Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2100 New Army
In the west wing of Wuzhou government office, Australian oil lamps were lit all night, and Yi Haoran stayed up all night.

He spent the whole day on the tower to observe the actions of the Australians below the city. The actions of the thieves were neither slow nor hasty, and the troops advanced and retreated in a very orderly manner.It is indeed a "giant canal" that frightens officers and soldiers.Such a strong soldier does not have the four words of strong boats and guns, and officers and soldiers fighting with knives and guns are no match for them.

He vaguely felt that Xiong Wencan's vigorous collection of "weapons" was not very reliable.Even if all the Ming troops in Wuzhou were equipped with Nanyang rifles, he still felt that there was little chance of winning.What's more, he only has five hundred new troops now.

On the surface, this matter was Xiong Wencan's attempt to balance the conflict between Chang Qingyun and Yi Haoran.However, in Yi Haoran's view, Xiong Du is quite discerning.

The officers and soldiers have accumulated a lot of habits, and serious illnesses cannot be cured without strong medicine-not to mention his little staff, even Xiong Wencan himself dare not care about it.An officer like Jiang Suo who was born as a "surrendering bandit" has no headquarters, so it's hard to say whether he can survive in the army, let alone show off his skills.It was a good thing for Xiong Wencan to send Yi Haoran and Jiang Suo to Guizhou to recruit servants. It was a good thing to start from the beginning-Qi Jiguang also started from the training of the new army.

Military training costs a lot of money.Fortunately, the land in Guizhou is barren and the people are poor, and four taels of silver is enough to settle down; but the military salary of three taels of silver per month for soldiers is not a small amount.Xiong Wencan allocated 1 taels of silver to Yi Haoran: 500 taels was three months' military pay, 2000 taels was settling expenses, and the rest was "miscellaneous office expenses".

This "office miscellaneous expenses" does not need to be listed and reported, which is tantamount to a system of contracting funds. The surplus is the benefit of the handler.Therefore, Yi Haoran received this errand, and immediately became a "popular man" in Xiong Wencan's shogunate. The shoguns and officials who were familiar with him or not, came to congratulate him one after another, and by the way, they all wanted to stuff him Several people begged him for "help".

Yi Haoran has been behind the scenes for many years, so these tunes are naturally clear.It's also inconvenient to refuse: even if it's not because the other party can help in the future, at least it can keep them from doing bad things.So when he and Jiang Suo set off, there were not more than a dozen masters and subordinates, but more than 100 people.

The location for recruiting soldiers was chosen in Yongningwei, Guizhou, Xiong Wencan's hometown.Guizhou is not under Xiong Wencan's jurisdiction, so Yi Haoran's name is only to recruit Xiong Wencan's "family members", not "recruitment of soldiers".Although the court did not prohibit this kind of thing, he also knew that Xiong Wencan had many political enemies in the court, so it was hard to guarantee that this matter would not become an excuse for their criticism.So after hastily recruiting soldiers, they quickly drove back to Guangxi to practice-the training camp was located in Teng County, not far from Wuzhou.

A few days after arriving in Teng County, Yi Haoran called Jiang Suo and gave him 500 taels of silver.

"What kind of money is this?" Jiang Suo asked in surprise, having never seen such money in his life.

"You followed me to Guizhou, and you want to help me train soldiers here. You deserve it."

"Isn't the military salary just paid..."

Yi Haoran recruited soldiers by himself, and they paid their salaries on time and never missed arrears, but the military salary is not three taels a month, but two taels.The reason is that the military pay of three taels of silver is only paid for going into battle, and two taels of silver are paid on weekdays when there is no battle.For this item, there will be an additional benefit of 500 taels per month.Although Jiang Suo's military salary was quite a bit, he always felt very uncomfortable - among the Australians, how much money was said to be good, and there was never a shortage of deductions.

"This is miscellaneous public expenses." Yi Haoran said, "It is also for your benefit. Just take it."

Although Yi Haoran has the idea of ​​"public loyalty to the state system", this does not prevent him from being corrupt and self-enriching.He is over five years old, and it is unknown if he will have other errands in the future. If he can't make some money on this errand, there will be no place to bury the coffin when he dies!What's more, since he took this job, he has spent a lot of "entertainment" and "management" in all aspects.If it is not exploited from the top soldiers, the "miscellaneous items at public expense" that Xiong Wencan sent to him will not be enough for expenses at all!

"Didn't you already receive the public fee before going to Guizhou?" Jiang Suo knew what was going on, and felt very disgusted.Isn't this kind of money the "drinking soldiers' blood" mentioned in political education when enlisting in the army?

"What do you know!" Looking at his expression, Yi Haoran probably knew what he was thinking, and couldn't help being secretly surprised, "Now you are also a military officer of the imperial court, not a soldier of a gangster. Being an official means having ostentation, expenses and entertainment. How can it be enough with your few salaries? Now we are training alone, and we are self-contained. In the future, you will serve in the army, whether you are a superior or a colleague, which one should you not pay attention to?" Seeing that Jiang Suo was about to speak, he waved his hand, " You just listen to me. This is a long-standing evil in the officialdom, let alone you and me with such a small future, even Master Xiong would not dare to make a mistake—even Qi Shaobao and Yuan Dushi had to cling to the dignitaries in the court. ——If it is not the case, not to mention making meritorious deeds, even your official position and even your life will not be preserved!"

He sighed: "When you enter the officialdom, you have to live with the light, and sometimes you even have to stigmatize yourself. Don't take it to heart!"

Jiang Suo didn't say anything else, he took the money and wanted to leave.

"Jiang Suo, haven't you chosen your own soldiers yet?" Yi Haoran urged him to choose a dozen of his own soldiers a few days ago.

"I have a personal soldier now, which is enough."

"You, you are really scholarly!" Yi Haoran sighed, and suddenly realized that the other party was not a scholar, "When you go to the battlefield, even if you are a general commanding millions of elite soldiers, you must have a few personal guards who can entrust life and death , otherwise you will be alone at the moment of crisis!"

"Yes, I understand." Jiang Suo lowered his head and said, took the silver and went down.

Yi Haoran shook his head secretly: This person who has been trained by the gangster is dead-hearted after all.

Each of these five hundred new troops is a strong mountain man selected by Yi Haoran according to the standards in "Ji Xiao's New Book".All his 500 people were handed over to Jiang Suo for training.

However, although Jiang Suo is proficient in "Kun Cao", he can be regarded as straightforward when talking about the military training of the Kun Bandit, but he is just an ordinary soldier. Although he has excellent training results, he is not even a corporal. No military experience.Now teaching 500 people by one person is naturally beyond his capabilities.It was chaotic for several days.

Yi Haoran remembered the military books he had read, so he changed his strategy and first selected the ten smartest out of 500 people, and Jiang Suo would teach them by words and deeds, starting with walking, lining up, and holding guns.Then another 100 people were selected, and these ten people went to practice the 100 people. Jiang Suo was always by his side to point out and correct.Finally, let the 100 people train the rest.However, after three months of hard work, the department has been "strictly organized" and "remarkable."Yi Haoran is quite proud.

Even according to Jiang Suo's vision, the level of training in front of him is not very high, let alone the Fubo Army, even the National Army can't match it, at best it is at the level of the militia.What he can teach is only the most basic formation drills, and those involving combat formations are only the most basic combat formations of deploying on the march, double horizontal formation, and hollow square formation.In fact, he is not very clear about how it works.

Shooting was also carried out according to Jiang Suo's training. Unfortunately, the rifles he bought were all equipped with bayonets, and the imitation bayonets Yi Haoran asked the blacksmith to imitate were not easy to use, so he finally gave up the bayonets and practiced shooting with all his strength.

The training syllabus was the same as that of the Fubo Army, [-] "air shots" and [-] live ammunition shots.

This shooting training made Yi Haoran secretly complain.Because these guns only have 100 rounds per gun.Substances are monopolized by the Australians, and the price is exorbitant—not to mention gunpowder and lead bullets, no one knows how to make the small copper piece called a "fire cap".

Although the money wasn't his own, it was too much, and it was hard for Master Xiong to explain it to him.

However, seeing the performance of the Nanyang Rifle on the training ground, Yi Haoran felt that it was worth the money.

It's a pity that the number of Nanyang rifles bought is not enough, there are only a hundred of them, Yi Haoran originally planned to arm them with the bird guns of the Frang machine bought from Macau.But Jiang Suo thinks that the performance of the two guns is different, and it is difficult to match each other.He suggested to Yi Haoran to use the Australian method he had seen when he was a militia captain in training: equip with a spear.

This standard spear is much easier to handle than the Nanyang rifle, and not long after, the people sent by Yi Haoran bought back hundreds of standard spears exported from Lingao in Macau.Jiang Suo mixed the spearmen and musketeers according to the training he had received when he participated in the militia captain training.

This joint training on drawing on paper is easy to say, but it is actually not easy.In particular, the formation and transformation of the mixed formation of spearmen and musketeers can only be done by elite professional troops.Jiang Suo, an ordinary soldier, and Yi Haoran, who was self-taught by reading military books, naturally couldn't do it.One of Xiong Wencan's generals sent General Song Ming to assist in military training.

Song Ming was a young general who participated in the battle of Chengmai back then. Since Chengmai was defeated, he has been depressed.He has always been ambitious.When they arrived in Teng County, they hit it off with Yi Haoran and took over the training.

Jiang Suo drew the combat methods of this mixed force on paper one by one, and then Song Ming implemented the training one by one.He trained his troops very well, and soon he had a well-founded advance and retreat.However, the problem came again: what Jiang Suo learned was just a little fur, and the largest joint training was only a company-level formation.He didn't know how to cooperate with the five hundred masters, so he could only rely on the cooperation of the three to try.Gradually, he also figured out the use of this formation.

It's a pity that they didn't have more time. The Australians landed suddenly, and Guangzhou and Zhaoqing fell one after another. This new army, which had just formed an army, was going to be one of Xiong Wencan's last trump cards, fighting the Australians in Wuzhou.

"It's a pity that the new army has not yet been trained, and there are only 500 people!" Yi Haoran secretly felt regretful.

(End of this chapter)