Lu Ming

Chapter 425 Flying Tiger Camp

Those who do not seek the overall situation are not enough to seek a domain.

Traveling across the crowd, King Qin has many long-term plans for the north.These plans are numerous, covering all aspects of a force's development.

Among them, army building is undoubtedly the first gear.

A small number of elite cavalry, adapted to the northern climate and terrain, and ready to dispatch at any time, is the core resource for town houses.This is not only necessary, but also needs to be formed early, because it takes time to form an army.

Due to the special situation at present, the Northward delegation does not have the resources and time to start training from recruits, so they can only recruit a group of temporary workers in the form of "mercenaries" for emergency.

So there was the play of conscription in the school field.

In terms of short-term cost-benefit ratio, the "temporary labor" force is quite powerful.

Because this army is cheap and "convenient".

Although the settling allowance and monthly salary seem to be a lot, compared to the resources spent by the military on the guard battalion and special forces, this amount of money is nothing.

You must know that for a regular soldier, the army not only spends resources on training and training for a long time, but also bears various hidden expenses: injury, disability, and death.

Free medical treatment for injuries, job arrangements for disabled people, and pensions for family members after death. All kinds of hidden welfare consumption far exceed that high salary.Just like the civil servants of later generations, it seems that the salary is not high, but the total resources allocated exceed that of external personnel.

Just because it is a temporary worker attribute, there is no need to think so much about using this army. Cannon fodder, if you die, you die, and there is no trouble afterwards-the law of nature.

But this situation can only be said to be effective in the short term.For the cross-travelers who are aiming for a long-term layout and have a comprehensive plan, once they are free, the temporary labor force must be reformed.

These people must go through formal training and brainwashing, and become qualified "imperial troops" like other troops before they can take on the important task of fighting against all walks of life in the north, including the Ming army.

Of course, these are just long-term plans.No matter what the northern delegation wants to do in the future, it is serious to get through the current Qinwang difficulties.So from the day when the recruitment ended, the newly recruited 530 knights began a series of pre-war preparations.

The first is Chengjun.

After weeding out some weak ones, [-] soldiers just formed a battalion, so Cao Zongbing immediately announced the establishment of the "Flying Tiger Battalion", and awarded the banner with the pattern of a winged tiger made by the battalion officer temporarily.

The battalion officer of the Flying Tiger Battalion was headed by Du Dewei, the deputy captain of the Special Forces, and Chen Ce, the former general manager of the Fubiao Battalion, was the deputy battalion officer.

Under the battalion officer, there are five detachments, A, B, C, D, E, each with 100 people. The temporarily selected natives serve as the captains and deputy captains, and a variable number of special forces members serve as "liaison officers."

Below the sub-teams are small teams, each with ten people.

Although the Flying Tiger Battalion is known as the "auxiliary barracks", in fact it is an elite cavalry unit that costs a lot of money. In the Ming Dynasty, this is probably the most extravagant "auxiliary barracks".

Every official soldier of the Flying Tiger Battalion will be equipped with two horses-this is only the minimum standard. In wartime, three or even four horses will be temporarily equipped according to the situation.In short, in the hands of local tyrants, nothing that can be solved with money is not a problem.

In fact, every regular soldier in Feihu Camp will have two real auxiliary soldiers to provide a series of logistics services such as taking care of the horses.

These auxiliary soldiers were recruited from previously eliminated military households and refugees.Although the salary is low, but the food and housing are in charge, and there is a chance to be promoted to a regular soldier, so it can be regarded as a reserve.

So overnight, Cao Zongbing, who had a small number of subordinates, suddenly swelled up, and had nearly 2000 subordinates of various colors.

The next item in Chengjun is regularization.

Specifically, it is to unify ordnance and unify clothing.

Ordnance is easy.Since there is no need for bows and arrows, and there is no need for hand-to-hand combat with the enemy in the design, the standard ordnance of the Feihu Camp is only a saber for the time being.

After the running-in period, the officers of the Flying Tiger Camp, who are familiar with the way of fighting through the crowd, will be equipped with some [-] large caps to fight encounters with small groups of enemies.

This is followed by a group change.

Adhering to the usual practice of a certain force, soldiers must complete a series of medical examinations, "disinfection" and other health and epidemic prevention links before enlisting in the army.

But the next step went awry: some recruits complained about shaving their hair.However, a military order is a military order. At this time, the Ming people who have signed the contract and received the money no longer have to bargain.

Although the commander-in-chief said he was stupid and had a lot of money, he also knew how to march.Cut off ten or eight heads randomly at this time, who in Tianjin Wei will come to avenge the hapless ghost?So in the end, each of these recruits honestly shaved their heads.

In fact, from the perspective of shaving hair itself, the people of Ming Dynasty did not resist it so exaggeratedly.

The notorious "grow your hair but not your head" in later generations, it was against the background of the massive invasion of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, the gentry class took advantage of the opportunity of the Manchu Qing to promulgate the "hair shaving order" and set off a wave of fame throughout the country. It is an anti-pig tail hairstyle, which is actually a wave of anti-Qing.

And this wave quickly disappeared with the military defeat of the Ming Dynasty. Grandma Seven said in the gate of the mansion very sadly: "Your ancestors didn't have braids."

Yes, the ancestors don't keep braids, but the ancestors didn't say that they don't keep braids
Not to mention the Ming Dynasty, but dating back to the Tang and Song Dynasties, the monk class has always been a class that the people yearn for.

The imperial court in the Song Dynasty often issued some ultimatums to the officials who went to the local area.Why?Because in that era, dutiments were equivalent to approval documents, which could be easily sold for money.

This is the same as when later generations changed their policies. The government’s finances are tight, so officials who go to Hainan to take office can only take some color TV approval documents to take office.
The same is true of the Ming Dynasty.When Zhu Yuanzhang was in Taiwan, it was very valuable that there were no indiscriminate certificates: the citizens would try their best to pay a high price to get a certificate and become an official monk.

What are the benefits of being a monk?The most important point is tax exemption.

You must know that ancient temples like Shaolin Temple have actually been local landlords throughout the ages.There are not only tens of millions of fertile fields in the temple property, but also various workshops and wine shops, which cannot be compared with ordinary gentry.

Therefore, the ancestors actually had no objection to shaving their heads or inches.Whether it is the literati and bureaucrats who become monks and practice, or the citizens who account for the largest number of people become monks to "generate income", this is very natural and even desirable.

In this case, in fact, the request of the people under the rule to shave the size of the board has not been widely resisted.As for the kind of resistance raised to the political and moral level when the Manchus entered the customs, it never happened.

Ming people are very realistic: if you eat the master's food, you have to obey the master's control.In this cruel society with distinct classes and dead bodies on the road, the lower classes have no right to bargain.

So when the general got angry and was about to drag out the two nonsense people who slaughtered Zheng Junfa, these Tianjin men who were a little bit critical at first also gave up——is it better to shave your head than to behead it?What's more, these southern soldiers all beheaded.

After that everything went smoothly.

Ming people changed into sweaters, military jackets, green military overcoats, and high-end buffalo leather boots without a second thought after taking a bath and physical examination.

This set of winter cotton clothes is not much different from the regular soldiers of the Guards Battalion in appearance, except for the buttons: the coats of the regular soldiers have double-breasted copper buttons, while the Feihu Battalion have white iron buttons.

Leaving aside the weird style, these Ming people who experienced it first-hand felt the comfort and warmth immediately in terms of the military-quality jacket.The military uniforms used by later generations are much better than the messy padded jackets and fur robes of the seventeenth century.

The reason for the mandatory shaving of the head is that there is still a military cap problem to be solved.

One of the reasons why the helmets of ancient warriors had to be bell-shaped is that most of the ancients had long hair, so there needs to be room for the helmets, which is true both at home and abroad.

However, the military caps of later generations, whether they are pot-covered steel helmets or cotton Lei Feng caps for training caps, did not take this into account, because all soldiers of later generations have short hair.

Therefore, the recruits of the Flying Tiger Battalion can only put on their military caps after they have shaved their heads.

After all the preparatory work was completed, the soldiers of the Flying Tiger Battalion, who had taken on a new look, immediately began the most important running-in training.

The task is heavy.If you want to knead five hundred scattered people together to meet the minimum army requirements, there is no other way than strengthening training.

So from this day on, soldiers divided into five groups began intensive training.

The subject is very simple: without standing in the military posture and going forward, it is enough for everyone to get on the horse and go marching and training.

During the long, deliberate march of detours, the brand-new unit began to hone in on the selection as it worked out the problems that came to light.

The teams that have been sent out not only have to practice various marching and combat formations, and be familiar with various signal transmission methods, they must also be divided into small groups from large groups at any time, and practice concealment and camping in the wild. In short, the recruits are very busy and full.

Although this kind of training is effective quickly, it can only be done with the support of huge funds.

You must know that the cost of marching troops far exceeds that of stationing. 500 people, one person and two horses for long-distance training, consume a huge number of resources every day.It was absolutely impossible for the generals of the Ming Dynasty to do it. The people who traveled through the game are now like krypton gold players in the game. For the experience points, to save time, and for a knife of 999, they will not hesitate to swipe their cards. Maybe it is Alipay.

And at the same time as the intense running-in here, the Beishang Fleet also began to return.

This time the fleet returned, except for the smallest frigate that stayed in Tianjin, the rest of the ships were all loaded with cargo, and they went south together, taking advantage of the wind to go to Shanghai Port for transit.

As for the cargo for the fleet’s return journey—except for a lot of Mongolian cowhide loaded in the bottom cabin, the rest of the cabins were all loaded with the help of local trading houses, carrying a large number of northern refugees, and no other cargo was loaded.

(End of this chapter)