Chapter 4 The Beijing Camp in Zhu Qi Town

What does Daming Jingying look like today?

The three major battalions established by Emperor Taizong have become history.

It evolved into the Five Armies under the direct responsibility of the Governor of the Five Armies.

The five armies are the front and rear left and right armies. It's just that Emperor Taizong likes to select the elite, just like the five military camps, which are composed of the elite cavalry in the five armies.

Then the five armies represent the five armies of the governor's office.

The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies was divided from the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion during the Taizu period, and they did not directly govern the army under them, but were more of a division of military regions.

All the guards of the Ming Dynasty were divided into five large areas, which were managed by the Governor's Office of the Five Armies.

Of course, there is one exception, that is, the guard posts near Nanjing are managed by the Governor's Office of the Five Armies in Nanjing.

Now Zhu Qizhen has concretized the responsibilities of the governors of the five armies, and each army has about 50,000 people. Among them, the infantry cavalry artillery is complete.

It is also that each army has the ability to go out alone, which is also what Zhu Qizhen hopes.

Once there is a war somewhere, the imperial court will send an army to the Beijing camp, and then let the local guards cooperate, which is enough to defeat the enemy.

But here in Zhu Qizhen, he doesn't like the way of organizing the army with thousands or tens of thousands of elites with a group of people.

On the formation of the army, Shi Heng put forward his idea of army building, that is, to select warriors from the army, known as the selection of fronts, pay silver, and pay food.

Zhu Qizhen also understands that Shi Heng's idea also has a realistic basis.

Because it is a big war, it is a small part of the core of the army to really fight to the death, and the key link in a big war, the success or failure of a battle of hundreds or thousands of people, directly causes a chain reaction.

Many times, the armies are not defeated, but when they feel that they have failed, they are defeated.

Therefore, it is very important for the two armies to fight and fight against each other, on top of the tactical details, to select a group of people who can fight and dare to die, and to be unparalleled, just like before the battle of Montenegro, why did Meng Ying keep holding Wu Jin, in a sense, Wu Jin's department was Meng Ying's intention to select the front.

But this idea was rejected by Zhu Qizhen.

There are three reasons for this.

In the first aspect, facts have proved that this path is not going to work. Because of careful scrutiny, the family system of the Ming Dynasty was not extended from this idea.

The family of the Ming Dynasty was very powerful even at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and Wu Sangui's battle of fame was not to take the family to the Eight Banners battle array, and his father rescued him.

History has proven that this aspect is a dead end.

Second, such an approach is detrimental to the monarchy.

If there is a small number of very elite troops, then the command requirements of this army must be very high, and even subordinate to a certain person, a certain army will be formed.

That's what the emperor wants to see

Target.

Third, Zhu Qizhen wants to develop more firearms, which is the trend of the future era, and it is to try to let people who are powerless to pick up firearms and kill armor soldiers who have been trained for more than ten years, instead of training these strong men in the cold weapon era, and then use the fighting methods of the cold weapon era to win the victory.

Of course, Zhu Qizhen did not completely deny this approach, after all, the development of firearms is still somewhat unsatisfactory. Many combat cold weapons organize elite armies, which are still very much needed and practical.

It's just that what Zhu Qizhen did was not to choose a front, but to form several elite battalion heads, and keep the battalion heads of the three thousand battalions, the five army battalions, and the Shenji battalion.

Three battalions of Yulin, Shots, and Yongwei were also established.

There were six battalions in total. There were not many men, only 5,000 men per battalion. But every soldier was required to read and break.

It can be said that Cao Cao is almost a tiger and leopard battalion with 100 pawns.

Of these, three thousand battalions, five military battalions, were cavalry.

Wu Jin became the battalion officer of the 3,000 battalion, and the battalion officer of the 5th military battalion was Shi Jing. Although the 3,000 battalions were still mostly Tartars, they were more light cavalry, and one person was able to make large detours or marches.

However, the five military camps are heavy cavalry, each of them is equipped with auxiliaries, and each of them is carefully built armor by Shaofu, which can be called invulnerable, and even has a little defensive ability against firearms.

Of course, this defense capability is only long-range, not to let the fire gun fight against it.

This is also related to the fact that the power of the fire gun is still somewhat weak in this era.

Yulin and Yongwei are both foot soldiers.

But the qualifications for the selection of their battalion are different, Yulin generally selects military households, Maoerzhuang fought a battle, and many soldiers died, among their children, if they have the ability, they are also given priority to admit.

This is also the intention of the Yulin Camp, and it is the meaning of the Yulin orphans.

The brave guard is a recruit, and only those who are brave can try it. I don't care if it's a military or a civilian household, but most of them are from civilian backgrounds.

They are all heavy long knives, which are used to break the formation, and there are still some differences in training, that is, Yulin trains more battles between the two armies, while Yongwei mostly trains to climb the city.

As for the magic machine and the sound of shooting, they are all playing with firearms.

The Shenji Battalion was asked by Zhu Qizhen to use artillery.

Anyway, the Shenji Battalion originally liked to use cannons, and the Shaofu, under the supervision of Zhu Qizhen, stepped up the casting of cannons, and the cannons became bigger and bigger, and these cannons were all in charge of the Shenji Battalion.

The Shenji battalion was also slowly transformed into an artillery battalion.

As for the shooting battalion, it is the elite who survived the battle of Bauhinia Pass, all of them use firearms, and the new tactics of firecrackers are first tested in this battalion.

Of course, don't think that firecrackers can't fight hand-to-hand.

Many veterans who survived the brutal hand-to-hand combat under the Bauhinia Pass have a unique skill.

It is estimated that if someone attacked the position of the Shooting Sound Battalion, they might rush up with a fire gun, but they were cut down by the Shooting Sound Battalion.

These six battalions are the elite collection of the Ming army.

Therefore, it was assigned to the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

In other words, if these elite armies have a main general, his main will be Zhu Qizhen.

Zhu Qizhen's intention was not only to balance the five armies.

In other words, Zhu Qizhen felt that his means would not be bad, and he would make the five armies into a collective, and then check and balance them. There will be checks and balances within the five armed forces.

Zhu Qizhen found more that if he wanted to update the army and build the Ming army into the army he wanted, it was a little difficult to rely on martial arts alone.

Hundreds of people graduate from martial arts every year, even though Zhu Qizhen has begun to expand its enrollment, but due to various reasons, the expansion of this number is also very problematic.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen needs a place to train a large number of low-level officers, or a teaching team.

And these six battalions are the Daming teaching team.

In addition to the 250,000 of the five armies and the 30,000 of the six battalions, there was also a city defense army of 120,000.

It is not so much the city defense army, but not the historical problems that Zhu Qizhen has not solved for a while.

What kind of historical legacy? That is the historical legacy of the health center system.

Forget to say that all of the above armies are not guards, but conscripts.

In fact, when Zhou Chen rewarded and compensated the soldiers, he left a foreshadowing, and all the land near Beijing was given to these soldiers or their families.

Then there's a question to consider.

That is the issue of the subordination of the military households of the guard and the officers of the guard.

With the connotation of the guard system, these officers have great control over the soldiers, they live together, fight together, it can be said that the military households under the command of the officers, no matter what they do, can not bypass the officers above.

As a result, this system will evolve into a kind of life dependency, why can officers unscrupulously annex the fields of the guards, because there is no one in the army to take care of it.

The military household below wants to sue, and it is estimated that it is also "Who is under the hall, and why did you tell this official?" ”

When Zhou Chen divided the land, he deliberately separated the land obtained by the military household from the land of the guard, cutting off the control of the officers.

Of course, this is only the first step.

In the process of forming the five armies, it was not that the governors of each capital went to the guards under their jurisdiction to select people, but directly bypassed the commanders of the guards and recruited the soldiers below.

These 250,000 soldiers also gathered all the qualified soldiers of the 72 guards of the Ming Jingwei.

In other words, now the 72 guards command and enablement can only manage the cantonment troops, and the armies of the various guards no longer exist in a purely military sense.

Of course, there are a few exceptions, that is, several of the emperor's personal guards, these are directly subordinate to the palace and are responsible for the garrison of the palace, and these people Zhu Qizhen is not ready to move for the time being.

As for the rest, not to mention the guards who also have to give the way, it is naturally the city defense army.