After Xiao Ming returned to Hangzhou, he threw himself into the construction of the Tiger Guard Battalion, which is now more like a school, he continues to train the Tiger Guards with excellent combat ability, and was sent to Xuzhou, Weihai, and even Port Arthur for duty through rotation training, and the Tiger Guard Battalion at the Hangzhou base currently has 5,000 all the Tiger Guards for a long time.

As one of the founders of this armed force, Rowan has special feelings for the Tiger Guard Battalion, and his prestige in the Tiger Guard Camp is irreplaceable.

He didn't understand Xiao Ming's proposal to educate the tiger guards, but he still complied with it, first of all, from more than 5,000 tiger guards, he did a check, and found that the number of people who knew the words was almost less than one percent, and many people said that they were literate, but they were limited to writing their own names.

The results of this census surprised Xiao Ming! He didn't expect that the illiteracy rate in the Great Song Dynasty was still so high, and many children of poor families who could come to participate in the Tiger Guard Camp were many of them for the Tiger Guard's generous salary and benefits.

It seems that for a long time to come, education will be the top priority of the moment! For this reason, Xiao Ming decided to come step by step, according to his requirements, there were many civilian personnel in the Tiger Guard Battalion, who usually did some registration and paperwork, and took time out at night to give lessons to the Tiger Guards.

These civilian personnel are recruited from among the people who have failed in the scientific examination, and some belong to the children of well-off families who have no intention of making a name, and some are invited to invite some gentlemen from private schools to come to make cameos, but these people only receive salaries that are not as good as the military membership of the Tiger Guard, and the military registration of the Tiger Guard is arranged by Xiao Ming, and every registered Tiger Guard has a gold medal of honor of the Tiger Guard Battalion after retiring.

The military status is to serve in the Tiger Guard Battalion for five to ten years, and those who can be officers can be extended to fifteen years, and the Tiger Guards who are disabled due to injuries will have full placement silver, and those who are willing to stay in the Tiger Guard Camp to assist in training can also be instructors, but these instructors are slowly not adapting to the new training methods.

That's because, the current Tiger Guard combat weapons have been fully reloaded, the original unified Black God crossbow is now all replaced by spears, due to the gradual stabilization of the production of the arsenal, the progress of hundreds of rifles every month has basically made the Tiger Guard Battalion reequip, Xiao Ming at this moment all the latest rifles equipped into the Tiger Guard Battalion.

The new rifle has been improved on the basis of the original large Mauser gun, the rate of fire and the firing range have been increased, and the caliber has been made to nine millimeters, the new rifle has rifling in the barrel, and the stability of the projectile is also very good.

The large-scale equipment of firearms made the original military system have to be adjusted, and it turned out that Xiao Ming had always adopted the military system of the Great Song Dynasty in order to control and facilitate it, and the smallest unit had always been the "squad!" "Upward, it is the formation at the level of "capital and battalion", that is because in the era of cold weapons, the requirements of army intensity must be taken into account, and the burden is different now.

The tiger guards equipped with firearms on a large scale can no longer be the kind of highly intensive system, so Xiao Ming made adjustments, the most scientific modern three-three military system must be introduced, this time the cycle and changes of the military system adjustment are very large, first of all, the change of the military structure at the grassroots level, that is, the squad platoon system.

The squad platoon system came into being in order to quickly convey combat orders and the requirements of independent combat, and it was not until the nineteenth century in Europe that the squad platoon system formed a formal appearance, and the number of people in a squad at that time would not be less than twenty people, but as the power of weapons became more and more powerful, the number of squad platoons was also decreasing, and finally a squad was reduced to about ten people!

In order to give better play to this advantage, Xiao Ming decided to set the number of a squad of Huwei to ten people, three squads for a platoon, divided into squad leader and deputy squad leader, platoon leader and deputy platoon leader, three platoons for a company by the original head of the company as the company commander, a company of ninety people, plus a ten-person artillery squad, together with a hundred people!

Three companies are a battalion, with the original commander as the battalion commander, three battalions as a regiment, plus a company of artillery to form a thousand people, so Xiao Ming quickly organized this tiger guard into five regiments, plus the five or six hundred artillery battalions trained by Qian Baguang, the number of artillery in one regiment alone is no less than forty-five, why are there so many guns?

That's because Ding Jianpeng quickly completed a miniaturized artillery weapon mortar after he returned! In fact, the principle of the mortar is not complicated, but the manufacture of the shell is a bit troublesome, and there must be a primer in the tail of the shell that can hit the firing pin on the base of the barrel, but due to the caliber of the barrel, it has never been possible to achieve a tight.

For this reason, Ding Jianpeng consulted the information and made the shell into a concave shape, after the gunpowder burned, the bottom of the shell will be propped open, close to the barrel to be fired, this is the same as the earliest bullets, with the rifling in the barrel, the range of the mortar is very long, and then by adjusting the angle of the barrel, this small-caliber curved gun can immediately form combat effectiveness.

There will be three such mortars in an artillery squad, and the artillery at the battalion level is all very powerful infantry guns, and the artillery at the regimental level uses large-caliber steel cannons, plus the grenades that are standard with the Tiger Guard.

Since then, the Tiger Guard has officially become an army, but a 5,000-strong all-infantry combat unit will not attract anyone's attention at present, and the current focus of the Tiger Guard's work is to provide escort tasks for various important military, economic, and special places at the Hangzhou base, that is, training.

But to arrange the training syllabus, it really made Xiao Ming scratch his head, and finally had to find Ding Jianpeng and Luo Wen to study together, Ding Jianpeng was very surprised by Xiao Ming's cultural lessons for the tiger guards, but then smiled approvingly and was silent, and also helped him arrange the course together, the result was that the amount of training and escort of the Tiger Guards was very large, but this amount was aimed at the instructor.

Luo Wen complained that he would definitely not be able to be busy alone, Xiao Ming thought about it, so he specially transferred Han Shizhong and Yelusha from Weihai to Hangzhou to assist Luo Wen in training, and at the same time familiarize himself with this whole set of training and combat methods as soon as possible.

In fact, from the current point of view, Xiao Ming does not necessarily have to do a lot of things himself, but in the beginning stage is the need for him to grasp the direction well, Xiao Ming recently completed a deployment, that is, in Xuzhou Zhao Yanwen led the Golden Army of 10,000 people, and Weihai's Xinfeng Army and the Guards in addition to the Tiger Guard Army in Hangzhou to change guards, each team in a place to train and garrison for two months and then change places, so as to carry out the coordination of officers in various departments, he not only has soldiers, he also needs to have generals.

For the Golden Legion, which is accustomed to cavalry charges, Xiao Ming thought that it was not a way to simply equip them with weapons, and at this stage, Xiao Ming did not have a mature concept of the use of cavalry, but he would not think so if the cavalry was completely canceled, and the horses of the Golden Legion were good horses! Even Duan Jingzhu, who has been in Xuzhou, is full of praise for the good horses in the Western Regions.

So Xiao Ming decided to set up a cavalry camp near Xuzhou to maintain the training of cavalry, and asked the personnel of the three armed forces to dismount and get a gun, get on the horse and wield a knife, and be an all-round warrior, so they must learn two combat modes, but in fact, those soldiers who were originally cavalry were not willing to get off the horse, which is understandable, so Xiao Ming finally added a sentence: "Try your best!" ”

In fact, these three armies are all Xiao Ming's private army, all of which are transferred and commanded by him, although Xiao Ming has experience in commanding large armies, but he is not familiar with the combat methods in different combat modes, and he also needs to explore slowly, but he will not be limited by rules and regulations, and often has special moves.

For example, he began to recruit experienced sailors and fishermen to form a marine battalion at the Hangzhou base, such as the application of hot air balloons to naval and cavalry operations, not only to provide reconnaissance and can assist in attacks, for example, he invested money for Ding Jianpeng to start developing machine guns that can fire continuously! Another example is the development of steam-powered nine-wheeled vehicles.

In the observation of the steam-powered train, Xiao Ming instructed Ai Qili to raise the issuance of railway bonds on the one hand, and on the other hand, he went to the Mo family's workshop base to discuss the steam-powered land driving scheme, the steam turbine was already the biggest invention of the Mo family, and therefore they were making a larger power hot wheel locomotive according to Xiao Ming's requirements!

But when Xiao Ming proposed to apply the steam turbine to the land vehicle, many craftsmen are shaking their heads, that is because the thing itself is too heavy, if it is put on land, the weight of the steam locomotive itself will press the wheels into the soil, but if it is miniaturized, there is a fear of insufficient power!

This is the development of the engine, Xiao Ming is looking forward to it, the discussion between the Mo master craftsmen and craftsmen is very fascinating, their ideas are very extensive, but they also fall into the paranoia of mechanical arts, Xiao Ming then tried to suggest to them, "What if you use fuel such as alcohol instead of coal and steam as power?" ”

Just like Xiao Ming woke up Su Bi, Xiao Ming just pointed out a direction to these craftsmen with smart minds, and whether they can develop products with more epoch-making significance on this basis, then you have to believe in the ingenuity of these ancient craftsmen!

And in fact, according to the inertial thinking, the things provided to Xiao Ming by these craftsmen still surprised him, it was indeed a miniaturized steam-powered locomotive, but it used nine wheels as a support, and the craftsmen didn't even think that after they made such a monster, the power was so great, not only could they run by themselves, but they could also drag the load-bearing cart to run together, but Xiao Ming said: "Is this a wheeled tank?" ”

With this thing, Xiao Ming's infantry is equivalent to forming a motorization, and after pasting an iron plate against arrows on the outside, this thing is an armored combat vehicle! In fact, Xiao Ming knows that in terms of the application prospects of this kind of thing, civilian use is actually broader than military use, as long as it can be miniaturized.

Miniaturization will make the entire steam-powered locomotive like buying a car, sell it to anyone, in the case of Xiao Ming, who has mastered all kinds of mining resources, even if this thing runs all over the ground, it will make him make money crazy! You think, water naturally doesn't cost money, but you always have to spend money on coal, and Xiao Ming is currently the largest owner of the coal mine!

For this reason, Xiao Ming specially sent a car like this to Song Qinzong, Qinzong had heard Xiao Ming describe his own moving vehicle, and now he really saw such a car, naturally he was very happy, and praised Xiao Ming, and sent a decree to the Great Song Dynasty Ministry of Industry to give a plaque written by the emperor himself, which read: "Extremely clever and elegant!" ”