After sending Cao Huachun away, Zhu Cihong began to expand the troops of the Tianwu Army and transfer the rank of military general.

The emperor's grace is of course, but Zhu Cihong wants everyone to understand who has the final say in everyone's position in the Tianwu Army!

At present, the Tianwu Army is fully staffed with 20,000 people, under the jurisdiction of three brigades, a heavy artillery regiment directly under the army, and a cavalry reinforcement regiment directly under the army, the first royal brigade is stationed in Wuchang, the second royal brigade is in defense and accompanied by Zhu Cihong, and the third royal brigade is stationed in Taipingfu.

In addition to the Tianwu Army, Zhu Cihong also had 180,000 Tuntian soldiers who had been practicing for several months, and more than 100,000 people from Chuzhou Mansion, Anqing Mansion, Chizhou Mansion and other places who were recruiting and waiting to divide the fields.

In particular, the first batch of recruited Tuntian soldiers has formed a certain combat effectiveness after nearly a year of training, and the 30,000 or 40,000 Tuntian soldiers who have been on the battlefield have grown into real sergeants.

Zhu Cihong decided to charge the tens of thousands of Tuntian soldiers who had been on the battlefield into the Tianwu Army, and the Tianwu Army was expanded to three divisions, each with 20,000 people, the same configuration as before.

The three divisions are numbered as the First Royal Division of the Tianwu Army, the Second Royal Division of the Tianwu Army, and the Third Royal Division of the Tianwu Army, which are respectively under the control of Huang Degong, Sun Yingyuan, and Zhou Yuji, and all the generals are promoted according to their respective military merits.

In the newly expanded Tianwu Army, the armaments of each division are equipped with musketeers, cavalry accounts for 30%, artillery accounts for 10%, and the remaining 10% are non-collectible, medical soldiers and other arms.

In order to make the Tianwu Army more powerful and give full play to its combat effectiveness, Zhu Cihong also equipped each brigade with a fixed baggage brigade, which was responsible for logistics, not only to transport military rations, but also to ensure a sufficient supply of ammunition.

The baggage brigade selects outstanding people from the tuntian soldiers, and when the regular soldiers of each brigade have casualties, they can select those with military merits from the baggage brigade to supplement the regular soldiers.

All soldiers of the Tianwu Army used self-generated Lumi guns, or flintlock pistols, which were standard for each soldier: a musket with a three-edged bayonet, a fifty-round paper tube containing sub-medicine, and two grenades, all of which were wrapped in a waterproof cowhide.

The Jiangnan Ordnance Bureau and several ordnance bureaus in Fengyang, through half a year of development, now steadily produce 10,000 self-generated Lumi guns, 300 artillery pieces of various types, and 5,000 sets of armor every month, and now there are quite a lot of stocks, which are completely enough to equip 40,000 people.

In addition to the three divisions, the Royal Heavy Artillery Regiment directly under the Tianwu Army was also upgraded to the Royal Heavy Artillery Brigade, which is still under the command of Wan Junjie.

The Royal Heavy Artillery Brigade was all equipped with heavy artillery, including 30 18-pounder Hongyi cannons, 100 12-pounder Hongyi cannons, 200 8-pounder Hongyi cannons, and the worst was also the Great Franc machine gun, and was equipped with 200 Thunderbolts, and the artillerymen were each equipped with a revolver.

The Royal Cavalry Reinforcement Regiment directly under the original army and Cao Bianjiao's 3,000 cavalry were merged into the Royal Cavalry Brigade directly under the Tianwu Army, with Cao Bianjiao as the brigade commander, and Li Shaoyou, the former commander of the Royal Cavalry Regiment, was promoted to the commander of the first brigade of the second division of the Tianwu Army, in charge of the first brigade.

The cavalry brigade is divided into two kinds of heavy cavalry and light cavalry, but the heavy cavalry of the Tianwu Army is different from the traditional heavy cavalry, the armor worn by the heavy cavalry is similar to that of the light cavalry, but the cuirass is slightly thicker, and the front, head and neck of the war horse are equipped with iron armor, so that the heavy cavalry also has strong mobility and speed.

All cavalry were armed with a flintlock pistol, a spear with a handguard, a sabre, a revolver, and a grenade.

Zhu Cihong also asked Yang Yufan, the general soldier of Fengyang, to form a separate army according to the standards of the Tianwu Army, and selected soldiers from the Tuntian soldiers to form an army of 20,000 people, and the army was called the Anwu Army.

In the battle to defend the city of Luzhou, Yang Yufan's 20,000 defenders were almost wiped out, and he swore not to surrender, which made Zhu Cihong attach great importance to it, and after talking with him for a day, he decided to take him into the account.

Subsequently, Zhu Cihong carried out rectification of the Ministry of Military Justice, and formally established a legal army in the Ministry of Military Justice, which was equivalent to the gendarmerie in later generations.

Since its establishment, the Tianwu Army has been able to achieve great military feats, and a large factor is that the military discipline is strict and there is no crime committed in the autumn, and Zhu Cihong knows that with the expansion and complexity of the army, there is also a need for a supervisory organ within the army to manage and supervise the army's violations of discipline.

Before that, the Judge Advocate General's Office did not have many personnel, and there were only a few non-commissioned officers in each regiment to supervise it, and the intensity was obviously insufficient.

The legal army established this time is composed of veterans who first joined the Tianwu Army and have never made mistakes, and they belong to the kind of people who have a high ideological consciousness and attach great importance to the reputation and honor of the Tianwu Army.

The task of the forensic soldiers is to deal with all the soldiers who violate the law and discipline, including the Tianwu Army, as well as the hooligans who pretend to be officers and soldiers to disturb the people.

The forensic soldiers have the power to arrest, interrogate, and punish, and Zhu Cihong also stipulated that no soldier should have a conflict with the forensics, and that he must obey the forensic soldiers in carrying out their tasks, otherwise they will be dealt with as violating discipline.

Zhu Cihong added a new authority to Jinyiwei to ensure the internal security of the Tianwu Army, screen and arrest enemy intelligence personnel, and prevent enemy personnel from sabotage activities in the area controlled by the Tianwu Army.

At present, the intelligence network of Jinyiwei in charge of Li Tingbiao has covered the entire Ming Dynasty, and it is not difficult to do this.

After the order to expand the army was issued, all units of the Tianwu Army worked hard to complete the reorganization of the three divisions within three months and form an effective and stable combat system.

At present, the total number of cavalry of the Tianwu Army has expanded to 20,000, and the number of war horses required is also very great, in addition to the original 6,000 cavalry of the Tianwu Army, plus the 3,000 cavalry brought by Cao Bianjiao, more than 10,000 war horses are also needed.

Fortunately, the old battalion and the horse army that wiped out the fifth battalion of the Zuo Ge captured a lot, about a few thousand, and the rest was provided by the Fengyang Horse Farm.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di have been horses all their lives, attaching great importance to horse breeding, and the Ming Dynasty has brought together the horse breeding system since the Tang and Song dynasties to create a set of effective horse management system.

The horse administration of the Ming Dynasty was mainly divided into official herdsmen, private herdsmen, and nomads from the border horse market to exchange tea for horses.

Many people have a misunderstanding that the south can't raise horses, in fact, after the Mongols conquered the Song Dynasty, horse ranches were established in all parts of the Central Plains and even in the south of the Yangtze River.

Horses on the grassland eat grass for a long time, the horse's belly will fall, and the poor quality grass will also hurt the horse's stomach, while the horse in the Central Plains, eating grains, the muscles grown out of the horse's belly are very beautiful, and the horse's strength and endurance are also extraordinary.

In the heyday of Ming Chengzu, there were about 400,000 military horses in border towns, 160,000 horses in the Beijing garrison, 200,000 horses for officials and people, 80,000 post horses, and 900,000 official horses.

Since the Ming Dynasty became the ancestor, the Ming Dynasty gradually weakened, the development of Ma Zheng was also a mess, the cost of the people was great, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the country's official horses were almost only less than one-fifth of the heyday.

Fengyang Horse Farm was originally the largest horse farm in the Central Plains of the Ming Dynasty, but now it has been ruined by the honors and the officers of the guard, and has been basically abandoned, but fortunately, it still produces some horses every year, and barely maintains the cavalry of the Tianwu Army.

In Zhu Cihong's plan, cavalry is also the top priority, he wants to plan a torrent of iron armor with tens of thousands of personnel, unless Sun Heding takes the lead in developing machine guns and rear-loading rifled guns, if these two artifacts come out, there will be nothing to do with cavalry.

Zhu Cihong knew that it was not easy to train cavalry, so when he met Cao Bianjiao, he forcibly asked him to come over, Cao Bianjiao's other skills were not very good, training cavalry and commanding cavalry to fight were first-class, and the cavalry brought out was fierce!

Cao Bianjiao told Zhu Cihong that cavalry is difficult to train, special knights are particular about height and arm length, and good horses are difficult to find, it is even more difficult to become war horses, and the cost of raising horses is also very great.

The cost of a cavalry is equivalent to the cost of five elite infantry, just eating grass, a horse costs eight cents of silver a day, nearly thirty taels of silver a year, and more horse feed such as wheat beans and hay when fighting.

Although there are difficulties, Zhu Cihong is not afraid, and the problems that can be solved with money are not called problems, and he directly ordered to open up several horse farms in Nanzhili to raise war horses.

The newly opened horse farm covers a large area, and the places are close to the river and the soil is fertile, which makes Yang Tinglin, who is for the country and the people, feel distressed for a while.