Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 97

According to Zhu Youjian's vision on the military aspect of Ming Dynasty.

The future Ming army is generally composed of the Guards under the Generalissimo's Mansion and the Guards directly under the Ministry of War.

The Dudu's Mansion of the Five Armies naturally exists in name only, and it has no practical significance except as a general title.

Among the guards, the first, second and third armies are Zhu Youjian's trump card army, and they are absolutely direct descendants.

Regarding the setting of these three arms, Zhu Youjian did not intend to train them all into iron cavalry.

Although in this era, cavalry is still the most offensively advantageous arm.

But as a traverser, Zhu Youjian knows that in this era, the decline of cavalry has begun.

Especially after the firearms technology became more sophisticated and gunpowder was used on the battlefield on a large scale.

What's more, the training time cost and equipment cost of the cavalry are much higher than other arms, and Ming Dynasty does not have enough financial resources to support hundreds of thousands of cavalry.

Even a tribal regime outside the customs like the Tartars does not have such a large-scale cavalry.

Moreover, in the short term, the main battlefield in the future will be the Yangtze River and Huaihe River Basin, where the river network is intertwined and the terrain is complex, so it is difficult for the cavalry to exert sufficient advantages.

In addition, the Ming Empire represented the destiny of the entire Chinese nation.

In the future, the enemy will definitely not only be the Manchu Qing, if the Ming Empire wants to open up overseas colonies and extend the authority of the empire to the whole world.

Then, Ming Dynasty is bound to go to war with the western colonists who are skilled in hot weapon combat.

This requires that Ming Dynasty must continue to maintain a not lagging behind or even an advanced position in hot weapon warfare.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian still wanted to organize the field armies such as the Guards into a compound arm composed of cavalry, infantry, and artillery.

As a result, the Ming army's operations can achieve three-dimensional operations, coordinated operations, and give full play to the advantages of various arms.

Zhu Youjian planned to use the battalion as the basic unit, with 6000 people in each battalion, including cavalry battalions, infantry battalions, and artillery battalions.

Then several battalions are combined to form a corps, which is saturated with cavalry, infantry, artillery and other battalions, which can be regarded as a comprehensive corps.

In the Guards, there are two regiments in one army.

In this way, the Ming Guards are actually equivalent to a group army, which is almost the same as the modern organization.

Each corps can conduct independent operations in an area, or conduct mobile operations in various areas.

When defending, it can also be combined into an all-in-one defense system of defense, mobility, rescue, and offense.

An army with two such independent corps is equivalent to having two hands, which can control military operations in two combat areas at the same time, and even play the role of mutual restraint and flanking.

The First Army, Second Army, and Third Army of the Guards must first have such a function.

According to Zhu Youjian's prediction, the three armies, each with more than [-] main combatants, must be organized into several cavalry battalions, infantry battalions, and artillery battalions. Matching, now it is necessary to train six cavalry battalions and six artillery battalions, and then the rest of the soldiers will be unified into infantry.

There are more than 15 soldiers waiting for training, plus some elite soldiers who are still responsible for defending the area. A total of [-] soldiers in the three armies will be redistributed into six cavalry battalions, six artillery battalions, and nine infantry battalions. camp.

In this way, each corps has two corps, and each corps has a cavalry battalion, an artillery battalion, and three infantry battalions.

In addition, both the corps and the army have a guard battalion and a reconnaissance battalion directly under them.

The cavalry battalion and artillery battalion do not need to be detailed. Those with riding skills, veterans who were originally cavalry, and those who volunteered to become cavalry are collectively organized into cavalry, and the same is true for artillery. The infantry battalion is further subdivided into archers and spearmen. , firearms soldiers three sub-arms.

In addition to the recruits of the Talents Battalion and the Warriors Battalion who have completed the basic queue training, the 1 recruits waiting for training were organized into the training camps of the First Battalion of the First Army and the First Battalion of the Second Army respectively. [-] people, together with the veterans and low-level officers who were originally drawn from the three armed forces, became instructors and were responsible for leading and training the [-] recruits.

Among them, almost one out of every five people has a person with training experience leading the team.

And Zhou Yuji and Liu Fangliang are still the chief instructors of these two battalions.

Once the basic queue training of the 15 recruits is completed, plus the original [-] elite soldiers, Zhu Youjian will start to order the Army Department of the Generalissimo's Mansion to order the [-] soldiers to be distributed according to the number of arms required by each army.

Once the distribution of the main soldiers is completed, the professional skills training of various arms will begin.

In addition to soldiers, the training of auxiliary soldiers will naturally be put on the agenda. In fact, at this time, the selection of auxiliary soldiers of the first, second and third guards has already begun.

The so-called auxiliary soldiers are naturally soldiers who assist the soldiers in fighting. When the army is stationed, digging trenches, building wooden frames, building bridges, transporting supplies, etc. must be completed by auxiliary soldiers.

But it also serves as a reserve force.

Therefore, it does not mean that the auxiliary soldiers do not need to be trained or require their combat effectiveness, but that they do not undertake the most important combat tasks.

Zhu Youjian planned that each army should have about [-] auxiliary soldiers in addition to [-] main soldiers, that is, about nine battalions. They should also be divided into several cavalry battalions, artillery battalions, and infantry battalions according to the specifications of the soldiers. battalion etc.

A battalion composed of main soldiers can be called a type A battalion, and a battalion composed of auxiliary soldiers can be called a type B battalion.

An army has ten A-type battalions and twenty B-type battalions; and when divided into corps, there are five A-type battalions and ten B-type battalions in one corps.

To facilitate the unified management of the command affairs of various arms in each corps, the fifteen battalions under each corps are uniformly divided into cavalry divisions, infantry divisions, and artillery divisions according to each arm.

In this way, that is to say, the system of the Ming Guards is from the most basic captain to the hundred generals, the general to the battalion, then the division, then the corps, and the highest is the army.

Recruit training is still in full swing.

Every day, the two training camps shouted slogans and walked on the large school field that could not be seen as far as the eye could see.

The auxiliary soldiers are also selected from the remaining more than 40 recruits. They will receive training with the officers and soldiers of the First, Second, and Third Guards Armies who are still in positions after half a month, that is, after the end of the 15 main soldiers .

And these officers will be directly promoted to the guerrilla, thousand generals, and hundred generals of each battalion, which can be regarded as making up for the loss that they did not enter the type A battalion.

The 15 soldiers who have completed the queue training will all be reorganized into battalions of various arms and transferred to various places for special arms training.

While training, he will naturally participate in actual combat training such as suppressing bandits.

Once the training of the Type B battalion is completed, it will also be reorganized into battalions of various arms, and mixed with the Type A battalion into various corps.

In this way, the training of nearly 50 troops can be completed in a relatively short period of time without affecting the defensive forces in Shandong, Huaiyang, and Yingtian. After all, there are troops on duty at each stage.

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