Valley Emperor

From the Huangzhushan era, the main factor limiting the expansion of the main force of the Datang New Army was not food or soldiers, but the production of muskets and artillery.

As for the soldiers, whether they are recruited or captured Ming soldiers, or even forcibly recruiting strong men, they can get initial satisfaction. Although there is a shortage of food, it is barely enough. If it is not enough, go outside to collect food.

But there is no way to quickly increase production of guns and artillery.

Even if the Ministry of Industry continues to expand the scale of each workshop, this expansion will take time, and it cannot be completed in two or three days. .

After the workshop is expanded, there must be enough skilled craftsmen and ordinary workers. Ordinary workers are easy to solve, but skilled craftsmen are not so easy to find or cultivate. At present, the craftsmen in the workshops under the Ministry of Industry of Datang are basically They were looted from Xingquan Prefecture and Liping Prefecture in various ways such as recruitment and coercion.

However, even so, it is far from enough for the needs of the workshops of the Datang Dynasty.

Then there is the issue of raw materials. At present, Xingquan Prefecture and most of Liping Prefecture occupied by the Tang Dynasty do not have any large-scale iron ore, copper ore and other minerals, let alone saltpeter, sulfur, lead and other minerals. , so that the current Datang Dynasty relies heavily on the purchase of various raw materials.

Even if these are satisfied, the production of muskets and artillery takes time!

From raw materials to finished products, a musket needs to go through many processes. Each process takes time, and all these times add up. If a craftsman uses traditional methods to build it, it will take a month. If it is based on the current Datang The small-scale flow-based production adopted by the Dynasty Ministry of Industry also takes about twenty days.

In other words, even if the Ministry of Industry has another super-large-scale expansion now, it will take at least two months for the new army of the Tang Dynasty to be able to obtain the muskets after the expansion!

This time was too long for the Tang Dynasty.

From the beginning of the year to the present, the workshops of the Datang Dynasty have continued to expand and increase production, but the scale of the Datang New Army has also continued to expand. In the past, the Datang New Army had only a few hundred musketeers, but now, the musketeers in each unit are already There are thousands of people, and the demand for muskets is further increased, and it is increased to a level that cannot be satisfied by the workshops under the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, the current batch of muskets lost by the Datang New Army cannot be replenished in a short period of time!

In response to this problem, Zeng Ziwen suggested that the scale of the garrison should be further expanded by using the many existing Ming army prisoners!

We can't let these Ming army prisoners all serve as coolies, that's a waste of human resources!

"Although our army has already begun to build a reserve battalion equipped with pure cold weapons, the reserve battalion is still our regular army. In addition to the training of cold weapons, daily training will also insist on training various musket tactics, infantry artillery coordination and other tactics. , The reason for equipping cold weapons is that it is limited by the production of guns and artillery, but when the production of guns and artillery rises in the future, the reserve battalion can become a regular infantry battalion in a short time by replacing with new guns.

At the same time, the soldiers of the reserve battalion can also replenish the battle losses of the main infantry battalion in time! "Zeng Ziwen and his team in the past are very enthusiastic about the expansion of the troops, whether it is the main battalion, the reserve battalion, or simply this garrison battalion.

At the same time, Zeng Ziwen continued: "Considering the present and the future, our army will capture a large number of Ming troops. This number may be several thousand or even tens of thousands. Even if a few people are selected to be added to the main force, the remaining There will still be a lot of numbers, and it is not an option to let these people all act as coolies. It is necessary to increase the scale of the garrison. Even if the combat power is weaker, it is still possible to serve as an auxiliary combat mission, especially to be stationed in places and maintain supplies. Minor tasks such as transport lines!"

"There are not many main troops in our army. The tip of the knife should be used where it is most important, and it should not be wasted on some insignificant secondary tasks!"

After Zeng Ziwen's remarks, everyone present nodded slightly!

Li Xuan also pondered a little and said: "The expansion of the garrison is necessary. The current two garrison are indeed too different from the existing captives, so it is difficult to arrange!"

"In this way, Zeng Aiqing, you have to work harder, and now make a plan for the expansion of the garrison!"

Zeng Ziwen immediately said: "The minister obeys the order!"

Then Li Xuan said again: "These Ming army prisoners have bad habits, and they can't keep their old ways when they are incorporated into the garrison. They must be trained strictly!"

The position of the garrison battalion in the new army of the Tang Dynasty has always been relatively embarrassing. Because of the problems of weapons and equipment and the quality of the soldiers, the combat effectiveness has not been high, and the will to fight is relatively weak.

In several battles, the garrison battalion did not actually perform well, at best it could only be said to be quite satisfactory.

Now that the scale of the garrison is going to be expanded, it cannot always be like this. Even if it is equipped with cold weapons, it must be a real cold weapons army. It can't be like the current situation, just a Ming army dressed in the outer skin of a new army of the Tang Dynasty. , but also the guardsmen.

Although Li Xuan also knows that freezing is not a one-day cold, it is not easy to change the habits of these Ming army prisoners, but as long as the heart is ruthless and the hands are hot, these are not problems!

Bad battle? kill!

Disobedience? kill!

Mutiny of the whole army? kill!

For the surrendered army, they must use such a strong means to spur them, otherwise, the surrendered army is just a bunch of waste.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, countless Ming troops surrendered to the Tartars. Before they surrendered to the Tartars, their fighting power was extremely weak, but after they surrendered to the Tartars, they all became fierce and fierce. What was the reason behind this?

The reason is impossible, the strict military law is nothing more!

Tartars didn't open a shantang. Since they accepted your surrender, then you have to sacrifice your life for them, otherwise they will waste this food.

If the surrendered Ming army was ineffective in fighting, they would kill every minute.

Therefore, after the Ming army surrendered and became the Qing army, because the Qing army threatened with a knife behind them, they all became extremely fierce.

In the end, he helped the Tartars to level the land of China, and used knives to coerce tens of millions of people into shouting masters to a group of rat-tailed braids. The Ming army in the late Ming Dynasty was a shame for the soldiers of all dynasties. It lasted for five thousand years. There has never been such a **** army.

It’s nothing to lose a war, it’s nothing to lose a country, it’s nothing to beg for pity against the barbarians, but it’s nothing to beggars themselves, and they force tens of millions of people to join them. History like this is nothing. I'm embarrassed to tell outsiders, otherwise people will ask in surprise: Aren't they Han Chinese? Why do you do this?

Damn, who knows what they are thinking in the end, I can't go through hundreds of years to split their heads and see what they are thinking!

Putting aside these national feelings, I have to say that the way the Qing army recruited the Ming army in the late Ming Dynasty was quite good.

Moreover, Li Xuan felt that it was also suitable for his own Datang New Army, because his Datang New Army was originally very strict in military law.

This is extremely harsh on myself, and it is even more harsh on surrendering the Ming army, that is a matter of course!

If there are soldiers who surrendered to the Ming army and pushed back three times, even disobeyed their orders, then I am sorry, there is only one word to greet them, and that is kill!

Killing and killing, these people will naturally be convinced, and then they will be transformed into fierce divisions, perhaps even more fierce than the Ming army who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Yes, they would not have too much psychological pressure when they surrendered to the Tang Dynasty.

This is very obvious, Wu Sangui surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and helped the Qing army swept the Central Plains to resist the Ming army, so his name was nailed to the pillar of historical shame for hundreds of years. It is estimated that after a thousand years, Wu Sangui will still be a traitor in people's hearts.

But if Wu Sangui descended to greatness, the most powerful Han dynasty in history for five thousand years: the Tang Dynasty!

Then his name is estimated to be passed down through the ages and become a national hero that everyone admires!

So, to surrender is to surrender to the right person!

These ideas, Li Xuan is only one, more importantly, he is thinking about how to make these prisoners of the Ming army play a greater role.

The existing garrison battalion is too small, these five or six thousand prisoners, don't they have to create a dozen garrison battalions, and the direct command of these garrison battalions is too big of a problem.

Moreover, the garrison battalion composed of these Ming army prisoners cannot be gathered together, and the risk of betrayal is too great.

So it must be dispersed and used together!

For example, in the previous Third Infantry Regiment, the three subordinate infantry battalions were the 10th Infantry Battalion, the 1st Guard Battalion, and the 2nd Guard Battalion.

Although this model is still slightly lacking~www.wuxiaspot.com~, it is still worth continuing to promote!

This imperial military strategy meeting was very long. When the meeting was going on, Zeng Ziwen wrote directly how to expand the garrison battalion, because the establishment of the garrison battalion is ready-made and directly based on the existing number of Ming army prisoners. As well as the configuration of arms, it is enough to establish a few garrison battalions.

Therefore, when Li Xuan and Qian Mengjiu finished talking about the pensions for the dead and wounded after the war, Zeng Ziwen came to Li Xuan with an unfinished work plan: "Report to Your Majesty, this is the preliminary defense drawn up by the minister. The battalion expansion plan, the initial opinion is to set up three new infantry regiments!"

Zeng Ziwen did not immediately talk about the new infantry regiment, but instead talked about the reserve camp!

"According to the expansion plan of our army half a month ago, ten reserve battalions will be expanded at one time. As the reserve force of the main force, there are now five reserve battalions established. Among them, the first reserve battalion has been the last two. The day began to officially accept new recruits!

With the successive formation of reserve battalions, it will effectively supplement the strength gap of our army's main force, and at the same time, it will be more convenient to supplement the battle damage of our army's main force in the future!

According to the predetermined plan, these garrison battalions will arrange for the existing five infantry regiments to have two reserve battalions each to supplement the shortage of soldiers in the main infantry regiment! "

After speaking, Zeng Ziwen paused and continued: "In view of the fact that the reserve battalion has been able to provide effective auxiliary support for the main infantry regiment, it can also provide a supplement to the reserve force.

In order to ensure the purity of the main infantry regiment and maintain its combat effectiveness, the minister suggested not to attach a garrison battalion to the existing five main infantry regiments.

I thought that a small number of regular infantry battalions should be combined with a large number of garrison battalions to form a brand new infantry regiment that could operate independently to undertake second-line combat missions! "