Samurai of the Takeda Family

As a new youth in the country, Li Xiao has participated in social practice in high school and university and military training three or four times. Because he has grown tall and strong, he is often the leader of the queue. When he enters the field, he is reviewed by school leaders. .

Therefore, Li Xiao is not unfamiliar with platoon training, but it is not known whether he can train his staff to become an elite Swedish 6 army like Gustav II.

However, Li Xiao has personally been on the front line for a month, demonstrating and teaching how to conduct platoon training, and taught him what he learned during platoon training in military training.

After nearly a month, day and night, rain or shine training, the standing queue training has shown initial results, whether it is walking in, turning left, and turning right, they are roughly uniform.

It is said that Prince Morris was the first in the army to use the formation training method of walking in unison.

But now this record seems to be rewritten by Li Xiao.

In addition to queue training, Li Xiao also through dissolution and assembly training, every foot is clear about their position in the formation.

Through repeated drills, Li Xiao's standing team can quickly form a neat formation from a scattered state of scattered sand within five minutes to form combat capabilities.

This month, Li Xiao exercised discipline through rigorous military queue training, as well as long-distance load-bearing runs to increase the cohesion of the troops. Li Xiao re-examined the standing in his hands, at least the military appearance already looked like a professional soldier.

It can be seen that the separation of soldiers and peasants has the advantage of forming a standing army.

The situation lies in the fact that it is impossible for a peasant soldier to be recruited at ordinary times to set aside one month each year for complete military training.

Moreover, after the peasants were disbanded, they were re-enlisted and re-trained to regain their combat power.

In fact, due to the increasing complexity of warfare and the increasing difficulty of operations among various arms, it is absolutely necessary for the army to conduct daily military training in the absence of warfare.

So when the war shifted from the cold weapon to the hot weapon era, more professional mercenaries have become the mainstream in Euro 6, and Gustaf II created the first Euro 6 military conscript mainly based on national conscripts. standing army.

But since this month, everything has not proceeded as Li Xiao intended. Regarding the use and training of the western phalanx, Li Xiao’s retainers have always had different views and opinions.

As the leader of Li Xiao's iron cannon team, Xiaoxian Oba fully understands the power of iron cannons, because he has always been a firm supporter of the Western Phalanx, and has vigorously advocated and promoted it. Among the retainers, such as Masaru Shima and Koichiro Kinoshita were skeptical of this western phalanx.

But what made Li Xiao gratified was that they were suspicious, but the training order they gave to Li Xiao was completed meticulously.

There are also some retainer warriors who are fundamentally opposed, saying that this kind of tactics has changed the mud bombing. The fighting pattern for hundreds of years has never seen such a tactic. It is really incomprehensible and incredible. It wasn't because of Li Xiao's face that he had already stood up and opposed it.

Among these people, the most proficient opponent is Shigang.

Yiyu, he didn't believe in the use of such a western phalanx on the battlefield.

If such an era of personal bravery would have long since retired from the stage of history, Gen Yoshitsune and Kiso Yoshinaka would not be able to win.

Li Xiao understood this, because if the western phalanx was really as powerful as Li Xiao said, Shioka Kazuha felt that he would retreat from the stage of history if he used his personal strength to gallop the battlefield.

Of course, Li Xiao only partially agrees with this statement. In fact, this is the future trend, but at least it has to wait until the era when flintlocks are popular.

However, in the past two to three decades, iron cannons are still very expensive and difficult to popularize, and the firing density, accuracy, and the degree of loading and firing are still far from good.

For the time being, iron artillery is only slightly stronger than the bow and arrow for the time being. It is a killer unit that kills and weakens the enemy's position in the early stage, but it is not the unit that determines the outcome of the battle.

In any case, the final blow to victory must be done by the Lancers or Cavalry.

In the midsummer of July and August, even Hida in the mountains is very hot.

On this day, Li Xiao was observing the standing training on the school grounds. At this time, Xiaoba Xiaoxian suddenly ran out in front of Li Xiao with great interest.

"Report to the lord, the standing back reloading tactics have been practiced. The iron cannons are light enough, and the spears are lightly coordinated. Now the tactics of the western phalanx have been realized, and it is enough to go to battle."

Li Xiao was stunned when he heard it. It was only a little more than a month, and the western phalanx had already been trained, which was too fast.

Got it.

Li Xiao shook his head and said, "You'd better be cautious. I think this regular training is just a mere arrogance now, and you can't make it into battle."

Xiaoxian Xiaoba laughed and said, "Master, don't worry, we have been training for a month and repeating these actions, and the so-called queue marching. We train hundreds of times repeatedly, even with our eyes closed. I can do it."

"Really?" Li Xiao smiled faintly, but looked at Xiaoxian Xiaoba's expression with a confident look.

"In this case, we will come to a military drill tomorrow to verify the results of your hard work since January."

Listening to what Li Xiao said, Xiaobian Xiaoxian looked excited and couldn't wait, and said loudly: "Master, please rest assured, tomorrow I will ask you to witness the mighty standing of our army."

"All right."

Li Xiao nodded and looked at Xiaoban Xiaoxian immediately going to the whole team to retrain. Instead, he shook his head and said to himself: "I hope I will lose face tomorrow, so I don't want to lose too much."

On the second day, all of Li Xiao's trusted servants and warriors all came to the scene to observe this military drill.

On the side, the retainers and warriors of Li Xiao's retainer regiment, with all kinds of restlessness, hopes, doubts, and denial attitudes, watched the military drills on the school grounds.

Shima Katsumou and Xiaoxian Xiaoxian went off the field as the two hundred and forty standing generals of the Western country phalanx, personally directing them.

The drill that day went on for a whole morning, and Li Xiao’s retainer group

After reading it, the more they watched, the more frightened they became.

The gap between before and after this exercise was so big that no one would have expected it.

One morning passed, and after the exercise was over, all the retainers in the retainer regiment were silent. Only Li Xiao nodded. The results of this military exercise seemed to be completely unexpected.

Of course, the final result of the drill is as Li Xiao had expected before, and it is ashamed to be thrown home.

At the beginning, Li Xiao's 500 standing training was very good. The light team and the iron gun team marched in various formations under the coordination, the movements were neat and uniform, and the formation was rigorous, showing the results of this month's training.

After that, the iron cannon team used the retreat reloading tactics, and they performed very well and were very well-trained.

This result was quite unexpected to some generals who disapproved of the Western phalanx.

At least this level of training, as well as the military appearance displayed, is absolutely incomparable to an army composed of non-professional soldiers in this era.

A few of them even looked ashamed on the spot. They apologized to Li Xiao after preparing to practice and took back what they had said before.

But when everyone began to have expectations for the Western Phalanx, Li Xiao made an unexpected decision. He ordered Xiaoxian Xiaoba to be standing by, all put on live ammunition training, and personally go to the front line to monitor.

Therefore, all the problems of Li Xiao's phalanx of the West have been exposed in actual operation.

Under Li Xiao’s stern gaze, and under the stern urging, many iron cannons were busy.

With his feet messed up, he often hurriedly aimed and shot, and the bullets hit the sky.

At the same time, Li Xiao also ordered the bow-foot light team to use the arrow shafts of the arrows. When the iron cannon team was shooting, when the battlefield was simulated, the enemy's bow and arrow shot, and the arrow shaft was shot into the iron cannon team’s phalanx. The light shooting action of the iron cannon.

So for a while, it was the retreat reloading tactic that was originally implemented, and it suddenly became chaotic.

In particular, the roaring of the iron cannons from the left and right wings at different times made the iron cannons panic when they were preparing to shoot. They judged the shooting time at the wrong time, and often raised the iron cannons directly without waiting for the order of the queue. Shoot.

The problem is even greater when the queue is moving. The panic in the front shooting and the influence of the bow and arrow shooting. The commotion in the rear is gradually expanding. The previously well-trained queues are gradually becoming disordered and iron cannon feet. Lightly advances and retreats and becomes hasty and flustered.

After the iron guns in the front row had finished firing, when they retreated to the back row, they were also very panicked. They often rushed into the rear of the guns, stirring up the original rigorous queue even more chaos.

The worst is the gunpowder loading of the iron cannons. After the eight rows of iron cannons have finished firing, the first row of iron cannons that have been fired the earliest has not been loaded yet. I waited for a long time. , Among the five iron cannons in a row, there is still one person who has not yet been reloaded.

After seeing such a scene, Li Xiao turned his head to look at Xiaoxian Xiaoxian who was standing behind him, anxious, and said with a calm face: "This is what you call the training of soldiers, and this is just training.

, It is not actual combat. "

"In real combat, the conditions are ten times worse than they are now. The iron artillery team has to face the charge of the enemy cavalry, the arrows shot by the bow-footed light team, and the situation that their comrades are killed by the enemy at any time. The situation above is changing rapidly, and there will be various unexpected situations. If it is at this level by then, what is the use of the iron cannon team that I have formed with a lot of money."

Xiaoxian Xiaobaan was scolded by Li Xiao as bloody. In fact, it is not only Xiaoxian Xiaobaan. The spear-footed light team that is located in the center of the formation and protected by the two wings is also very unaccustomed to the roar of iron cannons shooting nearby.

In the past, iron cannons were fired at the forefront of combat methods, but this time they were fired at the side. Some people who did not know the truth were always worried that the iron cannons would explode around them.

Therefore, when the Iron Cannon team fired, the central gun foot light team also experienced a slight disturbance, and even the formation became loose. If this situation occurs in wartime, it is easy for the front to collapse.

However, in contrast, their problems are far less serious than those of the Iron Cannon.

After Xiaoban Xiaoxian was reprimanded by Li Xiao, Li Xiao asked him to go down and reflect on it.

In fact, Li Xiao was not angry. The reason why he taught Xiaoban Xiaoxian was just to tell him not to take it for granted, where is the Western State Phalanx so easy to practice.

The purpose of his reprimand is only to let Xiaoban Xiaoxian remember that those who are generals must not be complacent about this principle, and they can't do it again next time.

After Xiaoxian Koba walked away frustrated, but today

The storm of failed military drills this time has actually not passed.

That night, several members had lost confidence in the tactics of the Western phalanx. They came to the Tianshou Pavilion in Li Xiao's Shengang City overnight, trying to persuade Li Xiao to give up the tactics of continuing to train the Western phalanx.

Holding this opinion, the person for whom is Li Xiao's number one general, Masaru Shima.

He pointed out to Li Xiao on the spot that even if the western phalanx can be trained, there are still his fatal weaknesses.

The weakness of the Western phalanx is on the two wings of the phalanx. If the enemy does not attack the front of the phalanx with the strongest attack power during combat, but instead attacks the two wings of the phalanx, the Western phalanx has only one way to collapse.

Li Xiao is still very pleased with Dao Shengmeng's keen judgment, which is indeed the weakness of the current western phalanx. If Dao Shengmeng himself trained the Western Phalanx for a month and did not understand its disadvantages, then he would be ashamed of the title of Li Xiao's top general and his reputation in history.

However, Li Xiao temporarily said that he was very powerless about this shortcoming, because he did not have the elite Swedish cavalry like Gustaf II on hand to protect the two flanks.

In history, the Sixth Army of Sweden could rely on long-term platoon training to move the front of the platoon to the left and right, so that the front of the phalanx could be quickly made to meet enemy forces coming from other directions.

If the enemy forces are divided to attack the front and flanks, the Swedish 6th Army can use cavalry to drive away the harassing enemy forces on the flanks, continue to march in formation, and move the front of the phalanx to meet the main force of the enemy.

but

Li Xiao has to realize this stand-by, just like the Swedish 6th Army, the queue will be switched from side to side, and the short two months of training is simply not enough.

Li Xiao spent a lot of words and persuaded his servants one by one. With his three-inch tongue, this stabilized the confidence of the servants.

Dao Shengmeng and the others agreed to train for another month according to Li Xiao's method. If the western phalanx can no longer be trained by then, they can only cancel their plan to attack Chengshengcheng in one month.

Li Xiao also agreed with Dao Shengmeng's opinion.

In fact, Li Xiao always had a specific timetable in mind for the training progress closer to the Swedish 6th Army version of the Western Phalanx. He never thought of accomplishing it overnight.

For now, two months are only enough time for Li Xiao to practice a Western phalanx to make a version. Well, if you insist, a copycat version of the great Ming is also okay.

Take the historical progress of Gustav II's training of the new Swedish 6th Army as a reference.

In 1614 AD, Gustav II used the Morris parade to train the western phalanx for the second time in the battle against Russia, and won the second battle against Russia.

However, the victory of the war was not so much the victory of the phalanx that was hurriedly trained, but the strength of the Russian army was insufficient at that time. Compared with the Swedish army at that time, the Russians had backward weapons and equipment and outdated tactics.

Just like the battle of Naga Shino, Oda Nobunaga adopted the iron cannon tactics of three-stage shooting, but it cannot be said that he defeated the Takeda army by three-stage shooting. In fact, the three-stage shooting is an innovative iron cannon warfare. It is an additional iron cannon.

Power, but still not enough to determine the outcome of the war.

The real reason for the defeat of the Nagashino battle was the disparity in the strength of the two sides. 36,000 troops vs. 15,000 troops. In the end, when the battle was at a stalemate, Takeda's rear force was insufficient, and the entire line was defeated.

It was only after the coronation ceremony of Gustaf II in 1617 that he officially began training his new Swedish Sixth Army, which took a full eight years.

In the past eight years, Gustav trained the Swedish army with peace of mind in the first four years and did not go to war. In the next four years, Sweden sent troops to Livonia, Poland, and captured Riga, using the method of war against Poland to support the war. Train troops at the same time during the war.

In the decisive battle against Poland in 1625, the Battle of Volkhov, Gustaf II defeated the elite Polish cavalry with an improved version of the Spanish phalanx + field artillery + Swedish cavalry. Staf's new 6th army has been completed.

In this way, after eight years of making swords, Gustav II will train the Swedish Standing Army to train Europe's first-rate new-style Sixth Army.

Five years later, Gustav II had his ambition to compete in Europe.

Sweden formally joined the Protestant Union in the Thirty Years' War. The new Swedish Sixth Army of Gustav II swept Europe's invincibles, and repeatedly won more with less.

Finally, the Holy Roman Empire sent Wallenstein, the country's first general, to face the Swedish army of Gustav II.

In the battle of Lützen, which was called the peak showdown between the two best European generals at the time, the Swedish 6th Army was killed in the battle of Gustav II, losing the commander-in-chief.

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In front of him, with the discipline of years of training, not only did the morale collapse, but instead resolutely defeated Wallenstein's emperor.

So far, Sweden's strength has finally been recognized by various countries, and it has become one of the top European powers.

Well, for Li Xiao, this prospect is very good.

Although it took eight years for Gustaf II to train the Swedish Sixth Army.

However, during the eight years, in addition to training the infantry phalanx, the 6th Army also carried out artillery and cavalry reforms.

In contrast, Li Xiao has no artillery or cavalry. As long as he concentrates on doing a good job, the phalanx training between the iron cannon and the guns should be much easier.

Even if Li Xiao felt that compared with the Gustav the Great by his own qualifications, there were still shortcomings, but with the knowledge and experience of modern people, it would not take eight years to say it.

However, Li Xiao estimated that it would take at least two to three years, and at least six or seven years. However, once Li Xiaoxi’s tactics of the national phalanx are trained, he will be given a standing army of about three or four thousand.

I dare not say that this army is going to sweep one side, but it has to gain a foothold in the middle of Echigo Uesugi and Kaga Honganji. The purpose of containing Kenshin Uesugi should be not a big problem.

Because it is impossible for the Echigo Uesugi family to use all their strength to deal with Li Xiao in Etsuchu.

So in the future, Li Xiao might be able to break his wrist with the Uesugi family.

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The two fought a field battle of tens of thousands of people.

The western phalanx was purely a battle formation created for the battle. If you don't participate in the battle, it would be a waste.

However, the training time of the past few years is not long or short, and it is not a problem to catch up with the key battles of the Takeda family in history.

If history has not been influenced by his traverser, eleven years later, he fought with Nagasawa of the Oda Tokugawa Alliance, and eight years later, he fought with the Tokugawa family’s Mikatahara on the road to Los Angeles.

These are all battles related to the fate of the Takeda family, and Li Xiao will be recalled by the Takeda family when he arrives and fight with the army, if there is no strong army by his side to fight.

It is impossible for Li Xiao to perform the miracle of dozens of rides in the battle of Shirane Mountain every time, so that his luck against the sky will come to an end once he runs out.

In the 11th year of Yongluo, the Takeda family against the Hojo family, the largest mountain battle in the Warring States period in Japan-the battle of Mimasu Pass, and the siege of Odawara Castle.

And ten years after Yongluo, the Takeda family's invasion of Suruga by the Imagawa family was a bit suspicious.

If the new army hadn't been trained at that time, Li Xiao's only hope was that Shingen Takeda quickly forgot him, otherwise he might die in the line of duty.

Therefore, Li Xiao can only seize the time to train his standing, hoping to be able to train successfully in a month, at least it will be enough to reach the level of the western phalanx.

At that time, Ranwen Novel.com, Li Xiao could send troops to conquer Chengshengcheng, occupying Chengshengcheng, not only could expand his territory, but also complete the monopoly on business roads.

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In the next ten days, Li Xiao made targeted adjustments to the ills that appeared in the previous military drill.

Regarding the shortcomings of the western phalanx flank,

To be able to see through the weakness of the western phalanx and the two flanks in actual combat in such a short period of time, and to adopt targeted tactics.

According to Li Xiao’s estimation, the Japanese Warring States period is not easy to appear in a short period of time. Even with military geniuses like Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin who came out once in hundreds of years, they did not see the real power of the Western phalanx. Impossible to do it.

Even if he was seen through, Li Xiao still had two standing guards with a hundred people on hand. As a left and right wing guard, he could resist for a while.

For Li Xiao now, the biggest problem is how to ensure that the iron cannon is light on the battlefield, and to maintain shooting discipline under various unexpected situations, and to ensure the usual level of practice to complete the shooting action.

In fact, there is not much to do. Only by adding a lot of repetitive and mechanical training again and again, so that Zuqing can truly be mechanized, relying on subconsciously to complete combat operations, and ignoring subjective fears. .

This point must be established, strict discipline, and military law.

Therefore, it is destined that the standing iron cannons are light enough to withstand a greater amount of training than the lightness of a gun, as well as mental pressure.

Of course cruel military law is necessary, and Li Xiao also understands the carrot and stick principle. Every iron gun has a ten-year salary, which is three times more than usual.

Under high salary

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, Tie Pao is very light on the increased amount of training he has increased in the past few days, and there are no complaints at once, and he has stepped up the boring repetitive training day after day.

As for Xiaoxian Oba, who is the leader of the iron gun team, after being reprimanded by Li Xiao that day, he was even more ashamed and courageous. In the past few days, he ate and slept with iron guns. Whenever he has free time, he will retreat and reload. train.

Li Xiao sees all this in his eyes~www.wuxiamtl.com~ and is very satisfied. In the past ten days, the progress made by iron cannon is obvious. For now, everything is progressing well, and it should be a month’s later training. There is no big problem.

But in fact, all affairs will not proceed according to Li Xiao's ideal schedule, and there will always be accidents.

At this time, Li Xiao was in full swing when he was training soldiers.

On that day, the leader of Li Xiao’s intelligence collection, Yokotani Yukishige, the leader of the ninjas, suddenly appeared in the Tianshou Pavilion of Li Xiao’s Shenoka Castle.

Yokotani Yukushige reported to Li Xiao that the Saito family of Chengsheng Castle had prepared to send troops to Kamoka Castle secretly.

This time, the Saito family united the forces of the Jimbo family, and it is expected that the military force will reach more than one thousand.

After Li Xiao heard the words, he was surprised on the spot, not because of the Saito family's attack, but because his western phalanx hadn't been trained yet.

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