In this era, "the Qing army is coming" basically means "the devils are entering the village" nearly three hundred years later. Therefore, when the news of the fall of Yanzhou Prefecture was announced, although everyone was mentally prepared for this, the military and civilians still
It caused a moment of panic.
Among them are Tang Zhen, Jiang Yiqu, Bao Tonggang, Wang Xin, You Hongliang, Zhou Qi, Wu Hansheng and others. They were all former imperial officers and had fought with the Qing army. They knew the power of the Qing army, so they had deep feelings in their hearts.
Yi Jing was initially frightened. On the contrary, young people such as Zhou Shaohuan, Tong Dayong, Cheng Jin, and Cheng Gang had not seen the combat effectiveness of the Qing army. In addition, they had been following Shang Yi in the battles for several months and had won consecutive battles, so they were discouraged.
It's relatively high. On the contrary, it's a bit grinding and eager to try. It's a bit like a newborn calf.
However, Shang Yi had long been mentally prepared for the arrival of the Qing army, and since the formation of the militia, he had been preparing for war with the goal of resisting the invasion of the Qing army. In fact, the preparations for Muling Pass had also been
It was proceeding in an orderly manner, so now it was time to test the results of the preparations. Shang Yi summoned everyone, on the one hand, for routine news reporting, and on the other hand, he also mobilized the soldiers and civilians in the city to enter a state of emergency.
After everyone's reactions came to an end, Shang Yi first ordered Zhou Shiqi to speed up the resettlement of refugees and resettle all the refugees as soon as possible. The young men were also immediately organized and trained to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible to facilitate the next step in the city.
Beicheng.
Shang Yi then ordered the reconnaissance team to strengthen reconnaissance in the direction of Yanzhou, and set up five secret posts within ten miles of Muling Pass, and sent cavalry teams to continuously patrol outside the pass in order to detect the Qing army's movements as early as possible.
At the same time, he ordered the army to be more vigilant and not to relax at all, and also strengthened the number of personnel on duty at night.
On the second day, Shang Yi led the soldiers and civilians out of the city and began to build positions outside the city, regardless of the fact that it was still the New Year.
Muling Pass is not a big place. Although it can accommodate a small population, it does not have much surface for attacking the city. Therefore, only a small number of troops are enough to defend all the city walls. Moreover, Muling Pass originally had a moat, but there was no moat.
The water source and the river bed have dried up, and it has actually become a trench. At this time, Shang Yi ordered that the position outside the city start from the protective trench, and first further expand the protective trench to a width of three feet and a depth of more than
One foot, and at the same time, the lower part of the trench was filled with wooden thorns.
In addition, the geographical location of Mulingguan is indeed very good. It is located between mountains and is the intersection of the north and south transportation routes. However, there are mountains on both sides of the east and west. Less than a hundred or two hundred steps away from Guancheng, there are mountainous jungles, making it difficult to deploy troops.
, is not an ideal place to attack the city, so the Qing army can only attack from the north and south sides, and of course cannot carry out a siege.
However, Shang Yi still did not dare to take it lightly, and ordered the residents to dig countless tunnels and ditches of different sizes on the ground outside the east and west cities, further destroying the terrain on the east and west sides, making it not only completely impossible to use troops, but also difficult to pass, thus making it difficult to pass.
To a certain extent, it also cut off the north-south access, making it impossible for the Qing army to connect the north and the south.
At the same time, Shang Yi dug three trenches within a distance of 150 meters from the city wall in the north and south. On the one hand, they were used to block the Qin army's advance, and on the other side, it was convenient for the Muling army to judge the distance, so as to make it easier for the Qing army to judge the distance.
According to the progress of the army, different long-range weapons were used to attack. Moreover, each trench was only more than one meter deep, but more than three meters wide, making it impossible to hide. However, it was only kept in front of the city gate, and a distance of about 60 meters was not moved. This is
In order to facilitate the entry and exit of people and horses in the city.
The soldiers and civilians also knew that the Qing Army was about to attack, so even though it was during the Chinese New Year, everyone did not complain and worked hard. Men, women, old and young worked together, and it only took ten days to complete the task.
All these fortifications have been completed.
On the other hand, the detailed mountain terrain map of the Mulingguan area has also been drawn. During this period, Shang Yi has detached two brigades from the army to conduct mountain combat training with the reconnaissance team.
He also asked them to memorize the map and go back and forth several times to ensure that they were foolproof. They also set up twelve secret supply points in the mountains to store water, food, medicine and weapons, so that the soldiers fighting in the mountains could
They did not need to return to the city, so they could get certain supplies and achieve the purpose of continuous operations. At the same time, Shang Yi also set up some earthen traps in the mountains and forests to prevent the Qing army from raiding the mountains.
As for the defense within the pass, fifteen artillery pieces were set up on the city wall, with three medium-sized Franco cannons in the center, eight squatting tiger cannons on the left and right, and four small Franco cannons guarding both ends of the city wall.
.Each gun was manned by three gunners. In addition, Lumi guns also began to be formally assembled for soldiers, and several city defense exercises were conducted.
After working hard for a long time, the craftsmen in the gunpowder workshop and the blacksmith workshop produced a total of 30,000 paper-cased bullets, more than 500 solid bullets, more than 800 shotshells, and more than 1,000 simple hand grenades.
More than 80% of the gunpowder prepared was used up. At this time, the craftsmen were working hard to burn charcoal, make nitrate, and collect thiophene.
In addition, after the simple drilling machine made by Sun Heding went through a trial run, everything was in good condition and was put into use.
For this reason, Shang Yi made a special trip to the blacksmith's workshop to see it. In fact, the structure of this kind of drilling machine is very simple. It is just a frame made of wood. A circular stone plate is used as the inertia wheel. After being tied with a leather strip, it is pulled by people or animals.
The stone plate drives the drill bit to rotate the drilling bore, but the work efficiency is greatly improved. It only takes six or seven days to drill a pipe, and the quality is much better than that made by hand. The only disadvantage is that the drill bit needs to be changed frequently.
At present, good drill bits and knives are made of high-quality steel. The steel is considered to be the best hard steel in China, but the steel is not very hard. A drill bit can only drill three holes at most.
Branch management.
Because in this era, China's steelmaking technology has always lagged behind the West, but it is unrealistic to improve steelmaking technology in a short period of time. Shang Yi only knows some very rough theoretical knowledge, and he still needs craftsmen to slowly
Practice and explore slowly. Now it's too late. We can only deal with the immediate crisis. At the same time, Shang Yi asked the craftsmen to build a few more drilling machines so that they can drill more blunderbuss tubes at the same time.
And Shang Yi asked the blacksmith to make a bayonet, and each fire blunderbuss must be matched with one. The form of the bayonet is the 56-type three-edged bayonet that was used by the Chinese army in later generations. This is a kind of 56-type bayonet.
The military bayonet used with automatic rifles or Type 56 semi-automatic rifles is triangular in shape, with a total length of 38 cm, a blade length of 32 cm, a blade thickness of 2 cm, and a blade width of 2 cm.
This kind of bayonet was equipped in China in the 1950s and 1960s. It was designed mainly for stabbing and bloodletting. Its functions of chopping, picking, and cutting are relatively weak. It is not as good as the later bayonet, which can lift cans, cut barbed wire, cut steel plates, and saw.
Wood can be used as matches, tighten screws and other messy functions. After piercing the human body, air can be quickly introduced through the blood groove, and the air will form a large amount of foam in the body and block the blood vessels. Therefore, it only needs to be pierced into any part of the human body for about 8cm.
It can kill the opponent immediately, and the thorn can be pulled out effortlessly in the body cavity where the negative pressure is eliminated. To put it bluntly, this thing is designed for bayonet fighting. And obviously this kind of bayonet is most suitable for the current assembly. After strict spear stabbing
Trained Musketeers of the Muling Army.
Shang Yi knew that not to mention that muskets were still in their infancy, until the Second World War three hundred years later, not only various semi-automatic and automatic rifles appeared, but even aircraft, tanks, and armored vehicles became part of the army.
It is mainly assembled, but bayonet fighting is still an important combat step on the infantry battlefield. In the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Moscow in the European battlefield, the Soviet Red Army and the German army conducted bayonet battles many times. Not to mention in China
On the battlefield, the Japanese's obsession with bayonet fighting reached an extreme level.
Moreover, in the early days of the development of the Chinese Red Army, there was a tactical saying of "three bullets, two grenades. The rest is solved by the bayonet." Therefore, until after the liberation of China, the bayonet still became the standard equipment of the riflemen, and the grenade
, along with rifles, became the basic training subjects for infantry.
It was not until later that various advanced weapons began to become popular, and bayonet tactics gradually faded out of the battlefield. When the gun-resistant infantry arrived on the battlefield, they basically cleaned up the mess. The bayonet turned from pure killing to multi-functional development. But at present, the introduction of
The bayonet is still very useful.
However, based on the current level of iron smelting, Shang Yi and Tong Fang discussed and increased the blade width of the Type 56 triangular bayonet to one inch, which is more than three centimeters. This can increase the strength of the bayonet and make it less likely to break.
The length of the bird gun and Lumi gun is about 1.3 to 1.4 meters. With the bayonet, the total length can exceed 1.6 meters. Although it is not as good as a long gun, it cannot be considered short, and it is far larger than a long gun.
The three-eyed gun of the stick wheel is much easier to use. Although it only adds such a small structure, the result is that the musketeer can become a spearman at any time, and it also completely changes the weakness of the musketeer that he can only fight at a distance and does not need to fight at close range.
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While preparing for the war, other things were also proceeding step by step. On the sixth day of the first lunar month, after simple preparations, the Muling Military Academy founded by Shang Yi officially began to recruit students and teach students from ten to ten years old.
For eighteen-year-old boys, the only courses currently offered are literacy, arithmetic, art of war, artillery and military skills.
For children aged ten to fourteen, the principle of voluntariness is adopted. Many residents send their children here. On the one hand, they have a place to take care of them, and on the other hand, they can learn something and later
It was also useful. However, Shang Yi stipulated that all soldiers in the Youth Corps must enter the military academy to study. They would first undergo two hours of literacy every day, and conduct military training at other times. At the same time, two hundred people were selected from the Youth Corps and began to practice musketry.
Shooting training.
At this time, the advantages of muskets are revealed. A qualified musketeer, as long as he is not particularly stupid, only needs one month of training at most. A few people with quick brains and flexible hands and feet can be trained in only four or five days.
The battlefield. At the same time, musketry does not require high physical strength of soldiers. There is not much difference between an adult and a child.