Wu Zheng nodded after hearing this. It was not surprising that the iron fire thunder made by Qi Daokun was probably too crude, and there were no fragments or too few fragments. Otherwise, even if the wild boar skin is thick and hard, as long as it explodes nearby, the lethality of the fragments will still be huge.

Qi Chenghao continued: "The method is still the method mentioned before, but the difference is that Caomin and Jiedi are in two opposite directions. After Caomin fires the first shot, they will quickly throw an iron fire thunder into the direction of the wild boar, and then turn around and flee. The wild boar will often be frightened by the loud noise of the iron fire thunder, or turn around and run around, or after a while, wait for the thick smoke to dissipate and continue chasing. At this time, Jiedi will shoot according to Caomin's method and throw the iron fire thunder. The wild boar is very stupid, it is just a fierce thing."

Wu Zheng and others burst into laughter after hearing this. This kid is indeed a bit interesting.

Qi Chenghao said seriously: "What the prince was saying to the two generals just now, Caomin privately felt...it was not difficult."

Wu Zheng was indeed surprised and said, "Say it, say it boldly, it's okay to say it wrong."

Qi Chenghao said: "The prince's musketeers, whether they focus on cooperation or individual soldiers, when they meet cavalry, there is only one result, that is, they lose."

Wu Zheng's face looked a little unwilling. Indeed, this sounded unpleasant, but the truth was right.

The result was almost no suspense when infantry fought against cavalry.

Qi Chenghao was a newborn calf and was not afraid of tigers. He continued, "Since they all lose, why bother to focus on which one? In the opinion of Caomin, the prince naturally knew it. I think the training of soldiers is not for dealing with cavalry, but for dealing with infantry, right?"

Wu Zheng's heart was thrilled when he heard this. A flash of inspiration flashed by, but he couldn't catch it for a moment and couldn't help but frown.

Qi Chenghao saw Wu Zheng frowning this time. He thought Wu Zheng did not recognize his words and hurriedly explained: "Just as Caomin said just now, if the enemy cavalry is compared to wild boars, and there are trees beside them, we can go up the trees. If there is no tree, then we can escape and find a place to hide, such as earthen walls, potholes, slopes, etc., and you can also use iron fire thunder to blow it with a 70% chance. Just hit it with a musket..."

Wu Zheng's head was "booming" and suddenly realized. He stood up suddenly, pointed at Qi Chenghao and laughed: "You guy really have a trick, and you have helped me a lot."

The speaker is unintentional, and the listener is intentional.

What Qi Chenghao means is that it is correct to face different enemies or in different environments to deal with different enemies in different ways.

But in Wu Zheng's ears, it's not just that.

What Wu Zheng realized was why I used musketeers to fight against cavalry?

The function of musketeers is to fight against enemy infantry, such as sword and shield soldiers, spear soldiers, crossbow soldiers, etc.

Unless the love is necessary, no one is so stupid that he will beat the cavalry with infantry.

This is as ridiculous as the later generations of infantry regiments fighting against an armored regiment.

To deal with armored regiments, you can use the same armored regiment to fight, or helicopter clusters to attack, or use artillery clusters to attack.

To deal with the Qing cavalry, you can also use the same cavalry or artillery groups to cover it. It is a fallacy to expect musketeers to fight various tough battles in an all-round way.

Wu Zheng felt a sudden realization, and the problem that had been bothering him was resolved.

In the past four years, because there were no weapons beyond the times, Wu Zheng had been thinking about how to deal with the Qing army's cavalry. After the previous cavalry battalion was destroyed, Wu Zheng had no interest in forming a new cavalry battalion. The main body of the cavalry battalion was captured by Wu Zheng in three battles when the Qing army harassed the northwest of Shaoxing Prefecture, and after the recovery of Hangzhou, it was seized during the first confrontation with Duoduo.

The war horses in the south are insufficient, and once the cavalry suffers war losses, there is no way to replenish the war horses. This is the biggest reason for restricting Wu Zheng.

Instead of being controlled by others in the key equipment of war horses, it is better to make every effort to form a firearm army. This is Wu Zheng’s guiding ideology.

Therefore, Wu Zheng, who was unintentionally awakened by Qi Chenghao, also directly erased his plan to re-establish the cavalry battalion.

Instead, it was decided to equip the new musket army with field artillery battalions and engineer battalions.

Qi Chenghao is right. When choosing the battlefield terrain and attacking the enemy in movement, this is the strength of the infantry.

The cavalry's pickyness on the battlefield terrain also limits its comprehensiveness.

When Wu Zheng fought in Shining Town, he used the disadvantaged forces of Lianghuwei and relied on the terrain of Shining Street to wipe out a thousand cavalry. This is a very classic example of using infantry to fight cavalry.

The formation was formed outside Danyang City, combining the upper and lower sides of the city wall, outside the city gate, and attacking the cavalry in three-dimensional shape. Although the battle was greatly damaged, they also achieved victory.

This made Wu Zheng completely clear his mind. The main imaginary enemy of musketeers is not the enemy cavalry, but the enemy infantry.

Cavalry can be solved by the cooperation of infantry and artillery regiments.

The pre-loaded artillery purchased from Western Europe is enough to deal with the Qing cavalry. Of course, this is sufficient to deal with the premise that large-scale centralized use is not only used like Ming army artillery, but only assisting the cold weapon army.

For example, hundreds of artillery (field artillery) were concentrated to cover the battlefield, and the shells purchased at the same time were no longer solid bullets used by the Ming army, but they were more like flowering bullets, but their range and power were far better than those of the Ming army's happy bullets. The military workshop is organizing imitations.

Just like the main battleship gun purchased this time, there are 32 pounds (about 30 pounds) guns on the bottom deck, 24 pounds on the middle deck, and 18 pounds on the upper deck (pounds refer to the net weight of the projectile). There are also auxiliary guns on the bow and stern decks, which are 12 pounds.

Although its shell is still spherical, a delayed fuze has been used in the middle of the shell to load gunpowder.

The cost of this shell is even lower than that of the Ming army's flowering bullet, but its power and range are far better than that of the flowering bullet.

This evening, Wu Zheng made many arrangements and decisions, among which the most influential one on the battlefield in the future was the decision to reform the military system.

....

It was dawn on this day. When Wu Zheng brought Chi Erhan and four others to the military academy playground, Fang Guoan had already gathered the remaining fifty people he picked to wait there. This was the southwest corner of the martial arts field, and the west side was the wall.

Seeing Wu Zheng coming, Fang Guoan reached out to induce the soldiers and introduced him: "This is..."

Wu Zheng interrupted: "No need."

Then he gave Fang Guoan a standard military salute and said, "I'm sorry, I'll leave it to the officials next."

Fang Guoan's eyes flashed, and he looked at Chi Erhan behind Wu Zheng, Song An and Qi's family, and said strangely: "Mr. Wu, are these two counted among the fifty people?"

Wu Zheng replied: "Not count."

"That's good." Fang Guoan nodded with satisfaction, "Then these fifty people will be handed over to General Wu?"
Chapter completed!