According to the prior agreement between Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong and the collection of existing weapons and equipment, the Taiping Army was reorganized into the left battalion of the infantry army, the right battalion of the infantry army, the six battalions of the pro-soldier battalion, the artillery battalion, and the baggage battalion, and the first water battalion and the cavalry battalion.

The left and right battalions of the infantry army were formed by the merger of the original camp, the Xiongwei battalion, and the Zhenyu battalion, and the insufficient soldiers were transferred from the guards and Hujie.

After the reorganization, there are 3,000 people in the left and right battalions of the infantry army, of which the weapons of the left battalion of the infantry army are 1,000 knives, 2,000 spears, 160 bows, 30 crossbows, 150 iron armors, 1,200 cotton armors, and 900 shields.

The right battalion of the infantry army is a semi-firearm soldier, and the standard weapons are 1,200 guns, 500 knives, 1,200 spears, 120 axes, 60 iron armor, 600 cotton armor, and 300 shields.

The pro-soldier battalion was reorganized from the original guard battalion, with a total strength of 1,000 people, and the standard weapons were 200 knives and 800 spears;

The artillery battalion has a total strength of 1,000 people, with 116 large and small bronze cannons, 130 guns, 40 Huzun small cannons, 150 gun carriages, 100 two-wheeled carts, and a total of 400 horses, donkeys and mules for pulling artillery.

The baggage battalion is composed of the remaining strength of the second battalion of the guards and the Hujie battalion and the security regiment of the original rear battalion, with a total of 1,500 soldiers, and the weapons are mainly knives and spears. The livestock that the Taiping Army originally owned with pullable carts were all concentrated in the baggage camp except for the artillery battalion for transportation.

The water battalion is composed of newly recruited Xiangshan fishermen and Chaozhou soldiers in the original surrender army, tentatively 800 people, because the water battalion is newly formed, so there is no warship to match.

In order to solve the embarrassment of the water camp in name only, Zhou Shixiang asked Liao Ruixiang to buy fishing boats from fishermen as much as possible, and rebuild them into small warships that can sail on inland rivers, and the water supply camp was trained first. In addition, it is necessary to hire craftsmen to Xiangshan to build warships that can sail on the Pearl River and Tan River, and preferably on the sea.

This request is obviously somewhat unrealistic, and the funds of the public treasury are not enough to cover the requirements of building a sailor. Therefore, Zhou Shixiang could only endure the slow development of his temperament. With the mentality of giving it a try, he sent people to Xinhui to buy ships from Chen Qice, and also asked people to go to the coastal areas to ask the fishermen to bring a message to the foreign pirates, if they were willing to submit to the Taiping army, Zhou Shixiang would reuse it.

The cavalry battalion was expanded by Shao Chengguo's cavalry team, and due to the shortage of war horses and riders, it was impossible to carry out large-scale expansion in the short term, so the provisional number of soldiers was 300, and there were actually 52 war horses and 80 horses.

After the reorganization. The Taiping Army has 10,600 soldiers.

The strength of the left and right battalions of the infantry army is 10 people, 50 people, 300 people, 600 people, and the whole battalion is a division (battalion).

The first corps has a captain, a small flag rank, a deputy captain, and a sergeant rank; The first team has one captain, two general flag titles, two deputy captains, and small flag titles; One guard has a chief of guard. 100 household titles, two deputy health chiefs, try 100 household titles; The first brigade has one brigade commander, two thousand household titles, two deputy brigade commanders, and the rank of general flag; The first division shall have a division commander (battalion officer). Wei commander and two deputy division commanders, and the commander has the same rank of governor.

At the same time, a small envoy of the security army is set up in each team, with a small flag rank; Each guard has a lieutenant envoy in the security army, with the rank of general flag; Each brigade shall have an ambassador of the Security Army. 100 household titles; Each division has a security army envoy with the rank of 1,000 households.

The pro-soldier battalion, the baggage battalion, and the artillery battalion refer to the left and right battalions of the infantry army, and the water battalion and the cavalry battalion are not as large as the above battalions. For the time being, it is customized by a brigade, and it is called the whole battalion to the outside world.

The candidates for each battalion are as follows:

Ge Yi, the battalion officer of the left battalion of the infantry army, Jiang Fan, Song Erniu, deputy battalion officers;

Tie Yi, the battalion officer of the right battalion of the infantry army, Zheng Tiezhu and Wang Youxi, deputy battalion officers;

Shao Jiugong, the battalion officer of the pro-military battalion, and the deputy battalion officers Guan Sanshui and Zhu Qinglai;

Qi Hao, the battalion officer of the artillery battalion, Niu Gensheng and Jiang Sihai, the deputy battalion officers;

Zhao Sihai, the battalion officer of the baggage battalion, Lu Wu and Cui Bao, the deputy battalion officers;

Tang Zhengbing, the battalion officer of the water battalion, Zheng Qing and Qian Lai, the deputy battalion officers;

Shao Chengguo, the battalion officer of the cavalry battalion, Wang Hua and Bao De, deputy battalion officers.

After the above battalions were established, each battalion selected its subordinate soldiers to be trained in the battalion, and the remaining personnel were assigned to the reserve barracks. From the day the army was formed, all those who came to join the Taiping Army were also concentrated in the reserve barracks for training, and only after passing the training could they obtain the qualification to be supplemented to the field army.

The battalion officer of the reserve barracks temporarily served as the wounded Jiang He, and he would choose a general after he recovered from his injuries. The rank of the chief officer of the reserve battalion is the same as that of each battalion of the soldiers, and the following are reduced by one grade.

At the same time, the Taiping Army Marshal's Mansion was established, and each battalion was under the direct command of the Military Marshal's Office, and the military commander was naturally served by Zhou Shixiang, and the deputy military commander was served by Qin Zhisheng, who had always been steady.

Song Xianggong served as the chief staff of the Military Marshal's Office, responsible for the daily operation of the Military Marshal's Office, the formulation of official military orders and military discipline, the distribution of grain, grass and materials, etc., and at the same time coordinated local affairs, and replenished the troops to the front line with the reserve barracks officers during wartime.

The garrisons of the battalions also had to be changed, because the Taiping troops originally stationed in the townships were too scattered, which was not conducive to the concentration of forces and was not conducive to meeting the needs of sudden wars. Therefore, after the reorganization, the left battalion of the infantry army was stationed in the Yinzhuizai Mountain on the first line of Zengcheng, and the right battalion and artillery battalion of the infantry army were all stationed in Liangzidu. The pro-military battalion and cavalry battalion are stationed in Xiangshan County, the baggage battalion is stationed in Longyandu, and the water battalion is stationed in Yongle Township. The above battalions are field services and do not produce, while the reserve barracks are required to produce at the same time as training, so they are also known as the production and construction corps, and the station is a former cottage.

The new military system and the official system are all new military systems created by Zhou Shi by combining the military system of the guard station and the military system of later generations, and there must be something unreasonable in it, but time waits for no one, and Zhou Shixiang can only arrange it like this first. However, in order to satisfy the desire of his subordinates to be promoted and make a fortune, Zhou Shixiang implemented his own set of military systems within the Taiping Army, and externally he sealed officials according to the ordinary Ming army system.

Qin Zhisheng and Jiang He were awarded the rank of deputy general, Ge Yi, Shao Jiugong, Zhao Sihai, Qi Hao, Tie Yi was awarded the rank of general, and other deputy battalion officers and brigade commanders were awarded guerrilla, capital division, garrison and other official positions.

In order to solve this problem, Zhou Shixiang for the first time as a registered Chaozhou general soldier sent a chapter to the Yongli court in Kunming, the chapter was written down by Song Xianggong word by word, and the words were repeatedly scrutinized and scrutinized, so that there was no offense before sending it to Xinhui, and asked Chen Qice to send someone to the governor Yamen of Leizhou, and then the governor of Liangguang and the city wall presented it to the court on his behalf.

In the recital, Zhou Shixiang showed Emperor Yongli his loyal attitude as a Ming minister and resolutely resisted the Qing Dynasty. It also recorded in detail the battles of the Taiping army after the establishment of camp in Luoding, and the process of seizing Xinhui and Xiangshan for the imperial court. Zhou Shixiang asked the imperial court to give him a suitable identity, after all, he already had tens of thousands of horses under his command, and the identity of a single registered general soldier could not convince the local gentry, nor could he make his subordinates feel at ease, so for the overall situation of Guangdong's resistance to the Qing Dynasty, and in order to calm the people's hearts, it was best for the Son of Heaven to give himself a title of actual chief soldier, and give his subordinates a real official vacancy.

This recital is to make it clear that he is an important official of the Yongli court, which is not the attitude that a courtier should have. Song Xianggong advised Zhou Shixiang not to write like this, just talk about the merits, the ministers in the Yongli court are not fools, and they will know what to do next.

But Zhou Shixiang disagreed, he had to write like this, his reason was that the Taiping Army was pulled up by himself, and Xinhui was also captured by himself and then handed over to Chen Qice, not to mention that he also hit the Qing army hard, and now the Taiping army is in Xiangshan. The imperial court has not allocated a single copper plate, nor has he given a grain of grain, but he Zhou Shixiang has recovered Xiangshan for the imperial court and restrained the Qing army in Guangdong. And the recapture of Guangzhou is being deployed. The recovery of Guangzhou must be a bluff and an exaggeration, but Zhou Shixiang can write whatever he wants, and Emperor Yongli will never erase his credit because of his bluff. I can't help but give him a response!

Zhou Shixiang is not really an official, but he just doesn't want to disappoint his subordinates. No matter how nice his appointments sound, they are all names. And the only one who can remove this "name" is the Yongli Imperial Court, otherwise there is no way to do it except for him to pull the flag himself. After all, there is an orthodox Emperor Ming who has awarded himself an official, and a group of bandits, poor people, and Taiping officers who have surrendered to the army will feel that their worth has doubled. The most important thing is that with the official appointment of the Yongli court, these people can have the most practical understanding of the Yongli regime, and their loyalty to the Nanming will be slowly established.

Zhou Shixiang would not be dizzy to learn from Sun Kewang, so he asked Song Xianggong to write this important official chapter, as for what Emperor Yongli thinks, it is his business. Zhou Shixiang didn't care what the city wall of Leizhou thought of his concert, and he didn't even care if this piece could be sent to Kunming. He is actually showing an attitude, and this attitude is essentially for the city wall to look at - do you really give me a lecture?

After the new establishment and the appointment of the commanders, the Taiping army quickly became busy, even with the township offices, after all, the matter of the army's relocation of defense would involve them. Everyone is busy, Zhou Shixiang is not idle, he wants to choose his own soldiers.

The battalion officer of the pro-military battalion is Shao Jiugong, but the pro-military battalion is also a force under the direct command of the military marshal's office, so Zhou Shixiang decided to pick up the troops himself, and he asked Song Xianggong to let the wind out, and the battalion commanders who went back quickly sent their elite recruits to Renhoufang, with more than 2,000 people.

In the end, Zhou Shixiang selected 600 people from these more than 2,000 people, so that with the addition of 400 people from the original guard battalion, there were exactly 1,000 people. The 600 recruits were thrilled when they heard that they had been selected and transferred to the personal barracks of the chief soldier.

What is a pro-military barracks, isn't that the family of the chief soldier! Thinking that they would be able to enjoy the treatment of the general's cronies in the future, these 600 people were happy to think about it. Although the other 1,000 people were not selected, they were not disappointed, because it is good to become a member of the general army, but the risk of death is also great, and these people will rush to the front when they start a war.

After more than half a month of reorganization, the newly built Taiping Army battalions were only slightly settled, the new training program formulated by the Military Marshal's Office was also distributed, and various rules and regulations were constantly introduced. With the issuance of military orders one after another, the Taiping Army became more and more like an army.

Song Xianggong asked Liao Ruixiang for more than 10 shows to enter the military marshal's mansion to assist him, the chief staff, in handling official business. Because most of the generals in the army were not very literate, after consulting Zhou Shixiang, the military envoys of the various battalions of the military marshal's office asked them to serve as the staff officers of the chief general in addition to their own security army work. This staff officer is not to help the staff officer with military intelligence, but to help read and write official documents.

Liao Ruixiang's yamen errand did a good job, and it took nearly two months for him to set up a total of 12 post stations in Xiangshan, and all of them were handed over to the Taiping army. Post stations played a very important role in the transmission of military information and official documents, so Zhou Shixiang asked Song Xianggong to manage these post stations, and upgraded several of them located on the main transportation routes to military stations, responsible for supplying supplies, receiving the wounded and sick, and entertaining passing troops. The military station was directly allocated from the public treasury by the military marshal's office, lest Liao Ruixiang come to complain that the county government had no money, and Zhou Shi was too ruthless against him.

As soon as March began, Zhang An sent important information that the troops of the Eight Banners of the Southward Expedition led by the Manchurian Zhenglan Banner Gushan Ezhen Galai Daoga had arrived in Guangzhou

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(To be continued.) )