Chapter 146: Five Battalions
Of the 100,000 soldiers and horses, the Tiger Battalion occupies one into five, but the Tiger Battalion is not the least, the least are the Xiao Cavalry Battalion and the Bloody Battle Battalion!
The predecessor of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion was the 3,000 Battalion of the three major battalions, a pure cavalry unit composed mostly of outsiders, with an establishment of 3,000.
After the establishment of the Shence Army, the cavalry battalion was doubled on the basis of three thousand battalions, and the establishment reached six thousand, and the Ming Dynasty did not lack war horses, but most of the war horses were on the nine sides, and the defense circle of the capital was dominated by city warfare, and the use of war horses was not too large.
However, if you want to change from strategic defense to strategic offense, rapid mobility is indispensable, so Zhu Houwei mobilized 3,000 war horses from the nine sides to return to the Shence Army, the purpose is to expand the cavalry force, so as to complete the change of future combat methods.
Blood Battalion!
Emperor Zhu Houzhao of the Ming Dynasty, a non-main sequence combat battalion led by Zhu Shou under the pseudonym of Zhu Shou, must meet the basic condition of superb martial arts if he wants to enter the bloody combat camp.
To put it simply, the purpose of the existence of the Blood War Battalion is to carry out the most brutal, dangerous, and difficult combat missions, including but not limited to head-to-head confrontation, raids behind enemy lines, and hidden spying.
Theoretically, the Blood Battalion is somewhat similar to the special operations forces of later generations.
Looking at the whole army, there are very few that can meet the conditions for the bloody battle battalion to enter the camp, and in the end, the conditions were relaxed a little, so that the blood war battalion has a strength of 3,000......
Forward battalion, 50,000!
The forward battalion, which occupies half of the army's establishment, is also the most traditional combat battalion, and the soldiers in the battalion are mainly spearmen and archers, and the infantry phalanx advance is the main combat mode, and undertakes the combat tasks with the greatest casualties, such as resisting the enemy, capturing cities, and breaking the formation.
Finally, the Shenji Battalion is also called the Firearms Battalion, but the current Shenji Battalion is fundamentally different from the Shenji Battalion among the three previous battalions.
In the Ming Dynasty, where firearms have not yet been popularized on a large scale and hot weapons have not become the mainstream battlefield form, the disadvantages of firearms are simply as many as cow's hair.
Therefore, the original Shenji Battalion has always been a marginal army, simply undertaking some auxiliary combat tasks, mainly used in the city defense war, but in the three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, how many times has the enemy been able to kill the city of Beijing?
Therefore, the soldiers in the Shenji Battalion are almost synonymous with the old, weak, sick and disabled......
After the end of the reorganization, the old Shenji battalion soldiers were cut off more than seventy percent, and today's Shenji battalion is based on Yongwangwei, the old Shenji battalion left as the backbone, and then equipped with a large number of newly recruited recruits as the branches and leaves of the new Shenji battalion.
It can be said that the current Shenji Battalion of the Shence Army has become a phoenix nirvana and has been reborn from the ashes!
As a modern person, Zhu Houwei understands too well the importance of firearms for a decisive victory on the battlefield, not to mention the main battle tanks, intercontinental missiles, and nuclear bombs that have developed to the peak of firearms in later generations, that is, if the army that has always had good combat effectiveness during the Republic of China was placed in the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago, against any strong army in the world, the result would inevitably be crushed!
Seventeen years!
For a full seventeen years, Zhu Houwei had been thinking about how to develop firearms when he could only run all over the ground, and when he was only four or five years old, he composed hundreds of drawings based on his memory and limited knowledge of firearms!
By the time he was seven or eight years old, he had already found more than a dozen craftsmen outside the palace, and began to manufacture and improve them day after day in accordance with his ideas and drawings with the spirit of dripping stones!
Hard work pays off, opportunities will always be left to those who are prepared, if in the capital, he is only using theory to practice, then after arriving in Huzhou, it is to use practice to verify the theory, Huzhou seven years, firearms craftsmanship has finally ushered in a great development by leaps and bounds!
Flintlock pistols, yellow powder, granular powder, breech guns, primers, mini rounds!
Zhu Houwei opened a window for all firearms craftsmen, and then saw that the craftsmen of the new world used their hard work and endless wisdom to make the development of firearms enter by leaps and bounds, which can be called a blowout of high-energy stage!
Nowadays, except for the construction of the barrel, which has not yet entered the stage of mechanized mass production, the level of its firearms has at least reached the level of the Hanyang Arsenal in the late Manchu Dynasty.
Nowadays, the level of firearms manufactured in the firearms manufacturing base of Tongzhou Industrial Park is more than that, and it is at least three times ahead of the world!
To be one era ahead is a genius, two times ahead is a demon, and three times ahead is a madman!
Once all the 30,000 musketeers of the Shenji Battalion are equipped with new muskets, not to mention Dayan Khan, even the entire steppe nomads will be restored to the era of Genghis Khan, and they will only be tortured.
Even as long as Daming has a sufficient population, then Zhu Houwei dares to lay out the world!
The reorganization of the three battalions of the Shence Army is only the first step of Zhu Houwei's military action, the territory of the Ming Dynasty is too big, and the enemies of the Ming Dynasty are too many, if you want to defend and attack at the same time, it is far from enough to rely on a mere Shence Army, in the future, there will be 24 guards in the Beijing camp, and there will be millions of rotten soldiers in the border army of the nine sides!
Only by taking care of all these armies from the root can the military power of the Ming Dynasty get rid of the decadence after the Tumubao Revolution and become an invincible army with the ability to conquer all enemies.
And for Zhu Houwei, his enemy is far from an external threat but internal!
His reform measures must guard against the local gentry jumping over the wall, and also aim at the strong backlash of the community of interests in the whole world, if there is no strong military support, Zhu Houwei suspects that he will not know how to die in the end.
Today's Shence Army camp does not have the slightest twilight atmosphere, and those veterans who have violated the rules and regulations and have repeatedly refused to change their ways, and who have been cheating and playing tricks, have long been purged out.
The Shence Army is Zhu Houwei's pilot of reforming the military, and every soldier of the Shence Army will be filled with the reform of the guard post and the strengthening of the border army in the future, and there is no room for half a grain of sand!
Physical training, queue strengthening, weight-bearing cross-country, and the sound of muskets continued.
As long as you don't die, you can practice to death!
Sweat more in peacetime, bleed less in wartime!
Don't give up, don't give up!
Such slogans can be seen everywhere in the five camps, with encouraging words to stimulate the rapid secretion of male hormones in men, and the masculinity rushes straight to the sky!
Zhu Houwei originally planned to go to the Shenji Camp first, because whether the Shenji Camp is elite or not directly represents whether the knife in his hand is sharp enough!
If you want to become a qualified firearms soldier, physical fitness may not be the most important, but military discipline is absolutely the first place, followed by psychological quality.
The strengthening of military discipline allows firearms soldiers to carry out the general's combat orders in complete strictness on the battlefield, instead of shooting indiscriminately with muskets.
In the era of cold weapons, when firearms have not yet fully replaced cold weapons, free fire does not conform to the current mainstream battlefield form.