If you have soldiers, it's time to build an army!

Zheng Chenggong has a general understanding of the modern military system, but the generals of the Ming Dynasty don't know it!

In order to save trouble, Zheng Chenggong directly inherited the military system of the Ming Dynasty and established the Governor's Mansion of the front, rear, left, right, and middle armies, which was the main combat force.

Each army has a governor who is responsible for military command.

Each army has five towns, each town has a guerrilla general, each town has five guards, each guard has a guard command and envoy member, each guard has ten households, each household has a hundred household command division, each household has ten squads, and the squad has a squad leader, each squad has 10 people.

Each town uses the central guard as a reserve, and the front and back, the left and right, and the four guards are equipped with equal forces, so that in wartime, no matter what is convenient for the enemy's attack, there can be sufficient forces to attack or defend. In each guard, there are various types of swords, shields, bows and arrows, which cooperate with each other to fight.

In addition to the troops of the Fifth Army as the main force, Zheng Chenggong also set up a left-behind division, and it was good to race those old, weak, sick and disabled into the left-behind division, and it was good to gather the number of people and scare the unsuspecting enemy.

The old troops, plus the new recruits, and counting the old, weak, sick and disabled, Zheng Chenggong now has more than 15,000 soldiers and horses.

In addition to the left-behind division, Zheng Chenggong can only build an army in one town and a sailor in one town.

In addition to the Fifth Army, there are two armies, the Tiger Guard Battalion and the Tiger Ben Battalion.

These two armies were very small in number, with 500 men each, and were Zheng Chenggong's guards.

The tiger guard is the main guard, and the tiger is the main cavalry attack, accompanying Zheng Chenggong to go on the expedition and escort the left and right.

The soldiers of Tiger Guard and Tiger Ben are all composed of martial arts skilled people strictly selected by Zheng Chenggong in various towns, and they are the most powerful troops in the army.

In addition to the sailors, each three-masted ship is equipped with 40 rattan armor soldiers, 20 two-masted ships, and 10 sand boats, which are used to jump the state and fight when landing, which can be regarded as the Ming version of the Marine Corps.

Rattan armor soldier - the most distinctive type of Zheng Jiajun formed by Zheng Chenggong

Anyone who has watched the Romance of the Three Kingdoms knows that the rattan armor soldiers are well defended, lightweight, and can even be used as a lifebuoy sometimes.

Of course, the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, fear of fire.

However, this is definitely not a problem in Zheng Chenggong's view.

On the sea, there is no way to find water. If it's on fire, just dive into the water, you can't drown people anyway.

The rattan produced in the mountainous areas of Fujian is selected, soaked in oil, and woven into rattan armor and shields.

In addition to being able to resist arrows and bullets, it has high buoyancy and does not have to swim in the water with all your strength.

The rattan armor can be described as the only artifact of the Marine Corps.

Moreover, the firearms of this era were not sharp enough to effectively suppress the cavalry before the advent of copper bullets.

Even during World War II, weapons of mass destruction appeared, and cavalry existed in many countries, which played an important role.

Not to mention the cavalry, the most lethal type of cavalry in the world.

Now the most suitable to resist the impact of cavalry is still cavalry, so Zheng Chenggong also hoped to buy a large number of horses, but unfortunately the south could not feed suitable war horses, and Yunnan horses were more suitable for transportation horses, rather than for war horses.

The best horses to use are the Three Hippos, Ili Horses, and Mongolian Horses, all of which are in the north.

These strategic materials were under the control of the Manchus, and it was simply impossible to buy them in large quantities.

Even if Zheng Chenggong has a lot of money, he just can't buy enough horses.

Of the original 1,700 war horses, the best 500 were selected to form the Tiger Battalion, and the rest had to be divided into 100 good horses to be the general's mounts, and more than 300 horses had to be scattered to be spies for the guards, which caused Zheng Chenggong to reluctantly form a cavalry battalion with great effort. Moreover, Zheng Chenggong's generals did not have generals who could use cavalry, so they had to let Zhang Jin take it first, and while training, he was familiar with the use of cavalry.

Without cavalry, Kinmen's steel production is extremely low, and now the territory is pitiful, and the only bit of steel has to be used to forge swords and other weapons, and there is no extra iron to build a huge amount of iron armor.

led to Zheng Chenggong's specially established rattan armor soldiers for the Marine Corps at the beginning.

Now it has to be introduced into the five armies and used as a frontal defense unit.

The rattan armor soldiers are easy to catch fire, and they are worse than the iron armor soldiers, but the defense is definitely higher than the light infantry of the cloth clothes. Resources are scarce now, so it's good to use them leisurely.

With the establishment of the military system, the observance and implementation of military discipline also made Zheng Chenggong spend a lot of thought.

In view of the fact that the Ming army has always attached importance to pro-soldiers and ignored the practice of ordinary soldiers.

Zheng Chenggong made a provision that this would no longer be allowed to happen with pro-soldiers, and would be replaced by the guards.

Zheng Chenggong stipulated that a certain rank of generals should be equipped with a certain number of guards.

The main task of these guards is to protect their main general, the main general will die, and the guard is not dead, behead!

The salaries of all the guards are issued uniformly, and their salaries are equivalent to those of the squad leader, and the chief of the guard is equal to the salary of one hundred households.

At the same time, he formulated the "reward for killing and capturing the enemy in the middle of the enemy," stipulating that after each battle, the commander-in-chief should summon the officers and men to analyze and summarize the crimes, openly agree on the merits and crimes of the officers and men, reward and punish the wrong, and reward and punish the wrong.

In order to prevent the old soldiers, they brought the bad problem of lax military orders of the Ming army to the Zheng army.

Zheng Chenggong formulated and promulgated the "Strict Prohibition of Leaving the Army", which strictly prohibits ** plunder, killing, killing and robbing, theft and forcible occupation, etc., if the violator is not high or low, he will be beheaded, and the light will be 30 battles, and the generals will be severely punished.

At the same time, Zheng Chenggong also has personnel similar to military commanders in the army, collectively known as law enforcement departments.

Each army shall have a chief justice, five chief justices, and each guard shall have a judge. The chief justice is in charge of the big and small judges, and the marching and fighting accompanies the governor and the guerrilla generals, and is responsible for military discipline and other work.

They are nominally attached to the towns, but in fact they are directly under the orders of Zheng Chenggong, and are not under the control of the military governors, etc., and the chief justice is equipped with 100 law enforcement soldiers, and the judges are equipped with 50 law enforcement soldiers, in addition to enforcing military law, but also protecting the safety of the judges.

In the event of a major military aircraft, these judges can report to Zheng Chenggong at any time, and in addition to strictly enforcing military discipline, they also play a supervisory role in the governors and generals.

Zheng Chenggong decided to send judges and no longer send prison guards, so that many soldiers felt uncomfortable.

Although the supervising army hates it, after all, there are only one or two people in the whole army, and except for some influence on the commander and general, he does not have any contact with lower-level officers and soldiers.

If the commander and the general want to deduct military salaries and the like, the eunuchs and the army are actually of little use.

The military judge is different, he is equivalent to depriving the commander of the right to enforce military discipline, if he is really dispatched, I am afraid that everyone in the army will have to worry about their own military discipline.

For judges who are hated by all soldiers, many generals will naturally oppose them.

Zheng Gongcheng sat on the main seat, looked at the generals angrily, and said: "It is because of the lax military orders, the lack of military preparation, and the greed for life and fear of death that the Qing army will have the opportunity to run rampant and take away our Han people." Now do you still want history to repeat itself, and you are willing to be a Manchu slave? If so, you can immediately go to the Manchu Tartars, and I will not stop you. ”

Seeing Zheng Chenggong's majestic and resolute appearance, he knew that the general had made up his mind, and he couldn't oppose them at all.

If you refuse, I'm afraid that I will leave a bad impression in front of the general, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to reuse it in the future.

So although the faces of the generals were not good-looking, no one dared to stand up against them.

Seeing that the atmosphere was tense, Zheng Chenggong showed a smile and said: "Generals, don't be suspicious, I set up a military discipline judge for your good." There are many robes in the army, and you share life and death with them. If you show a little mercy and let the law be lax in military discipline, there will inevitably be injustice. If you are ruthless, it will make the offender hate you and others. I am stationed in the military discipline judges so that you no longer have to worry about military discipline and punishment, and you can fight with peace of mind. As for the sergeant's complaints, I'll bear it. And I also know that everyone also has wives and children, and it is not easy to support a family. Therefore, I think it's time to raise everyone's military salaries, starting today the post of governor will be increased by 1,000 taels, the post of guerrilla general will be deepened by 600 taels, the post of guard commander will be increased by 400 taels, and the post of 1,000 households will be increased by 300 taels. What do you think? ”

With a stick in one hand and a radish in the other, Zheng Chenggong talked about it to this point, and the generals and others could only say helplessly, "The last general must obey military discipline!" ”

Judges are mainly concerned with military discipline, but now that Zheng Jiajun has just been established, many organizations have not yet been perfected, and sometimes these military judges also have to take on part-time staff and intelligence duties.

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