In fact, Wu Zheng was even more shocked. In Qi Jiguang's new book, the three thousand new troops recruited in Yiwu were compiled and trained. The structure of the three thousand new troops recruited in Yiwu was similar to the later infantry squad. The team was composed of twelve people, one team leader, one shield soldier, one vine shield soldier, two wolf soldiers, four spear soldiers, one pill soldiers, one pill soldiers, and one firearm soldiers. During the battle, the team leader held a flag in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, and stood in front of the team to command the battle. The other eleven people were divided into two rows, separated by one person, dislocated front and back. The two shield soldiers were at the front and the wolf soldiers were second, and the spear soldiers were again, the pill soldiers were in the fifth row, and the firearm soldiers were at the last, and the enemy was firearms were at the last row, and the enemy was firearms were at the front and the two rows were fired.

This tactical guiding ideology is comparable to that of later infantry squads.

Zhang Guowei smiled bitterly and said, "The army organized by Qi Shaobao was the most powerful elite in the Ming Dynasty at that time. At that time, Qi Shaobao completely abandoned the original military organization and old combat rules of the Ming army, and established a new organization and tactic based on the Yuanyang formation. But the problem is that from the Wanli Dynasty to the Chongzhen Dynasty, the court had no more money to form more new troops. The chief assistant Zhang Juzheng died of illness and lost Zhang Juzheng. Qi Shaobao, who was protected by Yu Dayou, was no longer able to make up the world."

Wu Zheng agreed with this. In the late Chongzhen period, the imperial court earned only 4 or 5 million taels a year. The salary of these silver was probably almost the same to thousands of Beijing officials. Even the military's salary was not enough to pay. It would be really difficult to train a new army. But everyone who knew that when the Dashun Army entered the capital, Liu Zongmin copied 70 million taels from the official's mansion in half a month.

The silver circulated and hoarded in the Ming Dynasty should be said to be the most expensive since the Tang Dynasty.

This is also the reason for the low price of silver in the Ming Dynasty. The huge trade surplus caused a crazy influx of foreign silver.

So the price comparison between silver and gold reached 8 to 1, when it was the cheapest, or even six to 1. In the Tang and Song dynasties, this ratio generally remained at 10 to 1, or even 12 to 1.

The price comparison of copper coins is even more exaggerated. The so-called Yi Guan was basically exchanged for one tael of silver in the Tang and Song dynasties. The so-called Yi Guan was a thousand documents.

But in the Ming Dynasty, it turned into four hundred ounces of 100 ounces. How cheap is the silver price?

Wu Zheng's hand was trembling, and he waved his hand and said, "I will stay in the military book. I will think behind closed doors for three days, and no one is allowed to disturb me... Xiao Anzi arranged for food and accommodation for Qi's family and wait for three days before making a decision."

....

I have to say that these two sets of books gave Wu Zheng great confidence.

It is not entirely the methods, experience, and the manufacturing and use of firearms involved in the military books, which have made a subversive improvement to Wu Zheng.

But it gave Wu Zheng confidence.

When Wu Zheng returned to Hangzhou this time, he had the desire to train new troops and improve the firepower of musketeers and self-defense weapons.

What I think is just to do improvement and training.

Yes, Wu Zheng's later generations' understanding of military and special weapons can almost subvert this era, but it is just cognition.

Because even if we know that humans can create atomic bombs in hundreds of years, they will not be able to create them in this era.

Even if you know that the breech gun can dominate the entire future battlefield, you cannot use impact to ignite the black gunpowder in the barrel of the breech gun without the occurrence of thunder and mercury.

Advanced research and development may work, but this involves countless processes, so-called one-touching the whole body.

The most important thing is that this requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and the time that Wu Zheng lacks the most.

The Tartars had completed the occupation of Fujian and Guangdong, the remnants of the Northwest Daxi Army had retreated to Sichuan, and the Yongli Dynasty had retreated while fighting and moving towards Yunnan...

At most two years, no more than three years, the Qing court could turn its main force to deal with the Yixing Dynasty, which was only in the thirteen prefectures.

Therefore, Wu Zheng had to use existing weapons and manpower to make the most of improvement, rather than inexplicably investing huge amounts of manpower and financial resources to carry out research and development.

The birth of any new weapon requires research and development, trial production, practical improvement, then finalized mass production, and then improved until it matures.

This is too time-consuming. In fact, for the soldiers who finally use it, a powerful musket is often far less than a handy steel knife.

This is reality.

Therefore, the purpose of Wu Zheng's return this time was to retrain the musket soldiers, train them to truly master musket shooting and fire fighting with the enemy after shooting. At the same time, they developed grenades (wood-handled grenades) with low technical bottlenecks to complete bayonet fighting, bomb dropping, musket shooting, artillery support, and fire throwing from nearby, medium and far away.

This improves the output capacity of firepower.

But now, inspired and helped by these two military books, Wu Zheng wanted more.

Because many things can be found in military books and have patterns and even dimensions marked.

These weapons can already be manufactured in the Jiajing Dynasty seventy or eighty years ago.

It’s just that the court did not really continue to develop and use it, and it was just buried.

For example, landmines, water mines, thirteen-tube continuous guns imitated and improved by Qi Daokun, and even "Fire Dragon Out of Water" that stunned Wu Zheng. This is the prototype of a second-level rocket. It is tied with a paper-paste tube, and there is a second-level rocket in the dragon's mouth. After it is fired, it increases the range and hits the enemy ships. It is used for water attacks, and the range can reach three to four miles.

There is nothing that cannot be done, only unexpected things.

Only from these two sets of books can Wu Zheng feel the incomparable power of his predecessors' wisdom.

It is so powerful that future generations can only pick up people's teeth.

Wu Zheng began to sort out his plans, and he decided to use the prototype of the weapons in the book to develop and update weapons.

At the same time, we have the plan to form a similar prototype of the later army.

Methods and means will be outdated, but ideas will not be outdated, just like Sun Tzu's Art of War, which was still highly praised by military strategists until a thousand years later.

Many of the training methods in the military books are indeed not suitable, but the reward and punishment system, training of the industry, training of courage, training of ears and eyes, training of hands and feet, training of camp formation and other methods are worth learning from, and can even be copied.

....

Three days expire.

The first thing Wu Zheng did when he left the seclusion was to summon Qi Daokun.

"Uncle Qi is very sure of the manufacturing of the firearms recorded in the military books?"

Qi Daokun replied: "Xiaomin has copied them all in the past twenty years. As long as there is enough manpower and financial resources, Xiaomin can copy them all for the prince."

Wu Zheng shook his head and said, "There is no need to imitate them all, I only have three of them."

After spreading out the drawings, Wu Zheng said: "First, landmines are divided into thunders and thrusts. The uncle practiced three days ago, should it be the thrusts, right?"

"Yes." Qi Daokun's eyes were attracted by the drawings drawn by Wu Zheng.
Chapter completed!