On April 27, in the northern border of Anhui Province, outside Lingbi County in the eastern suburbs of the Huaibei Plain, the 60,000 imperial guards guarding the capital were killed by the 10,000 Yan troops who were fearless. One was two. The governor Chen Yu was so scared that his face was pale and he did not dare to respond and retreated with his personal soldiers.

The generals were incompetent, which caused the soldiers who had not fought for many years. The army of soldiers who had lived in the capital for a long time suddenly became in chaos. Fortunately, there were many people and many people who had not neglected practice for many years, but did not disperse immediately. Some raised their weapons to meet the enemy, some turned around and followed the commander, some howled and killed the King of Yan, some ran to the Lingbi military camp, many people fled to the place where there was no one, and a few people stood foolishly and were at a loss, but in short, they were fighting each other.

Zhu Neng, who came after seeing the opportunity, immediately commanded 20,000 Yan troops to surround them, and immediately killed the emperor's personal soldiers who were treated the best and most respected, and threw away their armor and cried to their parents.

At this time, Sheng Yong used all the Lingbi troops to rescue. Chen Hui's 20,000 cavalry roared out and killed thousands of Yan troops on the spot, allowing Zhu Neng to be repelled. Zhu Di gave up the tempting idea of ​​directly capturing Chen Yu.

Unexpectedly, the mantis stalked the cicada and the oriole were behind. Zhu Gaoxu, who was ambushing in the dense forest, led tens of thousands of ambush troops out, forming a force of attack on the official army.

As a result, after a bloody battle, the official army gradually became dissatisfied. Chen Yu left all his supplies and fled on a horse. Chen Hui defeated Zhu Gaoxu's cavalry. Sheng Yong's Shandong army was not very morale and gradually lost and retreated into the camp. Chen Hui was forced to rush to Anhui. Sheng Yong ordered the blocking of the gate and continued to hold on.

On the battlefield where corpses were everywhere, the Yan army was cleaning up the mess, and Zhu Di frowned and thought about the next step. Suddenly, Zhang Yu walked over with a happy face and said, "The 80,000 official troops led by He Fu were defeated by the prince and Xu Hao on the way to arrive, and killed and captured 40,000 people. Otherwise, this time it would be in danger."

Zhu Di said in surprise: "Did they bring their troops here?"

Zhang Yu nodded and said, "Just a hundred miles away, the troops are 15,000, including the Shenji Camp of the Dogzi and Xu Hao's Liaodong Army, waiting for the order of Qiansui."

Zhu Di's face was a little unfavorable. Although he won, he injured 10,000 enemies and suffered 8,000 of them. He killed more than 10,000 soldiers. He killed only more than 30,000 enemies, and almost no many people died in Sheng Yong's troops, and most of them died were Chen Yu's army. However, his eldest son and Xu Hao defeated 80,000 officials with 15,000 people, and they miraculously remained unscathed.

It was another firearm, Zhu Di naturally understood what Xu Hao was relying on. After thinking about it, he said, "Then I will lead the troops to continue to advance. He ordered the prince to siege Lingbi. If he could trap the main force of the thief army here, they would make great contributions."

In the military tent a hundred miles away, Zhu Gaochi's clothes inside and outside were soaked. Because the royal family was not easy to take off, he had a fat round face and asked, "What should the prisoners do? It's not appropriate to send them away. They are all southerners, and I'm worried that they will rob local people everywhere and become bandits."

Xu Hao handed over a modified military uniform and smiled and said, "It will be much cooler to change into this one, and it will be cooler to untie the military discipline. Don't wear a suffocating robe."

Zhu Gaochi pointed to Zhang Fu in his armor and smiled and said, "I like you so much now. I'm wearing heavy armor. Thank you so much for your Shenji Camp."

Zhang Fu raised his hand and wiped the sweat from his forehead, and smiled bitterly: "The prince is not allowed to wear new military uniforms, there is no way. No wonder Xu Hao doesn't want to fight with dozens of kilograms of armor, and he doesn't even like the breastplate cast by steel. Now I think it's too inconvenient."

Xu Hao smiled and said, "Unless you wear hard steel plates, a bullet can penetrate any existing armor. So you either replace the most expensive tortoise shells for the entire army, or you can easily go into battle in a cloth clothes, otherwise the meaning will be the same, and you can save money on building and maintaining armor. Musketeers rely very much on logistics supplies, and the money is used to open factories to train carriage soldiers who transport supplies.

Today, the officials and soldiers are all wearing light paper armor. You have also seen that bullets can pass through two or three people in a row, just like they are not wearing clothes."

Zhu Gaochi said in fear: "Your musket is so powerful. In the future, the two armies will no longer have to fight each other. They can kill people's lives if they are far away."

"Mustguns also have limitations. When encountering enemies who are good at fighting, excellent generals cannot avoid hand-to-hand combat. If you don't fight well, you will lose your battle." Xu Hao took a bowl of clear water and said, "This is an inevitable trend. Whether it is using muskets to fight or swords, they are the same cruelty and ruthless, without any distinction. I told Mu Xi and Mu Yi to worry about those prisoners. Don't worry, the Mu family in the south is still very prestigious."

Zhu Gaochi said happily: "No, someone came to help me change into this military uniform."

Seeing the prince take off his usual casual clothes and go into battle easily, Zhang Fu couldn't help but follow suit and go out to change into his previous military uniform. The soldiers of the Shenji Camp had already suffered a lot. The cheers and thunderous sounds threw down their armor and put on their relatively cool military uniforms.

Xu Hao intended to temper Zhu Gaochi, who had a good personality, and wanted to take him to the front line. In fact, Zhu Di also ordered this.

The temperature cooled that night, and nearly a thousand were sent with four or five muskets. The Europeans were known as the scouts of the Dragoon, and the entire army led the camp to follow.

Arriving in Lingbi in the early morning, Xu Hao did not rush to attack the official army camp with its back against the cliffs, but instead set up camps and seized time to reorganize the team, focusing on the training, which made generals such as Zhu Gaochi and Zhang Fu feel novel. The focus of the exercise was night combat, which was a piece of cake for the current staff, and Xu Hao didn't need to worry about it.

The soldiers of the musket and the combroach were separated and were still affiliated with the Shenji Camp, and were arranged to be responsible for personal protection in the central army.

Mu Xi's warships come to transport food and supplies every day. The imperial navy has been transferred to the Yangtze River, and the entire river is controlled by the Yan army.

The flintlock spear soldiers of the Shenji Camp are arranged in the forefront position. The advantage of the flintlock spear is that it is dense formations, which can be shot without having to be separated by a wide distance of one person, and there is no need to adopt a long linear formation...

This is the case with Xu Hao's five thousand men. He began to adopt flexible and maneuverable modern tactics. The soldiers were ten squads and thirty squads, with one thousand gangs as combat units. They followed the flags during wartime and followed the command of the lieutenant. The lieutenant would have superior generals to hold pre-war meetings to explain the purpose of the war and the strategic intentions of the battle clearly, and so on. During wartime, there were commissars who conveyed orders according to the flags. They could also use traditional drum horns to issue military orders.

For this reason, Xu Hao hesitated for a long time whether he should give up the most mature Ming Dynasty combat system today and finally decided to form an army in a modern way, because the age of cold weapons should respect ancient military tactics, and the emergence of muskets meant that they had to follow everything in modern times.

Regarding the army, Xu Hao was a half-baked layman, but he understood that the organizational structure of the ancient army had its rationality, and fighting mainly relies on personal courage. He also attached great importance to military discipline, formation and cooperation. There were more than 300 formations alone, which was naturally unnecessary for musketeers.

In ancient times, the army relied on merit, encouragement, rewards, and personal prestige of the generals. Sometimes they had to rely on robbery and indulgence to maintain fighting spirit and morale. Therefore, during wars, Zhu Di often ordered the city to be besieged and returned to the army to avoid forcing the enemy to fight to the death. What he wanted most was to see the official army collapsed and fled.

Modern army abandons weapons, strictly trains and organizational structures, etc. The biggest feature is that it has a soul of thought, establishes national concepts and nationalism, and its advantage is team spirit, relying on it to generate various flexible tactics and efficiently control the army.

Modern army pays more attention to military discipline and training, and focuses on cultivating the military qualities of low-level officers. In history, modern army has many cases of defeating ancient army. It seems that modern army is stronger than ancient army, but everything is not absolute. There are many examples of modern troops being defeated by a blow, and there are also iron troops similar to modern modern times. For example, the Qin army and Yue Fei's Yue family army, according to records, Qi Jiguang's army could stand in the rain and remain motionless for several hours.

There are also Zhu Di's direct lineage of Yanshan Guards in Beiping. After years of training, they often fight to the end of the battle with the commander.

Xu Hao had to establish a system of standing military affairs in order to distinguish it from the hereditary system of military households and maintain a system of standing military affairs. Even if it has no effect, he had to create a system to leave behind.

Modern troops paid great attention to individuals obeying the collective, obeying military orders like conditioned reflexes. In order to instill the belief of fighting for the country and nation, they imitated the political commissar of the People's Liberation Army, and set up instructors and teaching brigades, at least they should let ordinary soldiers figure out what the superiors are. Take the current military officer system of the Ming Dynasty as an example. The Five Army Governor's Office has set up left and right governors, co-magistrates, deputy governors, and several assistant governors, and are generally called governors to the outside world. Who knows what is going on? To put it bluntly, ordinary soldiers are pigs and dogs, and as long as they obey orders, they can do it.

The Ming Dynasty stipulated that the Ministry of War had orders to send troops but had no power to command troops, and the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces had the power to command troops but had no power to send troops. When there was military action, the Ministry of War requested to appoint a certain Governor's Office to lead troops to fight, and dispatched other troops from the Ministry of War, Guards and the headquarters to their command.

When the military operation is over, the generals will return to the former governor's office and the soldiers will return to the original construction office. This system is obviously to prevent the loss of military power and to intentionally restrain the power of the generals. The inevitable result is to pay the price of greatly weakening their military power.

Although Xu Hao had no intention of rebelling, he would not be foolish in being loyal to the emperor at all. Without an army, there would be no life guarantee, so he intends to privatize the army.

It is an inevitable choice to establish an army according to modern military numbers and construction. Even if warlords will cause years of war in a hundred years, it will be better than being bullied by Western powers for hundreds of years after being ruled by the Qing Dynasty for hundreds of years, let alone the Japanese devils.

There are talented people in the country, and there will always be great men born and end the chaos and achieve great unification. No one can predict the consequences. Xu Hao can only rely on his own understanding to do things and add his own selfishness. He is ready to abandon the Ming Dynasty's method of naming the region, cancel the structure of the five armies in the front, back, middle, left and right, and then adopt the army, regiment, battalion, company, etc. in the future. It will be too awkward to hear the small flag.

In general, in addition to the changes in official positions and staffing, the focus is on developing and improving the tactical and patriotic ideological system of the modern army. We must conduct experiments anyway. Even if the Ming Dynasty military system already had a perfect system, the question is what should we do?

Xu Hao scratched his head a little. After all, he was not a thinker or military strategist. It seemed that this aspect could only be messed up, either allowing time to develop slowly, or allowing people to focus on improving it based on practice. Unfortunately, Mao Yuanyi, the author of "Martial Arts", was not born yet.

Just as Xu Hao was thinking hard, Sheng Yong's army could not support him for a long time because of insufficient military rations. That night, the official army flocked out from various village gates.

A few days ago, the Yan army had to conduct an exercise day and night. Soon the sergeant on the night blew up the horn. Xu Hao, who had not yet fallen asleep, walked out of the tent, and guards rushed out of the tent around.

Xu Hao said: "Don't panic, beat the drum and ordered the entire army to open fire on the spot."

After repeated exercises, the Yan army soldiers rushed out of the line in a hurry without any hesitation. The officers issued a loud order, some raised muskets, and some transported gunpowders, bullets and grenades. When the official army ran closer, Zhang Fu's Shenji Battalion took the lead in firing in front, and then ten thousand people fired heavily.

However, Zhu Gaochi's central army lit braziers one by one, and a long fuse was placed in front of the soldiers, and the smell of tinder oil was everywhere.

The test proved that the success rate of the flintlock gun fire was more than 60%, while the success rate of the flintlock gun was as high as 80%.
Chapter completed!