In September, Xiao Yi was edicted to enter the Beijing face saint, and in November, the official document of the Ministry of War on Xiao Yi's position was finally issued, and Xiao Yi was promoted to the commander of the right guard of Datong, and the official document first went to the governor's yamen of Datong Town, and then sent to the military yamen where Nie Kegang was located on the East Road, and finally arrived in Xiao Yi's hands. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The order of appointment this time is different from the past, according to the procedure, the initial garrison is different from the appointment of ethics, it should be the first to issue an official document, and then the proposed person will be selected to take over in Beijing, but Xiao Yi has not yet determined whether to serve in Beijing last time, Chongzhen has only made up his mind after seeing Xiao Yi, and the new post of Ulzhou garrison is placed.

The emperor appointed him, and naturally no one cared about this order.

The official document came all the way from Beijing, and Lu Xiangsheng, the military commander of the three prefectures, naturally knew about it, and Ulzhou began to set up a garrison, and everyone in Datong Prefecture already knew about this newly promoted young local magistrate.

The most surprising thing is that Xiao Yi is actually a wasteland commander, which has invisibly improved a lot of grades, and in all aspects, Xiao Yi has to be surprised.

I don't know how many people are jealous of this, they sigh at the strength of Xiao Yi's official luck, and on the other hand, they must compare the baht, and carefully study Xiao Yi's trivial mistakes.

However, those who have a heart think about it carefully, Xiao Yi is not entirely on luck, his Yongan Army has more than 1,000 soldiers, and the combat power is fierce, and the battle of Ulzhou has made Datong everyone known, and it is rumored that there are thousands of fierce soldiers, and I don't know if it is true or false.

The name of the Yong'an Army on the Datong East Road has spread like a wind since the defeat of Wang Zishun in August.

Now the rogues, horse gangs, and bandits near Ulzhou have seen the military flag of the Yongan Army on the Dunwei, so they tremble all over, and only beg the Yongan Army not to leave Ulzhou.

Now even in Taiyuan Mansion, the peasant armies from all walks of life can hear the bloody battles of those days, but the Yong'an army is too far away from them, and most of them are just a little afraid psychologically.

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Xiao Yi was officially appointed, so that the rest of the people could also be officially promoted, Xiao Yi had been thinking about this for a long time, and on this day, he was looking at the generals who were gathered in the lobby of the garrison mansion.

"I intend to promote Shi Lu, Huang Yang, Shi Gang, Wang Dayong, and Liu Tong as the general manager of Qian, and Liu Sheng, Zhou Baotai, Wei Zhongwen, Wei Zhongwu, Che Changping, and Yang Liqing as the general manager."

They glanced at each other happily, and followed Xiao Yi is happy, as long as they are hard-working, brave and not afraid of death to make meritorious contributions, there will be officials to do, at least they can get good rewards.

At the same time, Xiao also thought that the Yong'an Army was divided into five generals, with a total of 960 soldiers in the four generals, and Wang Dayong commanded a total of 240 people in one night, and these five totals added up to 1,200 Yong'an Army.

In addition, the total establishment of 1,200 people in the three thousand battalions of Zhenwei Battalion is 4,800 people, and together, there are now 6,000 troops under his command.

However, these people are not all soldiers, although everyone wears armor, but there are many military doctors, baggage sergeants, and flag bearers, if these non-combatants are thrown, there will be more than 4,000 people who can go into battle.

He suddenly thought that the sergeant of the Zhenwei Battalion couldn't be so lazy all the time, and he should find a time to let the third battalion go out in shifts to suppress bandits, after all, it was not Xiao Yi's style to sit and eat empty.

Since the last victory over Wang Zishun, displaced people have flocked to Ulzhou, and the number of soldiers and civilians in Ulzhou has increased several times in a few months, and the bearing capacity has naturally increased exponentially, otherwise it would be really difficult to feed these 6,000 officers and soldiers.

Although Xiao Yi has always put Zhou Baotai in charge of recruiting new recruits for the cavalry battalion, according to Zhou Baotai, the recruitment of new recruits is very difficult.

Although there are several times more soldiers and civilians under the rule of Ulzhou, most of them are poor people, and they have only seen others riding horses on weekdays, and most of them have never even touched horses.

It is good to have one of the twenty people who can ride a horse, Xiao Yi wants to recruit more than just a horse ride, the heavy cavalry needs a very harsh examination to be selected, so after more than two months, Zhou Baotai only recruited more than 30 people who meet the requirements, which is far from Xiao Yi's requirements of a thousand generals.

At this time, after Zhou Baotai reported, he asked: "My lord, the cavalry recruitment is slow, is it appropriate to lower the examination standards to quickly become an army?" ”

Xiao Yi immediately waved his hand and said: "The cavalry is not necessary now, but it will be necessary in the future, you just need to recruit, but the standard of the test cannot be lowered at all." ”

Xiao Yi's voice changed: "However, the number of troops can be appropriately reduced, first recruit a total of two hundred and forty troops, just like not closing the team at night, you are still the commander, and then the opportunity will give you the opportunity to make up the number of troops." ”

Previously, Xiao Yi was too anxious to form a cavalry battalion, neither considering the harsh conditions of the cavalry, nor thinking of the supply problem after recruitment, and now he needs money and food everywhere.

When Zhou Baotai heard this, he hugged his fist without hesitation and said, "Let's do it!" ”

Immediately afterwards, Xiao Yi continued: "I want to add a battalion of vehicles and artillery to assist in field battles. ”

Xiao Yi smiled and looked at the people in the field after proposing, Xiao Yi also thought about this for a long time, and in the last battle with Wang Zishun, he found that artillery had a great effect.

In the field, not only can the enemy position be crushed, but also the morale of the enemy can be greatly damaged.

Moreover, Xiao Yi had already discovered that the Wansheng hook he invented was rarely used in battle, and after groaning, Xiao Yi felt that there was no need to replace it in a hurry.

Xiao Yi always thinks that that thing has a miraculous effect against the horse team, and when he fights Houjin head-on, he can find out if it is useful, and then it is not too late to talk about whether it will be eliminated or not.

As soon as the words fell, everyone in the field groaned, artillery battalion?

Shi Ludao: "My subordinates thought that the artillery battalion could be divided into four teams, one team for each leader, and there were six Franco machine guns in one team, ten bowl mouth guns and small copper cannons, and twenty Hudun cannons were enough. ”

Huang Yang took the booklet, and Shi Lu took it and said carefully: "At present, there are more than 60 Franco machines, more than 100 small copper and iron cannons and bowl guns, and more Hudun cannons, more than 160 guns. ”

Huang Yang touched his chin and muttered: "So, even if we take some and charge them into the cannonball battalion, it will not affect the defense of the state city, but will enhance the field combat capability." ”

Everyone made a lot of suggestions, and then talked about the problem of gunners and shells, and then called Wang Xiong, Wang Xiong and Qi Haoguang came to explain in detail to everyone.

Although the three Shenwei General Cannons are powerful, they are all heavy cannons, weighing thousands of catties, which have been fixed on the three city walls, and the lead bullets used are also dozens of catties, so it is impossible to take them down and use them.

However, the Franc machine is a medium-sized gun, only more than 300 catties, and the heaviest projectile fired is only two or three catties, when it is the first choice for field use, the remaining small copper and iron cannons, bowl mouth cannons, and tiger dun cannons are generally only in a few dozen catties to more than 100 catties.

As for the gunners, each small gun such as the Hudun gun only needs two gunners, even if it is a Franco, it only needs three gunners, plus the standard-bearer, team officer and a small number of guards, the entire car artillery battalion only needs less than a hundred people, most of these people are gunners, and there is no need to join the army at all.

In addition to monthly money and food, Xiao Yi does not need to worry about problems such as overstaffing, and when he has the time and ability in the future, he can completely expand the vehicle artillery battalion and add some new artillery types.

In the process of explanation, Wang Xiong and Qi Haoguang continued to put forward new plans to improve them, and soon the preliminary establishment of the car and artillery battalion was decided.

At this time, Liu Tong stood up and proposed the way to transport the cannon.

Xiao Yi glanced at Liu Tong in surprise, this question is very good, and the reason why the artillery in the late Ming Dynasty was so powerful was so powerful, but it looked weak in battle.

The first is that most of the artillery production is not up to standard, the craftsmen are shoddy, and the explosion of the chamber is frequent, and soldiers often have to risk death when using artillery.

The second was the poor transportation, and many large artillery pieces were transported on dirt roads, which not only seriously slowed down the march, but did not help in any way, but became a burden to the army.

There are also many other reasons such as misplacement and indiscriminate placement, and Xiao Yi set up a vehicle and artillery battalion this time, so it is naturally impossible to make the mistakes made by officers and soldiers again.

Qi Haoguang suggested that the artillery currently in use can be transported with a two-wheeled carriage, even if it is more than 300 catties of Franc machine guns, only one horse can be pulled away, and the entire artillery battalion needs only more than 40 horses, but the carriage needs to be remade according to the gun body.

Now that the territory of Ulzhou is cleared by Xiao Yijian, it is difficult to find a complete forest, and these timbers need to be bought.

Xiao Yi handed over this matter to Qi Haoguang, and Liu Sheng led more than 30 people to accompany the guards.