When Lin Ziran spoke, everyone pricked up their ears and listened carefully.
Among them, Luo Mazi listened especially carefully. He only listened to Lin Ziran's first sentence. He took advantage of Lin Ziran's pause to take a breath and spoke very quickly: "Your Excellency is wise and flexible in situations. You are really worthy of all of us."
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Lin Ziran once again ignored Luo Mazi's words, but continued along the train of thought: "Master Shaoqing is chasing from behind the Guang'an rebels, so we just need to hold off the enemy!"
"Although the Guang'an rebels are coming fiercely, we don't have to fight them head-on. This is not our mission. Our mission is just to hold them back. When the main force of the cavalry led by Lord Shaoqing comes up, our mission will be completed.
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At this moment, Wu Dajiang showed doubts: "But sir, how can we hold them back?"
Lin Ziran said: "Ambush, small but frequent ambushes!"
"Most of Fenglan Town is a hilly area, which is not suitable for the large-scale regular troops of the Guang'an rebels to march quickly, and many of the places they pass through are suitable for ambushes.
As long as we are properly prepared and take advantage of the range of our muskets, we can shoot from a distance. Even if we cannot kill a few of them, we can still delay their march!"
"It doesn't matter even if they discover our ambush in advance. Once they discover our ambush, they will definitely have to deal with it. Whether they take a detour or prepare for a strong attack, it will take time!"
While talking, Lin Ziran stood up directly and walked to the military map near Fenglan Town on the wall: "Look here, it is very suitable for an ambush. If you arrange the ambush well, you can even be close to the enemy.
The army's marching column was fired more than 300 meters away!"
"There are also jungles around this area. We can also disperse and hide in it, and then shoot quietly. As long as we shoot, they will be forced to form a fighting formation. If they chase us, we will retreat immediately. If they don't
If they come after me, we will shoot from a distance!"
"There are many places like this. As long as we visit a few more times, we can delay them for most of a day or even a day. This half a day will be enough for the main force behind to catch up!"
Lin Ziran thought about it for a long time, and finally gave up the head-on confrontation with the Guang'an rebels and chose to conduct an interception operation in a dangerous place. It was too dangerous.
Who knows if the hundreds of people under his command will collapse during the interception operation.
So he still adopted the safest combat plan: shoot from a distance and don't get too close!
After Lin Ziran said that, Luo Mazi stood up with a serious look on his face: "Your Excellency, you are indeed an unparalleled military master in the world. He came up with such a unique battle plan in just a moment. I, Luo Mazi, have traveled north and south for more than ten years. No one is convinced, so I
I will serve you, my lord!"
Wu Dajiang glanced at Luo Mazi, and finally showed an expression of admiration for Lin Ziran: "If this is the case, we don't have to fight those Guang'an rebels at close range, and we can still take advantage of our rifled guns!"
Wu Dajiang was the first peasant officer promoted by Lin Ziran in the Qingshan patrol camp, except for the two bandit leaders Luo Mazi and Dao Scar, so his tactical qualities were naturally not very good.
But if you eat too much pork, you can imagine how pigs run. It's just running with four legs, or five legs at most. How difficult can it be?
After serving in the army for several months, he could also see the strengths and weaknesses of these people from his family. The advantage lay in the rifled muskets in their hands. The effective range of three to four hundred meters became their biggest advantage.
The disadvantage is naturally that the overall quality is not very good.
The combat method Lin Ziran mentioned this time was completely different from formal combat in the traditional sense. If it were any officer who had received traditional military education, he would probably criticize Lin Ziran's tactics as worthless.
Because Lin Ziran's tactics meant completely abandoning the line formation and instead turning into a loose formation of skirmishers. If this loose formation was casually charged by the enemy, it would be over.
In the age of muskets, few armies would use skirmish formations on a large scale, which meant that the firepower was not dense enough and the troops were not dense enough to resist the enemy's impact in dense line formations.
That is to say, a small number of hunters have done this in the past twenty or thirty years.
However, there is a reason for the scarcity of hunters in skirmish formation. Although contemporary hunters also use front-loading rifles, their front-loading rifles are very difficult to load. It often takes several minutes to load once.
Carrying out a small-scale sneak attack and running away with one shot does not have much tactical value. Therefore, although the regular armies of various countries have such a unit as hunters, the number is very small.
However, the muzzle-loading rifle used by Lin Ziran's Qingshan Town patrol camp is not an old-style muzzle-loading rifle, but a Mini rifle. Because of the existence of Mini bullets, the rate of fire of the Mini rifle is roughly the same.
It's on par with the musket.
And the long-range accuracy is much stronger than traditional muzzle-loading rifled guns.
This also allows Lin Ziran's Qingshan Patrol Battalion to use this long-distance skirmishing shooting tactic.
After finalizing the general plan, Lin Ziran was not in a hurry to lead the troops to attack immediately. Instead, he sent the cavalry out to spy on the military situation, while he himself led three companies of musketeers to conduct emergency adaptability training outside the town.
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There are not many training items, mainly two major items.
The first one is to approach quietly and then pretend to ambush to avoid being discovered by the enemy a few hundred meters away.
The second is more important, even the most important: retreat!
Because the planned tactic is to shoot from a distance, and the enemy will run away as soon as they come up, so the ability to retreat becomes very important.
To this end, he conducted targeted tactical retreat training and gathered the squad leaders and above for training.
The purpose of the training is one: to make them more decisive and resolute when retreating, but they must not be chaotic.
Lin Ziran didn't want the tactical retreat to collapse when the enemy launched a counterattack from a few hundred meters away and then retreated.
It is not easy to achieve this, and the requirements for the organizational capabilities of the troops are relatively high.
Fortunately, Lin Ziran had already implemented a company squad system. In addition to the company commander as the main officer, an infantry company also had a deputy company commander.
Then there are three platoons, each with a platoon leader and deputy platoon leader.
There are three squads under the platoon, with squad leaders.
The command and management ability at the grassroots level is quite good.
However, during these two days of emergency adaptability training, Lin Ziran still felt that relying on one squad leader to command fourteen people was still too reluctant.