Chapter 44: General Staff

Lin Yiyang listened to Yu Xiaotian's words, his face was flushed with excitement, and he was almost unable to help himself for a while, stood up and said loudly: "The eldest husband stands in the world, of course, he has to do something and not do something!" Since the Ming Dynasty is already like this, then there are naturally virtuous people living in this world!

The lord is a genius, and the students are not talented, so they are willing to lead the horse and do something great for the lord! If this world is really as the lord said, then why might the lord take advantage of the situation to ascend to the world?

With the talent of the lord and the benevolence of the lord's house, it is a great fortune for the people of the world to be in the hands of the lord! The great fortune of the people in the world! ”

Yu Xiaotian looked at Lin Yiyang, who was almost stuttering with excitement, and nodded secretly, now in his opinion, Lin Yiyang is indeed dead set on him, for such a person, as long as he works hard, why not give him a chance to be above 10,000 people under one person?

So he smiled and said: "This can only be said here, in case it spreads, you and I are guilty of rebellion!" Hehe! In this case, as you wish, if the Holy Lord is able to turn the tide in this world, then I, Yu Mou, would rather not fight with him and be his courtier?

But if he can't be reversed in this world, then I, Yu, don't mind rectifying it for him, and give birth to a bright future in the world! ……”

The two of them sat in the study and chatted for a while, Yu Xiaotian then instructed Lin Yiyang: "Press the others for the time being, although the chaos of the Ming Dynasty has been completed at the moment, but after all, the century-old foundation of the Ming Dynasty is here, and if you want to come out now, it is estimated that it is not the right time to kick down the building."

But it's better to plan ahead and prepare in advance!

The detailed map of Shandong Denglai, I have already gotten it, and your arrangement this time is quite good, and the people who do things there are also a little discerning.

In Xishan Village, Ningzhou, you have to continue to send them some more manpower over, you can transfer the special combat team to a small team, and don't be stingy with silver, allocate another batch of silver to them, and let them do it.

Yangma Island is a good place, if they can control Yangma Island, it will be the best, once Denglai is in chaos, it will undoubtedly be a good place to avoid trouble!

Of course, the premise is that they must have the power to protect themselves, send them an order, let them find a way to build the Xishan village wall as soon as possible, if they need money and food, even if they allocate it, I just want them to move faster! In order to rush before the Denglai chaos, the operation of Xishan Village is impregnable! Even if you are surrounded by a chaotic army, you must be able to hold on for a winter!

Let them store more food, the more the better, and if the local people can't raise it, then send a boat to send it there, so that before the sea is closed in winter, there will be a reserve that can feed tens of thousands of people for the winter!

In addition, for the people on the other side of Shidao Bay, they should also be given orders to continue to purchase a large amount of land in Shidao Bay, and also spare no effort to build a walled fort, if they need to dredge up relations, let them do it, it doesn't matter if they spend some money, as long as they can build a strong walled fort before winter.

In addition to the walled forts, they also had to find a way to build several trestles on the shore where ships could berth and unload their cargo directly from the trestle! In the future, if there is a big chaos over there, maybe Shidao Bay will become a bridgehead for our soldiers to go out of Shandong!

If they don't have enough manpower, on the one hand, they can be transferred from here, if it is not enough, they can be allowed to act cheaply, recruit people on the spot, and conduct training on the spot.

As for weapons, a batch of South Japanese rifles should be allocated to them for the time being, and a small amount of wolf's tooth rifles could be allocated to them, and they should be given sufficient ammunition, but not too much.

For other weapons, you can prepare more spears, shields, and knives for them, and give them a batch of some hard knives stored in the warehouse, and have enough arrows!

If necessary, even if it is necessary to allocate a few twelve-pounder cannons to them, it will not hurt to send them a batch, as for the tiger squat cannons, they can also be allocated a batch, but the premise is that these cannons must not be easily used unless they are besieged by a large group of rebel troops!

As for the Dengzhou Mansion and the Laizhou Mansion, we must keep an eye on it, prepare the carrier pigeons, and once something happens, we must immediately send out the news as soon as possible, and send the most powerful person to Wendeng County to sit in the town, dispatch in the center, and when things develop to the point of being out of control, we must find a way to evacuate our brothers in various places to Xishan Village and Shidao Bay, and try not to lose! ”

After Lin Yiyang heard this, he quickly wrote them down one by one, nodded excitedly, and then immediately turned around and began to work to arrange.

Two days later, several sand boats sailed out of the dock from Weitou Bay, escorted by two Feizi clippers, heading north, these sand boats were loaded with all kinds of supplies, and also loaded with a lot of silver, of course, there were nearly 200 capable people, almost all of whom were Shandong or Liaodong Han people, and they would be sent to the Dengzhou area in the next few days, and officially start the task ordered by Yu Xiaotian.

In the following period of time, the Seawolf's army began to draw out a group of personnel, among which the main ones were northerners, and a total of five companies were formed, which happened to form a battalion, and an artillery company was also strengthened for this battalion, and they were equipped with twelve twelve-pounder mountain howitzers, which exceeded the number of artillery equipment of the Seawolf's ordinary artillery company by nearly 50 percent.

This group of people began to conduct high-intensity training on Haitan Island, but the main combat training subjects were basically based on hilly terrain and mobile warfare on the plains, and at the same time, they also strengthened their training in tackling tough problems.

But these people don't know what Yu Xiaotian is doing for Lu, and what they want to let them do in the future, but for the soldiers of the sea wolf, it is their duty to obey orders, since Shangfeng doesn't say it, they don't ask, just follow Shangfeng's orders and train them.

Then the logistics department under the council hall also received an order, ordering them to start stockpiling a large number of cotton clothes and quilts for cold protection and winter tents from now on, and strengthen the grain reserves, which can be transferred and loaded on ships at any time.

Now the division of labor of the sea wolf is more detailed than in the past, the navy and the army have now set up a special logistics department, which is responsible for the logistics supply and supply of the various departments, including the military salaries required by the generals, and is also under the overall planning of various departments, and not like before, an extensive pot of stew, which is not only contradictory and prone to mistakes, now each has its own military warehouse, and all kinds of materials are carefully managed, one is to reduce the contradictions between the two armies of the sea and the army, and the other is to improve efficiency. It also reduces waste.

As for munitions production, each of the two logistics departments has a special munitions factory, which produces according to budgets and orders, and it is easier for Yu Xiaotian to manage these parts.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian also asked all departments to start from the previous extensive management to more refined management, and from the third year of Chongzhen, the implementation of budget management for various departments.

All departments used to want something, temporarily apply, temporarily submit for approval, but after three years of Chongzhen, for the expansion and training of troops and all kinds of equipment, they must be budgeted in advance, and submitted to the council hall for discussion and finalization, and then all departments are implemented in accordance with the budget, and the guys in the province patted their heads on a whim to decide, which is relatively reduced the pressure on the various expenses of the sea wolf, so that the council hall will not be temporary, and it is always in a hurry.

In this regard, the people in the council hall welcomed such a change with their hands and feet, and once there were any more generals who quarreled and said that their rations were low, the council hall would directly throw out the budget and smash them with nothing to say.

In addition, in order to make the actions of the two armies more purposeful and avoid chaotic situations, Yu Xiaotian also transferred a group of capable personnel to form the General Staff Headquarters and the General Staff of the Navy and the Army, the General Staff Department is mainly responsible for making overall arrangements for the overall layout, while the General Staff of the Navy and Army makes detailed arrangements in accordance with the general direction given by the General Staff.

In addition, if there is a special large-scale military or development operation, Yu Xiaotian can directly order a single extra-budgetary expenditure, which will not be included in the original budget, and if it is necessary for the two armies to cooperate in the action, the General Staff will directly plan and coordinate the two armies, and the navy and land forces will cooperate with each other according to the instructions of the General Staff.

Now with Yu Xiaotian's activities on the land in Fujian, the size of the sea wolf's army has been qualitatively improved compared with before, the total size of the army was only about 6,000 people before Xiaotian accepted Zhao'an, but with the increasing power of Yu Xiaotian's army, there are more and more troops stationed on land, and the scale of the army has been gradually expanded.

By the beginning of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Yu Xiaotian's direct control of the army force had reached 20,000, and there were about 20,000 local officers and soldiers in Fujian, which were directly under his control.

The 20,000 descendant army, whether it is equipment or training, can be said to be second to none in this era, the firepower output capability is extremely strong, and it has a certain all-weather combat capability.