Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

At the beginning of the fortress military meeting, Wu Shigong first announced three decisions:

The first decision is: formally determine the establishment of all soldiers in Wu Shigong's hands.

The first is the cavalry.Wu Shigong and Xue Yongli divided the cavalry into five squadrons.Each squadron commands five squadrons.Each squad has ten cavalrymen.The captain of the cavalry is Xue Yongli.

But among the cavalry, there are two squadrons with special tasks.One of the squadrons is a cavalry reconnaissance squadron led by Zhang Biao and Li Sanhe.The other is a cavalry reserve squadron commanded and trained by Wu Shigong and Xue Yongli himself.

Because in the formulation of this organization, Wu Shigong and Xue Yongli transferred nearly fifty guards around them, and sent them to the recruits and Zhou Xun's militia to become officers, and then selected fifty outstanding soldiers from the recruits as their own guards. of the soldiers.

And these personal soldiers will receive cavalry training.Although the guards of the gambling house that Wu Shigong brought from the capital had received nearly a year of equestrian training from the old soldier hired by Wu Shigong, after they arrived at Qianhusuo Fortress, they had to receive intensive training from Xue Yongli before they could barely become the guards. A qualified cavalryman.Therefore, Wu Shigong knew that the cavalry training period was quite long.These personal soldiers must receive at least half a year of rigorous training before they can become qualified cavalrymen.

In fact, the current Wu Shigong has already trained his own cavalry brigade as the officer corps of his own army.Once these cavalrymen have passed the training of all subjects, they will be sent to various units to middle and low-level officers.

With those four hundred recruits, Wu Shigong formed four infantry squadrons.Each squadron has ten infantry squads.Each squad is also ten soldiers.The infantry unit also set up a brigade, which was directly commanded by Wu Shigong, and Qian Qi became his deputy to assist Wu Shigong in training these infantry.

After this battle, although basically all the new recruits did not even have a chance to contact the rioters of the Holy Spirit Society, because they all experienced the atmosphere of war, Wu Shigong made an exception and did not look at the assessment results. All the recruits were turned into regular soldiers, that is, soldiers who received [-]% of the military pay.

Of course, the assessment process was still carried out once.Wu Shigong still had to choose the fifty best soldiers among them as his personal soldiers.These soldiers will also receive full pay.Moreover, if these personal soldiers can fully master the various riding subjects of the cavalry, they will also receive double the same salary as the guards from the capital.

In addition, Wu Shigong also announced among those soldiers who did not become personal soldiers: In the future, every three months, there will be another assessment, and some outstanding soldiers will be selected as Wu Shigong's personal soldiers.

In this way, Wu Shigong took advantage of the difference in military pay to form a hierarchy in his own army, and also gave each soldier a goal to strive for, so that they had the motivation to train hard and climb up.

Zhou Xun's militia will also be divided into three squadrons.Its organization is also the same as that of infantry squadrons.But their military pay and support, relying on the output of the [-] mu of land, may be barely enough in normal days, but it is definitely not enough in this famine year, so Wu Shigong will also contribute part of the money , as a subsidy for the military pay and support of the militia.

In addition, the training standards, assessment standards and promotion standards of the militia will be exactly the same as Wu Shigong's other soldiers.In this way, on the one hand, the soldiers of the militia will also have the motivation to train hard; on the other hand, Wu Shigong will effectively grasp the force of the militia in his own hands through the distribution of military salaries and the transfer of soldiers in the future.

Of course, there is also Liang Hui's artillery team.Now because the supply of gunpowder is always insufficient, the artillery team can only maintain a minimum level of training standards.

Wu Shigong asked everyone in the artillery team to also participate in infantry and cavalry training.Of course, their training standards and intensity will be somewhat reduced.

There is no way why Wu Shigong came up with such nondescript titles as "squadron" and "squad".Because in his Qianhu Office, all the official positions of Baihu, General Banner and Small Banner are hereditary, and now these official positions are also occupied by those military households.

However, Wu Shigong himself was not qualified to appoint new military officials, so Wu Shigong had no choice but to use these temporary titles to name those officers under him.

The second decision is: Wu Shigong and Xue Yongli have determined the leading officers of each squad and squadron.When assigning them, Wu Shigong specially arranged the principal and deputy captains of each squadron separately: one was from the guard of Xue's mansion; the other was from the guard of the casino.Such an arrangement is only a precautionary measure to guard against the dissent of subordinates.

The only exceptions are Zhang Biao and Li Sanhe.Now Wu Shigong is too short of experienced scouting talents.However, this arrangement is not a big problem, after all, all the subordinates of Zhang Biao and Li Sanhe were Wu Shigong's guards.

The third decision is: to recruit another [-] new recruits.

Wu Shigong is now planning this way, even if his fifth brother Wu Shiwen can't become the county magistrate of this county, then taking a step back, the credit he gave to the fifth brother is useless, and the credit will be returned to himself. Let Wu Shigong get the official position of Guidewei.

And even if it was the worst plan, Wu Shigong would become the garrison of Guide Mansion.Before breaking up with Li Lu, Wu Shigong had asked Li Lu about the basic situation of the defense.

Wu Shigong thought to himself: Even if he is the same as Li Lu, who is squeezed out of the defense, and only has a quota of [-] soldiers, and the court only pays [-]% of the military salary, then he will have money to raise [-] more recruits. of.Besides, the training of recruits can be improved one day earlier.

As for Wu Shiwen, the fifth brother, if he gets the post of county magistrate, then there will be no problem!With the help of the fifth elder brother Wu Shiwen, what kind of big deal is it to raise four hundred more soldiers?

After Wu Shigong announced his decision, everyone started a summary meeting.All the participants in the meeting unanimously agreed with Wu Shigong's decision to strengthen the training of soldiers and recruit new soldiers.

When Wu Shigong first arrived at Qianhusuo, Wu Shigong spent a lot of money and mobilized a lot of manpower to build the Qianhusuo fortress, recruit soldiers and strengthen training.Everyone really didn't understand Wu Shigong's approach.Because the situation around Qianhusuo was still very stable at that time.

But in less than half a year, such a large-scale rebellion occurred.In all fairness, if it wasn't for Wu Shigong's early preparations, not to mention whether the rebellion can be quelled this time, it is not certain whether people like Wu Shigong can keep safe.

Therefore, everyone fully agrees with Wu Shigong's current practice of expanding force.

In addition, the participants also summarized the following points of view:

The first is to vigorously develop the cavalry.After the farewell charge, the power of the trained cavalry has been fully released.It should be said that Wu Shigong's cavalry were the first to destroy the Holy Spirit Society and rebel the people.

However, Wu Shigong also knew that if he increased the number of cavalry in a short period of time, his own financial resources would definitely not be able to bear it.The method Wu Shigong adopted was that he would rather people wait for horses than let horses wait for others.Therefore, he will require new soldiers to accept cavalry training;

The second is to make more firecrackers.In this defense of the county, everyone has seen the role of firecrackers in defensive operations.Moreover, Wu Shigong and the others also discovered that the firecrackers have a great psychological deterrent effect on those rioters who have never seen the firecrackers;

At present, Yang Goudan's blacksmith workshop is also short of manpower, so Wu Shigong wanted him to make as many firecrackers as possible.

However, among the copper coins seized from the Holy Spirit Society this time, there are still a few large pieces of copper, which are all pieces of copper Buddha statues that were smashed by the Holy Spirit Society rioters.Wu Shigong asked Yang Goudan to melt those copper blocks when he was free, and cast a small cannon experimentally;

The third is to strengthen the training of the queue.This time when Wu Shigong was training the gathered young men in the county town of Qi County Magistrate, he was carrying out the training program of letting them run side by side first, and then assassinate, but none of these young men could do it.Wu Shigong discovered that the role of the queue is actually here.

In addition, Wu Shigong found that his idea of ​​"shrinking his head like a turtle" seemed very beautiful, but in reality he couldn't do it at all.In this battle, Wu Shigong had to defend the county magistrate of Qi, and rescue the city of Guide, so he had no way to hide in his fortress of Qianhusuo.

Therefore, Wu Shigong changed his strategy appropriately, relying on the fortress of Qianhusuo fortress as the main defense, and limitedly supported the attack on the surrounding areas.

In line with this change in strategy, Wu Shigong wanted to strengthen his cavalry on the one hand, and on the other hand to strengthen the field combat capabilities of his infantry.At least these infantry should have the ability to escort captured supplies and prisoners.In this battle, Xue Yongli had only 150 cavalry, but he had to escort thousands of captives and so many supplies, which was too embarrassing.

Plus, there's mapping of the surrounding area.Wu Shigong's army, mainly guards from the capital, was not familiar with the terrain at all except for a few main roads.If you want to carry out a limited attack in the future, it will definitely not work without a map.

On the one hand, Wu Shigong asked Xue Yongli to arrange for those recruits who were familiar with the local terrain to help draw the map; on the other hand, he asked Zhang Biao and Li Sanhe to lead their reconnaissance squadron to observe the terrain nearby immediately after the meeting , to draw the map.

Of course, with the cultural level of Wu Shigong's current army soldiers, it is impossible to draw a modern standard military map with contour lines.Not to mention what sand table to do.What Wu Shigong asked them to draw was just a brief map that could explain the basic terrain.

This fortress military meeting allowed Wu Shigong to take the first step in the regularization of the army.It also basically reflects Wu Shigong's basic idea of ​​building an army.

But more importantly, Wu Shigong's army has developed the practice of summing up the battle after each battle since the fortress military meeting.Wu Shigong's army has also become an army that can learn and grow in war. ;