Each sign is lined up in units of sentinels, and each sentry is arranged in order according to the order of the team, and marches forward neatly for inspection.
Zhou Yijie said loudly: "The flag bearer and drum and bugler are the first to enter!"
When the Ming army cleared the road, the golden drum flag was in front, that is, the words "Qingdao, golden drum" were clearly written on each of the two flags.
The bugle was loudly declared, followed closely by the five flags. It was the green dragon on the left, the white tiger on the right, the red bird in the front, the black basalt in the back, and the flying snake in the middle. The five mythical beasts on the flag were so lifelike that people felt astonishing at first sight.
There are several flag bearers in the middle of the five square flags, holding three big flags.
The first flag has an indigo background with a golden sun and white moon in the middle, emitting red and white light all around.
"The flag of the sun and the moon has been seen on merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty." A businessman and missionary recognized it at a glance and knew that it was the foreign trade flag of the Ming Dynasty.
The second big flag, juxtaposed with the Sun and Moon Flag, is red with black characters on a white border, and a big word "明" written in black characters on it. This flag was not used by the Ming Dynasty, but was the imagination of later generations about the military flag of the Ming Dynasty.
Although it is fake, it is majestic.
Wang Hongyu directly created it and made it one of the most important flags together with the Sun and Moon Flag.
The third side, the Hunhe Army flag.
This flag has a white background with black characters on the red border, with two large characters "Hunhe" written on the top, and "Today is the day for a man to serve the country" written in red and blood letters on the bottom.
The flag of the Hunhe Army carries the will of the bloody battle of the Hunhe River. With these words of General Qi Jin, it always reminds the soldiers of the Hunhe Army.
Although everyone in the stands had never seen it, they were deeply shocked.
Following the three-pole flag and the five-square flag is the leopard tail flag. The leopard tail flutters in the wind, which is powerful, ferocious, and agile, demonstrating that this military force is both innovative and traditional, both majestic and agile.
The war drums rumbled, and the neat big drums were very different from the Western snare drums. Every blow was shocking, rather than making people step on their feet.
Zhou Yijie said loudly: "The first soldiers to enter are the musket sentries! They are good marksmen in the army. They spread out in formation and pay attention to concealment, and snipe the enemy's scouts and the front line of the formation."
After Wang Hongyu organized the Hunhe Army according to the new system, of course he also conducted training according to the new tactics.
These skirmishers are a new type of army.
Although skirmishers are not suitable for close combat, in terms of shooting, due to shooting skills, formation and other reasons, they generally restrain phalanx infantry and heavy armored infantry. Their function is similar to that of swordsmanship, which can kill with one blow.
Soon the skirmishers will be equipped with flintlock rifles, and the sniper effect will be even more outstanding.
"Next are the phalanx infantry!"
Everyone in the stands concentrated their attention and looked at the extremely majestic large square formation.
I saw that this was a medium square formation with about 150 people.
The first three rows of the phalanx were composed of firearms soldiers. Some of them were pushing Franco machine gun carts, some were pushing tiger squatting cannons, and some were carrying turtle-dove-foot muskets and special brackets.
The Folang machine is also called a double-shot gun. This weapon has airtight limitations, but as a breech-loaded cannon, it has an amazing rate of fire and is very easy to operate. The gunner can use it after one day of training. If you strictly follow the operation sequence, there will be no explosion at all.
Bore risk.
The Folan cannon can use a variety of artillery shells such as solid bullets, shotgun shells, poisonous smoke bombs, etc., and fire them intensively in a line formation, which will cover up its lack of power to the greatest extent and produce a strike effect that is better than that of a musket line.
At this time, the 150-man first-post phalanx placed 20 100-pound French machine gun carriages in front of the formation, pursuing firepower density.
Then there are the 8-door Tiger Crouching Cannon.
This kind of gun was promoted by Qi Jiguang. It can be fired directly on the battlefield or in a deflected direction like a grenade. It weighs only thirty-six pounds and is easy to use in mountains, water nets, and in sieges and defenses.
When shooting, it can launch solid iron bullets the size of a fist, which is enough to shoot 400 steps away. There are also small lead bullets weighing 5 coins, or 100 pebbles the size of fingernails. Two types of special shotguns fall from the sky. Due to the force,
It is not as uniform as a solid bullet and has greater resistance in flight, so it can shoot a distance of 200 steps.
There is also a new fragmentation projectile developed by Li Tiezhu, which can be flexibly used in a variety of shells. It is a unique Eastern artillery that is not found in the West.
In addition to the 50 artillerymen, there are also 30 heavy musketeers in the 150-man phalanx.
Turtle-dove foot gun, also known as heavy musket, or Mushket according to the transliteration. This heavy matchlock gun must be supported on a wooden fork to shoot. Loading and shooting takes longer than a matchlock gun. Operation and loading
Training becomes more cumbersome.
But it is very powerful! It can be called a big killer.
The blunderbuss is a Japanese firearm that reduces the weight of the matchlock gun. Once popularized, crossbows were quickly eliminated in the East and the West.
But it is too light and only weighs more than ten kilograms. One shot can only hit the vital part of a person to make the person unconscious. It cannot penetrate heavy armor or heavy shields from 50 steps away. It can only be hit without armor from 100 steps away. In addition, the workmanship quality
The problem is, the gunsmith dare not fill the gunpowder for fear of exploding the barrel, so if the power is reduced, it will soon become a gun for hunting birds.
The effect against the heavily armored Eight Banners soldiers can be imagined.
The turtle-dove musket is different from heavy muskets. First of all, the caliber is large, close to 20 mm. Even if it uses black powder, it is no less than the 7 mm rifle of later generations. If it is shot within fifty steps, it will be seriously injured and lose its combat effectiveness.
It is still no problem to hit heavy armor at a hundred paces, and it can effectively kill at a distance of 150 paces.
Every single shot of a plate-armored knight creates a big hole.
Under Huang Kezuan's operation, the Bingzhan Bureau secretly purchased dozens of pieces from Luzon and then tried to copy them. At present, the Bingzhan Bureau only had a few Luzon craftsmen to make, so Wang Hongyu obtained 50 pieces through his uncle Liu Ruoyu.
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However, this gun is nearly two meters long and weighs forty kilograms. It comes with a wooden fork, gunpowder, and bullets. Only very strong people in the East and West can use it. It usually has to be carried by auxiliary soldiers, so it is not a weapon that can be promoted.
The 20 heavy matchlock soldiers in the square formation are the strongest soldiers in the army.
The remaining ones held up 6-meter-long ultra-long spears. The spears were pointed straight into the sky to form a square, like a neat forest advancing slowly. They could raise the spears horizontally to protect the artillerymen at any time according to orders.
"Run and walk!"
The sentinel in the team gave the order, and the phalanx began to run in unison.
Regardless of spears, muskets, or artillery, everyone advanced in an orderly manner. Not only was the formation not chaotic, but everyone's shoulders were almost parallel.
"It turned out to be neat when running!"
The missionaries whispered among themselves. At first, this medium phalanx of 150 people felt that it was indeed a strong force in Europe, but it was probably not as strong as Spain, the strongest.
But it can run! It still runs and advances neatly!
This is awesome.
The musketeers in the Spanish phalanx shoot backward, while the pikemen advance in unison. The secret lies in coordinated coordination. When defending, the lances cannot be moved. When attacking, the muskets retreat and fire. The pike phalanx slowly presses forward, which is equivalent to changing from a phalanx to a musketry.
Line up behind, spear in front.
But if we really run, the formation will be messed up.
These Ming troops can run!
Wang Hongyu saw the surprised expression on the missionary's face and sighed in his heart: "You have indeed entered this period first, but compared to the military training queue, you must be the first in China."