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Therefore, Ximen Qing did not design to get rid of Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi like Fang Liang Shanbo did, but kept them for his own use.
However, the story of "Flower Monk" Lu Zhishen and "Green-faced Beast" Yang Zhi occupying the mountain as kings and looting their houses in Erlong Mountain also spread to Shandong.It is impossible for Ximen Qing, who is a law-abiding citizen at this moment, to bring the two of them under his command.
Shi Jin from Shaohua Mountain and the four of them are different from Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi from Erlong Mountain. They are far away in Huazhou, and they are not very popular. Not many people in Shandong know their past, so Ximen Qing can accept them and place them in Yanzhou .
Before Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi were recruited, it was impossible for them to just go down the mountain and settle in any prefecture in Shandong.At present, the only place in Ximenqing's territory that allows them to gain a foothold is Posu Road in the Kingdom of Jin.
However, Ximenqing has no reason to let these two tigers go to Posu Road in the Kingdom of Jin to look after his home and nursing home!
Therefore, Ximenqing had planned long ago to use the Song army to attack Liao in the north, and when recruiting daredevils in Hebei, he would use Lu Zhishen's old friendship with his masters to recruit the men and horses of Erlong Mountain and wash away their thieves' identities.
After Lu Zhishen, Yang Zhi and other heroes became court officers, Ximen Qing would keep an eye on them and take advantage of the Song army's defeat to try to recruit them into his command.
How could Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi have expected that the brother Ximen Qing in front of them had already planned their future path for them!The two of them only knew that Brother Ximenqing was willing to reveal the top military secrets of the imperial court to them.
In this way, amidst the gratitude and excitement of Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi, Ximen Qing had a drink with them, and just got off Erlong Mountain, and led Jiao Ting and his party to Qizhou.
Ximenqing detoured through Qizhou, Lingzhou, and Gaochang Mansions, and met with Xin Zan, Shi Wengong, Zeng Elder, Wei Dingguo, Shan Tinggui, Zhang Qing and others to reminisce about the past, and then turned over Jingyanggang and returned to Yanggu County. at home.
A few days before returning to Ximen Fort, Ximenqing met Luan Tingyu, Wang Jin, Tang Long and other brothers during the day, and took turns exchanging heart and soul with Hu Sanniang, Pan Jinlian and other wives at night, it was really busy.
After more than ten days, Ximen Qing just escaped from the gentle village and went to Dongping Mansion to meet with the prefect Cheng Wanli.
Cheng Wanli, the magistrate of Dongping, made many military exploits in the process of exterminating the bandits in Liangshanbo. His backer, Taiwei Tongguan, also reported frequent successes in the south of the Yangtze River.Today's Cheng Zhifu is full of vigor and high spirits, monopolizing power in Dongping Mansion, and he is no longer the Mr. Menguan who would be made things difficult by Dong Ping, the military supervisor.
Because of this, after seeing Ximen Qing, the magistrate Cheng Wanli was able to unscrupulously pretend to be public and benefit himself, and handed over the promised Liangshan Po to Ximen Qing for a reason.
Ximenqing's trip was to ask for Liang Shanbo, and secondly, to have a secret tryst with Cheng Wanli's daughter to stabilize her mind.
After achieving his goal in Dongping Mansion, Ximen Qing entertained Cheng Wanli, the prefect, and Wang Jun, the governor of soldiers and horses, with a feast in his own restaurant. He just returned to Yanggu County and arranged for his men to take care of the cottage on Liangshan.
Ximenqing used the warships built when he attacked Liangshan and the captured Liangshanshui army ships to rebuild a private navy in Liangshan.
This water army is still stationed in Liangshan Jinshatan Water Village, and is responsible for blocking and protecting Liangshan, preventing the surrounding fishermen from approaching.
The reason why Ximenqing wanted to take Liangshan for himself was because he needed a secluded place.
In the weapon workshop of Ximenbao, the muskets of the "money leopard" Tang Long brothers were also developed, and a shooting range was needed to test muskets and train musketeers.
Ximen Fort is too close to Yanggu County, surrounded by densely populated villages.When Tang Long was developing muskets, it was harmless to test fire once or twice occasionally, but if the dense gunshots spread, it would inevitably arouse the curiosity of outsiders and reveal Ximen Qing's secret.
Therefore, when Ximenqing captured Liangshan, he took a fancy to this isolated island in a lake of [-] miles, and he wanted to train his musket battalion on Liangshan, which was far away from the market and thousands of dollars.
Liangshan Dazhai is very important to Ximen Qing's army building in the future. He arranged Luan Tingyu and Tang Long, two of his most trusted brothers, here, and they were jointly responsible for the training and training of musketeers.
After Luan Tingyu took command of Liangshan, the military training of Ximenbao was handed over to Wang Jin and Hu Sanniang.
After some adjustments by Ximenqing, his existing direct subordinate forces were divided into several pieces and expanded and trained at the same time.
The line from Qingzhou to Dengzhou, led by Ling Zhen and Xu Wen, mainly manufactures warships and artillery, and trains the water army and artillery army.
Brothers Jiang Zhong and Duan Jingzhu in Cangzhou trained heavy infantry with Jiang Zhong and his disciples as the backbone.At the same time, Duan Jingzhu also bought horses from the Liao Kingdom and used his riding skills to train light cavalry.
Yanzhou faced Yingshan, Shi Jin was brave, and Zhu Wu was good at formations. They mainly trained mixed formations of infantry and archers.
Wang Jin and Hu Sanniang of Ximen Fort naturally used the good horses Huangfu Duan trained them and the armor made by Tang Long to train the heavy cavalry for the battle.
And in the newly opened Shuibo Liangshan, Ximenqing, Luan Tingyu, and Tang Long worked together to train the new type of Musketeers.
With the advent of the decisive battle between Jin, Liao and Song, Ximenqing's army gradually took shape.
Chapter 664 Almighty Musketeer
The musket made by Tang Long has been improved according to Ximen Qing's suggestion, and a sleeve-type bayonet can be installed in front of the barrel.In this way, the hand-to-hand combat ability of the musketeers can be greatly improved, and they can be used as pikemen when the ammunition is exhausted or the enemy is approaching.
Ximen Qing, who came from later generations, knew that in the early development history of muskets, bayonets were not invented.Therefore, the earliest musketeers usually carried spears or short swords for close-range hand-to-hand combat, or the spearmen and pikemen in the army provided protection for the musketeers in hand-to-hand combat.
The famous Spanish phalanx in Europe is an infantry regiment composed of spearmen and arquebusers.For a period of time in the sixteenth century, more than 400 years later, this military system dominated the entire European battlefield.
The formation of the Spanish phalanx is that the spearmen on the battlefield are arranged densely in three horizontal lines, each horizontal line has 60 to 150 people in the front, and the depth is 100 rows.On the four corners of the phalanx of spearmen, there are arquebus soldiers lined up in a dense phalanx.This strong and maneuverable dense formation is about [-] meters wide and about [-] meters deep.
In addition, a line of arquebus soldiers was lined up on each of the four sides of the phalanx, and a separate detachment was sent to engage in small-scale attacks.
The Spanish phalanx used the combination of spearmen and musketeers to have strong anti-cavalry and melee combat capabilities. With this, it once defeated the heavy cavalry of European countries, and shocked the whole of Europe for a while.
Later, the Morris phalanx and Gustav phalanx in Europe improved the mobility and long-range firepower respectively on the basis of the Spanish phalanx, increasing the proportion of musketeers in the phalanx, and Gustav even added Artillery coordinated operations.However, the policy of cooperating with spearmen and musketeers has not changed.
During this period, the musketeers' melee combat ability was still poor. When the enemy broke through the defense of the spearmen and attacked the musketeers, the morale of the musketeers would drop rapidly and even become chaotic.
The invention of the bayonet solved the problem that musketeers were afraid of close combat in one fell swoop.
It is said that the bayonet was invented in 1640 by the French military officer Mala Xie de Pise.This earliest bayonet was a double-edged straight knife about a foot long, with a tapered wooden handle about a foot long, and could be inserted into the muzzle of a musket.
In 1642, when Pissegu, who had become a marshal of the French army, led his army to attack Ypres in Belgium, he equipped his musketeers with bayonets.In this way, musketeers have the same melee ability as spearmen, and there is no need to use spearmen to protect musketeers in the army.
However, the plug-type bayonet has shortcomings such as weak connection and hindering shooting.In 1688, French military engineer and Field Marshal de Vauban invented the sleeve-type bayonet that uses a special sleeve to fix the bayonet on the outside of the barrel.
On November 1703, 11, in the battle of the Speyerbach River in western Germany, the French infantry charged with bayonets for the first time and defeated the Prussian army.
Since then, bayonets have been widely equipped in the armies of major European countries, and spears have been eliminated from soldier equipment.
Although Ximenqing couldn't remember the specific circumstances of the invention of the bayonet, he knew the role of the bayonet in later generations in boosting the morale of musketeers and survival on the battlefield.With the bayonet, the Musketeers can form a formation to protect themselves when facing the enemy's charge, and they can also charge when the ammunition is exhausted.Therefore, of course, he will not let his firearms army take detours, and slowly find a solution after suffering losses on the battlefield.
What Ximen Qing asked Tang Long to produce was a casing-type bayonet that did not affect shooting.
For Ximen Qing, possessing the knowledge and experience of future generations is his biggest golden finger after crossing.
Although "Shenhuo General" Wei Dingguo is Ximenqing's ideal musketeer battalion commander, he is still a regiment trainer in Lingzhou after all, and cannot take on the important task of training Ximenqing's first musketeer army.
Ximenqing is not a bandit in Liangshanbo, so it is impossible to force Wei Dingguo to Liangshan by framing him.We can only wait for the right time in the future, and then recruit this hero who is good at firearms.
The first Musketeer on Liangshan, Ximenqing handed over to his brother-in-law Luan Tingyu to train and command.Ximen Qing told Luan Tingyu all the usages of musketeers in history, such as "Spanish phalanx", "three-stage strike", "queuing and shooting" that he could remember, and asked him to figure out the tactics of this new unit.
Luan Tingyu has studied military books and war strategies since he was a child, and he is familiar with the infantry phalanx in the "Seven Books of Wu Jing" in the Song Dynasty.As long as he masters the combat performance of muskets, he will be able to combine Ximen Qing's experience to develop a new infantry formation.
Another advantage of having Luan Tingyu as the coach and commander of this musketeer is that Luan Tingyu's spear and stick skills are invincible. The soldiers he teaches must be proficient in spear and stick martial arts. Pikemen!
Ximenqing spent half a month on Liangshan, forgetting to eat and sleep, and together with Luan Tingyu and Tang Long, transformed the bandit den into a barracks suitable for musketeer training.
On this day, Ximenqing was training soldiers on Liangshan, but Lu Xiaoyi, the "flower arm", came to the mountain.
After sitting in the lobby and drinking a bowl of tea to quench his thirst, Lu Xiaoyi reported the intelligence he had obtained from his investigation to Ximen Qing one by one.
Lu Xiaoyi's subordinates who stayed in Jiangnan sent back an urgent report. With their cooperation, Wang Tian and Huang Wenbing led the troops to Fang La's lair, Bangyuan Cave, and captured the rebels Fang La, Fang Fei and others alive.
Because Wang Bing and Huang Wenbing made great contributions, and they were considered as the faction of Prime Minister Cai Jing, Taiwei Tongguan naturally wanted to give his ally Cai Jing a favor, so he arranged for Wang Bing and Huang Wenbing to escort Fang La back to Beijing to face the saint.
After returning to Beijing from this trip, Wang Tien and Huang Wenbing will definitely be favored by the officials, and promotion and fortune are only in front of them.The two knew in their hearts that all the credit for this time was given by the official Ximen Qing, so they sent their confidantes to bring generous gifts and follow Lu Xiaoyi's men back to Yanggu County to express their gratitude to the official Ximen Qing.