The exercise was completed separately and the land practiced separately and entered the joint exercise. The exercise field was set up in the coastal area of ​​Wanning Army, which was close to Boao, and Zhao Bing's palace was also convenient for personal inspection. The exercise was divided into two stages: the first stage was to jointly land and fight on the coastal plains and complex mountainous terrain; the second stage was to carry infantry to use inland waterways to maneuver, go deep into the enemy's hinterland to seize key points to cut off the enemy's reinforcements, detour to encircle the enemy's rear, and annihilate the besieged enemy.

By June, Qiongzhou also entered the rainy season. Because Qiongzhou lives in the sea, if you want to restore the country, you must develop to the mainland. Therefore, since the situation in Qiongzhou has stabilized, Zhao Bing's military strategy has shifted from the past defensive operations to the landing operations. The training content of each department is also mainly on landing operations, and the annual military exercises are also centered on landing operations.

For landings in plain areas, various units of the Song army have completed actual combat in supporting various base areas and have summarized mature tactics based on experience. During the reconnaissance stage, they will send water ghosts to enter, investigate the hydrology of the scheduled landing sites, and then clear the anti-landing obstacles set up in the beaches along the coast. After the army enters the landing waters, they will send rocket ships and gunships to bombard the troops and outposts that are deployed along the coast and clear out the landing ground.

Then, according to the hydrological conditions, small gunships were dispatched to close and shoot, further eliminating the remaining enemies and fortifications. At the same time, each landing force transferred from the transport ship to a flat-bottomed small boat formation to land. After seizing the bridgehead and consolidating it, the transport fleet built simple trests by the port or used small boats to transport supplies and unload heavy weapons. After the landing force was strengthened, it expanded the bridgehead around, established a landing field, and built fortifications to fight the enemy against the counterattack. After most of the landing landing, each unit expanded the landing field under the cover of artillery fire, defeating the current enemy and developing in depth.

However, during this landing exercise, Zhao Bing mobilized six divisions, infantry, two baggage brigades, three water police areas and artillery, cavalry and new army training brigades and other departments all sent most troops to participate in the exercise, and the use of troops and equipment was the most exercised in previous exercises. In addition to adding complex terrain landing, the drill also emphasized the synthetic training of water and army, the cooperation between infantry and artillery, and the cooperation between infantry and cavalry, especially the personnel of various branches of the infantry, the rapid boarding, disembarking, unloading and deployment and supply of equipment. Moreover, the landing tactics that used force landing and frontal breakthroughs were mainly used to emphasize the use of surprise attacks such as sneak attack, roundabout interlude, and night battles...

About five miles from the coast, a four-masted 10,000-stone warship was anchored in the sea. Its shape was taller than the Sheji. It was equipped with more than 80 crossbows of various types and twenty rocket launchers. This was one of the results of Zhao Bing's series of dress-ups. Due to the needs of future wars, some naval warships could no longer adapt to long-sea combat, so they rebuilt more than 200 large and small warships at the cost of a year's salt tax revenue. Including three 10,000 command ships, the Taishan was moored on the sea at this moment.

"Your Majesty, the first, second and third divisions have all landed. The fourth division is detouring to the enemy's right wing and cutting off the enemy's escape west!" The military exercise command was stationed on the warship of the "Taishan" and Zhao Bing was also in charge at the beginning of the exercise. Zhang Shijie reported the current battle situation.

"Well, the Fourth Division has not yet arrived ashore. If the enemy defeats in a battle, can they catch up?" Zhao Bing looked at the map and asked with a frown.

"Your Majesty, this is how I think." Zhang Shijie was stunned and said, "Your Majesty has entered the rainy season at this time. The water surface of the Baiquan River has soared and the water conditions are complicated. Therefore, he chose to let the fleet enter the river in the early morning to avoid unnecessary casualties!"

"I have said many times that the exercise field is a battlefield, everything needs to be considered in actual combat. If the target of annihilation of the enemy is defeated due to the fear of capsizing, the siege plan failing and the goal of annihilation of the defending enemy will not be as simple as missing the opportunity!" Zhao Bing said in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty, I..." Zhang Shijie blushed when he heard this.

"Your Majesty, I think our main goal of landing can be achieved. Besides, don't chase the enemy, even if there are a few runs, it's okay?" Liu Zhu saw that His Majesty was unwilling to be disgusted, so he hurriedly helped Zhang Shijie distinguish it.

"Liu Junshuai, this is not your idea, right?" Zhao Bing turned to look at Liu Zhu, and said with an anger. "It is better to break one of his fingers than to hurt his ten fingers. If they are allowed to run away, they can be rebuilt. Escape into the city will also cause difficulties for our next move. It is okay to run a few times. You are so light-hearted!"

"Your Majesty, I understand!" Liu Zhu said quickly. He is now the leader of the first army and a second-rank official. He was just a newly-rated camp before following His Majesty. He naturally understood in his heart that he could achieve what he has today. In addition, the little emperor has grown up and his majesty is becoming more and more respectful.

"You all remember that our combat goal is to annihilate the enemy's living forces, but not to compete for one city and one land. Many enemy cavalry are very mobile, so it is not easy to catch them. Therefore, we must try our best to surround them, even if they cannot be eliminated, we must destroy them and hurt them, so as to achieve the strategic goal of gradually weakening their strength and thus achieve the tactical goal of occupying cities and plundering the land!" Zhao Bing said.

He knew that the emperors of the ancients had made the greatest achievement in their lives, and also affected their ministers as their purpose of conquest. His purpose was to consume the enemy's vitality. When their elite troops were exhausted, the new army that was recruited would lose its ability to attack and would no longer be able to defend such a vast territory and had to shrink the front line. Then it would be natural to recover the homeland.

"Your Majesty, the counter-strike has begun!" Jiang Yu stepped forward to report.

"Well, go to the cabin top deck!" Zhao Bing nodded.

Everyone obeyed the order and surrounded Zhao Bing on the top deck. He stood on the watchtower and took the telescope handed over by Chen Dun to look on the land. After two years of military school life, Chen Dun worked as a grassroots officer in the Second Division for two years and participated in several battles to consolidate the base. Then he worked as an army in the division headquarters for one year, and his commander of the guard battalion was transferred to the Fifth Division as the regiment commander. After a few years of training, Chen Dun was no longer the willful and naughty child, but Dutou, who had experienced military achievements, so he transferred him to serve as the commander of the guard battalion.

The Qiongzhou Army's counterattack combat plan is aimed at Mongolian cavalry. The most cutting-edge configuration should be two foot corners and a trench or a van that transports materials as barriers. Of course, these will be adjusted according to different combat conditions. If you just log in now, you will not be able to carry these bulky things to grab the beach. They can only use the cut down trees and the small boats used to build a simple obstacle.

After the thirty steps of the obstacle, a linear defense line is arranged in three horizontal lines, and one battalion defends a defense line of about fifty steps. As a reserve team, the rest of the army uses cross-fire to maintain the density of fire and use whistle to deliver commands. There is a ten-step gap between the two as a channel for the army transfer, and a light crossbow cannon is arranged in front of the formation. After thirty steps of the square formation, medium crossbow cannons are arranged, followed by heavy crossbow cannons, and then rocket cannons are located in the center. The two wings are arranged to prevent the enemy from attacking from the flanks, and this time there is a sea behind, which avoids worries.

The formation is configured in this way to promote the power of the ladder firepower and give the enemy the greatest damage layer by layer. Of course, this is just an ideal state. The enemy will wait for you to arrange the crossbows and rockets before launching anti-landing operations. I am afraid that it would be good to have some light crossbows in the initial stage. The main thing is to rely on muskets to block the enemy's first wave of impact and gain time for the deployment of heavy firepower.

If the navy's cover firepower caused a major blow to the enemy, and the enemy was eager to drive the landing troops into the sea while they were unstable, the teams sent out would definitely be the strongest. However, the first wave of landing troops would have to bear great pressure, not only to be able to attack, but also to be good at defending, but also to have a tenacious spirit to stabilize the landing site and build a bridgehead.

‘Boom, boom…’ The cannon began to fire. Zhao Bing frowned and heard that this was not the explosion after the crossbow was fired, but the explosion when the rapid-fire cannon was fired. He picked up the telescope and looked at the landing site. Sure enough, he found a cloud of smoke rising in front of the formation. At the same time, he also concluded that the first wave of landing troops was his imperial guards, because now they were the only ones who had changed into metal-body cannons.

This rapid-fire cannon was imitated by Zhao Bing of Portugal. This is an iron rear-mounted smooth-bore cannon. The entire cannon consists of three parts: the barrel, the belly of the cannon, and the baby cannon. When firing the cannon, the gunpowder projectile is first filled into the cannon, and then the baby cannon is put into the belly of the cannon. Generally, the gunpoint part will extend forward to a certain distance into the mother cannon. The back of the cannon will be held tightly with an iron bolt to prevent the recoil from jumping out of the mother cannon chamber and igniting the baby cannon fire. There is a steering rudder rod for steering at the tail of the cannon, and there are sights and photos. When aiming, the soldier's eyes and photos are on the three points and one line to aim at the target to fire.

Zhao Bing faced the same problem as at that time. Due to his technical level, the gap between the cannon and the abdomen of the cannon was large, causing gunpowder gas to leak, so he did not have long range. However, he still made some improvements within his ability. The cannon was made of cooked copper and closed, using the expansion force of the gunpowder to increase the sealing. As for the effect, he did not know whether it was successful because there was no reference. However, the launch of live ammunition can have an effective range of more than 200 steps, and filling shotgun can also strike enemy troops within a hundred steps. Of course, the best effect is within fifty steps.

The reason why rapid-fire cannons are used as support firepower is mainly because this kind of firearm is superior to other firearms, which is convenience. In order to ensure the launch speed, each Folang machine is equipped with ten sub-guns. While firing, a dedicated person also recharges the shots. In this way, ten sub-guns are fired in turn, and the sub-guns are replaced at any time in the mother gun, which greatly improves efficiency and is suitable for dealing with the Mongols who come and go like the wind. It is also weighed appropriately, and the cannon body is only about 200 kilograms, which is convenient for small troops to carry. You can shoot by supporting the cannon stand, and you can drag it away by installing the wheels.

If you can get close, you must have something to get far. Zhao Bing imitated the Ming Dynasty's "Weiyuan Cannon" this time, which is in line with the successful example of "small cannon firing big bullets". With the use of his improved water conservancy forging machine, the entire cannon was made of cold forging, so the gun body was solid, allowing him to discard the iron hoop on the original version to reduce weight, but only thicken the area of ​​the artillery medicine chamber to increase the load.

The improved Weiyuan cannon weighs only 130 to 40 kilograms, which is very light. Usually it is only placed on a car or on the back of a mule and horse and follows the army to move with it. It is convenient to move and is very suitable for field combat. It also has a sight-guarding sight for aiming. Each artillery is equipped with eight taels of cannons, one large lead shell weighs three kilograms, and one hundred small lead shells weigh about three cents. When using it, you only need to take down the Weiyuan cannon and place it on the gun stand. In an emergency, you can even directly mount the cannon on the ground, aim at the enemy at the sight-guarding sight-guarding sight-guarding sight-guard to estimate the distance, and then adjust the angle of the artillery to strike.

The maximum range of the large artillery shells of Weiyuan can reach a distance of four or five miles, while the small lead shells are very close. However, the maximum distribution of the small lead shells can reach more than thirty steps and about forty-five meters. The surface killing is still considerable. When the enemy enters the range, a round of artillery fires directly hits the enemy's formation and shoots a blood canal. The small artillery shells fly in all directions, clearing out a bloody rain, which is like thunder unstoppable. Therefore, Zhao Bing named it "Thunder". However, its loading speed is slow, so it is only equipped to the independent artillery battalion.

The imperial guards prioritized the equipment of new weapons. Although everyone knew that they could not compete with the emperor's imperial guards, they were definitely not feeling well, so Zhao Bing also "developed" two small firearms to comfort the generals.

When it comes to "Flying Bees", the first thing that comes to mind is rockets. In fact, there is also a large shotgun, also known as this name. The Ming army once equipped a large amount of equipment. The barrel of this gun is two feet and six inches long. It uses a large lead bullet weighing two taels, and there are also a hundred small lead bullets weighing one cent and five cents. The total bullet weighs about one kilogram. When it is launched, it aims at the enemy. The lead bullets are like thunder, and the range can reach half a mile.

The "Yi Wan Hu" is lighter in weight. Usually, a belt is used to connect the head and tail, and a soldier can marching. When used, it is mounted on an iron-sharp rack, with the gun tip raised by two or three inches, and the tail of the gun is nailed to the ground with a wooden stake to prevent the recoil from jumping. Then it is ignited and fired. Zhao Bing thought it was more suitable to call it a shotgun, so he named it "Ben Lei Gun".

Because of its light weight, easy to carry, and its melee firepower is fierce, it is easy to manufacture. Zhao Bing set up a firepower support team in each battalion, equipped with fifteen thunder guns as melee firepower support weapons. If it weren't for the insufficient steel production in Qiongzhou, he really wanted to set up a firepower team for each person to equip the thunder guns to improve his melee ability.

Another type is the "Baizi Gun", which also appeared in the Ming Dynasty. Zhao Bing sometimes had an impulse. If anyone else said that the arms were inferior, he would not sleep for seven days and seven nights, he would argue with them. You should know that it was really not easy to build these firearms under ancient conditions. The Baizi Gun used a long-body tube, because the trajectory of the shells became straighter and the further it was hit. The original Baizi Gun and the muskets at that time were both forged with several iron plates. Zhao Bing had a water conservancy boring machine and forging machine, which could be made in all steel, which could increase strength and reduce weight.
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