Outside the city of Dujigensk, the 1,800 sergeants of the First Regiment of the Guards Division were lined up in all black military uniforms. Even the flag bearer was holding a pure black flag. [] This made people stand at the top of the city.
Liu De, who accompanied the Marshal during the review, was very surprised. He hesitated for a few seconds and asked Zhao Qiang, "I wonder why the Marshal used black as the order flag for the Guards Division?"
Zhao Qiang, who was watching the first regiment's formation drill, heard this and said: "The Guards Division uses the black flag as the true color of the division. This is the commander's inspiration from the Five Elements and Five Virtues."
"Five elements and five virtues?" Liu De was stunned. What does this have to do with the five elements and five virtues?
Zhao Qiang smiled when he saw this and said: "The five elements are metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and the five virtues are red, yellow, blue, white, and black. For a long time, our Guan Ning army has not unified the military uniforms and flags, and the orders have been chaotic.
Therefore, I decided to use the Five Elements and Five Virtues to unify the military uniforms of each division, and the flag order. You, this Guards Division has a black flag and a black uniform, which corresponds to the soil of the Five Elements, and the Cavalry Division will also use it in the future.
The flag of the rearguard division is yellow, which represents wood; the vanguard division has blue as its flag, which represents water; and the reserve division has white as its flag, which represents water.
For fire." At this point, he asked Liu De with some pride: "How do you think, how about my five elements and five virtues flag uniform?"
"It's very good. Each division has its own flag uniform, so that they can be clearly distinguished on the battlefield and there is no need to worry about confusion." Liu De couldn't tell what was good or bad about the five elements flag uniform, but it just felt weird.
, but how could he dare to say this? He didn’t see the commander looking so proud.
"Our five masters group has five flags, but the eight flags of the Tatars only have four colors and one color is stronger. The commander-in-chief is trying to suppress the Tatars." He Manchuan, who was standing on the side, suddenly said something, but he immediately understood what was going on.
He shut up because he saw that the commander was staring at him with dissatisfaction.
Damn it, I finally thought of using the Five Elements Flag uniform to unify the flag order for each division, but you compare my Five Elements Flag with the Eight Banners of the Qing Army. It’s too cheap, too cheap. Don’t you know that the Five Elements Flag is the Mingjiao flag?
The treasure of town and religion
After glaring at He Manchuan with dissatisfaction, Zhao Qiang turned to the generals around him and said: "The First Regiment of the Guards Division now has all the muskets, except for the 600 flintlock guns that I bought from the Franji merchant.
Dai Zi's Firearms Department has improved another 300 guns. Although the number is a bit small, it is enough to deal with the Rakshasa people. Well, Dai Zi can improve another 1,000 flintlock guns by the end of April.
When we come out, we will have 1,800 flintlock rifles on hand, which can be equipped with a regiment. With a regiment of flintlock rifles, I believe that the Tatars' northern expedition army will be defeated by us.
You have to run outside like a dog!”
He Manchuan did not learn the lesson just now. Hearing Zhao Qiang's words, he immediately disapproved and said: "Commander, let alone the flintlock rifles of a regiment, just with these 900 flintlock rifles and 900 matchlock muskets, in the end,
The general is also confident that he will put an end to the Tatars’ Northern Expedition Army!”
"Arrogant soldiers will be defeated!"
Zhao Qiang was so angry that he scolded He Manchuan again with a straight face: "We haven't even fought yet, and yet you are talking nonsense. You must know that weapons are not the key to winning or losing a war, the key is here!" He pointed at his brain.
: "We have to learn to use our brains. Do you think that if we have muskets, the Qing army will not have them? Do you think that if we have flintlock guns, the Qing army will not buy and improve them? So don't blindly focus on weapons.
, don’t think that your division has no enemies in the world all day long! That’s because you haven’t met a real opponent yet!”
He Manchuan's face turned red and he kept nodding his head. Now that he had mentioned this, Zhao Qiang took the opportunity to hit the other generals and said to them sternly: "The Qing government equipped their Northern Expedition army with a luxurious lineup.
, I heard that soldiers have been transferred from the guard camp, infantry camp, and forward camp of the Beijing camp, as well as the firearms camp. These are Kangxi’s family backgrounds. You must not underestimate them. In the past, when we fought with the Rakshasa people, the opponent
Two or three thousand men can stand up to the sky, but this time is different. The Qing army has 20,000 troops, and the equipment is much better than that of the Rakshasa people. So if you are as arrogant as before, our Guan Ning army will
But he was eaten up to the point where not even the dregs were left!”
All the generals hurriedly bowed and said in unison: "I will finally understand!"
At this time, the first regiment outside the city had finished its formation drill and was conducting a round of fire musket shooting under the command of Baihu, the general flag. The firing speed of the brigade equipped with flintlock guns was faster than that of the brigade equipped with matchlocks and bird cannons.
Much more. In less than a minute, 600 soldiers finished shooting in three batches, but those matchlock shooters had just fired one round.
At present, the Guards Division's firecrackers mainly come from the two firecrackers brigades of the former 3rd Infantry Regiment, the 400 firecrackers from Wu Si in Shouyi City, plus the 1,300 Russian troops captured from Dujigensk.
Hundreds of fire blunderbuss were deployed, with a total of 2,900 fire blunderbuss, plus 600 flintlock muskets sold by the French businessman Pétain, and the 300 fire blunderbuss allocated to Zhao Qiang by Kangxi from the Ministry of Works, totaling 2,900 fire blunderbuss.
Improved 900 rods and 2,900 matchlock muskets. The Guards Division is organized into four regiments and three brigades. Based on 600 soldiers per brigades, one regiment has 1,800 men.
The entire Guards Division has 7,200 men, so the 3,800 firecrackers can only equip two regiments. The remaining two regiments are not equipped with firecrackers. They still use broadswords, spears and
Bows and arrows. But Zhao Qiang believed that Dai Zi would soon complete the improvement work of matchlock muskets, and then start building a large number of flintlock guns for Guan Ning's army to equip.
The First Battalion of the First Regiment of the Guards Division was all equipped with flintlock muskets, the Second Battalion was equipped with half, and the remaining half and the Third Battalion were equipped with matchlock muskets. This amount of force could be used against the Qing Dynasty's Northern Expedition Army.
Impossible, but the Goro used to intimidate Nerchinsk is more than enough, not to mention the cavalry division to help, so Zhao Qiang is full of confidence in marching into Nerchinsk to force Goro to sign the "Alliance Under the City".
After the First Regiment of the Guards Division finished practicing fire cannon shooting, everyone inside and outside the city was in a state of excitement. The sergeants outside the city were so excited by the huge power of their fire cannons that they could not express themselves, while the sergeants inside the city were overwhelmed by the power of the fire cannons in their hands.
I was shocked by this overwhelming array of shooting, and I thought it was a good thing that this battalion of rapid-fire gunmen was my own, otherwise I would have been risking my life with my eyes closed if I had to rush into these formations of gunmen.
When ambushing Volha's yellow-banner cavalry, the tremendous combat effectiveness of the First Regiment's matchlock muskets changed the minds of all the generals and soldiers who had always despised them. Now the First Regiment is equipped with faster flintlock muskets.
The team is even more impressive.
After the first regiment completed the drill, Qi Zhuang asked Ma Long to lead the first regiment of the cavalry division out of the city to practice charging, slashing and other events. At noon, Zhao Qiang at the head of the city gave the order to set off.
On March 25, Zhao Qiang led the First Regiment of the Cavalry Division and the First Regiment of the Guards Division to Nerchinsk, and Liu De also went with the army.