It took another two full days to unload the grain and get the troops on board. It was not until dusk the next day that the fleet officially set off. This time, according to Wu Shigong's request, the fleet traveled day and night, basically not stopping along the way. Indeed, everyone is like an arrow.

However, no matter how large Tang Liu's fleet was, it could squeeze more than 4,000 people, and the space for each person on the ship must be relatively small. However, none of these people had ever been on a boat, so like the guards of Wu Shigong when he first left Beijing, they all approached the edge of the boat and watched the scenery on and on both sides of the canal with relish.

In Wu Shigong's own cabin, Qiong Niang secretly looked at the stupid appearance of those soldiers through the window, and said to Wu Shigong with a smile: "Master, they are quite happy." You see the kids singing songs. ”

Wu Shigong walked over, followed Qiong Niang's gaze, and said with a smile: "Don't look at them having fun now, after a day or two of seasickness, they may not be able to cry." But now you can make me happy. ”

Qiongniang, who was suddenly hugged by Wu Shigong, let out an exclamation, and then she bit her lip tightly to prevent herself from making any more sounds. Qiong Niang's chest rose and fell rapidly, her eyes were misty, and her breath was like a fang, Wu Shigong saw Qiong Niang's seductive appearance, and his hand reached into her skirt and touched it along her thighs......

Wu Shigong had actually been prepared for the seasickness of his soldiers, and he had also purchased a large amount of seasickness medicine in the past few days. Moreover, this time on the boat, Wu Shigong also asked Zhou Xun, He Fei and other officers to lead the team, and the cavalry also carried out the training of the cavalry covering the fleet on both sides of the canal.

Wu Shigong knew that in the Ming Dynasty, transporting troops through the fleet was the most economical, fast, logistical support, and safe, so it was the most common way to march.

However, in the past, Wu Shigong's army did not have the conditions to train by boat, and with this opportunity, Wu Shigong wanted the soldiers to train well on the water. Besides, Wu Shigong knew that most of his soldiers were northerners, and there were many seasickness on the boat, so it was also very beneficial to let them experience the feeling of vomiting more, and let their soldiers form combat effectiveness faster after transporting troops on the water in the future.

After resting on the boat for a day, Wu Shigong invited Deng Qifan over, and Deng Qifan discussed the issue of army development, in the next ten days, Wu Shigong asked other officers for advice, and combined with the problems exposed by the army in the process of Qinwang, Wu Shigong finally formulated a list of army development in the next few years.

This time, King Qin, Wu Shigong felt that there were two biggest problems in the army: one was the problem of logistics support, especially the supply of grain and grass to the army; The other is the speed of the march.

Wu Shigong passed this Qinwang and had completely lost confidence in the supply of grain and grass to the army by the local government of the Ming Dynasty. Especially when their own army, as a guest army, goes out of their own station to fight.

In this regard, Wu Shigong did not have any good way, and he did not have such great ability to change the rules of the Ming Dynasty, and he was even more unwilling to let his army loot on the spot and make his army look like bandits.

Therefore, Wu Shigong could only formulate a very stupid death system: as long as his own army went on the expedition, each soldier must carry ten days' rations with him, and the army's cart must also transport the twenty days of grain and grass needed by the entire army at the same time. With this month's food, the problem of food shortage in the army can basically be solved. In this regard, even the speed of the march of some armies was sacrificed.

As for the speed of the march, Wu Shigong found a pair of contradictions. Because the army spends a considerable amount of time camping each day, there is less time left for the army to march. Although the speed of the army's march of twenty miles a day was the reason for Wu Shigong's passive avoidance of war this time, even if this reason was removed, Wu Shigong found that his army could march at most forty miles a day.

However, it was also essential for the army to build a strong camp. In the process of this Qinwang, Wu Shigong also tasted the benefits of the army having a strong camp. At least with a solid camp, when their soldiers rest in the camp, their mentality will not be too nervous, and there will definitely be no incidents of enemy troops robbing the camp and their own soldiers roaring out of camp because of nervousness.

Therefore, in addition to deciding that in the future, unless it is a last resort, Wu Shigong will never leave his station and go to the outer front to fight, he also made the following two decisions:

One is to form your own mobile corps. Wu Shigong planned to expand his cavalry to 1,000 after returning to Henan this time. Of course, the number of cavalry may be a little lacking, Wu Shigong is ready to transfer some soldiers who perform haode, plus those young soldiers who raise horses in the cavalry, let Xue Yongli step up training, so that after half a year, the cavalry will basically form combat effectiveness.

Wu Shigong is also preparing to form a mobile thousand-man team in the mobile corps. The infantry training of this thousand-man squad will form a standard thousand-man phalanx. Because he had never had the experience of training a phalanx with such a large number of people, Wu Shigong was prepared to wait until he returned to Henan to gradually improve the training of this phalanx, weapons and equipment, and tactics.

But it is worth mentioning that in this phalanx, in addition to the previous musketeers and pikemen, Wu Shigong is ready to add a class, that is, the big axeman. This great axeman was to fight the cavalry after the enemy's cavalry had rushed into the phalanx. This solves the problem that the Lancer cannot fight close enemies.

But if Weishenme is to be called a mobile thousand-man team, Wu Shigong plans to be in this thousand-man team, each squad is equipped with two or three large carts, and this large cart will also be pulled by two horses. One cart will carry soldiers, and the other cart will carry weapons, armor, food and grass and other items to ensure the mobility of this mobile thousand-man team.

In addition, the large cart used by the mobile 1,000-man team will also be modified, and it will be converted into a side van, which can be easily surrounded by a simple wall when marching and camping, and can be used to defend against the wall.

Of course, in this mobile corps, there is also an artillery corps. Because Wu Shigong's guns are relatively small, in order to ensure the firing speed of the artillery, Wu Shigong is only going to keep ten Franc machine guns in the artillery team. And those two three-pounder guns. The other cannons and three-eyed firearms, Wu Shigong was ready to be placed in the three fortresses as firepower to defend the city.

Wu Shigong had also decided that if he wanted to manufacture artillery in the future, he would mainly manufacture artillery of more than three pounds. Artillery under three pounds, Wu Shigong will be ready to solve by purchasing. Because this time through the process of exchanging artillery with the head of the Tartars, Wu Shigong found that in the Ming army, the number of small-caliber artillery was not small, and the price was not expensive.

In addition, it should be mentioned that this time Wu Shigong plans to add an infantry hundred-man squad to the artillery team, and the task of this hundred-man squad is to protect his artillery from enemy attacks. Thus, the total number of artillery will also reach three hundred.

Zuihou is Wu Shigong's own commanders and guards. Wu Shigong will maintain a personal escort of 200 people. And the members of this pro-soldier escort team are all drawn from the soldiers above the deputy squad leader of the ten-person team. On the one hand, these personal soldiers will guard Wu Shigong's commanders, and on the other hand, they will receive comprehensive training in various arms of the armed forces, such as infantry, cavalry, artillery, and engineering, as well as command training. It can be said that this pro-soldier escort team is an officer school of Wu Shigong.

As a result, Wu Shigong's mobile corps will reach about 2,500 people. With a large amount of animal strength, Wu Shigong estimated that this mobile corps would march about 300 li in three days and about 800 li in 10 days (because the men and horses had to rest, the speed of long-distance marching was slower).

And this mobile corps will be the main corps of Wu Shigong when he fights in the future.

Another decision of Wu Shigong was to focus on strengthening the army's ability to march and fight at night.

Through this Qin Wang, Wu Shigong found that in the war at that time, it was not at all like the ancient wars described in modern literary works, and the night was basically abandoned. The army simply did not have the practice of marching and fighting at night.

Then since others have given up, if Wu Shigong uses it himself, he will occupy a very active position in the future battle. As for the impact of night blindness and other physical conditions, Wu Shigong is ready to increase the nutrition of the soldiers' food and strengthen the selection of soldiers, which is nothing more than a smaller number of qualified soldiers, but for elite troops such as the mobile corps, this is not a big problem.

There is also a lack of experience in training armies for night marches and night battles, which is not a problem. Then find problems in future training and solve them one by one.

Not to mention the salaries of the officers of the mobile regiment, the salaries of ordinary soldiers will range from full to twice the salaries. The specific criteria will depend on the soldier's type of troops, length of service and other conditions.

Then there is the second-line army, which is made up of the following forces:

There are 600 defense troops in the fortress of Qianhusuo, 300 defense troops in Li Harrier Cottage, and 500 soldiers and 300 militia members for the local defense of the Runing Battalion that Wu Shigong is preparing to recruit after he arrives in Runing Mansion.

The 1,700 soldiers will receive between 50 and 80 percent of their salaries. The specific criteria will also depend on the soldier's type of service, length of service and other conditions.

The more exceptional thing is that Wu Shigong accepted Yu Ji's 700 troops from the Guide Guard army this time, and they will receive 50% of the military salary, but because the distance between the thousands of households where these people are located is relatively far, how they will train after returning will only be talked about after they arrive at the Guide Mansion.

Of course, the salaries of officers in the second-tier armies are the same as those of officers of the mobile corps.

Zuihou is an auxiliary. At present, Wu Shigong's auxiliaries are only the more than 400 military households who are trained in the agricultural slack time, the military households who only receive 10% of the military salary, and the more than 600 bandits who defect to Wu Shigong in the mountainous areas of the northern part of Runing Province and Guide Mansion who only need food supplies.

Wu Shigong planned to mobilize all the young and strong men among his domestic slaves after he returned, so that they could all receive military training and join the auxiliary army in the future.

Wu Shigong also estimated that in this case, all the auxiliary soldiers would also reach more than 2,400 people.

Of course, there is also a Boy Scout of about 700 people led by his apprentice Tao Xin. However, this scout army is future-oriented, and at this stage, it is basically useless.