Chapter Seventy-Four: Artillery Battalion
Tong Yangjia in Hangzhou has long wanted to march into Jinhua again, encircling and suppressing Zhang Qiang's Jinhua rebels, but he couldn't go away for a while, and the rebels in Suzhou also rose one after another, pressing the gourd to float the scoop, this side has just been wiped out, and that side has risen again, and the key is the Lu Jianguo in the Zhoushan area, the Southern Ming forces of the legal heirs of the Ming Dynasty are holding him back, as well as the Ming army forces of Huang Binqing, the chief soldier canonized by Emperor Longwu.
His army was basically consumed on these Nanming defenders, and he was unable to send troops to Jinhua Mansion, so he could only send troops to guard the important places everywhere, and he never expected that Zhang Qiang would cut the butcher's knife to his territory.
Jinhua Mansion, Zhang Qiang continued to train his own firearms soldiers and other cold weapon soldiers from various departments, this time five hundred soldiers were trained, and after the five hundred elite soldiers of the righteous army who were trained before were distributed, they played a very good role in each army, dozens of people, more than a dozen people, the combat effectiveness of the pro-soldiers of each department was raised a lot, and they all became very elite.
Personally full of praise, and these soldiers were sent down, becoming the mainstay of the army, and soon those who lowered the Han military flag, the Ming army, all really wanted to serve Zhang Qiang's troops, there were deserters from time to time before, and now the deserters are extinct, and the morale of all arms is like a rainbow, and the training is hard.
Now, even the new people have reached the strength of the rebel militia.
Zhang Qiang's main army has increased from more than 5,000 to 7,000.
In addition to training, Zhang Qiang wandered around the army directly under him, patrolling.
When he walked to the back mountain of Beishan outside Jinhua Mansion City, he heard the rumbling sound of cannonballs, which was his artillery battalion training.
After Mi Chun was released to Pujiang County, Zhang Qiang asked the artillery to come over and lead it directly, but due to the particularity of the artillery battalion, the establishment was slightly different.
The artillery has a squadron of gunners with a strength of 100 households, an infantry squadron of 100 households, and a reinforced artillery squadron of 100 households.
This infantry squadron is mixed, with a general flag sword player, an archer flag, a spearmen flag, a crossbowmen flag, and a rebel youth banner.
The main role of this young and strong banner of the rebel army is to manage the carts that transport supplies, cook, set up tents, and dig bunkers and tunnels needed for artillery.
The artillery is a 100-household system, and a reinforced 100-household system with five general flags.
One of the general flags is responsible for three Hongyi cannons, one general flag is responsible for five Fulong cannons, two general flags are responsible for twelve tiger squatting cannons, and one general flag is responsible for fifty tiger squatting cannons, twelve Fulong cannons, and four Hongyi cannons on the city wall of Jinhua City.
Although Zhang Qiang really wants to expand these people to a hundred households, or even two hundred households, not everyone can play with artillery, these artillery is still made up by him from the nearly 20,000 prisoners he captured, there are still many people who are just doing miscellaneous labor in the Qing army or the Ming army, and have never touched the cannon of the people, although the strength of this general banner does not seem to take care of so many captured artillery, but there are garrison forces, as well as the troops of the thousands of households of the guard commander, and the young and strong people in the city, these people only need to be able to open artillery, and the rest is done by those guys.
And to march and fight, you have to use artillery and regular artillery who know pure technology, so Zhang Qiang asked these people to come to Houshan for training.
He couldn't train them, because among his coaching skills he could only train the infantry in the ranks, the use of weapons, strengthen their discipline, obedience, infantry tactics, queue changes, enhance their morale, and even teach them some combat experience, and the rest, he didn't learn.
Although it is only 300 households, it has a strength of 995 troops, and if you count the general banner of 116 people who did not go to the battle, then this artillery battalion can completely become a thousand households, and the strength is slightly less.
There are no generals in this battalion, it belongs to Zhang Qiang's direct leadership, and it is still the same sentence, I can't find a general who can be trusted by technology.
The three hundred households were promoted from among the elite rebel soldiers trained by Zhang Qiang, and each of them did not belong to each other, but only cooperated generally.
Those who protect protect, those who fire cannons fire, and act in full accordance with Zhang Qiang's orders.
A strong man, more than six feet tall, broad and long-armed, square face, thick eyebrows, flat nose, fists like vinegar jars, holding a trumpet Furlong cannon shell in one hand, said something loudly to the artillerymen.
Zhang Qiang was dressed in civilian clothes, the guards led the horse, and looked at this strong man from a distance, this person he knew, he was a pro-army infantry trained by himself, did the Han army flag drop soldiers, Liaodong people, the Ming Dynasty lost Liaodong for decades, and the Liaodong people who grew up behind were actually Han army flag tartars, and the children and grandchildren of the clothed slaves were no longer the real Ming people.
Originally, Zhang Qiang didn't want to use these people, but this guy had a pure heart for the Ming Dynasty in his heart and wanted to repay the court, so Zhang Qiang summoned him into the pro-army infantry he personally trained and trained with his own firecrackers.
He is the first batch, and he is also the first batch of senior soldiers of the Righteous Army trained after Zhang Qiang's coaching skills reached the fourth level, only one hundred and fifty senior soldiers of the Volunteer Army, and there are fifty senior infantrymen, he is one of them, but this horse lost more than a dozen people when Zhang Qiang was attacked by He Jin, when the village was abandoned at the foot of Bailuxi Mountain, and the remaining Zhang Qiang was recruited back for the first time to train the elite soldiers of the Righteous Army, and they were recruited again to supplement the training, and now they are all elite soldiers of the Righteous Army.
It is equivalent to the corporal in the infantry in later generations, and the rest of the people were sent to their subordinate units to serve as the commander of the army, the chief, and a few of them stayed and were assigned by Zhang Qiang to the artillery unit as the head of a hundred households, the general flag, the small flag, the chief, the chief, and the rest were supplemented by the young men of the righteous army who were injured in the second battle of Jinhua Mansion.
In fact, those young and strong rebels are not ordinary infantry, most of them have experienced two Jinhua defense battles, and some have been trained by Zhang Qiang and become the militia of the rebel army, in fact, their combat effectiveness has reached the level of senior soldiers of the rebel army, Zhang Qiang is to use these elite soldiers to protect his artillery.
To be loyal and loyal, to have favors, they have all fought with Zhang Qiang, or have been trained by Zhang Qiang, it can be seen that Zhang Qiang still attaches great importance to his artillery.
It's just that Zhang Qiang is generally very forgetful, it may be a problem left over from his later life when he was an otaku, obviously this person is very familiar, this name is very familiar, this face seems to have seen somewhere, what deeds this person has, but he just can't remember what this person's name is, the name is more troublesome for him than pi.
"What's this guy's name?" He asked Zhu Dayou, who was in charge of artillery logistics, who was following him.
Zhu Dayou didn't know what this guy's name was, so he hurriedly called an artillery battalion soldier and asked carefully for a while.