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As the country's new youth, Li Xiao has participated in social practice and military training in high school and university three or four times. Because he is tall and strong, he often acts as the vanguard of the queue and is reviewed by the school leaders when he enters the school for review.
Therefore, Li Xiao is not unfamiliar with queue training, but it is unclear whether he can train his standing staff into such an elite Swedish army as Gustav II.
However, Li Xiao has been on the front line for a month, demonstrating and teaching how to carry out queue training, and imparting what he learned during queue training to his standing equipment.
After nearly a month of training day and night, rain or shine, the standing queue training has achieved initial results. Whether it is marching in unison, turning left or right, it is roughly uniform.
It is said that Prince Morris was the first in history to use the queue training method of walking in unison in the army.
But now this record seems to be rewritten by Li Xiao.
In addition to queue training, Li Xiao also knows his formation position through dissolution and collective training.
Through repeated drills, Li Xiao's standing army can quickly form a neat formation from a scattered state in five minutes to form combat capability.
This month, Li Xiao exercised discipline through strict military queue training, and increased the cohesion of the troops through long-distance weight-bearing running. Li Xiao re examined his standing equipment. At least he looked like a professional soldier.
It can be seen that the advantage of separating soldiers from peasants and forming a standing army lies in the fact that it is impossible for a normally recruited agricultural army to spend a month a year on perfect militarized training.
Moreover, after the agricultural soldiers are disbanded, they should be re recruited and re trained in order to restore their combat effectiveness.
In fact, because the war is becoming more and more complex and the operation between various arms is becoming more and more difficult, it is absolutely necessary for the army to carry out daily military training in the absence of war.
Therefore, when the war shifted from the era of cold weapons to the era of hot weapons, more professional mercenaries have become the mainstream in Europe, and Gustav II founded the first standing army based on national conscripts in Europe.
However, since January, everything has not been carried out as Li Xiaoxin intended. There have been different views and opinions on the use and training of the Western phalanx.
Xiaofan Xiaoxian, as the head of Li Xiao's iron gun group, deeply understands the power of iron guns, because he has always been an unwavering supporter of the Western phalanx and has vigorously advocated and implemented it. Among the family ministers, such as Oshima shengmeng and Koichiro kimita, are skeptical of the Western array.
But to Li Xiaoxin's relief, they are skeptical, but the training orders issued by Li Xiao are meticulously completed.
There are also some family ministers and samurai who simply hold a negative attitude, saying that this kind of combat method has changed Nihong. They have never seen such a combat mode for hundreds of years. It is really incomprehensible and incredible. If they were not for Li Xiao's face, they would have stood up against it.
Among these people, the most prominent opponent is Shigang Yiyu. He doesn't believe that the Western array has any use on the battlefield.
If so, the era of personal bravery would have withdrawn from the stage of history. Yuanyijing and muzeng Yizhong could not win.
Li Xiao understands this, because if the Western array is really as powerful as Li Xiao said, Shigang Yiyu feels that he will withdraw from the stage of history as a swordsman who gallops on the battlefield with personal force.
Of course, Li Xiao only partially agrees with this. In fact, this is the trend in the future, but at least wait until the era of the prevalence of flint guns.
However, in the past two or three decades, iron guns are still very expensive and difficult to popularize, and the firing density, accuracy and loading and firing speed are still far from enough.
At present, the iron gun is only slightly stronger than the bow and arrow for the time being. It is a killing weapon that kills and weakens the enemy's formation in the early stage, but it is not a weapon that determines the victory or defeat of the battle.
In any case, the winning final strike must be completed by the spearmen or cavalry.
In the midsummer of July and August, even the flying birds in the mountains are very hot.
On this day, Li Xiaozheng was watching the standing training at school. At this time, Xiaofan Xiaoxian suddenly ran out in front of Li Xiao in high spirits.
"Report to the Lord, the standing back loading tactics have been practiced. The iron gun is light enough, and the gun is light enough. The cooperation has been very tacit. Now the battle method of the Western array has been realized, and it is enough to fight."
Li Xiao was stunned when he heard that it was only a little more than a month. The Western array had been trained. It was too fast.
Li Xiao shook his head and said, "you'd better be careful. I think this standing training has only a shelf and can't go to the array."
Xiaofan Xiaoxian smiled and said, "Lord, you can rest assured. After a month's training, we have repeated these movements and the so-called queue March. We have trained hundreds of times, even with our eyes closed."
"Really?" Li Xiao smiled faintly, but looking at Xiaofan Xiaoxian's expression, he looked confident.
"In that case, let's have a military drill tomorrow to verify what you said about the hard work since January."
Hearing Li Xiao's words, Xiao Fan Xiaoxian looked excited and couldn't wait. He said loudly, "Lord, please rest assured. Tomorrow, please witness the majesty of our army."
"All right."
Li Xiao nodded and looked at the small flag Xiaoxian who immediately went to the whole team for re training. Instead, he shook his head and said to himself, "I hope to lose face tomorrow. Just don't lose too much."
The next day, all of Li Xiao's confidants and warriors were present to observe the military drill.
On one side, with all kinds of uneasiness, expectation, skepticism and negation, the family ministers of Li Xiao's family ministers' regiment looked at the standing room for military training on the school field.
Dao shengmeng and Xiaofan Xiaoxian ended up as 240 standing generals of the Western phalanx.
The drill on that day lasted a whole morning. After reading it, Li Xiao's family officials became more and more frightened and stunned.
The big gap between before and after the practice was really beyond anyone's expectation.
One morning later, after the drill, all the family officials in the family officials group were silent. Only Li Xiao nodded. It seemed that the result of the military drill was completely expected.
Of course, the final result of the drill was, as Li Xiao had expected, a shame.
At the beginning, Li Xiao's five hundred standing exercises were excellent. With the cooperation of the gun foot light team and the iron gun team, various queues marched in neat and uniform movements and rigorous formation, showing the results of training in the past month.
After that, the iron artillery foot light team operated the backward loading tactics, and performed very well and well-trained.
This result was quite unexpected for some generals who did not think much of the Western phalanx.
At least this degree of training, as well as the military appearance displayed, is absolutely incomparable to the army composed of non professional soldiers in this era.
Some of them even looked ashamed on the spot. They were ready to apologize to Li Xiao after practice and take back what they had said before.
But when everyone began to have expectations for the Western phalanx, Li Xiao made an unexpected decision. He ordered Xiaofan Xiaoxian to put them on standby, put them all on live ammunition training, and personally go to the front line to monitor.
Therefore, in the actual operation of Li Xiao's western phalanx, all problems were undoubtedly exposed.
Under Li Xiao's stern eyes and urging in both voice and color, many iron gun foot lighters hurriedly and often panic to aim and shoot, and the bullets hit the sky.
At the same time, Li Xiao also ordered the bow foot light team to use the arrow's arrow pole. When the iron gun team shoots, when simulating the battlefield, the enemy's bow and arrow shoots, and shoots the arrow pole into the square array of the iron gun team, affecting the shooting action of the iron gun foot light.
So for a moment, it was the effective backward loading strategy that suddenly became chaotic.
In particular, the roaring sound of iron guns from the left and right wing iron gun teams at different times makes them panic when they are ready to shoot. When they judge the wrong shooting time, they often raise iron guns and shoot without waiting for the command of the queue.
During the procession, the problem is more serious. The panic when shooting in front and the influence of bow and arrow shooting are gradually expanding. The queue with good advance and retreat in front has gradually become disordered, and the advance and retreat of iron gun has become hasty and panic.
After the iron cannons in the front row had finished shooting, they were also very flustered when retreating backward. They often collided with the rear foot light, stirring up the original rigorous queue.
The worst thing is that the iron cannon is light enough to fill the gunpowder. After the eight rows of iron cannon are light enough to fire together, the iron cannon in the first row, which was the earliest to fire, has not been filled yet. After waiting for a long time, one of the five iron cannon in a row has not been filled yet.
After seeing such a scene, Li Xiao looked back at the uneasy little flag Xiaoxian standing behind him and said calmly, "this is what you call military training. In front of him, this is just training, not actual combat."
"In real combat, the conditions are ten times worse than they are now. The iron artillery team has to face the charge of the enemy cavalry team, the arrows fired by the bow foot light team, and the situation that his comrades in arms are killed by the enemy at any time. The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and there will be all kinds of unexpected situations. If it is at this level at that time, what is the use of the iron artillery team I spent a lot of money to set up?"
Xiaofan Xiaoxian was scolded bloody by Li Xiao. In fact, not only Xiaofan Xiaoxian, but also the gun foot light team located in the center of the formation and protected by the two wings, are not used to the sound of iron guns fired nearby.
In the past, iron guns were at the forefront of shooting, but this time they were fired around. Some people who did not know the truth always worried about whether there would be any accidents and exploded around them.
Therefore, when the iron artillery team fired, the central gun foot light team also had a slight disturbance and even the formation became loose. If this happens in wartime, the front will easily collapse.
However, in contrast, their problems are far less serious than those of the iron artillery team.
After Xiaofan Xiaoxian was reprimanded by Li Xiao, Li Xiao asked him to go down and reflect on himself.
In fact, Li Xiao was not angry. The reason why he taught Xiaofan Xiaoxian a lesson was to tell him not to take it for granted. Where is the Western array so easy to practice.
The purpose of his reprimand is just to let Xiaofan Xiaoxian remember that those who are generals must not be complacent. They can't do it again next time.
After Xiaofan Xiaoxian left dejected, the storm of today's military training failure actually did not pass.
That night, several family ministers who lost confidence in the battle method of the Western phalanx came to the Tianshou Pavilion of Li Xiao Shengang city all night to persuade Li Xiao to give up the battle method of continuing to train the Western phalanx.
Holding this opinion, the first person is Li Xiao's top general Dao shengmeng.
He pointed out to Li Xiao on the spot that even if the Western array can be trained, it also has his fatal weakness.
The weakness of the Western phalanx is on the two wings of the phalanx. If the enemy does not attack the front with the strongest attack power, but attacks the two wings of the phalanx, the Western phalanx will only collapse.
Li Xiao is very pleased with the sharp judgment of Dao shengmeng, which is indeed the weakness of the current western array. If Dao shengmeng has personally trained the Western phalanx for a month and doesn't understand its disadvantages, he is also ashamed of the title of the first general under Li Xiao and his fame in history.
However, Li Xiao said that he was powerless for the time being because he did not have the elite Swedish cavalry like Gustav II to protect the two flanks.
In history, the Swedish army can rely on long-term queue training to shift the front of the queue from left to right, which can quickly make the front of the square array face the enemy from other directions.
If the enemy divides its troops to attack the front and flanks, the Swedish army can use cavalry to expel the enemy harassing the flanks, continue to march in a queue, and meet the enemy's main force by moving the front of the phalanx.
However, Li Xiao's standing stock on hand needs to be realized. Like the Swedish army, the queue changes from left to right. This short two-month training is not enough.
Li Xiao spent a lot of time persuading his family ministers one by one. Under his three inch tongue, it stabilized the confidence of all the family ministers.
Dao shengmeng promised to train for another month according to Li Xiao's way. If the Western array can't be trained at that time, they can only cancel the plan to attack Chengsheng city in a month.
Li Xiao also agreed with Dao shengmeng.
In fact, Li Xiao has always had a specific timetable for the training progress closer to the Swedish army version of the Western phalanx. He never wanted to achieve it overnight.
For now, two months is only enough for Li Xiao to practice a quick version of the Western phalanx. Well, if you insist, it's OK to send a fake version of the great Ming country.
Take the historical progress of Gustav II in training the new Swedish army as a reference.
In 1614, Gustav II trained the Western phalanx in Morris for the first time in the battle against Russia, and won the battle with Russia for the first time.
However, the victory or defeat of that war was not so much the victory of the hastily trained Western phalanx as the insufficient strength of the Russian army at that time. Compared with the Swedish army at that time, the Russians had backward weapons and equipment and outdated tactics.
Just like Changxiao's joint battle, Nobunaga Zhitian adopted the iron gun tactics of three-stage shooting, but it can't be said that he lost the Takeda army by three-stage shooting. In fact, the three-stage shooting is an innovative iron gun battle method, which increases the power of the iron gun, but it is still not enough to determine the outcome of the war.
The real reason for the defeat of the Changxiao joint war was the great difference in the military strength between the two sides. 36000 troops were against 15000 troops. In the end, when the war was in a stalemate, the Takeda army was not strong enough, and even the whole line was defeated.
After Gustav II's coronation in 1617, he officially began to train his new Swedish army, which took a full eight years.
In these eight years, in the first four years, Gustav was relieved to train the Swedish army and did not go to war. In the next four years, Sweden sent troops to Livonia, Poland, captured the capital Riga, and used the way of launching a war against Poland to support the war and train troops at the same time.
In the decisive battle against Poland in 1625, the warhoff battle, Gustav II defeated the Polish elite cavalry with an improved Spanish phalanx + field artillery + Swedish cavalry, which marked the completion of Gustav's new army.
Thus, after eight years of sword casting, Gustav II trained his Swedish standing army into the first-class new army in Europe.
Five years later, Gustav II had the ambition to compete in Europe.
Sweden officially joined the Protestant alliance in the 30-year war. Gustav II's new Swedish army swept through the invincible hands of Europe and repeatedly won more with less.
Finally, the Holy Roman Empire sent Wallenstein, the first general in China, to meet the Swedish army of Gustav II.
In this summit duel between the two best generals in Europe at that time - the battle of Lucen, under the unfavorable situation of Gustav II's death and loss of commander, the Swedish army, with the discipline of many years of training, not only did it not collapse morale, but resolutely defeated Wallenstein's imperial army.
So far, Sweden's strength has finally been recognized by all countries and ranks among the first-class powers in Europe.
Well, for Li Xiao, the prospect is very good.
It took Gustav II eight years to train the Swedish army.
However, during the eight years, Gustav II not only trained the infantry phalanx, but also reformed the artillery and cavalry.
In contrast, Li Xiao has no artillery and cavalry. As long as he focuses on doing a good job, it should be much easier to train the square array between iron guns and light guns.
Even if Li Xiao feels that compared with Gustav the great, he still has some shortcomings, but with the knowledge and experience of modern people, it won't take eight years.
However, Li Xiao estimates that it will take at least two to three years, and most will take six or seven years. However, once Li Xiaoxi's square array is trained, he will be given a standing army of about three or four thousand.
It's not safe to say that this army is going to sweep one side, but it should have little problem to gain a foothold in Vietnam, stand firm on this mu of land, and achieve the purpose of Takeda Xinxuan to contain Shangshan Qianxin.
Because it is impossible for the Shangshan family to make every effort to deal with Li Xiao in Vietnam. After all, the Shangshan family is in Xinnong, and Ueno has to face the strong oppression of the Takeda family, so it is impossible to concentrate on the front line.
So in the future, Li Xiao may be able to keep up with the Shan family and fight a field battle of tens of thousands of people.
The Western phalanx is purely a battle formation for the battle. If you don't participate in the battle, it's a waste.
However, the training time in the past few years is not long or short. It is no problem to catch up with several key battles of the Takeda family in history.
If history was not influenced by him, he fought with Changxiao of Zhitian Tokugawa alliance eleven years later, and eight years later, on the way to Luozhou, Takeda's family fought with the three parties of Tokugawa's family.
This is a battle related to the fate of the Takeda family. Li Xiao will be recalled by the Takeda family and fight with the army. If there is no strong army around him at that time.
It is impossible for Li Xiao to perform the joint battle of Baigen mountain every time. As a result, the miracle of dozens of riding in the array will come to an end when his bad luck runs out at one time.
The next is the 11 years of Yonglu, the Takeda family vs. the Beitiao family, the largest mountain war in the Warring States period of Japan - the sanzengye war, and the siege of otahara city.
And ten years after Yonglu, the Takeda family invaded and attacked the JUNHE river of today's Sichuan family, which was a little suspended.
If the new army had not been trained at that time, Li Xiaoyi's only hope was that Takeda Xinxuan would quickly forget him, otherwise he might die on duty.
Therefore, Li Xiao can only seize the time to train his standing equipment. He hopes to be successful in training in a month. At least it is enough to reach the state of the accelerated version of the Western phalanx.
At that time, Li Xiao can send troops to conquer Chengsheng city. Occupying Chengsheng city can not only expand his territory, but also complete the monopoly on the trade route.
In the next ten days or so, Li Xiao made targeted adjustments to the shortcomings of the last military exercise.
For the disadvantage of the flank of the Western phalanx,
We should be able to see through the weakness of the Western array and the two flanks in such a short time in actual combat, and adopt targeted tactics.
According to Li Xiao's estimation, such talents are not easy to appear in the Warring States period of Japan in a short time. Even military talents such as Takeda Xinxuan and Shangshan Qianxin, who have been in the mud for hundreds of years, can't do it before they have seen the essence of the Western array.
Even if it is seen through, Li Xiao still has two hundred people standing by. As the left and right wing guards, he can resist for a while.
Now, for Li Xiao, the biggest problem is how to ensure that the iron gun is light enough on the battlefield. In all kinds of unexpected situations, he still maintains shooting discipline and ensures his usual practice level to complete shooting movements.
In fact, there are not many ways to do this. Only by adding a lot of repetitive and mechanical training again and again, can foot light really be mechanized and complete the operation completely by subconsciousness, ignoring the fear of subjective consciousness.
This requires strict discipline and autocratic military law.
Therefore, it is doomed that the standing iron gun is light enough to bear a greater amount of training and mental pressure than the gun.
Of course, a cruel military law is necessary. Li Xiao also knows the truth of carrots and sticks. Every iron gun's annual salary is ten passes, three passes more than the ordinary standing light.
Under the high salary, the iron gun is light enough to complain about the amount of training he has increased in recent days, and step up the boring repetitive training day after day.
As for Xiaofan Xiaoxian, the head of the iron gun group, after being reprimanded by Li Xiao that day, he was even more ashamed and brave. These days, he ate and slept with the iron gun foot light. Whenever he had leisure, he was trained in backward loading tactics.
Li Xiao is very satisfied with all this. In the past ten days, the progress of iron gun and light foot is obvious. At present, the progress is good, and there should be no big problem to practice in a month.
However, in fact, everything will not move forward according to Li Xiao's ideal progress, and there will always be accidents.
At this time, Li Xiao was in full swing training.
That day, the Ninja leader in charge of Li Xiao's intelligence collection, Yukio Yokota, suddenly appeared in the Tianshou Pavilion of Li Xiao's Shengang city.
Henggu Xingzhong reported to Li Xiao that Saito's family in Chengsheng city had prepared to secretly send troops to Shengang city.
This time Saito family united Shenbao family's army, and it is expected that the army will reach more than 1000.
After hearing the speech, Li Xiao was surprised on the spot, not because of the attack of Saito family, but because his Western array has not been trained yet. (to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly ticket at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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As the country's new youth, Li Xiao has participated in social practice and military training in high school and university three or four times. Because he is tall and strong, he often acts as the vanguard of the queue and is reviewed by the school leaders when he enters the school for review.
Therefore, Li Xiao is not unfamiliar with queue training, but it is unclear whether he can train his standing staff into such an elite Swedish army as Gustav II.
However, Li Xiao has been on the front line for a month, demonstrating and teaching how to carry out queue training, and imparting what he learned during queue training to his standing equipment.
After nearly a month of training day and night, rain or shine, the standing queue training has achieved initial results. Whether it is marching in unison, turning left or right, it is roughly uniform.
It is said that Prince Morris was the first in history to use the queue training method of walking in unison in the army.
But now this record seems to be rewritten by Li Xiao.
In addition to queue training, Li Xiao also knows his formation position through dissolution and collective training.
Through repeated drills, Li Xiao's standing army can quickly form a neat formation from a scattered state in five minutes to form combat capability.
This month, Li Xiao exercised discipline through strict military queue training, and increased the cohesion of the troops through long-distance weight-bearing running. Li Xiao re examined his standing equipment. At least he looked like a professional soldier.
It can be seen that the advantage of separating soldiers from peasants and forming a standing army lies in the fact that it is impossible for a normally recruited agricultural army to spend a month a year on perfect militarized training.
Moreover, after the agricultural soldiers are disbanded, they should be re recruited and re trained in order to restore their combat effectiveness.
In fact, because the war is becoming more and more complex and the operation between various arms is becoming more and more difficult, it is absolutely necessary for the army to carry out daily military training in the absence of war.
Therefore, when the war shifted from the era of cold weapons to the era of hot weapons, more professional mercenaries have become the mainstream in Europe, and Gustav II founded the first standing army based on national conscripts in Europe.
However, since January, everything has not been carried out as Li Xiaoxin intended. There have been different views and opinions on the use and training of the Western phalanx.
Xiaofan Xiaoxian, as the head of Li Xiao's iron gun group, deeply understands the power of iron guns, because he has always been an unwavering supporter of the Western phalanx and has vigorously advocated and implemented it. Among the family ministers, such as Oshima shengmeng and Koichiro kimita, are skeptical of the Western array.
But to Li Xiaoxin's relief, they are skeptical, but the training orders issued by Li Xiao are meticulously completed.
There are also some family ministers and samurai who simply hold a negative attitude, saying that this kind of combat method has changed Nihong. They have never seen such a combat mode for hundreds of years. It is really incomprehensible and incredible. If they were not for Li Xiao's face, they would have stood up against it.
Among these people, the most prominent opponent is Shigang Yiyu. He doesn't believe that the Western array has any use on the battlefield.
If so, the era of personal bravery would have withdrawn from the stage of history. Yuanyijing and muzeng Yizhong could not win.
Li Xiao understands this, because if the Western array is really as powerful as Li Xiao said, Shigang Yiyu feels that he will withdraw from the stage of history as a swordsman who gallops on the battlefield with personal force.
Of course, Li Xiao only partially agrees with this. In fact, this is the trend in the future, but at least wait until the era of the prevalence of flint guns.
However, in the past two or three decades, iron guns are still very expensive and difficult to popularize, and the firing density, accuracy and loading and firing speed are still far from enough.
At present, the iron gun is only slightly stronger than the bow and arrow for the time being. It is a killing weapon that kills and weakens the enemy's formation in the early stage, but it is not a weapon that determines the victory or defeat of the battle.
In any case, the winning final strike must be completed by the spearmen or cavalry.
In the midsummer of July and August, even the flying birds in the mountains are very hot.
On this day, Li Xiaozheng was watching the standing training at school. At this time, Xiaofan Xiaoxian suddenly ran out in front of Li Xiao in high spirits.
"Report to the Lord, the standing back loading tactics have been practiced. The iron gun is light enough, and the gun is light enough. The cooperation has been very tacit. Now the battle method of the Western array has been realized, and it is enough to fight."
Li Xiao was stunned when he heard that it was only a little more than a month. The Western array had been trained. It was too fast.
Li Xiao shook his head and said, "you'd better be careful. I think this standing training has only a shelf and can't go to the array."
Xiaofan Xiaoxian smiled and said, "Lord, you can rest assured. After a month's training, we have repeated these movements and the so-called queue March. We have trained hundreds of times, even with our eyes closed."
"Really?" Li Xiao smiled faintly, but looking at Xiaofan Xiaoxian's expression, he looked confident.
"In that case, let's have a military drill tomorrow to verify what you said about the hard work since January."
Hearing Li Xiao's words, Xiao Fan Xiaoxian looked excited and couldn't wait. He said loudly, "Lord, please rest assured. Tomorrow, please witness the majesty of our army."
"All right."
Li Xiao nodded and looked at the small flag Xiaoxian who immediately went to the whole team for re training. Instead, he shook his head and said to himself, "I hope to lose face tomorrow. Just don't lose too much."
The next day, all of Li Xiao's confidants and warriors were present to observe the military drill.
On one side, with all kinds of uneasiness, expectation, skepticism and negation, the family ministers of Li Xiao's family ministers' regiment looked at the standing room for military training on the school field.
Dao shengmeng and Xiaofan Xiaoxian ended up as 240 standing generals of the Western phalanx.
The drill on that day lasted a whole morning. After reading it, Li Xiao's family officials became more and more frightened and stunned.
The big gap between before and after the practice was really beyond anyone's expectation.
One morning later, after the drill, all the family officials in the family officials group were silent. Only Li Xiao nodded. It seemed that the result of the military drill was completely expected.
Of course, the final result of the drill was, as Li Xiao had expected, a shame.
At the beginning, Li Xiao's five hundred standing exercises were excellent. With the cooperation of the gun foot light team and the iron gun team, various queues marched in neat and uniform movements and rigorous formation, showing the results of training in the past month.
After that, the iron artillery foot light team operated the backward loading tactics, and performed very well and well-trained.
This result was quite unexpected for some generals who did not think much of the Western phalanx.
At least this degree of training, as well as the military appearance displayed, is absolutely incomparable to the army composed of non professional soldiers in this era.
Some of them even looked ashamed on the spot. They were ready to apologize to Li Xiao after practice and take back what they had said before.
But when everyone began to have expectations for the Western phalanx, Li Xiao made an unexpected decision. He ordered Xiaofan Xiaoxian to put them on standby, put them all on live ammunition training, and personally go to the front line to monitor.
Therefore, in the actual operation of Li Xiao's western phalanx, all problems were undoubtedly exposed.
Under Li Xiao's stern eyes and urging in both voice and color, many iron gun foot lighters hurriedly and often panic to aim and shoot, and the bullets hit the sky.
At the same time, Li Xiao also ordered the bow foot light team to use the arrow's arrow pole. When the iron gun team shoots, when simulating the battlefield, the enemy's bow and arrow shoots, and shoots the arrow pole into the square array of the iron gun team, affecting the shooting action of the iron gun foot light.
So for a moment, it was the effective backward loading strategy that suddenly became chaotic.
In particular, the roaring sound of iron guns from the left and right wing iron gun teams at different times makes them panic when they are ready to shoot. When they judge the wrong shooting time, they often raise iron guns and shoot without waiting for the command of the queue.
During the procession, the problem is more serious. The panic when shooting in front and the influence of bow and arrow shooting are gradually expanding. The queue with good advance and retreat in front has gradually become disordered, and the advance and retreat of iron gun has become hasty and panic.
After the iron cannons in the front row had finished shooting, they were also very flustered when retreating backward. They often collided with the rear foot light, stirring up the original rigorous queue.
The worst thing is that the iron cannon is light enough to fill the gunpowder. After the eight rows of iron cannon are light enough to fire together, the iron cannon in the first row, which was the earliest to fire, has not been filled yet. After waiting for a long time, one of the five iron cannon in a row has not been filled yet.
After seeing such a scene, Li Xiao looked back at the uneasy little flag Xiaoxian standing behind him and said calmly, "this is what you call military training. In front of him, this is just training, not actual combat."
"In real combat, the conditions are ten times worse than they are now. The iron artillery team has to face the charge of the enemy cavalry team, the arrows fired by the bow foot light team, and the situation that his comrades in arms are killed by the enemy at any time. The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and there will be all kinds of unexpected situations. If it is at this level at that time, what is the use of the iron artillery team I spent a lot of money to set up?"
Xiaofan Xiaoxian was scolded bloody by Li Xiao. In fact, not only Xiaofan Xiaoxian, but also the gun foot light team located in the center of the formation and protected by the two wings, are not used to the sound of iron guns fired nearby.
In the past, iron guns were at the forefront of shooting, but this time they were fired around. Some people who did not know the truth always worried about whether there would be any accidents and exploded around them.
Therefore, when the iron artillery team fired, the central gun foot light team also had a slight disturbance and even the formation became loose. If this happens in wartime, the front will easily collapse.
However, in contrast, their problems are far less serious than those of the iron artillery team.
After Xiaofan Xiaoxian was reprimanded by Li Xiao, Li Xiao asked him to go down and reflect on himself.
In fact, Li Xiao was not angry. The reason why he taught Xiaofan Xiaoxian a lesson was to tell him not to take it for granted. Where is the Western array so easy to practice.
The purpose of his reprimand is just to let Xiaofan Xiaoxian remember that those who are generals must not be complacent. They can't do it again next time.
After Xiaofan Xiaoxian left dejected, the storm of today's military training failure actually did not pass.
That night, several family ministers who lost confidence in the battle method of the Western phalanx came to the Tianshou Pavilion of Li Xiao Shengang city all night to persuade Li Xiao to give up the battle method of continuing to train the Western phalanx.
Holding this opinion, the first person is Li Xiao's top general Dao shengmeng.
He pointed out to Li Xiao on the spot that even if the Western array can be trained, it also has his fatal weakness.
The weakness of the Western phalanx is on the two wings of the phalanx. If the enemy does not attack the front with the strongest attack power, but attacks the two wings of the phalanx, the Western phalanx will only collapse.
Li Xiao is very pleased with the sharp judgment of Dao shengmeng, which is indeed the weakness of the current western array. If Dao shengmeng has personally trained the Western phalanx for a month and doesn't understand its disadvantages, he is also ashamed of the title of the first general under Li Xiao and his fame in history.
However, Li Xiao said that he was powerless for the time being because he did not have the elite Swedish cavalry like Gustav II to protect the two flanks.
In history, the Swedish army can rely on long-term queue training to shift the front of the queue from left to right, which can quickly make the front of the square array face the enemy from other directions.
If the enemy divides its troops to attack the front and flanks, the Swedish army can use cavalry to expel the enemy harassing the flanks, continue to march in a queue, and meet the enemy's main force by moving the front of the phalanx.
However, Li Xiao's standing stock on hand needs to be realized. Like the Swedish army, the queue changes from left to right. This short two-month training is not enough.
Li Xiao spent a lot of time persuading his family ministers one by one. Under his three inch tongue, it stabilized the confidence of all the family ministers.
Dao shengmeng promised to train for another month according to Li Xiao's way. If the Western array can't be trained at that time, they can only cancel the plan to attack Chengsheng city in a month.
Li Xiao also agreed with Dao shengmeng.
In fact, Li Xiao has always had a specific timetable for the training progress closer to the Swedish army version of the Western phalanx. He never wanted to achieve it overnight.
For now, two months is only enough for Li Xiao to practice a quick version of the Western phalanx. Well, if you insist, it's OK to send a fake version of the great Ming country.
Take the historical progress of Gustav II in training the new Swedish army as a reference.
In 1614, Gustav II trained the Western phalanx in Morris for the first time in the battle against Russia, and won the battle with Russia for the first time.
However, the victory or defeat of that war was not so much the victory of the hastily trained Western phalanx as the insufficient strength of the Russian army at that time. Compared with the Swedish army at that time, the Russians had backward weapons and equipment and outdated tactics.
Just like Changxiao's joint battle, Nobunaga Zhitian adopted the iron gun tactics of three-stage shooting, but it can't be said that he lost the Takeda army by three-stage shooting. In fact, the three-stage shooting is an innovative iron gun battle method, which increases the power of the iron gun, but it is still not enough to determine the outcome of the war.
The real reason for the defeat of the Changxiao joint war was the great difference in the military strength between the two sides. 36000 troops were against 15000 troops. In the end, when the war was in a stalemate, the Takeda army was not strong enough, and even the whole line was defeated.
After Gustav II's coronation in 1617, he officially began to train his new Swedish army, which took a full eight years.
In these eight years, in the first four years, Gustav was relieved to train the Swedish army and did not go to war. In the next four years, Sweden sent troops to Livonia, Poland, captured the capital Riga, and used the way of launching a war against Poland to support the war and train troops at the same time.
In the decisive battle against Poland in 1625, the warhoff battle, Gustav II defeated the Polish elite cavalry with an improved Spanish phalanx + field artillery + Swedish cavalry, which marked the completion of Gustav's new army.
Thus, after eight years of sword casting, Gustav II trained his Swedish standing army into the first-class new army in Europe.
Five years later, Gustav II had the ambition to compete in Europe.
Sweden officially joined the Protestant alliance in the 30-year war. Gustav II's new Swedish army swept through the invincible hands of Europe and repeatedly won more with less.
Finally, the Holy Roman Empire sent Wallenstein, the first general in China, to meet the Swedish army of Gustav II.
In this summit duel between the two best generals in Europe at that time - the battle of Lucen, under the unfavorable situation of Gustav II's death and loss of commander, the Swedish army, with the discipline of many years of training, not only did it not collapse morale, but resolutely defeated Wallenstein's imperial army.
So far, Sweden's strength has finally been recognized by all countries and ranks among the first-class powers in Europe.
Well, for Li Xiao, the prospect is very good.
It took Gustav II eight years to train the Swedish army.
However, during the eight years, Gustav II not only trained the infantry phalanx, but also reformed the artillery and cavalry.
In contrast, Li Xiao has no artillery and cavalry. As long as he focuses on doing a good job, it should be much easier to train the square array between iron guns and light guns.
Even if Li Xiao feels that compared with Gustav the great, he still has some shortcomings, but with the knowledge and experience of modern people, it won't take eight years.
However, Li Xiao estimates that it will take at least two to three years, and most will take six or seven years. However, once Li Xiaoxi's square array is trained, he will be given a standing army of about three or four thousand.
It's not safe to say that this army is going to sweep one side, but it should have little problem to gain a foothold in Vietnam, stand firm on this mu of land, and achieve the purpose of Takeda Xinxuan to contain Shangshan Qianxin.
Because it is impossible for the Shangshan family to make every effort to deal with Li Xiao in Vietnam. After all, the Shangshan family is in Xinnong, and Ueno has to face the strong oppression of the Takeda family, so it is impossible to concentrate on the front line.
So in the future, Li Xiao may be able to keep up with the Shan family and fight a field battle of tens of thousands of people.
The Western phalanx is purely a battle formation for the battle. If you don't participate in the battle, it's a waste.
However, the training time in the past few years is not long or short. It is no problem to catch up with several key battles of the Takeda family in history.
If history was not influenced by him, he fought with Changxiao of Zhitian Tokugawa alliance eleven years later, and eight years later, on the way to Luozhou, Takeda's family fought with the three parties of Tokugawa's family.
This is a battle related to the fate of the Takeda family. Li Xiao will be recalled by the Takeda family and fight with the army. If there is no strong army around him at that time.
It is impossible for Li Xiao to perform the joint battle of Baigen mountain every time. As a result, the miracle of dozens of riding in the array will come to an end when his bad luck runs out at one time.
The next is the 11 years of Yonglu, the Takeda family vs. the Beitiao family, the largest mountain war in the Warring States period of Japan - the sanzengye war, and the siege of otahara city.
And ten years after Yonglu, the Takeda family invaded and attacked the JUNHE river of today's Sichuan family, which was a little suspended.
If the new army had not been trained at that time, Li Xiaoyi's only hope was that Takeda Xinxuan would quickly forget him, otherwise he might die on duty.
Therefore, Li Xiao can only seize the time to train his standing equipment. He hopes to be successful in training in a month. At least it is enough to reach the state of the accelerated version of the Western phalanx.
At that time, Li Xiao can send troops to conquer Chengsheng city. Occupying Chengsheng city can not only expand his territory, but also complete the monopoly on the trade route.
In the next ten days or so, Li Xiao made targeted adjustments to the shortcomings of the last military exercise.
For the disadvantage of the flank of the Western phalanx,
We should be able to see through the weakness of the Western array and the two flanks in such a short time in actual combat, and adopt targeted tactics.
According to Li Xiao's estimation, such talents are not easy to appear in the Warring States period of Japan in a short time. Even military talents such as Takeda Xinxuan and Shangshan Qianxin, who have been in the mud for hundreds of years, can't do it before they have seen the essence of the Western array.
Even if it is seen through, Li Xiao still has two hundred people standing by. As the left and right wing guards, he can resist for a while.
Now, for Li Xiao, the biggest problem is how to ensure that the iron gun is light enough on the battlefield. In all kinds of unexpected situations, he still maintains shooting discipline and ensures his usual practice level to complete shooting movements.
In fact, there are not many ways to do this. Only by adding a lot of repetitive and mechanical training again and again, can foot light really be mechanized and complete the operation completely by subconsciousness, ignoring the fear of subjective consciousness.
This requires strict discipline and autocratic military law.
Therefore, it is doomed that the standing iron gun is light enough to bear a greater amount of training and mental pressure than the gun.
Of course, a cruel military law is necessary. Li Xiao also knows the truth of carrots and sticks. Every iron gun's annual salary is ten passes, three passes more than the ordinary standing light.
Under the high salary, the iron gun is light enough to complain about the amount of training he has increased in recent days, and step up the boring repetitive training day after day.
As for Xiaofan Xiaoxian, the head of the iron gun group, after being reprimanded by Li Xiao that day, he was even more ashamed and brave. These days, he ate and slept with the iron gun foot light. Whenever he had leisure, he was trained in backward loading tactics.
Li Xiao is very satisfied with all this. In the past ten days, the progress of iron gun and light foot is obvious. At present, the progress is good, and there should be no big problem to practice in a month.
However, in fact, everything will not move forward according to Li Xiao's ideal progress, and there will always be accidents.
At this time, Li Xiao was in full swing training.
That day, the Ninja leader in charge of Li Xiao's intelligence collection, Yukio Yokota, suddenly appeared in the Tianshou Pavilion of Li Xiao's Shengang city.
Henggu Xingzhong reported to Li Xiao that Saito's family in Chengsheng city had prepared to secretly send troops to Shengang city.
This time Saito family united Shenbao family's army, and it is expected that the army will reach more than 1000.
After hearing the speech, Li Xiao was surprised on the spot, not because of the attack of Saito family, but because his Western array has not been trained yet. (to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly ticket at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
As the country's new youth, Li Xiao has participated in social practice and military training in high school and university three or four times. Because he is tall and strong, he often acts as the vanguard of the queue and is reviewed by the school leaders when he enters the school for review.Therefore, Li Xiao is not unfamiliar with queue training, but it is unclear whether he can train his standing staff into such an elite Swedish army as Gustav II.However, Li Xiao has been on the front line for a month, demonstrating and teaching how to carry out queue training, and imparting what he learned during queue training to his standing equipment.After nearly a month of training day and night, rain or shine, the standing queue training has achieved initial results. Whether it is marching in unison, turning left or right, it is roughly uniform.It is said that Prince Morris was the first in history to use the queue training method of walking in unison in the army.But now this record seems to be rewritten by Li Xiao.In addition to queue training, Li Xiao also knows his formation position through dissolution and collective training.Through repeated drills, Li Xiao's standing army can quickly form a neat formation from a scattered state in five minutes to form combat capability.This month, Li Xiao exercised discipline through strict military queue training, and increased the cohesion of the troops through long-distance weight-bearing running. Li Xiao re examined his standing equipment. At least he looked like a professional soldier.It can be seen that the advantage of separating soldiers from peasants and forming a standing army lies in the fact that it is impossible for a normally recruited agricultural army to spend a month a year on perfect militarized training.Moreover, after the agricultural soldiers are disbanded, they should be re recruited and re trained in order to restore their combat effectiveness.In fact, because the war is becoming more and more complex and the operation between various arms is becoming more and more difficult, it is absolutely necessary for the army to carry out daily military training in the absence of war.Therefore, when the war shifted from the era of cold weapons to the era of hot weapons, more professional mercenaries have become the mainstream in Europe, and Gustav II founded the first standing army based on national conscripts in Europe.However, since January, everything has not been carried out as Li Xiaoxin intended. There have been different views and opinions on the use and training of the Western phalanx.Xiaofan Xiaoxian, as the head of Li Xiao's iron gun group, deeply understands the power of iron guns, because he has always been an unwavering supporter of the Western phalanx and has vigorously advocated and implemented it. Among the family ministers, such as Oshima shengmeng and Koichiro kimita, are skeptical of the Western array.But to Li Xiaoxin's relief, they are skeptical, but the training orders issued by Li Xiao are meticulously completed.There are also some family ministers and samurai who simply hold a negative attitude, saying that this kind of combat method has changed Nihong. They have never seen such a combat mode for hundreds of years. It is really incomprehensible and incredible. If they were not for Li Xiao's face, they would have stood up against it.Among these people, the most prominent opponent is Shigang Yiyu. He doesn't believe that the Western array has any use on the battlefield.If so, the era of personal bravery would have withdrawn from the stage of history. Yuanyijing and muzeng Yizhong could not win.Li Xiao understands this, because if the Western array is really as powerful as Li Xiao said, Shigang Yiyu feels that he will withdraw from the stage of history as a swordsman who gallops on the battlefield with personal force.Of course, Li Xiao only partially agrees with this. In fact, this is the trend in the future, but at least wait until the era of the prevalence of flint guns.However, in the past two or three decades, iron guns are still very expensive and difficult to popularize, and the firing density, accuracy and loading and firing speed are still far from enough.At present, the iron gun is only slightly stronger than the bow and arrow for the time being. It is a killing weapon that kills and weakens the enemy's formation in the early stage, but it is not a weapon that determines the victory or defeat of the battle.In any case, the winning final strike must be completed by the spearmen or cavalry.In the midsummer of July and August, even the flying birds in the mountains are very hot.On this day, Li Xiaozheng was watching the standing training at school. At this time, Xiaofan Xiaoxian suddenly ran out in front of Li Xiao in high spirits."Report to the Lord, the standing back loading tactics have been practiced. The iron gun is light enough, and the gun is light enough. The cooperation has been very tacit. Now the battle method of the Western array has been realized, and it is enough to fight."Li Xiao was stunned when he heard that it was only a little more than a month. The Western array had been trained. It was too fast.Li Xiao shook his head and said, "you'd better be careful. I think this standing training has only a shelf and can't go to the array."Xiaofan Xiaoxian smiled and said, "Lord, you can rest assured. After a month's training, we have repeated these movements and the so-called queue March. We have trained hundreds of times, even with our eyes closed.""Really?" Li Xiao smiled faintly, but looking at Xiaofan Xiaoxian's expression, he looked confident."In that case, let's have a military drill tomorrow to verify what you said about the hard work since January."Hearing Li Xiao's words, Xiao Fan Xiaoxian looked excited and couldn't wait. He said loudly, "Lord, please rest assured. Tomorrow, please witness the majesty of our army.""All right."Li Xiao nodded and looked at the small flag Xiaoxian who immediately went to the whole team for re training. Instead, he shook his head and said to himself, "I hope to lose face tomorrow. Just don't lose too much."The next day, all of Li Xiao's confidants and warriors were present to observe the military drill.On one side, with all kinds of uneasiness, expectation, skepticism and negation, the family ministers of Li Xiao's family ministers' regiment looked at the standing room for military training on the school field.Dao shengmeng and Xiaofan Xiaoxian ended up as 240 standing generals of the Western phalanx.The drill on that day lasted a whole morning. After reading it, Li Xiao's family officials became more and more frightened and stunned.The big gap between before and after the practice was really beyond anyone's expectation.One morning later, after the drill, all the family officials in the family officials group were silent. Only Li Xiao nodded. It seemed that the result of the military drill was completely expected.Of course, the final result of the drill was, as Li Xiao had expected, a shame.At the beginning, Li Xiao's five hundred standing exercises were excellent. With the cooperation of the gun foot light team and the iron gun team, various queues marched in neat and uniform movements and rigorous formation, showing the results of training in the past month.After that, the iron artillery foot light team operated the backward loading tactics, and performed very well and well-trained.This result was quite unexpected for some generals who did not think much of the Western phalanx.At least this degree of training, as well as the military appearance displayed, is absolutely incomparable to the army composed of non professional soldiers in this era.Some of them even looked ashamed on the spot. They were ready to apologize to Li Xiao after practice and take back what they had said before.But when everyone began to have expectations for the Western phalanx, Li Xiao made an unexpected decision. He ordered Xiaofan Xiaoxian to put them on standby, put them all on live ammunition training, and personally go to the front line to monitor.Therefore, in the actual operation of Li Xiao's western phalanx, all problems were undoubtedly exposed.Under Li Xiao's stern eyes and urging in both voice and color, many iron gun foot lighters hurriedly and often panic to aim and shoot, and the bullets hit the sky.At the same time, Li Xiao also ordered the bow foot light team to use the arrow's arrow pole. When the iron gun team shoots, when simulating the battlefield, the enemy's bow and arrow shoots, and shoots the arrow pole into the square array of the iron gun team, affecting the shooting action of the iron gun foot light.So for a moment, it was the effective backward loading strategy that suddenly became chaotic.In particular, the roaring sound of iron guns from the left and right wing iron gun teams at different times makes them panic when they are ready to shoot. When they judge the wrong shooting time, they often raise iron guns and shoot without waiting for the command of the queue.During the procession, the problem is more serious. The panic when shooting in front and the influence of bow and arrow shooting are gradually expanding. The queue with good advance and retreat in front has gradually become disordered, and the advance and retreat of iron gun has become hasty and panic.After the iron cannons in the front row had finished shooting, they were also very flustered when retreating backward. They often collided with the rear foot light, stirring up the original rigorous queue.The worst thing is that the iron cannon is light enough to fill the gunpowder. After the eight rows of iron cannon are light enough to fire together, the iron cannon in the first row, which was the earliest to fire, has not been filled yet. After waiting for a long time, one of the five iron cannon in a row has not been filled yet.After seeing such a scene, Li Xiao looked back at the uneasy little flag Xiaoxian standing behind him and said calmly, "this is what you call military training. In front of him, this is just training, not actual combat.""In real combat, the conditions are ten times worse than they are now. The iron artillery team has to face the charge of the enemy cavalry team, the arrows fired by the bow foot light team, and the situation that his comrades in arms are killed by the enemy at any time. The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and there will be all kinds of unexpected situations. If it is at this level at that time, what is the use of the iron artillery team I spent a lot of money to set up?"Xiaofan Xiaoxian was scolded bloody by Li Xiao. In fact, not only Xiaofan Xiaoxian, but also the gun foot light team located in the center of the formation and protected by the two wings, are not used to the sound of iron guns fired nearby.In the past, iron guns were at the forefront of shooting, but this time they were fired around. Some people who did not know the truth always worried about whether there would be any accidents and exploded around them.Therefore, when the iron artillery team fired, the central gun foot light team also had a slight disturbance and even the formation became loose. If this happens in wartime, the front will easily collapse.However, in contrast, their problems are far less serious than those of the iron artillery team.After Xiaofan Xiaoxian was reprimanded by Li Xiao, Li Xiao asked him to go down and reflect on himself.In fact, Li Xiao was not angry. The reason why he taught Xiaofan Xiaoxian a lesson was to tell him not to take it for granted. Where is the Western array so easy to practice.The purpose of his reprimand is just to let Xiaofan Xiaoxian remember that those who are generals must not be complacent. They can't do it again next time.After Xiaofan Xiaoxian left dejected, the storm of today's military training failure actually did not pass.That night, several family ministers who lost confidence in the battle method of the Western phalanx came to the Tianshou Pavilion of Li Xiao Shengang city all night to persuade Li Xiao to give up the battle method of continuing to train the Western phalanx.Holding this opinion, the first person is Li Xiao's top general Dao shengmeng.He pointed out to Li Xiao on the spot that even if the Western array can be trained, it also has his fatal weakness.The weakness of the Western phalanx is on the two wings of the phalanx. If the enemy does not attack the front with the strongest attack power, but attacks the two wings of the phalanx, the Western phalanx will only collapse.Li Xiao is very pleased with the sharp judgment of Dao shengmeng, which is indeed the weakness of the current western array. If Dao shengmeng has personally trained the Western phalanx for a month and doesn't understand its disadvantages, he is also ashamed of the title of the first general under Li Xiao and his fame in history.However, Li Xiao said that he was powerless for the time being because he did not have the elite Swedish cavalry like Gustav II to protect the two flanks.In history, the Swedish army can rely on long-term queue training to shift the front of the queue from left to right, which can quickly make the front of the square array face the enemy from other directions.If the enemy divides its troops to attack the front and flanks, the Swedish army can use cavalry to expel the enemy harassing the flanks, continue to march in a queue, and meet the enemy's main force by moving the front of the phalanx.However, Li Xiao's standing stock on hand needs to be realized. Like the Swedish army, the queue changes from left to right. This short two-month training is not enough.Li Xiao spent a lot of time persuading his family ministers one by one. Under his three inch tongue, it stabilized the confidence of all the family ministers.Dao shengmeng promised to train for another month according to Li Xiao's way. If the Western array can't be trained at that time, they can only cancel the plan to attack Chengsheng city in a month.Li Xiao also agreed with Dao shengmeng.In fact, Li Xiao has always had a specific timetable for the training progress closer to the Swedish army version of the Western phalanx. He never wanted to achieve it overnight.For now, two months is only enough for Li Xiao to practice a quick version of the Western phalanx. Well, if you insist, it's OK to send a fake version of the great Ming country.Take the historical progress of Gustav II in training the new Swedish army as a reference.In 1614, Gustav II trained the Western phalanx in Morris for the first time in the battle against Russia, and won the battle with Russia for the first time.However, the victory or defeat of that war was not so much the victory of the hastily trained Western phalanx as the insufficient strength of the Russian army at that time. Compared with the Swedish army at that time, the Russians had backward weapons and equipment and outdated tactics.Just like Changxiao's joint battle, Nobunaga Zhitian adopted the iron gun tactics of three-stage shooting, but it can't be said that he lost the Takeda army by three-stage shooting. In fact, the three-stage shooting is an innovative iron gun battle method, which increases the power of the iron gun, but it is still not enough to determine the outcome of the war.The real reason for the defeat of the Changxiao joint war was the great difference in the military strength between the two sides. 36000 troops were against 15000 troops. In the end, when the war was in a stalemate, the Takeda army was not strong enough, and even the whole line was defeated.After Gustav II's coronation in 1617, he officially began to train his new Swedish army, which took a full eight years.In these eight years, in the first four years, Gustav was relieved to train the Swedish army and did not go to war. In the next four years, Sweden sent troops to Livonia, Poland, captured the capital Riga, and used the way of launching a war against Poland to support the war and train troops at the same time.In the decisive battle against Poland in 1625, the warhoff battle, Gustav II defeated the Polish elite cavalry with an improved Spanish phalanx + field artillery + Swedish cavalry, which marked the completion of Gustav's new army.Thus, after eight years of sword casting, Gustav II trained his Swedish standing army into the first-class new army in Europe.Five years later, Gustav II had the ambition to compete in Europe.Sweden officially joined the Protestant alliance in the 30-year war. Gustav II's new Swedish army swept through the invincible hands of Europe and repeatedly won more with less.Finally, the Holy Roman Empire sent Wallenstein, the first general in China, to meet the Swedish army of Gustav II.In this summit duel between the two best generals in Europe at that time - the battle of Lucen, under the unfavorable situation of Gustav II's death and loss of commander, the Swedish army, with the discipline of many years of training, not only did it not collapse morale, but resolutely defeated Wallenstein's imperial army.So far, Sweden's strength has finally been recognized by all countries and ranks among the first-class powers in Europe.Well, for Li Xiao, the prospect is very good.It took Gustav II eight years to train the Swedish army.However, during the eight years, Gustav II not only trained the infantry phalanx, but also reformed the artillery and cavalry.In contrast, Li Xiao has no artillery and cavalry. As long as he focuses on doing a good job, it should be much easier to train the square array between iron guns and light guns.Even if Li Xiao feels that compared with Gustav the great, he still has some shortcomings, but with the knowledge and experience of modern people, it won't take eight years.However, Li Xiao estimates that it will take at least two to three years, and most will take six or seven years. However, once Li Xiaoxi's square array is trained, he will be given a standing army of about three or four thousand.It's not safe to say that this army is going to sweep one side, but it should have little problem to gain a foothold in Vietnam, stand firm on this mu of land, and achieve the purpose of Takeda Xinxuan to contain Shangshan Qianxin.Because it is impossible for the Shangshan family to make every effort to deal with Li Xiao in Vietnam. After all, the Shangshan family is in Xinnong, and Ueno has to face the strong oppression of the Takeda family, so it is impossible to concentrate on the front line.So in the future, Li Xiao may be able to keep up with the Shan family and fight a field battle of tens of thousands of people.The Western phalanx is purely a battle formation for the battle. If you don't participate in the battle, it's a waste.However, the training time in the past few years is not long or short. It is no problem to catch up with several key battles of the Takeda family in history.If history was not influenced by him, he fought with Changxiao of Zhitian Tokugawa alliance eleven years later, and eight years later, on the way to Luozhou, Takeda's family fought with the three parties of Tokugawa's family.This is a battle related to the fate of the Takeda family. Li Xiao will be recalled by the Takeda family and fight with the army. If there is no strong army around him at that time.It is impossible for Li Xiao to perform the joint battle of Baigen mountain every time. As a result, the miracle of dozens of riding in the array will come to an end when his bad luck runs out at one time.The next is the 11 years of Yonglu, the Takeda family vs. the Beitiao family, the largest mountain war in the Warring States period of Japan - the sanzengye war, and the siege of otahara city.And ten years after Yonglu, the Takeda family invaded and attacked the JUNHE river of today's Sichuan family, which was a little suspended.If the new army had not been trained at that time, Li Xiaoyi's only hope was that Takeda Xinxuan would quickly forget him, otherwise he might die on duty.Therefore, Li Xiao can only seize the time to train his standing equipment. He hopes to be successful in training in a month. At least it is enough to reach the state of the accelerated version of the Western phalanx.At that time, Li Xiao can send troops to conquer Chengsheng city. Occupying Chengsheng city can not only expand his territory, but also complete the monopoly on the trade route.In the next ten days or so, Li Xiao made targeted adjustments to the shortcomings of the last military exercise.For the disadvantage of the flank of the Western phalanx,We should be able to see through the weakness of the Western array and the two flanks in such a short time in actual combat, and adopt targeted tactics.According to Li Xiao's estimation, such talents are not easy to appear in the Warring States period of Japan in a short time. Even military talents such as Takeda Xinxuan and Shangshan Qianxin, who have been in the mud for hundreds of years, can't do it before they have seen the essence of the Western array.Even if it is seen through, Li Xiao still has two hundred people standing by. As the left and right wing guards, he can resist for a while.Now, for Li Xiao, the biggest problem is how to ensure that the iron gun is light enough on the battlefield. In all kinds of unexpected situations, he still maintains shooting discipline and ensures his usual practice level to complete shooting movements.In fact, there are not many ways to do this. Only by adding a lot of repetitive and mechanical training again and again, can foot light really be mechanized and complete the operation completely by subconsciousness, ignoring the fear of subjective consciousness.This requires strict discipline and autocratic military law.Therefore, it is doomed that the standing iron gun is light enough to bear a greater amount of training and mental pressure than the gun.Of course, a cruel military law is necessary. Li Xiao also knows the truth of carrots and sticks. Every iron gun's annual salary is ten passes, three passes more than the ordinary standing light.Under the high salary, the iron gun is light enough to complain about the amount of training he has increased in recent days, and step up the boring repetitive training day after day.As for Xiaofan Xiaoxian, the head of the iron gun group, after being reprimanded by Li Xiao that day, he was even more ashamed and brave. These days, he ate and slept with the iron gun foot light. Whenever he had leisure, he was trained in backward loading tactics.Li Xiao is very satisfied with all this. In the past ten days, the progress of iron gun and light foot is obvious. At present, the progress is good, and there should be no big problem to practice in a month.However, in fact, everything will not move forward according to Li Xiao's ideal progress, and there will always be accidents.At this time, Li Xiao was in full swing training.That day, the Ninja leader in charge of Li Xiao's intelligence collection, Yukio Yokota, suddenly appeared in the Tianshou Pavilion of Li Xiao's Shengang city.Henggu Xingzhong reported to Li Xiao that Saito's family in Chengsheng city had prepared to secretly send troops to Shengang city.This time Saito family united Shenbao family's army, and it is expected that the army will reach more than 1000.After hearing the speech, Li Xiao was surprised on the spot, not because of the attack of Saito family, but because his Western array has not been trained yet. to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly ticket at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.
