Young Army Camp.

Zhu Jianji asked the young sergeant to continue the training, and said to Chen Qi, Li Jiu, and Zhao Er, who were following him: "Why don't you see the commander Wang Yue, where did he go?" ”

Wang Yue is a civil servant.

But after a few years of contact, Zhu Jianji found that this scholar had the heart of a military general in his bones.

and familiar with the way of soldiers.

The Young Army is also good at hand-to-hand combat, but it will be a firearms unit in nature.

The scene of riding and killing does not usually happen to the young army, and there is a face-to-face hand-to-hand combat, either the own side is in a desperate situation, or the enemy army is finally cleared.

Therefore, what is needed is a commander with strategic vision, not a brave and invincible general.

Wang Yue just fits.

So this scholar from the imperial history changed his military position and became the commander of the young army.

However, Wenchen generally cannot serve as a commander.

For this reason, Zhu Jianji also fought with the Manchu Dynasty for a round.

Chen Qi, Li Jiu, Zhao Er, three of them at the beginning of the establishment of the young army, through the full challenge of the hundred households, the strength of the people, after the expansion of the young army, the three of them were promoted to a thousand households.

It turned out that almost all of the 300 people in the young army were promoted.

Deputy 1000 households, 100 households, deputy 100 households, trial 100 households, general flag, small flag...... Almost 300 people.

This is the backbone of the Young Army.

Chen Qi said with a smile: "Commander Wang is studying and practicing the Fire Gun Formation. ”

Zhu Jianji sighed and said, "Let him come to see Gu." ”

Firecrackers are outdated.

At the latest, the young army will be fully equipped with Dongfeng rifles, firearms formations or something, except for the three-stage shooting can be retained, the rest of the tactics will be eliminated.

A moment later the king came and saluted and confessed.

He actually knew that Zhu Jianji was coming, but he didn't want to waste time, after the expansion of the young army, it had reached 3,000 troops, but it was far from the scale of the Shenji Battalion back then.

In order to maximize the combat power of the young army, it is necessary to rely on the firearm to study more advanced tactics.

Three-stage shooting is just a conventional tactic.

And the small flag system that His Royal Highness once mentioned made Wang Yue feel a little touched.

A small flag of ten people, a group of ten people.

The 3,000 men of the young army can almost open up the entire battlefield, but there is a problem, after a group of ten people is separated, the firepower will be scattered, and the shooting accuracy of the guns is not high, and most of the time they rely on dense shooting to improve the lethality.

If the small flag system is dispersed, the lethality will drop sharply.

Wang Yue wanted to make up for this deficiency through the improvement of tactics.

However, it has been two years, and Wang Yue still has not found an effective solution.

Zhu Jianji asked Wang Yue to get up, and said with a smile: "Commander Wang, Lone knows what you are worried about, this is a good thing, as the first commander of Lone's young army, the more you study, the better, because you are going to lead an army that has never appeared since ancient times, but you have temporarily put down the research at hand in the past few days, find some people, make more targets, and after a month, the young army will be equipped with new weapons, and you need to practice diligently. ”

Bullets are deadly expensive.

Wang Yue smiled, "Your Highness is still worried about money?" ”

Now the country has not opened the sea ban, but more than 20 treasure ships of the imperial court and your three treasure ships have been to the West twice, and they have made a lot of money, not to mention that you made a lot of money in Fujian.

Zhu Jianji rolled his eyes, "As a commander, you don't know how much money the young army will spend, right?" ”

3,000 people, 3,000 sets of armor is 24,000 taels, a year's military salary is 72,000 taels, 3,000 swords are 2,000 taels, 100,000 taels were used to expand the barracks, 160,000 taels of 2,700 horses were bought, 45,000 taels a year were raised, plus 3,000 people's food for a year......

Jingtai spent more than 400,000 taels to expand the army in the eleventh year.

In the next few years, it will be more than 100,000 taels of expenses every year.

However, the household department still only allocates funds according to the scale of 300 people, and only gives 15,000 taels per year.

One or two won't do it.

Chen Xun, the head of the household, is really picky.

Fortunately, Lao Tzu's family has a thick foundation, and the expenses in the past few years have basically been the money earned in the West.

Think about it, three treasure ships can raise a young army of 3,000 people.

What if it's thirty?

What about three hundred?

While the sea ban has not yet been opened, we must vigorously make another profit!

Colonial expansion was imperative.

Wang Yue smiled, "Actually, the young army can also be made in Tuntian." ”

Zhu Jianji shook his head, "No, what I want is a professional army that only exists for combat, not an amateur army that stays in the fields and hoes at any time." ”

What combat power does such a unit have?

For example, these 3,000 young troops, even if they are only equipped with firearms now, can shake the regimental battalion of 10,000 people.

And it doesn't necessarily have to lose.

After the three-stage shot, even if it enters hand-to-hand combat, the 3,000 young army will not drop the chain.

The young army is poor in actual combat experience on the battlefield.

Only Jingtai's eleventh year of Dulbert's department was on the side, and the young army went to try his skills in the closing stage, and the record was good, almost beating the butt of the Dulbert cavalry.

said to Wang Yue: "There is another psychological preparation, the young army will continue to expand, at least to reach the scale of one guard." ”

Three thousand is still too little.

At present, the money in his own reserve is enough, at the beginning in Fujian, he made 500,000 yuan from the hands of Zhu Qiongjing, the king of the Tang Dynasty, plus the house deed and title deed given by Zhu Yunwen "sold" 1.8 million, gave Lao Zhu 1 million, and there are 1.3 million left.

The ordnance supervisor spent more than 300,000 yuan.

In other words, Zhu Jianji's East Palace now has more than 600,000 taels of money, and it can completely expand the young army to 10,000 people.

But it is a costly matter to raise a young army in the future.

So Zhu Jianji knew that in order to develop this modern army, he had to plunder overseas money.

Suddenly I felt ......

Why didn't King Ning rebel yet?

Tang King Zhu Qiongjing also hurriedly rebelled.

Without you......

I'm poor.

It's really not good, what quasi-Ge'er Ministry, Dulbert Ministry, Jurchen, all hurry up to disturb the border - hey, forget it, these desert tribes are so poor that they can't make war money if they beat them.

It was still necessary for the vassal kings of the south to rebel.

Wang Yue was puzzled, "Where did the soldiers come from?" ”

Zhu Jianji said: "You don't have to worry about this, you just have to do what Gu said, prepare the training ground, and then hurry up the development of training methods, and be sure to make the young army equipped with new weapons have combat power before the end of this year, huh...... When the time comes, you can go to the northern border pass to practice in actual combat, and use the iron cavalry of the Mobei Yi tribe to train the troops. ”

Wang Yue seemed to be listening to the Arabian Nights, "Use the iron cavalry of the Mobei Yi clan to train soldiers?" ”

What do you think!

The Mobei Yi clan has always been a big problem for the Central Plains Dynasty, and now His Royal Highness actually uses them to train troops, because he dislikes the young army of more than 3,000 people and can't afford to raise them, so he pulled them out and killed a batch?

Zhu Jianji didn't explain to Wang Yue, and said: "You don't have to worry about the source of soldiers, I'll give you another matter, the young army of the East Palace will prepare to practice naval warfare, and in the future, the Lone Association will form a navy, which can be regarded as a reserve of talents for the navy in advance." Commander Wang asked you to draw up a list later, and draw up candidates for the new generals such as Qianhu and commanders after the expansion of the army. ”

Wang Yue received the decree.