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In the 16th century, there were two regions in the world that had long loaded firearms into troops and applied them in actual combat.
These two regions, one is Europe and the other is the Ming Dynasty.
Because the firerope gun has the characteristics of flat shooting and slow firing speed, it can be thrown different from the bow and arrow, and the firing speed is faster, so the militarists in Europe and the Ming Dynasty have been looking for an array to give full play to the maximum power of the firerope gun.
In the Ming Dynasty, Qi Jiguang transferred the Great Wall to the north after the Japanese pirates in Nanping to prevent the nomadic cavalry of Mongolia.
At that time, the popularity of firearms in the Ming army was very high. In order to give full play to the advantages of firearms, Qi Jiguang set up a car camp by mixing cars and steps.
The combat method of the car camp is to use solid combat vehicles as a defense barrier, install firearms on the vehicles, refuse to defend the vehicles when encountering the enemy, and use bird guns, rockets and Buddha aircraft in turn to attack.
However, the tactics of the car camp are not suitable for Li Xiao. Japan has many mountains and few plains. It is inconvenient for the car camp to drive, and Japan doesn't have so many horse carrying vehicles.
In fact, in addition to the mixing of spears, fire and guns, the Spanish square array has a fundamental tactical innovation compared with the vehicle array of the Ming Dynasty and the mandarin duck array, which was invented by Qi Jiguang.
Shimao shengmeng, Shigang Yiyu, Xiaofan Xiaoxian, Koichiro Muxia, and Da Zang Chang'an all saw each other face to face. They threw out one new term after another, one new concept after another. Now it's a fog and a sticky situation.
Li Xiao immediately gave birth to a sense of superiority of a transgressor. This is the power of knowledge. Who says he can't play knowledge by playing games all day.
The Spanish phalanx is the Western phalanx of Nanman technology, the last technology tree in Spain.
Li Xiao pretended to be knowledgeable and said, "this new method of warfare, I named him the western square array, which is to imitate the method of the west of Thailand. Oh, no, you call it the southern barbarians."
"The tactics of the southern barbarians? The tactics of the southern barbarians with blue eyes and big noses?" Dao shengmeng, Da Zang Chang'an is the only one who has seen the southern barbarians in Li xiaojiachen's regiment. They all met the southern barbarians when they traveled and studied in Bodo.
"Yes, the iron gun was invented by the Ming people and passed on to the Nanman people, and then to Japan." Li Xiao explained in order to strengthen their confidence in the new tactics.
Hearing this, Shimao shengmeng and shioka Yiyu nodded together. They knew that iron guns were introduced into Japan from seed island.
"The western war method is in Taixi, er, that is, the southern barbarians. It is the mainstream war method. It is very powerful. According to the characteristics of iron guns, they designed the iron gun team into a standing position of 8-12 rows."
"Platoon 8-12? Why is it so long?" Xiaofan Xiaoxian questioned on the spot. He was the head of the iron gun group under Li Xiao's command and knew very well about the nature of iron guns.
In general, in Japan's joint war, the iron artillery team is at the forefront of its own long gun foot light array, either standing or kneeling in a row, or standing, kneeling in two positions, standing in two rows and shooting at the same time.
After firing a light shot, the iron gun quickly slipped back to the back of the team.
In Xiaofan Xiaoxian's understanding, iron cannons can only shoot flat, not like bows and arrows. If you stand in 8-12 rows, it doesn't mean that people in the back row can easily hit the front row, or you can only shoot into the sky.
Li Xiao nodded to Xiaofan Xiaoxian and said, "you're right, but when encountering the enemy, the iron artillery team of the Western array can only shoot in the first row. Then, after the first row of iron artillery is light enough to shoot, he retreats in the gap between rows, retreats to the last row to load ammunition, and lets the second row of iron artillery light enough to shoot. I call him the back loading tactics!"
As soon as Li Xiao said this, all the people present were in a fog. Only Xiaofan Xiaoxian showed a look of joy on his face.
He said, "my Lord, this method of warfare is very clever, so that our iron artillery team can shoot from beginning to end without interruption."
As soon as Xiaofan Xiaoxian said this, all the people had a little understanding. It was not the poor understanding of others, but most people didn't understand the new business of iron cannon.
Li Xiaowei smiled and praised Xiaofan Xiaoxian's insight.
The so-called backward loading tactics, as he just said.
When meeting the enemy, after the first row of musketeers volley, the first row of musketeers retreat to the last row to load ammunition in the gap between rows. After the front row of musketeers had been fired, the Musketeers in the first row had been loaded and fired from the seats in the last row of the original array.
Finally, the formation of the Musketeers did not move forward, but went backward step by step in shooting, also known as couter March.
It is said that the Spaniards say that if there are more than ten rows of muskets and sufficient ammunition, the Spanish phalanx can ensure that the fire of muskets has been uninterrupted from beginning to end.
In history, the Spaniards first adopted the tactics of retreating and loading ammunition in the battle of Pavia with French king Fran ç OIS I (A.D. 1525), and then defeated the French army. French king Fran ç OIS I was captured.
The Spanish phalanx, with this backward ammunition loading tactic, pressed the feudal forces of the old era on the European battlefield. Even more than 100 years later, when the flint gun came out and gradually improved, this method of warfare is still the main means to make up for the defect of the slow firing rate of the musket.
However, the ammunition loading method was not originally created by the Spanish. In the early Ming Dynasty, general Mu Ying, the monk of Benyuan temple and the demon king all took similar three-stage attacks.
Xiaofan Xiaoxian became more and more excited and said optimistically, "my Lord, this combat method is really excellent. In this way, the iron artillery team doesn't have to worry that after the first volley, there will be no follow-up fire and have to retreat. The iron artillery team can always stay on the battlefield. The enemy can be destroyed as much as possible."
Li Xiao smiled. Xiaofan Xiaoxian took it for granted.
Li Xiaozheng wants to explain in detail the so-called three paragraph strike method to Xiaofan Xiaoxian.
At this time, Dao shengmeng took this opportunity to say a question to Li Xiao: "my Lord, I don't know one thing about my subjects. This backward loading shooting, compared with the ordinary volley, in fact, the firing speed didn't increase, but slowed down."
After finishing up his thoughts, he said: "for our newly formed 80 person iron gun team, when only one shot is loaded, 80 iron guns fire together, or 80 iron guns retreat to load and fire. Compared with the bullets fired by the two, they are all 80 shots."
"In the case of two rounds of ammunition loading, when 80 iron guns fire together twice, they can hit 160 rounds, and then retreat to load and fire, and they can only hit 90 rounds at the same time. If the enemy kills in front of the array at this time, the iron gun team can only retreat, and this does not deduct the time the iron Gunners travel in the queue. Isn't the lethality so small?"
As soon as Dao shengmeng said this, everyone showed a thoughtful look.
Li Xiao was also surprised. It was nothing else. He didn't expect that daoshengmeng children's shoes could learn mathematics so well.
Xiaofan Xiaoxian quickly explained for Li Xiao: "you're wrong, Mr. Dao shengmeng. In fact, the Lord's war method is not to increase the number of iron guns. For example, what would you do if you led the army to attack the light defense of iron guns I presided over?"
Island Sheng Meng Ningmei thought a little and said, "I will move forward slowly at a distance of 20 meters away from your iron gun foot light, and use my bow foot light to shoot arrows in the distance. After your iron guns shoot together, I will order my subordinates to charge and kill you in front of you."
Xiaofan Xiaoxian nodded and said: "Yes, Mr. Dao shengmeng is worthy of being the chief General of our family and has rich experience, because you know that although there are 20 iron guns, shooting at the distance of 20 is not only the least lethal to the foot, but also the worst hit rate. Therefore, you harass me gently with your bow and foot, forcing my iron gun to shoot for self-defense. In this way, the iron gun will be empty after firing together After a long time, adults can take the opportunity to attack. "
Hearing this, Dao shengmeng suddenly realized and said, "I see. It turned out that the purpose of retreating and loading ammunition is to maintain the uninterrupted shooting with iron guns."
Li Xiao remembers that the Mongolian cavalry used various methods to deal with the Ming army, such as long-distance riding and shooting, galloping and spinning, to lure the Ming soldiers out of control. They fired their firearms at a long-distance volley in advance, and then took the gap of ammunition loading, and then came close to cutting and killing.
This situation can not be restrained only by strict discipline. People follow the crowd mentality. If one person is injured or afraid and shoots an iron gun in advance, the rest will not know and will follow suit.
Li Xiao turned and said: "Not only that, for example, at a distance of 20, ten iron guns can only kill one person, while at a distance of 15, the same ten iron guns can kill two people, and ten iron guns can kill three people. The closer you shoot, the stronger the power and accuracy of the iron gun. The killing of uninterrupted fire must be better than long-distance salvo."
Listening to Li Xiao's remarks, people are more confident and look forward to this western array. Some people even think that as long as the whole army is equipped with iron guns, there is no enemy under the same number of military potential.
Li Xiao shook his head, which is another kind of assumption, but he did not correct this statement. In future training, they will find the advantages and disadvantages of the Western array.
However, in the history of Europe, the Spanish phalanx did play an epoch-making role in innovating the mainstream methods of warfare at that time and became popular for more than 100 years. The later King Gustav II of Sweden and Frederick II, the founder of the Prussian army and the great emperor who fought all over Europe, all carried out the innovation of methods of warfare on the basis of the Spanish phalanx.
Compared with the Spanish Square.
Qi Jiguang's Mandarin Duck array was later improved to deal with Mongolia. After that, it was equipped with firearms such as bird gun and three eye gun. However, the use method of these firearms is similar to that of bow and arrow, but it is only an array allocation and does not highlight the role of firearms.
The devil king's three-stage shooting in changxiaohe War 11 years later. He gathered the iron gun teams attached to each standby team together. It is a kind of war method that lists the iron gun teams separately. Compared with the Spanish square array, there is no concept of mixing long guns and iron guns.
This era is far from the invincible era of iron guns. Among the 12000 people killed by the Takeda family in the battle of Changxiao, those killed by Zhitian Xinchang's 3000 iron guns are only a part of it.
In the coming decades, the protagonist on the battlefield will still be cold weapons.
The Spanish phalanx is only a process in the history of the transition from cold weapons to hot weapons, which has not been banned.
As far as Li Xiao knows, for the Spanish phalanx, the odds of winning against the impact of large-scale cavalry are not high without bunkers, horse barriers and terrain.
This trend changed only later in the hands of King Gustav II of Sweden. Gustav II used his newly created Swedish army to defeat the elite Polish wing cavalry (that is, the most senior light cavalry in the imperial era 2).
At that time, Gustav II also introduced the concept of infantry coordination on the basis of the improvement of the Spanish phalanx, and it was his Swedish cavalry that finally defeated the Polish cavalry.
However, Li Xiao didn't think so much. All he needs to do now is to innovate the iron gun tactics and enhance the lethality of the iron gun on the original basis.
Now, in the western square formed by Li Xiao, it is also divided into iron gun foot light team and gun foot light team.
The square array is arranged in a linear queue with eight rows in a row, that is, Li Xiao's 80 iron artillery feet are divided into eight waves to shoot in turn, with ten people shooting each time.
Li Xiao will be centered by the long gun foot light team, while the iron gun team is divided into left and right wings.
Because the iron gun technology was not mature at that time, it was still very refined and expensive, and it was impossible to equip on a large scale, Li Xiao decided to form a square array with light gun foot and light iron gun foot in a ratio of two to one.
In other words, his gun foot light team is 160 people. The gun foot light team is also divided into eight rows and twenty people. In this way, together with the iron gun team with 40 people on both wings, it forms a rectangular array of 8 * 30240 people.
However, in history, in many Spanish phalanxes, the Musketeers surrounded the spearmen, which can complete the role of attacking the enemy on all sides, but such an array is too extravagant for the musketeers.
Li Xiao distributed the iron artillery team on both wings, while the gun foot light team was in the center, which was closer to the Swedish square created by Gustav II.
But Li Xiao also knows that such a Swedish square has an obvious disadvantage, that is, the front firepower is strong, but the two wings are very weak.
If the enemy is attracted by the potential of one route army and divides the potential of the other route army to attack the flanks of the square array, Li Xiao's western square array can only be reduced to a joke and completely finished.
In history, King Gustav II of Sweden used a well-trained cavalry team to cover his flanks, and his army was well-trained. At the critical moment of the decisive battle, he could follow orders to achieve a positive left-right 90 degree in-situ horizontal transfer.
In this way, the front of the square array can always be aligned with the incoming direction of the enemy.
Li Xiao didn't have a strong cavalry team, so he had to retreat to the second place. He arranged 100 people on both sides of the Western phalanx as flank cover. The hundred men were prepared with seventy spears and thirty bows
Edit.
In this way, there will be enough troops to cover the flanks of the Western phalanx, and the remaining 60 standing troops will be incorporated into Li Xiao's direct subordinates as his own personal guards and the last reserve team on the battlefield.
In this way, Li Xiao's 500 standing troops will really become an army. (to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly ticket at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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In the 16th century, there were two regions in the world that had long loaded firearms into troops and applied them in actual combat.
These two regions, one is Europe and the other is the Ming Dynasty.
Because the firerope gun has the characteristics of flat shooting and slow firing speed, it can be thrown different from the bow and arrow, and the firing speed is faster, so the militarists in Europe and the Ming Dynasty have been looking for an array to give full play to the maximum power of the firerope gun.
In the Ming Dynasty, Qi Jiguang transferred the Great Wall to the north after the Japanese pirates in Nanping to prevent the nomadic cavalry of Mongolia.
At that time, the popularity of firearms in the Ming army was very high. In order to give full play to the advantages of firearms, Qi Jiguang set up a car camp by mixing cars and steps.
The combat method of the car camp is to use solid combat vehicles as a defense barrier, install firearms on the vehicles, refuse to defend the vehicles when encountering the enemy, and use bird guns, rockets and Buddha aircraft in turn to attack.
However, the tactics of the car camp are not suitable for Li Xiao. Japan has many mountains and few plains. It is inconvenient for the car camp to drive, and Japan doesn't have so many horse carrying vehicles.
In fact, in addition to the mixing of spears, fire and guns, the Spanish square array has a fundamental tactical innovation compared with the vehicle array of the Ming Dynasty and the mandarin duck array, which was invented by Qi Jiguang.
Shimao shengmeng, Shigang Yiyu, Xiaofan Xiaoxian, Koichiro Muxia, and Da Zang Chang'an all saw each other face to face. They threw out one new term after another, one new concept after another. Now it's a fog and a sticky situation.
Li Xiao immediately gave birth to a sense of superiority of a transgressor. This is the power of knowledge. Who says he can't play knowledge by playing games all day.
The Spanish phalanx is the Western phalanx of Nanman technology, the last technology tree in Spain.
Li Xiao pretended to be knowledgeable and said, "this new method of warfare, I named him the western square array, which is to imitate the method of the west of Thailand. Oh, no, you call it the southern barbarians."
"The tactics of the southern barbarians? The tactics of the southern barbarians with blue eyes and big noses?" Dao shengmeng, Da Zang Chang'an is the only one who has seen the southern barbarians in Li xiaojiachen's regiment. They all met the southern barbarians when they traveled and studied in Bodo.
"Yes, the iron gun was invented by the Ming people and passed on to the Nanman people, and then to Japan." Li Xiao explained in order to strengthen their confidence in the new tactics.
Hearing this, Shimao shengmeng and shioka Yiyu nodded together. They knew that iron guns were introduced into Japan from seed island.
"The western war method is in Taixi, er, that is, the southern barbarians. It is the mainstream war method. It is very powerful. According to the characteristics of iron guns, they designed the iron gun team into a standing position of 8-12 rows."
"Platoon 8-12? Why is it so long?" Xiaofan Xiaoxian questioned on the spot. He was the head of the iron gun group under Li Xiao's command and knew very well about the nature of iron guns.
In general, in Japan's joint war, the iron artillery team is at the forefront of its own long gun foot light array, either standing or kneeling in a row, or standing, kneeling in two positions, standing in two rows and shooting at the same time.
After firing a light shot, the iron gun quickly slipped back to the back of the team.
In Xiaofan Xiaoxian's understanding, iron cannons can only shoot flat, not like bows and arrows. If you stand in 8-12 rows, it doesn't mean that people in the back row can easily hit the front row, or you can only shoot into the sky.
Li Xiao nodded to Xiaofan Xiaoxian and said, "you're right, but when encountering the enemy, the iron artillery team of the Western array can only shoot in the first row. Then, after the first row of iron artillery is light enough to shoot, he retreats in the gap between rows, retreats to the last row to load ammunition, and lets the second row of iron artillery light enough to shoot. I call him the back loading tactics!"
As soon as Li Xiao said this, all the people present were in a fog. Only Xiaofan Xiaoxian showed a look of joy on his face.
He said, "my Lord, this method of warfare is very clever, so that our iron artillery team can shoot from beginning to end without interruption."
As soon as Xiaofan Xiaoxian said this, all the people had a little understanding. It was not the poor understanding of others, but most people didn't understand the new business of iron cannon.
Li Xiaowei smiled and praised Xiaofan Xiaoxian's insight.
The so-called backward loading tactics, as he just said.
When meeting the enemy, after the first row of musketeers volley, the first row of musketeers retreat to the last row to load ammunition in the gap between rows. After the front row of musketeers had been fired, the Musketeers in the first row had been loaded and fired from the seats in the last row of the original array.
Finally, the formation of the Musketeers did not move forward, but went backward step by step in shooting, also known as couter March.
It is said that the Spaniards say that if there are more than ten rows of muskets and sufficient ammunition, the Spanish phalanx can ensure that the fire of muskets has been uninterrupted from beginning to end.
In history, the Spaniards first adopted the tactics of retreating and loading ammunition in the battle of Pavia with French king Fran ç OIS I (A.D. 1525), and then defeated the French army. French king Fran ç OIS I was captured.
The Spanish phalanx, with this backward ammunition loading tactic, pressed the feudal forces of the old era on the European battlefield. Even more than 100 years later, when the flint gun came out and gradually improved, this method of warfare is still the main means to make up for the defect of the slow firing rate of the musket.
However, the ammunition loading method was not originally created by the Spanish. In the early Ming Dynasty, general Mu Ying, the monk of Benyuan temple and the demon king all took similar three-stage attacks.
Xiaofan Xiaoxian became more and more excited and said optimistically, "my Lord, this combat method is really excellent. In this way, the iron artillery team doesn't have to worry that after the first volley, there will be no follow-up fire and have to retreat. The iron artillery team can always stay on the battlefield. The enemy can be destroyed as much as possible."
Li Xiao smiled. Xiaofan Xiaoxian took it for granted.
Li Xiaozheng wants to explain in detail the so-called three paragraph strike method to Xiaofan Xiaoxian.
At this time, Dao shengmeng took this opportunity to say a question to Li Xiao: "my Lord, I don't know one thing about my subjects. This backward loading shooting, compared with the ordinary volley, in fact, the firing speed didn't increase, but slowed down."
After finishing up his thoughts, he said: "for our newly formed 80 person iron gun team, when only one shot is loaded, 80 iron guns fire together, or 80 iron guns retreat to load and fire. Compared with the bullets fired by the two, they are all 80 shots."
"In the case of two rounds of ammunition loading, when 80 iron guns fire together twice, they can hit 160 rounds, and then retreat to load and fire, and they can only hit 90 rounds at the same time. If the enemy kills in front of the array at this time, the iron gun team can only retreat, and this does not deduct the time the iron Gunners travel in the queue. Isn't the lethality so small?"
As soon as Dao shengmeng said this, everyone showed a thoughtful look.
Li Xiao was also surprised. It was nothing else. He didn't expect that daoshengmeng children's shoes could learn mathematics so well.
Xiaofan Xiaoxian quickly explained for Li Xiao: "you're wrong, Mr. Dao shengmeng. In fact, the Lord's war method is not to increase the number of iron guns. For example, what would you do if you led the army to attack the light defense of iron guns I presided over?"
Island Sheng Meng Ningmei thought a little and said, "I will move forward slowly at a distance of 20 meters away from your iron gun foot light, and use my bow foot light to shoot arrows in the distance. After your iron guns shoot together, I will order my subordinates to charge and kill you in front of you."
Xiaofan Xiaoxian nodded and said: "Yes, Mr. Dao shengmeng is worthy of being the chief General of our family and has rich experience, because you know that although there are 20 iron guns, shooting at the distance of 20 is not only the least lethal to the foot, but also the worst hit rate. Therefore, you harass me gently with your bow and foot, forcing my iron gun to shoot for self-defense. In this way, the iron gun will be empty after firing together After a long time, adults can take the opportunity to attack. "
Hearing this, Dao shengmeng suddenly realized and said, "I see. It turned out that the purpose of retreating and loading ammunition is to maintain the uninterrupted shooting with iron guns."
Li Xiao remembers that the Mongolian cavalry used various methods to deal with the Ming army, such as long-distance riding and shooting, galloping and spinning, to lure the Ming soldiers out of control. They fired their firearms at a long-distance volley in advance, and then took the gap of ammunition loading, and then came close to cutting and killing.
This situation can not be restrained only by strict discipline. People follow the crowd mentality. If one person is injured or afraid and shoots an iron gun in advance, the rest will not know and will follow suit.
Li Xiao turned and said: "Not only that, for example, at a distance of 20, ten iron guns can only kill one person, while at a distance of 15, the same ten iron guns can kill two people, and ten iron guns can kill three people. The closer you shoot, the stronger the power and accuracy of the iron gun. The killing of uninterrupted fire must be better than long-distance salvo."
Listening to Li Xiao's remarks, people are more confident and look forward to this western array. Some people even think that as long as the whole army is equipped with iron guns, there is no enemy under the same number of military potential.
Li Xiao shook his head, which is another kind of assumption, but he did not correct this statement. In future training, they will find the advantages and disadvantages of the Western array.
However, in the history of Europe, the Spanish phalanx did play an epoch-making role in innovating the mainstream methods of warfare at that time and became popular for more than 100 years. The later King Gustav II of Sweden and Frederick II, the founder of the Prussian army and the great emperor who fought all over Europe, all carried out the innovation of methods of warfare on the basis of the Spanish phalanx.
Compared with the Spanish Square.
Qi Jiguang's Mandarin Duck array was later improved to deal with Mongolia. After that, it was equipped with firearms such as bird gun and three eye gun. However, the use method of these firearms is similar to that of bow and arrow, but it is only an array allocation and does not highlight the role of firearms.
The devil king's three-stage shooting in changxiaohe War 11 years later. He gathered the iron gun teams attached to each standby team together. It is a kind of war method that lists the iron gun teams separately. Compared with the Spanish square array, there is no concept of mixing long guns and iron guns.
This era is far from the invincible era of iron guns. Among the 12000 people killed by the Takeda family in the battle of Changxiao, those killed by Zhitian Xinchang's 3000 iron guns are only a part of it.
In the coming decades, the protagonist on the battlefield will still be cold weapons.
The Spanish phalanx is only a process in the history of the transition from cold weapons to hot weapons, which has not been banned.
As far as Li Xiao knows, for the Spanish phalanx, the odds of winning against the impact of large-scale cavalry are not high without bunkers, horse barriers and terrain.
This trend changed only later in the hands of King Gustav II of Sweden. Gustav II used his newly created Swedish army to defeat the elite Polish wing cavalry (that is, the most senior light cavalry in the imperial era 2).
At that time, Gustav II also introduced the concept of infantry coordination on the basis of the improvement of the Spanish phalanx, and it was his Swedish cavalry that finally defeated the Polish cavalry.
However, Li Xiao didn't think so much. All he needs to do now is to innovate the iron gun tactics and enhance the lethality of the iron gun on the original basis.
Now, in the western square formed by Li Xiao, it is also divided into iron gun foot light team and gun foot light team.
The square array is arranged in a linear queue with eight rows in a row, that is, Li Xiao's 80 iron artillery feet are divided into eight waves to shoot in turn, with ten people shooting each time.
Li Xiao will be centered by the long gun foot light team, while the iron gun team is divided into left and right wings.
Because the iron gun technology was not mature at that time, it was still very refined and expensive, and it was impossible to equip on a large scale, Li Xiao decided to form a square array with light gun foot and light iron gun foot in a ratio of two to one.
In other words, his gun foot light team is 160 people. The gun foot light team is also divided into eight rows and twenty people. In this way, together with the iron gun team with 40 people on both wings, it forms a rectangular array of 8 * 30240 people.
However, in history, in many Spanish phalanxes, the Musketeers surrounded the spearmen, which can complete the role of attacking the enemy on all sides, but such an array is too extravagant for the musketeers.
Li Xiao distributed the iron artillery team on both wings, while the gun foot light team was in the center, which was closer to the Swedish square created by Gustav II.
But Li Xiao also knows that such a Swedish square has an obvious disadvantage, that is, the front firepower is strong, but the two wings are very weak.
If the enemy is attracted by the potential of one route army and divides the potential of the other route army to attack the flanks of the square array, Li Xiao's western square array can only be reduced to a joke and completely finished.
In history, King Gustav II of Sweden used a well-trained cavalry team to cover his flanks, and his army was well-trained. At the critical moment of the decisive battle, he could follow orders to achieve a positive left-right 90 degree in-situ horizontal transfer.
In this way, the front of the square array can always be aligned with the incoming direction of the enemy.
Li Xiao didn't have a strong cavalry team, so he had to retreat to the second place. He arranged 100 people on both sides of the Western phalanx as flank cover. The hundred men were prepared with seventy spears and thirty bows
Edit.
In this way, there will be enough troops to cover the flanks of the Western phalanx, and the remaining 60 standing troops will be incorporated into Li Xiao's direct subordinates as his own personal guards and the last reserve team on the battlefield.
In this way, Li Xiao's 500 standing troops will really become an army. (to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly ticket at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
In the 16th century, there were two regions in the world that had long loaded firearms into troops and applied them in actual combat.These two regions, one is Europe and the other is the Ming Dynasty.Because the firerope gun has the characteristics of flat shooting and slow firing speed, it can be thrown different from the bow and arrow, and the firing speed is faster, so the militarists in Europe and the Ming Dynasty have been looking for an array to give full play to the maximum power of the firerope gun.In the Ming Dynasty, Qi Jiguang transferred the Great Wall to the north after the Japanese pirates in Nanping to prevent the nomadic cavalry of Mongolia.At that time, the popularity of firearms in the Ming army was very high. In order to give full play to the advantages of firearms, Qi Jiguang set up a car camp by mixing cars and steps.The combat method of the car camp is to use solid combat vehicles as a defense barrier, install firearms on the vehicles, refuse to defend the vehicles when encountering the enemy, and use bird guns, rockets and Buddha aircraft in turn to attack.However, the tactics of the car camp are not suitable for Li Xiao. Japan has many mountains and few plains. It is inconvenient for the car camp to drive, and Japan doesn't have so many horse carrying vehicles.In fact, in addition to the mixing of spears, fire and guns, the Spanish square array has a fundamental tactical innovation compared with the vehicle array of the Ming Dynasty and the mandarin duck array, which was invented by Qi Jiguang.Shimao shengmeng, Shigang Yiyu, Xiaofan Xiaoxian, Koichiro Muxia, and Da Zang Chang'an all saw each other face to face. They threw out one new term after another, one new concept after another. Now it's a fog and a sticky situation.Li Xiao immediately gave birth to a sense of superiority of a transgressor. This is the power of knowledge. Who says he can't play knowledge by playing games all day.The Spanish phalanx is the Western phalanx of Nanman technology, the last technology tree in Spain.Li Xiao pretended to be knowledgeable and said, "this new method of warfare, I named him the western square array, which is to imitate the method of the west of Thailand. Oh, no, you call it the southern barbarians.""The tactics of the southern barbarians? The tactics of the southern barbarians with blue eyes and big noses?" Dao shengmeng, Da Zang Chang'an is the only one who has seen the southern barbarians in Li xiaojiachen's regiment. They all met the southern barbarians when they traveled and studied in Bodo."Yes, the iron gun was invented by the Ming people and passed on to the Nanman people, and then to Japan." Li Xiao explained in order to strengthen their confidence in the new tactics.Hearing this, Shimao shengmeng and shioka Yiyu nodded together. They knew that iron guns were introduced into Japan from seed island."The western war method is in Taixi, er, that is, the southern barbarians. It is the mainstream war method. It is very powerful. According to the characteristics of iron guns, they designed the iron gun team into a standing position of 8-12 rows.""Platoon 8-12? Why is it so long?" Xiaofan Xiaoxian questioned on the spot. He was the head of the iron gun group under Li Xiao's command and knew very well about the nature of iron guns.In general, in Japan's joint war, the iron artillery team is at the forefront of its own long gun foot light array, either standing or kneeling in a row, or standing, kneeling in two positions, standing in two rows and shooting at the same time.After firing a light shot, the iron gun quickly slipped back to the back of the team.In Xiaofan Xiaoxian's understanding, iron cannons can only shoot flat, not like bows and arrows. If you stand in 8-12 rows, it doesn't mean that people in the back row can easily hit the front row, or you can only shoot into the sky.Li Xiao nodded to Xiaofan Xiaoxian and said, "you're right, but when encountering the enemy, the iron artillery team of the Western array can only shoot in the first row. Then, after the first row of iron artillery is light enough to shoot, he retreats in the gap between rows, retreats to the last row to load ammunition, and lets the second row of iron artillery light enough to shoot. I call him the back loading tactics!"As soon as Li Xiao said this, all the people present were in a fog. Only Xiaofan Xiaoxian showed a look of joy on his face.He said, "my Lord, this method of warfare is very clever, so that our iron artillery team can shoot from beginning to end without interruption."As soon as Xiaofan Xiaoxian said this, all the people had a little understanding. It was not the poor understanding of others, but most people didn't understand the new business of iron cannon.Li Xiaowei smiled and praised Xiaofan Xiaoxian's insight.The so-called backward loading tactics, as he just said.When meeting the enemy, after the first row of musketeers volley, the first row of musketeers retreat to the last row to load ammunition in the gap between rows. After the front row of musketeers had been fired, the Musketeers in the first row had been loaded and fired from the seats in the last row of the original array.Finally, the formation of the Musketeers did not move forward, but went backward step by step in shooting, also known as couter March.It is said that the Spaniards say that if there are more than ten rows of muskets and sufficient ammunition, the Spanish phalanx can ensure that the fire of muskets has been uninterrupted from beginning to end.In history, the Spaniards first adopted the tactics of retreating and loading ammunition in the battle of Pavia with French king Fran OIS I A.D. 1525, and then defeated the French army. French king Fran OIS I was captured.The Spanish phalanx, with this backward ammunition loading tactic, pressed the feudal forces of the old era on the European battlefield. Even more than 100 years later, when the flint gun came out and gradually improved, this method of warfare is still the main means to make up for the defect of the slow firing rate of the musket.However, the ammunition loading method was not originally created by the Spanish. In the early Ming Dynasty, general Mu Ying, the monk of Benyuan temple and the demon king all took similar three-stage attacks.Xiaofan Xiaoxian became more and more excited and said optimistically, "my Lord, this combat method is really excellent. In this way, the iron artillery team doesn't have to worry that after the first volley, there will be no follow-up fire and have to retreat. The iron artillery team can always stay on the battlefield. The enemy can be destroyed as much as possible."Li Xiao smiled. Xiaofan Xiaoxian took it for granted.Li Xiaozheng wants to explain in detail the so-called three paragraph strike method to Xiaofan Xiaoxian.At this time, Dao shengmeng took this opportunity to say a question to Li Xiao: "my Lord, I don't know one thing about my subjects. This backward loading shooting, compared with the ordinary volley, in fact, the firing speed didn't increase, but slowed down."After finishing up his thoughts, he said: "for our newly formed 80 person iron gun team, when only one shot is loaded, 80 iron guns fire together, or 80 iron guns retreat to load and fire. Compared with the bullets fired by the two, they are all 80 shots.""In the case of two rounds of ammunition loading, when 80 iron guns fire together twice, they can hit 160 rounds, and then retreat to load and fire, and they can only hit 90 rounds at the same time. If the enemy kills in front of the array at this time, the iron gun team can only retreat, and this does not deduct the time the iron Gunners travel in the queue. Isn't the lethality so small?"As soon as Dao shengmeng said this, everyone showed a thoughtful look.Li Xiao was also surprised. It was nothing else. He didn't expect that daoshengmeng children's shoes could learn mathematics so well.Xiaofan Xiaoxian quickly explained for Li Xiao: "you're wrong, Mr. Dao shengmeng. In fact, the Lord's war method is not to increase the number of iron guns. For example, what would you do if you led the army to attack the light defense of iron guns I presided over?"Island Sheng Meng Ningmei thought a little and said, "I will move forward slowly at a distance of 20 meters away from your iron gun foot light, and use my bow foot light to shoot arrows in the distance. After your iron guns shoot together, I will order my subordinates to charge and kill you in front of you."Xiaofan Xiaoxian nodded and said: "Yes, Mr. Dao shengmeng is worthy of being the chief General of our family and has rich experience, because you know that although there are 20 iron guns, shooting at the distance of 20 is not only the least lethal to the foot, but also the worst hit rate. Therefore, you harass me gently with your bow and foot, forcing my iron gun to shoot for self-defense. In this way, the iron gun will be empty after firing together After a long time, adults can take the opportunity to attack. "Hearing this, Dao shengmeng suddenly realized and said, "I see. It turned out that the purpose of retreating and loading ammunition is to maintain the uninterrupted shooting with iron guns."Li Xiao remembers that the Mongolian cavalry used various methods to deal with the Ming army, such as long-distance riding and shooting, galloping and spinning, to lure the Ming soldiers out of control. They fired their firearms at a long-distance volley in advance, and then took the gap of ammunition loading, and then came close to cutting and killing.This situation can not be restrained only by strict discipline. People follow the crowd mentality. If one person is injured or afraid and shoots an iron gun in advance, the rest will not know and will follow suit.Li Xiao turned and said: "Not only that, for example, at a distance of 20, ten iron guns can only kill one person, while at a distance of 15, the same ten iron guns can kill two people, and ten iron guns can kill three people. The closer you shoot, the stronger the power and accuracy of the iron gun. The killing of uninterrupted fire must be better than long-distance salvo."Listening to Li Xiao's remarks, people are more confident and look forward to this western array. Some people even think that as long as the whole army is equipped with iron guns, there is no enemy under the same number of military potential.Li Xiao shook his head, which is another kind of assumption, but he did not correct this statement. In future training, they will find the advantages and disadvantages of the Western array.However, in the history of Europe, the Spanish phalanx did play an epoch-making role in innovating the mainstream methods of warfare at that time and became popular for more than 100 years. The later King Gustav II of Sweden and Frederick II, the founder of the Prussian army and the great emperor who fought all over Europe, all carried out the innovation of methods of warfare on the basis of the Spanish phalanx.Compared with the Spanish Square.Qi Jiguang's Mandarin Duck array was later improved to deal with Mongolia. After that, it was equipped with firearms such as bird gun and three eye gun. However, the use method of these firearms is similar to that of bow and arrow, but it is only an array allocation and does not highlight the role of firearms.The devil king's three-stage shooting in changxiaohe War 11 years later. He gathered the iron gun teams attached to each standby team together. It is a kind of war method that lists the iron gun teams separately. Compared with the Spanish square array, there is no concept of mixing long guns and iron guns.This era is far from the invincible era of iron guns. Among the 12000 people killed by the Takeda family in the battle of Changxiao, those killed by Zhitian Xinchang's 3000 iron guns are only a part of it.In the coming decades, the protagonist on the battlefield will still be cold weapons.The Spanish phalanx is only a process in the history of the transition from cold weapons to hot weapons, which has not been banned.As far as Li Xiao knows, for the Spanish phalanx, the odds of winning against the impact of large-scale cavalry are not high without bunkers, horse barriers and terrain.This trend changed only later in the hands of King Gustav II of Sweden. Gustav II used his newly created Swedish army to defeat the elite Polish wing cavalry that is, the most senior light cavalry in the imperial era 2.At that time, Gustav II also introduced the concept of infantry coordination on the basis of the improvement of the Spanish phalanx, and it was his Swedish cavalry that finally defeated the Polish cavalry.However, Li Xiao didn't think so much. All he needs to do now is to innovate the iron gun tactics and enhance the lethality of the iron gun on the original basis.Now, in the western square formed by Li Xiao, it is also divided into iron gun foot light team and gun foot light team.The square array is arranged in a linear queue with eight rows in a row, that is, Li Xiao's 80 iron artillery feet are divided into eight waves to shoot in turn, with ten people shooting each time.Li Xiao will be centered by the long gun foot light team, while the iron gun team is divided into left and right wings.Because the iron gun technology was not mature at that time, it was still very refined and expensive, and it was impossible to equip on a large scale, Li Xiao decided to form a square array with light gun foot and light iron gun foot in a ratio of two to one.In other words, his gun foot light team is 160 people. The gun foot light team is also divided into eight rows and twenty people. In this way, together with the iron gun team with 40 people on both wings, it forms a rectangular array of 8 * 30240 people.However, in history, in many Spanish phalanxes, the Musketeers surrounded the spearmen, which can complete the role of attacking the enemy on all sides, but such an array is too extravagant for the musketeers.Li Xiao distributed the iron artillery team on both wings, while the gun foot light team was in the center, which was closer to the Swedish square created by Gustav II.But Li Xiao also knows that such a Swedish square has an obvious disadvantage, that is, the front firepower is strong, but the two wings are very weak.If the enemy is attracted by the potential of one route army and divides the potential of the other route army to attack the flanks of the square array, Li Xiao's western square array can only be reduced to a joke and completely finished.In history, King Gustav II of Sweden used a well-trained cavalry team to cover his flanks, and his army was well-trained. At the critical moment of the decisive battle, he could follow orders to achieve a positive left-right 90 degree in-situ horizontal transfer.In this way, the front of the square array can always be aligned with the incoming direction of the enemy.Li Xiao didn't have a strong cavalry team, so he had to retreat to the second place. He arranged 100 people on both sides of the Western phalanx as flank cover. The hundred men were prepared with seventy spears and thirty bowsEdit.In this way, there will be enough troops to cover the flanks of the Western phalanx, and the remaining 60 standing troops will be incorporated into Li Xiao's direct subordinates as his own personal guards and the last reserve team on the battlefield.In this way, Li Xiao's 500 standing troops will really become an army. to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly ticket at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.
