After the structure of the captive army was built, Feng Yunshan asked people to ride fast horses to deliver the "Regulations for the Establishment of the Chinese Capture Army" and the letter of appointment of the generals to various places outside Guangzhou. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The statute does not stipulate what the soldiers' salaries will be. Because it turns out that everyone is a member of the Holy Sect, they all share the Holy Treasury, all of them are collective property, no military salaries are paid, and only great meritorious service will be rewarded. Therefore, for the time being, Feng Yunshan does not plan to pay salaries immediately to motivate the soldiers, and when this military system and ranks are completely stabilized and everyone is familiar with them, it is not too late to stipulate military salaries according to military ranks.

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The vast majority of the captive army was developed in the direction of infantry in the future, and only the 5th Division A led by Luo Gang and the 5th Division B led by Liang Peiyou were the naval army.

After the new military system came out, the generals of all divisions and brigades reorganized their subordinates one after another, selected the best of the best, and selected the best of the best, and took the lead in selecting the personnel they originally liked under their subordinates. This is also something that can't be helped, there are too many personnel, Feng Yunshan can't handle it, so he can only let the division and brigade commanders choose their own people.

Most of the division and brigade commanders selected their old subordinates to serve as regiment and battalion commanders at all levels, and then from top to bottom, until the platoon commander and squad leader. The squad platoon leader, that is, the original two Sima and others, selected the soldiers he thought were the most reliable and brave in combat as his subordinates.

Although this kind of top-down selection will bury some talents, it has improved the efficiency of command, and the generals above are handy when it comes to commanding.

The selection of personnel has also been greatly accelerated! Within a few days, the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 8th Divisions, as well as the 1st, 2nd, and 5th Divisions in the vicinity of Guangzhou City, were all full.

There were still some people who had not been selected, so Feng Yunshan asked another 20,000 people to be selected and sent to Yongzhou Mansion, Chenzhou and other places on the border with the Qing army to form the remaining divisions to strengthen the defense.

The soldiers are in place, and the rest is the weapons.

The so-called building near the water is the first to get the moon. The commanders of several divisions near Guangzhou came to Feng Yunshan to ask for foreign guns.

Now that the restructuring has been completed, Feng Yunshan also wants to send foreign guns as soon as possible and distribute them to the soldiers to use, so that they can become familiar with them as soon as possible and improve their combat effectiveness.

Last time, in order to urgently send troops to rescue the Humen Fort, the more than 3,000 foreign guns that were sent down have long been recollected. In addition to the 2,000 Brown Bess breech flintlock guns paid by the British, there are currently 8,600 foreign guns of various types stored in the governor's yamen storehouse, as well as a total of 23 field guns that can fire grenades captured and paid by the British.

Seeing Luo Xuan, Lin Fengxiang, Chen Yucheng, Chen Tianshi, He Lu, Huang Dingfeng, and Liang Peiyou circling around him, looking anxious, Feng Yunshan smiled: "Don't make such a look. There are also Li Kaifang, Liang Litai, many of them have not been able to come, and they are all distributed to you, and they will complain that the king favors one over the other. ”

Seeing that everyone was still following him, Feng Yunshan said helplessly: "If there are more people and fewer guns, the second division and brigade will not be divided first." The sailors have captured warships, and don't ask for foreign guns, but, for your safety, for your safety, equip your guard battalion with 10 Dresser muskets and 50 Brown Bess flintlock muskets. ”

As soon as these words came out, He Lu, Liang Peiyou, and other second-class division commanders had dark faces, especially Liang Peiyou, who was not only a second-class division, but also a sailor, but I was afraid that they would not be able to take their turn next time they had guns.

Luo Xuan was busy thanking the Holy King, but his mind was not on the foreign gun. When the captured warships are repaired, how to divide the warships of those foreigners is what he is most nervous about.

There is not much left range, it is a first-class division, Lin Fengxiang, Chen Yucheng, and Chen Tianshi are tense, waiting for Feng Yunshan to assign them.

"The brothers in the captive army in other places have never touched foreign guns, so we should let them familiarize themselves with them in advance and take turns to train. Therefore, each division was equipped with foreign guns with almost two companies of firepower, 200 guns; Each second class division is equipped with a company of firepower, 130 guns; Each of the other brigades is equipped with a platoon of foreign guns, let's make up 40 shots. In this way, there are still 6,510 foreign guns left. Feng Yunshan mentally calculated the numbers, which was actually very ordinary.

But in the eyes of the soldiers, it is a god-like existence. Hundreds or thousands of numbers, in their opinion, must be calculated by the bookkeeper through the abacus for a long time.

"The king has to call in another 110 Dresser needle muskets and 100 Charvail muskets, so there are only 6,300 foreign guns left, and 23 foreign field guns." Feng Yunshan saw everyone's painful eyes, and couldn't help but sigh secretly, there are still too few foreign guns, and I don't know when the next batch of foreign guns will be transported by those foreigners.

"Foreign guns must be used in a concentrated manner to maximize their effectiveness." Feng Yunshan explained while beginning to distribute: "Therefore, this king decided to allocate 2,500 foreign guns to the 1st Division and the 3rd Division, 1,500 flintlock smoothbore guns, and 1,000 shots to fire smoothbore guns. There were also 20 foreigners' field guns, all of which were assigned to the 1st Division. As for the 8th Division, Brother Tianshi, the remaining 1,300 flintlock muskets and 3 field guns will be given to you. ”

Lin Fengxiang, Chen Yucheng, and Chen Tianshi were all elated all of a sudden, and with foreign guns, there would naturally be more opportunities to go on the expedition, and the chances of meritorious service would naturally increase, so it was strange not to be excited.

The others stared at the three of them with envy, especially Lin Fengxiang, but compared with the division commander of the first-class division, they did have low qualifications and little credit, so they could only look forward to the next time.

After allocating weapons, Feng Yunshan asked all divisions to seize the time to familiarize themselves with the personnel and military system, and enter a state of imminent battle as soon as possible.

Because, he has already set his sights on the surrounding areas of Guangzhou.

A few days ago, Li Kaifang sent someone to report that they had occupied Lianzhou Mansion, Taiping Mansion and Zhen'an Mansion. Liu Changqing, the governor of Guangxi, who had been dismissed from his post by the Manchu Qing and wanted to be punished, led nearly 1,000 of his men to flee to the vassal state of "Vietnam", which was canonized by the Manchu Jiaqing Emperor. As a result, the entire territory of Guangxi has been occupied by the captive army.

At present, in the territory of Guangdong, to the west of Guangzhou Prefecture, only Gaozhou Mansion, Leizhou Mansion, Qiongzhou Mansion and part of Luoding Prefecture and Zhaoqing Mansion have not been captured; The northern part of Canton has been occupied; To the east of Guangzhou Prefecture, Chaozhou Prefecture, Jiaying Prefecture, and part of Huizhou Prefecture and Nanxiong Zhili Prefecture remained, which were not captured.

The progress of the Taiping army's conquest of Jiujiang and the attack on the city of Nanjing made him feel a sense of urgency.

Now that the restructuring of the army has been basically completed, it is time to expand the territory and completely occupy the two Guangzhous.

For the purpose of training, Feng Yunshan handed over these tasks to the newly established General Staff of the Capture Army!

At present, in addition to Lu Shunde, Zuo Zongtang, Tan Shaoguang, Cui Datong, Xu Xiangguang, and Xu Shou, Feng Yunshan has selected seven officers with rich military knowledge from among the 16 officers who were willing to surrender from the British prisoners, and added them to the General Staff Headquarters, including five marine officers and two naval officers.

The red-haired Irish officer named Carragher Shire, Feng Yunshan stayed by his side and wanted to come in handy. The rest, 8 British officers who had taken refuge, 3 army and 6 navy, were all assigned to the regiment of the newly established captive army as instructors and staff officers.

To this end, Feng Yunshan also specially asked Wu Chongyao to select a few managers who knew English from the 13 foreign companies to teach these foreign officers to learn Chinese to facilitate communication.

Lu Shunde also selected four original soldiers from the army as personnel of the combat department, and Zuo Zongtang also selected four people from the army as intelligence personnel, so that the entire General Staff Headquarters only exceeded 20 people.

On this day, Feng Yunshan came to the General Staff Headquarters located in the Yamen of the former Inspectorate, convened all the personnel of the General Staff, and assigned several tasks.

First, the General Staff should recruit suitable personnel as soon as possible, and they must be literate and have relevant experience. You can choose from the prisoners of the Qing army, as long as you have the talent and are willing to join the army with your whole family, as long as you pass the review, you can use it boldly.

The second is to immediately draw up two operational plans, and at the same time attack the east and west of Guangzhou Prefecture, and completely occupy the entire territory of Guangzhou.

On the basis of the original "Minutes of the Training of the Holy Army" compiled by Feng Yunshan, combined with the contents of Qi Jiguang's "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness" and "Actual Record of Military Training," it will cover the contents of drills, camps, actual combat, courage, battalion formations, sentry posts, tactics, weapons, and the organizational building of the Revival Association in the army, all of which will be compiled and perfected, and a first draft of the "Manual for the Conduct of the Captured Army" will be formed, which Feng Yunshan will revise again.

Zuo Zongtang and others wondered why the Holy King had just reorganized the military system and sent troops to attack the Manchus.

Feng Yunshan's explanation is: The soldiers are not trained in the courtyard, but fought! One actual combat is better than ten times of military training.

After receiving the task assigned by the Holy King, Lu Shunde and Zuo Zongtang hurriedly called all the manpower and acted separately.

Lu Shunde took the handwritten instructions given by Feng Yunshan and led people to select grass-roots officers with flexible minds among the divisions near Guangzhou, and immediately added more than 30 people to the General Staff Headquarters.

Zuo Zongtang led his subordinates, as well as 7 foreign officers, to spread out a "map of the water and land of Liangguang" to study the battle plan for occupying other Manchu-ruled areas in Liangguang.

First of all, in the west, mainly Gaozhou Mansion, Leizhou Mansion, and Qiongzhou Mansion, just as everyone was discussing how many troops to send and how to attack one county after another.

A young foreign officer looked at the map and said to the translator of the foreign company: "These three provinces have all been surrounded, why do you still attack them by land one by one?" Warships and troop carriers should be used to destroy the city and capture it directly from the sea along the mouth of the river to the capital city! ”

The interpreter conveyed the words of the foreign officer, Zuo Zongtang slapped the table and said excitedly: "That's right! At present, we already have five warships in the captive army, as well as many red single boats and small sailing boats, and it is not difficult to transport tens of thousands of troops! How did we not think of it? ”

"If you go by sea, you will be escorted by powerful warships, and you will not be afraid to meet the Manchu sailors and pirates, and you will destroy them by the way! Moreover, the soldiers did not have to march hard and hard, the march was fast! This idea is very good, this foreigner's vision is good! Zuo Zongtang praised.

In fact, this is also everyone's habit of thinking, foreigners are used to attacking from the waterway, with warships. As for the capture army, the sailors were preparing to establish, so naturally they did not plan in this regard.

At that moment, Zuo Zongtang asked everyone to make a battle plan in the direction of the sea march.

He thought that not only the west road could be like this, but also the march of the east road could be like this.

However, for this plan to be realized, the premise is that the warships must be repaired, and Zuo Zongtang sent people to find out how the warships were repaired. (To be continued.) )