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"Lord Sun, the Jiangning battalion is going to be reorganized, and my consideration is to focus on developing the Shenji Battalion and establishing an artillery battalion on the basis of the Shenji Battalion."

"My lord, I have no opinion on the expansion of the Shenji Battalion, but there is no need to set up an artillery battalion, this Shenji Battalion can be expanded to two or even three, and the meaning is the same."

Su Tiancheng shook his head.

This kind of advanced concept, Sun Chuanting will not understand for the time being, the separation of artillery is a major reform in military history, artillery independence and cavalry and infantry, become a separate branch of the army, is an inevitable requirement of military progress, it can be said that in this era, the role of artillery is much stronger than the role of cavalry and infantry, even if it is a few hundred years later high technology, the role of artillery is also extraordinary.

The Jiangning battalion will take this step, and from this moment on, in the middle of the army, the third branch of the army will be born.

Although it is said that there is currently a Shenji Battalion, everyone regards the Shenji Battalion as a kind of foot soldier, and the main types of troops recognized by everyone are cavalry and infantry, which are the same in the whole world.

The specialization of firearms is an inevitable trend.

The first artillery in history, most of them are considered to be the Shenji battalion in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the actual situation is not the case, the birth of the first specialized artillery was in Europe, born in the United Kingdom, of course, the artillery at that time, the power was already very huge.

The humiliating history of the Chinese nation in modern times is directly related to military stagnation and seclusion from the rest of the country.

The resolute look on Su Tiancheng's face made Sun Chuanting a little strange, he couldn't think of it that far, and it was impossible to know the true role of the Lu Dao artillery, in his opinion. Being able to go into battle to kill the enemy, charging at the front, that kind of pleasure is the real invincible momentum, as for the artillery, it is far away from the enemy and cannot fight face-to-face. The necessary momentum is lacking.

Of course, the power of the blossom bomb developed by Bi Maokang is definitely not ordinary.

"Lord Sun, I have thought about it, the Jiangning battalion will specially purchase artillery, the number of red-coated cannons will reach twenty, the number of general cannons will reach fifty, and the tiger squat cannon and the Fulong machine cannon will each reach one hundred. In this way, the number of artillery pieces in the artillery battalion as a whole has reached 270 guns, and the total number of artillery pieces in addition to the original artillery has exceeded 300. ”

Sun Chuanting was dumbfounded. Such a number of artillery pieces, he never heard of. The key is to purchase so many artillery, you need silver, thinking that the imperial court directly allocated artillery, it is not very realistic, roughly calculated, to purchase so many artillery. The silver needed is more than 300,000 taels of silver, and you must know that the Jiangning Battalion has just taken out 500,000 taels of silver to specialize in the research and development of firearms.

"My lord, buy so many guns at once. It takes a lot of silver taels. ”

"Money is not a problem, the key is that these artillery, to be in place immediately, to quickly set up an artillery battalion, the soldiers must be proficient in operating the artillery, my consideration, within three months, the officers and men of the artillery battalion must be proficient in operating the artillery."

Seeing that Su Tiancheng was not worried about the problem of silver two, Sun Chuanting finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He, the commander of the Jiangning battalion, is actually responsible for everything, especially the expenditure of silver taels and the supply of grain and grass.

The amount of silver taels and grain and grass stored in Jiangningying is huge, and it is said that everyone should care about handling so many silver taels and grain and grass, but Su Tiancheng never asked, such trust is rare.

"My lord, how to adjust the establishment of an artillery battalion." 、

"The pro-soldier battalion, scout battalion, and law enforcement battalion will not be moved for the time being, and all the original structures will be maintained, and the second battalion of the infantry battalion will be changed to an artillery battalion, and the second battalion of the Jianrui battalion, the first and second battalions of the forward battalion, the first battalion of the infantry battalion, and the Shenji battalion shall all be equipped with flintlock pistols, and the officers and men must be proficient in the firing skills of flintlock pistols."

"The most important thing is the offensive and defensive techniques, there must be a large-scale change, in this regard, we must step up research, the Jiangning battalion's mode of operation, will undergo a fundamental change, this is very important, the previous offensive and defensive mode, still to maintain, on the basis of the previous one, gradually improve, change takes time, to step by step, can not be in a hurry."

From now on, focus on strengthening the training of infantry battalions and artillery battalions, do not be reluctant to spend money, and require military craftsmen to develop shells and flintlock pistols on a large scale, and at the same time, to produce a certain number of arquebuses."

Sun Chuanting was a little strange, since he had a flintlock pistol, what was he doing with arquebuses, wouldn't it be a superfluous move, Jiangning Battalion would definitely not use arquebuses.

"Lord Sun, the process of change in Jiangning Camp is also the process of burning silver, if you can't have the support of silver, everything will be problematic, produce a certain number of arquebuses, sell them, wouldn't you be able to earn more silver, the situation in Henan Mansion is different, you can't compare with Jiangning County, in a short period of time, we can't get so much silver, we have to find a way ourselves."

Sun Chuanting looked at Su Tiancheng and didn't speak for a long time, he couldn't imagine that Su Tiancheng could still think of doing business, and it was a firearms business.

November 30, 8th year of Chongzhen.

On this day, the artillery battalion under the jurisdiction of the Jiangning Battalion was officially established, which was the first specialized artillery in the Ming Dynasty and the first specialized artillery in the world.

The battalion commander of the artillery battalion is directly concurrently served by Bi Maokang, and the deputy commander is concurrently served by Xiong Zijian.

Two thousand officers and men, standing neatly, they used to be foot soldiers, this time they changed their identity and became a member of the artillery battalion, which aroused many envious eyes, the power of the flowering bullet, the vast majority of the officers and men of the Jiangning battalion are clear, it is conceivable that this newly established artillery battalion will play a huge role in the future campaign.

It can be seen from the disposition of the officers of the artillery battalion that the Jiangning battalion attaches great importance to the artillery battalion, and Bi Maokang is the commander of the guard, and Xiong Zijian is the commander of the guard, and they are respectively the commander and deputy commander of the artillery battalion.

Su Tiancheng personally presented the flag to Bi Maokang.

"Brothers, the artillery battalion under the jurisdiction of the Jiangning battalion has been officially established from today, you must remember that this is a new branch of the army, from today onwards, in addition to the cavalry, infantry and Shenji battalion, the Jiangning battalion has given birth to an independent artillery battalion, and the three battalions that were commonly thought to be three have become four battalions."

I can say unceremoniously that in the process of future conquests, the power of the artillery battalion is beyond your imagination, and the artillery battalion can directly determine the victory or defeat of a battle, so the artillery battalion is very important to the Jiangning battalion."

"Next, the second battalion of the Jianrui Battalion, the first and second battalions of the forward battalion, the first battalion of the infantry battalion, and the Shenji battalion will all be equipped with flintlock pistols, and our training subjects will be a lot more."

"The artillery battalion must be proficient in mastering the performance of various artillery pieces and give full play to the role of artillery to the maximum, whether it is a field battle against the enemy or a siege of a city, the artillery battalion must play the most important role."

"The battalions equipped with flintlock pistols must master the performance of flintlock pistols and be able to fire skillfully to give the enemy maximum damage."

"Of course, the most important thing is the basic quality of everyone, we can't rely too much on firearms, and when we fight the enemy face to face, we still have to completely overwhelm the opponent and show the courage of the Jiangning battalion."

"It's the Spring Festival soon, there are many soldiers' families, all come to Henan Mansion, you may think, during the Spring Festival, is it a good holiday with your family, you may have to be sorry for you, this Spring Festival, Jiangning Battalion will not have a holiday, all brothers, have to train hard, the same is true for military craftsmen, working overtime day and night, developing more flowering bullets and flintlock pistols."

"We don't have much time, the Liukou are ravaging Shaanxi and Shanxi, and the Houjinhu are eyeing each other, these are all opponents that our Jiangning battalion is facing, we must train hard and completely defeat them in the future."

"I still know that the Jiangning camp is invincible in the world, and the brothers are the strongest."

Su Tiancheng didn't speak for a long time, and he didn't have many verbose words, what he said was very real, the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion were used to such speeches, and soldiers took obedience to orders as their duty and didn't like ethereal things.

Song Sijun has already begun to purchase artillery for the Jiangning battalion.

It's a little funny to say, the Jiangning battalion can't directly purchase artillery, on the one hand, because of the price, purchasing artillery through official channels requires a lot of extra silver, and there are officials who eat kickbacks at every level, which the Jiangning battalion can't interfere with, through Song Sijun, directly buy artillery, the price is much cheaper. For example, the red-clothed cannon, the official price of 2,600 taels of silver, Song Sijun went to purchase, no more than 2,000 taels of silver.

On the other hand, I don't want to show off too much, after all, this is the first specialized artillery battalion in the Ming Dynasty, this era, I really think that artillery at some point, the role is even more than the understanding of cavalry and infantry, there is basically no market, the evolution of history, has always been cold weapons as the master.

Inside the Jiangning camp, Su Tiancheng, Sun Chuanting and Bi Maokang knew about the situation.

The military craftsmen of the Jiangning battalion are not able to manufacture artillery for the time being, and the focus is still on the production of flintlock pistols, and the production technology of artillery is well understood, but the production process is relatively complicated, and even if production starts now, it is impossible to meet the needs of the artillery battalion in a short time.

For this reason, the procurement of artillery from abroad can equip the artillery battalion in the shortest possible time and begin all-round training, so that the officers and men of the artillery battalion can gradually become familiar with the essentials of artillery operation. (To be continued......)