He was so domineering and unreasonable. It has to be said that Qi Jiguang was definitely a military genius who was underestimated. When modern people mention him, they usually only talk about him as an anti-Japanese hero and tend to ignore his dazzling achievements.

Li Chaosheng was so impressed that he saw it. After reading the character information, Li Chaosheng started to watch Qi Jiguang's famous Yuanyang Formation.

The Yuanyang Formation is recorded in Qi Jiguang's military book "New Book of Jixiao". It utilizes the orderly combination of various ancient military units and learns from each other's strengths to play a terrifying role in narrow terrain.

In the Yuanyang Formation, eleven people form a team, and one person in front is the captain. He holds a spear and gives orders. He is the brains of the team.

Next are two shield soldiers, one holding a heavy shield and the other holding a light shield. The heavy shield should be large enough to mainly defend against enemy fire. When the shield is lowered, it can be enough to protect everyone behind it.

The other side is a dexterous light shield. The shield hand holds the shield in one hand and the javelin or sword in the other hand, which can be used for close combat.

Immediately following is the soul of this formation, followed by two wolf sword soldiers, fighting with wolf swords. The wolf swords are made of moso bamboo growing in the south.

The requirement is to choose an old and solid moso bamboo, sharpen the head of the bamboo, but retain all the branches around the bamboo, and then do some metal processing on the front section, such as tying some blades or something, to make it have a certain lethality.

Then each wolf chop must be at least three to four meters long. During the battle, the wolf chop soldiers hold the wolf chop to assassinate the enemy. At the same time, they restrict the enemy's movement, hinder the enemy's approach, and cover the shield hand and the ones behind.

Spearmen and light shields harvest heads.

Behind the wolf warriors are four spearmen, two on each side of the four spearmen. These two hold spears and are mainly responsible for assassination and taking care of the two shield bearers and wolf spearmen in front. After all, their main role is to control

, it's an auxiliary attack, and its lethality is a bit less.

There are two Boring Palladium Hands behind the spearman who are responsible for guarding, supporting and other tasks. If the enemy attacks in a roundabout way, it will be more difficult for the Langzhen to turn around. The Boring Palladium Hands fill in the control and buy time for the team. Moreover, the Boring Palladium Hands are also lethal.

In the battle formation, it can help the spearman make up for the damage.

By the way, this so-called boring palladium is a three-pronged fork, which can fork the enemy's weapons and stab the enemy to death.

Moreover, the reason why Yuanyang Formation is called Yuanyang Formation is that in addition to combining contradictions, coexisting long and short, and giving full play to the advantages of various weapons, another great thing is that it can also be divided into two formations according to specific circumstances.

A squad, or three squads, fight.

Divide into two small formations, that is, the shield hand on the left leads a wolf spear soldier, two spearmen, and a boring and palladium soldier, and the shield soldier on the right leads a wolf spear soldier, spear soldiers, and boring and palladium soldiers on the right. At this time, the left and right divisions are symmetrical

, it becomes more flexible without reducing its lethality. This change is called the Liangcai Formation.

If the number of enemies is still small, you can continue to split it up and turn it into the main force of wolf warriors and spearmen in the middle, with two shield bearers and two boring palladium soldiers for flank protection. The battle is divided into three parts, which is called the three-talent formation.

This formed a mandarin duck formation that made the Japanese pirates doubt their lives every time.

Moreover, this formation can be improved. Qi Jiguang was a general who liked firearms very much, especially the blunderbuss, which was relatively advanced at the time. He once tried to have the captain in the middle who gave orders hold the blunderbuss in the formation and fire directly. This effect

Better.

After reading the information, Li Chaosheng sighed, this Yuanyang Formation is very powerful. In the era of close combat, there are almost no obvious weaknesses, allowing the team to exert strong combat effectiveness.

However, this is not an invincible formation. There is no invincible formation in this world. This formation is suitable for hand-to-hand combat and small-scale combat. If it encounters a large-scale legion battle, it will be a little stretched, such as the one Li Chaosheng is planning to form. Cavalry equipped only with compound bows, with an effective range of 150 meters.

Long-distance kites can also kill the same number of Yuanyang formations. After all, only two sides of the Yuanyang formation's shield cannot withstand large-scale bow and arrow fire.

Of course, in addition to such large-scale cavalry, the most effective method is firearms, especially cannons. The Yuanyang formation is relatively concentrated, and a single shot can cause numerous casualties.

In the end, the Qi family army was destroyed by the Qing Dynasty's artillery and human sea tactics.

According to records, on March 12, 1621, Nurhachi led a large army to besiege Shenyang City. The Shenyang defenders quickly called for help. The imperial court urgently dispatched elite troops from Sichuan and Zhejiang to Shenyang for support, and among these support teams was the Qi family army.

However, Qi Jiguang had been dead of illness for many years by this time. The team was led by Qi Jiguang's nephew, Qi Jin. Qi Jin was not an incompetent person. He inherited his uncle's mantle and was also a strong soldier.

However, during the rush to rescue Shenyang, a shocking change occurred. At that time, Shenyang guards He Shixian and You Shizhong underestimated the enemy and went out to fight with the enemy. They were both ambushed and died in the battle. Tens of thousands of hungry Mongolian people in the city took advantage of the chaos. The city-protecting bridge was cut off to lure the Tatars into the city. The city of Shenyang, which was said to be impregnable at the time, was destroyed in one day.

These two pig teammates directly caused embarrassment to the Sichuan Army and the Qi Army who came to support them. They had just arrived at the south bank of the Hun River and were at a loss of ground. Shenyang City was lost in front and the Tatar Army was surrounding them in the back.

Now there is a dead end in front of everyone. Chen Ce and Tong Zhongkui, the commander-in-chief at the time, discussed with the generals a strategic method of replacing defense with offense, taking the initiative to attack, delaying time, and waiting for reinforcements.

The team of less than 10,000 people was divided into two parts and began to launch a suicide attack on the Manchu Qing Dynasty. One part was the supporting 3,000 Sichuan Army, and the other part was the Qi Family Army led by Qi Jiguang's nephew.

The Qi Jiajun first set up a chariot formation on the south bank of the Hun River and pushed out the chariots as obstacles. Then the Qi Jiajun used their troops who were good at firearms to start shooting at the charging Qing army.

Qi Jiajun's equipment is quite good, equipped with a large-scale birdgun. The birdgun is a long gun that is very similar to a modern rifle. Gunpowder is placed in the barrel, and a match rope that burns very slowly is lit on the bolt. As soon as the trigger is pulled, the matchlock is pulled down like a firing pin, igniting the gunpowder in the barrel, and the bullet is fired.

This is very close to today's firearms, but the ignition method is relatively primitive. If it can be improved further and the rope used for ignition is changed to flint, it will be what we call a flintlock gun.

When the battle started, the Qi army was responsible for guarding the position against the Manchu and Qing troops behind them, while the Sichuan army built a pontoon bridge on the Hun River and set up a position, preparing to fight the Qing army in the north of the Hun River.

But everyone knows that the Sichuan army is risking its life, and this charge will never come back.

The Sichuan army, already prepared to die, defeated the Zhengbai Banner and the Zhenghuang Banner of the Qing Dynasty successively, killing more than 2,000 Qing Dynasty people. Seeing this situation, the people of the Qing Dynasty were anxious. At this time, our Ming Dynasty surrendered. The time has come for General Li Yongfang to express his loyalty. He directly commanded Shenyang City to fire artillery fire. In an instant, the artillery fire engulfed the entire Sichuan Army position. At this time, the Manchu and Qing organized troops swarmed up again. The Sichuan Army was almost wiped out. The main general died in the battle. This sentence truly answered In other words, the Sichuan army will live up to the country.

The Sichuan Army was defeated, and the Qi Army was attacked on two sides, no, on all sides. Countless Manchu and Qing soldiers surrounded them, and followed the Manchus to launch an attack on the left wing of the Qi Army. The Qi Army, which had just added the rear formation, used vehicle formations and fire

Guns met the enemy, and the battle was stalemate for a while.

At this time, the Manchu and Qing cavalry began to charge, breaking through the firepower network and rushing to the front of the car formation. At this time, a large number of soldiers using wolf swords appeared in the Qi army.

Stabbed from horseback, the Qing Dynasty suffered heavy casualties. Nearly 3,000 people died in a short time.

But at this moment, another bad news came, that is, the 30,000 reinforcements who were preparing to rescue the Qi family army were ambushed by 3,000 people led by Huang Taiji in the Baitapu area of ​​Shenyang. They were defeated in a battle, and the reinforcements were destroyed first.

At this time, the Qi's army had no way to retreat, and Nurhaci took action seriously. He issued a death order, and the Eight Banners took turns to attack, annihilating the Qi's army at all costs.

The battle between the two sides continued. The Qi's army was fighting and running out of bullets. After running out of ammunition and food, the Manchus rushed into the formation. The car formation was broken, but the Qi's army did not panic. They directly formed the world-famous mandarin duck formation and began to fight hand-to-hand with the enemy.

, the Manchu soldiers finally saw the horror of the Yuanyang Formation.

They fought like this for two days and two nights, and the ground was covered with corpses. After two days and two nights of fighting, the Qi family army had no water and rice, and their physical strength was seriously exhausted. The encirclement gradually narrowed, and the Manchus surrounded them. In the end, only the Qi family army remained.

There were dozens of soldiers, but at this time they still maintained the formation of the mandarin duck formation, without any disorder, like a solid rock in the stormy sea, no one can shake it.

The head coach of Qi Jiajun shouted: A man will serve the country just recently, and led the people to fight for a while. By this time, the Manchus were frightened and lost the courage to fight with these lunatics.

Finally, everyone retreated silently, and thousands of arrows were fired...

The famous Qi Army was wiped out in this way. In this battle, the Ming Army suffered tens of thousands of casualties, and the Manchus also suffered tens of thousands casualties. However, the Qi Army ran out of ammunition and food and fought hard for several days under artillery bombardment, and the entire army was wiped out.

Later history books, whether it was the actual records of the Ming Dynasty or the history of the Ming Dynasty compiled by the Qing Dynasty, all expressed high respect for the Battle of Hunhe River, calling it the first bloody battle of the Liao Zuo army!

After this battle, the Qi Family Army was almost wiped out, but there were still some Qi Family Army who stayed behind. The imperial court sent people to comfort them and asked if there was anything else the Qi Family Army wanted. All that was said was that the court would try its best to satisfy them.

In the end, these Qi soldiers only said one thing: they didn't ask for rewards, they just wanted to go to battle again and take revenge!

Ten days later, in the Battle of Liaoyang, all the Qi Army's troops were killed and no one survived. From then on, the Qi Army's last fire was gone.

Later, someone in the imperial court wanted to reorganize this magic army. However, the county magistrates in Yiwu and Ningbo, Zhejiang, and other places wrote that after years of fighting, there were no more men left under the rule.

After arriving, the Qi Family Army ceased to exist.

"Oh~ So magnificent, so magnificent."

Li Chaosheng couldn't help but sigh when he saw it. At this time, the stewardess came over and said, "What can I do for you, sir?"

Li Chaosheng waved his hand and said, "It's okay. Is there any water? Give me some."

"some."

The stewardess quickly brought the water back. At this time, Li Chaosheng took a sip of water and began to study. You said that the Qi Army was so powerful and it was not an exaggeration to say that it was the first army of the Ming Dynasty. Why has it not been reorganized since its destruction?

What happened?

According to the data, the imperial court once wanted to reorganize the army, but the men in Ningbo and the compulsory army were no longer there, so it was no longer reorganized. So why not not use the compulsory soldiers?

Why do we have to use conscripts? Are conscripts any different from soldiers in other places?

Li Chaosheng thought about checking the information, and after reading it for a while, he found that the main reason was that the Ming army was afraid of death, and there were many who cowered when they were in battle, but the volunteers were different, united and aggressive, and could even organize themselves to resist and fight against them.

Stranger in the silver mines.

Therefore, the soldiers in this area are relatively good and are the foundation of the Qi family army.

Li Chaosheng looked at it, but shook his head. This is not the main reason. Let's explore the root cause, why soldiers are afraid of death. There is a reason, and it is not divided by region, although region is also relevant.

But the core part is interests and a sense of belonging.

The Ming army mostly used the guard system. The disadvantages of the guard system have been mentioned before. It was extremely oppressive. Many of the soldiers were slaves from hundreds or thousands of households in the guard station. They received meager food and wages and had enough to eat.

These are all problems, and we are risking your life for you, are you talking nonsense?

Moreover, soldiers have no sense of belonging at all. When fighting, they just follow along. Anyway, if we win, the officer will get the reward. We work hard, fish if we can, and run if we can.

However, Qi Jiguang's Qi Family Army was different. It used a recruitment system. Soldiers were paid wages, and they were not low, with each person earning eighteen taels of silver per year.

With money, there is motivation, and the source of volunteer soldiers is indeed excellent, so we can train into the Qi Family Army.

To put it bluntly, the imperial court was unable to train the Qi Jiajun, mainly because there was no financial support at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the equipment of the Qi Jiajun was also very expensive. At that time, the Qi Jiajun had already used fire blunderbuss on a large scale, and even more advanced bird blunderbuss.

You must know that a fire blunderbuss requires at least four taels of silver from material cost to labor cost. However, the imperial court at that time only allocated one tael of silver.

The cost of materials is not enough, let alone the wages of craftsmen. In desperation, the Ministry of Industry can only cut corners. High-quality fuel is expensive, so use cheap ones. High-quality iron ore is expensive, so buy the cheapest.

, and buy the cheapest one for everything.

The result can be imagined. The quality of the fire blunderbuss produced is very impressive. The sulfur content in the blunderbuss tube seriously exceeds the standard, and it is extremely easy to explode the barrel.

When the soldiers lit the firecrackers, they were gambling with the God of Death. If they exploded, it meant that you had not played with the God of Death. If they did not explode, your fate would be good.

In this case, the soldiers were not even willing to use firecrackers, and would rather risk their lives with big blades. This is why the fourth child, Li Guixiang, said that they were unwilling to use firecrackers, because they had to be prepared to be blown up every time they used them.

preparation.

This is still an ordinary fire gun, but many people in Qi Jiguang's army are equipped with more advanced bird guns (matchlock guns). Qi Jiguang had someone in the court at that time. Zhang Juzheng was in power at that time, and Qi Jiguang was Zhang Juzheng's right-hand man, so he equipped the Qi family's army.

They are all blunderbuss of high quality, which is one of the reasons why Qi Jiguang's army is so powerful.

This kind of Qi family army is almost impossible to copy. When Qi Jiguang came to Hebei to train his army with his own armament improvement plan and the blunderbuss from the south, the local soldiers may have been overshadowed by the previous blunderbuss.

Directly refuse to use advanced firecrackers.

In desperation, Qi Jiguang could only choose to bring his old troops to Hebei to serve as the main force of the firearms force. These direct descendants of Qi Jiguang who had not been bombed became the only ones who dared to play with muskets. When Qi Jiguang was training troops and taking charge, the army

It has a full strength of 40,000 people, 10,000 of whom are drawn from the south.
To be continued...