If the combat effectiveness of Qi Jiguang's Qi family army ranks second in ancient Chinese history, then no one dares to call themselves the first. Qi Jiguang's formation of the army is also different from others, Qi Jiguang has trained a group of peasants and miners into elites with a record of hundreds of battles and hundreds of thousands of victories, and the number of beheadings is as high as 100,000. How did Qi Jiguang do it?
After all, these people who were recruited first were scattered soldiers and brave soldiers, and they must be restrained by strict military discipline. Qi Jiguang issued a decree in the army, "Behead the sick and abandon the weapons; the beheading of the military flag, if it is a bird wrench, shoot too early or too late, the soldier responsible for protecting the bird wrench, if the bird wrench dies, then the soldier is also beheaded." "Such a powerful and strict army has made an army composed of a group of peasants and miners form a perfect transformation from the rabble to the powerful fighting power of Daming."
Secondly, Qi Jiguang has excellent military talent and has an advanced tactical system for commanding the army. Qi Jiguang became famous in Pingding Wokou, when Japan was in the Warring States period, and many exiled samurai and ronin fled to China and were incorporated into mercenaries by Chinese islands. And the fighting power of these people is quite strong, and it is recorded in the "Compilation of The Chart of the Sea" that fifty-three Wokou were rumored to have committed crimes, slashing and killing all the way from Hangzhou to Nanjing. Faced with this situation, Qi Jiguang improved the coordination of the arms in the Chinese art of war and created a small team combat system such as the Mandarin Duck Array, which was applied to the southern terrain and had both attack and defense.
The third firearm was strong, and at that time, Daming gradually recovered its national strength through Zhang Juzheng's reform, strong support for national defense expenditure, and gradually innovated weapons. According to the "DamingHui Code, Firearms", the first batch of the War Bureau imitated 10,000 advanced arquebusiers in the hands of the Wokou. Because its bolt resembles a bird's beak, it is also called "bird reaming". Daming's firearm design and manufacturing process was among the best in the world at that time.
