According to Zhu Youzhen's assumption in the military aspect of the Ming Dynasty.

The future Ming army as a whole is composed of the guards under the Generalissimo's Mansion and the guards directly under the Ministry of War.

And the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies naturally exists in name only, except for the rank of general, it has no practical significance.

Among the Guards, the 123rd Army is Zhu Youzhen's trump card and is absolutely descendant.

Regarding the setting of the three branches of the military, Zhu Youzhen did not plan to train all of them into iron cavalry.

Although in this era, cavalry is still the most offensive advantage.

But as a traverser, Zhu Youzhen knew that in this era, the decline of cavalry had begun to come.

This was especially true after the increasing sophistication of firearms technology and the large-scale use of gunpowder on the battlefield.

What's more, the cost of training time and equipment for cavalry is much higher than that of other arms, and the Ming Dynasty does not have enough financial resources to support hundreds of thousands of cavalry.

Even the Kanwai clan regime like the Tartars did not have such a large cavalry.

Moreover, in the short term, the main battlefield will be carried out in the Yangtze River and Huaihe River basins, which are intertwined with river networks, and the terrain is complex, making it difficult for cavalry to give full play to their advantages.

In addition, the Ming Empire represents the fate of the entire Chinese nation.

The enemy in the future will certainly not be limited to the Manchus, if the Ming Empire wants to open up overseas colonies and extend the empire's authority to the whole world.

Then, the Ming Dynasty is bound to have a war with the Western colonizers who are skilled in hot weapon warfare.

This requires that the Ming Dynasty must continue to maintain a position that is not backward or even advanced in hot weapon warfare.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen still wanted to organize a field service like the Guards Army into a composite branch composed of cavalry, infantry, and artillery.

As a result, the operations of the Ming army can achieve three-dimensional operations, coordinated operations, and give full play to the advantages of all arms.

Zhu Youzhen planned to use battalions as the basic unit, with 6,000 men in each battalion, including cavalry battalions, infantry battalions, and artillery battalions.

A number of battalions are combined into a corps, and the corps is saturated with cavalry, infantry, artillery and other battalions, which can be regarded as a comprehensive corps.

In the Guards, one corps consisted of two corps.

In this way, the Ming Guards are actually equivalent to a group army, almost the same as the modern establishment.

Each corps can operate independently in an area or in movement in various areas.

When defending, it can also be combined into a multi-integrated defense system such as defense, mobility, rescue, and offense.

An army with two such independent corps is equivalent to a man having two hands, which can control military operations in two operational areas at the same time, and can even play the role of pinning and pinning each other.

The First, Second, and Third Guards armies must first have such a function.

According to Zhu Youzhen's prediction, the main force of each of the three armies will have more than 50,000 troops, and they will have to be organized into a number of cavalry battalions, infantry battalions, and artillery battalions.

With more than 100,000 soldiers to be trained, plus some elite soldiers who are still responsible for guarding the localities, a total of 150,000 soldiers in the three armies will be redistributed into six cavalry battalions, six artillery battalions, and nine infantry battalions.

This would make it possible for each corps to have two corps, one for cavalry, one for artillery, and three for infantry.

In addition, both the corps and the corps have a guard battalion and a reconnaissance battalion directly under them.

Cavalry battalions and artillery battalions do not need to be detailed, those with riding skills and veterans of the cavalry and those who volunteered to become cavalry are all organized into cavalry, and the same is true for artillery, while infantry battalions are further subdivided into three sub-arms: archers, spearmen, and firearms.

In addition to the recruits of the Xiucai Battalion and the Zhuangmen Battalion who have completed their basic cohort training, the 100,000 recruits to be trained have been assigned to the training camps of the First Battalion of the First Army and the First Battalion of the Second Army, respectively, and the 12,000 men of the Xiucai Battalion and the Zhuangshi Battalion have become instructors along with the veterans and low-level officers who have been drawn from the three armed forces, and are responsible for leading the training of these 100,000 recruits.

Of these, almost one out of every five people is led by someone with training experience.

And Zhou Yuji and Liu Fangliang are still the chief instructors of these two battalions.

Once the basic training of the 100,000 recruits is completed, plus the original 50,000 elite soldiers, General Zhu Youzhen will begin to order the War Department of the Generalissimo's Office to order the distribution of 150,000 soldiers according to the number of troops required by each army.

Once the distribution of the main force is completed, the training of professional skills of each branch of the armed forces will begin.

In addition to the soldiers, the training of auxiliaries will naturally be put on the agenda, and in fact, the screening of the auxiliaries of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Guards armies has begun at this time.

The so-called auxiliary soldiers are naturally soldiers who fight for auxiliary soldiers, and auxiliary soldiers must be used to dig trenches, build wooden frames, build bridges, and transport baggage when the army is stationed.

But at the same time, it also plays the role of a reserve force.

Therefore, it does not mean that auxiliary troops do not need to be trained, and there is no need to demand their combat effectiveness, but they do not undertake the most important combat tasks.

Zhu Youzhen planned that in addition to the 50,000 main combat soldiers, that is, the main combat force of about nine battalions, each army would also have about 100,000 auxiliary troops, which would also be organized into a number of cavalry battalions, artillery battalions, and infantry battalions according to the specifications of the combat troops.

The battalion composed of the main force can be called the A battalion, and the battalion composed of auxiliary troops can be called the B battalion.

10 battalions of type A and 20 battalions of type B in one army; It is then divided into five battalions of type A and ten battalions of type B in one corps.

The 15 battalions under each corps are divided into cavalry divisions, infantry divisions, and artillery divisions according to each branch of the armed forces.

In this way, that is to say, the Ming Guards system is from the most basic captain to the hundred general, the general and then to the battalion, then the division, then the corps, and the highest is the army.

Recruit training is still in full swing.

The two training camps shouted slogans and walked every day on the campus field that could not be seen at a glance.

The auxiliaries were also selected from among the remaining 400,000 conscripts, who would be trained together with the officers and men of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Guards Corps, who were still in their posts, after the end of the half-month, that is, the 150,000 main soldiers.

And these officers will be directly promoted to guerrilla, thousand, and hundred commanders of each battalion, which can be regarded as making up for the loss that they did not enter the battalion.

The 150,000 soldiers who have completed the platoon training will all be reorganized into battalions of various arms and transferred to various localities for special training.

At the same time as training, they will naturally participate in actual combat training such as suppressing bandits.

Once the training of the B battalion is completed, it will also be reorganized into battalions of various arms, and mixed into various corps together with the A battalion.

In this way, the training of the nearly 500,000 troops can be completed in a relatively short period of time, and at the same time, it will not affect the defensive forces in Shandong, Huaiyang, and Yingtian, after all, there are troops on duty at each stage.