Xiao Yungui's sharp gaze glanced at everyone in the field, in the army is not as good as in the West Palace, in the face of all parties and politicians, the West King needs to be both rigid and soft, and in the army, the power of the West King must be ten.

In addition to Wang Minyun, Liszt and others, most of the rest are soldiers under the West King, since Jintian raised the army, the West King's brave and unrivaled prestige of charging first has been deeply imprinted in the hearts of every soldier in the front army of the West Palace. After the battle of Changsha, the king of the west led the army in front of the west hall all the way to the south and the north to fight, the one who was broken, the one who was hit was served, and the title of the god of war in the Taiping army had already been offered.

It was Xiao Yungui who stood there, looking down with a domineering gaze, and the hearts of the soldiers from Lin Qirong and below were all awe-inspiring, sitting up straight one by one, without squinting.

"Lin Qirong!" Xiao Yungui shouted loudly, the voice of the King of the West is well known, and the echo effect on this Holy Martial Hall is good, and the rumbling echo is endless.

Before the echo in people's ears stopped, Lin Qirong stood up, straightened his chest, and responded loudly: "My subordinates are here!" ”

Xiao Yungui was very satisfied with the performance of the soldiers in the martial arts academy, and the soldiers should have this kind of indomitable masculinity, he bowed his head slightly and said: "You come to read out the reorganization charter this time." ”

Lin Qirong gave a military salute and read it out loud, and then opened a thick official document file and read it out loud: "By the order of the King of the West, I told the whole army, my Taiping Holy Soldier is stubborn, fighting hard to kill demons, opening up territory and expanding territory for the Kingdom of Heaven, with outstanding military achievements and majestic soldiers." However, today, the people are young and strong, the armor and equipment of the various departments are not complete, the newly recruited soldiers are not skilled in combat, and the old generals are tired. The whole army needs to be prepared and trained. Li Kaifang, the secretary of the military department of the West Palace, Lin Qirong and Wang Minyun of the Shanghai Martial Arts School, mobilized soldiers and horses from various departments to gather in the Shanghai Martial Arts School for training ......from the first day of September in the year of Jiayin.

At this time, there were 153,423 soldiers and horses in each department of the West Palace, including 128,543 men and horses in the male battalion, 13,872 soldiers and horses in the child battalion, and 11,08 soldiers and horses in the female battalion.

The soldiers and horses in the west hall are roughly distributed in three directions, one is the Luo Outline and Lin Fengxiang who are still facing off against the Qing army in the Soviet Union and the Qing Army, and there are more than 50,000 soldiers and horses in the department. The other was the Li Xiucheng Department in Ningbo, which had more than 30,000 men and was facing off against the Qing army Li Tingyu in Fujian. The first part of zuihou is Chen Yucheng. More than 20,000 people in the department are attacking Jiangxi with Yang Fuqing of the East Temple. The rest of the soldiers and horses were stationed in major cities and towns, and there were more than 8,000 Taiping troops stationed in Shanghai alone.

Lin Qirong's charter divided the entire reorganization into three steps, the first step was to reorganize the soldiers and horses stationed in major towns and important places, and the second-line troops of the three strategic parties Xiangshang. Chen Yucheng, Luo Xuancheng, and Li Xiucheng transferred some of the second-line troops of the three troops and horses, and half of the troops stationed in various places were first transferred for training, so the Shanghai garrison was relatively close. It was in the first batch that all the whole training was carried out.

The first batch of training soldiers and horses totaled more than 40,000 people, and the Shanghai Lin Qirong department accounted for the majority. The first batch lasted three months. The main task is to reorganize the armed forces and to add personnel from the General Staff Department and the Logistics Department to the newly organized armed forces. Let the generals and soldiers master the new tactics of warfare.

The first batch of more than 40,000 people was organized into one army and three divisions. Among them, one of the basic combat units of the Taiping Army will be changed into a squad, with 10 people in each squad, one squad leader, one deputy squad leader, and one instructor, and the remaining seven soldiers. Three squads form a platoon, and three platoons form a company. Each company commander, company instructor, deputy company commander, deputy instructor officer, platoon commander, division chief and other cadres. Including the cooking class, the number is about 120 people. There are three companies in one battalion, plus the personnel directly under the battalion, and each battalion has more than 400 people. Three battalions in one regiment. More than 1,300 people. One brigade, three regiments, more than 4,000 people. One division and three brigades, plus the artillery regiment directly under the division, totaled more than 14,000 people. One army has three divisions and more than 40,000 people.

The new establishment of the Taiping Army in the West Hall copied the title of the squad platoon, company, battalion and regiment of later generations, mainly because Xiao Yungui came from later generations and was deeply influenced by later generations, so he directly applied it when the new establishment was built.

At the same time as accepting the reorganization, each newly formed division will also bring in support units such as the Staff Operations Department, the Logistics Department, and the Ministry of Health, and each new division will also be assigned a certain number of cavalry companies for the purpose of transmitting information and conducting reconnaissance.

After three months, the three new divisions will be equipped with new muskets and artillery that have been purchased. Since the beginning of the purchase of foreign muskets last year, due to the very harsh procurement conditions proposed by King Xi, he only purchased breech-loading rifled rifles, because the current breez-loading rifled rifles in various countries are still in the new production and research and development, or there are gas leakage problems when developed and produced (such as Prussian Dreiser rifles), most countries still use front-loading rifled rifles, and even many French soldiers sent to the Crimean battlefield are still using smoothbore rifles. Therefore, so far, there are only more than 1,000 rear-loading rifled rifles purchased in the West Temple, and there are problems such as a variety of styles and a high failure rate. Xiao Yungui did not equip the troops with these guns, but gave them all to the Martial Arts Academy for training.

Although the only guns purchased were in the warehouse, Xiao Yungui did not mind waiting for a few more months, because at the beginning of the year, Midile helped the Shanghai Military Administration Department to contact the Swedish arms dealers, and the Swedish arms dealers came to Shanghai to negotiate with Wang Minyun and Lin Qirong, and signed a contract, the Taiping Army purchased 50,000 Carman Ryder M1842 rifles from the Swedish arms dealers, each rifle cost 20 silver dollars, and purchased the corresponding accessories and ammunition, spending a total of more than 700,000 taels of silver.

This rifle is a breech-loading rifled rifle, and it was installed only a year later than the needle gun. By the time it was discontinued in 1867, there were dozens of various modifications of Carmelryde, with a total production of just over 40,000, which were only equipped by the Norwegian Army and Swedish Navy.

The main feature of the Carmel Ryder gun is the erection chamber, the front of the chamber is a neck, which can be embedded in the back of the chamber, the hatch expands after the propellant explodes, and the closed gas leaks out of the breech, which is actually a metal cartridge case fixed to the gun.

Compared with the needle gun, although the speed of this loading method is slow, it basically solves the problem of breech air leakage, so that the accuracy and range of the Carman Ryder gun are much better than the Dryser needle gun. In 1861, Belgium held a high-precision military rifle shooting competition, and the Carmel Ryder M1860 proved to be one of the most accurate rifles of its time.

Although the production of this rifle was small in history, the main reason was that the sales of this rifle were not good, and small countries such as Sweden and Norway actually had excellent military factories, but they were subject to Britain and France and other powers for a long time, and the weapons could only be supplied to their own countries and their neighbors. And how many troops can small countries like Sweden and Norway have? Moreover, this kind of firearm was not the only one used in the army, so this gun was not produced until it was discontinued, which was a pitiful production of more than 40,000 guns, compared to the production of 1.5 million Enfield 1853 rifles.

Therefore, when the Swedish arms dealer received the order contract from the Taiping Army, it felt as if he had suddenly been embraced by God, and in order to ensure credibility and quality, since the beginning of the year, several military factories in Sweden have been working at full speed to complete this order, and 50,000 Kamanerryde army rifles are expected to arrive in Shanghai in two months for delivery.

The Swedes are also very strange why the British will match the bridge this time, the reason is very simple, Xiao Yungui also ordered 50,000 Enfield 1853 rifles like the British, but the British did not agree, because their current military factories are fully supplying the Crimean War, and even a lot of stockpiled munitions have been taken out to be transformed and shipped to the front line for use, where can so many rifles be sold? In the case of no successful order, Xiao Yungui still generously prepaid 100,000 taels of silver as an advance payment for arms, and bluntly said that he would order a batch of arms in the future.

The British were naturally embarrassed to get the benefit but could not provide arms, and after Midile mediated it, and the Rothschilds in London also helped, the Swedish arms dealers were able to get the order.

However, this also made Xiao Yungui see the danger, the supply of arms has always been subject to Britain and France and other powers, and now the Taiping Army and Britain and France are still in the honeymoon period, if one day they really turn their faces, won't their lives be firmly held by others? It was Wang Minyun who immediately began negotiations with Prussia, Sweden and other small and medium-sized European countries to purchase production lines for firearms, artillery, and ammunition.

The second step in the reorganization of Jihua was to equip the three divisions with new weapons, enrich them into three strategic directions, and replace them with the three Taiping armies that confronted the Qing army on the front line. At the same time, it is necessary to continue to procure the same number of weapons and await the refitting of these troops.

Out of consideration for reducing logistical pressure, Xiao Yungui only planned to purchase two or three types of weapons, and he didn't want his army to have weapons made by all countries in the future, so that the logistics officer would go crazy.

Zuihou is one step to replace the second batch of people and horses with a group of Taiping troops on the front line after the rearmament, and complete the rotation and reorganization of the 150,000 troops in the entire West Temple. The entire reorganization is expected to take a year and a half, and in the meantime, considering that there may be a situation in which the troops are being reorganized and there is a large-scale attack by the Qing army, the first batch of troops must complete the reorganization in the shortest possible time, and once the combat effectiveness is formed, the combat effectiveness of the newly formed troops is estimated to be two grades higher than that of the original Taiping Army, and more than 10,000 people in one division can be worth the original 20,000 to 30,000 people.

At present, it is the most haode reorganization time, the Taiping army in Hubei, Anhui, and the Soviet Union is all taking offensive, and Jiangxi is also suppressing Jiang Zhongyuan, and the west hall only needs to take care of Li Tingyu in the direction of Fujian, so Xiao Yungui will let Li Xiucheng squat in Ningbo all the time, just to resist the possible attack of Li Tingyu, the Qing demon, although Li Tingyu's department may not have the courage to go north, but the Taiping army must be prepared.

And the great powers are now fighting the Crimean War, the Hunan army is still training in Hengyang, this time is the time for the Xidian Taiping Army to make major changes, if you miss this opportunity, there may not be too much time and space for Xiao Yungui to calmly adjust the interior in the future, so Xiao Yungui made up his mind to complete the reorganization of the army in this year and a half. (To be continued......)