Samurai of the Takeda Family

In the sixteenth century, there were roughly two regions in the world, and firearms have been installed in troops for a long time and used in actual combat.

Of these two areas, one is Euro 6 and the other is the Ming Dynasty.

Because matchlocks are flat-fired and slow to shoot, they are different from bows and arrows that can be projected, and they can be fired faster. Therefore, in Europe 6, Ming strategists have always sought a formation that wields a matchlock with the most powerful force.

In the Ming Dynasty, Qi Jiguang transferred the Great Wall north to prevent Mongolian nomadic cavalry.

At that time, the popularity of firearms in the Ming dynasty army was extremely high. Qi Jiguangzhen, in order to have the advantage of wielding firearms, set up a car battalion by mixing vehicles and steps.

The tactics of the car camp is to use a solid tank as a defensive barrier, mount firearms on the car, resist the car when encountering an enemy, and use bird guns, rockets, and Franco planes to cast them in turn as a blow.

However, for Li Xiao, the tactics of the car camp are not suitable for Japanese operations. Japan has many mountains and few plains, and it is inconvenient for the car camp to travel, and Japan does not have so many pack horses.

In fact, the Spanish phalanx had a fundamental tactical innovation in addition to the spears and firearms.

Shima Katsumi, Shioka Kazuha, Kobata Akira, Kinoshita Koichiro, and Dazang Changan all looked at each other, facing Li Xiao's new term after another, another new concept, and now it is a cloud of fog. , A situation full of brains.

Li Xiao immediately gave birth to a sense of superiority as a translator. This is the power of knowledge. Who said that if you play games all day, you can't play with knowledge.

The Spanish phalanx is in Nobunaga's Ambition, Nanban Technology, the last Western phalanx of Spain's science and technology tree.

Li Xiao pretended to be knowledgeable, and said: "This new method of tactics, I named him the Western Phalanx, which is to imitate the Western Kingdom of Thailand, oh, no, you call the Nanbanian tactics."

"The tactics of the Nanbans? The tactics of those blue-eyed, big-nosed Nanbarans?" Dao Shengmeng, and Changan is the only person in the Li Xiao clan who has seen Nanbans. They traveled and studied in Hakata. At that time, Ranwen Novel.com saw Nanban people.

"That's right, the iron cannon is our Ming people, and then passed to the Nanban people, and then the Nanban people to Japan." Li Xiao explained in order to strengthen their confidence in the new style of warfare.

Hearing this, Shima Katsumi, Shioka Kazuha and they all nodded together. They knew that iron cannons came from Tanegashima to Japan.

"Western warfare is in Taixi. Uh, that is, the Nanbarians' side is the mainstream warfare. They designed the iron cannon team into 8-12 platoons based on the characteristics of the iron cannon."

"8-12 rows? Why is it so long?" Xiaoban Xiaoxian asked on the spot. He is the head of the iron gun group under Li Xiao's command, and he naturally knows iron guns very well.

In general Japanese battles, the iron artillery teams always stand in the forefront of their own long spears and feet, either standing or kneeling in a row, or standing and kneeling, standing in two rows and firing at the same time.

After the iron cannon fired a single shot,

Quickly returned to the back of the team.

In Xiaoxian Oba’s understanding, iron cannons can only be fired horizontally, not like bows and arrows. If you stand in rows 8-12, it doesn’t mean that people in the back can easily hit the front row, or they can only shoot at the front row. Shot in the sky.

Li Xiao nodded to Xiaoban Xiaoxian, and said: "You are right, but when encountering an enemy, the iron artillery team of the Western National Front can only fire in the first row, and then the first row of iron cannons can fire lightly. After finishing, retreat in the gap between platoon and platoon, retreat to the last row to reload, let the second row of iron guns fire lightly. This tactic, I call him the retreat reloading tactic"

As soon as Li Xiao said this, all the people present were a cloud of fog, and only Xiaoxian Xiaoxian showed an overjoyed look on his face.

He said: "Master, this tactic is very clever, so that our iron cannon team can shoot from start to finish without interruption."

As soon as Xiaoxian Xiaoba said this, the talents had a slight understanding. It was not that other people's understanding was poor. It was just that most people did not understand the new issue of Iron Cannon.

Li Xiao smiled and applauded Xiaoban Xiaoxian's comprehension.

The so-called back-loading tactics, as he said just now.

That is, when encountering an enemy, after the first row of musketeers fired a volley, the first row of musketeers retreated to the last row to reload in the gap between the platoons. After the firing of the muskets in the front row was finished, the musketeers in the first row had been loaded and fired from the seats in the last row of the original formation.

In the end, the gun team’s position is not forward, but in the shooting, stepping backwards, also known as the reverse forward bsp; it is said that the Spaniards say that assuming there are more than ten rows of guns and sufficient ammunition, The Spanish phalanx can guarantee that the musket firepower has been uninterrupted from beginning to end.

In history, the Spaniards were the first in the Pavia battle with French King Francois I (1525 AD). For the first time, they used the tactics of retreating and then defeated the French army. French King Franco Wa I was captured.

The Spanish phalanx used this tactic of retreat and reloading to overwhelm the feudal army of the old era on the European battlefield, and even when the flintlock came out and gradually improved more than a hundred years later, this kind of tactics still made up for the slow firing rate of the musket. The main means of this defect.

However, the retreat reloading method was not unique to the Spaniards. In the early Ming Dynasty, the general Mu Ying, the Hongan Temple monk, and the Demon King all took similar three-stage strikes.

Xiaoxian Obata became more excited as he thought about it, and said optimistically: "Master, this method of tactics is really wonderful. In this way, the iron cannon team will not need to be worried that after the first salvo, there will be no follow-up firepower. I have to retreat. The iron artillery team can stay on the battlefield forever. The enemy can be destroyed as much as possible."

Li Xiao smiled slightly after hearing this, Xiaoban Xiaoxian took it for granted.

Li Xiao is about to explain the so-called three-step tactics to Xiaoxian Oba in detail.

At this time, Dao Shengmeng took advantage of this to ask Li Xiao's question: "Your lord, there is one thing unknown to the minister. This retreat reloads and shoots, compared with ordinary salvos.

In fact, the shooting did not improve, but slowed down. "

After a pause, Dundao Shengmeng sorted out his thoughts, and said: "For our newly formed eighty-man iron cannon team, when only one projectile is loaded, 80 iron cannons fire a salvo, or 80 The iron cannon retreated and fired. Compared with the projectiles fired by the two, they were both eighty."

"In the case of two reloads, two volleys of eighty iron cannons can hit one hundred and sixty, while back reloading and shooting can only hit ninety at the same time. If at this time, the enemy Before the army hits the battlefield, the iron cannon team can only retreat, and this does not deduct the time that the iron gunners travel in the queue. Isn't this less lethal?"

When Shima Katsumou said so, everyone showed a contemplative look.

Li Xiao was also surprised, but it was nothing else. He didn't expect that the mathematics of Dao Sheng Meng's children's shoes was so good.

Xiaoxian Oba hurriedly explained for Li Xiao: "Master Shima Katsumo, you are wrong. In fact, the master's method of tactics is not to increase the number of shots of iron cannons. For example, if an adult leads the army, it will impact When the iron cannon I preside is weak enough to defend, what will your lord do?"

Shiomakatsu condensed his eyebrows and thought slightly, and said: "I will move forward slowly at a distance of twenty minutes away from your iron cannon, and use my bow and foot to harass with arrows in the distance, waiting for your iron cannon to shoot. After that, I will order my subordinates to load the bullets lightly with the iron cannon, and charge to you in front of you with all my strength."

Xiaoxian Oba nodded and said, "Yes, Master Shima Katsumi, he deserves to be the general Xi of his family. He has rich experience, because adults know that although there are twenty iron cannons, they can shoot at a distance of twenty, yes. The killer is not only the smallest, but also has the worst hit rate. So you harassed me with a bow-foot light, forcing my iron cannon to fire a gun for self-defense. In this way, after the iron cannon fires a volley, the loading gap is long. Time. The adults can take the opportunity to attack."

Shima Katsumou suddenly realized when he heard this, he said: "That's it. It turns out that the purpose of backing up and reloading is to maintain uninterrupted shooting with iron cannons."

Li Xiao remembered that the Mongolian cavalry used long-distance shooting, galloping and spinning away, etc., against the Ming army. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty couldn't hold it, so they fired a salvo of firearms at a long distance in advance, and then mounted the ammunition. In the gap, get closer and slash.

This situation is not limited by strict discipline. People follow the crowd. If one person is injured or afraid, and the iron cannon is shot out in advance, then the rest will follow and shoot.

Li Xiao turned and said: "Not only that, to make an analogy, at a distance of 20, a salvo of ten iron cannons can only kill one person, and at a distance of fifteen, the same ten iron cannons can kill two. People, ten, a volley of iron cannons can kill three people. The closer you shoot, the stronger the power and accuracy of the iron cannons. Uninterrupted firepower must be stronger than a long-range volley."

Hearing what Li Xiao said, everyone was more confident and looked forward to this kind of western phalanx. Some people even thought that as long as the entire army is equipped with iron cannons, it would be under the same number of troops.

, There is no rival at all.

Li Xiao shook his head on this. This is another assumption, but he did not correct this statement. In future training, they will discover the advantages and disadvantages of the Western Phalanx.

However, in European history, the Spanish phalanx did have an epoch-making effect, innovating the mainstream tactics at the time, and it was popular for more than 100 years. Later, King Gustav II of Sweden and the future founder of the Prussian Sixth Army fought Friedrich II, the invincible emperor all over Europe, made tactical innovations on the basis of the Spanish phalanx.

Compared with the Spanish phalanx.

Qi Jiguang’s mandarin duck array was later improved to deal with Mongolia. It was equipped with firearms such as bird and three-eyed blunderbuss. However, the method of using these firearms is similar to that of bows and arrows. They are just a form of formation and do not highlight firearms. The role of.

Eleven years later, the Demon King’s three-stage shooting during the battle of Naga Shino. He used the iron artillery teams assigned to each unit together. It was a method of tactics that listed the iron artillery teams separately. The Spanish phalanx does not have the concept of mixing spears and cannons.

This era is far from the era of invincible iron cannons. Of the 12,000 people killed in the Battle of Nagashino, the three thousand iron cannons killed by Oda Nobunaga’s three thousand iron cannons were only a matter of fact. Part of it.

In the next few decades, the protagonist on the battlefield will still be a cold weapon.

The Spanish phalanx was only in the history of the transition from cold weapons to hot weapons, and one of the processes did not achieve the ban.

As far as Li Xiao knows, for the Spanish phalanx, without bunkers, anti-horse fences, and terrain coordination, the chances of winning are not high in dealing with the impact of the large-scale cavalry.

This trend only changed after the Swedish King Gustav II, who used his freshness to shape the Swedish 6th Army and defeated the elite Polish Winged Cavalry at the time (also known as the Age of Empires). 2 The most senior light cavalry).

At that time, on the basis of the improvement of the Spanish phalanx, Gustav II also introduced the concept of infantry coordination. In the end, the Polish cavalry was defeated by his Swedish cavalry.

However, Li Xiao didn't think so much. What he was doing right now only needed to innovate the iron cannon tactics, and on the original basis, strengthen the iron cannon's lethality. This step was enough.

At present, the western phalanx formed by Li Xiao is also divided into two teams: the iron cannon team and the gun team.

The phalanx is arranged in a linear array with eight rows in vertical. That is to say, Li Xiao’s 80 iron cannons are divided into eight waves and fired in turn, with ten people firing each time.

Li Xiao will be centered on the Long Spear Foot Light Team, while the Iron Artillery Team will be arranged on the left and right wings.

Because the technology of iron cannons was immature at that time and still very expensive, it was impossible to equip them on a large scale, so Li Xiao decided to make the guns lighter and the iron guns lighter, forming a square array in a ratio of two to one.

In other words, his spear foot team is one hundred and sixty people. The gunfoot light team is also divided into eight rows and twenty people in a row, so that with the iron artillery team of forty on each side of the wings, they form an 8*, rectangular array of people.

But in history, in many Spanish phalanxes, muskets

The hand is surrounded by the spearman, so that it can complete the role of attacking the enemy on all sides, but such an arrangement is too extravagant for the spearman.

Li Xiao let the iron artillery team be distributed on the two wings, and the gun foot light team in the center of the tactics, a little closer to the Swedish phalanx created by Gustav II.

But Li Xiao also knows that such a Swedish phalanx has an obvious shortcoming, that is, the frontal firepower is strong, but the two wings are very weak.

If the enemy forces attract ~www.wuxiamtl.com with one military force in front, and then separate another military force to attack the flank of the phalanx, then Li Xiao's western phalanx can only be reduced to a joke, and it is completely finished.

In history, King Gustav II of Sweden used a well-trained cavalry to cover the flanks, and his army is well-trained. At the critical moment of the decisive battle, he can follow the orders to achieve a frontal right and left ninety. The degree of horizontal transfer in situ.

In this way, the phalanx will always be pointed at the direction of the enemy's attack.

Li Xiao didn't have a strong cavalry team, so he could only retreat to the next best place. He deployed a hundred people on each side of the western phalanx to serve as flanking cover. These one hundred people are always ready with seventy spears and thirty arches.

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In this way, there will be enough troops to cover the flanks of the western phalanx, and the remaining sixty stand-bys will be placed directly under Li Xiao as his own guard and the last reserve team on the battlefield.

In this way, Li Xiao's five hundred standing equipment has truly become an army. . ..

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