The Prosperous Era of Longwan

In order to decide which formation to adopt, Wei Guangde spent a lot of brainpower.

As for the final formation, it was something that Wei Guangde figured out by himself through painstaking memories and understanding of the equipment currently being used by hundreds of households.

The final result is a military formation of mixed services. The middle formation is mainly composed of cold weapons. The front row is ten sword and shield soldiers, and the back rows are pikemen. However, the archers are hidden in the center of the formation, with blunderbuss. The hands are divided into two small formations of 30 people and arranged on both sides.

During the battle, the gunner can shoot directly from both wings in a five-stage alternating fire method. This is also the so-called cross-fire method in Wei Guangde's memory. The gunman forms a cross-fire net against the enemy in front. I haven't seen that later machine guns are placed on the front. On both sides of the position, they shot diagonally towards the battlefield.

If the weak opponent is not strong, the gunman can move from both sides to shoot in front of the sword and shield man. As for whether to use three-stage attack or five-stage attack, it depends on the battlefield situation. If the opponent cannot be defeated in this way, then wait for the enemy to attack. When approaching, move from both sides to the rear to form a phalanx of cannons. If the opponent has cavalry, they will directly escape into the formation to save their lives.

Because it was a blunderbuss, not a machine gun of later generations, Wei Guangde was not very confident at first. He led his eldest brother and cousin to conduct some deductions. Many of the principles they could not figure out were directly performed by the soldiers.

Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty's guard house was actually a small society, and there were craftsmen in Bengshan Fort.

In order to make the deduction clear and accurate, Wei Guangde also asked the carpenters in the fort to lay out more than two hundred soldiers in simulated battle formations.

The final result is of course still useful.

Although the bird gun has a certain accuracy, it is also very limited. In addition to marksmanship, hunting birds also depends on luck.

However, after using crossfire, the slope is stronger than the front.

But by this time, Wei Guangde also discovered a fatal problem that he had originally proposed, that is, the proportion of gunmen was a bit high.

More than half of the soldiers in a hundred households are gunners, which makes the entire military formation look very thin and loose, and there is a danger of collapse in the event of close combat.

Of course, in fact, for an army that is not determined to fight, even if all of them are cold weapons suitable for close combat, they will definitely not be able to win the battle.

In response to this problem, the solution given by Wei Guangde is of course to mount a bayonet.

The blunderbuss of this era did not have a bayonet design. After all, the craftsmanship was just that, and the material was also problematic. The only thing Wei Guangde could do was to have the blacksmith make a batch of blunderbuss spurs, which were bayonets inserted from the barrel of the blunderbuss. They could only be used as Spears were used for thrusting, but were not reliable.

Of course, Wei Guangde used the famous domestic three-sided thorns for this batch of blunderbuss. In fact, this is also related to the iron material in the guardhouse. It is brittle and will break if you are not careful during use. After making the three-sided thorns, A little more solid.

Wei Guangde didn't know that pig iron was used to make weapons these days. This thing was hard but too brittle.

Of course, he doesn't know how to make steel, and he can't tell the difference between steel and pig iron. Naturally, he doesn't know how to tinker with steel. He just thinks that the materials of this era are rubbish.

In the end, the war game that Wei Guangde asked someone to make was snatched away by his elder brother Wei Wencai. He and Wu Dong started studying it when they had nothing to do, and the image was three-dimensional.

Later, when I came up with some new things, I first called the flags below to practice for them, and then let them practice to see the final effect.

For these uncultured Xiaoqi, with the demonstration of war games, they can quickly understand what to do, which is of great help in practice.

"By the way, do the other hundred households have horses? This time I go out, I think it's better to bring all the horses with me so that if we can't fight, we can run away."

Wei Guangde suddenly said this, his father was really too important to Wei Guangde now, and he didn't want him to make any mistakes.

There are only two old horses in Bengshan Hundred Households, which are fine for riding but not on the battlefield.

Wei Guangde only saw a few horses here at Qianhu Station. Obviously, war horses were very scarce among the Southern Army and were mainly used to convey military information.

"No, there are only about ten horses in the Qianhu House, and there are two in your place, but none in the other Hundred Households."

Wu Dong knew that if the two families were not closely related, there would be no horses in Bengshan Castle, and he would have to rely on two legs to run if something happened.

"Are you so unsure of the soldiers we train?"

The eldest brother Wei Wencai asked with a frown.

"Yes, but for safety's sake, it's better to have a horse."

Wei Guangde's answer was very straightforward. He had also watched those soldiers being trained, so he naturally knew the situation.

But what Wei Guangde can't say is that in his memory, the Japanese pirates in the Jiajing Dynasty made too much noise. This shows that in the battle with the Japanese pirates, without Qi Jiguang and that Yu or other generals taking action, the early stage would definitely be more defeats than victory.

Wei Guangde seems to have seen such a plot in his memory, saying that Qi Jiguang was from the north and was sent to the south to suppress Japanese pirates. However, during the first battle, when he saw the Japanese pirates, Qi Jiguang shouted to kill them and went up by himself. , and the soldiers behind him all ran back, and he almost died before he left the army and died.

When I asked them to choose these two groups of soldiers, I actually followed Qi Jiguang's method of selecting soldiers. I chose honest soldiers. It doesn't matter if they are stupid, but they must be honest and obey orders.

"Don't worry about this. My father and uncle must have horses, not to mention they are protected by a team of servants."

Wu Dong said.

"I'm worried that my father can't command the team well."

Wei Guangde still said.

"You are so concerned that you are confused."

Wei Wencai thought for a while and then said: "Our Jiujiang Guard must be together. Even if we encounter Japanese pirates, our guard station has more than a thousand people. Will the Japanese pirates run away when they see it?"

Do you think those Japanese pirates are really invulnerable with three heads and six arms? That's just to fool the people outside. According to your words, no matter how good your skills are, you can knock them down with one blow. "

Wei Guangde understood that his eldest brother and cousin were probably just upset that they couldn't go out with him to have a look, and were not worried about running into Japanese pirates at all.

Before that, the Japanese pirates did not engage in direct combat with the Ming army.

But this time, Wei Guangde had already guessed from the time he knew that tens of thousands of Japanese pirates had gathered, and later generations knew about the Japanese pirate rebellion in Jiajing Dynasty. This time, he was afraid that this was the beginning of the Japanese rebellion getting bigger and bigger, and then getting out of control.

However, there are some things that cannot be said. Just like what the elder brother said, the Japanese pirates did not dare to fight the officers and soldiers head-on. This statement was still true before this.

When bandits encounter officers and soldiers, their momentum will naturally be lowered.

I just hope that my father and uncle will not encounter powerful Japanese pirates this time. As long as they can survive this time, they will know how powerful they will be later.

Wei Guangde had already thought that this time, he was afraid that the officers and soldiers of the guard station would be defeated in a head-on battle with the Japanese pirates, which would lead to a larger-scale Japanese rebellion.