Chapter 301: Guerrilla Shogunate
A total of 9,100 troops were recruited from Shandong, and although 500 veterans were lost in the Battle of Jiaozhou, there were still 1,000 veterans left behind in Daishan, so the entire Daishan Army infantry had reached 10,000 people. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The training of recruits was put on the agenda.
According to the current establishment of the Daishan Army, Ren Siqi mixed the veterans and new recruits, and a total of 10 new battalions of infantry were formed.
Sha Qianli, Chen Mingyang, Tony, Ren Baoquan, Ren Qiuli and other original team members were also promoted to one level and served as the battalion leader.
At the top of the battalion, Ren Siqi decided to establish the establishment of a "town". A town has jurisdiction over five battalions, and the town commander is called a town general and enjoys the treatment of a guerrilla general. However, Ren Siqi, the supreme leader of the Daishan Army, is now a guerrilla general, so the rank of town general is still a thousand households.
As for the candidates for the two town generals, they were respectively served by Ren Xingfan and Jin Yufei.
Although the work of organizing the new army began when he was in Shandong, it was not finally completed until half a month after returning to Daishan Island.
All the officers are in place, the number of soldiers in each battalion is replenished, all soldiers are registered, and all the books are kept in two copies, one copy is kept by each battalion, and one copy is handed over to the general's office.
Of course, the scale of infantry expansion was too large, resulting in a shortage of grassroots officers, and most of the veterans who survived from Shandong held the military posts of the general banner of the small banner, but the number of junior officers such as the commander of the small flag was still insufficient.
In desperation, Ren Siqi decided not to select Wu Chang Xiaoqi and other grass-roots officers for the time being, and waited for the three-month recruit period to be promoted from among the recruits.
In addition, the candidates for the army are all selected from among the immigrants who have volunteered to join the army.
In addition to the nearly 10,000 recruits recruited, the biggest gain of this trip to Shandong is more than 100 scholars. Although most of these scholars are just children, the most famous of them are only a dozen talents. However, their participation has improved the overall quality of the Daishan Army.
More than half of the more than 100 scholars volunteered to join the army in order to enjoy the treatment of officers.
According to the requirements of the Daishan Army, all new recruits must participate in three months of recruit training, and no one can be an exception. Ren Siqi decided to wait for the end of the recruit period to select candidates for team supervisors, repression, and logistics officers from among these scholars.
At present, there are more than 10,000 recruits in the Daishan Army, and they are all stationed on Daishan Island. Ren Siqi placed their garrisons on each island, and a battalion of recruits was stationed on Jintang Island, Daxiao Changtu Island, Qushan Island, Xiushan Island, Zhujiajian Island, and other large islands with a large number of immigrants. One battalion was put in Cen Gang, and the remaining four battalions of recruits were stationed in Daishan.
There was no rush to training, but they built their own camps on the islands. Every day, ships come and go between the islands, transporting all kinds of material supplies to the islands.
10,000 recruits, tens of thousands of immigrants, the daily affairs are extremely complicated, and Ren Siqi needs to deal with big and small things personally, which makes Ren Siqi a headache. As a result, he came up with the idea of establishing a guerrilla shogunate.
Supposedly, a small guerrilla general was not qualified to set up a shogunate. But now Ren Siqi controls dozens of islands, has more than 20,000 land and water soldiers under his command, and governs 100,000 people, and the scale of his territory and people is above a county.
The county orders of a county have subordinate officials such as the county lord Bo, and there are also six-room scribes who assist in handling various affairs, and there are also three classes of officials as minions.
And now the scribes of the entire Daishan Island are only a few scribes of the Inspection Division. In the past, the army was able to operate normally when the number of civilians was small, but now with the increase in the number of people under its rule, it can no longer meet the needs.
After careful consideration, Ren Siqi decided to formally establish the Shogunate of Coastal Defense Guerrilla Generals, which mainly dealt with military affairs.
Under the shogunate, four divisions were set up: staff officers, logistics, equipment, and pacification, and the staff department was in charge of operations, training, enemy situation, and military affairs. The Logistics Department is in charge of barracks, baggage transportation, material procurement, food and property, etc. The Equipment Department is in charge of the production, purchase, storage, and distribution of weapons throughout the army. The Department of Suppression and Pacification is in charge of military discipline in the whole army, responsible for punishing officers and soldiers who violate discipline, and responsible for the registration and verification of combat exploits on the battlefield.
At present, Huang Fengwu is the best candidate for the director, but Huang Fengwu does not want to stay in Daishan, but returns to Zhoushan Island with her soldiers.
Ren Siqi's mind flashed the faces of many subordinates, trying to find the best candidate. However, there are too few people in the Daishan Army who are familiar with military strategy, and the position of chief of staff is too important to allow people casually.
Suddenly, a name flashed in Ren Siqi's mind, Li Yanzhi!
Li Yanzhi, a native of Jiaozhou, Shandong, is famous for his talents, in addition to being familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, he has read a wide range of books, has read many art of war, and has also traveled to various places to investigate the geography of mountains and rivers.
During this trip to Shandong, Li Yanzhi saw the strong combat power and vigorous spirit of the Daishan Army, and thought that the Daishan Army was completely different from other Ming Dynasty armies he had seen before, so he decisively joined the Daishan Army with his wife and children, and went south with the first batch of immigrants.
On the ship to Daishan, he took the initiative to ask to join the Daishan Army and assisted in the organization of the families of the newly recruited soldiers, showing his strong ability.
After arriving in Daishan, the immigrants first came, everything was created, the resettlement of immigrants, the management of soldiers' barracks and soldiers, Li Yanzhi put forward a lot of reasonable suggestions, which made Chen Zhongshafu, the person in charge of Daishan at that time, extremely appreciated, and after Ren Siqi returned to Daishan, he mentioned it many times in Ren Siqi's ears.
Show talent and fame, military strategy, very talented, but a candidate for the director of the General Staff Department, but the qualifications are too shallow! Ren Siqi said secretly in his heart, and then smiled bitterly again, now all the start-ups in Daishan are lacking in talents, what qualifications do you have to talk about?
It was then decided to appoint Li Yanzhi as director of the General Staff Department.
The director of the logistics department is Cao Changjiang, who is an old man who followed Ren Siqi in Luzon, who is diligent, loyal and honest, and let him be the director of the logistics department, but he is not afraid that he will be corrupt and bend the law. As for the lack of knowledge, it is enough to assign him some scholars who are proficient in arithmetic as subordinate officials.
The head of the equipment department is Monroe of the Netherlands. Monroe was very satisfied with his current position in the Daishan army, and had long given up the idea of returning to the Netherlands and joined the Ming household registration, so he was already a Ming man in theory. Monroe knew how to cast and repair artillery and muskets, and made many achievements in the initial establishment of the Daishan Army, so it was fitting that he should be the director.
The director of the Zhenfu Department is served by Song Liben, Song Liben has made great contributions in the strategy of Zhoushan, his ability is not to say, and his qualifications are enough. However, Song Liben now followed Mao Shibai to Japan, and can only wait for him to come back before performing his duties. (To be continued.) )