Chapter 31 Preparations for Actual Combat Training
"Li Dingguo, order everyone to gather!"
Zhu Youxiao ended the blind fight with everyone, his face turned solemn, and he shouted loudly!
"Didi!"
The piercing whistle instantly resounded in this world.
Black figures gathered quickly from all directions of the huge school field!
Everyone was dressed in black clothes and black armor, and the sound of the collision of the armor pieces was "rattling", and the footsteps were uniform.
Soon, a phalanx was lined up in this huge school field.
"Count!" ……
Li Dingguo and more than a dozen other male and female captains gave an order, and the phalanx reported the number one by one!
"Report to Your Majesty! All 30,000 members of the Royal Guard are here, and none of them are absent! ”
Li Dingguo sprinted in small steps, quickly came to the front of Zhu Youxiao, stood still, and saluted.
"Well, yes, everyone came out of the barracks and finished the formation, it only took half a cup of tea, and basically the minimum requirements for a soldier have been met."
Zhu Youxiao held a newly developed tweeter that he had strengthened to +3 and said loudly.
In the past month or so, he has ordered the adoption of orphans who have gathered, reaching more than 120,000 people, but not all of them are suitable for being soldiers, especially elite soldiers.
After rounds of elimination, in the end, only the 30,000 soldiers of the Guards remained.
What made Zhu Youxiao unbelievable was that there were 18,000 female soldiers among them!
And the male soldiers were 12,000 men.
Having said that, girls generally grow faster physically and mentally than boys of the same age during their teenage years.
In addition, girls who have experienced great hardships know how to cherish this hard-won opportunity more than most boys.
Therefore, it is not surprising that there are now more women than men in the selection of those who have been selected for the Guard.
These are all elite soldiers selected by Zhu Youxiao's excellence, and the shortest ones are all more than 1.5 meters tall.
Today's young soldiers of the Guards all have ruddy faces, do not squint, and have straight waists, and they still have a very elite feeling.
However, Zhu Youxiao knew that these boy scouts still lacked several actual combat training.
Of course, he would not let these promising Boy Scout soldiers who had worked so hard and spent a great deal of money send them to their deaths.
Therefore, it was not until two days ago that someone from the Ming Royal Military Equipment Department came to report that a million sets of excellent armor were all ready, and he had the idea of taking this Praetorian Guard soldier to actual combat several times.
For this million sets of new army equipment, Zhu Youxiao issued an order early: In the future, the new army of the Ming Empire will all wear black clothes and black armor.
He doesn't care about the previous imperial court, Shenma Huode is clear, since it is a new army, of course, it is formed according to his own ideas.
Having said that, the original army of the Ming Empire, because of its admiration of fire virtue, made it red and gorgeous!
In this way, what else do you have to be proud of in this mandarin duck battle jacket, except that it is easy to attract the enemy's firepower on the battlefield?
Red on the battlefield, not to mention not mighty, but also very attractive to the sun, dazzling, and there is nothing to be desired.
Zhu Youxiao liked the Black Armor Army of the Great Qin Empire the most in his previous life, and he looked murderous, which made people feel chills in their hearts when they saw it.
Isn't this fragrant?
Therefore, even if he exerts all his current resources, he will build a new army of heavily armed black-clothed and black-armored soldiers.
Just like now, the Boy Scouts dressed in a large number of medium and a small number of large black clothes and black armor are majestic and intimidating at first glance.
Two strong crossbow teams, 5,000 full men, 2,000 men and 3,000 women.
The 10,000 strong bow team is divided into two teams, half male and half female.
There are 3,000 sword and shield soldiers, all of whom are composed of burly male soldiers, holding a large wooden shield clad steel, and carrying a sharp steel waist knife on their waists.
There were also 10,000 women ordinary archers, 2,000 men muskets and artillerymen.
These ordinary bows and arrows are not ordinary, they are all English longbows designed by Zhu Youxiao based on the memories of his previous life, and even women can easily pull them apart.
The English longbow does not need any quasi-head, and the best way to kill is to throw it en masse!
Moreover, the English longbow, which looks extremely simple, has an extremely long range, more than double the range of the original bow and arrow of the Ming Dynasty.
In the Cold Weapon Age, 10,000 men would use the English longbow and launch a few rounds of dense long-range projectiles to crush the vast majority of the enemy.
This kind of English longbow was only eliminated after the appearance of the Minnie gun and breech gun, which was enough for Zhu Youxiao to use it for decades.
To deal with this kind of longbow array, it is best to cover the whole set of plate armor.
However, on this battlefield in the East, how could there be a large army with an entire army dressed in plate armor?
If there is, it will only appear in the hands of Zhu Youxiao.
However, no matter what, he would not let the soldiers be equipped with such heavy plate armor.
Only the physique of the Westerners is the best.
The English longbow is a big killing weapon, and Zhu Youxiao is just equipped with this guard scout.
There is no way, in order to keep it as secret as possible, he will not brazenly equip the whole army.
The Guards are basically under their noses, and with their absolute loyalty, secrecy is the best.
Of course, after Lu Xiangsheng and their new army were basically trained, Zhu Youxiao immediately issued an order to carefully select 5,000 soldiers and take shifts for 12 hours to closely guard the area where the Ming Imperial Military Equipment Department was located.
He also instituted a series of secrecy measures, and the punishment and reward were extremely severe.
The lowest punishment is to behead the person concerned and the whole family.
The heaviest thing, of course, is to exterminate the Nine Clans!
It is necessary to do so.
Ensuring the continued advancement of one's own equipment is the best way to reduce the number of deaths on one's side, and it is also the key to winning a war in any era.
Zhu Youxiao clearly knew that no matter how much attention is paid to the secrecy of armaments, it is not too much.
Although it has been decided to train troops in actual combat, Zhu Youxiao still has to wait a little longer.
One of the reasons is that the super official road was only built in Zunhua City, and it took more than a month to build it to Shanhaiguan.
Among them, the main thing is to build bridges over the river, which is too time-consuming.
Every big bridge requires a lot of manpower and time to build.
Another reason is that the means of transport have not yet been fully prepared.
The four-wheeled carriage built by Zhu Youxiao himself had already been handed over to the Military Equipment Department for imitation.
However, until now, there have only been a few hundred or so.
This time, Zhu Youxiao led the army to Shanhaiguan, but he didn't come back just to have fun, he still had various plans, but he could only implement them when the time came.
Therefore, he planned to dispatch an army of 500,000 troops to carry out large-scale military training, and he had to have at least 5,000 four-wheeled carriages for transportation.
Even if the military equipment department, which has nearly one million people now, and a large number of craftsmen are working hard to build it, it will take at least about a month.
It's also good that Zhu Youxiao took advantage of this time to prepare thirty Super Franc cannons, so that this big operation would be foolproof.
As for the reinforcement of muskets, it was only possible to strengthen them while marching.
This trip to Shanhaiguan was not able to return to the capital in a short period of time, and he had a lot of time to strengthen his musket.
Anyway, he wasn't going to strengthen too many muskets, and a hundred-man team would be enough for the time being.
In the future, it will be enough for him to grow the Super Musket team to a maximum of a thousand.
Super Furlong cannons, one hundred strengthened in the sky, and no more is needed.
The artillery and musket corps of the Guards Scouts now numbered just two thousand.
The number of reinforcements per day is too precious, and he has his own plans, and it is impossible for him to devote himself fully to the military aspect.
Other than that, he is not prepared to equip any of the remaining troops.
Because of Zhu Youxiao's side, the current force is enough to overwhelm the heroes.
He had already discussed with Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting, and a month later, he would send troops to Shanhaiguan on time.
There are 200,000 new troops left in the capital, led by Lu Xiangsheng, which is enough to defend the area within the capital.
Today's Yongwei Army, because the current super official road has spread too far, there are too many big farms and homeless people today, and the 100,000 Yongwei soldiers have all been pulled out by Lu Jiu.
The defense and blockade of the capital had been handed over to the officers and men of the new army a few days ago.