"With such a person, how can He De serve as the chief soldier of Zhejiang? Dangerous big thing! Dressed in brocade clothes, he was arrested and imprisoned, and his house was raided! And the person who recommended him was also imprisoned by me. ”

He commanded loudly.

As Yan Ling expected, when Zhang Lai was removed, the emperor naturally remembered Lin Xiao, so he made an order to appoint him as the chief soldier of Zhejiang.

Looking at Lin Xiao's achievements, he seemed to see a rising star again.

"My Daming is also full of talents, and there are many famous generals!"

He said to Wang Tiqian with a smile.

When Lin Xiao made some more meritorious deeds, he mentioned his official position, so that he, Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng were in each town and several provinces, so why worry about the rebellion and the unrest of the world?

……

The will of the imperial court was soon issued, Lin Xiao was appointed as the chief soldier of Zhejiang, and his official rank was also promoted, while General Ning Shao was taken over by another general who had made certain merits in the battle, and he was also a member of the family, so there was no need to worry.

"Sir, what are my instructions for going to serve as the chief soldier?"

Lin Xiao was not arrogant because he was promoted to the chief soldier of Zhejiang. He has been attached to the family for generations, and he knows very well that with the strength of the family, it is not difficult to pull him down.

He also knows very well that he has made such a great achievement now, and he will inevitably be sent to face the rogue in the future, if he does not have his subordinates, he will be exposed in his true form, and even if he does not die on the battlefield, he will be executed by the emperor.

Therefore, his attitude is still deferential, even somewhat flattering.

Yan Ling patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said:

"You did a good job this time, 10,000 taels of silver have been sent to your house."

Hearing this, Lin Xiao's eyes were brighter, his back was more curved, and the smile on his face was even worse.

"I don't have anything to say, when you get to the provincial capital, you will do whatever you want."

Yan Ling said with a smile, in fact, Lin Xiao himself is just a name, all kinds of problems have their own hidden dragons to deal with, Lin Xiao is not a particularly capable person, some important things Yan Ling will not hand over to him at all.

"Don't worry, even in Hangzhou, I will still do my best to serve you!"

Lin Xiao was just making an attitude, but when he said this, he loudly expressed his loyalty, and then led the team to the north.

Yan Ling squinted his eyes and looked at the big banner with the word "Lin" in the distance.

He didn't look at Lin Xiao, but the two thousand clan soldiers.

They will follow the newly appointed Zhejiang commander-in-chief to Hangzhou City to garrison.

When they are needed in the future, they will definitely play an important role......

However, with the dispatch of this battalion, the family's strength is visibly less, and more troops are needed. Don't say anything else. Now even the two guards of Ningbo Wei and Shaoxing Wei have not been filled, and there are two more vacancies for soldiers.

"It's better to have less than to overuse. We are taking the route of elite soldiers, and we would rather have fewer soldiers than an army that is overwhelming but actually useless like the rogues. Looking at Zhang Xianzhong's more than 100,000 people this time, he was beaten by 10,000 of us and lost his armor, what is the use of such an army? ”

Although it is said that the current strength in the family is not sufficient, Yan Ling still instructed the relevant responsible clan elders:

"It is necessary to strictly follow the conscription and training."

The training of the family soldiers is not like a rogue or something, you can go into battle with a knife, and it is even much stricter than that of the Ming army, in fact, the reason why the replenishment of soldiers is so slow is also for a certain reason.

Conscripted soldiers, first of all, are not accepted if they are sick, and then they are not accepted if they are over 35 years old or less than 18 years old, and there are requirements for height, eyesight, physical fitness, etc., and they are inspected on the spot at the time of conscription, so that a batch of them is brushed off.

Subsequently, even if these new recruits who have passed the test want to be transformed into actual combat strength, they need to go through long-term training, and complete training in shooting, battle formation, tactics, discipline, etc., before they can get out of the new barracks and enter the army.

Such time and cost far exceeded that of the fighters of any country of the same era.

But this approach is proven. It was in this way that the Luzon army trained elite troops and conquered large swathes of land.

The patriarch wrote it down, and then he said:

"If that's the case, then I'm afraid the muskets and artillery in stock are a little insufficient."

The family has basically eliminated the spears and the like in the cold weapon era, and the whole army has been equipped with hot weapons, and is also equipped with bayonets, etc., which can be said to be quite advanced, but in the same way, the equipment is not as convenient as the cold weapon army, and the musket is not a sword that can be rubbed out by hand in the blacksmith shop.

After these prefectures and counties were basically controlled by the family, Yan Ling of course ordered the construction of arsenals and ironworks in various places, but because the time was still short and the production was limited, he still needed the support of Luzon.

Yan Lin nodded:

"I will give you another 10,000 muskets and 800 cannons for military use."

"The army can also be reformed according to the new standards, and there is no need to follow the old order."

"In addition, I have sent men to buy horses from the northwest, and some ...... have been captured in these battles You have arranged for equestrian instructors, and you have drawn people from the army who have a foundation in horsemanship, and are ready to form the relevant cavalry units. ”

When the clan elder heard this, he immediately nodded in agreement, and then left in a hurry, such a big project, and then he was busy.

The so-called new standard is a new reform of the army establishment, which is different from the Ming army's 100 households, 1,000 households, and battalion soldiers' ranks, and his army adopted the army configuration of later generations, with 10,000 people as a division, which is more scientific.

It's just that in terms of name, some changes have been made, such as the division commander is called "division marshal", which is more in line with the environment of the times at that time, and the military rank system has not yet been used, but the one-to-nine-grade official system is used.

After all, if you make up the colonels, captains and the like in later generations, except for Yan Ling himself, it is estimated that no one else will be able to adapt to it.

The armament of the artillery has also been improved, and the main equipment in the troops is the three types of infantry guns, the five types of light field guns, the eight types of heavy howitzers, and the No. 2 heavy artillery guns, which are suitable for different environments.

Among them, the most powerful No. 2 heavy cannon, according to experiments, under the three cannons, can collapse the walls of an ordinary city, but this kind of cannon is slow, and does not delegate the army, but has an exclusive infantry guard battalion, which is dispatched according to demand in wartime.

These are all changes under the leadership of Yan Ling.

It is conceivable that such an army will far exceed the cost of contemporaries and at the same time, it will also be at the peak in terms of combat effectiveness.

It will also be his capital to compete in troubled times in the future.

(End of chapter)