Before leaving, Zhou Huai'an had partially adjusted and clarified the military system of the Taiping Army. The main ones were more than 50,000 horses in Hunan and Jingnan outside the Ling, nearly 30,000 horses in the Lingnan, and 7,800 troops stationed in Annam. The relatively miscellaneous subordination relationship is reclassified into the main battle army sequence from one to eight and the second and third line sequences of garrison defense and cantonment.

It is roughly composed of old battalions, new battalions, temporary battalions, supplementary battalions, garrison battalions, and so on, and more than 90 battalion heads with different purposes and functions. Except for the supplementary battalions that only have training tasks and the garrison battalions that undertake some production tasks, the other old battalions must represent the elite of field operations, the new battalions represent regular soldiers, and the provisional battalions are used to absorb and transform the rebel armies of other divisions that have been annexed.

According to the plan, the order of the First to Eighth Armies is to be established as a specific operation and temporary command. It is composed of about six to eight battalion heads with different functions; Each army has a leading soldier and horse envoy, led by General Lang, and then set up left and right deputy generals to support him. Each leader has a number of (battalion) captains and generals, (regimental) captains, (brigade) commanders, (team) captains, (fire) commanders, and (standard-bearers).

In the preparation of the remaining second- and third-line garrison regiments and cantonment patrol teams, the project construction establishment; It was divided into more than a dozen key garrison areas of the second rank according to the region, and was called the garrison envoy and led by the commander of the commander. As the rear buffer of the second line and the center of gravity of the opponent's suppression and purge.

As for the day-to-day housekeeping, logistics supply, equipment maintenance and training, personnel assessment, military discipline correction, missionary and pension pensions, etc., they were unified and managed by the six Cao and three staff members of the Taiping Army under Zhou Huai'an; At the same time, it conducts business docking and coordination with the left-behind departments and relevant functional departments that are biased towards government affairs.

In this way, it can be regarded as a preliminary distinction between the military and government affairs system, the army's field command and operation management functions, mobile combat forces and the opponent's garrison forces, and approaching the development direction of the modern army in later generations.

In the next step, Zhou Huai'an also plans to separate the more detailed military staff functions into a promotion system; It's just that this requires a sufficient number of qualified candidates, and the night school with the army and the crash course in the rear alone will not be able to provide all the details for a while.

Of course, in the current case, due to limited conditions, it is only arranged in a sequence of one to five. In addition to the first and second armies, which have been prioritized and completed, there are still a considerable number of battalion leaders in the other three army orders that are not in order, and the fifth army is a special naval army sequence. The corresponding garrison areas were only established on the basis of the original four districts of Guizhou, Tanzhou, Shaozhou, and Jiaozhou.

In addition, there are several technical arms and special establishments in the hands of Zhou Huai'an, such as the model team, the cavalry battalion, the fire throwing team, the battalion directly under the command, and the teaching brigade.

The situation will be greatly improved after a large number of incorporated rebel troops have completed their initial transformation and training; In the end, what is missing at the moment is the accumulation of time and more development as a buffer. However, the ensuing interference from the enemy and other external factors did not allow the Taiping army to bury much room for development, and it was necessary to maintain a sufficiently large deterrent force at the cost of training while fighting.

This has resulted in a small number of elite troops, with most of the ordinary soldiers, plus a lot of cantonment and semi-demobilized armament.

After all, relatively experienced soldiers who are proficient in a variety of combat skills are actually an existence with relatively high equipment and maintenance costs; Because of the same equipment and training investment, it is completely possible to arm and train ordinary soldiers with several times or even more individual specialties. Therefore, there are generally only a few but fine pro-soldiers and jumping sequences.

Under normal circumstances, most ancient armies were composed of soldiers who were specially trained to have a certain level of relative proficiency in weaponry and equipment. If it is really replenished after the loss, it will not be much more painful and difficult than a small number of elite troops.

For example, the common main battle class sequences such as sword players, spearmen, and archers (bow and crossbow) soldiers, although they sometimes use other equipment to provide a supplement to combat effectiveness, this is not a normal or regular mode (chasing and defeating the enemy, temporary reinforcements, exhaustion of equipment, etc.), and it is a last resort to attack the enemy with their own shortcomings in the field that they are not good at under special conditions.

However, because of the limited time they can devote to training and service, the armed people's strong and semi-full-time cantonment units have only mastered a limited number of queue formations and simple military regulations, and they lack the ability to fight frontally in an independent situation, and can only be used for low-intensity use in guarding strongholds in the rear and maintaining law and order, and suppression.

After the lessons and experiences in the General's Mansion earlier, for most of the vulgar and unliterate rebel generals under Huang Chao's command, it is not enough to observe and understand the truth and the interests of them, and directly displaying muscles and fists is the most effective way to negotiate and communicate; As for Huang Chao itself, Zhou Huai'an believes in his ability to judge the gains and losses of his own interests.

So it's like those YYs who obviously have the strength and ability to dominate one side, but they still think that they are hiding and being low-key; And then all kinds of clowns who were wrongly judged of the situation, endlessly came out to slap and counter-slap in the face and never tired of it, purely because of the author's daily inferiority complex plot and masturbation mentality.

Therefore, this time, from the first to the third armies, he drew two battalions, the old and the new, to form a special detachment to participate in the alliance, and brought with him all the naval forces and large ships that could be drawn from the Fourth Army, so as to transport, pomp, escort, and receive forces for this trip.

Because Zhu Cun, Cao Shixiong and Zhang Juyan, who have the background of the old righteous army, all asked their peers to go out this time, Bo Chaiping, the military master who was actually the third person, also rushed from Chenzhou to sit in Jiangling; In order to guard against Liu Jurong's troops from Shannan Province in the north, as well as the light and sneak attack methods from the envoys of Jiannan Dongchuan Jiedu in the west.

Although the current Xichuan Jiedu envoy Chen Jingxuan is the younger brother of Tian Lingzi, who relied on nepotism, and won the official dim sum with child's play, but the tooth soldiers and camp foundation left by Cui Anqian, the former Jiedu envoy, are not to be underestimated.

Prior to this, in addition to the Third Army and the Fifth Army in Tanzhou, which remained in Jiangling, the Taiping Army, led by the rest of the First Army and the Second Army, had officially launched a sweeping offensive against the neighboring Yuanzhou (now Yichun City, Jiangxi) and Hongzhou (now Nanchang City, Jiangxi), in order to respond and prepare for the alliance in Jiangzhou (Jiujiang City, Jiangxi).

And another large state located on the edge of the Yangtze River, Ezhou (now Wuhan, Hubei), is on the route of his trip, so Zhou Huai'an will personally lead his troops to seize it, which can be regarded as a kind of warm-up and rehearsal in disguise for emergencies and accidents that may be encountered in the future.

"Report, leader, news from the temporary letter tower on the shore."

At this time, a Yu Hou walked up to the balcony at the top of the ship, bowed down and said:

"Liu Shifan, the rebel army in Jiangxia City, refused to open the door, nor was he willing to provide cooperation for the crossing, but instead closed the door and shot arrows and scolded in the city; Therefore, the king (Tianming) has already led the leading selection and jumping to start attacking Ximen. ”

"This is the way it should be, so that the team and the cavalry can be used as support and patrol."

Zhou Huai'an nodded in recognition and conviction. Taking advantage of the opportunity of this alliance, the large states located in the Nanchang Basin and the Poyang Lake Plain are also the main direction of the Taiping Army's next expansion.

And this kind of temporary signal tower, which is mounted on a cart or ship and can be assembled and disassembled with the army, is one of the latest innovations of the rear military industry; For this battle, the existing finished products and spare parts were taken out and used.

It's just that the reinforced structure of vehicle-mounted wooden iron parts similar to mobile watchtowers and arrow towers really can't stand relatively high, so the corresponding communication distance has also been greatly reduced, and more laying density is needed to make up for it.

But in any case, this kind of mobile positional communication equipment has been improved to some extent, and the communication and response capabilities of the corresponding troops along the way; Zhou Huai'an's department, which let the battle, always be able to maintain the feedback efficiency with a delay of less than a day or two with the territory in the rear of Jiangling.

"Yellow Crane Tower, I'm here."

Soon after, Zhou Huai'an looked at the magnificent city on the bank of the river in the distance, and the faint building on the Shiji platform in the southwest corner above the river, and said silently in his heart.

。。。。。。。

"What kind of goods are the subordinates of this virtual monk who kills a thousand knives? Can't you explain it properly?"

At the same time, Liu Shifan, the new commander of the left third wing of the righteous army guarding Jiangxia City, was also cursing loudly to the left and right.

"If you don't agree with each other, you will start fighting.,Is this an iron heart to fight with me to the end?。。 Really take Lao Tzu to make soft persimmon pinching? Why don't you go up to the top of the city, guy? Beat these stunned people back. ”

"Send someone to the Jiangzhou General's Mansion again to ask for help. Let's just say that the surname is false, and he came to grab the land from the beginning. Explain again, they were the ones who told them to take strict precautions, if I can't stand it here, don't think about it. ”

On the other side of the gate of Xiguo City, Jiangxia, there was already a dull sound of chiseling and chopping, and groups of people with helmets and armor gathered behind the door, and the soldiers in armor who were tightly holding the door pole and thick bolts became more and more heavy and tight.

Then, suddenly, the sound and the movement of the impact ceased; After a long and torturous moment, there was a deafening bang; The lower part of the city gate seems to be torn apart mercilessly by an invisible force all at once.

Suddenly, the lower part of the city gate was torn apart, and the fragments and waves of air burst apart, and on the spot the armored soldiers who had gathered behind the gate were overturned and knocked down like the wind blowing through the haystacks, and only a bloody moaning and wailing in the human body remained.

The rear team did not hesitate to step on these, the wounded and corpses who had not yet lost their breath or struggled to ask for help, and they rushed in one after another and re-topped the air raid on the exposed air attack of only half of the city gate. But what is surprising is that the enemy outside the door shows no sign of taking advantage of the gap to rush in.

I saw a sudden bright flash of fire in the misty dust rolling, and with the sudden surge of billowing hunting smoke, it was a large area of iron projectiles that were densely packed out, like torn pieces of paper and cloth, and swept the armored soldiers who were densely stacked together without avoiding the gaps, and then pierced and torn apart in pieces and then fell to the ground;

It's like smashing countless brightly colored sauce jars and packets in a narrow space; However, on the four walls of the relatively hard and hollow city gate, the iron pellets that were splashing and bounced violently with sparks once again constituted a second kill to these fish that slipped through the net, and even three or four subsequent tragic injuries.

After the hurried and fierce howls, there was no more movement in the doorway; At this time, there were Taiping soldiers with spears and cards and armor all over their bodies, rolling in like a rushing undercurrent. Then a terrible scream rang out at the head of the city:

"The enemy has entered the city."

Speaking of the Han and Tang Dynasty rangers and the like, there is actually nothing to envy, the so-called polarized groups under the poor, rich and martial,

On the one hand, those who can fight sword rangers are those who have a solid family and can support their learning and travel fees, that is, good families in the usual sense; On the other hand, it has sunk into the so-called evil teenagers and the like, hooligans, rogue thugs and underworld groups, the primitive prototype. and even outlaws who kill people and oversell goods.

In the end, what can be famous in history are those ranger boys who joined the army and made contributions and survived to clear their identities. It's not about how many righteous deeds they have done. Because this is also the money to maintain the daily life, and also needs connections and connections to promote fame.

(End of chapter)