291 The Tartars have entered the customs

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Time entered August, at this time, the Yongcheng area, has entered the autumn, the end of the summer, in the past half a year, Li Zixiao has been focusing on the recruitment of recruits, recruit training and the production of armor workshops.

And because the influx of displaced people into Yongcheng County this year is still endless, Li Zixiao's recruitment of recruits is going very smoothly.

At this time, there were nearly ten new battalions in Li Zixiao's hands, with seven or eight thousand people, which had exceeded the number of soldiers in his hands.

Among them, the first six recruit battalions are all veterans who have been trained for three months, and they can completely fill the ranks of soldiers.

As the time came to August of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Li Zixiao had a hunch that the time was almost up, so he decided to carry out a new round of expansion of the White Dragon Army under him.

As for the current battalions, Li Zixiao adopted some of the suggestions of his generals, and at the same time, according to the current situation, Li Zixiao once again carried out a new round of reorganization of his subordinate White Dragon Army.

At this time, Li Zixiao also reorganized the White Dragon Army, which is to optimize the structure of the army, make the army more efficient, and enhance its combat capability.

At the same time, Li Zixiao also set aside a month for his generals to run in, and it won't be long before the White Dragon Army will show its edge.

The first six battalions of the recruit battalion, which had been trained for more than three months, were all scattered and supplemented into the battalions.

On the basis of retaining four infantry battalions, one cavalry battalion, one escort battalion, and baggage battalion, the establishment of each of their battalions was expanded, and the 'Fire Raven' fire battalion was split into an artillery battalion and a firearms battalion.

In each battalion, from the original team and the two levels, it is divided into five levels: sentry, army, flag, team, battalion, and five levels.

Among them, each post is about ten people, every three posts are a team, every three guards are a flag, and so on, three teams are a battalion, and the number of a battalion is about 1,34 people.

And each battalion was tentatively composed of 500 pikemen, 200 sword and shield men, 300 bird men, and 300 archers.

Later, as the number of new bird guns produced increased, the number of bird guns in each battalion would gradually increase.

This depends on the production situation of the blacksmith workshop in Baihu Village, and the remaining dozens of places are officers and miscellaneous servants such as military doctors, grooms, and firehead soldiers.

As for the arrangement of the generals of the four infantry battalions, there has been no change, and this time the reorganization of the White Dragon Army, Li Zixiao has not changed the high-level generals.

The only thing that has changed, that is, the junior officers in each battalion of the White Dragon Army, many of them have been promoted, after all, everyone's rank has increased, and the number has also increased; Finish.

The original artillery team was also expanded, and the strength was expanded to about 800 people, divided into three teams, each with 250 people.

In addition to the three-pounder cannon made by the White Dragon Army now, the various medium-caliber Furlong cannons captured by them in the previous battles were selected, and the best ten of them were assigned to the artillery team after the gun carriage was transformed.

In addition, they also incorporated 30 tiger squat cannons and 300 mules and horses into the artillery team, which were generally used intensively.

When necessary, the artillery battalion can assign a flag artillery team to each battalion, so that the battalion can have the ability to fight independently.

In terms of establishment, it was also upgraded by one grid to an artillery battalion, separated from the original fire battalion, and let Sun Dazhuang continue to remain in office as the battalion commander of the artillery battalion.

As for the disorganized artillery such as the bowl-mouth guns and the old tiger squat cannon and tassel cannon, they were all assigned to the important places of the White Dragon Army and arranged on the wall of the wall as a guard.

After doing so, it can reduce the pressure on the logistics of the White Dragon Army, and also enhance the defensive ability of the White Dragon Army in various important places.

At the same time, Li Zixiao also expanded the guard battalion, and on the basis of the original 300 famous guards, he selected a group of brave and loyal soldiers from the army, expanded it to 800 people, and renamed it the 'Guards Battalion'.

On weekdays, the guard battalion is handed over to quartz to be responsible for the command and adjustment, and Li Zixiao usually leaves a hundred guards by his side.

The rest of the guards were uniformly deployed by quartz, and they were assigned to the side of the battalion commanders in each battalion, responsible for protecting the safety of the officers above the battalion general, and also taking care of their daily life.

To put it bluntly, this is like a guard in the Red Army, which does not occupy the original barracks.

However, this guard is only responsible for Quartz, serving and protecting the battalion generals, obeying Quartz's arrangement, and changing them every once in a while.

In essence, this also plays the role of monitoring the generals, and firmly controls the army in Li Zixiao's hands.

As for the matter of the guards, the generals in the army are not stupid, and they can understand why, but the big guys don't mind this matter too much.

After all, they were all pulled up by Li Zixiao, and Li Zixiao did this, they didn't have anything to say, they could all understand, anyway, they had no rebellious heart.

Moreover, Li Zixiao has always refused to allow officers to form and belong to their own families.

The reason has been explained to his generals very clearly, the so-called 'family system' will slowly destroy the structure of the entire army.

Li Zixiao made a great determination to eliminate gangs and factions in the army, deduct military salaries, and recruit those who were loyal to his family.

Li Zixiao can be said to have a lot of intentions about this, even if he is dissatisfied with this, no one dares to speak out against it.

In addition to the three battalions, Wei Hong's new battalions were retained, and the number of new battalions was basically maintained at four or five, and the number of people in each new battalion was about 1,000.

They were now among the homeless people every day, selecting a small number of young men with strong physiques who were able to join the White Dragon Army.

And all the reinforcements of the barracks must come from the new barracks, and each barracks must not recruit their own troops.

In this way, in addition to ensuring the quality of the soldiers in each battalion, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the White Dragon Army can always be guaranteed, and there will be no significant decline due to the replenishment of new soldiers.

At the same time, it also avoids the danger of the generals forming their own small groups, small hills, forming gangs, and confronting each other in the White Dragon Army.

The barracks were also retained, but they were no longer the old and weak soldiers they had been.

After continuous adjustments, the old and weak in the baggage soldiers have now basically been completely eliminated and eliminated.

The old and weak soldiers who have been eliminated will be sent to the place by the White Dragon Army, either to work as a farmer or as a security chief, and those who remain are young and strong.

However, after the downsizing, the baggage battalion left 600 men in their strength, divided into three piles, equipped with more than 200 carts.

There are also nearly 400 mules and horses, and the grain and straw transported by these carts and mules and horses at one time can be eaten by the White Dragon Army for more than ten days, and the combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.

However, it is worth mentioning that in this reorganization, Li Zixiao set up an engineer team of about 200 people in the White Dragon Army based on the lessons learned from the past.

The Engineer Corps was temporarily placed under the jurisdiction of the Baggage Battalion, and the Engineer Corps consisted mainly of carpenters and miners.

They do not belong to the battle sequence, and their full-time job is to provide support to the war team when they are marching and fighting, opening roads in the mountains and building bridges in the water.

After the war broke out, the brothers of the baggage battalion also had to temporarily build offensive and defensive equipment such as shield carts and long ladders for the brothers in the war battalion.

Li Zixiao understands the importance of the engineer team very well, and in the current battle, digging into the ground is a pretty good way.

With this engineer team, the White Dragon Army's ability to attack fortifications will be greatly improved in the future, so this led to Li Zixiao's idea of forming an engineer team this time.

The sapper corps is not equipped with any weapons, except for a single knife for each person, only large saws, axes, pickaxes, shovels and other tools.

There are no generals of the sapper corps to undertake any combat tasks, and they only obey Li Zixiao's arrangement to do things, and the formation of this engineer corps is a team.

In addition, it is the scout team under the command of Han Tong, and the scout team continues to be retained, but the strength has only expanded to about 300 people.

These three hundred people are all the elite of the White Dragon Army, and they are all able to fight on horseback, and all of them belong to the brave people of the arts.

These people turned into a team of three flags, and continued to be led by Han Tongtong, and were directly commanded by Li Zixiao in peacetime.

And Luo Chao and Qi Wei's two cavalry teams, in this reorganization, are still not separated from Han Tong's scout battalion.

Luo Chao's first cavalry team, Qi Wei's second cavalry team, plus Han Tong's 'scout team', the three teams formed the cavalry battalion of the White Dragon Army.

Luo Chao and Qi Wei's two cavalry teams, all of which were one person and two horses, were uniformly distributed with sabers, bows, crossbows, and horse guns, = making them form a strong mobile combat capability.

The number of the two cavalry teams has also been expanded to 500 people, and the entire 'Feiyu' cavalry battalion has been expanded to more than 1,300 people.

In this way, after Li Zixiao's re-expansion, after more than ten days, the total strength of the regular army of the White Dragon Army, not counting the new barracks, could reach about 8,600 people.

As for the important places, such as the White Snake Village, the White Tiger Village, Beigu Town, Yongcheng County, and other places, as well as in various villages and towns, each set up a township soldier of 100 to 300 people, or a city defense garrison.

These are responsible for the safety and security of these important places, but in their spare time, they are also responsible for cultivating the military fields of the White Dragon Army.

It can be regarded as the auxiliary force of the White Dragon Army, under normal circumstances, Li Zixiao will not call them to participate in the field battle, and he can be regarded as a reserve soldier of the White Dragon Army.

And in order to distinguish the generals in wartime, so as not to cause confusion.

Li Zixiao also arranged the decoration of the generals in the army, all the main and deputy battalion generals were put on their helmets with red feathers, with a red back flag, a pair of scale armor, and a red cloak on their backs.

It allows people to see their position in the line at a glance.

The team will insert a yellow feather on the helmet with a yellow back flag, the flag will insert a blue feather on the helmet with a blue back flag, and the captain will insert a black feather on the helmet with a black back flag, and the sentry commander will insert a blue feather with a cyan feather on the helmet with a cyan feather.

The soldiers of the Guards Battalion all wore white feathers on their helmets, while the ordinary soldiers did not have feathers on their helmets.

In this way, in the White Dragon Army, officers and soldiers can accurately analyze these feathers on their heads.

In wartime in the province, once there is chaos, the soldiers cannot find their respective officers.

Even if it is really disrupted on the battlefield in the future, the soldiers can be close to it, obey the commands of officers above their rank, and can regroup as soon as possible and restore their combat effectiveness as quickly as possible.

And this arrangement also highlights the hierarchy in the army, in fact, it also makes it close to the military rank of later generations.

It can be effective in distinguishing the ranks of the generals in the war, so as to avoid confusion in command in wartime, and can effectively enhance the control of the army.

The basis of this expansion is the increase in the population of the territory control area of the White Dragon Army, Li Zixiao has been recruiting new recruits for more than a year, accumulating a large number of reliable and sufficient recruits.

If not, it would be really impossible for Li Zixiao to recruit so many reliable recruits in such a short period of time.

However, the current strength of the White Dragon Army has far exceeded the limit of the strength that can be supported by a small Yongcheng county, and Li Zixiao already feels unbearable.

In the past half a year, more than one million taels of silver in Li Zixiao's hands have basically been spent, and at this time, he has to feed tens of thousands of mouths of his subordinates, plus build armor, buy war horses, medicinal materials, etc.

All need money, if you want to maintain such an elite army, this is simply a living gold-swallowing beast, fortunately, Li Zixiao has scavenged a lot of silver before.

Otherwise, after a year, he really couldn't hold on.

Even so, Li Zixiao doesn't have much silver in his hand, and there are less than 300,000 left in total, and it is estimated that it won't last long.

Why did Li Zixiao go north to fight the Tartars this time, on the one hand, he wanted to fight the Tartar army to test the combat strength of his army, and at the same time hoped to prevent the Tartars from taking away too many people in the pass and looting a huge amount of grain, gold and silver.

And the most important thing is that Li Zixiao hopes to take advantage of this opportunity to take back the property that was looted by them from the hands of the Tartars outside the Guanwai.

This is a big deal, rather than letting these Tartars bring back the looted property from the Guannei to the Guanwai, it is better to leave the cheap Li Zixiao and feed the White Dragon Army.

And robbing these Tartars outside the gates, Li Zixiao has no psychological burden at all.

For this reorganization, most of the low-level officers in the army have been promoted, and they are all very happy, after all, the White Dragon Army has added two levels of military posts this time.

In September of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, there is still a month to go, and the expanded White Dragon Army has started a new run-in, and Li Zixiao is also waiting for news from the north.

On this day, Li Zixiao had just finished inspecting the barracks and returned to the hall of White Snake Village, and then the guard ran into the hall.

After seeing Li Zixiao, the guard hurriedly knelt down on one knee and reported loudly: "Report, urgent military information sent from the north!" ”

Li Zixiao took the envelope, tore open the vermilion lacquer seal, took out the letter and looked at it, and his face immediately changed

The generals in the living room, after seeing Li Zixiao read the letter, looked unkind, but they didn't dare to ask each other, and looked at each other one by one.

In the end, it was Qian Guangyuan who came forward and asked, "General, what's wrong?" ”

Li Zixiao said in a deep voice: "Yesterday, the Tartars entered the customs!" ”

As soon as this statement came out, everyone was shocked!