The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 712 24 Army
When Ding Yi insisted on attacking Luzon, which is far away in Nanyang, many generals were puzzled.

Because Luzon is too far away, everyone really can't figure out what is the benefit of going to that kind of place.

Now after one year, after deducting all the expenses, there are still 700 million silver bets, which shocked everyone.

Ruan Wenlong couldn't even close the corners of his mouth: "We have saved food and inspection for more than ten years, and now we have only saved more than 500 million."

Ding Yi went to Lushun in the second year of Chongzhen, desperately earning money to raise soldiers, and barely had a deposit of more than 100 million in the first ten years.

These more than 500 million have been slowly saved in recent years.

And fighting in Luzon actually made money that they hadn't saved in 13 years. No wonder the soldiers went crazy.

"If that's the case, our income will finally exceed tens of millions this year." Ding Yi was almost dancing with joy.

"Be a violent soldier." Zhang Jing yelled, almost slapping the table.

All the generals nodded one after another, violent soldiers, violent soldiers, violent soldiers again.

Right now, Ding Yi has no shortage of horses, men, or food, but money.

In the 13th year of Chongzhen, they made an inventory. Not counting the senior officials Ding Yi, he earned 560 million taels of silver and 180 million shi of grain a year.

But only 480 million taels of silver was spent, and the annual surplus was 82 taels.

At that time, Ding Yijia had three towns with almost [-] soldiers and horses, and none of the generals dared to speak out.

What kind of soldiers are violent, and there is no money.

The profit was only 82 a year.

At that time, Ruan Wenlong's total deposit was more than 300 million, and he dared not speak up.

This time is different, Ding Yi's savings plus the 700 million, he has more than 1000 million and more than [-] million.

And as the peasant army has become more and more troublesome in recent years, its population has also increased.

Ding Yi looked at the excitement of everyone, of course he was also very happy. He stretched out his hand to appease everyone, motioned to stop making noise, and the scene quickly quieted down.

"This time the increase in troops will definitely increase, and it will increase significantly."

Everyone looked very moved.

Ding Yi waved the map of the entire Daming with his hand, and circled the entire area of ​​Daming Jiajiannu with his hand.

"This increase in troops will take into account the overall situation and prepare for future large corps and big battles."

Although he didn't say it clearly, there were already people at the scene who were very excited. This was to prepare for the unification of the world in the future.

Ding Yi's increase in troops has changed a lot this time, and he has moved a large number of troops. He has changed his focus from defending the Manchus to preparing to attack.

Originally, each battalion in Lushun and Phi Island had 3000 people, but all of them will increase to [-].

Phi Island is now only releasing 5000 soldiers from Xu Wei, the Sixth Battalion of Infantry, except for the [-] garrison soldiers. (Xu Wei came back from Japan on rotation last year, replaced by He Liangwu.)
Xu Wei sent three thousand to Tieshan and two thousand to Pidao.

The rest of the soldiers and horses all went to Lushun and Liaodong, and some even went to Daming Jizhen and Tianjin.

The first battalion of Maoxin guarded Haizhou with 5000 people, the second battalion of Xu Bicheng guarded Gaizhou with 5000 people, the third battalion of Xianghuailai guarded Fuzhou with 5000 people, and the fourth battalion of He Xiaoche guarded Jinzhou with 5000 people.

Zhang Jingqi's first division guarded Beigou City with 1 people and trained troops between Gaizhou and Haizhou.

Yuan Youcai's Second Cavalry Division with 1 people trained troops between Jinzhou and Fuzhou, stationed at Nanguankou.

1 people from the third division of Chen Yang's cavalry went to Tianjin to stay with Shen Shikui in Tianjin.

Ding Yi was born as a soldier. This time, Ge Chun and Ma Tao, who followed Shen Shikui to attack Hetuala, formed a fourth cavalry division with 1 people, and went to Jizhen to train cavalry. These two men came from the cavalry division of Yuan Youcai and Zhang Jing. He is also a veteran general in the cavalry.

In addition, the fifth battalion Xiao Yongqiu, the sixth battalion Mao Xin, the seventh battalion Ma Yue, the eighth battalion Xu must be successful, the ninth battalion is gratifying, and the tenth battalion is Chen Shi.

There are ten battalions of infantry in Lushun, with a total of 5 people, four divisions of cavalry with a total of 4 people, and [-] cavalry. Among them, about [-] new recruits were recruited, which is the largest number in history.

The new fighters are still promoted from the hoard, and then new hoards are formed at the same time, forming a virtuous circle.

With so many soldiers added every year, there is no problem with population and food, and there is no problem with war horses.

The biggest problem is that it takes time to equip soldiers with armor and weapons, and cavalry are all transferred from veterans who used to be better at riding horses.

Because in the past few years, Ding Yi has always required that the entire army be able to cavalry, and the infantry usually ride horses.

After a few years now, the infantrymen are all skilled in riding.

Although the tenth infantry battalion is called an infantry battalion, they really have to ride horses, and all of them are similar to cavalry.

In this way, if more than 3 soldiers and horses are added, the horses in the first year are not counted. The armor and equipment, artillery configuration, etc., plus the salary, will cost at least 200 million, because the first year is the most expensive, and the weapons and equipment are fixed. Investment, starting next year there will only be military pay and a small amount of consumption.

But it is easy to say that increasing troops is difficult to do, and there is still a lot of work to do in the follow-up.

Lushun’s experience in the large increase of troops is that the recruits are first trained intensively for five months, and then assigned to each battalion.

The battalions may also be separated and reorganized into new infantry battalions.

Therefore, in the next step, the generals of each battalion will be reappointed, including the division chief and deputy division chief.

These lists will be prepared in the first half of the year, and when the time comes, they should be promoted and tuned.

Lushun's side is mainly to increase cavalry.

While in Jeju, Ding Yi recruited navy at the same time.

There used to be Huang Bin's [-]-step battalion in Jeju, Shen Zhixiang's fifth navy battalion, [-] warships, and [-] sailors.

Now there are three shipyards in Jeju, which produce 25 warships of more than [-] materials each year, and the population has reached [-].

Shen Zhixiang has two third-class battleships Changsheng in his hands, one built on Changsheng Island and one built by Jeju itself.

The third-tier battleships built in Jeju were earlier than the big ones, and later adopted the big-member method and mass-produced on the assembly line, so there will be no third-tier battleships in the past one or two years, and they will all increase sharply in a few years.

Ding Yi asked Jeju to train 1 new troops in the next year.

These 1 people can be sailors on ships, infantry in Ming Dynasty, and cavalry on horses.

But the conditions in Jeju are very good. It is good to train cavalry or sailors here.

In this way, the number of soldiers and horses in Jeju next year can reach more than [-].

At the same time, Ding Yi also sent a message to Dayuan and Luzon that both places should increase their troops.

Under Zhao Dashan, there are 5000 soldiers from Qiu Zhentai, the first battalion of infantrymen, 5000 soldiers from Mumo, the second battalion of infantrymen (Jurchen and Mongolian allied forces), 5000 soldiers from Alah, the third battalion of infantrymen (Fanjun), and 3000 soldiers from Qiu Zhentai, the garrison battalion. people.

The Seinfeld Department of the 2nd Battalion of the Navy has 5000 ships and [-] people stationed in the army. It has three third-class battleships of the Changsheng, two Dutch and one built by the army.

Under Luzon's guard Xu Erxian, there are 5000 people from the first battalion of Luzon infantry, Chang Jiangang, and the second battalion, Guo Poshi, has 2000 local aborigines, and the officers are all Han Chinese.

Xu Erxian's own Navy Fourth Battalion was stationed in Luzon, with 3000 warships and [-] people. They were also three Tier [-] battleships, two of which were built in the Netherlands and one was built by a senior officer.

In this way, by next year, Luzon and Dayuan will have a total of 3000 troops on land and water.

There is also the West Labor Department of the Third Battalion of the Navy, with 45 warships and 7000 people, half of which are stationed in Laizhou and half in Lushun. There are two battleships Changsheng, all built on Changsheng Island in Lushun.

The Ruan Siqing Department of the First Battalion of the Navy, 5000 ships, [-] people, no battleship Changsheng, stationed in Dengzhou, most of his ships are merchant ships, mainly used for business.

Plus the [-] soldiers from Tai O Province.

Not counting Ding Yi's soldiers and horses in Daming, there are already more than 8 infantry, [-] cavalry, and [-] navy.

Among them, there are [-] infantry and [-] cavalry that can be used to fight the world (overseas islands).

Considering that some of them will stay behind, the number of troops that can really be used is about [-].

It seems that there is still a little less.

But it doesn't matter, Ding Yi still has a large number of soldiers and horses in Daming, all of which can be used to fight the world.

On the other side, Wang Weizhong had [-] troops in Linqing, Xu Fuzuo had [-] troops in Jizhen, Cao Bianjiao also had [-] troops in Jizhen, and Shen Shikui had [-] troops in Tianjin.

Then in Shandong, Yang Duan led the 5000th Battalion with 5000 people to guard Laizhou, Chen Hongguo led the 5000th Battalion with [-] people to guard Changyi, Zhu Sheng led the [-]th Battalion with [-] people to guard Jiaozhou, and Fang Duotai's [-]th Battalion with [-] people to guard Pingdu. In addition, Zhou Yougen's [-]th battalion with [-] troops guarded Jinan, Yan Xiong's [-]th battalion with [-] troops guarded Dengzhou, and Liu Guoying's [-]th battalion with [-] troops guarded Laiyang.

There are now eight battalions in Dengzhou, with a total of 4 people. In fact, he did not have so many people. Each battalion has about 1 people. It needs to increase more than [-] troops this year, and they will be directly distributed to each battalion.

In this way, Ding Yi has seventy-six thousand in Daming.

Considering that there are also soldiers and horses stationed here, it is estimated that about [-] can be used.

In other words, there will be 12 soldiers and horses that can be used to conquer the world in the future.

At this time, Ding Yi thought for a while: "In the future, we will need a large number of cavalry to march into the Central Plains, whether it is to encircle and suppress the peasant army, or to fight against the establishment of slaves."

"Form [-] cavalry in Qingzhou and train in Shandong."

Before Qingzhou, the local people were recruited as soldiers for training. They have been training for a year or two. In order to save money in the early stage, they have not formed an army.

Now Ding Yi decided to form another [-] cavalry, all recruited from the common people from all over Shandong, and concentrated in the vicinity of Qingzhou for training. Xu Bicheng and Yan Xiong will be transferred there to serve as the chief officers of the two cavalry.

In this way, after next year, all Ding Yi's troops will add up to 15 infantry, [-] navy, and [-] cavalry.

There are 24 soldiers and horses.

All the generals at the scene gasped when they heard this figure. This is really Lushun's greatest effort over the years.

The largest increase in troops in history will certainly cost a lot.

Among them, excluding the soldiers and horses stationed overseas and everywhere, the ones that Ding Yi can at least use to join the final battle are the 14 infantry battalion, [-] cavalry, and [-].

It sounds like a bit much, but Ding Yijue is still not enough.

Because once you fight everywhere, you need to send troops to garrison.

But he considered that when the Manchus entered the customs, they were not as strong as him, and they could conquer the country, so he must be sure.

Just follow the path of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

There is an answer in the front, so you can't copy it?
But the other generals at the scene didn't think so, and Zhang Jing immediately raised a question: "In the future, we will keep a part of our troops to guard our home, and we will guard every place we conquer."

Hearing this sentence, everyone at the scene smiled tacitly.

"Will 20 soldiers and horses be enough, and another [-] will be recruited."

The brothers suddenly became noisy, calling for another [-] yuan.

"You want me to go bankrupt?" Ding Yi said angrily.

(End of this chapter)