Valley Emperor

After finishing the reform of the official system, Li Xuan did not rush to promote the next step of military reform, but continued to focus on his guards.

Why?

Because of the military reform, especially the establishment, tactics and other things, there must be a charter, and these things are not something that Li Xuan can come up with by himself. Even if he can come up with it, Li Xuan does not dare mess up.

Organization, tactics, these things are related to the life and death of the Tang Dynasty, and it is more related to whether Li Xuan can survive or not.

Therefore, Li Xuan still decided to use the Guards as a pilot, and then work out the basic system first.

"Your Majesty, there were fifty-two people in our Guards, divided into six teams, each ranging from five to ten. Now, according to His Majesty's decree, we have recruited another thirty." Wang Danxu stood in front of Li Xuan, Respectfully reported the situation of the guards.

Li Xuan said: "Well, yes, since the number of people is enough, let's start the next preparation and training as soon as possible!"

Wang Danxu said, "The minister obeys the order!"

After speaking, Wang Danxu raised his head to look at Li Xuan, and said, "Your Majesty, now our army is short of guns, so there are more than 20 people in training now?"

Li Xuan shook his head and said, "There are only twenty people, not many!"

"But this musket is slow to reload and can't be fired correctly. It's better to replace all muskets with bows and arrows..." Wang Danxu wanted to continue, but Li Xuan waved his hand to stop him from continuing.

Li Xuan didn't know any tactics, but the Wang Danxu in front of him didn't even know much, so Li Xuan would rather believe the tactics he saw in movies and TV dramas in his previous life, and he didn't believe in this bandit-headed guard general.

The system he created for the Guards is somewhat similar to the modern army, but not like it.

According to his assumption, he is going to use spearmen and musketeers as the main force, and engage in multiple deep line tactics, with the spearmen in the middle and the musketeers on the flanks. The ratio of the two should be one to one . The spearmen consisted of thirty men in a team of six, living in the middle army. There are ninety musketeers on the two wings, also divided into six teams.

But unfortunately, there are not so many muskets in Huangzhu Mountain, and it is impossible to achieve the ratio that Li Xuan envisioned, so he can only lower his requirements and use as many muskets as he has.

According to his prediction, after two months, the guards should be able to equip about twenty arquebuses. Although it is still not enough, it can barely cooperate with the spearmen.

At the same time, due to the small number of guards, it is impossible for him to play five or six in-depth line tactics, and he can only barely play three-column line tactics.

To this end, he planned to divide the guards into three parts, one part was the musketeer, the other part was the spearmen, and the other part was the sword and shield soldiers, and he adopted line tactics.

Among them, the spearmen were the main force. There were three teams of fourteen men in each team. When fighting, they were lined up in the middle and three columns in front and back.

The musketeers consisted of four teams of seven men, who were assigned to the two flanks of the lancers when fighting, with two columns in the front and rear.

Finally, there are the sword and shield soldiers, each team of fourteen people, a total of two teams, attached to the rear of the musketeers, used to protect the flanks of the line, but more importantly, it is used to pursue and cut when the enemy is broken. Kill the enemy and expand the results!

Each of the above squads includes a captain and a deputy.

According to Li Xuan's own vision, when the Guards fought, they strictly followed the line tactics. When they were in line with the enemy, if the enemy was advancing slowly, they would use arquebuses to shoot in multiple rows. A high-speed charge requires a gun within a distance of 50 to 100 meters. When the enemy enters within 50 meters, or even within 20 meters, a salvo is fired. In other words, only one shot is fired!

The reason why volleys are used instead of rounds when the enemy is charging is because Li Xuan feels that the musketeers of the Guards are just like that. A few gunshots, might as well play a big one at the last minute.

A salvo at the last minute can not only cause significant damage to the enemy, but also can effectively dampen the courage of the enemy and effectively reduce the pressure of the spearmen when they attack!

After the musketeers fired a salvo, the spearmen began to attack in a dense formation. The musketeers inserted bayonets modified with spearheads into the muskets and followed the lancers to charge, and the sword and shield soldiers followed to protect the musketeers. At the same time, kill scattered enemy troops.

The musket is equipped with a bayonet, which is something Li Xuan decided long ago, and since the sleeve-type bayonet with high technical difficulty is not considered, if only the plug-in bayonet is used, the technical difficulty can be basically ignored. In fact, the musket after the bayonet is equipped Soldiers, can be used as spearmen.

But the problem is that the production of muskets in Huangzhushan is too low now, so Li Xuan can only continue to mix musketeers and spearmen as a last resort.

The formation and tactics of the Guards were the result of several months of hard work by Li Xuan. During this process, he thought about almost all the war movies and novels that he had seen in his head, and then he came up with it. Such a resemblance.

However, there are systems and tactics, but Li Xuan won't know whether it works or not. This matter can only be left to fate.

After tossing around with the Guards for three full days, it was Li Xuan who raised the schedule for the adaptation of the other standing armies!

At the court meeting, after the ministers had dealt with the trivial matters, Bai Yunqi, the commander-in-chief of the rear army, as the confidant of the uncle and the empress dowager Bai Yunqi, took the lead and said, "The minister has something to announce!"

After a precise word, Bai Yunqi began to talk broadly: "I have been compiling and training a standing army in the Tang Dynasty for several months, and there are five armies in the front and rear, and a total of five armies in the front and rear, and in the west of the town. .wuxiaspot.com~ so that the various armies do not cooperate properly.

In the event of a major war, if the various armies do not cooperate properly, the light ones will delay the fighters, and the heavy ones may lead to the collapse of the entire army. In order to maintain the invincibility of our Great Tang kings and divisions, our army should unify the military system! "

There is no need to doubt or guess. Bai Yunqi, an illiterate, can say such a half-literate thing wrong. Anyone with a discerning eye will know that this is what someone taught him to say, and the only one who taught him to say this is Li Xuan. no one else.

Li Xuan said at this time, "What do you think about what General Bai said?"

At this time, Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren did not speak for the first time, but pondered, but it was Qian Mengjiu, the civilian who had followed the army many times and said immediately:

"I think what General Bai said is very true. In the previous several battles of our army, there were disadvantages of poor command and ineffective cooperation. Fortunately, our soldiers were brave and won great victories several times. Maybe if we enter the mountain again, our army will not be able to move forward, and when facing the Ming army, I am afraid that it will not be able to do it!"

Liu Bagou also opened his mouth and said, "I don't know anything about military affairs, but if there is a strong army in the world, the military discipline must be strict and orderly!"

Wang Wenhua immediately picked up the conversation and said: "Although I have His Majesty and other ancient sages, and His Majesty Hong Fu, I will definitely be able to win a hundred battles, but if the soldiers use their lives and command is smooth, they can turn a small victory into a big victory, and a big victory into a complete victory. !"

The three mainstays of the Tang Dynasty, the only scholars and ministers, all agreed with the unification of the military system, which was within Li Xuan's expectations.

After all, for Liu Bagou and the others, the stronger the Tang army, the better, so that they can fight against the Ming army. As for the impact on the existing generals after the military reform, they don't care.

Liu Bagou and the others would agree. Li Xuan had already expected it. The question now is, will Fang Dongquan and the others agree?