Accompanied by an interpreter, Hunter Wilhelm not only began to train Lin Zhe's soldiers, but also dictated Guò, translated records, and compiled all the infantry tactics and battalion rules he knew.

The infantry manuals in the Yongying camp were all made by Lin Zhe, a layman, and they could only be integrated based on some hearsay learned in this era plus his own views of later generations, many things were plausible, and many things were too advanced.

Now that he had Hunter William, Lin Zhe simply asked him to engage in these detailed infantry tactics and battalion systems.

In fact, Hunter was not a military master, he was just a former British lieutenant, and everything he knew was from the British army, so everything he made was also something existing in the British army, from the battalion regulations to the infantry tactics, all of which were copies of the British colonial army.

However, Lin Zhe did not all let Hunter William build his county battalion according to the ideas of the British colonial troops, he also added a lot of things that belonged to him, or belonged to later generations.

For example, leggings are simple and easy to use, not only good for marching, but also can be used as bandages when necessary. The latter is not to be said, while the former is very important in favor of long marches.

As a typical southern pure infantry unit, it is impossible for the Yuyao County Yongying to be equipped with too many horses, which means that the marching speed will be very limited, in order to improve the mobility of the troops, Lin Zhe believes that the gadget of leggings is a must.

In addition, Lin Zhe also attaches great importance to the physical fitness of the soldiers, because in his opinion, no matter what tactics this army uses, the physical fitness of the soldiers must be passable, and he doesn't want to see his soldiers and those Taiping soldiers or other Qing soldiers are thin and skinny, and they can't carry guns.

So he personally formulated a rule, that is, 'to be full', as long as the soldiers can eat, you can eat three meals a day, and they are all white rice and fine noodles, in addition, because the price of meat is relatively expensive, it is impossible to supply it every day, but also strive to eat once every three days.

With adequate nutrition, soldiers can withstand high-intensity physical training, and with a strong physique, they can undergo all kinds of high-intensity tactical training.

With the regulations and tactics formulated by Hunter William in accordance with the British army, and the foresight of Lin Zhe's later generations, it is destined that this Biquge of the Yongying in Yuyao County has surpassed www.biquge.info other contemporary domestic armies from the very beginning.

In the name of Lin Zhe's personal military adviser and with Lin Zhe's authorization, Hunter Wilhelm directly lived in the battalion headquarters and took charge of the training of the whole battalion.

I don't know if it's crazy for money or if it's really fast and reliable, but within a week of taking office, he trained the soldiers of the whole battalion in a good way, at least the left and right turns in line have been done.

Don't look at just a queue, turn left and right, forward and backward seems to be a very simple thing, but the queue is the most basic and core element of the modern musket army.

And it was not an easy task to teach the mud-legged people who were not even divided between left and right to play neatly in line these years, at least at the beginning, Lin Zhe had a headache about it.

After watching a camp-wide drill, Lin Zhe, who was relatively satisfied, generously said to Hunter that his probationary period would be terminated early, and his salary would be increased from one hundred taels of silver to one hundred and fifty taels of silver.

In this regard, Hunter said to Lin Zhe with a happy face: "Give me another month, and I promise to let you see a well-trained modern army, General." “

Unfortunately, Lin Zhe could not give Hunter William another month to continue his training, because Lin Zhe's desk was already piled up with as many as three letters from Huang Zonghan, the governor of Zhejiang, urging him to lead his army north.

When Lin Zhe buried himself in training the Yongying camp in Yuyao County, the situation in the country continued to change, and on the tenth day of the fourth month of the third year of Xianfeng, the knife in Fujian revolted in Haideng, and then successively captured Zhangzhou, Tong'an, Xiamen and other places.

In the same month, it was still Fujian, and the Red Money Society led by Lin Jun rebelled in Yongchun, and subsequently captured Dehua, Datian, Longxi and other places.

In just one month, Fujian was plunged into complete chaos.

On April 12, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom led 1,000 warships to conquer Hezhou in Anhui Province and began its western expedition.

On April 21, Lin Kaifang and Lin Fengxiang of the Taiping Army conquered Fengyang, Anhui.

During the same period, Wu Jianzhang, a Shanghai Taoist in the Qing army, hired foreign ships to try to counterattack Zhenjiang in vain.

By the beginning of May, the Taiping Army's Western Expeditionary Army had conquered most of Anhui, including Anqing, the capital of Anhui Province.

At the same time, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Taiping Army also conquered the important city of Guide in Henan, and the Northern Expeditionary Army's journey to the north can be said to be overwhelming, which shocked the Qing court and hurriedly transferred troops from the north to prepare to intercept the Northern Expeditionary Army.

The overall domestic situation in the past two months has little to do with Lin Zhe, and what has a lot to do with Lin Zhe is the Taiping Army's continuous small-scale harassment and attack in northern Zhejiang.

Since taking Zhenjiang and other surrounding towns, although the Taiping army has stopped continuing its large-scale eastward advance, the small-scale infiltration attack has not stopped.

In order to intercept the Taiping army from entering Zhejiang, Huang Zonghan, the governor of Zhejiang, searched everywhere for all the troops that could be used to garrison troops in northern Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu, so as to ensure the safety of northern Zhejiang.

However, at this time, although the Qing army had many troops in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang, the quality was very poor, and the elite troops of the Taiping army were often defeated and won less, which made Huang Zonghan, the governor of Zhejiang, anxious in the past two months, and almost all the troops that could be dispatched were used to intercept the eastward advance of the Taiping army.

And the Yongying of Yuyao County also received many orders from Huang Zonghan, but they were all rejected by Lin Zhe on the grounds that 'the sergeant was newly harvested and his skills were not skilled'.

It's just that it can't be delayed forever, the pressure on Huang Zonghan's side is too great, and the desire for reinforcements has reached the point where every soldier is needed, and the wording of the orders sent is becoming more and more severe.

Seeing that the army was already in its infancy, Lin Zhe thought that after half a month of intensive training, it was time to take them north.

In the next half month, under the personal supervision of Lin Zhe, the training schedule of the Yongying in Yuyao County was very tight, and Hunter also took out the strength to eat milk, and tried to satisfy Lin Zhe.

In addition to training the troops, Lin Zhe did not forget to take care of his own family business, after all, his own family business is his foundation, if the Lin family's business is not doing well, he will not be able to come up with much money to raise the army, as for relying on local self-financing or official funding, this kind of thing is too unreliable.

At present, Lin Zhe has spent tens of thousands of taels of silver to run this Yuyao County Yong Battalion, and the settling-in allowance alone is at least nearly 5,000 taels, and the first month's salary is also more than 3,000 taels, and then all kinds of messy things such as training facilities and barracks have also cost about 1,000 taels.

Because the salary of soldiers in this era included food and clothing, but the food purchased by the deducted food expenses could not meet the soldiers' high-intensity training in the early stage.

In order to supplement the soldiers' nutrition and cooperate with the high-intensity physical training, so that they can become strong soldiers from a peasant man, Lin Zhe subsidized the food expenses of the soldiers, and the food expenses of this additional subsidy reached nearly five hundred taels of silver.

In addition, the cost of weapons is even larger, the purchase of Minnie rifles is about 15 taels of silver, 600 Minnie and the matching bullets, bayonets and other accessories, the total price is as high as 10,000 taels of silver, in addition to the purchase of pistols and sabres and other auxiliary weapons also cost nearly 1,000 taels of silver.

Personnel salaries, settling-in allowances, and weapons costs are all added up, and Lin Zhe has already smashed about 20,000 taels of silver for this small county battalion, and at least about 3,000 taels of silver will have to be filled in every subsequent month.

And out of so much of the cost, how much does the official pay for? The first batch is 5,000 taels of silver allocated by the local government of Yuyao County, and when Lin Zhe leads the troops to pull out, the Shaoxing government will allocate about 3,000 taels of silver, and then Shaoxing and Yuyao will not care about the funds of this county Yong battalion.

The governor of Zhejiang naturally couldn't ignore the military salary of Lin Zhe's army, but Huang Zonghan only allocated it according to the standard of the green battalion, less than 1,000 taels per month, and the remaining gap of nearly 3,000 taels of silver had to be filled by Lin Zhe himself.

Generally speaking, the funds supported by the government only account for a small part of the cost of the county Yong camp, and the bulk of it has to rely on Lin Zhe to figure out a way, but Lin Zhe does not plan to rely on all his own money, after all, even if the Lin family has a big business, it is impossible to say that it has always supported an army.

It is not realistic to ask for money upwards, and you can only rely on self-raising.

How to raise it yourself?

In this regard, Lin Zhe already has a few plans in his heart, the simplest is to ask the local government and gentry for military funds every time he goes to a place, I, Lin Zhe, will take people and horses to protect the territory and the people for you, and your local government and gentry will not take the money out?

If you dare not take it, when the Taiping army comes, don't blame me Lin Zhe for pulling up the troops and leaving to sell you to the Taiping army, as for the loss of the city and land, Lin Zhe really doesn't care, he is not a civil official, the civil official said that if he loses the city, he will be cut off his head, and as for the general, if he loses the city, he will lose the city.

How many towns and cities were conquered by the Qing army by the Taiping army along the way, I have only heard of how many civilian officials committed suicide or were killed, but I have not heard of a few generals who committed suicide or were beheaded by the emperor.

If this method still doesn't work, then Lin Zhe will follow the example of Zeng Guofan and the people of later generations to directly set up a tax collection checkpoint on the spot, who would dare not pay? If you don't pay it, you will be shot directly.

Whether or not he will be impeached for this, to be honest, I really don't care, in this year, the civil officials who lost the city and lost the land and were impeached must be impeached one by one, but is it useful for you to impeach? If they were really forced to be in a hurry, the generals would directly rebel into the Taiping army with the army.

In recent years, there are no longer a few Qing troops and Taiping troops who surrender to each other, and it is not uncommon for them to be forced to rebel to the opposite side, so they will not be too persecuted by the generals until they have to.

In short, there are many ways to make money after having an army, and others are making a fortune by engaging in group training, and those high-ranking generals in the Hunan army have been fighting for a few years, and they are not so rich that they are so rich!

He, Lin Zhe, naturally won't be stupid and have been relying on his own money to support, there is no way to get the money out by himself in the early stage, and after pulling up the army, he won't keep putting money in it.

Of course, the premise of this qiē is that the county Yong battalion in his hands Lin Zhe must be able to fight, no matter which method is used to make money, he Lin Zhe must have an army that can make him speak hard.

The reason why Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang are so good is because they have a strong army under them.

So now Lin Zhe doesn't think too much about things first, what he has to do now is to train the army well, so he runs to the school field every day, sometimes lives directly in the battalion headquarters, and often discusses training matters with Hunter William.

"General, please see, are these young men more energetic now than before?" Hunt pointed to a group of soldiers standing in front of him and said, "The rifles in their hands are enough to form the densest firepower network of this era!" ”

As Khante's words fell, a company commander in front shouted the command and waved the command knife in his hand, and a whole company of soldiers quickly changed from a column in a marching state to a horizontal formation, which is a kind of two-row horizontal formation, and then the army next to it advanced step by step in the sound of drums, and after walking dozens of steps, with the officer's order, the infantry stopped in unison and began to load.

After waiting for a few minutes, as the officer's command knife was waved, the front row squatted down, and pulled the trigger together with the soldiers standing in the back row, and then a neat snapping sound sounded, and a burst of white mist also floated in front of the formation.

Then the rapid drum beat sounded, and the company commander on horseback in front also pointed his command knife forward, and in the next moment, the soldiers rushed forward with a shout.

At this time, Hunter showed a satisfied expression and said: "If no miracle happens, the enemy army has fallen into a complete collapse at this time, and the next charge is enough for us to win!" ”

Seeing this, Lin Zhe looked puzzled: "Don't you need multiple rows of rounds?" ”