculate the position where the shell will fall, and skillfully load gunpowder to fire quickly.

When Li Yangong fought in Shuzhong, he learned nothing. After studying the cases of grassroots artillery operations, he submitted a paper to the Ministry of War.

The theory of concealed artillery warfare.

Li Yangong discovered that when the two armies encountered each other in the wild, the side that fired first would reveal the location of the artillery positions, and the side that fired later could use this information to bomb the opponent's artillery positions.

Try to let the opponent's artillery fire first, then bomb the enemy's artillery, and wait until the enemy's artillery loses its firepower advantage before dispatching infantry. This is actually a more advantageous way of fighting.