Regardless of the regime, the change in the size of the army and the chain of command, especially when there is a major change, it means that the power of the generals will change.

Although the Tang Dynasty is only a ravine dynasty, it can't escape such a fate, it was like this when it was a standing army before, and it was the same when the five armies of the standing army were combined into one army.

Now, Li Xuan wants to build a completely non-productive professional army on the basis of the two militia armies, the Guards Army and the Standing Army, which will naturally lead to greater changes in positions, which will affect the change of power of the generals.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the formation of the new army has attracted the attention and even competition of Fang Dongquan, Wang Danxu and even Chen Butcher.

However, before determining the candidates for generals, it is still necessary to determine the detailed establishment.

To engage in establishment, we must first know that what Li Xuan wants to build in the future is a modern army with hot weapons as the main weapon and cold weapons as the supplement, that is to say, the army he envisioned is a mixed force composed of musketeers, spearmen, cavalry, and artillery.

But it must also be taken into account that the production of muskets in the Tang Dynasty is not high, and there are still many performance defects in arquebuses, which has led to the fact that the two types of swords, shieldmen and archers in the Tang Dynasty, will still exist for a long time.

All things considered, Li Xuan planned to combine the previous Guards and the Standing Army, first of all, heavy armor sword and shield men and archers, these two types of troops are actually more difficult to expand than musketeers, especially archers, whether it is bows and arrows or archers themselves, the Tang Dynasty cannot obtain them in a short period of time.

So there are as many as there can only be made up, there were more than 70 archers in the previous two archer teams, but unfortunately there were several dead and wounded in the previous battle with the Ming army, and now there are less than 70 people left, and the quality of these 70 people is uneven, and some of them are not suitable for existence as professional soldiers at all.

Therefore, Li Xuan was ready to select the best and select thirty-six people from these uneven archers to form an archer team, in other words, to reduce the previous two archer teams into one team.

The remaining archers who were not selected usually went back to farm honestly, and then pulled them out when a war broke out to be used as ordinary young people.

These thirty-six archers will all be equipped with strong bows of the Ming army, and then undergo various physical and tactical training, not asking them to become marksmen, nor expecting them to be as disciplined as those soldiers of the Guards, Li Xuan only wants them to become a normal archer army.

The requirements are not high, just about the same as those archers in the Ming army's guards.

But even so, it would be quite difficult for these archers to meet Li Xuan's requirements.

Like archers, the number of heavily armored sword and shield soldiers is not as many as you want, because limited by the number of armor, the Tang Dynasty can only arm more than 30 heavy armor sword and shield soldiers, and no more will work.

These heavily armored sword and shield men need to rush into battle, and they have certain requirements for physical fitness and even personal bravery and courage, so in addition to the inherent more than 20 armored bandits, Li Xuan plans to select more than ten more people from among the bandits, making up 36 people.

In this way, there were thirty-six archers and thirty-six heavy-armored sword and shield soldiers.

In addition, there are spearmen and musketeers, the requirements of these two are basically the same, there are no requirements for personal skills, and even physical fitness is average, the only requirement is to obey orders, so those old fritter bandits can't ask for any of them, except for the original more than 90 people in the Guards, Li Xuan is ready to choose from more than 1,000 people who have just joined the big family of the Tang Dynasty.

In terms of specific establishment, there are three teams of spearmen, each team of thirty-six people, this spearman is simple to train, the soldiers are simple, and the weapons are even simpler, so there is no technical difficulty, and most of the spearmen used are still the original guards, and the missing part is to select honest people to supplement.

If the musketeers are to determine the establishment of the two teams first, it is also thirty-six people per team, but compared to other branches of the army, which can immediately select enough people and train them into an army, the musketeers are now only empty, and if they want to make up the seventy-two people in these two teams, I don't know how long it will take, because the Tang Dynasty did not have so many muskets.

There is a team of baggage soldiers, each team of thirty-six people, but Li Xuan does not intend to use these baggage soldiers as civilian husbands, but as multi-purpose infantry to use, in addition to his own work is to transport logistics materials, he also needs to undertake more technical work, such as repairing ordnance, such as building camps, building bridges and opening roads.

If it were time for a war, it would be impossible for this 36-man baggage brigade to complete all the logistical transportation tasks of the army, and it would have to be expanded on a large scale.

Therefore, the baggage corps is actually only a peacetime framework, and when it comes to wartime, it will expand rapidly, and when the time comes, one of these thirty-six baggage soldiers may carry hundreds or even more people to transport grain and grass together.

Therefore, the baggage soldiers must also be equipped with weapons and be able to fight, if they cannot fight, then they are not soldiers, but ordinary people.

Therefore, the main task of the baggage soldiers, 'transporting grain and grass', will be mostly undertaken by the civilians in the subsequent actual battles, and the main tasks they need to undertake will become escorting food and a small amount of technical work.

With musketeers, spearmen, archers, sword and shield soldiers, and baggage soldiers, it is natural that a cavalry team of the Tang Dynasty has just been established for a few days, with a total of thirteen horsemen.

Thanks to the more than ten horses captured from the Ming army, now the small Tang Dynasty also has cavalry, although the riding skills of these cavalry only stay at riding and walking, and even riding horses is very reluctant, not to mention riding and shooting, they can't even hold a knife on horseback.

And the horse is also a little short, a little thin, a little old!

But it still cannot be denied that they are a cavalry, and they are also the most expensive and deterrent troops in the entire Tang Dynasty, and these thirteen cavalry have even been nicknamed by the bandits of Huangzhushan, called the Thirteen Taibao!

Looking at the radius of thousands of miles, the only one that can compare with the Tang Dynasty in terms of the number of cavalry is the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, the strength of the Tang Dynasty King is barely the second in the world!

Of course, Li Xuan would never say that this is because within a thousand miles, all of them are the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty in the middle is like an island, looking out of the mountain, all of them are a ocean!

The above three long spearmen, two musketeers, one heavy armor sword and shield soldiers, one heavy baggage soldiers, and a small cavalry team will form a new professional unit of the Tang Dynasty.

Except for the cavalry team, each team has six troops, each of which has a captain and a deputy commander. In addition to the 36 people in each team, there is also a captain, a deputy captain, a herald, and two guards.

From this, a standard team is formed, with a total of forty-one people per team.

For example, there are eight teams, a total of 300 people, one is not much, and one is not many!

However, this establishment does not contain a higher-level command system, because Li Xuan intends to emulate the previous standing army, and he is ready to personally serve as the commander of the whole army, and the staff officers in the army will also let Liu Bagou and other civilian officials do it for him.

It's just that although the establishment has been determined, there are still a lot of personnel in it, especially the establishment of two teams of musketeers, but now there is not even one team.

There were only about 20 musketeers in them, and if they wanted to get together more than 70 people, they had to rely on the craftsmen to build more muskets in the future.

The original craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty were only a few people, and the output of muskets was quite low, and they could only make single-digit muskets a month, but this time from Longhua Town and other villages outside the nearby mountains 'invited' a total of more than 30 craftsmen, most of whom were blacksmiths, half of them were craftsmen who had specially built various weapons for the Ming army in Longhua Town, and a few people knew how to make primitive firearms, and even one person knew how to prepare gunpowder.

In order to increase the production of muskets and other cold weapons, the Tang Dynasty also assigned a large number of ordinary young men to these craftsmen as assistants, relieving the craftsmen of ordinary manual labor, so that these craftsmen could focus more on technical work.

It can be expected that in the future, the production of muskets in the Tang Dynasty will be rapidly increased, and the output of muskets per month should be twenty or thirty.

In this way, in three months, they will have the hope of building the muskets needed by the two musket teams and forming their initial combat effectiveness.

However, the premise is that there are enough raw materials for crafting muskets and preparing gunpowder.

These raw materials are not easy to make, as muskets are made with large quantities of iron, gunpowder is made with sulfur and saltpeter, and bullets are made with lead.

Among them, saltpeter is the best, even if Li Xuan has no knowledge, he also knows that the toilet can get soil nitrate, although the amount is not much, but they don't use much, he doesn't believe it, more than 3,000 people and urine, and there is not enough soil nitrate.

Change Ming'er he asked people to repair a lot of public toilets, and in the future, they must go to the toilet, and they will hit 20 boards when they urinate, and this toilet waste can not only make soil nitrate, but also fertilize the field, multi-purpose in one fell swoop, what a good thing, how can it be littered everywhere!

Even if they can't extract nitrate from the toilet, they can secretly buy saltpeter in the name of buying medicinal herbs.

Sulfur can also be purchased from pharmacies.

However, the amount should not be too large, it can only be bought little by little, but this is enough, after all, in this era when a decisive battle is fired at most a few shots, and soldiers only carry ten rounds of ammunition to the battlefield, the amount of lead bullet and gunpowder is actually very small.

Therefore, this lead can also be made from copper coins, and the copper coins of this year are all added with lead, and there are many inferior lead coins, or it is okay to simply purchase them outside.

Whether it's gunpowder or buckshot, these are not big problems, the real big problem is iron!