The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 277 Expansion of the Army
The "Red Banner Army" has six generals, Lian Huang Han, in the ranger battalion. Emperor Chongzhen thought it was against the rules to discriminate between priorities.

Therefore, the emperor used the reason that Huang Han developed alcohol to save thousands of wounded Ming soldiers and gave him a promotion.

But this is a real level of granting. Huang Han has 2000 more troops, which means that the military pay and consumption will increase by nearly 10 taels of snowflake silver and more than [-] shi of grain every year.

What was issued was the imperial decree drafted by the cabinet, not the central decree, which shows that this promotion has been unanimously recognized by all the princes.

Just three days after getting married, the impatient Huang Han returned to "Tiger Cave" city with his wife and concubine.

The main building here has not been completed, and only a dozen houses have been completed in Huang's private residence, and the rest are reserved and leveled open spaces in the plan.

In order to welcome the head of the family to come with his family, Song Pengfei could only temporarily build a dozen captured yurts for the guards and servants to live in temporarily.

Unexpectedly, Qin Yuyi and Chu Chu both felt fresh when they saw the yurt and insisted on living in it...

Huang Han declared that he would not care about the family affairs, and left them all to Zheng Xiu'e's discretion. He would prepare his troops for the upcoming battle in autumn.

Now the number of troops in the "Red Banner Army" system has exceeded 200, excluding officers of more than [-] households, the number has reached [-], half of which are reinforcement battalion soldiers and half of which are guards.

At the end of the first lunar month, all those who participated in the grassland surprise attack were qualified to become regular soldiers of the "Red Banner Army". Only [-]% of them were able to ride into the cavalry team, and most of the rest were recruited as infantry.

There are now three infantry swordsmen and spearmen, and the total number of 670 flags is [-].There are two sets of infantry archers and crossbowmen with a total number of more than [-].

The number of gunners and gunmen expanded to three totals, plus a hundred totals led by Song Pengfei himself, with a total of 120 people.

It is difficult to replenish the cavalry that has lost the most. At present, the number of more than [-] troops cannot be satisfied. Now there are only [-], and [-] of them may not be able to ride on horseback for the time being.

There are a hundred newcomers who are proficient in bow and horse, but Hanzi, Yang Danian, Wang Zhanpeng and other cavalry generals need to be on guard against these new recruits all the time, because they are the first batch of Mongols in the "Red Banner Army".

These people were selected from about [-] Tartar slaves. If these people performed well and gained the trust of officers such as Hanzi and Yang Danian, they would consider appropriately increasing the proportion of Mongolian cavalry in the team in the future.

The team of young apprentices has been expanded by more than two times to 46 generals. They are organized into 23 hundred generals, with seven generals plus one hundred generals for those who are not satisfied.

There are a total of 570 juvenile cadets who do not even try a hundred or more senior officers.

There are three generals and two hundred generals over the age of 14. They are young soldiers who can go into actual combat. Three of these children have experienced actual combat. Now they are all grassroots officers of the firearms unit, and the worst is a corps leader.

Under the age of 14, there are 24 general banners with a total of 340 juvenile soldiers, mainly 14 or [-]-year-olds. These children are too young to go to the battlefield. Now it is the learning stage. Every year, there will be [-]-year-old boys Leaving the cadet ranks to become a boy soldier.

It stands to reason that Qin Yuyi is also a third-rank guerrilla general of the Ming Dynasty, so she should have a number of troops, and at worst, there must be a family guard that the court recognizes as paying.

For the sake of his wife's face, Huang Han had no shame at all. When he was in the capital, he went to the Ministry of War to ask for troops for Qin Yuyi. Finally, the Minister of the Ministry of War gave him face and approved the payment of a total of 330 six infantrymen.

Before Qin Liangyu went back, he left more than half of his confidant female soldiers with him, and told Qin Rong who stayed behind to take good care of the young lady.

Therefore, in the "Red Banner Army", there were 22 elite white soldiers below Qin Rong who were awarded the title of chief banner officer with the title of a hundred households.

Qin Rong was appointed as the head of the newly established "Red Banner Army" female battalion, Ma Yuefeng, a round-faced female soldier, was appointed as the seventh-rank general banner officer, and Ma Lanhua, a former small banner officer, was appointed as the sixth-rank hundred household officer. In all, Qin Liangyu married 22 daughters Female soldiers are promoted at least two ranks.

Qin Rong, a new official, was enthusiastic about her work. She followed Qin Yuyi to the "Tiger Cave" city and recruited female soldiers in full swing. About 22 women rescued from the Karaqin Grassland responded positively. Finally, Qin Yuyi took 360 female soldiers to select carefully. There are [-] ​​people.

The number of soldiers has already been exceeded, Qin Yuyi is plausible, she explained to Huang Han that there will inevitably be injuries and attrition during training, so about [-]% of the mobile number is reserved.

It can be seen from this that the wife is also the master of Han Xin's soldiers. The more soldiers the better, Huang Han certainly would not care about her, but he put forward a request for the female soldiers, that is, not to train the ash pole long spears and cold weapon arrays. All are trained to the standards of bird gunners.

Qin Rong left half of the female officers from Sichuan to train the new female soldiers in the military discipline station, and sent eleven officers who were born as female guards to the Baizong directly led by Song Pengfei to participate in the hot weapon training. Their purpose was of course to learn Release the bird gun.

The development of female soldiers must not allow women to fight against the enemy. It is the only way to develop them into a full-fledged weapon unit. Shooting and firing bird guns is a training subject that must be passed.

The 360 ​​female soldiers selected are all natural feet without exception, as are the female guards such as Qin Yuyi and Qin Rong.

Chu Chu and Zheng Xiu'e used to have their feet bound, and the situation was fine. In this era, the perverted toes were not so severe that they broke their toes abruptly. Therefore, their feet were only an inch smaller than normal-grown girls, which directly caused them to be unable to run. affect normal walking.

Huang Han has long issued an order that no women in the system are allowed to bind their feet. Violators will be held accountable by their parents and sentenced to six months of forced labor.

The training of the female barracks of the "Red Banner Army" is in full swing. Those female soldiers who have been selected have been tortured outside the Great Wall without exception for more than a year. They all want to practice the skills of killing the enemy to recover the blood debt.

In the first month, seeing Qin Yuyi busy every day, Zheng Xiu'e and Chu Chu were not happy, they often blow pillows, and asked Huang Han to arrange some things for them to do.

Zheng Xiu'e is beautiful and intelligent, and handles things very decently. The original servants of the Huang family, headed by Hong Xiu, Tian Xiang, and Cai Lian, all support the dignified old lady. Today's Huang family is also full of feudal society atmosphere, with respect and order, and differences between inside and outside.

It stands to reason that Zheng Xiu'e should not have any troubles when she is recognized and respected, but in fact, she always thinks that she is not favored. It seems that her husband loves Qin Yuyi more and loves Qin Yuyi more.

(End of this chapter)