I want to be emperor

Chapter 175 Blame Chen Yongfu
Although the Rural Protection Army has already decided on its own gray uniform, the Rural Protection Army has expanded extremely rapidly in recent months. Just the new army of the Rural Protection Army has rapidly expanded from 4000 to tens of thousands of people.

The new military uniforms produced by the Rural Protection Army are barely enough to supply these new troops, and there is not much production capacity to supply the traditional troops that expand faster and drop more troops.

More importantly, in order to allow the traditional troops of the surrendered troops to quickly form combat effectiveness, there is often only a short reorganization time, and then they are sent to various fronts, and there is no time to carry out a large-scale replacement of these surrendered troops.

Under such circumstances, they can only continue to wear the original Ming army uniforms in a short period of time, but an extra gray cloth strip is tied on the sleeves as a simple distinction. Only small officers can be issued new gray military uniforms of.

However, this situation will not last for too long, and the production capacity of various ordnance within the Rural Protection Army has been rapidly expanding.

These ordnance are not only guns, armor and other weapons, but also all kinds of military supplies, such as military uniforms, quilts, tents, new four-wheeled carriages, and even military kettles, shovels, flags and other messy things, etc. Many military supplies are produced.

In the past, most of these military supplies were produced by the Liqingdian Arsenal and several other factories affiliated to the Ministry of Industry.

After the Rural Protection Army captured Nanyang City and Xiangyang City, the Ministry of Industry, under the instructions of Luo Zhixue, began to gradually transfer the various factories and workshops in Li Qingdian to the two major cities of Nanyang City and Xiangyang City. go.

The location of Li Qingdian was still too remote. At that time, it was chosen to build various factories including the arsenal here.

It was purely because the rural protection army wanted to implement the strategy of going south, and they did not capture any cities after going south, so they could only choose Liqingdian for construction.

However, with the expansion of the Rural Protection Army, after taking Nanyang City and Xiangyang City, various jobs and technical personnel will naturally need to be transferred to these two cities one after another.

In this way, the traffic is more convenient, and the safety is more guaranteed. At the same time, more and more factory personnel can be better arranged.

Now there are more than a dozen factories of various types in Liqingdian, and the number of workers has reached more than [-].

The supplies needed to feed, drink, and sleep so many people are not a small amount. Li Qingdian is relatively remote and the traffic is troublesome, so the rural protection army decided early on to move these factories to Nanyang City and Xiangyang City. .

However, the various factories in Li Qingdian are still the most important ordnance material production base of the township army, so the overall relocation will be very cautious, and the relocation will not affect the production capacity at the same time, and even use the opportunity of relocation to further expand the production capacity.

In the case of relocation while producing, the relocation speed of each factory in Li Qingdian is relatively slow, and it is estimated that it will take at least about three months to complete the relocation.

During the relocation process, the Ministry of Industry set up a Xiangyang Clothing Factory in Xiangyang Prefecture according to Luo Zhixue's instructions. The factory will expand production while accepting various technicians from the Liqingdian Clothing Factory. It is the largest production base of military uniforms, military shoes, military quilts, blankets, tents and other military textiles under its rule.

At the same time, in order to expand production capacity in a short period of time, and also to provide a way of making money for ordinary people in the midst of war, the factory's many production tasks with low technical requirements, such as spinning, weaving, sewing and many other processes, will be Part of the trip will be arranged.

These days, many women in the folk are able to spin yarn, weave cloth and sew clothes. Giving them some outbound orders can also allow them to earn some money to subsidize their families.

After the large-scale production of the Xiangyang Clothing Factory, the production capacity of various military textiles such as military uniforms for the Rural Protection Army will be greatly increased. By then, even the traditional mixed brigades of various surrendered troops will be able to get new military uniforms.

And the large-scale outsourcing production model implemented by the clothing factory in Xiangyang is not just their unique case. In fact, many factories under the control of the Ministry of Industry will have this outsourcing production model, but the proportion of outsourcing is small. That's all.

And this set was not created by Luo Zhixue, but a model they had formed during the Funiu Mountain period. When they were nesting in Funiu Mountain, there were not many professional military supplies factories, and there were many military supplies, such as The large-scale production of the new winter military uniforms last year was made by mobilizing many folk forces in Funiu Mountain, especially those women who are good at spinning, weaving and sewing.

Otherwise, under the control of the Township Protection Army at that time, the quilt workshop with a size of only a few dozen people may have produced thousands of sets of textile military supplies in just a few months.

It's not just a set of military uniforms, but also a complete set of quilts, boots, towels, etc., as well as various textile materials such as military tents.

Similarly, in order to increase production capacity in a short period of time, other factories and workshops will also actively involve non-governmental forces, especially some processes that cannot be completed by machinery and require a large amount of ordinary manpower to complete.

Only in this way can the production capacity of military supplies of many factories belonging to the Rural Protection Army be quickly guaranteed.

Of course, even so, all kinds of military supplies in the Township Protection Army are still extremely scarce, and the speed of the expansion of the Township Protection Army is too fast. It is difficult to meet the needs of all troops in a short period of time, especially if they cannot meet the requirements The needs of traditional mixed brigades.

Therefore, the ordinary soldiers of the Fourth Mixed Brigade are still wearing the former Ming army uniforms.

In this way, it is easy for outsiders to know the fact that these bandit protection soldiers used to be officers and soldiers.

If they could investigate and inquire in detail with Zuo Liangyu and the others, then it would not be difficult to find out that most of the soldiers in the Fourth Mixed Brigade were from Chen Yongfu's troops.

And I have to say that Chen Yongfu was very good at training soldiers before. After these soldiers turned into thieves, inspired by good treatment and equipped with more sophisticated traditional equipment, their combat effectiveness has surpassed that of ordinary Ming. Army soldiers.

This is also the direct reason why Zuo Liangyu's troops led troops to attack Yuzhou City many times and failed in the end.

After all, no matter how many guns the [-]th Mixed Brigade has, it must have qualified soldiers to control them.

And this also made Zuo Liangyu and others even more angry with Chen Yongfu. He Renlong just cursed: "Chen Yongfunas, let's just lose the battle and join the bandits. Otherwise, how could those bandits get thousands of officers and soldiers so easily?" .”

"If it weren't for these elites under Chen Yongfu, we would have entered Yuzhou City long ago!"

Zuo Liangyu also sighed and said, "Who says it's not!"

It's so difficult for them to fight Yuzhou City, it's all because of Chen Yongfu's bastard!

If the people of the Township Protection Army heard their conversation, they would laugh!
They have a fart relationship with Chen Yongfu and other senior surrendering generals like Chen Yongfu!
According to the process of reorganizing and surrendering troops of the Township Protection Army, whether Chen Yongfu personally surrendered to the bandits or not could not affect the fact that the Township Protection Army reorganized the Ming army and surrendered troops into a traditional mixed brigade.

After all, when the Township Protection Army increases the number of surrendered soldiers, it does not accept and reorganize as an establishment, but directly reorganizes ordinary soldiers, and the reserved establishment is only limited to the first level.

More importantly, the Township Protection Army never reorganized the middle and senior generals in the surrendered troops into the mixed brigade.

These defecting officers, among them middle and senior generals, such as Chen Yongfu and his son, are usually given a vacant position, supported by the title of consultant, and do not even have a real position, let alone continue to lead troops in the original army.

On the contrary, some low-level officers can stay in the field troops after passing the assessment, but when they stay in office, they can only serve as deputy captains, deputy post chiefs and other low-level deputy positions, and they will be promoted after subsequent meritorious service.

The reorganization of the Township Protection Army was aimed at ordinary soldiers, and they were not very enthusiastic about middle and low-level officers or even senior generals.

At the same time, the personal attitudes of the senior generals did not affect the reorganization of the Rural Protection Army.

Lu Xiangsheng didn't surrender to the bandits, but died directly on the battlefield, but it didn't affect the township protection army's reorganization of a large number of Ming soldiers captured from Sanyuanzhuang into the ninth mixed brigade and the tenth mixed brigade.

Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong didn't know about this, so they made these complaints.

But after complaining, they still have to discuss countermeasures honestly.

He Renlong said: "It is absolutely impossible to continue to attack Yuzhou City. The bandit army is more than ten miles away. If we continue to attack, we will easily be flanked by them."

Zuo Liangyu said: "Brother He is right. Now it is impossible to attack Yuzhou City by force. We still have to retreat early and strengthen the camp to observe the aftereffect."

He Renlong said instead: "It is possible to retreat to the camp, but if there is a chance, we can also annihilate the ten thousand reinforcements of the bandit army directly on the road!"

"Although the thieves are not weak, they just relied on the high and thick walls of Yuzhou before. If it was on the plains, we would have swallowed two or three thousand thieves in the city of Yuzhou, even if they had Dozens of cannons won’t do either!”

"For a battle in the wild, our many assault artillery and tiger squat artillery can be put to use, and you and my two armies add up, there are more than two hundred small artillery pieces of various types, and so many small artillery pieces form a vehicle formation. , the mere thieves are definitely not our opponents!"

"As for the battle in the wild, the big general's cannons among the bandit army won't be used anymore. Those big general's cannons cost hundreds or even thousands of catties. It's easy to use on the top of the city, but they are our living targets outside."

Hearing He Renlong's words, Zuo Liangyu nodded after thinking for a while and said: "It's a good way to surround the spot and fight for aid, maybe it can also lure out the bandit army hiding in Yuzhou City! "

"However, we still have to be cautious. First send more scouts to find out the details of the bandit army."

(End of this chapter)