Chapter 496: Li Er's Heavenly Punishment Army
After taking the generals to see the new weapons, Li Er rearranged the configuration of the army.
The twelve guards of the capital, each guard drew 2,000 people, and then transferred 5,000 people from the forbidden army, and the Xuanjia army drew 1,000 people, forming a 30,000 penalty army.
The penalty camp of 10,000 people is a guard, and under the guard, it is divided into a brigade of 2,000 people and five brigades.
The brigade was divided into a squadron of five hundred people, four squadrons.
And a hundred people for a team, ten people for a group.
This rule was suggested by Ding Yi. And Li Er also chose to believe Ding Yi, because this kind of combat unit Datang has never had.
The penalty army is all equipped with thermal weapons, and there is also an air force!
And those guards who were taken away were added from the government army.
Each guard of the penalty army is equipped with a squadron, an earth fire team, a god machine team, a mystery machine team, and a vertical and horizontal team.
The 2,000 men of the brigade are all air forces, and they are in groups of ten and five in rotation. One controls the hot air balloon, one is responsible for watching the wind direction to refuel, two main attackers, and one hands weapons.
The Earthfire Brigade, equipped with red-coated cannons, is a group, with four people transporting artillery, two transporting ammunition, one aiming, one igniting and firing artillery, and the other two for coordination.
The God Fleet is a team of two, armed with flintlock pistols, one responsible for carrying ammunition and the other for shooting. The attack method of the Shenji fleet is three rows of continuous fire, the first row squats down to load ammunition after shooting, the second row is connected, and then the third row, and when the third row is finished shooting, the first row is loaded with mercy. Perfect loop, never stop!
Xuanji Brigade, this team is a little different, they are trained by the Xuanjia Army, all cavalry, equipped with Zhuge crossbows, and bombs! It can be used in close combat, can attack from a distance, and can also harass enemy troops.
Vertical and horizontal brigade, this brigade is different! They can be the logistics team of the first four brigades, but if someone despises them because of this, they will face the danger of being destroyed!
Not only are the vertical brigades equipped with improved steerable carriages, but the functions of the four brigades in front of them are also nothing more than the transportation of ammunition, crossbow arrows and bombs, which is their main task.
The idea was perfect, and Li Er was very happy.
However, it will take about half a year to train you, and at least you need to be familiar with the use of various weapons.
It is also thanks to the fact that these people are all drawn from the regular combat units such as the Twelve Guards and the Xuanjia Army, and none of them are considered to be brave champions of the three armies, but the training of the punished army can still meet the standard.
It was precisely with the penalty army that Li Er could resist the counterattack against Tuyuhun.
was bullied to the doorstep, if you don't fight back, it will make people think that Datang is easy to bully.
However, after the formation of the penalty army was completed, Cheng Chumo and Li Ke ran back to Chang'an non-stop, and the departments managed by the two of them were also handed over to the deputy minister.
They're going to join the army!
Especially such an army!
The training of the penalty army was selected in Qinling, and the specific training and weapons used by the penalty army were only known to Li Er and the generals.
The civil officials only knew that the emperor was going to form a new army, and perhaps he would use the weapon that was suspected of destroying the royal family!
The reason why Li Er kept it so secret was to prevent the enemy country from knowing.
If the other party doesn't understand at all, then you can catch the other party off guard.
Ding Yi knew everything about the penalty army, and before the punishment army began training, he had already asked the personnel of the underground building hiding in Qinling to evacuate and find a new training location.
The development of Datang in the past two years has also been completely seen by neighboring countries, and they have also begun to act.
Corn and potatoes have been circulating for a long time, and they can't be avoided at all!
Because Datang simply doesn't have so much energy and manpower to prevent corn and potatoes from spreading.
But to such things as rotary tillers and harvesters, the neighbors can't get rid of them at all, and they can't figure it out!
Even the craftsmen of the Datang Ministry of Industry did not fully understand that all the machinery used by the Datang Imperial Court was imported from Junfeng Machinery.
Someone in the DPRK and China also proposed to let Ding Yi publish the drawings and production skills of these things. It is said that this is to promote the rapid development of Datang.
However......
Ding Yi didn't have any birds at all!
Li Er also talked to Ding Yi about this matter, but Ding Yi told Li Er: If you do this, it is very likely that your skills will be spread to neighboring countries, wouldn't it be an enemy to do so? Moreover, the imperial court introduced it from Junfeng Machinery, which is no different from building it itself. The price provided by Junfeng Machinery to the imperial court is only the cost price plus labor costs, and the profit is only lost. If the imperial court does it itself, the price can only be pressed to this point, and it is completely unnecessary.
After analyzing the causes and consequences, Li Er never mentioned this matter again.
Although there are many people in the DPRK and China who are dissatisfied with Ding Yi, and he will be impeached once in about ten years.
But most people take this as a joke, because impeachment is useless. Li Er ignored it, and he didn't take it to heart when he was impeached.
In addition, according to the statistics of the Ministry of Households, the national tax revenue in Zhenguan for five years is more than two percent better than that of Zhenguan for four years!
Twenty percent of the country's tax revenue!
This is not a state or county tax!
Although the old man Dai Xuan was iron-faced and selfless, he also had good things to say about Ding Yi this time.
Because he had to serve!
The reason why Zhenguan's five-year tax is higher than in previous years is because of Ding Yi!
Zhenguan's five-year tax revenue is mainly concentrated in Kannai Province, and the tax revenue of Kannai Province last year increased by more than 40%!
The reason is inseparable from the guidance of Junfeng Group!
You can Junfeng Group make money, but they have really driven the economic and agricultural development of Kannai Province.
And it's well founded!
The living standards of the people of Jingzhao Mansion alone have improved a lot, and there are meat and vegetables for no meals, but they can always eat several times a month!
Nowadays, it is rare to see beggars in Kannai Province, because the homeless people and beggars have all gone to work in the new town. Or they just run to build roads, although they don't have a home, but they still have wages to repair roads!
This is still secondary, the new town attracts a large number of women to work, and it also recruits female workers for the entire Kannai Province.
This completely drives the labor force and productivity!
There are also machines such as rotary drum waterwheels and rotary tillers in the fields, which can completely free up a lot of labor.
This gives people more time to go out to work and earn money.
When people go to work, they not only increase their productivity, but also have more money to spend, which in turn improves their standard of living.
And once the people consume, the demand for daily necessities such as meat, vegetables, and cloth will also be great. When the demand is great, the income of the businessman increases, and the tax is also high!
It's a virtuous circle!
With the help of machinery in farming, the people have time to work to earn money, and when they have money, they will consume, and if they consume, they will make money, and when they have demand, they will begin to expand their scale, and they need more people to work, and women will provide a lot of labor.
In this way, the merchants made money, the people made money to improve their living standards, and the court had more taxes!
For a while, the officials were stunned!
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