Chapter Ninety-Two Forced Expansion of the Army III
Although Qi Zhuang and Hu Wang each led 200 people, most of these people were not good at horseback riding. Fortunately, Zhao Qiang's order only asked them to capture the tribesmen scattered nearby, so they did not need to pay too much attention to their subordinates.
Is your equestrian skill good? As long as you can sit on the horse without falling.【】.
Zhao Qiang doesn't have high hopes for having a real cavalry army. He just wants to use these horses to turn the infantry into mounted infantry and increase their marching speed. Now, every minute is waiting for him.
Words are precious. With horses, Hu Wang and Qi Zhuang's plundering of the population can be more effective. Every day earlier, the plundered population can be converted into combat effectiveness one day earlier. Even the lowest combat effectiveness is still combat effectiveness.
.In addition, those soldiers who can barely keep their horses from falling will gradually experience the experience of riding horses during daily riding, and with the help of previous cavalry battalion riders, they will gradually grow into a qualified cavalry.
War is based on fighting, and training is also based on fighting. Anything related to war, whether it is fighting with real swords and guns or robbing people and food, is a manifestation of war, whether it is bleeding or not.
Well, they are all the most effective ways to train soldiers.
Zhao Qiang's order was issued very urgently, so Qi Zhuang and Hu Wang picked up people and horses after the meeting and prepared to set off. However, they were still a little worried about their departure. What if Cooper, the commander of the Rakshasa people, came back with his people?
Or if the Qing army comes back, how will Zhao Qiang deal with it?
Calculating the time, Cooper who went to Nerchinsk should be back in three or four days, but Zhao Qiang did not take his one hundred gunmen at all.
Like the Qing army, the Russian army was only equipped with front-mounted matchlock guns, and had not mastered the method of staged shooting. The number was so small, so I was afraid that they would be useless. Zhao Qiang thought this way, the Qing army's bows and arrows in the Battle of Tu'erling had already defeated him.
He lost confidence in the front-loaded muskets, and even ignored the Russian army. He was very puzzled as to how the 800 Russian troops could hold on so well under the siege of 20,000 Qing troops in the city of Yaksa three years later.
Long-term.
Could it be that the Russian army had a modified musketeer? If so, why did the Russian army in this fortress still use matchlocks?
Zhao Qiang didn't understand, so he simply didn't think about it. For now, he should quickly expand his army and defeat the Russian strongholds one by one. It didn't matter whether he had a breech-loaded smoothbore or other muskets with a longer range. As long as the opponent didn't hit them
He has nothing to worry about if he dispatches a thousand-man musketry unit. In fact, it is impossible for the Russian army to dispatch a thousand-man musketry unit all at once. History has clearly told Zhao Qiang that the current Russian army is really scumbag.
As the enemy becomes weaker, I will become stronger. I will eliminate the Russian musketeers scattered in various strongholds in the Far East, and then gather their muskets. The number must be considerable.
The more fire cannons the better. If the ones ambushed in Tuerling are not the three hundred first-time fire cannon players, but a thousand experienced old gunmen, then Zhao Qiang believes that with just one salvo, the hundreds of gunmen in the ambush will be enough.
All the red flags can be reimbursed. No matter how good the Qing army with two or three hundred positive and yellow flags is in archery, they cannot withstand such intensive firepower.
On the way back, Zhao Qiang had studied with Hu Wang and others. At that time, the range of the bows and arrows of the Qing army in Zhenghuang Banner was about one hundred meters, while the range of the fire cannons used by the cannon camp was only eighty meters, and they were all for the first formation, and at that time
There is no formation to speak of. They all fight independently and shoot freely. If a single soldier fights alone, the firecrackers will definitely suffer. In addition, the Qing army formed a group with a subordinate leader, advancing slowly, and suppressed it with bows and arrows from a distance.
, our own side naturally has no way to fight back.
However, as long as one's own forces have the upper hand, and after the Qing army's first round of bow and arrow shooting, there are still enough gunmen to continue to advance into the range of the fire gun attack, and they are not fighting individually, but fighting in a volley, then the
It is the firecracker that suppresses the bow and arrow. The price is whether it can withstand 20 to 30% casualties.
After such research, Zhao Qiang had a deeper understanding of the Battle of Tu'erling. If he took a closer look, it was not that the Zhenghuang Banner Qing army was too powerful, but that his own fighting quality was too poor, and his command was also very powerful.
Of course, Hu Wang and others did not directly say that Zhao Qiang's command was wrong, but if others did not say it, Zhao Qiang himself had to admit it. It is a child's play on the battlefield, and it is imperative to improve one's military literacy. The owner of the body used to be just a
The guard has no talent as a general. He is a freshly graduated college student, and he has no military knowledge. The battle images in his mind are probably the scenes depicted in TV movies and novels. If he just copied them like this, he must be full of holes.
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Famous generals are all killed on the battlefield. If you don't have the qualifications, you might as well promote some available people. You only need to plan at the strategic level and let them do the actual battles. I can't imitate Principal Jiang.
In the end, I had to retreat to Taiwan. The principal finally had Taiwan to retreat to. Where could I retreat to? Zhao Qiang thought this way.
In the end, Hu Wang and Wu Si concluded that when they meet the elite Eight Banners again, excluding other military factors, the number of gunmen on one's side must be twice or even three times that of the opponent, so that there is a possibility of victory. Because it must be
The gap of twenty meters must be converted into the loss of human life.
"Damn it, these Tatars with the Yellow Flag are much stronger than those Sauron soldiers. Were the Rakshasa people making such a fuss yesterday?"
Wu Si once expressed such emotion after completing the research. At that time, Zhao Qiang listened and kept silent without telling him why. If there must be a reason, I am afraid that Kangxi is currently thinking about Taiwan.
Taiwan, Taiwan!
I wonder what's going on with the Zheng family now. The countdown to "return" has begun. Well, Zheng Jing should be dead now, so Zheng Keshuang is in charge? I wonder if this guy has killed his eldest brother?
The Penghu navy is a good thing, and Liu Guoxuan is also a good general. It's a pity. It's a pity. There are hundreds of thousands of Ming Dynasty survivors on the island. If there are ships to transport them to the Far East, it will be with the help of additional numbers!
Alas, it’s a pity that I don’t have anything now, so what if I knew. Zhao Qiang, who was distracted and wanted to go to Taiwan, looked regretful.
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Cooper's Hundred Musketeers Zhao Qiang was not worried, and he was also not worried that the Qing army would come over. Songshan Fort was probably the northernmost stronghold for the Qing army in Ningguta to deal with the Russians.
After seeing the Saurons garrisoning the Eight Banners, it should be known that Ningguta did not list the Russians as a serious threat, but only regarded them as border troubles. From the captured Zhenghong Banner Qing soldiers, Zhao Qiang knew that they were the only ones sent to
The Qing army and the Zhenghuang Banner troops here were just passing by and got involved by chance.
When returning from Tu'erling, Zhao Qiang had asked Qi Zhuang to leave two people every twenty miles. As soon as the Qing army came, he would immediately report back. Four days later, the Qing army appeared, and then he thought about the distance between Ninggu Pagoda and Ninggu Pagoda.
Although Zhao Qiang was worried about the Qing army coming to retaliate at this distance, it would definitely appear in half a month, so there was no immediate urgency.
Even if Cooper comes back early, there are only one or two hundred soldiers in the fort who are slightly injured. It is impossible to fight in the field, but with the fort standing firm, a man with a fire blunderbuss can definitely prevent Cooper from attacking the fort.
As for the strong men of various ethnic groups and the Zhenghong Banner Qing army who were punished as auxiliary soldiers, Zhao Qiang was not worried that they would dare to rebel. However, just in case, he still followed Hu Wang's suggestion and left 20 men each from him and Qi Zhuang.
A total of forty people served as Zhao Qiang's bodyguard in case of emergencies.
After all preparations were completed, Hu Wang and Qi Zhuang led their troops and went separately. The soldiers they brought were strong men of various ethnic groups who were familiar with the surroundings, and they were not afraid of getting lost or not finding those small tribes.
After personally escorting Hu Wang and Qi Zhuang out of the fort and riding their horses east and west, Zhang Yi, a small bannerman of the Han army under Guo Fei, found him.
"Qianhu, there is a Han among the captured Tatars."
"Han Chinese?"
After hearing Zhang Yi's report, Zhao Qiang was startled. Why had no one reported this to him before? Thinking that this person was an anomaly among the Eight Banners outside the Pass, he wanted to interrogate him to see if he could learn more about it.
The situation of the Qing army outside the Pass.
After asking Zhang Yi to bring the people to the meeting hall, Zhao Qiang took Guo Fei and Wei Ji back to the fort.