Chapter 343 The correct way to start the war in the late Ming Dynasty
For Lin Jing, he is just a prince at the moment, and he has no way to reach out to the Beijing camp or even the Ming army across the country. He can only try his best to insinuate Chongzhen to promote his own ideas, and the prince's participation in the military camp is a practice
The best venue for your own ideas.
Regarding the military development in the 17th century, Lin Jing still had a certain understanding through the memories of later generations. After entering the 17th century, due to the continuous improvement in the power and accuracy of firearms, artillery and muskets gradually became the protagonists in wars, whether in the East or the West.
, both greatly increased the proportion of firearms. Among them, Qi Yu's military reform in the east and the Swedish infantry phalanx in the west are typical features of this era.
In fact, from the very beginning, due to some self-media impressions of later generations, Lin Jing really thought that the infantry phalanx tactics developed by Sweden during this period were very good, and he was going to let the prince personally train in the military camp. However, after he read Qi Jiguang's military book
Only then did I discover that this problem was not feasible from the beginning.
"In the Central Plains, we can also guard against internal thieves. We can use long spears to fight the enemy. Why is it so difficult to use long spears? All the enemy troops rush together, coming like wind and rain. The long and slender spear body can only be poked. When the horses rush around, the spear
If it breaks, a spear can only damage a horse, and is no longer usable."
The meaning is very straightforward, which means that in Qi Jiguang's eyes, when the Mongolian heavy armored cavalry collides with the spear phalanx, the spears will be easily broken. Once the spears are broken, it is impossible to block the cavalry charge from behind.
Although Mongolia gradually declined later, the cavalry of the Donglu were also heavily armored cavalry. The situation Qi Jiguang faced back then is still useful for reference today.
Lin Jing also analyzed one point based on the current situation, that is, the fundamental reason why the Swedish infantry phalanx cannot be practiced in the East is that the intensity of the battlefield in the East at this time is far beyond what the West can match, and the Donglu themselves are the most powerful force in the world at the moment.
Elites can run rampant in the world, because the Donglu army's armor coverage rate is very high at this time.
In fact, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, Hou Jin's iron smelting capabilities were very strong. The amount of iron they produced every year was no less than that of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, they were able to forge a large amount of iron into armor and equip it for dead soldiers.
Use them to charge into the formation, but facing this kind of monster wrapped in iron armor, the ordinary spear phalanx will naturally not be as effective as it should be.
Therefore, starting from the late Ming Dynasty, the Ming army faced a situation where the opponent's armor began to flood. It could not even be ruled out that in a single battle, the opponent's armor would be more than its own infantry.
Therefore, after facing a heavy rain of arrows fired by Donglu from a long-drawn bow, and then attacking with a large number of dead soldiers wearing heavy armor, the spear and ax tactics still used by the Ming army were naturally outdated.
Therefore, the problem is not as simple as the time-travelers imagined. The low combat effectiveness of the Ming army cannot be solved by relying on the so-called infantry phalanx from outside, but the spear formation that the Ming army has been using since the beginning has been eliminated.
, and faced with this situation, the Ming army also developed three stages of new tactics to face the powerful enemy in the north.
First of all, the first tactic was during the war between the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia, until the end of Anda's tribute. At this time, the Ming army had begun to discover the powerlessness of spears in the face of Mongolian cavalry, so they introduced lightweight
Light vehicle camps were used to offset the long-range firepower of the Mongols, and conditions for a fair confrontation between the Ming infantry and the Mongolian armor were created, and then the Ming army strengthened their swords and axes to fight against the Mongolian armored cavalry. This stage did not go on very long.
The major adjustment is just the introduction of the traditional car formation concept.
However, there are obvious differences between the Ming army's chariot formations and the later Zhungeer camel city. This is because the Ming army's chariot formations pay more attention to mobility, so they are very light vehicles. Two vehicles connected can cover thirty or forty people.
Two people in each cart take turns pushing it, and one person pulls it. The two men fight according to the terrain. They form a ring formation, with the horse army in the center. If the enemy is far away, use firearms. If the enemy is closer, use bows and arrows. If the enemy is approaching, use spears and axes.
Use hooks and knives, and short soldiers to fight. If the enemy is defeated, the army and horses will go out to pursue it. If it is night, use rockets. The captives will be surrounded by cavalry, and firearms, bows and crossbows will be fired in all directions. The force will be like a city on fire. The captives will not dare to press. There is no way forward when retreating.
The prisoners dare not cover it."
It has to be said that when Lin Jing saw the information on the chariot formation, he discovered that the Ming army's chariot formation tactics were very successful. There was even a battle in which 500 Ming troops relied on the chariot formation to repel 8,000 Mongolian cavalry.
Therefore, by the second stage of Qi Yu's military reform after Ida paid tribute, the Ming army's chariot formation tactics had become very mature. They started to restrain the Mongols and Houjin from the hot and cold lines respectively, and
By mounting artillery on chariots, the artillery-carriage sea tactic was created, and this set of tactics is still in use to this day, even making the Donglu at this time fearful of it.
However, it is a pity that due to the decline in the strength of the Ming army, the Ming army lost a large number of elite soldiers in previous wars, which made many things after Qi Yu's army reform unable to be applied, such as the knife in Qi Yu's army reform that slashed the horse's leg.
The tactics no longer appear in the Ming army due to the decline in the quality of the soldiers.
After the rise of the Donglu, Sun Chengzong also started the third stage of the Ming army's reform during the Guan Ning period. After Lin Jing's understanding, he discovered that the Ming army in this period had reduced the quality of its troops, so it was simpler to use them again.
The tactics of spears and axes were adopted, while the artillery and cart tactics that they originally relied on were restrained by Hou Jin's shield carts. Therefore, at this stage, the Ming army did not change much, and they were often at a disadvantage when facing the Donglu.
At this point, when facing the Qing army, the Ming army had no room to go further tactically and was always in a state of restraint.
In other words, if Lin Jingguang considered the existing tactical conditions of this era, he would not be able to let the Prince's Guards Battalion defeat the Eight Banners. There is only one way, and that is to strengthen the firearms capabilities of the Ming army at this stage, by increasing the intensity of firearms combat.
way to find a way to defeat Donglu.
In this regard, Lin Jing judged based on the memory of later generations that there are currently two main directions of focus. The first is to create a Minie-type rifled gun, using the power of the musket to directly offset or even suppress the heavy armor tactics of the Qing army.
, the second is to further strengthen the capabilities of artillery, at least to be able to produce artillery with the level of the eighteenth century.
If these two points can be achieved in a short period of time, Lin Jing can completely train a pure firearms unit according to the training methods of the modern army. There is no need to consider the so-called spear phalanx. As for hand-to-hand combat, it is just a joke.
That's all.
After all, before you charge, I can use cannons and rifle fire to destroy you directly. No matter how you charge, it will only be the second Battle of Bali Bridge.
When he thought of this, Lin Jing couldn't help but feel a little excited. He had gradually found the correct way to start the war in the late Ming Dynasty. It depends on the next technological progress! This chapter has been completed!