Although the improvement of the two-wheeled carriage is gratifying, but the shadow of Zhang Xianzhong's death still lingers, if the memory is good, in the next year (AD 1646) Zhang Xianzhong died in the north of Xichong, and before Zhang Xianzhong died in battle, it is very likely to lead the troops to attack Shunqing Mansion.

How to defend the city of Shunqing, how to block the invasion of the Barbarian Qing Tartars pressed on Yang Lin's heart like a boulder, although he has not yet come up with a countermeasure, but expanding the armament war and increasing the armament is an inevitable choice.

How to establish a military system, this can be very nerve-wracking. The most authoritative way is to follow the "Zhou Li? Xia Guan? Preparation of the Preface:

Five people are in a team, and Wu Chang is in charge;

Five Wu is two, and two Sima are unified;

Four or two for the pawn, with the pawn long rule,

At the beginning of the death there were subordinate officials, and there were one hundred and four people;

The five soldiers are brigades, and there are brigade commanders, and the first brigade has five hundred and twenty-five people;

The fifth brigade is a division, with a division commander, and the first division has a total of 2,630 people;

The five divisions were set up, with a total of 15,156 troops.

That is, in ancient times, the military establishment included the upper-level establishment of armies, divisions, and brigades. (Some people have verified that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom carried out the military establishment completely according to this kind of establishment)

In addition, in addition to research, I am excited that the establishment of each period is completely different, just like the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the Sui and Tang dynasties had such an organization.

In the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty, there was such an establishment as a regiment, with 100 people as a team, 20 infantry teams as a regiment, and 10 cavalry teams as a regiment.

In the Tang Dynasty, there were 300 soldiers per regiment.

In the Ming Dynasty, the system of guards was implemented, such as 100 households, 1,000 households, and guards.

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Qi Jiguang was training the Qi family's army, and passed through small flags, general flags, bureaus, divisions, departments, and battalions.

In the past, the Volunteer Army did not completely imitate the military system of the Ming Dynasty and was organized into battalions, brigades, squadrons, and squads, but now they can completely follow the Sui and Tang dynasties, establishing regiments above the battalions and regiments above the battalions.

Taking into account the application of tricycles, a modern logistical baggage support system has been established, and it is planned to readjust the establishment of existing squads, squadrons, brigades, and battalions, and to build an army in accordance with the modern military system.

The two-wheeled carriage was successfully improved, and like the car of its predecessor, it could increase the mobility of the troops.

Based on this idea, we borrowed from the Qi family army and the Hunan army to establish a staff organization in the army.

It was decided to set up a logistics department in the army, and appointed Chen Huaixi, the chief of the navy, as the director of the division to ensure the transportation of grain, grass and baggage.

The Military Administration Department was established, with Qian Bangqi concurrently serving as the director of the supervising army, responsible for military orders, law enforcement and other work.

A staff office was established, headed by Yin Chengzhu, mainly responsible for intelligence, military training, and operational staff.

The Equipment Division was established, headed by Fan Mingshan, mainly responsible for the manufacture of guns, swords, and equipment.

A field hospital was established, with the famous doctor Huang Xuemao as the chief medical officer and He Xideng as the deputy chief medical officer.

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At present, the Volunteer Army has a total of 8 infantry battalions, 1 cavalry battalion, and 1 naval battalion, and the whole army has less than 6,000 people.

After much deliberation, Yang Lin decided to further improve the building of the army.

Drawing on the practices of the Ming Dynasty's pro-army and general troops, the main force of the Liukou and the general troops, and the practices of previous generations, field troops and local security forces were established.

There is no doubt that the eight infantry battalions, one cavalry battalion, and one naval battalion that have already been formed are field troops, which are mainly responsible for peripheral operations.

The local security forces mainly include:

Basically, there is a security brigade in each township, which is commanded by the local township chief and the official in charge of law and order.

A security squadron composed of elite soldiers and strong generals from the local security brigade is controlled by the head of the barracks, mainly assisting the strong squad to guard the county seat.

The armed squad, which consisted of strong squads (like modern ordinary public security officers) and fast squads (like modern criminal police), was enriched into various local security brigades in wartime.

(Based on this calculation, there is a squadron garrison in each county, and with the armed tolerance, there are more than 100 such standing troops.)

In wartime defense, even if calculated according to seven townships, there are a total of 7 squadrons, so the garrison force reaches more than 300 people, which can protect security. ）

Each infantry battalion was expanded by 1-2 supplementary brigades.

A brigade was drawn from the escort battalion and merged with the local security regiment to form two new infantry battalions, namely:

The 8th Infantry Battalion, deputy commander Wang Shuji, and captain of the Dazhou People's Regiment commander Wang Zhiyao.

The 9th Infantry Battalion, the deputy commander of the Guang'an Prefecture People's Regiment was General Ma Mingluan, and the captain of the Pengzhou People's Regiment was General Yang Yongtai.

At the same time as the shogunate was established in the army, the battalion was officially established in the army.

There are 11 people in a team, including 1 team leader, 2 captains, and 8 soldiers.

A squadron of 34 people, including 3 squads, plus 1 squadron leader.

A brigade has 116 people, including 3 squadrons, 1 cooking squad (10 people), and an additional team headquarters (1 team leader, secretary general, flag bearer, and 1 trumpeter).

A battalion of 520 people, including 4 brigades (116 * 4 = 464), a battalion headquarters (12 people), 2 Tiger Squat Artillery Squads (or 1 10-person Tiger Squat Artillery Squad, 1 10-person Rocket Squad), 2 escort squads (24 people each), and 1 baggage squadron (30 people in total).

Among them, the battalion headquarters includes 1 general officer, 1 assistant officer, 1 intelligence and combat training logistics staff officer, 4 medical officers, and 2 service soldiers.

Plain operations refer to the Mandarin Duck Formation, refer to the three-stage strike and other methods to transform in different formations such as hollow formations and linear formations.

In the face of infantry, a linear formation is generally used to meet the enemy.

The front and rear posts were musket brigades, each lined up in three rows, so that six rows were formed, of which one platoon at the rear post was equipped with turtledoves for long-distance shooting, and the other five platoons were for round-range firing.

The left and right two posts have different forms such as musket brigades, or bow and arrow brigades, strong crossbow brigades, etc., which are generally arranged into five row-shaped mandarin duck formations according to the different squads, and shoot at a distance in the form of stragglers.

If facing the opposing cavalry, the outpost held still, and the left and right outposts, together with the rear outpost, quickly retreated to form a hollow formation to meet the enemy.

The turtledove foot gun is the largest fire gun with the inner diameter of the Ming Dynasty, also called the hook gun, the gun is 5.5 feet long (about 31-32 cm per ruler, that is, 178 cm), the inner diameter is 0.6 inches (converted to about 19mm), the medicine is 1.3 taels, the lead weighs 1.5 to 1.6 taels (about 56 grams), and the big turtledove bullet weighs 1.8 taels (68 grams, horror).

The diameter of the ordinary bird gun is 13mm, and the weight of the lead is 3 gold (15 grams).

Bullet killing follows the law of high and high impulse, which is velocity * mass = impulse * time. Theoretically, the killing effect of the ordinary bird gun at 4 times the speed is similar to that of the turtledove foot gun (wrenching gun).

The turtle dove foot gun weighs more than ten catties, twice as much as the ordinary bird gun, needs the support of the tripod, resembles the bird's foot, and the power is far better than the ordinary bird gun, and the style of the bird gun and the Lumi gun tube is completely different.

Generally, strong and tall men are selected for battlefield use.

Each squad is equipped with a wheelbarrow.

Each squadron is equipped with 1 two-wheeled rickshaw.

The cooking class is equipped with three two-wheeled rickshaws.

The battalion headquarters baggage squadron is equipped with a total of 10 two-wheeled standard carriages (donkey carts), each of which can pull 3.5-6 loads of goods (250-450 kg), ensuring military quarterquarters for 4 days (2 liters of food per person per day, and 11 loads of grain per day for 550 people in the battalion).

According to the calculation of 5 quintals of grain transported by each carriage, the baggage squadron can ensure 4 days of consumption of 50 quintals of grain at a time. ）。

On the post road and the official road, everyone can push a wheelbarrow and a two-wheeled rickshaw to walk, if you need to leave the official road, pull out someone to carry and protect the wheelbarrow, and others use a flat shoulder to carry the wheelbarrow.

In case of enemy attack, the wheelbarrow and two-wheeled rickshaw are connected with the two-wheeled standard carriage (donkey cart) of the battalion headquarters with ropes to form temporary fortifications to resist the enemy.

At the same time that Yang Lin was reorganizing his armaments, Qian Bangqi and others were in trouble, and now Ma Gan, the governor of Sichuan, and Zeng Ying, the general soldier of eastern Sichuan, were now suffering from the tactics of the sea of people, and the various departments had no food to eat, and some even plundered the villagers.

Qian Bangxin repeatedly asked Yang Lin to allocate grain and grass to support the Ming army in eastern Sichuan, but the other party implemented crowd tactics, and even if he supported, it would be a drop in the bucket.

Yang Lin drew a bright prospect, now the local rioters occupy a subordinate county in Bazhou and Dazhou, and after the initial expansion of the army, they can first expel the scourge of the local rioters.

After the expulsion of the local tyrants, if Zhang Xianzhong agreed to unite against the Qing Dynasty, the volunteers would enter Hanzhong along the Micang Road, as long as they captured the land of Hanzhong, the soldiers would be paid sufficiently.

If Zhang Xianzhong refuses to allow it, Yang Lin will lead the volunteers to the west, expel Zhang Xianzhong, and occupy Tongchuan Prefecture and Baoning Prefecture, so that there is no food in danger.

Pointing to the map, Yang Lin looked high-spirited and said with a smile: "Now we are in troubled times, as long as we can expel the enemy, we will have no worries about food and salary." ”

Qian Bangxin pondered for a long time, and suddenly realized: "Unlike other Ming armies, the adults first determine the task, and then consider how many soldiers are needed, so as to ensure food and salary.

As for the other Ming generals, they first frantically expanded the army, so of course there was a problem of food and grass. ”

By the middle of November, after nearly a month and a half of repairs, at least on the outside, Shunqing City has come out of the shadow of the war, many remnants of the wall have been repaired, the streets are also clean, in order to resist the attack of the rogue The wooden thorn array has been removed, in addition to the tragic scene of the rogue siege still in the minds of some people, everyone began to forget the tragic scene of that day.

At this time, another event that was enough to change history was in full swing in the counties of Shunqing Province, in order to change the status quo of relying on the sky for food, in order to avoid drought and flooding in various places, the movement to build reservoirs began.

According to the materials reported in the report, the counties plan to build 3~4 reservoirs in the hilly areas that are most prone to drought and flooding in two years, so as to play an exemplary role and let everyone see the huge value of the reservoirs.

Considering the complexity of the construction of the reservoir, Yang Lin demanded that during the construction of the reservoir, officials such as the county magistrate, the county magistrate, and the chief manager must be stationed at the site for a long time to adjust various problems, and asked the local county councilors to assist the officials in handling relevant disputes, so as to adjust various contradictions and guide the construction of the reservoir.

Although such and such instructions were issued, Yang Lin was still quite worried, afraid that the following would do something wrong and turn such a good thing as building a reservoir into a bad thing, no, a month and a half after the Shunqing Defense War, Yang Lin took a cavalry brigade to inspect the counties below.

According to the simple map in his hand, Yang Lin inspected the construction of various reservoirs according to the map, and arrived in Qu County on the third day, where he saw Liu Wankun, the magistrate of the county, arguing with several squires.

I saw Yang Lin riding a horse to the Yaoping Reservoir, and saw that there were 4 or 5 hundred villagers around the reservoir, and more than 10 people were gathered in a pile, some were using wheelbarrows to push the soil, and some were shouting trumpets and carrying more than 200 catties of stones to ram.

Looking at the sedan chair next to him, four majestic sedan chair bearers stood aside, Yang Lin was a little unhappy, and criticized: "Lao Liu, it's not a big deal to walk a little, when we used to study, didn't we often walk when we didn't go out of school?"

Didn't I say it last month, in the past few years, natural disasters and man-made disasters, the people's lives are very hard, and the land production is very small.

It's very good to be like Wang Zhixian in Yuechi, reduce the number of hired personnel, 2 old mothers in the family to take care of the house, and 1 master and 1 long-term follower when you go out.

Wherever I went, I rode a horse with 1 master and 1 long entourage and a few servants, although the pomp was small, but it was easy to move.

More importantly, this reduces the expenses of 4 palanquins, and in a year, it can save more than 100 taels of silver.

I'm not looking at the more than 100 taels of silver, and the silver saved is completely yours, and the prefect yamen doesn't ask for a penny.

In the past, those magistrates sat in sedan chairs wherever they went, and the officials opened the way in front, and they were majestic in front of the people, seemingly majestic, but they didn't care about the ordinary people at all, so what kind of parents and officials were they. ”

Liu Wankun sweated like rain and explained: "My lord, you also know my personality, in the past, I simply wanted to use 1 copper plate as two flowers, and the prefect Yamen said that those who do not invite the sedan chair man to save will go to the officials, and everyone is very grateful for this."

You know that I was just a little show and was promoted to the magistrate by the adult, and the squires below ignored me at all, so I gritted my teeth and hired a few sedan chair drivers to take the whole class to Yaoping to repair this reservoir. ”

Yang Lin shook his head and sighed: "Liu Zhixian, this person's prestige is not determined by pomp, prestige comes from helping the people do practical things for a long time.

You see, every time I travel, I only have two paperwork around me, and I take this brigade of cavalry with me for safety. ”

Seeing that Yang Lin was a little angry, Liu Wankun verbally said yes, admitted his mistake again and again, and changed the topic while complaining: "My lord, repairing the reservoir is obviously a matter of benefiting the country and the people."

Although the Yaoping Reservoir occupies an area of 4,5 acres, people with a discerning eye can see that if it is built, they will not be able to use the reservoir to raise fish, not to irrigate more than 400 acres of paddy fields downstream, and more than 200 acres of dry land downstream can also be transformed into paddy fields, but even if it is such a good thing, those squires will not do it. ”

Yang Lin said with a smile: "Lao Liu, I know that of course I will encounter difficulties, if I don't encounter difficulties, I can give an order, why do you have to run down to inspect?" Why do counties need to make a few models?

There are too many people in this world who just want to take advantage, and if they see the benefits, they will naturally build it. ”

Immediately let the squires call over, and everyone cowered and bowed, and stood aside.

Yang Lin said with a smile: "Ladies and gentlemen, I see that everyone is a scholar, and they are highly respected within a radius of tens of miles, of course, they are far from being comparable to ordinary people.

In the past few decades, everyone has seen the scene of drought and flooding, and if this situation occurs, people will starve to death in every village and village.

Now that the reservoir is being built, what are your concerns? ”

A squire sighed and said: "My lord, this construction can occupy more than 1 acre of paddy field in my house, and the government is subsidized according to 6 taels of silver and 1 acre of dry land in 1 mu of paddy field.

But I heard that adults are also from a bitter cold background, and if they really want to buy other people's land in the countryside, it is not just silver on the books. ”

Yang Lin smiled and said, "This squire, you can't be too stingy.

In the past, the government built any water conservancy, all of which were raised by the local governments themselves, and this year each county probably allocated silver taels, but it was distributed to each reservoir, and it was only 100 taels of silver.

The construction of reservoirs is beneficial to the country and the people, and it is more beneficial to themselves, and the government is not satisfied with the purchase of land according to the market price?

If you want more money today, he will ask for more money tomorrow, and if this continues, even if the government allocates more silver in the future, it will be difficult to deal with it. ”

Everyone was slightly stunned, and after a long time, another squire replied: "My lord, I heard that this reservoir will be contracted to others to manage, can this be contracted to me?"

When the time comes, you can plant lotus roots in shallow water, and then dig them up and sell them in winter, so you can earn a lot of money. ”

Yang Lin shook his head and said: "This old man, this belongs to local autonomy, although I am a political and prefect in northern Sichuan, I cannot interfere with the rights of local township chiefs."

The government stipulates that if you want to be in the village, you only need to ensure that the water volume is adjusted through the reservoir during the drought and flood, and allow the surrounding villagers to use the reservoir for a few days.

Ladies and gentlemen, don't look at this reservoir flooding, but there are many uses in the future, in addition to planting lotus roots, you can also raise fish or something, as long as it is well managed, it is not worse than paddy fields. ”

Another squire looked very hesitant and said: "My lord, building roads and bridges, building water conservancy, these are all benevolent policies, not to mention us scholars, ordinary people are grateful."

But we're readers, and it's a bit of a shame to ask us to be like mud legs. ”

Yang Lin smiled slightly, glanced at everyone, and said with a stern face: "You are scholars, this is true. Shinong, industrial and commercial soldiers, no matter what, everyone can't be compared to these mud legs, everyone says, right? ”

The slender squire shook his head, and said with a sad face: "My lord, I waited to read poetry and books in the past, and I didn't work much, so I really can't work like these mud legs." ”

After pondering for a moment, Yang Lin nodded and said: "As the saying goes, if you have money, you have power, after this sentence, I think there should be a sentence, that is, scholars should be more wise, let's talk about it, compared with these mud legs, are you stupider than them?"

Don't be like a country joke, if you don't write or do anything, isn't that a waste? ”

Everyone's faces were gloomy, and someone nodded for a long time and said: "My lord, as the saying goes, Xiucai doesn't go out to know all the world's affairs, and we are also well-educated people, as long as I don't wait to do farm work, I will be satisfied." ”

After thinking about it, Yang Lin said: "Don't look down on hard work, many jinshi, many celebrities, that like you crowd out hard work."

You can do some light work, and in the process of doing it, you can figure out how to make it easier and make it safer for people to do it.

You see, everyone is carrying the soil from over there, and everyone thinks about it, is there an easier way? ”

Everyone frowned, and some even shook their heads again and again, how could it be easier?

Yang Lin smiled, pointed to the crowd and said, "Look, everyone is huddled together, can you adjust it?"

Drive a road over there, push the dirt and approach the road, and the empty car go around and go a little farther so that everyone is not so tired? ”

Everyone suddenly realized, and some even claimed to be surprised, bluntly saying that it was so simple, why didn't they think of it in the past?

Yang Lin said with a smile: "A lot of things are not imaginary, but to really do this, do it not go smoothly, and then find a way."

We scholars may be slightly different from others, others may go all the way to the dark, and we scholars should find a way to solve the problem, so that others will not say that we are not good at literature and martial arts, so that the common people can be truly convinced. ”

Everyone saw that Yang Lin was still like this, and they said yes one by one.

In order to set an example for these talents, Yang Lin worked on the construction site for half a day.

Everyone saw that Yang Lin was still like this, and everyone's morale was higher, and those who shouted trumpets shouted trumpets, and so on.

After finishing it, Yang Lin pulled Liu Wankun over and pointed out the shortcomings of the project allocation.

Because he is from modern times, of course his vision is different, and when he heard Yang Lin mention it, everyone was full of admiration, and nodded yes again and again.