Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 151 The Conception of the New Army

"Didn't I say that if there is a shortage of coal, a barge will be sent to transport it." Ma Qianju said impatiently at the meeting, "With a carrying capacity of 1500 tons, even if it is pulled back from Vietnam, it will be enough to burn for several months, right? "

"It's easy for you to say, Vietnam also has a court."

"Hou Li Dynasty."

"Win the monkey and get crowned—" Xi Yazhou expressed contempt for this, "I might as well send an expeditionary force to destroy it."

"Don't say that, monkeys are still ruthless at this time. It's a bit tiring for us to do it." Yu Eshui said, "For places where stable political institutions have been established, we can't do it like Europeans in black Africa. So messing around, you can only trade with them."

"That has to be unequal trade—" Xi Yazhou suddenly became full of nationalist passion, "where there are cannons, there is trade."

"Okay, okay, don't go too far," Ma Qianju interrupted Xi Yazhou's lyricism, "Let me talk about the army next."

After the traversers won the first anti-encirclement campaign and then wiped out the Gou family, they opened up the situation in Lingao and won a peaceful construction period.However, we should be soberly aware that as their landing days get longer and their actions become bigger and bigger, all eyes will eventually pay attention to the traversers.Whether it is the pirates or Ming, it is expected to take action against the traversers in the recent period.Therefore, he asked the committee and all traversers to establish a new army as soon as possible.And form a perfect training - combat system.

In the medium and long term, the combat backbone of the traversers must be a new type of army dominated by the aborigines of this time and space. Whether it is called "new army" or "indigenous army", the core idea is the same.The traversers are extremely weak in terms of human resources, even if they all serve as administrative officials and technicians, they seem unable to do what they want, let alone serve as soldiers.

The existing army with the traversers as the main force must be disbanded and reorganized into a new army.At present, the personnel who have served for a long time in the military group have exceeded 10% of the total number of traversers.These people who have mastered modern technology and ideas are responsible for a large number of patrols, guards and small-scale operations, which is a serious waste of human resources.

It is expected that the newly formed army - Ma Qianju proposed to call it "new army" instead of "indigenous army" to show its difference from the lower-level army in the future - the soldiers and non-commissioned officers are all from the Ming Dynasty.With the expansion of the size of the army, the future officer corps will also be dominated by people from the Ming Dynasty

The soldiers of the new army will mainly come from peasants and the old army, especially general military households under the Weisuo system.They will serve as primary non-commissioned officers after training.In the early days, officers of the new army were mainly time-travelers, and gradually supplemented military academy cadets. Therefore, the rebel military academy should be established as soon as possible.The initial trainees of the military academy were mainly local children and educated soldiers.Early military academies may consider co-organizing schools with administrator schools and technician schools.If there is no such condition, you can also consider using the form of a teaching team to develop officers.

The new army implements a one-chief responsibility system, but organizes soldier committees at all levels. The soldier committee has the right to oppose the officer's orders other than combat. The military department appealed.Soldiers commissars may not be executed before review by the military department, even on the line of fire.Mistreating soldiers will be severely punished.

The new army implements the professional soldier system.Both officers and soldiers enjoy employee treatment, have preferential housing and private plots, and use new varieties of crops for free (other farmers who use new varieties of crops have additional taxes in the second year).In fact, the source of manpower for the new army is the manpower saved by the new crops.

"Here, let me give my opinion." He Ming said, "I don't know the situation of the Ming army. But the army has not fought for a long time, and there are often many bad habits. In 79, we also had many problems with the troops before we fought Vietnam. Is the quality of soldiers in a typical old-fashioned army good enough, won't it attract a lot of soldiers?"

"You are still from the People's Liberation Army," Zhang Bolin interjected, "you have forgotten the invincible political work? Didn't all the liberation fighters back then come from the old army like the GMD, and they were also transformed."

"Do you know how to do political work?" He Ming expressed doubts about Zhang Bolin's words.

"Don't worry, I'll take care of it." Zhang Bolin was full of confidence.

Ma Qianju said: "What He Ming said makes sense. We don't have much time, and we don't have much time to change their minds. We need to do more screening of the personnel of the old army."

"We sent someone to serve as a grassroots officer, and we opened our heads. Once the three major disciplines and eight points of attention are cast, the atmosphere will naturally be correct." Xi Yazhou recalled his training process for the militia in Yanchang Village, "...the chief officer If you act righteously and set an example in everything, the little bosses below will not dare to mess around, how do you say the old saying? Righteousness suppresses evil.”

"The recruitment of soldiers from military households is probably unreliable." Yu Eshui said, "The military households in the late Ming Dynasty were not much different from ordinary people. They were basically tenants of military officers, and most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled."

"But do they suffer and hate deeply?" Ma Qianju said, "As far as Lingao is concerned, the military households are much more miserable than the ordinary people. The ordinary people here are much better off as tenants and long-term laborers than them."

"Recruit soldiers from the Li people. They are all in the mountains, and they can form mountain infantry." Wei Aiwen began to promote his idea of ​​Li people's troops again - recently he often trades in the Li area, and has established a certain relationship with the locals Basically, for this reason, the lighter he brought privately consumed a lot.

"Rather than recruiting Li people, it is better to recruit Miao people." Yu Eshui reminded, "Li people have deep ethnic conflicts with the Han people here. We can only slowly resolve them, and we cannot arm them easily. We have good guys in our hands. You will be more courageous. If something happens to this Li armed forces, we will be Zhu Bajie looking in the mirror."

The Miao nationality in Hainan was left after the Miao army who came to Hainan with the Ming army from Guangxi to fight in Hainan was disbanded when the Li People's Congress rioted.Because they came too late, they could only settle on high mountains, most of them worked as long-term laborers or tenants for Li people's cave owners and Han landlords, and some lived purely by hunting.Life is more difficult than that of Li people.In the history of Hainan, the relationship between the Miao people and the Han people was relatively good.

"Are there any Miao people here?"

"Yes, yes," Wei Aiwen said hastily, "the Zhu Dongzhu of Nandong said that there is a Miao village not far from them. There are hundreds of families. If necessary, we can go there once to explore the way."

"The recruitment of Li people and Miao people can be considered." Ma Qianzhu thought for a while, and it was manageable to recruit only a few dozen people to form a reconnaissance team.

"Now let me talk about the control of the army." Ma Qianju continued.

The army is a tool for traversers, and a tool cannot be used against its master. Therefore, the way the current military department operates independently must be changed.Once the new army is established, a new military system must be put on the agenda.And when the new army has more than 500 people than the traversers, it is also necessary to control the new army in an effective way.Therefore, he makes the following recommendations.

At the beginning of the establishment of the new army, the original team of the military team must be preserved.As the trainer and monitor of the new army.The establishment of the new army requires officers, so the method of halving the size was adopted, and 20 people were reserved as internal guards, equipped with modern weapons, and another 30 people entered the new army as officers to establish a teaching camp.

Once the new army system is perfected, the mission of the armed forces directly controlled by the Ministry of Military Affairs will come to an end. Except for the internal guards, everyone else will be included in the sequence of the new army.All subsequent military operations will be carried out by the new army.

The new army mainly uses 19th century weapons and cold weapons.Early decisions were made on Minie cartridge muzzle-loading rifles and pikes.The spear ratio is tentatively set at 1:1.The size of the first batch of new troops was 500 people, with a battalion and an artillery company equipped with 9 smoothbore guns.If new weapons are needed in battle, they can apply to the committee and the internal guards will issue them.

The General Staff will be established under the Military Commission, under which there will be two systems, the Army and the Navy.The General Staff has the authority to command the navy and army.But the General Staff has no authority to command the Internal Guard.The Military Commission is responsible for the training and supply of the internal guards, but it has no jurisdiction and command power, and is directly controlled by the Executive Committee.

The military cannot be used in internal conflicts.The main task of the Internal Guard is to maintain order, protect government agencies and keep important supplies.Also responsible for modern weapons control.

An independent military intelligence department was established under the General Staff to be responsible for military intelligence collection and investigation activities.

For military logistics, no independent department will be established for the time being, and the executive committee will entrust various professional departments to provide supplies, and the specific allocation will be controlled by the planning committee.

The militia plan that has been implemented in Damei Village and Yanchang Village should continue to be implemented, not only in these two villages, but also in Bairen Commune.In the early days, the basic militia system was adopted, and one out of three members was selected, and the traversers went down to each village to conduct rotation training for the basic militia.The weapons of the militia are currently mainly captured cold weapons, old-style firecrackers, carrying guns, and standard 6-pound smoothbore guns (used for village fortification). After a certain industrial capacity, the basic militia can be equipped with Mini rifles.

The Crossing Group has no formal maritime combat force, only fishing boats are used for patrolling—limited by fuel and accessories, the use of these modern fishing boats must be controlled as much as possible.In view of the fact that pirates in this era are the most powerful combat force in the southeast region, and it seems difficult to cooperate with them at present, a naval base should be built in Bopu in the short term to complete the fortification.The army should support the construction of naval fortress artillery and station a defensive force at the naval base.The navy built a fort at the mouth of Lingaojiao to cover the construction of the port and dock.

Zhang Bolin blinked when he heard this, meaning that what are you dragging, you have to humbly come to Laozi to ask for a cannon.

After the establishment of the navy, the original fishery production group was abolished and merged into the navy.Fishery production is still one of the main tasks of the Navy at this stage.Therefore, the Navy is under the dual leadership of the General Staff and the Council of Agriculture, and the Bopu fish processing plant continues to be owned by the Council of Agriculture.The soldiers of the navy are recruited and trained by the army, and then become independent systems in the future.

In order to unify the sea power in the early stage and avoid multi-management, the system of "everything that floats at sea belongs to the navy" is implemented. Whether it is a ship brought from another time and space or captured and purchased locally, and regardless of its current use, all Under the administration of the Navy.

(End of this chapter)