Chapter Twenty-Nine: Ordnance

The camp of the garrison was in the west of the city, not in the city.

The station is divided into five districts, and the east, west, north and south are each guarded by a division.

The first battalion has three divisions, a total of six divisions, and the remaining two divisions are guarding the periphery of the Chinese army and responding to the four directions at any time.

Chen Wang led a group of newly recruited soldiers back to the east of the camp, where his commander was supposed to be stationed.

The east side is close to the city of Pizhou, which is the safest place, so Cao Wenzhao assigned the defense of this side to Chen Wang.

Now Chen Wang is still only the position of Bai Zong, but he still has the title of acting general.

However, now that the recruits have been recruited, as long as they fight again and get new military merits, they can remove the general code of the generation.

Chen Wang's previous first-level skills had been exchanged for silver coins, and he had saved a lot of silver coins in the battles before and after.

There are almost more than six hundred taels of silver, but most of them are placed in Liaodong.

The head of the thief was worthless, and he didn't even give Xu Gong, and only three of the seven Tartars killed in Liaodong were rewarded by the imperial court, and this is how he came from.

The rest were sold to others, a head sixty taels, ten taels more than the court gave, the white armor soldier killed, in addition to the court's reward silver, Cao Wenzhao also gave him an additional fifty taels.

Chen Wang is not without an official body, in fact, in addition to his identity as a battalion soldier, he still leads the official body of a hundred households.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the power of the commanders who were originally in charge of military affairs gradually faded, and they were controlled by the general army.

The military attache system of the Ming Dynasty was divided into the military officer system related to the five prefectures and the capital guards, and the military system of the town and garrison.

Battalion officers have no rank, no fixed number, and no hereditary, and only officers under the guard system have official qualities.

During the Ming Dynasty, the positions of the general army and other battalion soldiers were actually the names of military attachés without rank, and the command of soldiers, the establishment of quotas, and the rank were not fixed.

The battalion soldiers and the battalion generals are accustomed to each other, and there is no need to be appointed by the imperial court in wartime, and they are directly led out by the general army, deputy general soldiers, staff generals, guerrillas, etc.

For the convenience of doing things, and in order to be compatible with the two systems, the military rank of the guard office gradually became the rank of the latter.

The system is complex, even chaotic.

To understand it more concisely, it is much simpler to understand these high-ranking military positions in the battalion as the military ranks of later generations, but there is still a big difference.

For example, Cao Wenzhao, as the chief soldier of Datong Town, received the military position of the governor of Zheng Erpin, and did the affairs of the general army, not the affairs of the governor.

Chen Wang still has not understood the connection between military and military positions in these two systems.

But you don't need to understand, anyway, I became a battalion officer, and the official body after that came naturally.

It doesn't take much time for the general of a battalion to take the official body of a deputy thousand households, and after a few battles, the official body can come down after a few battles.

Although Hong Chengchou once suppressed Cao Wenzhao's military exploits, but now the relationship with Cao Wenzhao is no longer as tense as it was at the beginning, and it has eased a lot.

And Hong Chengchou now still needs to rely on Cao Wenzhao to pacify the Liukou, so naturally his attitude has slowed down a lot.

The ordnance allocation had already come down, and Hu Zhili entered the camp first, and he had already led the soldiers to move them all back to the camp.

Chen Wang stood outside several tents piled high with ordnance, constantly flipping through the records that were sent.

Hu Zhili stood aside and said helplessly.

"The military uniform only has summer clothes, no military hats, some net scarves, cloth face armor 230 collars, and chain mail 20 collars."

"Four hundred spears, sixty swords, thirty arms, twenty helmets, and three hundred and seventy helmets."

"I told the quartermaster about the bird gun, don't want messy firearms, as long as the bird gun is more prepared, and I showed him the letter from Cao Shoubei, and now there are one hundred and twenty rods."

There is not much storage in the ordnance allocation camp, and it is basically allocated by the officials assigned by Hong Chengchou, so Chen Wang went to find Cao Dingjiao's letter and stuffed a lot of money.

"I looked at a few pieces of cloth armor, the nail pieces in it are not thick, and the number is not enough, there are only more than 130 nail leaves up and down, most of them are on the chest, and the nail leaves below are only a little, and I can't prevent anything."

Chen Wang nodded and closed the single record in his hand.

"There are more than 100 nail leaves that are already good, and they are also iron."

"When I was in the city of Beijing in the second year, you didn't see those Beijing soldiers, and their armor was stuffed with paper."

Hearing Chen Wang talk about Jingying, Hu Zhili scolded with disdain.

"Bullshit Jingying, the beggars in Liaodong can beat better than those in Jingying, all of them are as thin as bamboo poles, they eat empty salaries and eat like that, and they will be cut off if they come to Liaodong to live for less than three days."

Chen Wang was noncommittal, the Beijing camp of the Ming Dynasty had rotted to the roots, and tens of thousands of Beijing camps could fight without knowing if they could pick out a thousand people.

Among all the armaments, that is, the Shenji Battalion is still holding the latest firearms and can still be used, and the rest of the Beijing Battalion soldiers can't find a single weapon that is worth it.

Chen Wang walked into the armory and took a bird's gun.

The bird gun is quite heavy in the hand, and you can still clearly feel the weight of the bird gun in your hand.

The wooden handle held in the hand has no frills and no burr feeling.

The length of the barrel was more than a meter, and after putting the bird gun down, it was almost under his shoulder.

Chen Wang glanced at the group of recruits who were practicing in the queue next to him, his height had reached one meter eight, which was much taller than those recruits, and most people basically held the position of their shoulders.

"Did you try it?"

"I let a few go, the rest have been checked, and the ones sent are all thick with guns, and I also let the old Zheng Tou, who is in charge of the armament in the battalion, pass by, there is no problem, and it can't be blown up easily."

Hu Zhili gritted his teeth, a little painful, and asked.

"Is this bird really that important?"

According to Chen Wang's request, he stuffed twenty taels of silver into the thief bird who issued the ordnance and let him take care of it.

"With this silver, it's enough to buy a good armor and a good knife."

Although he didn't want him to come out of the twenty taels of silver, Hu Zhili still felt that it was not worth it and it hurt a little.

"Nature matters."

Chen Wang picked up the bird's gun, held it in his hand, and raised the barrel of the gun to a position parallel to his eyes.

The left eye is slightly closed, the right eye is open, and the flagpole in front of him is aimed at the three points and one line.

Holding the bird gun, an inexplicable feeling slowly rose from Chen Wang's heart.

Firearms are the mainstream of future warfare, especially when flintlock pistols begin to become popular, the reliability of firearms will multiply several times, and they will completely become a sharp weapon of war.

"Select one hundred and twenty outstanding performers as bird soldiers, and all the helmets, cloth armor, and green clothes will be issued, and the cloth armor and bird soldiers will keep forty collars, and all the waist knives will be distributed to the bird soldiers, and the rest will be issued to other flags."

"All personnel are trained in armor."

"Chain mail, tall bowl helmets, and arm coverings are all left for the time being."

Chen Wang put down the bird gun in his hand, put it back into the tent, and then looked back at the group of recruits in the camp who were standing in place, with their heads held high, motionless.

"Seven days later, the election of officials."