Chapter 264: Promotion and Expansion of the Army
Chen Zhengcao originally wanted to go and see Zhang Li's Tuanshan Fort, but when Zhang Zhang said this, he couldn't force it.
What's more, Zhang Li's words are humble, maybe there is something inconvenient?
After the two exchanged a few words, Chen Zhengcao pressed the question in his heart and decided to give Zhang Zhang a face, so he nodded: "Even so, it's inconvenient to bother Zhengcao." ‘
Chen Zhengcao wanted to leave, and it was impossible for Wu Xiang to stay, so after the handover was completed, Zhang Zhang watched Chen Zhengcao and Wu Xiang's army stay away......
'Let Gohimon take the burghers out and clean up the battlefield!' ‘
After confirming that Wu Xiang's 5,000-strong army had disappeared from sight, Zhang Zhang finally put his hanging heart back in his stomach and gave an order to Gao Yuanliang behind him.
After all, Wu Xiang is Zu Dashou's brother-in-law, Zu Zepu's uncle, if he knew that he was fighting with the ancestral family, he might have killed him.
The soldiers on their side are exhausted, and the Tuanshan army will definitely not be able to defeat them.
It's dangerous!
After Gao Yuanliang went back to give the order, Zhang Zhang kept sitting on the marching bench, and his mind kept thinking about today's hard battle.
His strategy was not a big problem, and he was almost about to succeed, but he never expected that Zu Zepu would transfer those thousands of Fu Long machine guns.
Before the advent of tanks, planes, and missiles, artillery was truly the king of war!
You may be able to charge under the rain of bullets, but you have never seen it in my impression when you charge under dense artillery fire.
Even the heroic volunteer soldiers in Shangganling had to carry out tunnel warfare in the face of the artillery fire of the US imperialists, which also shows that the power of artillery is beyond the reach of manpower.
Cannon. Need to focus on development!
Zhang Lizheng was thinking about his artillery development plan, and inadvertently raised his head. Seeing that Gohimon had already led the people of the fort and began to carry the eight thousand-pound furlong cannons discarded by Ning Yuanjun.
Originally, these jack furlong cannons were too bulky and were towed by ox carts. Unfortunately, the ox cart had been broken up, and Gohimon had to mobilize another cart from the fort to carry it.
The more than 200 truckloads of armaments and materials brought by Wu Xiang were also transported to the fort by Gao Yuanliang with the Tuanshan army and civilians.
Zhang Zhang suddenly felt a little tired, couldn't hold on any longer, and after telling Gao Yuanliang a few words, he returned to Tuanshan Fort first.
Zhang Li slept until the sun was about to set in the afternoon before opening his eyes, and after waking up, he immediately summoned all the senior generals of the Tuanshan Army to the conference hall to discuss matters.
The results and losses naturally need to be asked at the first time, and Zhang Zhang was about to ask, and Gao Yuanliang reported the exact figures.
'Your Excellency. In this battle, 824 people were killed and seriously wounded by our regiment's mountain troops, and the rest were not counted as minor wounds. In total, more than 2,400 enemies were annihilated and more than 2,100 were captured......
The tension bowed slightly, and the battle damage was almost three to one, which was already very good.
As for the prisoners, Zhang Li naturally has plans, and at present, it is absolutely impossible to directly integrate the prisoners into the army, and they need to be 'transformed'.
'The captives were all sent to the valley for labor reform, well. For the time being, it is to cut down trees and burn charcoal. They were sent to Iron Mountain Fort in batches to dig iron ore, but the number of people should be strictly controlled to the number that the Iron Mountain Fort Overseer could handle. ‘
Gao Yuanliang and the others looked puzzled, these Ning Yuan guards are all soldiers, sent to burn charcoal and mine?
The tension brought everyone's doubts into their eyes. He only smiled slightly, and said in a deep voice: "The Tuan Shan Army is not all garbage. The first choice for the replenishment of soldiers is the homeless people, and the soldiers and the oil officers themselves are not interested in it at all. ‘
In ancient times. Ordinary peasants are the best source of soldiers, what kind of gangsters in the city, soldiers in the border army. Never be summoned into the ranks.
Those people have too many ideas, which is not conducive to a high degree of ideological unity in the team.
Not to mention the first group of people who were pulled away from Ningyuan before. That's no way. After these two wars, the absolute number of those people is already very small. At present, the main component of the Tuanshan Army is still mainly the homeless people, and this will be even more true in the future.
There is a deeper idea in it, and the loyalty of the army has come first throughout the ages. The loyalty of the displaced people at the end of the Ming Dynasty, if they did well enough, it was very high.
The idea of these displaced people is very simple, to live, that's all.
Therefore, Li Chuang was able to gather millions of people in the later period, if it is said that the displaced people are loyal to the imperial power and the Ming court, how can they be thieves?
Three-year-olds don't believe it!
It is most appropriate for the soldiers to come from good families, preferably honest villagers, and their minds are the easiest to reform.
As for the defection of the puppet army and the 'friendly army', he has no interest in digging pits all of them, and he will definitely dig coal mines in the future!
The Tuanshan Army does not need people with strong martial arts, nor does it need people who have been on the battlefield for a long time. As long as they are trained according to their own methods and survive the fittest, every qualified soldier of the regimental mountain army can not lose to the border army, the 'imperial army', the northern captives, and even the eastern captives!
As for the deeper improvement of the ideology, it will take a long time to step by step, and what can be solved at present is to start with the source of soldiers.
These words are not enough for outsiders.
Zhang Li retracted his thoughts, glanced at everyone present, and said loudly: "The court's reward has come down. There is no bounty, and there is a big official position! ‘
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but prick up their ears.
When Chen Zhengcao greeted him before, he had already announced the court's reward, and among the materials escorted, there were also brand-new official uniforms.
Zhang Zhang touched his nose and said lightly: "This official has been promoted to the governor of Ningyuan, who is the fourth grade, and he is the governor of Ningyuan's military affairs. ‘
'Congratulations, sir! ‘
'Hoshi-sama! ‘
‘……‘
Everyone congratulated each other, and Zhang Zhang waved his hand lightly, signaling everyone to be quiet.
'Gao Yuanliang! ‘
'In! ‘
'You are brave and good at fighting, and you have made outstanding achievements, and you have been awarded the post of a guerrilla general of the fifth grade! ‘
'The last general Xie appreciates! ‘
Gao Yuanliang was a little excited, guerrilla is not as good as Qian Zong, this has entered the threshold of the general.
It's like a colonel and a major general in later generations, only this layer is different, but it is related to whether you are a general or not.
Zhang Li glanced at Gao Yuanliang meaningfully. 'Kindly' corrected: 'Well, it's Xie Ting's appreciation. It's not Xie Benguan's appreciation. ‘
'Hehe...... Gao Yuanliang smiled and stopped talking.
'Pan Batian! ‘
'The end will be! ‘
The musketeers did a great job. Grant you a thousand general duties! Zhang Zhang smiled and looked at Pan Batian, the former gangster who had grown into a qualified general.
Yes, the person whose mother is extremely filial still belongs to the one that can be transformed.
'The last general Xie appreciates! ‘
'Uh......' Zhang Li didn't bother to correct his 'speech problem', so let him go.
Next, Yi Ze and Zhang Xiaoran were also promoted from the general manager to the general manager, and naturally they were all happy.
There was also a person in the hall who seemed a little lonely, and he didn't have any share in these military exploits, so he seemed to be accompanying the prince to study.
Naturally, Zhang Li did not forget him. Gohimon. During this time, the civil affairs of Tuanshan Fort were handled in an orderly manner, revealing his considerable ability to do things.
In fact, most of the county magistrates in the Ming Dynasty did not know the name of the penalty, money and food, and their daily affairs were handled by the officials. Although the status of the officials is low, the ability is not low.
This is the case in ancient and modern times, there are very few big leaders who are familiar with the business, and there are quite a few people who are familiar with the dinner, and the people who do the work are the people below.
'Gohimon! ‘
‘…… At! ‘
Zhang Li smiled slightly, and said, "Ningyuan is a war zone, and this governor can also give some assistants!" In the future, you will be the master of the nine products of Tuanshan Fort! ‘
As soon as Gohimon heard this, he heard this. Immediately overjoyed, he said in a loud voice: "Thank you for your appreciation, thank you for your appreciation!" ‘
The main book of Jiupin is a sesame official, but it is also an official!
It is impossible for an official to be approved for a lifetime. And Zhang Zhang actually raised Gohimeng from a clerk to the level of an official, which is really a carp jumping over the dragon gate.
Generally, the assistant officials of the county orders such as the county chief and the chief secretary are served by people from a higher background. Gohimon is not even a showman. There was even a day when he became an official, which is really unheard of.
This is equivalent to those who did not even pass the civil service examination in later generations. Directly give you the official position of deputy county magistrate......
Zhang Zhang frowned, and the generals were not short of them for the time being. However, the civil service system is greatly lacking.
At present, they are only low-level civil officials, but in the future, when the territory is larger, a large number of high-level civil officials will be needed, and this will be very difficult.
Regarding civil officials, Zhang Li naturally has his own set of ideas, but it cannot be done in three days or two days, it needs to be slowly promoted, and now the first step is to solve the matter of low-level civil officials.
Zhang Zhang pondered for a moment, and said to Gohi Meng: "Although there are probably very few literate and literate among the homeless people, there are always some to be found. If you have people who have read books, you can try to put them in charge of something......
Gohimon looked sad and said with a bitter face: "My lord, there are now five or six thousand people in the castle, and there are no more than fifty literate people, not one out of a hundred! ‘
Zhang Zhang nodded, indicating that he understood: "It's okay, for the time being, I will slowly investigate among these fifty people." The official will soon recruit a large number of people, and the number of personnel will gradually improve. ‘
'Yes, sir! Gohimon looked expectant, he was tired enough these days, and it would be great if Master Zhang could find more people to do civil work.
In fact, civil affairs are a hundred times more troublesome than military affairs, but it is better to be slow than urgent, and you can only take your time.
Even if you get fifty Jinshi uncles who are good at eight-strand literature now, the tension will not be used, and it is better to be like Goximeng!
Zhang Li retracted his thoughts, and the topic returned to the military aspect: "The mountain army of this battle group has suffered great losses, and it needs to replenish the troops in time. Well, now that the emperor has issued an armament, we have to expand the army! ‘
Zhang Li's eyes looked at Zhang Xiaoran: "Alone! ‘
'In! ‘
'The scout squad has grown to five hundred, all equipped with two horses! ‘
Overjoyed, he hurriedly replied, 'Obey! ‘
Previously, Zhang Li tried to let Gao Yuanliang lead a cavalry team of 200 people, but later found that it was useless, so he abolished the establishment of cavalry and integrated the cavalry into the scout team.
Let's wait until we have the strength to form a special cavalry team in the future, cavalry is the most expensive type of army in ancient times, and there is no one.
'Pan Batian! ‘
'In! ‘
Zhang Li pondered for a moment, and then said, "The musket team has expanded by two thousand! ‘
'Yes! ‘
'Izawa! ‘
'In! ‘
'Two thousand infantry troops!' ‘
'Yes! ‘
'The newly established artillery corps directly under the command of 1,000 people is under the personal command of the official -- well, Gao Yuanliang is also in charge of daily training and other affairs......
'Yes! ‘
After the order, Zhang Zhang quickly expanded the number of regimental and mountain troops to 5,500 people, but-
No one!
Even if all the men in the fort are counted at present, this number will not be reached. (To be continued......)