Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 190 During the Expansion of the Army and the Ming Gendarmerie
Why did Zhu Kezang suddenly dare to expand the two towns?
Nature is based on population growth.

At the end of the year, Julio, Hu Sangui, was recruiting refugees in Daqing again, and nearly [-] refugees were transported to Chengtian Mansion again!
Well, in winter, the season of famine is easy, if you don’t recruit at this time, when will you recruit.

Hu Sangui, a celebrity in the Qing Dynasty, has a very good reputation in various government offices. He will give money when he arrives, and there will be no less than a tael of silver!
If nothing else happened, the New Daming Empire would get about [-] to [-] refugees every month in the future.

For the newly expanded Guards, each town is equipped with [-]% Musketeers, [-]% Cavalry, [-]% Artillery, and the remaining [-]% are Sentinels, Medical Soldiers and other arms.

In order to make the configuration of the guards more scientific and give full play to their combat effectiveness, Zhu Kezang also equipped each town with a fixed logistics battalion.

The logistics battalion has many functions, not only to transport military rations, but also to ensure sufficient ammunition supply to the front line.

Moreover, when the logistics battalion encounters a war, it has to fight with the army. When the regular army in each town suffers casualties, it can select outstanding people from the logistics battalion to supplement soldiers.

The main equipment of the two newly recruited towns is flintlock guns, and the production capacity of the trigger rifle (Migne gun) is not enough, so they are currently used to supply the first and second towns.

Therefore, the standard equipment for each recruit: a flintlock gun with a sword-style bayonet, fifty rounds of sub-powders in paper tubes, two Dongning Shenlei, sub-powders and grenades are packed in a waterproof cowhide.

After two years of development, the Ming Dynasty Royal Manufacturing Bureau is now steadily producing [-] pieces of flintlock guns, [-] pieces of trigger rifles, [-] pieces of artillery of various types, and [-] sets of breastplates and helmets every month.

In addition to the trigger rifle, there are a lot of other equipment in stock. If a war breaks out at this time, these stocks can instantly arm [-] troops.

The difficulty of this military expansion lies in the cavalry.

The cavalry battalion of the Guards can be divided into two types: heavy cavalry and light cavalry.

However, the heavy cavalry of the Guards has a different concept from the traditional medieval heavy cavalry.

The armor worn by the heavy cavalry of the Guards is similar to that of the light cavalry, except that the breastplate is slightly thicker, and the front, head and neck of the horse are equipped with iron armor, so that the heavy cavalry also has strong mobility and speed.

All cavalry are equipped with a flintlock gun, a saber, a flintlock pistol, and a Dongning Shenlei.

The equipment of the cavalry does not matter. If you want to train an excellent cavalry, you need excellent horses and qualified soldiers.

The expansion of the Guards requires at least 6000 horses.

Zhu Kezang knew that it was not easy to train cavalry. Fortunately, there was Huang Qing, the veteran general of Yongwei Town, who had some experience in training cavalry and commanding cavalry.

With this expansion of the army, the veteran Huang Qing was naturally promoted and became the fourth guard in charge of the town.

Huang Qing told Zhu Kezang that cavalry is difficult to train, and the requirements for soldiers are very high, and they are particular about their height and arm length.

Moreover, good horses are hard to find, and it is even more difficult to become war horses. The cost of raising horses is also huge.

The cost of one cavalry is equivalent to the cost of five elite infantry.

Just for the food of war horses, a horse costs eight cents of silver a day, nearly 30 taels of silver a year, and even more food such as wheat beans and hay is needed for war.

But no matter how difficult it is, the cavalry has to be trained.

To deal with the Qing Dynasty, especially the future northern battlefield, it is absolutely impossible without cavalry.

Unless, he made a steam tank.

Besides, the cavalry was still there even in World War II, so Zhu Kezang had to pay attention to it.

Fortunately, when we wiped out the Qing soldiers on the Fujian battlefield, we captured a lot of war horses, about [-] horses, and the rest were provided by the horse farms in Chengtianfu and Jinmen, plus horses imported from other countries. Quantity is not a big problem.

The new racecourse in Chengtian Mansion occupies a large area, and the places are near the river with fertile soil. These good lands are used as racecourses, which made Prime Minister Chen Yonghua feel distressed for a long time.

By the way, don't think that Yizhou Island is surrounded by the sea and there are few grasslands and pastures, so you can't see horses.

In fact, Yizhou Island not only has horses, but also special horses, and there are quite a few horse lovers in Yizhou Island.

For example, Kinmen, which is currently under the jurisdiction of Yizhou Island, has had horses since the end of the Tang Dynasty, and people call them "Tang horses".

It turned out that at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the situation was turbulent, and the people moved south from the Central Plains one after another.

At that time, there was an official named Chen Yuan in Guangzhou, Henan Province, who led 12 people with surnames to settle in Kinmen, which opened the prelude to the development of Kinmen.

Those "Tang horses" that entered Kinmen brought great convenience to the production and life of the local people.

After Chen Yuan's death, people honored him as "Ma Zu" and "Hou Mahou" and built temples to worship him.

According to legend, there is a "Fuji Temple" in Kinmen built to commemorate Chen Yuan.

Since then, horses have been an important means of transportation and livestock in Kinmen.

Moreover, Mass Effect has a BUFF called excellent horses, which is said to improve the combat effectiveness of cavalry, how to improve it?
That is, under the influence of BUFF, the racehorse under the rule of Ming Dynasty will be stronger, bigger and more durable.

Because of this BUFF, the warhorses that Yizhou Island sells are of high quality, and if you don’t develop cavalry, your glory points will be wasted!
By the way, Guan Zhen of the fifth town is Lin Sheng of Youwuwei Town. This man was brave and kind when the former king Zhu Jin went to the west, and he can be alone.

The issue of the cavalry and the two township chiefs was resolved, but Zhu Kezang was still not satisfied because he discovered a small problem with the Guards.

Since the establishment of the Guards, the reason why they have achieved illustrious military exploits is that the military discipline is strict and they have committed no crimes.

Zhu Kezang knew in his heart that in the future, with the continuous expansion of the Guards, the composition of the troops will become more and more complicated.

Therefore, within the Guards, a supervisory agency is also needed to manage and supervise the military's violations of discipline.

So, Zhu Kezang started to do things again, and directly established a Daming Gendarmerie within the Guards!

The Gendarmerie of later generations is the military police, and their role is to maintain discipline in the army.

It feels a bit like supervising the battle team in this era, but the functions of the military police will be more abundant.

For this reason, Zhu Kezang promulgated a new set of decrees "The Working Regulations of the Ming Gendarmerie" through the cabinet, which established the gendarmerie system and clarified the responsibilities of the gendarmerie.

In the charter, it is stipulated that the task of the gendarmerie is not to fight the enemy, but its main function is to maintain military discipline, restrain the behavior of other soldiers, and deal with cases of soldiers violating military discipline.

At the same time, guarding the capital, defending important military bases, escorting military supplies, interrogating prisoners of war, and handling these matters are the responsibilities of the military police.

As soon as the Daming Imperial Military Academy heard the decree issued by the principal, it immediately added a new subject: Gendarmerie.

By the way, this recruit training will be completely in charge of the Daming Royal Military Academy!

Chengtian Mansion is expanding its army, while the Johor battlefield on the other side has been beaten to the brim!

(End of this chapter)