In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 137: Grand Fusion and Army Reorganization
As soon as they returned to the camp, Na Muzhong first hung Ye He up, whipped him severely until he was half dead, and then vented his anger a little.

The next day, all the Mongolians were called together. Even Tano was invited. First, they announced Ye He's guilt, and then they cut the bodies into pieces. A family of more than ten people were all hanged in the wind and snow. Finally, Only then did he pardon the other members of Ye He's tribe.

In fact, Na Muzhong originally wanted to kill only Ye He and his adult son according to the rules of the grassland, but Lin Rui decided to kill the family according to the rules of the Han people.

This will not only frighten all the noble leaders on the grassland, but also let the ordinary Mongolians know that they will only kill the culprit family, and others will be innocent!
Indeed, after seeing the fate of Ye He's family, Tano's legs were weak when he went back. He was extremely glad that he did not commit the crime with Ye He.

After solving the Yehe tribe, they once again defeated the reinforcements of the Jiannu army, and killed more than 6000 Tumut warriors, while only suffering less than [-] casualties. This undoubtedly greatly improved the morale of the entire army. .

Especially the Eqige Tribe, which was joined by the whole clan, and the more than 1000 boys and girls of the Tano Tribe, no longer dared to look down on the Han people, and they also sincerely respected Lin Rui, the new king.

And Ebutu finally realized how powerful his brother-in-law was, and all the previous doubts and understandings disappeared with this great victory.

After all, in the past, when the Mongols fought in wars, if they wanted to wipe out more than 6000 warriors of the other side in one go, they would have to pay at least three to four thousand casualties, or even equal casualties. Therefore, generally the Mongols will not fight hard with each other, because they can't fight each other. rise.

"Everyone, I have decided to reorganize the troops of each battalion. First, all the Mongolian cavalry will be divided into three.

Two male cavalry battalions and one female cavalry battalion were established. The two commanders of the male cavalry battalions were Ebutu and Takuyan respectively, and the fourth lady Lin Beier served concurrently as the female cavalry battalion. "

As Lin Rui's words fell, Takuyan suddenly showed ecstasy. He didn't expect that he could be on an equal footing with Ebutu, and he immediately went out to kneel down on one knee to express his loyalty to Lin Rui.

Ebutu frowned. Just when he was about to speak out, he was stared at by Namuzhong's stern eyes and did not dare to speak. He had to turn his head to the side in a depressed manner.

Lin Rui then began to redistribute the strength of the three cavalry battalions.

First of all, all Mongolian girls who are over 13 years old and have not given birth to children are classified into the female riding camp. The three tribes plus those originally brought over, there are as many as [-].

From now on, these Mongolian girls will also be mainly responsible for inquiring about information, chasing down defeated troops, and assisting male cavalry in combat. They mainly use light cavalry as a ranger. All of them are only equipped with three layers of leather armor and woven rattan helmets.

Then there are the male cavalry. There are almost 3000 adult warriors in the Eqig tribe, nearly [-] in the Yehe tribe, and [-] in the Tano tribe. Plus more than [-] brought from Liaohetao, the total is more than [-]. Adult warrior.

The two battalions were divided in half, and each battalion had three thousand and five thousand.

The 3500 people led by Ebutu are mainly young Mongolians, focusing on light cavalry equipment, while the 3500 people led by Takuyan are mainly young Mongolians, with stronger armor protection, and must serve as the vanguard at critical moments.

As for the heavy cavalry that will actually be used for charging, Lin Rui plans to recruit some Han teenagers to form them in the future.

You can let them practice riding skills first. Once they have mastered it, they should have almost all the armor and equipment they need.

After the cavalry has been reorganized, it is the infantry's turn. The infantry is much simpler. It can be directly based on eight infantry battalions and expand each battalion to 3000 men.

This is just a veteran leading two recruits, training for a whole winter, and the combat effectiveness will not be reduced much.

Of the [-] young men, [-] brave ones were first selected as future members of the heavy cavalry battalion, and the remaining [-] were all added to eight infantry battalions, totaling [-] infantry.

In fact, after several battles, Lin Rui has realized the shortcomings of the thousand-man phalanx, which is that it is too weak.

The most suitable phalanx should be composed of 5000 people.

During the raid that day, if the eight infantry battalions he led, each with a strength of 5000 men, could be divided into four battalions to outflank them from the beginning, they would definitely be able to severely damage the opponent's [-] cavalry.

Because a phalanx of 5000 people can already withstand the impact of cavalry alone. If there are more people, the command will remain unchanged and the movement will be slow.

If there is less, although the movement speed is faster and the command is more flexible, the formation will appear too weak. If the cavalry is really fierce and directly attacks, it is likely to be directly penetrated through the formation.

So a battalion of 5000 men is just right, but there are really not that many generals in the army who can command 5000 men.

At present, only Huang Ben and Zhou Meng are barely competent. In addition, there are not enough soldiers, and it would be too troublesome to reorganize them. Lin Rui then settled for the next best thing, tentatively setting the number of 3000 people per battalion.

After the eight young commanders grow up, it will not be too late to recruit new soldiers to make up for the size of the [-] battalion.

The infantry battalion's organization and arms have also been slightly adjusted. The first is the arms. He plans to distribute them according to a ratio of 235.

That is, a battalion of 3000 people, including 600 archers, 900 spearmen, and 1500 sword and shield bearers and spearmen.

After the number is expanded to 5000 people in the future, the group will still be combined according to this ratio.

Then there was the organization. After several battles, Lin Rui felt that the organization of the infantry battalion did not need to be too elaborate. The simpler, the fewer levels, the better.

Because the infantry battalion is mainly used for field battles, there are few tactics required. It is nothing more than advancing forward, defending in place, plus a roundabout outflank.Moreover, all of them are organized into battalions. If the enemy escapes, everyone rushes forward and chases them. There is no chance that one battalion will be defeated. This battalion will quickly send some troops to support.

Therefore, the best organization is the five-to-five system, that is, each battalion directly oversees five brigades, each with 1000 people. One team has five posts with 250 people per post. One post has five flags with 50 people per flag. For people, there are five Shishi for each flag, one Shishi for ten people, and two Wu Shishi for five people.

As for the cooks and grooms, they cannot be counted in the infantry battalion at all. All the people in the infantry battalion are combat personnel and commanders. At most, a few messengers and flag bearers are enough.

The strength of the Longgong camp and the trapped camp remained unchanged, with the same 5000 troops each, and Huang Ben and Zhou Meng continued to be the commanders.

The organization can also be based on that of an infantry battalion.

In addition to these 14 combat camps with more than 51000 people, other Mongolian women, the elderly, children, and teenagers are all organized into logistics camps and are uniformly managed by Namuzhong.

Among them, there are nearly 14000 Mongolians and about 75000 Hans, so the total population of Lin Jiajun is close to [-].

However, Lin Rui plans to store all the elderly, young children, and pregnant women in the Tano Department after spring. Then he will give them all the lambs, cowboys, and horses, and leave some food for the army. Travel light.

After all, Tano is still the nominal king of the Qing Dynasty. As long as he does not openly rebel, the Jurchens and Tumut people will not cause trouble to them, and there is no need to worry about safety issues.

In order to better manage so many Han and Mongolians, as well as combatants, non-combatants, men and women, Lin Rui also re-established the reward system and military rank system. Of course, the previous ones will count, but they will be upgraded on the original basis.

First of all, the original title of the top thousand households was definitely not enough, so four more general titles were added above the thousand households, namely partial general, participating general, lieutenant general, and general. The trial hundred households and deputy thousand households were directly cancelled.

In this way, the military ranks in the future will be: recruit, veteran, small flag, general flag, hundred households, thousand households, partial general, participating general, lieutenant general, and general. There are ten levels in total, and each level is subdivided into one, two, and three.

From now on, combatants and new recruits will all be awarded the title of recruit. After one year or beheading one level, they will be promoted to veterans. After two years or being beheaded to three levels, or they have experienced three battles, they will be promoted to Xiaoqi.

As for promotions above the general flag level, we cannot just look at seniority and beheadings, but must consider personal command and unit military merit as well as overall military merit.

Generally speaking, the general flag general serves as the flag commander and commands 50 people, Baihu serves as the sentry commander and commands 250 people, Qianhu serves as the captain and commands 1000 people, and the partial generals and staff generals serve as commanders of the first battalion.

Of the 14 combat battalions, only Huang Ben and Zhou Meng were awarded partial generals, while the other battalion commanders were only awarded Qianhu for the time being.

Because Lin Rui felt that except for the two of them, the qualifications, military exploits and command level of the others were not enough.

As for Hubbell, Namu Zhong and himself, they are not awarded titles.

Non-combatants in the logistics battalion, those under the age of 12 will not be awarded titles. Those over 12 who have just joined are new recruits, and those who have joined before are veterans. Those who perform well and managers will be awarded small flags and general flags, or even hundreds of thousands of households.

The food treatment is also convenient. The recruits and veterans Xiaoqi all eat from a big pot, while the hundreds of households in the general banner have separate meals. The above-mentioned ones have separate small stoves and enough tea pipes.

Veterans and above are free to marry, but only one person and one wife, two small flags, three general flags, four from a hundred households, five from a thousand households, and seven from generals and above...

In addition, veterans need to find women by themselves, and they can also find women above Xiaoqi, or they can wait for distribution. The distribution principle is to meet those who are not available first, and then according to military rank.

In the next few days, Lin Rui was busy awarding titles to all the artificial rosters. Naturally, everyone had mixed feelings.

The happiest ones were Huang Ben and Zhou Meng. Not only were they promoted to generals, Lin Rui also rewarded each of them with a young lady and a maid to serve them. They were so happy that they almost didn't know their last names.

This also made the other commanders jealous, and the Qianhu, Baihu, and General Banners were also full of motivation. Obviously, the temptation of our young ladies was not that great.

And those teenagers who were awarded the veteran flag were not picky about food and looked for those Mongolian girls to apply for matching.

After all, there are many monks and there is little rice. If you have fast hands, you will have them, but if you have slow hands, you will not have them. At this time, it doesn’t matter whether you are a Mongolian girl or a Han girl. Let’s hug one first.

Anyway, if you perform meritorious service in the future, you can hold it again if you level up.

This made the Mongolian teenagers go crazy with anger, but under the influence of Namuzhong and Habeier, those Mongolian girls actually wanted to find a Han husband.

As for the three thousand Han women rescued from Yanghe, they were basically paired with the strong men who had the same disease at the beginning, and they were also unwilling to marry Mongolians.

Those craftsmen still had some daughters of the right age, but they all chose Han boys to marry, and they all chose small banners and general banners to marry.

In addition to these three thousand Han women and the daughters of craftsmen, there are only more than 300 young ladies and maids left, but only generals are eligible to receive these women, and even thousands of households have to work harder.

(End of this chapter)