Chapter Seventy-Six: Formation
Min Yuanqi said: "The company officer and firefighter is a squad of twelve people, three squads are a flag team, the company flag officer, the deputy team officer, the flag bearer, the drummer, the herald Tang Ma, the town of Fu, the secretary of the secretary, the quartermaster is a flag team, the three flag teams are one hundred general, our people are estimated to be enough to make four hundred general, if you need to add or remove any position in the future, then we will talk about it." ”
This kind of measure is also similar to the Ming military camp system, most of the famous generals during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty were illiterate, and the last Mao Wenlong, who regarded himself as a Confucian general, was killed by Yuan Chonghuan in the early years of Chongzhen, and the rest of Zuo Liangyu, Cao Bianjiao, Zhou Yujihe, Renlong and other generations are not very literate, Zu Dashou is not very literate, at most he is coarse and literate, Wu Sangui is literate, and the vassal is elegant, but it is far from Mao Wenlong, not to mention Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou, who are both civil and military.
Generals are not very literate, and their status is generally to the point where they ask their staff to act in charge of the army's Chinese books and official documents. Ordinary middle and lower-level generals do not need these things, the military supply logistics and military law in the army are handled by the generals at will, large-scale marching and combating military needs are responsible for the central imperial court, the local governor patrols the military preparation road and the grain road is managed by a bunch of people, there may also be eunuchs in the army, the distribution of military food and ammunition involves the distribution of eunuchs, civilian officials and military generals, the important thing is that everyone shares the benefits together, as for the management of military Chinese books circulating official documents, it is the secretary of the army to do it, Qi Jiguang's battalion still has a large number of civilian jobs, The rest of the battalions of the Ming army were a mess, and by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the generals were killed and killed, not to mention any civilian duties.
Min Yuanqi's setup is obviously different from that of ordinary battalions, and the flag corps has all kinds of duties, including quartermasters, military law, and clerical services; at the level of the 100 general headquarters, there will be quartermaster clerks and town officials, and these positions of each flag corps will be managed at the lower levels, and special departments can be set up at the top to deal with the auxiliary affairs of these armies.
In Min Yuanqi's understanding, the battalion system of the Ming army was chaotic, the huge imperial guard and the military town coexisted, the battalion system could not be unified, and the supply of military supplies and ordnance was also extremely chaotic.
The establishment of a division, if everything goes smoothly can be built into a thousand headquarters, Min Yuanqi is planning to establish the corresponding functional departments, other Ming army he can't control, at least his subordinates should establish a fine division of labor, clear functions, and establish a fairly standardized management system.
A person in the future generations cannot be so ignorant of knowledge.
Min Yuanzhong asked: "Is it divided into 100 households?" ”
Min Yuanqi shook his head and said: "The veterans of a small team, with two squads of recruits, the recruits are disorganized and mixed, not according to the hundred households, surnames, according to the tall, short, fat and thin in order to each team, the officers of the recruit squad are selected by the veterans who perform well, and the flag officers of each flag team are the same, whether the recruits are the general flag or the small flag, first they are just ordinary flag soldiers, if they want to be the captain of the flag captain, talk about the results of training and actual combat, whether it is surnamed Wang, Li, or surnamed Min, they are all treated like this, if anyone is dissatisfied and opposed, they will be removed from the team immediately, Don't be emotional. ”
Gao Cuncheng, Yang Zhijin and the others quietly glanced at each other, and everyone did not say anything, but they all looked a little relieved.
These people have been following Min Yuanqi for a long time, and each of them has made a lot of contributions, but he is also a small flag officer, this time there are many people from the Min family, and there are many small flag identities, if Min Yuanqi appoints these people as the flag captain or the head of the hundred, everyone has no choice, and they don't even dare to object.
Now the military attache is determined by seniority and merit, and these people can not only keep their official positions, but also promote the subordinates who have been following, and the newcomers are strongly suppressed even if they are dissatisfied, so this is the fairest treatment, and everyone naturally has no opinion.
If you talk about the prestige in the army, of course, it is Min Yuanqi first, this army of hundreds of people is built by this trial hundred households, not to mention the salt pond in hand, if you hold the food, if there is no food, these hundreds of people in front of you will immediately disperse. Everyone followed Min Yuanqi to eat at the beginning, and then faintly felt that this kind of training could really protect this place and everyone's family, and everyone gradually really contributed, and now they killed Yang Shida and his gang, and then there was a salt pond to produce salt, and the general trend gradually became a small army, and the small army of the temporary formation also made people feel quite rushed, and each military attache was quite nervous about their status, which would directly affect their future.
The formation was completed quickly, and it was very easy to do things with the charter, and the four hundred general officials were Min Yuanzhong, Min Yuanjin, Gao Cuncheng and Yang Zhijin, all of whom were old people, and each had its own characteristics. Min Yuanjin has followed Min Yuanqi for the longest time, he is loyal, and he acts flexibly, and the flag team he manages has always been able to perform well, and the golden drum flag is very fast. Gao Cuncheng is simple and kind, the training is practical, the military formation is heavy, and he has a unique style, Yang Zhijin is generous, his prestige is very high, and the loyalty of his subordinates is also extremely high.
Han Sen is still his pacification officer, and there is no dissatisfaction with this original general banner, there are many general flags among the people from the Min family, and now he is honestly an ordinary flag army, and it is not Han Sen's turn to be dissatisfied.
Liang Shifa was also his quartermaster, and at the same time served as the deputy general manager, and the twelve flag captains were Shen Liang, Xie Xiang, Wang Wumai, Li Junsun, as well as Xu Wenhuan, Guo Shangyi and others.
The 100 total flags were made by craftsmen a few days ago, and the crimson Zhanger banner stood tall, and in the middle of the banner was the eye-catching number of one, two, three, four, so that it was easy for the soldiers of each hundred general to find their own flag.
The flag of each hundred is a small red flag, one size smaller than the general flag, and each squad also has a small triangular flag decorated on the flag gun, and the squad officer stands in front of each team with a flag gun, and the officers and soldiers under the team follow the squad flag gun action.
Many of the new troops have already participated in the training for a few days, and after the reorganization, they will soon stand behind the flag guns of their respective team officers, and the team officers will then stand under the flag team in small teams, and each flag team will be listed under the banner of the 100 general forces, and each hundred general officers and men will take turns to pick people to stand under the flag of the general 100 in less than two quarters of an hour.
When the soldiers lined up to recognize the flag, there were remnants of the flag army passing by from time to time, and many women went to the southeast, they went to the salt pond to work, and the craftsmen took many people along the shanty area to continue to expand the scale of residence, and more people will live in the shantytown in the past two days.
Many people looked at the flag army here with envy, with a large amount of grain into storage, Min Yuanqi's food here is not too short, plus the strength is strong, after the destruction of Yang Shida and his gang, no one dares to make it difficult for this group of fierce Weisuo flag army, Liang Shifa picked a few former business companions in the city, most of them are unambitious big guys, they are responsible for buying grain in nearby market towns and county towns on a daily basis, of course, large transactions have to be done in Huai'an Mansion, just when the salt is sent to buy goods and return.
There is no shortage of food, and the treatment of the trained flag army has risen directly, six liters of refined food a day, which can not only ensure that the flag army himself is full, even if there are seven or eight people in the family, this food is enough to eat. If the population of the family is not large, and then save at least half of the grain every day, which is a lot of wealth, and if you earn a few taels of silver a year, the average household will earn five or six taels of silver a year even if the wind and rain are smooth, and there are many miscellaneous labors like cattle hair, it is difficult to drop the silver in hand, and the life of the military household will be more difficult.
Yan Ding and craftsmen, as well as people who are digging salt ponds, are four liters of grain every day, and even if they change to six liters in the future, they are half of the thickness and half of the thickness of the salt Ding, and the flag army is all fine grain, and the pigs and sheep bought are also to supplement the nutrition of the flag army, this time the contrast is stark, and there are more and more strong men who are full of enthusiasm to join the flag army, this time the selection of troops is smooth, and several hundred households in the vicinity are around twenty to thirty years to choose, many of them are not strong, and the cowardly character is not selected, and the people who are not selected are quite annoyed in their hearts, but Min Yuanqi released the style of speechAfter a few times of salt and digging a large salt pond without a lot of labor, they will continue to recruit troops into the camp, and the flag army that was not selected after the news came was a little calmer, and the resentment was not so deep.
In the envious eyes of everyone, the hundred flags were scattered, and the newly elected people had not yet come to their senses, so they separated with the hundred flags under the kicks and beatings of the pacifying soldiers, and then in the shouts of the officers, the new training began.
"Call Yang Zhijin and Gao Cuncheng, and the flag captain with actual combat experience to have a meeting, if you can't write, find a secretary to record, and record the specific training process."
The school yard was dusty, and the smell of the earth and the salty smell of the sea breeze were mixed, and the smell of sweat exerted by the human body was mixed together, and the smell around the barracks was really unpleasant. Min Yuanqi frowned slightly, now there are toilets around the barracks, which are cleaned regularly, there are drainage ditches and many deep wells to solve the problem of sewage and drinking water, plus there is a landfill in the distance, and the entire barracks will arrange people to take turns to clean every day, and it looks quite clean and tidy.
Most of the Ming military camps are synonymous with mixing and chaos, and the battalions are full of green-skinned scoundrels and gangsters, even if they are good people in this bad environment, most of them have become bad, and the imperial court does not provide food and salary in the middle and late periods, and the rogues have robbed the officers and soldiers, and sometimes the officers and soldiers and the officers and soldiers have started to loot the people's property, and the miasma of the military camp is naturally not a problem, and there are no generals to pay attention to such things.
The school yard and barracks in front of me are very decent, but the barracks are still shacks, and it depends on craftsmen and manpower to slowly burn bricks out to build formal barracks.
Min Yuanqi thought for a while, and said to Min Yuanzhong: "You will hold a meeting with the captain of the flag of the hundred generals, and you will soon make new clothes on a large scale, and personal hygiene will also be compiled into regulations, how to wash, time, utensils, how to protect, replace, and clean clothes, you must come up with a way to compile regulations." ”