Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 286 Military Adjustment
Next to Yang Chao's room, a spacious room was vacated as a fixed conference room. There was a three-foot-long long table in the middle of the room, and around ten people sat around, not only Wang Pu, but also many men and women. Such military officers also include civil servants like Huang Fengfu, and unemployed people like Lao Jin.

"I'm promoted to deputy general of the water battalion, so the position of Chief Qian of the Central Department will be vacated!"

Just after Yang Chao finished speaking, the expressions of several of his subordinates obviously changed.

Wang Pu, Li Wuliu, and Zhao Kang moved their eyes, then lowered their heads to look at the table. It was obvious that they were all planning to compete for this position.

Many men, Song Kun, and Lu Mo moved a little, and then showed a look of regret. Of course, these three people also want to sit in this seat. Unfortunately, they know that their military achievements are not outstanding enough, and they are not good enough to compete with Wang Pu at present. Compete with Li Wuliu.

Yang Chao smiled. He is very clear about the open and secret fighting among the officers, but it has always been a benign competition. There has never been any insidious means such as stumbling someone's back, black feet, etc., so Yang Chao did not interfere. This kind of competition It's not all bad either.And if you think about it personally, if the soldiers under your command compete with each other, and if no one obeys the other, then a small mountain will not form and pose a threat to Yang Chao, a big mountain.

Out of scheming, some commanders will deliberately provoke the battles among their generals, but Yang Chao obviously does not intend to use this self-mutilation method to consolidate his power. Yang Chao prefers a strict system, and a strict power system is formed. After that, it will not be broken so easily.

"Well, after careful consideration, I decided to transfer—"

Yang Chao dragged his tone on purpose, seeing that several people raised their heads at the same time, looking at him eagerly.

Then he said with a smile: "Reassign Li Wuliu as the head of the front, responsible for forming the firearms unit!"

Li Wuliu was overjoyed at once, and for a moment he stood up with too much force in secret, and suddenly became embarrassed, he repeatedly clasped his fists to apologize to the others, and sat down with a smile.

Wang Pu couldn't help cursing secretly: "The villain has gained power."

Li Wuliu is currently the only one among Yang Chao's core officers who was not from the Xiaoling Guard, and was also recruited in the second batch. He was just a soldier under Wang Pu at first, but by chance, he changed from an archer to a bird gun As a result, he has repeatedly made military exploits. In terms of the number of enemies killed, he should be able to rank first, surpassing the former officer Wang Pu. This is hard for the arrogant Wang Pu to accept. I have nothing to say.

At this time, someone suddenly felt something was wrong.

"Front? Isn't it the middle?"

Lu Mo gently pushed his arm against many men, and the two exchanged a look, both aware of this problem.

I saw Yang Chao continued unhurriedly: "Reassign Wang Pu as the general manager of the rear!"

When Wang Pu was muttering to himself, he was taken aback suddenly: "Wang Pu, Mr. Qian!"

These two words made him a little confused. He didn't even pay attention to the two prefixes at the back. He looked to the left and right with a confused face, and found that others didn't seem to care much. He suddenly felt as if he had missed something.

At this time, how could other people care about Wang Pu, and they all became more cautious. The front and rear Qian Zong have all, but the middle one has not yet been settled. Who will this central Qian Zong fall back to?
In the past, apart from Wang Pu, who was the commander in chief, most of the others were the commander in chief of the banner, and no one would lose. Although Zhao Kang was the commander in chief of the soldiers, he had the least number of soldiers under him. At most, there were only thirty soldiers, and everyone else was in command. An army of more than a hundred people.

In other words, Mr. Qian, Lu Mo, Duo Nan, Zheng Yongwang, Sun Changfu and others all have hope.

"A lot of men have been transferred to be the head of the central government!"

Yang Chao didn't stumble, and read it in one breath.

Naturally, some families were happy and some were sad. Many men were short of breath, and others were quite sorry.

Especially Zhao Kang, he thought that as the captain of the personal army, he should get the position of Chief Qian anyway.

Then Yang Chao began to read other appointments: "Reassign Zheng Yongwang as the general manager of the left department of the rear, and Sun Changfu as the general manager of the right department of the rear department, under the control of Wang Pu!"

These two can be regarded as the old team of Xiaolingwei at the beginning. They have always been well-behaved. They have no special advantages and no special shortcomings. Therefore, let them be the general manager of Wang Pu's subordinates, asking for a word of stability.

"Reassign Lu Mo as the head of the Central Left Division, and Song Kun as the head of the Central Right Division, under the control of many men!"

Lu Mo is literate, and his command ability is slightly stronger than Zheng Yongwang and Sun Changfu. Song Kun is actually quite vicious in character. Stronger than Wang Pu's two generals, it can be said that Yang Chao still took care of the Qian headquarters he led in the past.

Many men are also a very stable person, and they are very careful and conscientious in doing things, and they are down-to-earth. His military training level is always better than others, but because he seeks stability, he is often a little conservative when fighting, so he is a good guard General, Yang Chao has paired many men with two good helpers, Lu Mo and Song Kun. The purpose is self-evident, that is, to use the stability of many men as guards in the future.

And Wang Pu himself was a little reckless in the past, but after the bloody battle in Haizhou, he has become much more stable, but he is still daring to fight and dare to fight. He is paired with two not-so-good men, just hoping that the strong will have no weak soldiers. I hope he will boost the momentum of the entire Qian headquarters, and he will still be needed to attack cities and villages in the future.

As for Li Wuliu, there is no reliable middle-level officer for him. Because the firearms unit was first established, Li Wuliu was used to fill the ranks of the team leaders in the team, and even the gunners have not yet been found. Wuliu thought about training by himself.

Yang Chao continued to add: "In the future, many men will be the commander-in-chief of the army."

The so-called Central Army generally refers to the troops directly under the chief officer. Many male officials are the Chief Qianzong of the Central Department, which is the army started by Yang Chao. Yang Chao now transfers the Central Department as his own Central Army. by my side.

Then he said: "Zhao Kang will be the commander of my own soldiers, and I will choose five hundred elite soldiers to accompany me to protect my side."

Zhao Kang nodded, his expression improved a little bit, he was thinking of having the position of chief executive officer, but he lost one chief executive officer. Although he was still promoted by one level compared to the past, in the past, Wang Pu could hold him down. On the one hand, there are three people who are taller than him right now.

When he heard that he could lead 500 people, he felt a little better. He also understood that the official position is not important, the important thing is to have soldiers in his hands. Overwhelming many men, soon because they took the lead one step at a time, if they hadn't been lucky enough to kill the Jiang bandit first, they might not be better than others now.

I have always only had about thirty people. Although I have been fighting very hard, the number of beheads and so on is indeed inferior to others.

And after these years, Zhao Kang has figured out his cousin's temper. Cousin will never forget his feelings, but he takes into account other people's thoughts. As a cousin, he has to think for his cousin. If you want to be promoted, you still need to fight for meritorious service, so that my cousin doesn't have to be afraid of other people's gossip.

In the end, Yang Chao appointed Hu Quan as the last commander, who belonged to the artillery team. First, he could read and write. Second, this time in Haizhou, Yang Chao kept him in the artillery team and let him stay with the gunners. The boss was not happy. Yang Chao did intend to protect him as a scholar, but he always thought that Yang Chao looked down on him and sulked for a long time.

Fortunately, Yang Chao sent him away this time, just in time for him to help Li Wuliu form a firearms unit. Li Wuliu is really too literate, and firearms units often need culture the most, and they are considered technical arms. Let him go, anyway, he has been in contact with the gunners for so long, so he has some experience.

Now Hu Quan was finally satisfied. In the future, others would joke that he was not a pig butcher, but a cannon.

So far, the three chief executives and the six chief executives have all been appointed.

Then Yang Chao read out the other appointments one by one, all of them were low-level officers like Baizong Banner.

Finally, Yang Chao started to read something new.

"Now I want to talk about the new system. This is a brand new military system. Listen to me, all of you."

After speaking, Yang Chao looked around, and everyone sat upright immediately.

Only then did Yang Chao say: "I have decided to set up military judges in the army! There are three military judges for the time being, who usually accept disputes in the army. The former artillery team (right division) has the chief Hu as the army judge, and the central left division is the general judge." Lv Mo, the chief, and Zheng Yongwang, the chief of the Zuo Division in the rear, are two deputy military judges. Each department has one person, and in the future, disputes in the army will be adjudicated by three people together."

In the past, all kinds of disputes in the army were adjudicated by Yang Chao himself, and then carried out by the personal soldiers. However, the number of people in the past was small, and there were few disputes. This time, Yang Chao's army will expand from the past 2000 to more than [-]. Yang Chao couldn't handle it alone.

So Hu Quan was made the chief judge, and Lu Mo and Zheng Yongwang were the deputy judges. The three came from three different thousand corps, so that even if there was a dispute between the two thousand corps, they would not be favored. Among them, Hu Quan was the most literate. , Lu Mo is the most familiar with military law, but Zheng Yongwang just wants to make people feel that the military judge is fair, and there is not one person in every thousand who comes to make up the number.

Then Yang Chao said: "I have decided to add a new military regulation. If a soldier does not agree with the officer's order, he can appeal to the military judge and all cases will be heard in accordance with the military law. If a soldier questions the officer's order on the battlefield, he must first implement it." , you can go to appeal after the war.”

This military regulation was formulated because Yang Chao was worried that the officers would bully the soldiers, and the soldiers would have nowhere to appeal, so that there would be a backlog of conflicts. Over time, the officers and soldiers would become alienated and unable to unite sincerely.

At this time, the situation in Yang Chao's army is not too serious. Unlike in other armies, it is very common for officers to bully others and ask soldiers to do some extra things. He poured the toilet and was called to his house to do chores.

Although the situation in Yang Chao's army is better, that is to say, the officers often beat the soldiers according to their mood, and the soldiers have nowhere to reason. Although they feel that the officers are wrong, they can only swallow their anger, so Yang Chao finds a place for them to vent their grievances. , so that they can sue the officer, so that the officer will be restrained.

"I would like to say something now. Of the three brothers 510 who came back with us this time, only 110 are willing to serve as soldiers. There are another [-] who are no longer willing to serve as soldiers."

Yang Chao said that he was very sorry, the conditions of the 100-odd people were not too bad, if they brought back the hundreds of taels of silver, they would no longer need to serve as soldiers for food, but they did not have the strength to be a small landlord with peace of mind. Because they are all military households, the fields of the guards have long been occupied by hereditary military officers, which cannot be bought with money, so they either continue to grow food for the officers, or do some small business, which is not a good idea Yang Chao felt a little regretful about the future.

But Yang Chao has a new idea: "Among the 110 people, there are 80 soldiers, eight captains, and 22 corporal leaders. Although these people don't want to be soldiers anymore, I still recruit them. Since they don't want to After a war, you can still help me train soldiers. They have fought and killed people, and these experiences can be passed on. I will set aside an empty battalion as a training camp for recruits. In the future, every soldier will receive at least three After six months of basic training, it will be added to each team. As the training officer of the new barracks, let Mr. Jin take over, but Mr. Jin must have a name. I can’t always be Mr. Jin. Mr. Jin calls you Bar."

This Lao Jin has never been known by his name. He is the old nursing home of Wang Xiao's family, but Wang Xiao doesn't know his name. It is said that he is afraid of humiliating his ancestors, but Yang Chao has always guessed that this is a man who recovered from the Liaodong battlefield. The deserters who came here kept their names incognito because they were afraid of being convicted.

But now with Yang Chao's ability, even if he was really a deserter back then, it would be easy for Yang Chao to save him, so he asked.

Lao Jin was silent for a moment, and finally said: "My lord must know a name, so call me Jin Yong."

After Yang Chao left Nanjing, Lao Jin had been staying at Jinchai Tower. After Yang Chao came back, he recruited him again. After questioning, he agreed to help Yang Chao train his troops again, and because Yang Chao killed tens of thousands of Tartars this time. , Lao Jin's attitude towards Yang Chao has changed. He used to have the arrogance of his predecessors on the battlefield, but now he is a little in awe of Yang Chao.

But Yang Chao didn't care too much about these imaginary things, and Lao Jin was willing to continue helping him, so of course that's fine, just let Lao Jin be in charge of the newly formed recruit training camp.

Yang Chao has always liked the mode of separating training and leading troops. He always feels that the reason for the emergence of warlords is not only because the officers pay the soldiers and control the livelihood of the soldiers, but also because every soldier is trained by their officers. , Such feelings built up from walking together can often form a small hill.

Separate the training of recruits from leading troops, so that officers become professional combat commanders instead of training officers, which is more formal. The army of later generations often operates like this. Soldiers enter the recruit training camp first and then Only then will they be sent down to the company.

"In addition to the military law department and the new barracks, I also set up a logistics department, with Huangfeng Mansion as the logistics officer. In the future, I will be responsible for the procurement of materials for the entire army, the payment of military salaries, etc."

In fact, the Huangfeng Mansion has already been doing purchases and so on when they went to Haizhou this time. Yang Chao has no time to do these things, but Yang Chao was firmly in control of the power to pay the army before. The old man told the story of Yuan Shikai. It is said that Yuan Shikai liked to hand out a piece of ocean to the soldiers himself, so that the soldiers would be grateful to him and know that Yuan Shikai was their food and clothing.

So Yang Chao also imitated this move before, but it didn't matter if there were a few hundred people before, but after this time, there will be thousands of people, so he can't be indifferent, just hand it over to Huangfeng Mansion, anyway, he has always used Huangfeng Mansion as the accountant of.As for the problem that Huangfeng's mansion is too busy for one person, Yang Chao has already considered it. This time, Huangfeng's mansion recruited nearly a hundred scholars from Erli Society, although they were all peripheral personnel of Erli Society without fame. Obviously, it is not qualified to be a teacher for a civil official, so he is willing to do things for Yang Chao in exchange for some money to live on.

So Yang Chao actually handed over these financial rights to the logistics department of Huangfeng Mansion, not Huangfeng Mansion alone.

There is a special recruit camp, a military law department, and an independent logistics system. Yang Chao feels that his army is a bit formal. It used to be a private army. It was a mess and there were not many rules. Hundreds of people can do this. An army like Zuo Liangyu's is not enough. Yang Chao really doesn't like an army like Zuo Liangyu. It's okay to fight against mobs like the Peasant Army, but it's too far away when it comes to the well-organized Eight Banners of Manchuria.

Therefore, in the face of a well-organized opponent, you can only be more tightly organized than the opponent, have stricter military regulations, and be more disciplined.

It is precisely because of these thoughts that Yang Chao started to preside over these things after he came back from Haizhou. Qi Jiguang, who has spent half a century, dare not use money, and now Yang Chao is even more afraid to use it.

However, there is no opportunity to form an independent military production for the time being. It depends on how well the people sent to Haizhou do.

"That's all for today's meeting. You have a lot of things to do. According to the adjusted establishment, the officers under your command probably have changed. It's still early for the formation. You have worked hard these days. Within ten days, Let me complete the formation, and I don't want to see that they haven't found a new officer yet."

In the end, Yang Chao said in a rather displeased tone. He disrupted some officers this time to prevent the formation of small hills, and it was also because of adjustments. It is too troublesome to find these officers one by one, and they have to be helped by the people in Huangfeng Mansion, who made these people illiterate.

If everyone could read and write, they only needed to set up a few tables, such as Wang Pu set up a table, raised the banner of the Qian headquarters in the rear, and all the officers and soldiers assigned to them gathered to report.But now Wang Pu himself can't read, how can he do it.Therefore, when Yang Chao thought of this, he had a feeling of hating iron but not steel.

"As for the recruits, your subordinates can't make up for it yet, and you have to wait for the situation in Haizhou."

Yang Chao finally said.

Before the meeting, Yang Chao had already dispatched a group of low-level military officers to Haizhou, and they were holding recruitment documents in their hands.

These documents were written by the Ministry of War issued by Shi Kefa, allowing Yang Chao to recruit soldiers in Haizhou until there are enough vacancies.

After the restoration of the two thousand headquarters before and after, plus what Yu Chengwu left behind, there are more than 2000 vacant troops in Yang Chao's hands.

Yang Chao has never forgotten the three thousand people in Haizhou. After the siege of Haizhou was lifted, these people only wanted to be safe for the rest of their lives, so they were reluctant to come to Nanjing. But after such a long time, what they should do in the past is still doing Well, those who carry salt bags on the pier, those who dry salt in the salt field, even those who farm in guards, and those who fish in fishing villages by the sea, are all poor people anyway, otherwise they will not be arrested and strong, as long as there is some background Yes, it was impossible to be driven to the city by the yamen servants to take risks at that time.

Even the soldiers under Yang Chao who made a fortune changed their minds and went back to the barracks after going home for a few days of hard work, not to mention these people. For the coolies in Haizhou, the treatment of Yang Chao's army is still very attractive Let the officers who have trained them in Haizhou in the past recruit people, and they should be able to recruit a lot.

These people have seen blood, they have seen the most brutal and fierce Manchu Eight Banners in this land of East Asia, and they can become elite soldiers with a little training. Therefore, Yang Chao would rather go to Haizhou to recruit soldiers first, and wait for the recruitment in Haizhou to be completed before he can fight. According to the vacancy, replenish from the guards near Nanjing.

"Now, stand up"

Everyone stood up and saluted.

Yang Chao said: "Disband!"

It's finally over, many people think in their hearts, the first military meeting after the Haizhou War is over.

(End of this chapter)