After Xu Hongji and Zhang Gongwei led dozens of generals and colonels to visit the barracks, they gladly agreed to Zhu Daolin's invitation and entered the military canteen to have lunch with the officers and soldiers.

Regardless of whether they were willing to adopt a series of logistical support practices proposed by Zhu Daolin, everyone was full of praise for the clean and tidy barracks, the new and complete facilities, and the strict housekeeping regulations.

After lunch, Zhu Daolin took Wu Jingxian and Xu Hongji, Zhang Gongwei, and Zhao Zhilong for a walk under the pretext that the sun was good, and the five of them chatted while walking, talking about the construction of the military camp and the training of recruits.

Zhu Daolin does have something to discuss, and it is not an ordinary matter, but the Ming military system that no one dares to touch!

Zhu Daolin invited everyone to sit down in the living room on the east side of the lobby, and began to make a summary of the Ming military system that he had recently learned.

"At present, the military system of our Ming Dynasty can be roughly divided into the guard system derived from Taizu, the battalion system of the Jiajing Dynasty, and the recruitment system used by Qi Shaobao...... Since the armed forces, which are equipped with a large number of firearms, are completely different from other armies in terms of training and combat methods, it is necessary to formulate a more rational establishment in light of the actual situation. ”

Xu Hongji nodded slightly: "What Dao Lin said is also the problem we are facing, especially the water division, due to the large use of artillery, the combat mode of the water division has changed a lot, and the establishment of the water division since Taizu and Chengzu is difficult to adapt to the current situation, and local improvements need to be made." ”

"Secondly. Since the beginning of Chongzhen, there have been many changes in the military system of the Ming Dynasty, the chief military officer was originally a temporary official number for the dispatch, and in case of war, he wore the general to go to war, and returned it after the fact, and there was no rank regulation. There is no direct army ...... either"

However, now the general army has become a permanent official position, there is still no specific rank, its command of the soldiers, the establishment of the quota, the rank is not certain, the prince can be held by the civil and military, very chaotic, and the border pass town soldiers, battalion soldiers, guards and other military systems coexist, each other belongs to the indefinite, the orders are different. What a headache! ”

"That's true, Jiangnan has been peaceful for a long time, and the situation is better, if the border is tight, and then transfer troops from my Jiangnan, I'm afraid it will immediately cause chaos."

Zhao Zhilong was extremely troubled by this, his twelve city gates were supposed to have three guards and nine thousand households, but most of the troops were siphoned off by the imperial court military department over the years. The garrison level of each gate has been reduced to a thousand and a hundred, and none of them are full.

The steady Zhang Gongwei wanted to know how Zhu Daolin would formulate the establishment of the firearms army. Therefore, he laughed and brought the conversation to the point: "Daolin, continue to say what you think." ”

Zhu Daolin nodded: "The number of officers and soldiers of the largest combat unit of the new army is roughly the same as the number of officers and soldiers of the first guard of our Ming Army Division, about 4,800-5,200 people, but the new army's training and combat methods are completely different!" ”

"In the case of musketeers, for example, muskets are used intensively to exert maximum power. Muskets were more cumbersome to reload, and well-trained soldiers used the latest flintlock muskets, which could fire an average of three times a minute, three times faster than the arquebuses used by Xuanda to fire once a minute, if facing Tartar cavalry. At a distance of 500 paces, for example, 100 musketeers would need to fire at least three times in a row to crush the onslaught of 100 Tartar cavalry. ”

"After calculation, it is more appropriate for the musketeers to have 500 people as a battalion, and in the event of a big war, multiple musketeer battalions can be used in a centralized manner, but they are still dispatched in battalion units, so as not to cause chaos, so I can only set up a battalion commander with 500 musketeers."

"The situation of artillery is even more complicated, and the military positions of my Daming Wei are small flags, general flags, hundred households, thousand households, and guard commanders, and the battalion system is the commander, captain, sentry officer, general, garrison, etc., and there is no battalion commander to set up, which makes me very embarrassed!"

After listening to this, everyone also felt very inappropriate, and after discussing for half an hour, they were still at a loss.

Xu Hongji was a little impatient: "Dao Lin, you can say it directly, how do you want to set it up?" ”

Zhu Daolin himself also had a headache: "My idea is not mature, if you make a mistake, please correct your seniors!" Because the largest combat unit of all firearms is equivalent to that of a guard, and the number of the guard cannot be used, so after thinking about it, I can only temporarily replace it with 'brigade', and the brigade of the army ......"

"One brigade has 10 battalions, including five musket battalions, two cavalry battalions, one artillery battalion, one baggage battalion, and one garrison battalion, each battalion is about 500 officers and men, plus the brigade headquarters of 300 people, the whole brigade is about 5,300 officers and men."

"The officers at all levels are set up as follows: one brigade commander and two deputies, one battalion commander and two deputies, one captain and two deputies, one chief and two captains; In addition, the army and the army were set up at and above the team level, and the army service and the town department were set up at the brigade headquarters, each with a principal and a deputy and four division chiefs. ”

After repeated weighing, everyone felt that it was feasible, but they had different opinions on the titles of brigade commander, battalion commander, and division commander, and Zhu Daolin insisted on his own opinion and demanded that the setting of battalion commander and two division commanders be retained.

While everyone was arguing, Wu Jingxian, who had been listening, spoke: "In my opinion, I don't want any brigade level at all, haven't the Long Live Lord and the Ministry of War already allowed Baoshan to expand into Baoshanwei?" Wouldn't it be a problem to ask the emperor to restore the revoked Wolf Mountain Guard, Jiangyin Guard, or some other guard? ”

Xu Hongji thought about it very reasonably, he had planned to hand over Baoshanwei to Zhu Daolin to command, and only needed to put 10 battalions of firearms into Baoshanwei and exist in the name of the naval division soldiers, so he agreed very much with Wu Jingxian's suggestion, and immediately decided that Zhu Daolin would temporarily act as the commander of Baoshanwei, and he and Wu Jingxian and others would find some reasons to recommend Zhu Daolin to the emperor to be promoted to the commander of the third grade.

Zhang Gongwei didn't have such trouble, the three guards under his command were not yet full, and he could just take one of the guards out to hang a sheep's head and sell dog meat to settle his all-firearms army, so he smiled sheepishly and agreed, and felt that it was necessary to set up a battalion-level combat unit, but his battalion commander was called Qianhu, anyway, he had more officers and fewer soldiers, and Qianhu grabbed a handful.

Only Zhao Zhilong was so anxious that he jumped up and down, saying that he wanted Zhu Daolin to set up a musket battalion and an artillery battalion for himself to defend the city, Zhu Daolin generously agreed, but asked Zhao Zhilong to recruit troops by himself, and he trained and provided equipment on his behalf.

After solving the problem, a group of nobles rushed away, and Zhu Daolin was also quite satisfied with the acting Baoshanwei commander, and handed over all the affairs to Li Yiliang and the other three deputy chief instructors, and then returned to the main courtyard of Hushan with Wu Jingxian, and found the master Ye Liangchen to secretly negotiate the affairs of the capital.

Xiaoying was very excited when she heard that her husband, who had not returned home for more than ten days, and immediately left the sewing machine that was becoming more and more proficient, and called Ruyan, who was concentrating on cutting, to rush to the main hall together, and respectfully greeted her uncle Wu Jingxian.

Zhu Daolin didn't wait for the poor Ruyan to speak, so he said loudly that he would eat at home tonight and have a good day's rest, and then walked to the back study side by side with the smiling Wu Jingxian.

Xiaoying and Ruyan Girl jumped up and down happily when they returned to the inner room, holding hands and laughing. (To be continued......)