Chapter 64 The Beginning of the Japanese Invasion in Jiajing

Wei Guangde spent a lot of brainpower to decide which formation to adopt.

As for the formation he finally arranged, it was also something that Wei Guangde figured out by himself after hard recalling and understanding the equipment of the current 100 households.

The final result was a mixed military formation, with the middle formation mainly using cold weapons, the front row was ten sword and shield soldiers, and the back rows were spearmen, but the archers were hidden in the center of the formation, and the bird gunners were divided into two small formations of 30 people and arranged on both sides.

During the battle, the bird gunners could directly fire alternately from both wings in a five-stage shooting method, which was also the so-called cross-fire method in Wei Guangde's memory. The bird gunners formed a cross-fire network facing the enemy in front. I didn't see that the machine guns in later generations were placed on both sides of the position and fired obliquely at the battlefield.

If the opponent is not strong, the bird gunners can move from both sides to shoot in front of the sword and shield soldiers. As for whether to use three-stage or five-stage shooting, it depends on the situation on the battlefield. If the opponent cannot be defeated in this way, then wait for the enemy to attack close to the front and move from both sides to the rear to re-form the bird gun square formation. If the opponent has cavalry, just escape into the big formation to save your life.

Because it is a bird gun, not a machine gun in later generations, Wei Guangde was not very confident at the beginning. He pulled his elder brother and cousin to do some deductions. Many of the reasons they couldn't figure out were directly practiced by the soldiers.

Fortunately, the guards of the Ming Dynasty were actually a small society, and there were craftsmen in the collapsed mountain fort.

In order to make the deduction clear and accurate, Wei Guangde also asked the carpenters in the fort to make more than 200 soldiers simulate the battle formation.

The final result, of course, is still useful.

Although the bird gun has a certain accuracy, it is also very limited. In addition to the gunmanship, shooting birds also depends on luck.

However, after using crossfire, the oblique view is better than the front view.

But at this time, Wei Guangde also discovered a fatal problem in his original proposal, that is, the proportion of bird gunners was a bit high.

More than half of the soldiers in a hundred households were bird gunners, which made the entire army look very thin and loose, and there was a risk of collapse once close combat.

Of course, for a unit with an undetermined fighting will, even if all of them were cold weapons suitable for close combat, they would definitely not win the battle.

In response to this problem, Wei Guangde's solution was of course to add a bayonet.

The bird guns of this era did not have a bayonet design. After all, the craftsmanship was so-so and the material was also problematic. The only thing Wei Guangde could do was to ask the blacksmith to make a batch of bayonets, that is, the bayonets inserted from the barrel of the bird gun, which could only be used as spears for stabbing, but were not reliable.

Of course, Wei Guangde used the famous three-edged bayonet in China for this batch of bayonets. In fact, this was also related to the iron material in the guard station. It was brittle and would break if not paid attention to during use. It would be more solid after being made into a three-edged bayonet.

Wei Guangde didn't know that pig iron was used to make weapons at this time. This thing is hard, but too brittle.

Of course, he didn't know how to make steel, and he couldn't tell the difference between steel and pig iron. Naturally, he wouldn't try to make steel. He just thought that the materials of this era were rubbish.

In the end, the war chess that Wei Guangde asked someone to make was snatched away by his eldest brother Wei Wencai. He and Wu Dong studied it when they had nothing to do. The image was three-dimensional.

Later, he came up with some new things, so he called the small flags below to practice for them, and then let them practice to see what the final effect would be.

For these small flags with little culture, with the demonstration of war chess, they can quickly understand what to do, which is very helpful for practice.

"By the way, do the other hundred households have horses? This time, I think we should bring all the war horses, so that we can run away if we can't win."

Wei Guangde suddenly said this. It was really that his father was too important to Wei Guangde now, and he didn't want him to make any mistakes.

There are only two old horses in the Bengshan Baihu Suo, which can be ridden for fun, but not on the battlefield.

Wei Guangde only saw a few horses here in the Qianhu Suo. Obviously, war horses are very scarce in the Southern Army, and they are mainly used to convey military intelligence.

"No, there are only ten horses in the Qianhu Suo, and you have two horses there, and no other hundred-households."

Wu Dong knew that if the two families were not close, there would be no horses in Bengshanbao, and they would have to run on two legs when something happened.

"Are you so unconfident in the soldiers we trained?"

The eldest brother Wei Wencai frowned and asked.

"Yes, but for safety reasons, it is better to have horses."

Wei Guangde answered very straightforwardly. He also watched those soldiers being trained, so he naturally knew the situation.

However, what Wei Guangde could not say was that it seemed that in his memory, the Japanese pirates in the Jiajing Dynasty made too much trouble, which meant that in the early stage of fighting against the Japanese pirates, without Qi Jiguang and that general Yu, there would definitely be more defeats than victories.

Wei Guangde seemed to have seen such a scene in his memory, saying that Qi Jiguang was a northerner who was sent to the south to suppress the Japanese pirates. As a result, when he saw the Japanese pirates in the first battle, Qi Jiguang shouted to charge and went up, while the soldiers behind him all ran back. He almost died before he could accomplish his mission.

When he asked them to choose these two teams of soldiers, he actually followed Qi Jiguang's method of selecting soldiers. He chose honest soldiers. It didn't matter if they were a little stupid, but they had to be honest and obey orders.

"Don't worry about this. My father and uncle must have horses, not to mention that they have a team of family soldiers guarding them."

Wu Dong said.

"I'm worried that my father can't command the team well."

Wei Guangde still said.

"You are just too concerned."

Wei Wencai thought for a while and then said: "We are definitely together in Jiujiang Guard. Even if we really encounter Japanese pirates, there are more than a thousand people in our guard. How can the Japanese pirates not run away when they see them?

Do you think those Japanese pirates are really invulnerable? That's just to fool the common people outside. In your words, no matter how good their kung fu is, they can be knocked down with one gun."

Wei Guangde understood that his elder brother and cousin should just be upset because they couldn't go out with them to have a look, and they were not worried about fighting against the Japanese pirates at all.

Before this, the Japanese pirates did not fight the Ming army head-on.

But this time, Wei Guangde had guessed from knowing that tens of thousands of Japanese pirates had gathered, and then the Japanese pirates' rebellion in the Jiajing Dynasty that later generations knew about, that this time was probably the beginning of the Japanese rebellion becoming more and more powerful and out of control.

But some things can't be said, just like what the elder brother said, the Japanese pirates dare not fight the government army head-on, which was still true before this.

When the bandits meet the government soldiers, their momentum will naturally be lower.

I just hope that my father and uncle won't encounter powerful Japanese pirates this time. As long as they can survive this time, they will know how powerful they are later.

Wei Guangde has already thought that this time, some of the officers and soldiers of the garrison may be defeated in a direct battle with the Japanese pirates, which will lead to a larger-scale Japanese rebellion.