Chapter 127: Expansion of the Army

Half a month later, the Flag Army's #vinegar-literature's fastest development#The second major expansion of the army finally began.

is also because a large number of military supplies need to be slowly accumulated during this period of time, and at the same time, Min Yuanqi also needs to further spread his prestige.

Coupled with the glorious image of the Banner Army's victory over the bandits, as well as the generous treatment and military salary of the Banner Army, plus the combing of the salt pond and various workshops, and the establishment of second-level garrison troops in each hundred households, these things made Min Yuanqi very busy, but the enlistment of the New Flag Army was a top priority after all...... In fact, it didn't delay for a day, after all, the number of new flag troops should be determined according to the income of Yanchi, the amount of grain purchased from the reserves, and the reserves of weapons and horses.

Fortunately, at least at this stage, Min Yuanqi's financial resources are quite abundant, and the Zhu family, including Li Kecheng, is doing their best to support it. In addition, Shen Yong's blacksmith workshop can already manufacture Qi knives, shields, spears and other weapons in batches, not to call the newly recruited flag army empty-handed training, including war horses, the Zhu family has got a batch of war horses from Nanzhili, including the war horses purchased from the north are heading south along the seaside.

If everything goes well, in no more than ten days, the number of Min Yuanqi's war horses will exceed four hundred, in this case, it is enough to set up a total frame of two cavalry.

Due to the importance of cavalry, the best seedlings this time were definitely advanced cavalry.

And because of the ease of training and importance of the gunner, the next best is the gunner.

Then it is to pick some brave and superb personal martial arts to choose the sword card.

The physical fitness and personal bravery are very ordinary, but the courage is still strong to become a pikeman, and the next class is the boring handle and the fireman.

The firefighters have to serve on the battlefield, and if the war is unfavorable, they have to step forward to fill the position, of course, they are also a member of the soldiers, but they are considered to be a low-level existence among the soldiers, so any firefighters who are somewhat motivated will seek to become real soldiers after a long time.

Walking through the salt pond are a large group of descendants, they are all from the surrounding hundreds of households rushed over, they have already passed the local primary election, the local village or the hundred households officials issued a letter of guarantee, writing their names and figures, as well as the guarantor's signature, they are eligible to go through the heavy guards, rushed to the side of the 300 households of the barracks to accept the re-election.

Everyone's mood is quite happy.

In the future generations of this year, unless it is the children of those noble officials or giant merchant families, there is no one who cannot endure hardships. Even the children of small businessmen have learned arithmetic and various business methods by the time they are teenagers, including how to deal with customers.

This is not bitter, when you reach the age of fifteen or sixteen, you will be given a daughter-in-law at home, and then you can make people at home with peace of mind.

In a year or two, the daughter-in-law has a body, I'm sorry, the stupid boy goes out to do business, this time he can't go home once for a few years, this kind of hard work is not not full of food and clothing, but a kind of mental suffering and pain.

The world is like this.

Whether it is a military household or a civilian household, young people or strong men of about seventeen, eighteen to thirty are not afraid of hardship, and the banner army is not afraid of enduring more hardships.

Isn't it a good thing that Deputy Min Qianhu can defeat the bandits and behead the thousand-level, and the stronger the flag army means that the Yunti Pass is safer and safer?

The training of the flag army also has the meaning of raising the image of the flag army.

Fully armed, everyone wears a Fan Yang hat, wears a one-color red military robe, how many villages and hundreds of households have passed back and forth, all of them are sturdy and strong young men, wearing one-color robes, running back and forth energetically, how many admiration and envy eyes have been attracted?

Originally, the impoverished banner army was an inferior class that everyone looked down on in the local area, and ordinary households were unlikely to marry military households, but now the households within a radius of dozens of miles have changed their attitudes, and they all want to marry their daughters to the 300th household.

If you marry a flag army, as long as Deputy Min is here, the promised salary is paid, and even accidentally dies in battle, you can eat and pay for the rest of your life, you can have no worries about food and clothing, and the poor people, what can you expect more?

"I see the gate."

"What is the gate, it is the camp gate."

"What a lot of horses, see you for the first time in twenty-two years."

"It's the first time I've seen such a mighty banner army."

Although some young men had helped in Yanchi, when they approached the barracks and thought that they might become a member of the Banner Army, they couldn't help but feel excited.

"It's strange to say," a young man from ......the Banner Army touched his head and said: "We were originally the Banner Army, and my younger brother is Yu Ding, and now he is coming to join the army, which feels weird." ”

"That's right."

"I heard that the report has been reported, if only the imperial court allowed our Deputy Min Qianhu to be a garrison officer."

"Yes, that's great, we're just serious battalion soldiers."

"What is the good reputation of the battalion? The thief is like a comb, and the soldier is like a grate, which is not as good as the flag army. ”

"That's another battalion soldier, our Yuntiguan battalion will never have such a bad reputation."

"Reasonable, reasonable."

"That's also the matter of the court and the officials, who knows what will happen?"

Thanks to Min Yuanqi's unremitting efforts in the past two months to publicize and explain the general trend of the imperial court to the people and military households around him, including the most basic inside information of the military and political operations, these young people with a relatively high degree of acceptance in front of him have at least an understanding of the operation of the imperial court and the general trend in front of them.

If a few months ago, if you let them go, I'm afraid you won't be able to say one, two, three, four, five.

The battalion system, except for the main barracks of the general army to the odd barracks of the deputy generals, all have their own garrison areas, and from the generals to the small soldiers, they cannot leave the letter without permission, unless the imperial court has a clear directive.

Only the guerrilla battalion of the guerrilla generals had no fixed defensive ground and was a mobile battalion that could be dispatched at any time.

Under guerrilla, it is to take the soldiers of a certain battalion to garrison a certain place, such as the Tongshan battalion stationed in Tongshan, the Suining battalion stationed in Suining, etc.

Under the garrison, there is a large officer's fort officer, with three or five hundred soldiers under his command, guarding a certain defensive area, and there are several small military forts and fire piers underneath.

Such a multi-in-one constitutes the defense system of the Ming Dynasty.

The nine sides are fixed with a large number of general adjutant generals and general guerrillas, under which there are garrison officers guarding fort officers, the fort guards must be at least a commander, and the garrison officer is at least a commander.

Yuntiguan here, not only the inner town, but also the deserted place near the sea, so there is no garrison officer or fort officer, when the preparation was in the time of the war, there was a general here, garrisoning five small military forts.

Now that Min Yuanqi is here, if there is an excuse for bandits to run rampant, it is still possible to be appointed as a garrison officer.

After all, everyone understands that with Min Yuanqi's current strength and financial resources, coupled with his fame, prestige and military merits, it is a sure thing to be the commander or fellow knower, and it is a matter of course to serve as a battalion garrison.

Of course, this is just a discussion and conjecture, but it also represents a considerable part of the people's will and public opinion.

At least for the strong men of these banner soldiers and civilian households in front of them, they wish that Min Yuanqi could be added to the ranks.

Although they are not as good as the first batch of trained flag soldiers, people have become flag captains or team officers, and the most unfortunate thing is that they can become team deputies this time, and they are still far behind.

The closer you get to the barracks, the clearer the situation in the barracks, a large number of flag troops are fully armed and training, and the sound of shouting and shouting, the sound of weapons of gold and iron, and the sound of fire guns are endless......

The most eye-catching thing is that the large group of spear flags marched forward in formation, all of which were two spears, standing high and advancing like a wall, and then raising their spears diagonally, and then stabbing forward together......

The momentum of moving forward, the frost and cold of the tip of the spear, the flickering cold light, and the power of the parallel forward stab, even if it is still a hundred steps away, are all terrifying and terrifying.

The spear array in front of me is composed of four spear flag teams, which practice the spear formation together every day, and then cooperate with the sword and card players.

Sometimes they also broke up to form mandarin duck arrays, or practiced large and small three-material formations with cavalry, and also practiced circular formations for defense.

Sometimes it is also a sharp array used to practice assault with knife and card boring.

Min Yuanqi believes that no matter what kind of array it is, the array is determined according to the terrain and the number of enemies, as well as the combat tasks undertaken, and the tactical changes should be decided according to the actual situation.

The training of the flag army is also based on Min Yuanqi's consideration, and the training is quite stable and solid.

Of course, those Nine Palace Bagua Arrays and the like look fancy, but in fact, the farts are not used in the array, Min Yuanqi will never let the soldiers under his command waste that useless time.

More than 1,000 people had gathered at the gate of the camp, and these were all strong men who had reported on the time specified after the primary.

Looking at the scene in the camp, they were already dizzy and shaken.

Not only that, but the pikemen quickly retreated to regroup their array, and then the knife players lined up on both flanks and in front of the formation, forming a huge horizontal formation and rushing forward together.

On the opposite side of the horizontal formation, a large formation was also assembled, and at this time dozens of archers gathered on one side and dozens of gunners on the other side.

As the military order was issued, the flag was unfurled, and the archers on one side began to shoot into the sky.

On the other side, the guns also began to play, white smoke and flames rose one after another, and the huge sound frightened the faces of these primaries even pale.

The fire guns roared, the arrows rained down, where is this training, and it is clearly a real battlefield?

Under the long-range attack of both sides, the military formations on both sides still maintained a fairly complete situation, and then touched each other, and then simulated each other's attacks with wooden poles and wooden knives.

With this level of training, it is inevitable that some trainees will be injured.

Despite the round arrows, several of the bannermen were shot in the eye or throat and carried out of the formation.

A large number of banner soldiers were beaten with bruises or blood on their faces, but they were not allowed to withdraw, and could only stay in the formation honestly and continue to obey orders.

There were also a few who were really unlucky, injured by the ricochet of the firebolt, but fortunately they were not critical, they were also carried out, debrided and disinfected, bandaged, and then limped back to the barracks to rest.