In the past, the scale of thousands of people was reorganized, but this time it was necessary to reorganize nearly 20,000 people, which was an unprecedented test for Dayong, the vice general of Jinzhou.

How to reorganize and what military system to use is a headache.

In order to curry favor with Dayong, the generals suggested that he adopt Sun Yuanhua's new firearms military system, and the reason was very good, most of the 15,000 people under their command were guns, and more than 5,000 people were trained by Sun Yuanhua, and they were already very proficient in the use of firearms. Geng Zhongming and Li Zhongfu are supporters of this proposal, because if Dayong adopts the new military system of firearms, they will definitely be reused by the officers of the former firearms army.

Xiang Chong, Gao Huai and others suggested that Dayong should recruit thousands of elites from 15,000 to expand the pro-military camp, and the others should be dispersed to the existing battalion head of the Jinzhou Army. This point of view is obviously due to the fact that the soldiers who can fight under the command of the Ming army are all pro-soldiers. Although there are two or three generals who hold this view, most of them are from the Dongjiang River and do not attach importance to firearms, believing that the killing effect of firearms on the battlefield is not great, and the quality is too poor to be as useful as swords, bows, arrows, and spears.

Among the generals, Cao Bianjiao only cares about the construction of the wolf cavalry, and does not care about how to adapt the head of the infantry camp, Jiang Wanli's opinions are also among the two, and there are no other opinions for Dayong to refer to, so how to choose has become a matter for Dayong alone.

As a traverser, he must have been impressed by the power of firearms, so Dayong leaned towards the former of the two views, and before making a decision, he specially asked someone to transfer some rules and regulations of Sun Yuanhua's army to further understand.

At the beginning, Sun Yuanhua organized and trained the new army to abandon the guard system and use the battalion system, a battalion of 4,000 people, including 2,000 soldiers, 2,000 auxiliary soldiers, equipped with 120 two-wheeled vehicles, 120 artillery vehicles, 60 grain trucks, a total of 300 vehicles, a battalion of weapons and equipment is a battalion with 16 Western guns, 80 medium guns, 100 eagle guns, 1,200 bird guns, gunners are also equipped with handguns.

When he saw this configuration, Dayong also sighed with emotion, this army is very familiar with the establishment of this army, and it can be said that it is a modern army with firearms and "motorization". With the powerful firepower of this army, if it weren't for Kong Youde's rebellion, it would be really difficult to explain who would have died on the battlefield outside the Guan.

It's a pity, it's a pity, I really don't know if the Dao is going to die in the Ming Dynasty or the Ming Han family is really exhausted, and there is a rebellion of Kong Youde, so that this powerful army built with a lot of money is stillborn, otherwise history may be rewritten

In addition to the 15,000 rebel soldiers who could be reorganized by Dayong, there were also more than 3,000 young and strong prisoners brought back from Pingdu, who were considered semi-soldiers, and the reason why they were not converted into Tuntian military households was because Dayong thought that they were very obedient in the process of moving with the army, so they could be used with confidence. But he didn't know that these people's obedience to the Jinzhou army was not because of fear of the officers and soldiers, but because of the fear of their companions being slaughtered, but also because they also ate human flesh.

In addition, there are 3,000 people in Jinzhou's own army, and there are 3,000 people in the wolf cavalry and a small part of the light cavalry. In this way, there are more than 21,000 people, which can be described as a strong army.

Before the reorganization of the head of the infantry barracks, Dayong first expanded the wolf cavalry army, added 1,300 soldiers who knew how to ride or knew a little on the basis of the original 1,200 people, and captured hundreds of war horses one after another when he conquered Laizhou in the west, and bought more than 300 Mongolian war horses from Lin Qing and Yang Yufan in Beijing. In this way, the number of war horses in the army has reached more than 2,000, which can basically guarantee one horse per person.

Dayong also wanted to buy more war horses, but Lin Qing and Yang Yufan didn't have so many war horses to sell, these more than 300 horses were really lost in silver and secretly sold to Dayong, and they definitely didn't have the courage to sell the war horses in their hands at one time. For these more than 300 horses, the master has to make accounts several times, and report the experience of fighting the rebels several times before he can explain the past.

If you don't have a war horse, then buy a pack horse to pull a cart, as long as it's a horse, there are not too many bravery.

There are indeed no war horses in Denglai, but there are more horses pulling carts, which families do not have a few carriages, and the common people do not take carriages when they go far away, and other places may have suffered military disasters, and the carriages have been looted by the rebels, as long as you are willing to give silver in this Laizhou city, you can still buy hundreds of them, plus the pack horses captured before and after Dayong, the number of pack horses in the army is about the same as war horses, and there are more than 2,000 horses. If it weren't for the ploughing oxen to plough the land, I am afraid that there would be hundreds of ox carts in the Jinzhou army.

With these war horses, there is basically one cavalry and one horse, and 500 pack horses can be allocated to carry heavy armor.

In this way, the expanded wolf cavalry army is 2,000 soldiers, 500 auxiliary soldiers, and 800 heavy armor and 1,200 light cavalry, which is twice as large as before. This is the limit of what Dayong can do, after all, this is Denglai, there are many people who know water, and there are few people who can ride horses, and it is really much more difficult to find qualified cavalry than Shangshu Road. He also wanted to lead a cavalry of tens of thousands of people to fight with Hong Tai outside the pass, but where did he go to find so many horses and cavalry. There is a weak heart.

The battalion officer of the wolf cavalry army is still Cao Bianjiao, who also directly leads the heavy armored cavalry battalion, and the light cavalry battalion is handed over to Peng Dazhu. For this ringing horse thief, Dayong is now very relieved. He once asked Peng Dazhui that the Denglai Rebellion had been pacified, and according to the original agreement, Peng Dazhui could lead his brothers to leave the Jinzhou Army, and Dayong could also ask the court for merit for him, and go to a certain place to serve as a thousand generals to support the rest of his life, if he did not want to be an official, he could take the silver and leave. But Peng Dazhui said that he didn't want to leave the Jinzhou Army, nor did he want to be an official elsewhere, but only wanted to stay in the Jinzhou Army to serve Shi Dayong. In this regard, of course, Dayong is happy, how can he refuse. In view of the performance of Peng Dazhui and his subordinates, Dayong generously handed over the light cavalry battalion to him, which can be regarded as a reward and reward.

The current Jinzhou army is a little chaotic, Shi Dayong himself is a general, and most of the generals under his command are hanging the titles of garrison, capital division, and thousand, and the rewards of the imperial court have not come down, so the sudden expansion of so many soldiers and horses, plus those generals are also in the name of chaos, this command system is inevitably chaotic. Therefore, when Dayong expanded the wolf cavalry army and selected officer candidates, he easily solved this problem of command confusion.

He temporarily specified that 1,000 people should be 1,000 households, and 1,000 households should be 500 households, with 200 people per 100 households; There are two general flags under one hundred households, one general flag of 100 people; There are five small flags under the general flag, with 20 people in each small flag.

The battalion officer of the first battalion is the commander, such as the wolf cavalry, the battalion officer Cao Bianjiao is the commander of the heavy cavalry, the light cavalry battalion officer Peng Dahammer is the rank of a thousand households, and the following are hundreds of households, general flags, and small flags. Because Cao Bianjiao directly led the heavy cavalry as a commander, the wolf cavalry army only set up 1,000 households, and if it was expanded in the future, it could be added.

However, this regulation can only be used in the military, and the military positions appointed by the imperial court are still subject to the external situation, and everything is officially customized after the final reward of the imperial court.

The expansion and adaptation of the wolf cavalry does not have to involve too much, as long as the war horses and the collected armor are transferred in place, and the rest of the things are selected by the officers, Cao Bianjiao will naturally do it, and there is no need to worry about anything. Today's General Cao has become more and more like a general, and sometimes Dayong has a feeling of "I am not as good as him". This feeling is not jealousy, but joy, happy from the heart, watching General Xiao Cao grow up step by step, Dayong has an indescribable sense of achievement.

Dayong now has the idea of rushing to train his subordinates, because he is worried that he will die on the battlefield one day, and if his death leads to the decline of the Jinzhou army, then he really can't see it. In order to prevent this from happening, it is necessary to train subordinates to grow up quickly and become independent generals. In that way, even if he dies, the banner of the Jinzhou Army will not fall

After solving the wolf cavalry army, it is natural to decide on the reorganization of the infantry barracks. All the seizures have been transported to Dengzhou City, Dayong has directly purchased and imitated 26 Hongyi cannons, 360 other Western light and heavy cannons, 240 small and medium-sized bronze cannons cast by the Ministry of Industry, 12,000 new arquebuses, more than 5,000 old-style guns, more than 2,000 guns, guns, and eagle guns, in addition to more than 100 large and small guns on the naval warships, and the number of artillery and firearms is already astonishing.

With so many cannons and firearms, if you don't use them in a centralized manner to give full play to the power of firearms, Dayong, a traverser, will definitely not do it. He just didn't know it anymore, and he remembered the performance of the Ming Army's chariot battalion in the Battle of Xiaolinghe clearly. For this reason, he decided to reorganize his army according to Sun Yuanhua's method.

But in the end, Dayong did not completely copy Sun Yuanhua's training method, because he felt that there was a problem in Sun Yuanhua's plan, he equipped a battalion with too many artillery, but the number of troops was small, only 4,000 people, and only 2,000 soldiers, and at the same time organized firearms and artillery, obviously unable to achieve unified wielding and centralized use of firepower.

For this reason, he decided to want to form an artillery battalion separately from the existing artillery in his hand, and this idea was also had during the Battle of Shahe, when he suffered from the lack of artillery and did not have a gunner who could handle artillery, so he could only bury the idea of forming an artillery in the bottom of his heart. Now, he is in a position to form an artillery battalion.

On the seventh day of the first month of September, Dayong ordered the establishment of an artillery battalion, the first battalion was equipped with 360 Western light and heavy guns, 240 small and medium-sized bronze cannons cast by the Ministry of Industry, and 300 guns. It was equipped with 3,000 gunners, 2,000 auxiliaries, 200 two-wheeled vehicles, and 420 artillery vehicles. The 26 Hongyi cannons were too heavy to be transported, so in order not to affect the speed of action of the artillery battalion, Dayong endured the pain and used all the 26 Hongyi cannons on the head of Dengzhou City.