1136 New Army

When the quarrel is over, they will check the soldiers again! Because the officers also know that the old and weak cannot fight, at most they are just waving their flags and shouting. So they wanted to check out a group of really useful soldiers and put them in front.

As for where those soldiers are, it's hard to find them! Because most of the soldiers either do part-time work outside the home, or work for large families! Those who stay in the camp all day and have nothing to do must be the old, weak, sick and disabled who have nowhere to go!

It will take about a day or two to gather these people. Therefore, if you want the Ming Dynasty to assemble an army as quickly as possible, it will take about four or five days at the earliest! This is still the situation of facing a campaign against bandits, if it is a big war, the preparation time must be calculated on a monthly basis! However, if it is placed in the Beijing camp, it will take at least two days to assemble to guard the Beijing Division!

And Shen Shixing and others don't know the details of the new army, and they are still estimating according to the operational capabilities of the Ming army. Even if they have tried to look up to the new army, it is still an error in the calculation! And it's going to make them regret it!

When the will of the palace is sent out, it is time for the morning exercise to end and start to dawn! As soon as the eunuchs rode out on horseback, they were targeted, and the news was quickly sent to the cabinet office. Shen Shixing and the others could only sigh when they heard the news, and then began to send news everywhere.

They had no intention of intercepting the Decree, because they knew they couldn't! I don't know how many people go out of the palace every day, who knows if Emperor Wanli will come to a Ming Xiu plank road to secretly Chen Cang!

And even if it is really only this will, it cannot be stopped, because the fault of interception lies with the cabinet! The emperor only needs to say that the cabinet intercepts the angels, "I want to encircle the palace and isolate China and foreign countries, and intend to rebel!" "You can kill all the people in the cabinet, and the heavens will not sympathize with them!

By noon, the eunuch who had almost killed his horse had finally arrived in Fengtai! They relied on the waist card in the palace to meet the principal of the camp directly. It is Liu Ren who is in charge! For the sake of checks and balances and command, there is one chief officer for every 10,000 people in the new army. And they are all Liu Haojia's henchmen!

Liu Ren knew that things were not good when he saw the eunuch covered in sweat, and he was already moving in the worst direction predicted by Liu Haojia. You must know that he just received a secret letter from Liu Haojia a few days ago, asking him to pay attention to the movements of the Beijing Division, and as a result, the holy decree of transferring troops came!

Since he saw the holy decree, Liu Ren agreed to send troops without hesitation, which made the eunuchs who rushed to it breathe a sigh of relief! At this time, we can see the gap between the new army and the Beijing camp!

Less than a quarter of an hour after the eunuch who sent the decree entered the camp, the drums sounded! As soon as the drums sounded, a large number of nocturnal swarms out, sealing off the entire area around the camp. All the people in their blockade were driven together and not allowed to move. After that, there were more than a dozen nights without putting on casual clothes, and went straight to the direction of Jingshi along the main road to open the way for the army.

At this time, the camp was already full of people! There are shouts, whistles, and passwords! Among them, the most frequent and loudest shouting is "This is not a drill!" This is not a drill! At the same time, rumbling footsteps surged back and forth in the playground like rolling thunder!

By the time all the sounds had stopped, there were already three phalanxes lined up in the playground, one large and one small. The small phalanx is cavalry, and the large phalanx is infantry!

The number of cavalry was not large, only about seven or eight hundred. This is not to say that Liu Haojia does not pay attention to cavalry, but he does not want to overstimulate the emperor and the imperial court! You must know that cavalry is the most powerful type of army in this era, once he has too many cavalry in his hands, even Emperor Wanli will be suspicious!

Another reason is that cavalry is too expensive! He is already feeling a little difficult to support this army now, if he is vigorously developing cavalry, he will wait for bankruptcy! Therefore, these cavalry are more used as reserves for night collection, herald and reconnaissance of large troops, and are not the main battle arms.

However, this does not mean that Liu Haojia has given up on them, on the contrary, he has increased the cultivation of these people! All cavalry pairs must increase the education of cultural courses, not only requiring the ability to read and write, but also the ability to command small-scale battles! To put it bluntly, these people are all trained as officers! Even in terms of military rank, they are much higher than the firecrackers!

And from them, it can be seen that Liu Haojia can also be regarded as having made a bloody investment! All the cavalrymen wore all-encompassing helmets, completely devoid of any ornaments, leaving only a T-shaped opening in the eyes and nose, which looked fierce!

There is a half-section of the breastplate on the chest of the tight tunic to protect the vital point of the chest. At the same time, there are two shoulder armors on the shoulders that are integrated with the cuirass. This shoulder armor can effectively resist the opponent's slash! Look at their left arm and an enlarged armour that can act as a small shield! Wearing tight black pants on the lower body and knee-high riding boots on the feet, he is very heroic!

On the left side of the horse there are two short guns, and on the right side of the saddle is a small crossbow! Although it is not large in size, it is no less powerful than a bow and arrow. There is a saber stuck in the victory hook, just by looking at the handle, you can know that it is finely crafted, and it is worth a lot of money!

Look at the horses under their crotches are all carefully selected tall horses, and all of them are tall and divine horses! They all snorted from time to time and used their front hooves to plow the ground, showing that they were all excited! It can be seen that this is a cavalry that can fight tough battles!

And the soldiers in the phalanx, each of them stood neatly, in horizontal rows, vertical columns, and diagonal lines, just like a knife and an axe!

Looking at the soldiers, they wore steel helmets on top of their heads, which looked very much like the British soldiers during World War I. In other words, it has a relatively wide ring brim. The reason why this form of steel helmet was chosen is because this style can cover the feather arrows to the greatest extent!

All infantry wore the same black tunics as the cavalry. A curved cuirass was worn over the tunic and above. The cuirass is soaked in sulfuric acid made by the soil method to prevent oxidation, so they are all black and swarthy, and they appear very heavy.

Under the cuirass was a belt three finger wide, on which hung ammunition packs, bayonets and first aid kits, as well as water bottles. On the back of the bag is a tarpaulin-wrapped bag that is made into a rectangle, and on top of the bag is a cylindrical grain bag. They are tightly fastened to the back by a belt and do not affect them at all when running.

Further down are the skinny black pants. However, with some changes from the earlier uniforms, the soldiers wore leggings below the knees. Leather boots have changed from knee-high boots to calf-reaching boots. The reason for this change is that the current march lacks livestock and mechanization, and can only rely on the two legs of the soldiers, so having leggings is beneficial to relieve the fatigue of long marches.