Chapter 2013
Chapter 2013
Chapter 2013
From a condescending perspective, Sun Bing was able to confirm through the binoculars that this officer was not the most common Jurchens, Mongols, or Hans in the Qing army.This person's facial features were high nose and deep eyes, and his appearance was quite different from the oriental people he was familiar with, but he was somewhat similar to the Portuguese who had fought side by side in the two wars in Manila and North Korea.
The task force dispatched by Portugal participated in Haihan's emergency rescue operation against North Korea. It had carried out several strikes against the Qing army with the Haihan army just a few months ago. Naturally, it was impossible to carry out military cooperation with the Qing army at the same time. .Moreover, the Portuguese must report to Haihan in advance for their activities in the coastal areas of the mainland north of the Yangtze River. Even business dealings with areas under the rule of the Ming Dynasty must also follow this principle, not to mention sneaking into Liaodong to contact the Qing Dynasty. Presumably the Portuguese would not betray Haihan, a powerful ally, for some economic benefit.
So after Sun Bing ruled out the suspicion of the Portuguese, the remaining answers seemed to be ready.The Military Intelligence Agency had reminded him in the intelligence provided before this operation that he should pay special attention to whether there were any Spaniard-like outsiders in the Qing military camp, because the muskets they installed were most likely from overseas sources, and The biggest suspect at the moment is the Spaniard.
In fact, it was difficult for Sun Bing to distinguish the Spaniards and Portuguese from the same hometown in the Iberian Peninsula from their appearance, but this was nothing new to him. After all, Simao, the Portuguese officer who led the army to North Korea to fight, It is also often difficult to distinguish the difference in appearance between the northern Han people and the Korean people.And Sun Bing's reasoning was based on this similarity—since the object he was observing looked like a Portuguese but could not be a Portuguese, then he must be a Spaniard.
Soon Sun Bing noticed that there was another person worth noting beside the Spanish officer. Looking through the binoculars, this person imitated the expression and movements of the Spanish officer from time to time, chanting words. It seemed that he was an interpreter, but he didn't know Whether he translated the officer's instructions into Chinese or Manchu.
But in the far north of Liaodong, there are no talents who can speak Spanish, and the Spanish base is far away in the depths of the South China Sea, and it is unlikely that anyone under their command is familiar with Manchu.It is not hard to find people who can speak Spanish and Chinese. Sun Bing had seen many local descendants of Han people who were bilingual in Manila.However, the traditional area of activity of the Spaniards is mainly the South China Sea. For them, Liaodong should be a very strange area. How did they hook up with the Qing Dynasty?
This question can probably only be answered by arresting the Spaniard from the hillside for a trial, but Sun Bing knows that it is impossible to realize this plan at the moment.Although the Musketeer team that was training down the hillside was only five or sixty people in size, it might be worth a fight, but even if the Spaniard was captured on the spot, it was unlikely that he would be taken away smoothly.After all, this place is too close to the Qing army's camp, and they can't escape the enemy cavalry's pursuit with their two legs anyway, and the effect will be counterproductive.
Sun Bing tried his best to suppress his desire to take action, and refocused his energy on observing the movements of these people.
Although these Qing troops lined up and raised their guns, posing for a target, they didn't shoot, they just put on a show.Of course, this is not surprising. After all, live ammunition training, which consumes a lot of money, even in the Haihan Army has to do what it can, and the Qing Army must not be able to afford such an expense.Money is only one aspect. It is difficult for the Qing army to replenish the ammunition brought from overseas and the wear and tear of the guns in the process of use. It must be saved.
But since the target was specially made out, live ammunition shooting must eventually be carried out, and it was this link that Sun Bing wanted to watch.Based on his years of experience in the army, he believes that he must be able to see some problems from it—such as gun performance, loading speed, basic tactics, and so on.
The effect of such training in this cold weather will obviously be greatly reduced, and the exposed hands will soon become stiff, whether it is loading ammunition or raising the gun to aim, it will be significantly affected.However, what the musketeers can do in terms of order and prohibition is still far from the Haihan army. Sun Bing saw many people rubbing their hands or breathing on them from time to time, or stamping their feet on the spot Keeping warm, did not fully follow the officer's instructions for training.
However, this slightly sloppy situation soon changed. A few horsemen and horses came from the camp. From Sun Bing's observation, it should be a senior general of the Qing army who came to supervise the training.The soldiers who looked a little lazy just now cheered up immediately, lest their superiors find themselves paddling during training.
The corner of Sun Bing's mouth raised slightly, and he seemed to have found a familiar feeling from this scene. He had done similar things in training before, but unfortunately he was caught on the spot and the instructor punished him to run around the school field. After that, I didn't dare to be lazy and paddle during training.However, he is still very fortunate to have that experience. If not for this, he would not have trained so hard in the future, and he might not have had the opportunity to be selected from the ordinary army to serve in the Marine Corps.
Of course, Sun Bing would not have any good feelings for these Qing soldiers because of this. After all, he himself was a Han Chinese from Liaodong. If his hometown had not been occupied by the Manchus, he would not have left his hometown and fled to the south.But fortunately, his life was not bad. By accident, he voted into the Haihan camp as a refugee, and then joined the army to fight in all directions.After he was ordered to go south at the end of last year, he felt that he might never have the chance to return to Liaodong, but now he has returned to Liaodong to perform a mission. Its slaughtered fathers and folks.
The Spanish officer paid attention to details during the training, calling a stop from time to time and then personally stepped forward to correct the soldier's movements.The generals of the Qing army who came to supervise the training also seemed very patient, so they stood quietly by the side and watched without interfering in the training process.
After practicing the basic movements for more than an hour, the general of the Qing army probably had almost worn out his patience, so he called the translator next to the Spanish officer to give some instructions, and then passed them on.After listening to the interpreter, the Spanish officer stopped the training and ordered ammunition to be distributed to these soldiers.Sun Bing regained his spirits, thinking that after waiting for so long, it was finally time for the main show.
But the live ammunition training scene that Sun Bing saw actually didn't have much new things, basically all the techniques and tactics he practiced when he just joined the army.The reason for this is also very simple. The basic combat skills he has learned all come from the fixed routines passed down by the top military, and the source of these things is originally a Western country with relatively advanced gun tactics in history. Compared with the two, they are naturally similar. The ingredients are mostly.
Of course, he has now entered the Marine Corps, and the rifle he used is no longer the old-fashioned flintlock that he was equipped with when he first joined the army, so the corresponding tactics have also been greatly changed. It's a queuing and shooting formation.The result of the battle with the Spanish army in Manila at the beginning of this year has fully proved the advanced tactics of the Haihan army, so when Sun Bing saw the basic tactics of the Musketeers down the hillside, he couldn't help feeling a little superior Feeling, even if you can learn this well, you can never beat the elite soldiers of my Haihan Kingdom.
The advanced tactics of the Haihan Army are difficult for the armies of other countries to imitate. This is not only a gap in operational concepts, but also a manifestation of comprehensive strength in equipment, logistics, transportation, etc.At least until the performance of weapons is greatly improved, the musketeer tactics of other countries are unlikely to get rid of the existing framework, and the overall combat effectiveness will naturally not be effectively improved.Sun Bing didn't quite understand these deep-seated reasons, but he knew that even if the Qing army could train some Musketeers, it would not be able to change the current passive situation of stalemate with Hai Han. Such Musketeers could only ambush the careless If the patrol team of the Haihan Army is deployed on the frontal battlefield to compete with the main force of the Haihan Army, it will be wiped out in a short while.
Of course, if the opponent of the Qing army is replaced by the Ming army or the Korean army, then this kind of musket force will have much more room to play.Although the Ming army also had a firearms battalion, as far as Sun Bing knew, most of the muskets equipped were relatively primitive arquebus guns. When they attacked Manila this year, the local Spanish armed forces had already equipped a considerable proportion of flintlocks. Guns, if these weapons are provided by the Spaniards, then the level of equipment should be better than that of the Ming army.As for the North Korean army, maybe two or three years later with the help of Haihan, they can get a certain improvement, but for now, even the Qing army without firearms is not an opponent that the North Korean army can resist. The strength gap between the two sides It is not limited to the field of weapons and equipment.
Theoretically, it is possible for the Qing army to fight against the Haihan army by improving the performance of its weapons, but the quality gap can only be made up by quantity. They must form a firearms unit several times the strength of the Haihan Liaodong garrison. Possibly smooth out the disadvantages of weapon performance.But the problem is that there is no country in East Asia in this era that has such industrial capabilities, allowing the Qing army to arm thousands of troops with muskets and artillery in a short period of time, let alone the Spaniards in the South China Sea. , even Haihan Ordnance Industry can hardly meet such production requirements.
Therefore, it is almost doomed that the expansion speed of the Qing army's firearms troops will be limited by the supply of weapons for a foreseeable period of time in the future, even if they have self-production capabilities in the future.However, if things go smoothly in this direction, then the speed of the Qing army's deployment of firearms may catch up with and surpass that of Daming in a few years. The troops regard it as a hidden danger that must be identified.
One of the main purposes of the Haihan Lao division's expedition to garrison Liaodong was to hold back the Qing's military power in this direction, so that it would not dare to boldly send troops southward, so as to ensure the stability of Ming Dynasty.However, if there is a major change in the power balance between the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and Huang Taiji's ambitions are overwhelmed, he will go south to beat the pass ahead of schedule, which means that Haihan will have to send troops to intervene.After all, Daming is Haihan's main source of raw materials and sales market. Maintaining its social stability is of great significance to Haihan's current development.The world is in chaos, which is an unacceptable situation for Haihan at this stage.
But if this kind of large-scale war starts, if the battlefield is inland far from the coast, the Haihan army will not be of much use.Therefore, the most effective way for Haihan is to suppress the development of military technology by Qing as much as possible, and launch several small-scale wars in Liaodong from time to time to tighten the clockwork of Qing so that it cannot be distracted from looking south.
One of the purposes of sending Sun Bing to the enemy's rear to carry out reconnaissance missions is to confirm how big this hidden danger is, and whether it has reached the point where it needs to be eliminated as soon as possible by means.However, judging from what Sun Bing has seen so far, the training level of these Musketeers is just that, and it is estimated that because they have too little actual combat experience, their formation conversion speed when firing live ammunition is obviously too slow, so that two rounds The interval between firing is too long, which greatly affects the intensity of the fire output.Sun Bing had trained with the Fujian Ming Army, who also had flintlocks, and their firing frequency was at least half as fast as that of this musketeer team.
If the musketeers of the Qing army were only as large as they are now, Sun Bing felt that this was far from enough to have a significant impact on the situation in Liaodong, but how the Spaniards and these weapons got in is definitely a direction worthy of investigation.If the source of its weapons can be cut off, then the Musketeers will soon cease to exist in name only.
Sun Bing had seen Spanish warships during the battle in Manila. If a sailing ship with a special shape like that appeared in the Liaodong waters, it would definitely be a conspicuous target on the sea. But so far, the Military Intelligence Bureau has never received any sighting reports in this regard. , which is also a very strange phenomenon.Of course, it is possible that the Spaniards avoided the Haihan Navy's daily patrols in the east coast of the Liaodong Peninsula. The way of the Qing Dynasty may not be to take that kind of conspicuous large sailing ship.If a Chinese-style sailboat appeared in this sea area, probably no one would pay special attention to it.
The more Sun Bing guessed, the more he wanted to go down the mountain immediately to arrest the Spanish officer for a trial, but he also knew that he should not be impulsive at this time, and what he should do now was to continue to observe the movement of the Musketeers.But after returning to the beach tonight, he has to write a written report as soon as possible, and report what he saw today to his superiors.
(End of this chapter)
From a condescending perspective, Sun Bing was able to confirm through the binoculars that this officer was not the most common Jurchens, Mongols, or Hans in the Qing army.This person's facial features were high nose and deep eyes, and his appearance was quite different from the oriental people he was familiar with, but he was somewhat similar to the Portuguese who had fought side by side in the two wars in Manila and North Korea.
The task force dispatched by Portugal participated in Haihan's emergency rescue operation against North Korea. It had carried out several strikes against the Qing army with the Haihan army just a few months ago. Naturally, it was impossible to carry out military cooperation with the Qing army at the same time. .Moreover, the Portuguese must report to Haihan in advance for their activities in the coastal areas of the mainland north of the Yangtze River. Even business dealings with areas under the rule of the Ming Dynasty must also follow this principle, not to mention sneaking into Liaodong to contact the Qing Dynasty. Presumably the Portuguese would not betray Haihan, a powerful ally, for some economic benefit.
So after Sun Bing ruled out the suspicion of the Portuguese, the remaining answers seemed to be ready.The Military Intelligence Agency had reminded him in the intelligence provided before this operation that he should pay special attention to whether there were any Spaniard-like outsiders in the Qing military camp, because the muskets they installed were most likely from overseas sources, and The biggest suspect at the moment is the Spaniard.
In fact, it was difficult for Sun Bing to distinguish the Spaniards and Portuguese from the same hometown in the Iberian Peninsula from their appearance, but this was nothing new to him. After all, Simao, the Portuguese officer who led the army to North Korea to fight, It is also often difficult to distinguish the difference in appearance between the northern Han people and the Korean people.And Sun Bing's reasoning was based on this similarity—since the object he was observing looked like a Portuguese but could not be a Portuguese, then he must be a Spaniard.
Soon Sun Bing noticed that there was another person worth noting beside the Spanish officer. Looking through the binoculars, this person imitated the expression and movements of the Spanish officer from time to time, chanting words. It seemed that he was an interpreter, but he didn't know Whether he translated the officer's instructions into Chinese or Manchu.
But in the far north of Liaodong, there are no talents who can speak Spanish, and the Spanish base is far away in the depths of the South China Sea, and it is unlikely that anyone under their command is familiar with Manchu.It is not hard to find people who can speak Spanish and Chinese. Sun Bing had seen many local descendants of Han people who were bilingual in Manila.However, the traditional area of activity of the Spaniards is mainly the South China Sea. For them, Liaodong should be a very strange area. How did they hook up with the Qing Dynasty?
This question can probably only be answered by arresting the Spaniard from the hillside for a trial, but Sun Bing knows that it is impossible to realize this plan at the moment.Although the Musketeer team that was training down the hillside was only five or sixty people in size, it might be worth a fight, but even if the Spaniard was captured on the spot, it was unlikely that he would be taken away smoothly.After all, this place is too close to the Qing army's camp, and they can't escape the enemy cavalry's pursuit with their two legs anyway, and the effect will be counterproductive.
Sun Bing tried his best to suppress his desire to take action, and refocused his energy on observing the movements of these people.
Although these Qing troops lined up and raised their guns, posing for a target, they didn't shoot, they just put on a show.Of course, this is not surprising. After all, live ammunition training, which consumes a lot of money, even in the Haihan Army has to do what it can, and the Qing Army must not be able to afford such an expense.Money is only one aspect. It is difficult for the Qing army to replenish the ammunition brought from overseas and the wear and tear of the guns in the process of use. It must be saved.
But since the target was specially made out, live ammunition shooting must eventually be carried out, and it was this link that Sun Bing wanted to watch.Based on his years of experience in the army, he believes that he must be able to see some problems from it—such as gun performance, loading speed, basic tactics, and so on.
The effect of such training in this cold weather will obviously be greatly reduced, and the exposed hands will soon become stiff, whether it is loading ammunition or raising the gun to aim, it will be significantly affected.However, what the musketeers can do in terms of order and prohibition is still far from the Haihan army. Sun Bing saw many people rubbing their hands or breathing on them from time to time, or stamping their feet on the spot Keeping warm, did not fully follow the officer's instructions for training.
However, this slightly sloppy situation soon changed. A few horsemen and horses came from the camp. From Sun Bing's observation, it should be a senior general of the Qing army who came to supervise the training.The soldiers who looked a little lazy just now cheered up immediately, lest their superiors find themselves paddling during training.
The corner of Sun Bing's mouth raised slightly, and he seemed to have found a familiar feeling from this scene. He had done similar things in training before, but unfortunately he was caught on the spot and the instructor punished him to run around the school field. After that, I didn't dare to be lazy and paddle during training.However, he is still very fortunate to have that experience. If not for this, he would not have trained so hard in the future, and he might not have had the opportunity to be selected from the ordinary army to serve in the Marine Corps.
Of course, Sun Bing would not have any good feelings for these Qing soldiers because of this. After all, he himself was a Han Chinese from Liaodong. If his hometown had not been occupied by the Manchus, he would not have left his hometown and fled to the south.But fortunately, his life was not bad. By accident, he voted into the Haihan camp as a refugee, and then joined the army to fight in all directions.After he was ordered to go south at the end of last year, he felt that he might never have the chance to return to Liaodong, but now he has returned to Liaodong to perform a mission. Its slaughtered fathers and folks.
The Spanish officer paid attention to details during the training, calling a stop from time to time and then personally stepped forward to correct the soldier's movements.The generals of the Qing army who came to supervise the training also seemed very patient, so they stood quietly by the side and watched without interfering in the training process.
After practicing the basic movements for more than an hour, the general of the Qing army probably had almost worn out his patience, so he called the translator next to the Spanish officer to give some instructions, and then passed them on.After listening to the interpreter, the Spanish officer stopped the training and ordered ammunition to be distributed to these soldiers.Sun Bing regained his spirits, thinking that after waiting for so long, it was finally time for the main show.
But the live ammunition training scene that Sun Bing saw actually didn't have much new things, basically all the techniques and tactics he practiced when he just joined the army.The reason for this is also very simple. The basic combat skills he has learned all come from the fixed routines passed down by the top military, and the source of these things is originally a Western country with relatively advanced gun tactics in history. Compared with the two, they are naturally similar. The ingredients are mostly.
Of course, he has now entered the Marine Corps, and the rifle he used is no longer the old-fashioned flintlock that he was equipped with when he first joined the army, so the corresponding tactics have also been greatly changed. It's a queuing and shooting formation.The result of the battle with the Spanish army in Manila at the beginning of this year has fully proved the advanced tactics of the Haihan army, so when Sun Bing saw the basic tactics of the Musketeers down the hillside, he couldn't help feeling a little superior Feeling, even if you can learn this well, you can never beat the elite soldiers of my Haihan Kingdom.
The advanced tactics of the Haihan Army are difficult for the armies of other countries to imitate. This is not only a gap in operational concepts, but also a manifestation of comprehensive strength in equipment, logistics, transportation, etc.At least until the performance of weapons is greatly improved, the musketeer tactics of other countries are unlikely to get rid of the existing framework, and the overall combat effectiveness will naturally not be effectively improved.Sun Bing didn't quite understand these deep-seated reasons, but he knew that even if the Qing army could train some Musketeers, it would not be able to change the current passive situation of stalemate with Hai Han. Such Musketeers could only ambush the careless If the patrol team of the Haihan Army is deployed on the frontal battlefield to compete with the main force of the Haihan Army, it will be wiped out in a short while.
Of course, if the opponent of the Qing army is replaced by the Ming army or the Korean army, then this kind of musket force will have much more room to play.Although the Ming army also had a firearms battalion, as far as Sun Bing knew, most of the muskets equipped were relatively primitive arquebus guns. When they attacked Manila this year, the local Spanish armed forces had already equipped a considerable proportion of flintlocks. Guns, if these weapons are provided by the Spaniards, then the level of equipment should be better than that of the Ming army.As for the North Korean army, maybe two or three years later with the help of Haihan, they can get a certain improvement, but for now, even the Qing army without firearms is not an opponent that the North Korean army can resist. The strength gap between the two sides It is not limited to the field of weapons and equipment.
Theoretically, it is possible for the Qing army to fight against the Haihan army by improving the performance of its weapons, but the quality gap can only be made up by quantity. They must form a firearms unit several times the strength of the Haihan Liaodong garrison. Possibly smooth out the disadvantages of weapon performance.But the problem is that there is no country in East Asia in this era that has such industrial capabilities, allowing the Qing army to arm thousands of troops with muskets and artillery in a short period of time, let alone the Spaniards in the South China Sea. , even Haihan Ordnance Industry can hardly meet such production requirements.
Therefore, it is almost doomed that the expansion speed of the Qing army's firearms troops will be limited by the supply of weapons for a foreseeable period of time in the future, even if they have self-production capabilities in the future.However, if things go smoothly in this direction, then the speed of the Qing army's deployment of firearms may catch up with and surpass that of Daming in a few years. The troops regard it as a hidden danger that must be identified.
One of the main purposes of the Haihan Lao division's expedition to garrison Liaodong was to hold back the Qing's military power in this direction, so that it would not dare to boldly send troops southward, so as to ensure the stability of Ming Dynasty.However, if there is a major change in the power balance between the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and Huang Taiji's ambitions are overwhelmed, he will go south to beat the pass ahead of schedule, which means that Haihan will have to send troops to intervene.After all, Daming is Haihan's main source of raw materials and sales market. Maintaining its social stability is of great significance to Haihan's current development.The world is in chaos, which is an unacceptable situation for Haihan at this stage.
But if this kind of large-scale war starts, if the battlefield is inland far from the coast, the Haihan army will not be of much use.Therefore, the most effective way for Haihan is to suppress the development of military technology by Qing as much as possible, and launch several small-scale wars in Liaodong from time to time to tighten the clockwork of Qing so that it cannot be distracted from looking south.
One of the purposes of sending Sun Bing to the enemy's rear to carry out reconnaissance missions is to confirm how big this hidden danger is, and whether it has reached the point where it needs to be eliminated as soon as possible by means.However, judging from what Sun Bing has seen so far, the training level of these Musketeers is just that, and it is estimated that because they have too little actual combat experience, their formation conversion speed when firing live ammunition is obviously too slow, so that two rounds The interval between firing is too long, which greatly affects the intensity of the fire output.Sun Bing had trained with the Fujian Ming Army, who also had flintlocks, and their firing frequency was at least half as fast as that of this musketeer team.
If the musketeers of the Qing army were only as large as they are now, Sun Bing felt that this was far from enough to have a significant impact on the situation in Liaodong, but how the Spaniards and these weapons got in is definitely a direction worthy of investigation.If the source of its weapons can be cut off, then the Musketeers will soon cease to exist in name only.
Sun Bing had seen Spanish warships during the battle in Manila. If a sailing ship with a special shape like that appeared in the Liaodong waters, it would definitely be a conspicuous target on the sea. But so far, the Military Intelligence Bureau has never received any sighting reports in this regard. , which is also a very strange phenomenon.Of course, it is possible that the Spaniards avoided the Haihan Navy's daily patrols in the east coast of the Liaodong Peninsula. The way of the Qing Dynasty may not be to take that kind of conspicuous large sailing ship.If a Chinese-style sailboat appeared in this sea area, probably no one would pay special attention to it.
The more Sun Bing guessed, the more he wanted to go down the mountain immediately to arrest the Spanish officer for a trial, but he also knew that he should not be impulsive at this time, and what he should do now was to continue to observe the movement of the Musketeers.But after returning to the beach tonight, he has to write a written report as soon as possible, and report what he saw today to his superiors.
(End of this chapter)