Daming wolf ride

The previous reorganizations were on the scale of thousands of people, but this time it was necessary to reorganize nearly 20000 people, which was an unprecedented test for Dayong, the deputy general of Jinzhou.

How to reorganize and what military system to use is a headache.

In order to please Dayong, the generals suggested that he adopt Sun Yuanhua's new military system of firearms. The reason is very good. Most of the 15000 people under their command are gunners, and more than 5000 people were trained by Sun Yuanhua. The use of firearms They are already very proficient, rather than letting them give up firearms and use swords, it is better to give full play to their strengths.Geng Zhongming and Li Zhongfu are supporters of this proposal, because if Dayong adopts the new firearms military system, they, officers of the original firearms army, will definitely be reused.

However, Xiang Chong, Gao Huai and others suggested that Dayong should select a few thousand elites from 15000 people to expand the pro-barracks, and the others should be dispersed to the existing camps of the Jinzhou Army.This point of view is obviously due to the fact that all the capable soldiers under the command of the Ming army are all personal soldiers.Although there are two or three generals who hold this point of view, they are from the new firearms army, but most of them are from Dongjiang, and they don't value firearms. They think that firearms have little lethal effect on the battlefield and their quality is too poor. Swords, bows, arrows and spears are useful.

Among the direct line generals, Cao Bianjiao only cares about the construction of the wolf cavalry army, not how to reorganize the infantry battalion. Jiang Wanli's opinions are also among the two, and other opinions can be used as a reference for Da Yong, so how to choose becomes Dayong is a matter of one person. [

As a time traveler, he must be deeply impressed by the power of firearms. Therefore, Dayong tends to the former of the two views. Before making a decision, he specially asked someone to transfer some rules and regulations of Sun Yuanhua's army for further understanding.

When Sun Yuanhua trained the new army, he abandoned the guard system and adopted the battalion system. There were 4000 people in the first battalion, including 2000 combat soldiers and 2000 auxiliary soldiers. They were equipped with 120 two-wheeled vehicles, 120 artillery vehicles, and 60 grain vehicles. , a total of 300 vehicles, and the weapons and equipment of the first battalion include 16 Western cannons, 80 medium cannons, 100 eagle guns, and 1200 bird guns. The gunners are also equipped with hand guns.

When he saw this configuration, Dayong still felt emotional. The formation of this army is very familiar. It can be said that it is a modern army with firearms and "motorization".With the powerful firepower of this army, if it hadn't been for the Kong Youde rebellion, it would be really hard to tell who would win the battle between the Jin and the Jin when it was used on the battlefield outside the pass.

It's a pity, it's a pity, I really don't know whether it is the end of the Ming Dynasty or the Han family of the Ming Dynasty is really exhausted, and the Kong Youde Rebellion happened, and this powerful army built with a lot of money was stillborn, otherwise history may be... Rewrite.

In addition to the 15000 soldiers from the rebel army, there are more than 3000 young and strong captives brought back from Pingdu who can be reorganized by Dayong. Dayong believes that they are very obedient in the process of following the army, so they can be used with confidence.He didn't know that these people's obedience to the Jinzhou army was not because of fear of the officers and soldiers, but because of the fear of their companions being slaughtered, and because they also ate human flesh.

In addition, there is the Jinzhou Army, which has 3000 people excluding the Wolf Cavalry and a small number of Qingqi.In this way, there are more than 21000 people added together, which can be described as a strong army.

Before reorganizing the infantry battalion, Dayong first expanded the wolf cavalry army. On the basis of the original 1200 soldiers, he added 1300 selected soldiers who knew how to ride or had a little knowledge. In addition, more than 300 Mongolian war horses were bought from Jingying Lin Qing and Yang Yufan.In this way, the number of war horses in the army has reached more than 2000, which can basically guarantee one horse for each man.

Dayong wanted to buy more war horses, but Lin Qing and Yang Yufan didn't have so many war horses to sell. These 300 horses were secretly sold to Dayong because they were fascinated by money. They must sell all the war horses at once. I don't have the guts.For the more than 300 horses, the master under his command had to make several accounts, and report the experience of fighting the rebels several times before he could explain it.

If you don't have war horses, then buy a pack horse to pull the cart. As long as it is a horse, there are not too many brave men.

It is true that there are no war horses in the land of Denglai, but there are too many horses to pull carts. Which rich family does not have a few carriages, and which ordinary people do not take a carriage when they travel far? In other places, there may have been military disasters, and the carriages were all betrayed. The army searched everything, and as long as you are willing to give money in Laizhou City, you can still buy hundreds of horses. In addition to the pack horses captured before and after Dayong, the number of pack horses in the army is similar to that of war horses, and there are more than 2000 horses.If the cattle were not used to plow the land, I am afraid that there would be hundreds of ox carts in the Jinzhou Army.

With these horses, it is basically guaranteed that the cavalry has one horse and one horse, and 500 pack horses can be allocated to carry heavy armor.

In this way, the expanded wolf cavalry army has 2000 combat soldiers, 500 auxiliary soldiers, 800 heavy armor and 1200 light cavalry, which is twice as large as before.This is the limit that Dayong can do. After all, this is Denglai. There are many people who can swim and few people who can ride horses. It is really much more difficult to find qualified cavalry than the road to Shu.He also wanted to lead a tens of thousands of cavalry to fight Hong Tai outside the pass, but where could he find so many horses and cavalry?Have heart.

The battalion officer of the wolf cavalry army was still Cao Bianjiao, who also directly led the heavy cavalry battalion, while the light cavalry battalion was handed over to Peng Dachui.Dayong is now very relieved of this thieves.He once asked Peng Dachui that the Denglai Rebellion has been put down now. According to the original agreement, Peng Dachui can lead his brothers to leave the Jinzhou Army, and Dayong can also ask the imperial court for his merits and go to a certain place to serve as a thousand generals to support him. For half a lifetime, if you don't want to be an official, you can leave with money.But Peng Dachui said that he didn't want to leave the Jinzhou Army, and he didn't want to be an official elsewhere. He only wanted to stay in the Jinzhou Army to serve Shi Dayong.Of course Dayong was happy about this, how could he refuse.In view of the hard work of Peng Dachui and his men, Dayong generously handed over the Qingqi Battalion to him, which can be regarded as a kind of reward and reward.

The current Jinzhou Army is a bit chaotic. Shi Dayong himself is the participating general. Most of the generals under his command have the titles of garrison, commander, and commander-in-chief. Those surrendered generals also have messy names, and the command system is inevitably chaotic.Therefore, when Dayong selected officers for the expansion of the Wolf Cavalry Army, he conveniently solved the problem of command confusion.

He temporarily stipulated that 1000 people are 200 households, 100 households have 20 households, and each [-] households has [-] people; [-] households have two general banners, one general banner has [-] people; Xiaoqi [-] people.

The battalion officer of the first battalion is the commander, such as the wolf cavalry army. The battalion officer Cao Bianjiao is the commander and directly leads the heavy armored cavalry.Because Cao Bianjiao directly led the heavy armored cavalry as a commander, the wolf cavalry army only set up [-] households, and it can be added if there is expansion in the future.

However, this regulation can only be used within the army, and the military positions appointed by the imperial court shall prevail for external use, and everything will be formally customized after the final award of the imperial court.

The expansion and adaptation of the wolf cavalry army does not need to involve too much, as long as the horses and the collected armor are allocated in place, and the rest of the things are selected by the officer, Cao Bianjiao will naturally take care of it, and there is no need for Da Yong to worry about it.Today's General Xiao Cao has become more and more like a general, and sometimes Dayong has a feeling of "I am not as good as him".This feeling is not jealousy, but joy, joy from the heart, watching General Cao grow step by step with his own eyes, Dayong has an indescribable sense of accomplishment. [

Dayong is eager to train his subordinates now, because he is worried that he will die on the battlefield one day. If his death leads to the decline of the Jinzhou Army, then he will really die with regret.In order to prevent this from happening, it is necessary to train the subordinates to grow up quickly and become independent generals.That way, even if he died, the banner of the Jinzhou Army would not fall down.

After solving the wolf cavalry army, it is natural to decide on the reorganization of the infantry battalion.All the seizures have been transported to Dengzhou City. Dayong currently has 26 Hongyi cannons directly purchased or imitated, 360 other Western light and heavy cannons, 240 small and medium-sized copper cannons cast by the Ministry of Industry, 12000 new-style arquebus guns, and old-style guns. There are more than 5000 guns, and more than 2000 guns, hand guns, and eagle guns. In addition, there are more than 100 large and small cannons on naval warships. The number of artillery and firearms is already overwhelming.

With so many cannons and firearms, Dayong, a traverser, would definitely not do it if he didn't focus on using them to give full play to their power.Even if he had no experience, he could still remember clearly the performance of the Ming Army Chariot Battalion in the Battle of Xiaolinghe.For this reason, he decided to reorganize his army according to Sun Yuanhua's method.

But in the end, Dayong did not completely copy Sun Yuanhua's training method, because he felt that there was a problem in Sun Yuanhua's plan. He equipped a battalion with too many artillery pieces, but the number of troops was small, only 4000 and 2000 soldiers. , At the same time, the firecrackers and artillery are organized, and it is obviously impossible to achieve unified deployment and concentrated use of firepower.

For this reason, he decided to use the existing artillery in his hand to form an artillery battalion separately. This idea also existed during the Battle of Shahe. At the beginning, he suffered from the lack of artillery and no gunners who could handle it, so he could only form an artillery battalion. Buried in the bottom of my heart.Now, he has the conditions to form an artillery battalion.

On the seventh day of September, Dayong ordered the establishment of an artillery battalion. The first battalion was equipped with 360 Western light and heavy guns, 240 small and medium-sized bronze guns cast by the Ministry of Industry, and 300 guns.There are 3000 gunners, 2000 auxiliary soldiers, 200 two-wheeled vehicles, and 420 artillery vehicles. The 26 Hongyi cannons were too heavy to be transported. In order not to affect the movement speed of the artillery battalion, Dayong reluctantly used all the 26 Hongyi cannons on the head of Dengzhou City.