The entire organization of the first town of the new army was determined after repeated discussions and studies by Emperor Chongzhen and several ministers of the Military Aircraft Department. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The new army of the Ming Dynasty will face in the future, mainly the Jianyu or Mongol army, which is mainly based on cavalry attack, so the first consideration should be to withstand the enemy's cavalry attack, and then consider counterattack or pursuit.

So does it mean that there are no flaws in this compilation achievement? Of course not. At least now the Chongzhen Emperor does not think that the current compilation is perfect.

The formation of the first town of the new army lacked the rattan players in the mandarin duck formation of the Qi family's army.

The rattan player is equipped with a small Qi knife, a large rattan card, in which the role of the rattan card is mainly used to defend against the enemy's bow and arrow.

Emperor Chongzhen took this into consideration, and several other ministers of military aircraft also raised it, but in the end the emperor himself gave up the establishment of rattan players.

One reason is that in order for the rattan players to really play a role in protecting the pikes and musketeers, then it is necessary to have a large number of rattan players, at least two battalions or more.

In this way, the first town of the new army will be unbalanced in attack and defense, and it will become a passive defensive team.

The second reason is that the defensive effect of the lighter rattan brand is enough for the bows and arrows of the Japanese Kou, but it is not enough for the shooting of the heavy cavalry and the infantry longbowmen and crossbowmen.

Moreover, the reason why Qi Jiguang compiled rattan players back then was the same as the reason for using the bamboo wolf, that is, he was relatively short of money, and the rattan and the wolf's bamboo were very cheap and easy to obtain.

If he could equip cold forging armor or iron plate armor in batches, I believe that Qi Jiguang would not deliberately compile a few rattan players in the Mandarin Duck Array.

Today's Chongzhen Emperor, compared with the one in history, the biggest difference is that he is not short of money, at the beginning of his reign, he copied the eunuch party, copied the salt merchants, and later copied the king of De, King Fuwang, and recently copied more than 20 princes and princes who were the richest in the capital, and the emperor's inner treasury had unprecedented silver deposits.

In addition to the minting factories in Beijing and the minting branches in Nanjing and Luoyang, for every Chongzhen silver dollar minted, you can get 20% of the profits.

At the same time, after the implementation of the Chinese law, the increase in the income of the salt class, etc., the situation of today's household Taicang and the emperor's inner house is much better than the same period in history.

With the continuous expansion of production at Zunhua Baiyecheng Iron Plant, the output of steel is no longer a problem.

Iron or steel plate armor rolled and forged with water and animal power is sufficient to protect the chest, abdomen and back.

And Emperor Chongzhen ordered the Ordnance Bureau of the Armament Institute to supervise the construction of the eaves of the iron helmet, and also deliberately increased the width of the eaves.

It resembles the cymbals in percussion instruments, and the ring-eaves iron helmet in the shape of a flying saucer in later generations, and it is like a small round shield on the head, and it has a better defensive effect than before.

When the local archers covered the shooting, the new sergeants wearing iron helmets with rings and iron plate armor could effectively cover their faces, heads, necks, chests and abdomen as long as they bowed their heads in time, and defended themselves against arrows thrown by the enemy from a long distance.

Of course, in battle, if you want to resist the enemy's direct bow and arrow fire at close range, you can only resign yourself to fate, after all, whether it is a pikeman, a musketeer, or a wolf hand, there is no strength left to fight with a huge shield.

As for the sword and shield man, he can only rely on the strength of the friendly army to support the first town of the new army in the future battle with friendly forces.

While thinking about the formation of the new army, Emperor Chongzhen, accompanied by most of the ministers of civil and military affairs, rode into the large school field in the center of the new army camp in Luhewan.

In the middle of the school field, that is, the intersection of the whole camp Datian zigzag, there is a tall point general platform made of stone, and two flagpoles are erected on the point general platform, and the high flagpole is now fluttering in the wind symbolizing the Ming army, symbolizing the Ming royal family, the huge rectangular dragon flying phoenix dance flag, and the flagpole that is a little shorter is bare.

This time, Emperor Chongzhen came to Tongzhou again and went to the camp of the new army in person, just to personally name the first town of the Ming New Army and award it with the unique banner of the first town.

According to the prior plan, Emperor Chongzhen arrived at the Dianjiang platform, turned over and dismounted, and then walked up to the high Dianjiang platform alone, looking at the spectacular scene in front of him.

In the cold wind, all the soldiers who had already stood on the field of the colonel a hundred steps away from the Dianjiang platform immediately knelt on one knee and shouted in unison: "Internal defense of the Beijing Division, external preparation for battle, expelling the Tartars, and revitalizing China!" God bless my emperor, long live, long live, long live! ”

An army needs slogans, because slogans have a powerful brainwashing effect.

And the slogan of the first town of the new army, of course, was set by the current Emperor Chongzhen himself.

This slogan was originally the function of the Beijing camp, or the function of the forbidden army, and today's Beijing camp is obviously not competent for this function for a long time, and the purpose of Emperor Chongzhen's training of the new army is to replace the past status of the Beijing camp, so that this new army can truly become the royal forbidden army.

Hearing the tens of thousands of soldiers standing in the cold wind, shouting this slogan in unison, Emperor Chongzhen raised his hand and pressed down, and of course everyone in the audience understood one of them, and in an instant, except for the sound of the wind blowing the flag, there was silence in the field of this big school.

Emperor Chongzhen, who had already prepared the manuscript, immediately said: "I have heard that since ancient times, emperors have been ruling the world, all of them have been in China to govern Yidi, Yidi has lived outside to serve China, and I have not heard of those who rule the world by living in China with Yidi.

"In the past, there was Tatar Warat, and now there is Jianzhou ugly, the tiger is outside the pass, peeping into Shenzhou, invading my Saibei Fertile Field, occupying my Liaodong Prefecture, taking my Chinese noble race as a slave, and treating the descendants of Yan and Huang as enemies.

"Since I entered the Great Unification, I have been dreaming of sleeping at night, sleeping and eating, worrying about the exhaustion of national strength, the slack of armaments, and the hardships of the people. Look up to the sky and bow to the ground, and bow down.

"Fortunately, the new army was built, and the first town was formed. After today, all monarchs are responsible for defending the Beijing division internally and preparing for war outside, expelling the Tartars and revitalizing China.

"Today, the first town of the Ming New Army was officially established, and the name of my life is the first town of the Ming Royal Guard, and a town flag is specially given, and you will encourage you to do it with me!"

After the emperor said this, the ministers of military aircraft, civil and military officials, and all the soldiers of the first town of the new army in the colonel field knelt on their knees, kowtowed and shouted: "God bless the Ming, God bless China, long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live!" ”

After everyone finished shouting, Emperor Chongzhen asked everyone to calm down, and then after Ma Shilong and Qian Yuanyu came to the stage, he took the edict and the town flag from the hands of Cao Dingjiao and You Yangkun, the military attaches of the imperial attendants who were already standing beside him, and handed them to Qian Yuanyu and Ma Shilong, who were dressed in full costumes.

Then, with the assistance of the attendants around him, together with Ma Shilong, a flag was raised.

I saw a rectangular red flag, a stretched golden dragon, head to the head of the flag, tail to the tail of the flag, teeth and claws flying in the wind!

And on the side of the flag head close to the flagpole, from top to bottom, there are ten bird seals in the first town of the Ming Royal Guard.

This is the first town of the Ming Royal Guards, also called the town flag of the first town of the Ming Imperial Guards, the red background gold dragon flag with a width of three feet and a length of five feet, which is smaller than the military flag and the national flag of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the red and yellow dragon flying and phoenix dancing flag that is four feet wide and six feet long.

After raising the special military flag of the first town of the Ming Imperial Guard, Ma Shilong and Qian Yuanyu hurriedly stepped down and began to command and coordinate the various standards to conduct a drill for the emperor and the minister of military aircraft to review.

In the next hour, the five standards and fifteen battalions of the first town of the Guards, fully armed and dragging equipment, walked through the colonel's field under the point platform.

Whenever a battalion walked directly below in front of him, Emperor Chongzhen would raise his hand to them, and each battalion that walked through would respond with a warm slogan of "Long live God bless my emperor, long live, long live, long live".

This made Emperor Chongzhen suddenly have a wonderful illusion, as if he was watching the red army in the later generations walk in front of the Forbidden City.

After all the 15 battalions marched through in formation, Emperor Chongzhen, Sun Chengzong, Li Banghua and others continued to brave the cold wind and watched the parade drills conducted by all 15 battalions according to the troops.

Cavalry battalion cavalry shooting, cavalry gun assault, musket battalion three-stage loading fire, lance phalanx march and assassination of the spear wolf battalion, and car artillery battalion converted from Franc machine to part-box gun cart without projectile air burst shooting, etc.

All this set of procedures has gone down, and the time has not yet come, and the emperor and his ministers have rushed from Beijing to the present, and they have not yet eaten lunch.

However, it was the emperor who stood in the cold wind to inspect and watch the drills of all the battalion heads, which made these new soldiers who had worked hard for more than half a year feel heartily excited.

What are these young people from ordinary peasant families training for? Isn't it for the dream of one day being able to realize the dream of "being a Tian Shelang in the morning and ascending to the Tianzi Hall at dusk"?

Now His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty has seen the drill of all of them with his own eyes, this is the result of how much blood and sweat they have paid, and now the emperor has seen it all, isn't it this day that they shed blood and sweat? It's worth it!

So when they saw the emperor standing in the cold wind to the end, under the persuasion of a minister, stepped down and rode away, 14,651 people, all armed with weapons, knelt on one knee, and once again shouted the slogan of the first town of the Ming Imperial Guard: "Internal Guard Beijing Division, External Preparation, Expelling the Tartars, and Revitalizing China!" God bless my emperor, long live, long live, long live! ”