Chapter 16： Gather military power

On the 19th, Wu Changqing brought the main force to Kunshan and joined forces from other places.

At this time, his total strength has reached more than two thousand five hundred men, of which more than four hundred are scattered around and stationed in the city, and the two thousand gathered in Kunshan are the main force.

In addition to bringing the soldiers, Wu Changqing also brought 900 flintlocks and a batch of grenades.

Seeing that Wu Changqing had brought in a new batch of flintlocks, Liu Hansan immediately asked Wu Changqing to allocate a part of his equipment.

Now everyone in their rebel army knows the power of this new type of firecracker, and everyone wants it.

Liu Hansan's request made Wu Changqing think about the issue of military reorganization.

The army of the current era is completely different from the army of future generations. The army of future generations belongs to the country, and all soldiers who are loyal to the country are also the country.

In the current era, soldiers actually don't have much national concepts in their minds. They are more loyal to their officers and those who pay them.

This is likely to cause the general to hold great power, and those soldiers become the general's private soldiers.

This is very detrimental to a regime, and it is easy to make the regime ineffective.

Just like the previous Hongguang regime, on the surface, you can command those generals with heavy arms, but in fact they can't control them at all.

They resisted the Qing Dynasty if they wanted to, and surrendered if they wanted to surrender. Even if they are dissatisfied, they can play Qingjun's side with heavy soldiers, such as Zuo Liangyu.

With a large army of hundreds of thousands that did not resist the Qing army, but went south to Nanjing to the side of the Qing emperor, Zuo Liangyu scared Emperor Hongguang to death.

"Get Li Shaobin and Wang Dayong and the others, and discuss them together."

Wu Changqing summoned several major generals. He wanted to change the organization of the army and put the power in his own hands.

After the people arrived, Wu Changqing said: "These new firecrackers must be used intensively if they want to exert their power, so I have to make some adaptations to the troops."

Hearing that the troops were about to be reorganized, Liu Hansan and others were all at a loss. They were all used to the previous model. That is the soldier he recruited, and that is his subordinate.

"I want to use the original Jiazhong Army as my main force, and then select a part of the recruits, make up a thousand people, and form a firecracker army, which I personally train and command. The other thousand people are divided into three battalions, each with more than 300 people. One battalion used old-fashioned firecrackers, and the other two battalions used swords, shields and spears."

As soon as Wu Changqing said this, Liu Hansan was depressed.

The 1,000 main force all belonged to Wu Changqing, so he could only get a battalion officer at most and command more than 300 people.

Moreover, there is no new-style firecrackers army, its combat effectiveness and the new-style firecrackers are basically two different things. Wu Changqing's arrangement directly put the power of the army firmly in his hands.

Liu Hansan very much hoped that Li Shaobin and Wang Dayong could raise some objections together, but he was disappointed.

At this moment, Li Shaobin and Wang Dayong both admired Wu Changqing very much. They didn't realize that Wu Changqing was seizing power. They believed that Wu Changqing was trying to give full play to the specialties of the new-style firecrackers.

"These two idiots."

Seeing that Li Shaobin and Wang Dayong had no objection, Liu Hansan couldn't help cursing in his heart.

"The old-fashioned firecracker battalion was led by General Li, and the other two battalions were led by General Wang and General Liu."

Wu Changqing said that after the army expansion, he promoted the three of them from a hundred households to a guerrilla general.

However, this kind of position is imaginary, and the strength of his subordinates is fundamental. These official positions are just for self-entertainment, and the court has not recognized them.

"You guys, the guerrilla generals are just a small start. As long as you follow my pace. After we take Suzhou and Nanjing, the court will lose us one knighthood? When we drive the Qing army out of the customs, we will regain Beijing. , The court dare to miss us a throne?"

Wu Changqing drew a big pie for them, but he did not say that he would seal them a throne, and now he still needs to use the orthodox banner of Daming.

As for the future, as long as he has the real power of the army, someone will naturally give him a yellow robe.

"In the end, the general will definitely swear allegiance to the general."

Li Shaobin took the lead in expressing loyalty, and Wang Dayong and Liu Hansan also quickly expressed loyalty. The current anti-Qing situation is very good, they will not be stupid enough to challenge Wu Changqing's authority.

"Very well, then we will seize the time to train the soldiers, strive to become an army as soon as possible, and then take Suzhou in one fell swoop."

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How to train the flintlock troops, this is probably only Wu Changqing knows for the entire China.

To say what the biggest feature of the flintlock unit is, then it is undoubtedly queued to be shot.

People without military knowledge will laugh at the battle scenes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, laughing at why those soldiers are so stupid.

Waiting in line for shooting means that the two sides line up in a dense line, blowing the bugle, beating the snare drum, and then walking forward together to a distance of tens of meters, and then you fire one round of guns, and I fire another round of guns.

It seems that those soldiers are extremely stupid, but in fact, this method of tactics is the most threatening tactic of the musket era. The British lobster soldiers colonized more than half of the earth by this trick and attacked invincible hands all over the world. .

Because during the musket period, whether it was a matchlock or a flintlock, it was loaded with bullets from the front. Because the barrel is very long, soldiers cannot reload when they lie down.

Moreover, the hit rate of the front musket is very low. If you want to cause damage, you rely on a dense formation. Then volleyed, forming a barrage and spilling over.

A soldier fired a thousand shots at an enemy a hundred meters away, maybe ten shots failed.

But a thousand soldiers fired a volley at an enemy 100 meters away, and at least they could hit a hundred.

If you want to kill the opponent, you must use a dense formation. After the two sides use the dense formation together, the battle looks like they are queuing to shoot.

And an army that can maintain a stable formation while queuing to shoot is a real elite.

In fact, the tactics of queuing and shooting are only to destroy the morale of the enemy. They will not complete a battle by shooting from start to finish.

Often one of them can't bear the huge pressure of queuing to shoot and choose to escape, and then the other party rushes up to harvest with a bayonet. This is the battle in the musket era.

Currently in China, Wu Changqing doesn't need to train soldiers to that level, because there is no army that can shoot at him.

He only needs to train these people to be able to follow military orders to act in a unified manner. When encountering the same number of enemy forces, it is invincible. It is easy to fight one enemy two, and it is also possible to fight one enemy three.

As long as he directs his troops close to the enemy, and then makes one or two volleys, the enemy will definitely collapse. Then deal with the kind of enemy that is out of formation, as long as you rush to harvest and it's done.

Two rounds of volleys can kill at least one-third of the opponent's front row. Wu Changqing does not believe that any army that suffers this kind of damage in an instant can maintain its collapse.

The only thing he needs to beware of now is the large group of cavalry, and he will have a headache when encountering a large group of cavalry.

Fortunately, there are dense water nets in the south, and the cavalry is not easy to use. Therefore, the large-scale cavalry units of the Qing army are deployed to the north of the Yangtze River, and there are few on the south of the Yangtze River.

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