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Chapter 279 Composition
Speaking of martial arts hall, Yuan Gongbao's stuff, Chen Mu thought the name was very good, so he borrowed it.

Another reason for the low combat effectiveness of the Banner Army was that Chen Mu knew it when he was in Qingyuan. The military literacy of junior officers was too poor. Even at the level of a hundred households, there were very few who knew how to command battles.

If there is no family background, there will be no learning channels, and you can only experience it slowly between life and death. How inefficient is this kind of efficiency?

However, running a military academy is not an easy task. He has always wanted to do it in Nanyang, but even when he left Nanyangwei, he only limited the military academy to military studies and did not have his own independent framework, because the war in the south is not as urgent as in the north. Zhang Han will not support him to do special things.

But northern Xinjiang is different.

From the emperor to the ministers, they all suffered from the threat from the north, and the status of generals in the north is obviously higher than that of the generals in the south. Premier Chen Mu.

He is the prime minister of military training, and training generals and schools is naturally his job. This is not something that can be done by a single commander or all commanders in the south, but he can in the north.

In addition to reporting to the cabinet, he also played a cautious role in this matter. He reported directly to the court that the emperor's coal deal had been negotiated. The internal officials and Wang Chonggu's brother-in-law said that they could earn 32 taels a year, of which 5000 to [-] could be put into the internal treasury. In the letter, he reported to the emperor where the silver would be spent and the prospects.

The prospect and the place to spend money naturally have the meaning of opening a lecture hall, and along with the letter, there is also 16 taels out of the 500 taels that Shen Jiang paid in advance.

They dispatched thousands of family soldiers on foot and cavalry, and were escorted to Beijing by Long Junxiong, the commander of the original banner army, and Xiang Fei, the commander of the original barbarian army. It is estimated that the carriages and horses entered Beijing, and Chen Mu washed his face in the yamen. After an hour in the palace, the official's scolding will arrive.

Xiang Fei came with Bai Qi. He is the leader of the natives in Yongshun Baojing. He was recruited by Bai Yuanjie. He was brave in combat and highly skilled in martial arts. When they brought them here, Chen Mu didn't let him take care of the barbarian army anymore, and instead led the cavalry team he took over from Old Wang, this family soldier was directly under Xiang Fei's command.

The composition of Chen Mu's two thousand soldiers is very simple.

Five hundred Nanyang Guard Banner Army, a unit that uses the best muskets and artillery;

The 450 barbarian army, except for [-] heavy steel thorns, the other [-] people are all cold weapons, familiar with mountain and river warfare, and have a tough style, but they are not familiar with muskets and artillery, and they are also infantry.

Five hundred scout cavalry, [-]% of which were damaged in the Juma River, returned to the Xuanfu to recruit troops to make up for it, and the horses were fully equipped.They are neither as brave as the Barbarian Army, nor as good at fighting as the Banner Army. Compared with the above two troops, they have no advantage except for running fast on four legs.

The composition of the last 500 people is complicated. There are 400 family soldiers brought by Chen Mu from the south. They have little combat experience.There are also [-] construction experts selected from the miners in the Battle of Juma River. They can be regarded as engineers under Chen Mu's command, and they also take on the task of transport.

The four family soldiers can form a basic combat unit to deal with all kinds of troubles that arise on the battlefield.

Xuan Mansion has been in full swing recently. Once the first month passed, the permafrost on the ground melted away, and the construction site of the Military Weapons Bureau in the Yongding River Basin in the southwest of Xuan Mansion started again. Guan Zunban, who was supervised by the chief designer Chen Mu and came by boat from Nanyangwei, also When it arrived, according to the layout of the Xiangshan Military Bureau, it was expanded and constructed in the Yongding River Basin.

However, due to the approach of spring plowing, the rest of the army will start to be busy with farming, mainly by the engineering team in the family and the craftsmen in good health, and the progress is slow.

The people from Guan Zun’s class are not like those ordinary craftsmen who came from thousands of miles in rags and lost half their lives. This is a master craftsman who is valued by General Chen. He was very popular with Chen Mu since he recovered his life by making a gap in the chest. When Chen Mu called him in Nanyang, Pi Dian Dian followed the boat that transported the cannon.

I have never been wronged all the way.

As soon as he came, he accepted the large-scale project of supervising the construction of the Military Weapons Bureau of Wanquandu Division. Guan Zunban listened to Chen Mu's order and his eyes were straightened.

The stall of Wanquandu Division Military Weapons Bureau is too big!
Compared with this, the Nanyangwei Military Weapons Bureau is just a small thing, and the number of workers here is more than ten times that of Nanyangwei.

After all, Nanyang is a guard and Wanquan is the capital.

Firstly, inspect the conditions of the rivers along the route, and move the address seven miles north according to the flow rate. With a few craftsmen who came from Nanyangwei, they didn’t close their eyes for three days and three nights to rush out the composition to Chen Mu. That’s how he fell asleep. Feel safe.

When he woke up, he hurriedly introduced the composition to Chen Mu.

"The general dispatched so many craftsmen, there are thousands of master craftsmen of all kinds, plus military craftsmen from various guards, at least 2000 craftsmen and nearly [-] apprentices, the first thing is to repair the house, the main house of the craftsman In the middle and by the river, close to the Gun Cannon and Armor Factory."

Guan Zunban said with a smile: "It is estimated that the craftsmen will not be used to it. There are not many other places in the world that gather craftsmen together to work, except for a few big factories and our Nanyang."

Chen Mu nodded, and said that those ordered by the imperial court, such as the Xuanhua Iron Works, and some large royal factories in Beijing, were concentrated in the work of artisans, while most of the other places were still produced in small workshops. He said, "They will get used to it."

"It's a pity that the house will be repaired in two batches. The riverside will be built first, and the carpenter and blacksmith will be able to start working after the repair is complete. This is what my subordinates think."

Guan Zunban was very interested, and said: "They first used the house to make small hydraulic forging hammers, drilling machines, and sawing tools. It is convenient for follow-up work.”

"There is no rush for the Northern Xinjiang bird gun, how long will it take to start making guns?"

"Two months, if the material is sufficient, the first batch of cannons can be made in early April. This time, I brought the cannon iron mold and skilled gunsmiths from Nanyang. As long as the furnace is built, the cannons can be cast." Guan Zunban said He said with a simple smile: "Northern Xinjiang can build our blunderbuss and cannons, and the Nanyang Guard is less stressed. Now the main thing is to build ships and cannons there, and the banner army's armors are all ready."

At the beginning of April, Chen Mu was very satisfied with this time, nodded and said: "Iron materials are absolutely sufficient, now we don't have to think about selling things for copper and iron like in the past, now we can directly transfer iron from the Ministry of Households. All the mines have been recovered, so there is no need to worry about copper and iron materials.”

"That's good, that's good." Guan Zunban shook his head and sighed with emotion when he heard Chen Mu proudly say that iron can be transferred from the household department. , That's right! The general said that the steam engine, my father has been working on it for half a year, and it is now in operation in Nanyang."

Chen Mu directly omitted the fact that the little craftsman's status had improved and he called Lao Guan his father, and asked with wide eyes, "Turn, what does it mean to turn?"

"It's a steam engine. The air pushes a wheel to rotate quickly. Didn't the general always want to use that to replace water? It's really powerful." Guan Zunban said as he pulled Chen Mu to his room, and said as he walked: "It's easy to blow up. When I came here, my father was still thinking about how to stabilize it. I brought a picture!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)