Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 142 Rewarding the Subordinates and Expansion of a Battalion
On the field outside Wuzhai Fort.

On the wide field, ten hundreds of households and more than a thousand Wuzhaibao soldiers lined up according to their respective hundred households, orderly and chilling.But at this time, many people's eyes showed excitement. This was Huang Laifu's recognition and reward for those who fought against the horse thieves in Shenchi Fort this time.

This time, the two officers and soldiers of Wuzhai Fort defeated the horse bandits at Taiping Village of Shenchi Fort and beheaded 256 levels. According to Huang Laifu's promise in advance, they beheaded one level. Wuzhai Fort will reward 40 taels of silver. The reward for beheading will cost more than 1 taels of silver.

Fortunately, this time Huang Laifu copied more than 8 taels of cash from Liu's house in Taipingzhuang, and the harvest was not small. Otherwise, it would be a huge expense to take out so much reward silver in one go.

"Su Dong'an from a hundred households, three levels of killing thieves, 120 taels of silver..."
"Chief Banner Ding Chaoyong, level 80 for killing thieves, [-] taels of silver..."

"General Banner Li Operations, killing thieves level two, rewarding 80 taels of silver..."

"Sergeant Wang Guixiu, 40 taels of silver reward for killing a thief..."

"Sergeant Zhang Dasan, half a rank for killing a thief, 20 taels of silver..."

"Jiang Dazhong from a hundred households, five ranks in killing thieves, captured the leader of the thieves Liu Shaoan, a total reward of 356 taels of silver..."
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Following Huang Laifu who reported their names, under the envious eyes of the sergeants below, all of them were elated and went to the martial arts hall with their heads held high to receive the reward silver. Huang Laifu distributed a packaged reward silver with a smile. Killed every meritorious soldier.

On the side of the sergeants in the contest, there are relatives of the soldiers who have made meritorious service this time, watching their sons or husbands receive awards for their meritorious service. The chest is very high.

The old military officer Jiang Yongsheng Jiang Baihu was also sitting in the martial arts hall, watching his precious son Jiang Dazhong receive the award with a very radiant expression on his face, making the old officers beside him quite jealous.

In addition to these silver rewards, Huang Laifu also announced the court's awards to the Wuzhaibao sergeants. Huang Laifu was promoted to commander and added the rank of guerrilla. Needless to say, everyone knows this.There is also the award from the Ministry of War to Huang Laifu's soldiers.

The [-]th household in Wuzhaibao, the [-]th household, Jiang Dazhong, heroically killed the thief, and captured Liu Shaoan, the leader of the thief, and was promoted to a thousand households with the title of garrison.The [-]th household in Wuzhaibao, Su Dongan, the head of the [-]th household, was promoted to the [-]th household.In addition, there are some small banners, general banners, and sergeants who are heroic in killing thieves, and they have their own promotions.

The entire rewarding event was always full of joy. The sergeants who received the rewards were elated, while the sergeants next to them who were not rewarded because they did not participate in the battle were all very envious, thinking that if there is a war next time, they must invite The command made the adults let themselves go into battle.

After the awards were over, the amount of money awarded to the soldiers of Wuzhai Fort also caused a stir in Wuzhai Fort, and people in the streets and alleys were talking about it.The sergeants of Wuzhai Fort already had a high status in the fort, and now this kind of generous reward is even more enviable by everyone. The soldiers on the various farms of Wuzhai Fort are already envied by everyone inside and outside the fort. , but the treatment of these people is far worse than that of the sergeants of Wuzhai Fort.

All of a sudden, many farmers in the farms, as well as some young and strong migrant workers in the workshops, all thought about it, thinking that it would be great if they could join the army of Wuzhaibao.

After the rewarded soldiers returned that day, Jiang Yongsheng and Jiang Baihu took his son Jiang Dazhong to explain in detail.It was Sergeant Zhang Dasan. When he handed over his 20 taels of reward silver to the third son's father, the third son's father, third son's mother, and his daughter-in-law were smiling so hard that they couldn't see their teeth.The family has nothing else to say, just let Zhang Dasan follow the commander and envoy, and kill the enemy bravely.

In addition, this time Huang Laifu opened the guard independently, and he can lead a battalion of soldiers, about 3000 people.In the current Ming Dynasty, the commander-in-chief of each town leads tens of thousands of soldiers, and they are regular soldiers.The deputy commander-in-chief leads 3000 people, who are rare soldiers.Participating generals will guard various things and respond as reinforcements.The guerrilla led 3000 people, and they were guerrillas who went to and from the defensive field.

Wuzhai Fort used to be a house of thousands of households, and there were only more than a thousand soldiers.Now that it has been upgraded to a guard, it can still organize 3000 people.Naturally, this military expansion is in front of us again.In addition, Wuzhai Fort also officially has a supervisor, that is, Eunuch Ma Jiuying. In the emperor's edict, Eunuch Ma's status in Wuzhai Fort was officially confirmed, and he got rid of his embarrassing status in Wuzhai Fort.

Wuzhaibao sergeant, coming together is the object of everyone's yearning, plus Huang Laifu's heavy rewards for the meritorious service officers and soldiers, for a while, the gate of the Wuzhaibao barracks was even more crowded.

However, for Huang Laifu, the targets of his recruitment are still selected from the various farms in Wuzhai Fort. Over the past year, the farms in Wuzhai Fort have been busy with current affairs and practiced in their spare time. The de facto reserves of the Fortress, these people have a certain amount of military common sense after joining the army.It can be said that the combat effectiveness of the soldiers in the various farms of Wuzhai Fort alone is stronger than that of the officers and soldiers of many guards in the Ming Dynasty.

In the end, Huang Laifu recruited more than 1000 sergeants from various farms in Wuzhai Fort, and the rest recruited hundreds of people from young and strong inside and outside the fort, forming a battalion of about 3000 people.The key officers are naturally the officers and veterans of the original Wuzhaibao army.

The treatment for these people is still one tael of silver per month, which is no different from other places in Daming.The only difference is various benefits, such as casualty compensation, and rewards for killing enemies.In fact, it also proved that Huang Laifu's system is effective.

But even if each soldier has one tael of silver per month, Huang Laifu will spend nearly 3 taels of silver a year, which is a huge sum.

In fact, Huang Laifu's current soldiers are considered soldiers, and the superiors may allocate some money, but after layers of embezzlement, the ones that fall into Huang Laifu's hands may only be a few thousand taels of silver a year.In the end, Huang Laifu had to pay most of the money himself.If he didn't want his soldiers to become the same as the tofu scum soldiers in other parts of Ming Dynasty, the military salary must be paid enough.

Also, for the formation of this battalion, it is not appropriate to organize it according to one hundred households and general banners.According to the military system of the Ming Dynasty, the Weisuo army is organized according to thousands of households and hundreds of households in peacetime, and only formed into battalions in wartime.But Huang Laifu knew that the formation of the battalion system was the trend of the future.

At present, Huang Laifu adopts the battalion formation that is generally popular in the Ming army.That is to say, it is compiled according to the sequence of departments, divisions, bureaus, banners and teams when Qi Jiguang was the general of Jizhen.Small but complete.In the battalion of Wuzhaibao, there are infantry, cavalry, chariot soldiers, and luggage soldiers.

In preparation:
12 people form a team, and each team has a captain.Each team is divided into two teams, and each team takes the three-talent formation and the five-flower formation.Each team has a small flag, and each team has a middle flag.

3 teams form one banner, each banner has a total of 1 person, and there are 37 officers and soldiers in the whole banner.The flag always has one blue flag and three gate flags.

3 flags are 1 bureau, each bureau has 1 hundred officers and 112 officers and soldiers.There are four Baizong flags, five Wufang flags, five Gaozhao Wufang flags, and one pole lamp.

The 4 bureaus form a division, and each division has a total of 1 general, with a total of 449 officers and soldiers.There are one pair of Wufang flags, one pair of high tricks, and four inspection flags.There is also one appraiser and twelve golden drums.

The 2 divisions are divided into one department, each department has one thousand generals, and a total of 1 officers and troops.

Several units were combined into one battalion. In this battalion, there were two infantry units, with a total of 1800 people.As for the chariot soldiers, the three chariots are divided into three banners, and there is one hundred generals.There are also soldiers, which are also divided into three banners, with one hundred generals.The last is the cavalry. There are 3 people in 4 rounds. Each round has a hundred soldiers. They are divided into Jiang Dazhong and Yang Xiaolu.

In addition, in the Wuzhaibao army, there are also some miscellaneous people, such as banner officers, drummers, gunpowder threadmakers, blacksmiths, doctors, beast doctors, archers and others.Including infantry, cavalry, vehicles, and soldiers, the battalion has a total of 2700 people.

In this way, the first battalion of soldiers in Wuzhai Fort is finished, and it is a good thing to have new armed forces in hand.But then a worry came to Huang Laifu, that is, the battalion needs a lot of weapons and equipment.

In the current Wuzhai Fort, except for some military uniforms, armor, blunderbuss, knives and guns, etc., which can be made by ourselves, the rest of the weapons such as bows and arrows, rattan tags, wolf traps, etc. can only be allocated or purchased from above. Another huge expense.

Indeed, if you have to buy weapons and equipment, although Huang Laifu has 10,000+ taels of silver in his hands, it may cost a fortune to equip the next battalion. So these days, Huang Laifu has been making friends with Ma Jiuying, hoping that he will ask the emperor My lord said some kind words and set aside some weapons for him.

"My lord, it is no problem to speed up the production of waist sabers and long spear armor, and the quality can be guaranteed, but it is very difficult to speed up the production of bird guns."

In the Wuzhaibao Military Craftsman Workshop, Liu Tianlu, the leader of the military weapons team, sighed to Huang Laifu.

In the past few months, Wuzhaibao Military Craftsmanship has expanded a bit, and there are more than 500 military craftsmen and military men. Every day here is clanging, and everyone is busy.

Since Huang Laifu has minerals in Shenchi Castle, there are plenty of iron and coal.In this way, Wuzhaibao Military Workshop no longer has any restrictions on raw materials. As long as Huang Laifu has enough money, he can produce as many weapons as he wants.Unlike before, when buying tens of thousands of catties of iron, you have to carefully plan and think about where to buy iron when you run out.

The current Wuzhaibao Military Craftsman Workshop can produce [-] bird guns every month, and they are all made of fine iron, so there is absolutely no problem in quality.The concept of later generations, coupled with the results of the Wuzhai Fort soldiers' battle in Shenchi Fort, made Huang Laifu pay more attention to the production of bird guns.And this battle also gave Wuzhaibao a new level of understanding of the power of firearms, greatly breaking through everyone's contempt for firearms and blunderbuss.

In this battle, it can be said that the gunners are the only ones, and some other arms have their own ideas, and they also want to be gunners, kill more enemies, and get more rewards.Even Huang Laifu's third brother-in-law, Tian Dafu, also heard about the power of Huang Laifu's bird guns, and also intended to buy some bird guns from Huang Laifu.

It's a pity, Huang Laifu doesn't have enough for himself, so how can he take away food?In the current Wuzhaibao military workshop, [-] blunderbuss can be produced every month, and placed in other places in Daming. This is a proud achievement, but Huang Laifu is still very dissatisfied.It's just that in Daming at this time, there are always so many processes to make bird guns, and the process of a bird gun cannot be completed without a month.

In the Wuzhaibao military workshop, there are not many skilled gunsmiths making guns. Huang Laifu only let the military craftsmen focus on making guns and firearms, and turned other swords and spears into secondary production of military items. I can try my best to recruit master military craftsmen.

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In addition, during these days, while Huang Laifu was busy recruiting troops, he was also busy directing everyone to build barracks for the Wuzhaibao army.The Wuzhai Fort army now has nearly 3000 people. Of course, the barracks inside the Wuzhai Fort cannot accommodate all of them, so some of them have to live outside the Wuzhai Fort.Huang Laifu then built a barracks outside the south gate of Wuzhai Fort, all of which were built with cement, which was extremely strong, like a small fortress.

A few days later, Huang Laifu drank Jiang Dazhong's wedding wine again.This young man is 21 years old this year. Huang Laifu has a son, so he finally got married. The bride is the daughter of Yang Baihu's family in Kelanzhou City, named Yang Meixiu.

At the same time, while Huang Laifu was busy, another bumper harvest in Wuzhaibao also started.

(End of this chapter)