Chapter 1: The Strengthening of the First Brigade of the Wancheng Years

"In addition, the new schools set up in the government-run academies in Fucheng and the county have been in operation for three months, and they are all about 10 years old boys and girls, half male and half female, there are 100 people in the county town and 300 in Fucheng, all of whom are old boys and old account professors who have taken the initiative to join us in Nanyang Prefecture."

"There are only two courses, literacy class, arithmetic class, the last time my old camp also taught some school-age children and the guards, but they were all piecemeal, and I knew a little two or three hundred words at once, and I knew a simple addition and subtraction algorithm."

"And the schooling system of these schoolchildren is one year, and the goal is to know 1,000 words, can add, subtract, multiply and divide, by the way, they all use the new algorithm of the big masters, and after teaching Shang Ziyi, he will teach the rest of the old accounts."

Long Thirteen nodded, he still attaches great importance to this, according to his idea, this kind of crash course will gradually expand the enrollment in the future, and the reason why girls are recruited at the same time is that he wants that the teachers of the crash course will mainly be girls in the future.

And the boys who pass the crash course will be used in large numbers in the army and workshops.

After entering Henan, there were 10,000 recruits recruited in the Mining City and Nanyang Mansion, and 2,000 of the 3,000 people in the Mining City entered the fire gun camp, so that there were fire guns in the Xiaoqiang Division.

The remaining 7,000 men were all trained according to pikemen, and according to the principle of strength and courage, 20 percent were drawn into 1,400 pikemen armed with spears of one foot and two feet long, and they also performed the duties of grenadiers and shield men.

In addition, considering that it was not easy to make firearms, two percent of the remaining pikemen were selected, and about 1,200 of them became part-time archers, all of whom were the most common foot bows.

And two percent of the two thousand firecrackers were selected to become heavy firecrackers, and the firecrackers of the Xiaoqiang division were completely made in accordance with the regulations of the Ming army, and the ordinary firecrackers were only ten catties, four feet long, and could fire half a tael of lead, with an effective range of about 100 meters.

The heavy firearm is heavier, and can fire lead weighing up to one tael, and the effective range can reach more than one meter.

Heavy musketeers also serve as grenadiers.

In terms of salary, the cavalry is still the highest, followed by heavy musketeers, spearmen, and part-time pikemen, while ordinary pikemen and musketeers are slightly lower.

In addition, 1,000 new artillery men were recruited, half of which were land divisions and half of them were naval divisions.

Counting these people, the average training time has reached four months, and according to Long Thirteen's consistent idea of forming an army in three months, he can no longer practice and will soon be distributed to various places.

When Li Xin and Xu Yixian became his right-hand men, although they both had a division of labor, Long Shisan still made Li Xin focus on government affairs, and Xu Yixian, who had never been in contact with the military camp, to focus on military affairs.

Naturally, there are his unique considerations in this.

No, after the recruits have completed their training, they need to either form an independent army or break up and be integrated into other teams.

On this day, Xu Yixian wanted to discuss this matter with Long Thirteen.

Xu Yixian obviously didn't have a lot of ideas about this matter, and Long Thirteen was confident again.

"In this way, except for the 1st Brigade, the strength of the remaining eight brigades is exactly the same, 400 cavalry, 300 musketeers, 1,000 pikemen, and 20 artillerymen, and the number of pikemen and pikemen is increased, and the number of musketeers is increased by 200, and the number of artillery is increased by 30."

"In this case, each brigade will have four hundred cavalry, a pikeman, a musket, an artilleryman, and nearly a thousand men, which is enough to defend the city."

"And the rest of the artillery was transferred to the Naval Division, except for a hundred men in the 1st Brigade to bring it to one."

"Thus, the First Brigade has 1,200 cavalry, 4 pikemen, 1 musketeer, and 1 artilleryman, and the total number reaches 7,03, and it can no longer be called the 1st Brigade."

"It's called the 1st Reinforced Brigade"

"Once there is a big war, since the places are mainly on the defensive, there is no need for so many cavalry, just leave two hundred, two hundred cavalry, if used well, can also play a key role, each of which draws two hundred, so that the cavalry of the reinforced brigade reaches two thousand eight hundred."

"The First Brigade has three commanders: Zhuang Zigu, Niu Yiqi, and Long Xiaoju, so

"General the Sixth Brigade Commander Yuan Zong

Bai Wenxuan, the commander of the 1st and 7th Brigades, was promoted, and He Jin was appointed as the commander of the 1st Brigade and Liu Xiyao was appointed as the commander of the 7th Brigade."

"Although Niu Yiqi is from the official army, he has always been conscientious and transferred to the Investigation Department as Long Xiaoshi's assistant, and Long Xiaoju continues to serve as the commander of the pro-guard team."

"The 1st Regiment, the 2nd Regiment and the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Reinforced Brigade were newly established"

"Let Bai Wenxuan, Yuan Zongdi, and Zhuang Zigu be the commanders of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Brigades respectively."

"Each regiment has 800 cavalry, 1 pikemen, muskets, and cannons, and the rest of the cavalry is transferred to the personal guards, and the men are mastered."

"In this way, each regiment has more than 2,800 men, and it is completely possible to fight independently in the field, and the total number of men in a whole brigade is close to 9,000 when it is dispatched......

Xu Yixian seemed to think of something, "Big boss, in this way, Nanyang Mansion City will be empty......

"No", Long Thirteen seemed to be confident, "At that time, the elite of the rotational militia from all over the country will be transferred to 3,000, plus the children's battalion, and the young and strong in the city, it is enough, if the garrison around it can't even keep the city, why should I arrange so many soldiers and horses there?"

"If the enemy arrives at the same time from all directions, I have a variety of options."

"Or use the strength of the whole brigade to defeat one of them as soon as possible, and the rest will be terrified, and then they will just stand by and move."

"Or use three reinforced regiments to block one direction each, plus the local garrison brigade, it is enough."

"By the way, the artillery actually only has artillery, three people and one class, 200 catties, 100 catties, and the internal organization is also organized according to this."

After Xu Yixian hurriedly went out to prepare the order, and discussed with Li Xin how to transfer the recruits and the cavalry from all over the country, Long Thirteen called Long Xiaoshi and Long Xiaoju over.

The reason why Long Thirteen was in such a hurry to form an army was because the surrounding situation had changed again.

There has been a change in both directions.

In the past ten days, perhaps because of the harvest of autumn grain, the officers and troops were able to mobilize grain and grass on the spot, and suddenly launched a fierce attack on Luo Rucai and Gao Yingxiang in the Dabie Mountains, as well as Wang Ziyong, who was in Runing Mansion.

A few days ago, he asked Long Xiaoshi to quickly collect intelligence, and before meeting Xu Yixian, Long Xiaoshi came over, and it is estimated that new information has arrived.

"Big Boss"

Sure enough, Long Xiaoshi was very anxious.

Long Thirteen smiled: "What are you afraid of, the sky can't fall, I used to wait for only a few thousand people to survive, but now with more than 20,000 people, what can't I deal with?"

Long Xiaoshi said: "Big boss, I naturally know this, but right now, Xuan Mo in the north, Fu Zonglong in the east, and Zhu Xieyuan in the south are attacking from three sides, and we only resisted all the way in the past."

"Also, it is said that Fu Zonglong's subordinates are all defeated generals under my department, but they are also recruited elites, and the imperial court also issued a death order, so that they must be fully paid, and there is one thing that I have always had doubts about, but now I finally understand something."

"Oh?"

"Then why didn't Fu Zonglong win a big battle after he followed the righteous army south? Naturally, it's because it has the same purpose as us, that is, to slowly sharpen the recruits in the contact battle with the rebels, otherwise, no matter how powerful the rebels are, especially the Zijin Liang King's own use, he is the weaker of the various tribes."

"Fu Zonglong has no reason, he has never won a big battle, and now he is launching a fierce attack on two sides, presumably his recruits have already completed their training."

"There is some truth in what you say, forget it, let's talk about it, what is the situation?"

"Yes, let's talk about Dabie Mountain first, originally Lu Xiangsheng had nothing to do, but he implemented a divisive plan, secretly bought Li Wanqing, who shot the sky, and originally their eighteen villages on the top of the mountain were all built on the mountain, and there were secret passages between them, so that they could communicate with each other and support each other."

"As soon as Li Wanqing surrendered, his defense line immediately had a huge flaw, and he was naturally defeated and lost, after this battle, Luo Rucai's department lost more than half, not only Li Wanqing surrendered, but even the 'mixed 100,000' Ma Jinzhong was also defeated and captured, and it is said that this guy also accepted Lu Xiangsheng's surrender immediately after being captured."

"Luo Rucai's department, these two are the pillars, these two are gone, you can imagine how big the blow is to it."

"And on the west side of Dabie Mountain, Gao Yingxiang's department was also attacked by Zhu Xieyuan's department, and the losses were also very heavy.

"They all know that Nanyang Mansion has been controlled by me, and it is estimated that they will also sneak into here, this is most likely also a female cadre of the official army, deliberately letting it into our department, at this time, we are not fighting, not fighting, if we accept them, it will greatly consume our food."

"It will also disturb our regulations, and they will be used to being scattered, and they will definitely cause some disturbance to the countryside, and then you say that you don't care?"

"If they are denied entry, there will be conflicts, and the officers and soldiers will either stand on the sidelines or take advantage of the chaos to enter the country."

"And Zhang Mengcun, who is not muddy, Fu Zonglong only besieged Runing Mansion City for three days and took the city in one fell swoop, Zhang Mengcun only ran away with a few cavalry, plus other rebels in the surrounding camps, only two or three thousand horsemen finally ran out, and the old camp was all lost!"

"It is also attached to the junction of Tongbai Mountain and Dabie Mountain, desperately rushing in the direction of Nanyang Mansion......

Dragon Thirteen looked at the map.

"Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai are both people who think very highly of themselves, if they don't reach the point of last resort, they won't come to give in, and that Meng Cun ......."

"If it wants to successfully reach Nanyang Mansion, it must pass through Tongbai County, by the way, who is stationed in Tongbai County now?"

"It is Mu Guodong, the second son of the new Fengsi chief soldier Mu Wenshou stationed in the east of Yuzhou, and he has a step under his command, so it is natural to defend the city, but if you want to stop Zhang Mengcun, it should not work."