Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

To solve the problem of the mind of the Runing Army, of course, the limbs must be further strengthened.The next step is to expand the army.

Fortunately, the Runing Army gained a lot in the Huainan Great Victory this time, and the funds for army expansion are not a problem. Of course, Wu Shigong will not expand the army to the limit. He is afraid that the situation where he killed himself last time will happen again.

In addition to the navy marine regiment and cavalry regiment that had been prepared for a long time ago, Wu Shigong planned to add an infantry regiment to each of the guide, Nanyang, and Runing armies.

However, Wu Shigong is still planning to pick up the rotation training system again, and will establish another rotation training regiment in the headquarters, so that each legion outside will ensure that there is an infantry regiment in the headquarters for rotation training.Therefore, the three legions outside are actually still the original strength.

But at this time, Wu Shigong had a visitor here, and that was Li Lu, a famous general from Nanyang.Li Lu was officially appointed by the Ministry of War as soon as he returned to Ye County after he suffered a double storm in Hong Chengchou's camp.He was appointed as the chief training soldier of the Nanyang regiment, with a rated number of 500 soldiers.

Along with the appointment, Henan Governor Xuan Mo also allocated the first batch of food and construction costs for the camp.It should be said that Xuan Mo's behavior is quite friendly, even the routine is the lowest discount, just thinking of using Li Lu to win over Wu Shigong.

But Li Lu panicked after receiving the appointment.why?That is, he actually has no soldiers in his hands.Now that the appointment of the Ministry of War has been made; the time to wipe out the peasant rebel army is imminent; plus Li Lu's reputation, no matter how many reasons Li Lu has, he has to fight the peasant rebel army!

So this time Li Lu came to visit Wu Shigong for two reasons.One is to buy some weapons from Wu Shigong to arm the soldiers he urgently recruits; the other is to borrow soldiers from Wu Shigong.

Li Lu thinks this way: take his own soldiers and soldiers borrowed from Wu Shigong as the core, plus recruited new soldiers.First, let's fool Hong Chengchou and Xuan Mo in terms of numbers.In the event of a real war, with those new soldiers as cannon fodder, Li Lu's personal soldiers and soldiers borrowed from Wu Shigong will also have time to bring Li Lu back safely.

But after Wu Shigong heard Li Lu's thoughts, he immediately thought of a good way to borrow chickens to lay eggs.So Wu Shigong said to Li Lu: "Brother Li asked me for it. There are two considerations. One is to deal with the imperial court's inspection; the other is to prepare for war. Is that what my brother said?"

Li Lu immediately nodded and replied, "Exactly."

"Then the matter will be easy to handle." Wu Shigong continued, "Brother, I will give Brother Li a thousand-man regiment. You don't need to borrow it, and I will give it to you. The weapons and equipment of this regiment are also provided by our Runing Army. But Brother Li has to pay for the food and salary. It will be placed by Brother Li's side to protect your safety."

"In this case, this regiment, your 500 soldiers, plus our Runing Army's troops in Luojia Town Camp and Longyan Town Base, are about the same as Brother Li's [-] people. You can definitely pass the test."

"However, there is one thing that must be explained to Brother Li. The appointment of the officers of this regiment is only up to our Runing Army. The food and salaries you give to this regiment must first be sent to our Runing Army, and then distributed from us go down."

Because of the incident with the Yao Liang militia in Ningling County, the current Wu Shigong will definitely take the payment of the army's food and salaries into his own hands.Only have the control over food and salary and the appointment of officers.This army can be said to be completely controlled by the Runing Army.

Seeing Li Lu's agitated expression, Wu Shigong immediately explained: "Brother Li, don't think I'm trying to take advantage of you. Do the math, my regiment can take up to three thousand of your soldiers' rations. If you recruit new soldiers yourself , how much will you spend? And the rest of the food and salary now belong to you personally? And don’t you have another source of income now?”

"Oh? What kind of money?" Hearing about money.Li Lu's eyes lit up.

"Think about it! With my regiment plus your own soldiers, your town still has 5000 people left unoccupied. Don't talk about those bitter soldiers. You have hundreds of military officers, big and small!"

"It was originally according to your idea. All these people should be recruited. You can drink the blood of those soldiers, but it is impossible to drink all the salaries of those military officers? And you can't just drink blood by yourself, no Let those military officers take a sip?"

"And now you can give those official positions to the squires in Nanyang and Ruzhou. Those wealthy landowners are all rich, and they just want to be a decent official. They have a lot of family members. You can let them take Soldiers come to vote! And the soldiers they bring can also be supported by themselves. You can also get more benefits!"

"That's right!" Li Lu immediately inferred, "It's better to give them away for nothing, let them buy it with money!"

But Li Lu immediately thought of another question, and he asked again: "Brother-in-law! Although those soil turtles will definitely take the bait. But I am afraid that they will not be able to get food and pay for a long time. I think the benefits are not much, and they will disappear after a long time!"

"Then tie them together!" Wu Shigong immediately replied, "Brother, here is an idea, is it appropriate for Brother Li to help with the calculation? Those country gentry can't get official positions for nothing, they also have to pay two or three thousand yuan." People. Brother Li organized them into two thousand-man regiments. I buy half-buy and half-free weapons and other things here. They are definitely not comparable to those used by our Runing army, but compared to those in the hands of the bandit army. They must be called excellent. .”

"These two regiments were trained by instructors from my place. First, I made them look like an army. After that, I started to develop financial resources. Although our Henan province is in chaos, there are still gold everywhere. It depends on whether anyone has the courage to pick it up. gone."

"Your personal soldiers, the regiment I gave you, the two regiments of the squires, and I asked Chang Meng to bring 500 people here. The number is more than [-]. The establishment of a land reclamation firm here Branches, there are countless unclaimed lands in Nanyang and Ruzhou, it depends on how much your branch can occupy."

"Establishing farm villages, recruiting refugees, organizing farming, these tasks are very familiar, and you don't need to worry about it, Brother Li. When the time comes, our Runing Army will reap all the things you plant, and you can also get a big head from it. This kind of business without capital should always be done!"

"You 4000 people are just to ensure the safety of those Zhuangzi, and the other thing is to occupy some new unclaimed land. After you taste the sweetness, if you beat them with sticks, those gentry still refuse to leave. Then you have nothing to worry about. Woolen cloth?"

Li Lu thought over Wu Shigong's words from the beginning to the end, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it made sense, but he still had a worry that had not been resolved: "Then brother-in-law, what if Governor Hong and Governor Xuan mobilize our army?"

"Then talk nonsense! One principle, stay at home." Wu Shigong then replied, "You always play this old officialdom trick. Besides, you have a good reason, your body is inconvenient! What if it is true? It's hard to shirk, brother, I won't sit idly by here, and I won't make things too ugly no matter what."

Now that all doubts have been resolved, Li Lu and Wu Shigong also settled the matter.As for the specific trivial matters, Li Lu and Chang Meng will handle them in detail in the future, and Wu Shigong doesn't have to worry about it anymore.

Li Lu also knew that in this way, his troops were actually controlled by Wu Shigong.But Li Lu really didn't want to be a famous general in his heart, he just wanted to be a rich man.So now that he has such a good money scene, he is not dissatisfied.

In addition to Wu Shigong raising an additional infantry regiment through Li Lu's food and salary, the two regiments formed by those gentry will also be half controlled by Wu Shigong under the control of the instructors he sent out.

And these two regiments may be lacking in field battles, but defending this area is a powerful arm.Coupled with the cooperation of the Nanyang Legion, it can basically completely block the enemy's invasion in this direction.As for the income of Tuntian Zhuangzi, the training of the village guard team, etc., those are all additional things.

But in this way, the head of the Nanyang Legion will faintly surpass the other head of the army.Therefore, Wu Shigong planned to send his earliest guard captain——Xue Yong.And He Fei will be transferred back to the headquarters as the head of the training army.

This time the senior officers of the Runing Army will also have a major transfer.The cavalry corps, teaching corps, training corps, directly subordinate artillery regiment and directly subordinate engineer regiment that remained in the headquarters will form a town, which Wu Shigong named "Tiger Roar".

Wu Shigong will also serve as the town commander of this Huhou Town, and Zhou Xun will be the deputy commander but actually command the town.After Qian Qi recovers, she will serve as the commander of the Runing Army, swapping positions with Yang Rusong.Wu Shigong believes that these army commanders should not serve too long in one place, otherwise, if they have too deep affiliation with the locality, there is a danger of becoming a warlord.

After that, Wu Shigong received and commended the meritorious personnel of this battle.In this award, the Runing Army adopted the method of awarding medals for the first time. In addition to having a reward system in accordance with the level of medals, all meritorious personnel have places to send good news to his home with drums and gongs. Let it be very beautiful in the neighbors.

Surprisingly, Huang Qifa was also on the list for this interview, but he thought he did not make any contribution this time, so he was a little confused about Wu Shigong's interview.

But after kowtowing to Wu Shigong, Wu Shigong asked with a smile: "Enlightenment! How are those children doing?"

Huang Qifa hurriedly bowed and said: "It's really good to report back to the adults! Those dolls are learning very quickly, and they have almost learned the villain's family background."

Wu Shigong nodded, and then said: "That's good! Enlightenment, I put you in that position just to sharpen you. Now it seems that you are stable and you are doing well! So this time I will I'm going to give you a chance, just to see if you can grab it?" (To be continued...)