However, the so-called "ritual to the teacher" faded out of people's vision and gradually became unknown. Zhao Bing understood that the root cause was the change in the form of war. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the scale of the war was generally not large. Taking the battle between the two superpowers of Jin and Chu as an example, the Jin State dispatched only 50,000 troops, which was considered a top-level war in the Spring and Autumn Period. In addition, the form of war was relatively single, mainly positional wars, and the deployment of troops was relatively simple; in addition, the duration of the war was short, and once the war was fought, it usually ended on the same day.

The purpose of Zhishi was to boost morale and attack the other side. Therefore, Zhishi was consistent with the war form during this period. However, after the Warring States Period, the scale of the war was often hundreds of thousands, not only often spread in the complex terrain surrounded by mountains and rivers, but also increasingly paid attention to the arrangement of troops and tactical skills. The time of the war also changed from short, flat and fast to protracted war. In this case, the outcome of the war depends more on the strength of the national strength of the two sides in battle and the quality of the commander's ability to command troops, and then the professionalization of the military and the birth of famous generals.

In contrast, the influence of morale in the battle on victory and defeat has continued to decline, and whether it is the war-influence factors that have been emphasized in the Spring and Autumn Period, such as the war-influence factors that have been emphasized in the past, the morale-enhancing role that the storm can play has lost its necessity, and with the widespread use of crossbows with longer ranges on the battlefield, the storm usually can only make unnecessary sacrifices. As the demise of the storm becomes the general trend.

This is the first time Zhao Bing has heard of this, so even if there is an enemy, he doesn't understand it. Most of the time he ordered the guns and fires, and killed the enemy generals in front of the formation without waiting for them to come. How could he wait for them to break into the formation and harm him? The current Song army has reorganized, transformed and re-formed the battle rules. Even if some generals understand these "ancient rituals", they will abide by the current rules and will not send generals to fight.

"Your Majesty, the bandits have come to the front of the formation to provoke. If they do not send their generals to fight, wouldn't it hurt your morale?" Seeing the Mongolian cavalry running back and forth in front of the formation, whistling, and even Mongolian soldiers were fighting down on horseback, hiding in stirrups, riding donkeys back and showing off their horse skills, but there was no movement on their side, Wang Yinglin couldn't help but said in a stern voice.

"Governor Wang, don't be anxious. They are just provoking and dare not break into the formation!" Zhao Bing said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, why is this?" Wang Yinglin looked at it again. Sure enough, those enemy cavalry only dared to gallop around a hundred steps away. There seemed to be an invisible fence in front of them, which made them dare not pass by.

"Although the Mongols are barbarians, they are not stupid. They fought with our army several times and realized that although our army's firearms are sharp, they lack accuracy beyond a hundred steps. Although they are skilled in bows and horses, they use bows and arrows to accurately aim and shoot with bows and arrows on the bumpy horse's backs, and require long-term hard training. Even the sharpshooter like Li Guang, who was afraid of the Huns, can only guarantee the cavalry within dozens of steps. When riding and shooting, due to the limitation of force, the cavalry for riding and shooting bows are basically weaker than the archers. At the same time, the shooting accuracy of the archers standing on the ground is higher than that of the cavalry for riding and shooting. Therefore, even if our army does not have muskets, they dare not approach easily." Zhao Bing explained.

"Yes... but do we let them insult Your Majesty in front of the battlefield and provoke them arbitrarily?" Although Wang Yinglin understood the reason, the enemy was just showing off his verbal pleasure and could not threaten his side, he still felt resentful.

"This is also the enemy's plan to lure the enemy. Their constant provocation is intended to anger our generals. The cavalry sent by the enemy are all skilled archers and horses. Once we send troops to attack and the number of people is small, they can take advantage of the shortcomings of our army's low fire speed to shoot and kill and suppress our morale. If we send a large army to surround and kill, once there is a flaw, the enemy brigade who is prepared will take the opportunity to cover up and break through our array." Zhao Bing knew that he was nervous when he first went into battle, and the way to alleviate his anxiety was to let him keep talking, and said with a smile, "But we will not let him be arrogant. The good show will be staged if it is slowed down. Governor Wang can just watch!"

"This..." As soon as the little emperor finished speaking, Wang Yinglin suddenly saw several enemy cavalry who were provoking him in front of the formation and fell off his horse without warning, as if he was caught in an evil spirit, while the other enemy cavalry scattered like frightened rabbits, but just like he kept falling off his horse. He looked at the little emperor with a slightly panic and admiring look and thought that he had used immortal arts and shot down the enemy soldiers.

"Okay, these few shots can relieve your anger!" For a moment, a burst of cheers came from the camp, and the morale was boosted. Tan Fei, who was beside him, also clapped his high-high and cheered.

"Is this a fire shot dead by a musket? But Your Majesty just said that the musket used by our army was gone a hundred steps away!" Wang Yinglin was confused again.

"Governor Wang, this is His Majesty's new firearm. He can hit every shot within a hundred steps, and he can wear heavy armor!" Tan Fei turned his face and looked at the little emperor, then turned around and said with a smile.

"Since that's the case, why don't Your Majesty change this kind of musket completely? Wouldn't you win every battle?" Wang Yinglin was even more surprised when he heard this. Why don't you use such a good thing?

"Haha, it's still because of lack of money! Although this rifled rifle is easy to use, the cost of making is more than twice as high. Do you have any money to replace it in full?" Zhao Bing said with a wry smile.

Why didn't Zhao Bing want to change his clothes in full? He had already started to develop a rifled rifle as early as Qiongzhou. He knew that spiral patterns were carved into the gun chamber, which would cause the launching warhead to rotate forward at high speed, increase the stability, range and penetration of the bullets to fly steadily in the air, and improve the shooting accuracy and range. It has incomparable benefits than smoothbore rifles.

The processing technology of rifling is not complicated in Zhao Bing's opinion. It can also be produced with existing technology, but it also has disadvantages. First, the processing of rifling must increase the process, which increases the manufacturing cost of the barrel and reduces the yield rate; second, under the premise that the bottom fire technology is difficult to overcome, the rifling rifling must also be pre-installed. When using spherical projectiles, after loading into the barrel, it is necessary to use a strand to deform the projectiles and embed them in the rifle to improve airtightness and improve the range and accuracy. However, due to inconvenient loading, the reloading time is extended, and frequent maintenance is required to clean the rifle filled with lead bullets.

Therefore, Zhao Bing concealed the rifled gun after it was developed in terms of cost and efficiency, and did not put it into production. After recovering Jiangnan, he remembered that by improving the bullet, a bullet with a concave hole was made at the bottom of the bullet. The gas when the bullet was fired would be extended through this concave hole to connect the bottom of the bullet to the barrel. In this way, the diameter of the bullet could be made smaller than the inner diameter of the gun barrel, which solved the problem of difficulty in loading the front-load rifle gun, which was comparable to the smoothbore gun.

However, after a batch of guns was trial-produced, Zhao Bing stopped the production of rifled rifles. The reason was the cost. The production cost of the double-track line was still high, and the troops repeatedly expanded, and it was a huge amount that could not be afforded to replace all 300,000 smoothbore rifles that were still in use. Therefore, these rifled rifles were installed with scales for adjusting distance and aiming, and some were left in the guard battalion, and most of them were handed over to sharpshooters selected by each army for long-range sniping of enemy generals and important targets.

These sharpshooters did not use mixed forces with the large troops during wartime, but acted in groups, and chose to shoot freely based on orders or self-judgment. The enemy cavalry that just now hovered outside the precise shooting distance of the smoothbore gun was not worthwhile to shoot grouply or bombard with artillery, and it was annoying to not deal with them. This became the dish of sharpshooters and also kicked off the battle.

‘Wuwuwu…’ The Yuan army failed to lure the enemy, and immediately changed its tactics and sent troops to fight. With the sound of trumpets, several teams of cavalry rushed out of the central army and rushed towards the Song army formation.

"Your Majesty, the Tartars are going to really rush to the battlefield this time, why don't they open fire?" Although Wang Yinglin tried his best to suppress his panic, he found that the enemy rushed into the front of the formation within a hundred steps, although his troops had raised their guns to prepare for shooting, but they were not able to shoot for a long time, so he couldn't hold back his anger.

"Governor Wang, this is just a tentative attack from the enemy. They know that they cannot break through our front, but are looking for flaws!" Zhao Bing said in his heart. He sighed in his heart that it is definitely a wise move for him to not use civil officials to lead the army. Wang Yinglin is also a good minister, but he is not good at military affairs, so he still panics when he goes to the battlefield. If he is blindly commanded, he will be amazing.

While speaking, Zhao Bing did not put down his telescope and kept staring at the battlefield. The situation was just as he said. The Yuan army still used the usual tactics, and advanced several hundred-man light cavalry to a circumvention or semi-rotating tactics to circumvent the enemy's array position without the protection of the archer; or formed a local numerical advantage through maneuverability and created a dense rain of arrows to suppress the opponent's infantry. Once the enemy collapsed or there was chaos, he took the opportunity to rush forward.

Overall, when facing strong infantrymen who can set up a dignified formation, the cavalry archers mainly play a harassing and weakening role. What really works is the cavalry hand-to-hand impact after the harassing and weakening. The Mongolian army and Song field battle are first attacked and weakened by cavalry archers, and then completely defeated by their general attack. Correspondingly, the cavalry archers are easily suppressed by the opponent's infantry archers, so in a dignified formation, although cavalry archers will cause a headache for the opponent, they are not irresistible and cannot be invincible.
Chapter completed!