Many bigwigs in Nanzhili want to get a share of the industry in Yushan Town, and Liu Juntao doesn't have much disgust at this, after all, at this time, Jiangnan merchants are prosperous, and if those bigwigs can focus on industry, it is also a good thing for the country and the people.

Of course, the big premise is that the conditions proposed by those bigwigs are not too excessive, otherwise Liu Juntao doesn't mind rejecting them all.

After that, Liu Juntao began to "spend money", and the first thing was the expansion of the soldiers and horses of each battalion.

Just after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Liu Juntao sent all the new formations of the army to all battalions, so that everyone could recognize it, after all, the big war was fought by everyone together, and they had to work together.

After reading it, the generals of the battalions were immediately overjoyed, and they did not have any opinions on the plan formulated by Liu Juntao.

As a result, Liu Juntao issued a clear text on the new army formation.

According to the establishment formulated by Liu Juntao, the highest formation of the army under the command of the General Military Office of Yanzhou Prefecture is the battalion, and the battalion commander is a guerrilla general, which means that each guerrilla general has a battalion of soldiers and horses under his command.

The general structure of each battalion is similar to the previous one, and at the general level, a team of mine-throwers, a team of swordsmen, and a team of night fighters are added, and a total strength of 489 men is set up, so that each commander can lead his troops to fight independently.

At the ministerial level, a miner, a sentry, a long knife, a sentry, a horse, and a thousand guards were added to the ministry-level system, with 1,829 troops under the command of each Qian.

Above the department is the battalion-level structure, and the two divisions are one battalion, led by a guerrilla general.

A sentry mincellor, a chief swordsman, a general horse team, a guerrilla guard, a general baggage soldier, and a sentry will not be collected at night; At the same time, an artillery team was formed at the battalion level, including 20 guns, 40 gunners, and an artillery team escort with a sentry bird and a sentry with a long knife.

According to this structure, the strength of the first battalion will reach 5,500 people, which can fully cope with an average-level battle, which is also the lowest level of strategic force built by Liu Juntao.

And Zhang Xiaojun, Yan Hu, Chen Ziping, Gao Ran, and Sun Xu, the five staff generals (after everyone was promoted and reported to the Ministry of War, Yan Hu was also promoted to a general by the Ministry of War) is each in charge of two battalions of soldiers and horses, and at the same time, each person will also have a direct force as the direct command of the general, so that the strength under each person's command will reach 12,839 people!

Such a force can be said to be very strong, and it can completely deal with strategic attacks or defenses in any direction.

With the equipment level and training of the army under Liu Juntao, the offensive power of 12,000 or 3,000 men and horses, the general enemy cannot resist under the same force conditions, even if it is a strong enemy like Warat, it needs to gather 20,000 to 30,000 elite iron cavalry to fight it!

As for the Iron Cavalry Battalion, it was changed to the Iron Cavalry Army, and the strength of the army increased greatly in this expansion.

According to Liu Juntao's plan, the officers and men of the Iron Cavalry Army are also at the level of corps, team, sentry, headquarters, department, and battalion according to the infantry system, but the long swordsmen, baggage soldiers, artillery and other types of troops are removed.

In this way, the first battalion of the Iron Cavalry Army has 2,493 soldiers and horses, and the two battalions are one army, plus an iron cavalry directly under the general Zhou Zongsheng, the strength of the Iron Cavalry Army will reach 6,179 people!

Fortunately, when he went north to King Qin, Liu Juntao led his troops to capture tens of thousands of war horses, plus the original war horses in Yushan Town, so there was no shortage of war horses needed for the large-scale expansion of the battalions this time.

So far, according to Liu Juntao's army expansion plan, the strength of the Yanzhou General Military Office has reached more than 83,000 people and 120 artillery pieces!

This kind of military strength is already the first in the whole Ming Dynasty, looking at this army expansion plan, Liu Juntao is fully confident that he will make a northern expedition to Warat with his own strength!

Of course, the premise is that the soldiers and horses of Yanzhou Mansion have no worries about the back road, and the rest of the Ming army can provide assistance.

After Liu Juntao's army expansion plan was issued, Hu Dexing, the director of the Recruit Department of the Ministry of War, immediately began to work with all his might, and under the operation of the Recruit Division, more than 30,000 recruits were recruited within two months.

Secondly, it is the men and horses sent by the powerful and gentry from all over Shandong, and even officials like Lei Bo, who commanded the city guard, although these horses are not as honest as those tenants, but they are powerful and skilled in war, and they are all reliable people.

When Hu Dexing reported the progress of the two-month recruit drill to Liu Juntao, Liu Juntao still shook his head.

At this time, it was the end of March of the first year of Jingtai, and when the spring flowers were blooming, Liu Juntao was so busy that the silver was spent like flowing water, and the Recruit Division also recruited more than 30,000 recruits, crowding Yushan Town to the brim.

The Yushan Military Bureau, the Xuzhou Military Bureau, and the Dongpingzhou Ordnance Bureau are also operating at full capacity, and on the official road leading to Yushan Town, hundreds of carts are constantly transporting armor, bird guns, long knives and other military equipment, as well as gunpowder, steel and other materials.

In the eyes of outsiders, such a speed of expansion is already superb, judging from the military funds allocated by the imperial court, Liu Juntao will never be able to do this, relying on his own rich family background.

But these situations are still too slow in Liu Juntao's eyes!

Because with the historical trend that Liu Juntao knows, the Warat Taishi who was defeated and retreated to the grassland was not idle at first, but was actively expanding his strength, you must know that he first controlled most of the manpower and material resources of Warat, and once such a large resource moved, the energy that burst out could only be described as unstoppable!

In other words, Liu Juntao is competing with most of the Warat Empire with his own strength at this time!

Although the history was first and finally defeated by the Ming Dynasty, but now with the arrival of Liu Juntao, it is already unknown whether history will continue to go on according to the original trajectory, Liu Juntao does not dare to bet, because once the bet is lost, it means that the Tartars will be detained and go south, and Huaxia will sink again!

So, Liu Juntao said to Hu Dexing in a deep voice: "Within a month, the remaining soldiers in each battalion must be replenished!" ”

Hu Dexing couldn't help but look embarrassed when he heard this, and said: "Zongzhen, time is too tight!" It's possible to get together in terms of numbers, but it takes time to train new recruits! ”

"We don't have time!"

Liu Juntao said worriedly: "The Tartars won't give us time!" Will it also allow us to pull out an army of 100,000 with peace of mind? Hum! No way! ”

Hu Dexing was taken aback for a moment and asked, "Zong Zhen, could it be that the Tartars will have trouble again?" ”

"Maybe!"

Liu Juntao said: "We must complete the reorganization as soon as possible, I always have a hunch that it won't be long before the Tartars will go south again!" ”

After Hu Dexing hurriedly returned to the new barracks, Liu Juntao found Zhang Baigui, director of the Equipment Department of the Military Department, and inquired about the construction of military equipment.

Zhang Baigui reported on the military build-up in the past two months, and said: "General Town, now the armament of each battalion is still insufficient, and the Equipment Department has been fully built, and it is estimated that in about half a month, we can basically equip the soldiers with complete equipment!" ”

Liu Juntao nodded with a frown, and said, "Okay!" In addition, the Equipment Division must immediately start stockpiling bird guns, lead bullets, three-eyed guns, lead bullets, artillery guns, and sky-shaking thunder! The more the number, the better, and within two months, reserve 100,000 troops to fight for the needs of March! ”

Hearing the number here, Zhang Baigui suddenly jumped up from his chair and exclaimed, "Impossible!" Total town, it is impossible to reserve so much in two months! ”

Liu Juntao said in a deep voice: "If there is no one, recruit it, build it immediately if there is no equipment, and if there is no money and food, I will immediately let Tang Yu allocate it, in a word, I must see these reserves in two months!" ”

Zhang Baigui wiped the beads of sweat and said, "Zongzhen, is it said that there is another war?" ”

Liu Juntao nodded and said, "Maybe!" In short, let's prepare early! ”

"Alright! I'm going back and setting it up! ”

At this time, Liu Juntao said again: "Zhang Sicheng, transfer some more craftsmen, now that spring is now in spring, the weather is getting warmer, and we are going to start casting artillery!" ”

Hearing this, Zhang Baigui was stunned.