Chapter 41: 41: Military achievements

"Bird gun? Impossible."

Wei Guangde shook his head and said without thinking when he heard his father ask him.

Just kidding, although I have never been a soldier, there are many information explosions in later generations, and I have seen many things on TV or the Internet, and I have also known a lot of news.

To end the cavalry, it is necessary to have the emergence of machine guns, and only by continuous fire strikes can the cavalry charge be suppressed.

If you want to use a musket to defeat the cavalry charge, how stupid the opponent's cavalry would be. You can only hit the gun at all. No matter whether you have a three-section attack or a five-section attack, it will not work.

Wei Guangde still knew this, and he also watched it on later movies and TV. The Western tactics of "queuing up and shooting" were shot at each other by a distance of 100 meters or even dozens of meters. For a moment, the battlefield was filled with smoke.

However, what impressed Wei Guangde the most was the drum musicians in the square formation. The soldiers attacked in unison at the rhythm of the drum beats, very neatly.

"Dad, just talking about what to do when you encounter Tartars? What trouble did you encounter? Not that you didn't arrange for you to go to the north, and Tartars have withdrawn from the Great Wall."

Wei Guangde was puzzled. When his father and uncle discussed how infantrymen could break the cavalry charge two days ago, he just said casually, but he didn't expect to mention this matter again tonight.

The cause and effect were not mentioned before, and Wei Meng and Wu Zhankui, because they were afraid that the little guys would worry.

Although the Ming Empire knew that the emperor wanted to launch a battle to fight against the Tatars, it was only spread in the high-level circles of the capital and did not spread in the market, let alone Jiangxi.

Nanjing knew about this because he wanted to dispatch food, supplies and supplies for the Northern Expedition Army, and the complex relationship between the two capitals only knew about this. The spread was relatively narrow and had not spread.

"Not the Tartars will come again this year, right?"

Wu Dong seemed to be enlightened, and instantly got enlightened and asked loudly at his father.

Hearing him say this, Wei Guangde and Wei Wencai also showed worried expressions and looked at Wei Meng.

"It's not what you think."

Wu Zhankui was looked at by his son for a while and felt very uncomfortable.

"Uncle, what's that matter?"

Wei Wencai also hurriedly asked.

He knew his father's personality. He didn't want to say it, and it was useless to ask, so he could only try to find out the news from his uncle.

"Okay, I'll tell you, but you can't talk outside, let alone tell your mother, do you know?"

Wu Zhankui looked at his son and nephew, and only thought about it for a while before saying.

After seeing the three teenagers nodding in agreement, he glanced at his brother-in-law and slowly spoke out the news that the emperor was going to fight north to retaliate against the Tartars this year.

"The emperor wants a large army to fight against the grassland?"

Wu Zhankui didn't finish his words, and neither Wu Dong, Wei Wencai, nor Wei Guangde were all thundered by this news.

If others can reach the capital, your emperor will still send a large army to fight north to find face.

OK, then it should be something practical.

The battlefield is on the grassland.

Can you catch up with other people's horses by relying on infantry to enter the grassland?

Everyone in the house knew about Tumu Fort. Although it was far away from the northern grasslands, tens of thousands of veterans in the Beijing camp buried their bones in a foreign land, it was chilling to think about it.

Those were veterans with experience in battle formations, but they all fell into it.

The soldiers the emperor wants to send now must not be more powerful than those soldiers.

No matter how surprised others were, Wei Guangde did so much that he recalled the articles he had read back then, but he could never remember the plot of the Ming Dynasty's army's northern expedition in the middle and late periods.

It seems that after Tumu Fort, the army of the Ming Empire basically lost its ability to enter the grassland, especially after the Hetao area was abandoned, the Ming army lacked war horses.

Don’t ask Wei Guangde how he knew that Hetao was given up. It’s just that there was a paragraph in his impression that he did it. Which emperor did it and what reason, I don’t know.

I can’t remember the Ming army’s northern expedition, so what should I do now?

After recalling for a long time, Wei Guangde didn't remember this passage, he roughly sorted out the current situation in his mind. In fact, there are only two possibilities.

First, it was not carried out in the end. Everything was just in the plan, and then it was still in the womb. Therefore, Wei Guangde in later generations had never seen this history that had never happened.

Wei Guangde also felt from the bottom of his heart that this possibility is actually the greatest.

The only remaining one may be that the Northern Expedition was carried out, but the army may not have achieved much results, so there were few reports in later generations, and it was unlikely that another big defeat would be another. Otherwise, those articles that talk about history would not not mention this matter.

There are both possibilities, and it seems that it is not very dangerous to participate in this northern expedition.

However, relatively speaking, the latter type is still dangerous. If there is no large-scale corps fighting between the two sides, it does not mean that there will be no small contact war, and there will still be war damage.

Well, Wei Guangde made the subsequent analysis based on his own judgment. Since there would be no major frontal combat, then facing the sneak attack and harassment of small groups of cavalrymen, without mother-child cannons, and equipped with a large number of bird guns, as long as he was well-trained, it seemed that the danger would not be great. It was hard to say that he could make some military achievements.

Thinking of the night when my parents were still discussing whether to pay to upgrade their official position to a higher level, for generals, military achievements are naturally the best way to get promoted.

Thinking of this, Wei Guangde looked up at Dad Wei, then looked at his uncle, and finally said, "Father, uncle, if this is the case, since he can't get the mother-child cannon to strengthen his combat power, if he can get a large number of bird guns, he can also improve his combat power. However, the premise is that the soldiers' training can keep up, which consumes a lot of money, grain and medicine. Can the ward provide it?"

"Do you think bird guns are better than sword guns?"

Wu Zhankui hesitated and asked after hearing his nephew's words.

"Of course, my uncle will not know what their bodies are now like for those military households.

The weapons of swords, guns and guns require good physical conditions and better military training to play a role.

As you said before, if you are going to send troops this year, there will definitely be no time to train, and even the time to recover their bodies is very tight. In this case, it seems more safe to train soldiers to use bird guns to fight long-range battles.

For firearm training, as long as the quality of the bird gun is similar to that of the batch in our fort, and there is sufficient gunpowder and lead, you should have the power to fight for a few months of training."

Of course, Wei Guangde would not tell his father and uncle that this battle might not be fought or would not be a big fight.

However, when he thought that with a large number of muskets and soldiers who were well-trained, it would be fine to defeat the small drum Tatar cavalry.

"Our Right Army Thousand Houses Office has to draw troops from two hundred households for training. There are more than 100 bird guns in the warehouse, and there are a batch of goods in your hand, so the quality should be good."

Wu Zhankui nodded slightly and said.

"Then it's OK. More than a hundred bird gunners are trained to come out."

Hearing Wu Zhankui's words, Wei Guangde slapped his hands and said with a little excitement.
Chapter completed!