Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

It took another two days to unload the grain and board the army.At dusk the next day, the fleet officially set off.This time, according to Wu Shigong's request, the fleet traveled day and night, and basically did not stop along the way.Indeed, everyone is returning home like an arrow.

However, no matter how big Tang Liu's fleet was, more than 4000 people could be squeezed into it, so the space for each person on board must be relatively small.But these people have basically never been on a boat, so just like the guards when Wu Shigong left Beijing for the first time, they all approached the side of the boat, watching the scenery on the canal and on both sides with relish.

In Wu Shigong's own cabin, Qiongniang secretly looked at the stupid soldiers through the window, "hee hee" smiled and said to Wu Shigong: "Master, they are quite happy. You see, those children are all singing folk songs La."

Wu Shigong walked over, looked at Qiongniang's gaze, and said with a smile: "Don't look at them having a good time now, after a day or two of seasickness, they may not be able to cry. But now You just make my master happy."

Qiongniang who was suddenly hugged by Wu Shigong let out a cry of surprise, and then she bit her lips tightly to prevent herself from making a sound.Qiongniang's chest rose and fell rapidly, her eyes were blurred, and her breath was fragrant. Seeing Qiongniang's alluring appearance, Wu Shigong reached into her skirt and touched her thigh...

In fact, Wu Shigong was already prepared for his soldiers' seasickness, and he also bought a lot of seasickness medicine in the past few days.And this time on the boat, Wu Shigong asked Zhou Xun, He Fei and other officers to lead the team respectively, and the training of cavalry covering the fleet was also carried out on both sides of the canal.

Wu Shigong knew that in the Ming Dynasty, transporting troops by fleet was the most economical, fast, logistical and safe, so it was the most common way of marching.

But in the past, Wu Shigong's army did not have the conditions to train by boat. With this opportunity, Wu Shigong wanted the soldiers to train well for marching on water.Besides, Wu Shigong knows that most of his soldiers are from the north, and many people get seasick on the boat. Therefore, it is also very important to let them experience the feeling of vomiting more, and let their soldiers form combat effectiveness faster after transporting troops by water beneficial.

After resting on the ship for a day, Wu Shigong invited Deng Qifan over, and discussed with Deng Qifan about the development of the army. In the next ten days, Wu Shigong asked other officers for opinions, and combined with the process of becoming king this time, the army With the problems exposed, Wu Shigong finally worked out an army development plan for the next few years.

This time, Wu Shigong felt that there were two biggest problems in the army: one was the problem of logistics support, especially the problem of food and grass supply for the army; the other was the problem of the speed of marching.

Wu Shigong passed the Qin King this time, and has completely lost confidence in the local government of the Ming Dynasty in the supply of food and grass to the army.Especially when one's own army, as a guest army, went out of its own station to fight.

In this regard, Wu Shigong has no good solution, and he does not have such a great ability to change the rules of the Ming Dynasty, and he is not willing to let his army loot on the spot and make his army look like bandits.

Therefore, Wu Shigong could only formulate a very stupid death system: as long as his own army goes out, each soldier must carry ten days' rations with him, and the army's carts must also transport the 20 days' rations needed by the entire army. day's food.With this month's food, the army's food shortage problem can basically be solved.In this regard, even at the expense of the marching speed of some troops.

As for the speed of the march, Wu Shigong discovered a pair of contradictions.Because the army spends a considerable amount of time each day camping, there is less time left for the army to march.Although Wu Shigong's passive avoidance of the battle was the reason for Wu Shigong's passive avoidance of the army's marching speed of [-] miles a day when he went north to King Qin this time, Wu Shigong found that his army marched up to [-] miles a day at most.

But for the army, building a solid camp is also essential.Wu Shigong also tasted the benefits of having a strong camp in the army during his service as king this time.At least with a solid camp, when your own soldiers are resting in the camp, they will not be too nervous, and there will never be any incidents where the enemy robs the camp or your own soldiers roar because of tension.

Therefore, in addition to deciding not to leave his station in the future, unless it is absolutely necessary, and go outside to fight, Wu Shigong also made the following two decisions:

One is to form your own mobile army.Wu Shigong plans to expand his cavalry team to 1000 after returning to Henan this time.Of course, the number of cavalry troops may be somewhat lacking. Wu Shigong is going to deploy some good soldiers, plus those young military households who raise horses among the cavalry, let Xue Yongli step up training, so that after half a year, the cavalry will basically be formed. combat effectiveness.

Wu Shigong is also preparing to form a mobile thousand-man team in the mobile corps.The infantry training of this thousand-man team will form a standard thousand-man phalanx.Because he had never had the experience of training a phalanx with such a large number of people, Wu Shigong planned to gradually improve the training plan, weapons, equipment and tactics of this phalanx after returning to Henan.

But it is worth mentioning that in this phalanx, in addition to the previous musketeers and spearmen, Wu Shigong plans to add another unit, that is, the big axeman.This big axeman will be used to fight the cavalry after the enemy's cavalry has rushed into the phalanx.This solves the problem that the spearman cannot fight close enemies.

But why is it called the mobile thousand-man team? Wu Shigong plans to equip each team with two to three carts in this thousand-man team, and the carts will also be drawn by two horses.One cart will carry soldiers, and the other cart will carry weapons, armor, food and grass, etc., to ensure the good mobility of this mobile thousand-man team.

In addition, the carts used by the Mobile Thousands will also be refitted to look like vans. When marching and camping, the vans can be conveniently surrounded by a simple wall for the wall defense.

Of course, in this mobile corps, there is also an artillery team.Because Wu Shigong's guns are relatively weak, in order to ensure the firing speed of the artillery, Wu Shigong only plans to keep ten Franc machine guns in the artillery team.And those two three-pounders.For the other cannons and three-eyed firecrackers, Wu Shigong planned to place them in the three fortresses as firepower for defending the city.

Wu Shigong has also decided that if he wants to manufacture artillery in the future, he will mainly manufacture artillery of more than three pounds.Wu Shigong will be prepared to purchase artillery that is less than three pounds.Because this time through the process of exchanging artillery with the heads of the Tartars, Wu Shigong discovered that there were not many small-caliber artillery in the Ming army, and the price was not expensive.

Another thing to mention is that this time Wu Shigong plans to add an infantry centurion to the artillery team. The task of this centurion is to protect his artillery from enemy attacks.Therefore, the total number of artillery teams will also reach 300 people.

In the end, it was Wu Shigong himself, the commanders and guards.Wu Shigong will maintain a personal guard of 200 soldiers.And the members of this personal guard team were all drawn from the ten-man team's deputy captain and above.On the one hand, these personal soldiers guarded Wu Shigong and other commanders, and on the other hand, they will receive comprehensive training in various arms such as infantry, cavalry, artillery, and engineering, as well as command training.It can be said that this bodyguard team is Wu Shigong's military academy.

Therefore, Wu Shigong's mobile army will reach about 500 people.Relying on a large amount of animal power, Wu Shigong estimated that this mobile army will march about [-] miles within three days, and about [-] miles within ten days (because the personnel and horses have to rest, so the long-distance march slower).

And this mobile corps will be Wu Shigong's main force in future battles.

Another decision of Wu Shigong is to focus on strengthening the army's night march and night combat capabilities.

Through this Qin Wang, Wu Shigong found that the battles at that time were not like the ancient wars described in modern literature, and the nights were basically abandoned.The army simply does not have the practice of marching and fighting at night.

Since others gave up, if Wu Shigong used it himself, he would take the initiative in future battles.As for the effects of night blindness and other physical conditions, Wu Shigong plans to increase the nutrition of the soldiers' meals and strengthen the selection of soldiers. It is nothing more than a smaller number of qualified soldiers, but for elite troops like the mobile corps, this is not a big problem. .

There is also the lack of experience in training the army for night marches and night battles, which is not a problem.Then find problems in future training and solve them one by one.

Not to mention the military pay of the officers of the Mobile Corps, the military pay of ordinary soldiers will range from full military pay to double the military pay.The specific standards will depend on the type of arms of the soldiers, the number of years of service and other conditions.

Then there is the second-line army, which consists of the following units:

There are 600 defense troops in Qianhusuo Fortress, 300 defense troops in Li Yaozi's cottage, 500 soldiers from the local defense Runing Camp and 300 militiamen recruited by Wu Shigong after he plans to go to Runing Mansion.

These [-] soldiers will receive [-]% to [-]% of their military pay.The specific standards will also depend on the types of soldiers, the number of years of service and other conditions.

The exception is the 700 members of Yu Ji's Guidewei army that Wu Shigong accepted this time. They will receive [-]% of the military salary. We can only talk about it after we arrive at Guide Mansion.

Of course, the pay of officers in the second-line army is the same as that of the officers of the Mobile Corps.

The last is the auxiliary soldiers.Now, Wu Shigong's auxiliary soldiers are only those 400 or so in the Qianhu Institute who trained during the slack season and received only 600% of the army's salary. There are also more than [-] soldiers who surrendered to Wu Shigong in the mountainous area in the north of Runing Mansion and Guide Mansion. A bandit who only needs food supplies.

Wu Shigong planned to mobilize all the young and strong men among his domestic slaves after returning home, and let them all receive military training during the slack season and join the ranks of auxiliary soldiers.

Wu Shigong also estimated that in this case, all the auxiliary soldiers will reach more than 400 people.

Of course, there is also a boy scout army of about 700 people led by apprentice Tao Xin.However, this boy scout army is focused on the future, and at this stage, it is basically useless.