After seeing off Zhu Shouren, the pig teammate's uncle, and the three of them, a hidden danger was solved, and Zhu Ping'an suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.
Not in vain, I used some tricks to "read" them a few carefully prepared stories. I thought I would show them a few more stories, but I didn't expect that their mental endurance was so poor, and they couldn't stand it anymore.
Seeing his uncle and the others disappearing into the distance, Zhu Pingan returned to the school with a smile to check on the riding skills of the soldiers.
The Zhejiang Army has been intensively practicing their riding skills for two days, but the cavalry is not that easy to train. The veterans of the Zhejiang Army are very skilled in riding horses because they have been exposed to horses for a long time, but that is all. If you want to become a qualified cavalry, use Liu Mu
In other words, it will take at least two months to complete.
Cavalry is not as simple as riding a horse and galloping. Riding and shooting requires at least three months to achieve a qualified level, not to mention the necessary skills for cavalry such as equestrianism, formation, and horse fighting. After a complete set, at least
It takes about half a year to train a qualified cavalryman.
There is a shortage of horses in the south of the Yangtze River, and the recruits in Yiwu are all from rural areas. They have almost never been exposed to horses before. After intensive training in the past two days, most of them can only ride on the back of a galloping horse without being thrown off.
However, this also met Zhu Pingan's expectations.
Zhu Ping'an didn't expect to be able to train a cavalry in such a short period of time. It was enough to be able to ride a horse. Riding a horse was much faster than walking, which would greatly improve the mobility of the Zhejiang army.
In order to deal with the coming Japanese pirates, Zhu Pingan made slight adjustments to the Zhejiang army.
A group of veterans from the Zhejiang Army who are skilled in horseback riding and a group of Yiwu recruits who are unfamiliar with horseback riding form a ranger.
Zhu Ping'an sent fifteen such rangers to all directions in Suzhou. They returned to camp every two hours to rotate, and ordered them to roam around Suzhou. On the one hand, they practiced their equestrian skills and on the other hand, they monitored Japanese pirates.
In addition, Zhu Ping'an also traveled around Suzhou on horseback and carefully selected fifteen highlands, all of which were high hills and hills suitable for overlooking each other, and built simple beacon towers on them.
A total of fifteen beacon towers were built on the high ground.
The fifteen beacon towers are distributed in three rings with Suzhou City as the center. Each ring has ten beacon towers, and each ring is eight miles apart.
In ancient times, beacon towers were usually spaced ten miles apart. Zhu Pingan was worried that the distance was too far and would be difficult to observe, so he changed the distance to eight miles.
As for the materials for burning wolf smoke, wolf dung is hard to find. There is a lot of wolf dung in the horse dung camp. It is dried semi-dry and semi-wet horse dung, mixed with grease, dry firewood, wet firewood, reeds, mugwort, and hay for dry firewood.
Mix oil and grease to start a fire, then add half-dry and half-wet horse manure and wet firewood. Once it is ignited, thick black smoke billows upward and can be clearly seen eight miles away.
Of course, the beacon tower relies on smoke during the day, and the thick smoke is billowing, making it easy to see during the day; it relies on fire at night, and the flames soar into the sky, making it easy to see at night. If the beacon is lit at night, reeds, mugwort, dry wood and grease will be used as fuel.
Each ranger who goes out to patrol is responsible for a beacon tower. When they are patrolling, they must keep five people at the beacon tower.
Once the whereabouts of Japanese pirates are discovered, a beacon warning will be lit as soon as possible.
When all the rangers who were traveling outside saw the beacon fire, they would gallop forward and beat gongs to warn the people in surrounding villages and towns that the Japanese pirates were coming.
Zhu Ping'an also specially told the soldiers that if they encounter rainy or foggy days, visibility is low and the smoke can't be seen clearly, after lighting the beacon, they must ride horses to the next beacon tower to warn them as soon as possible.
Zhu Ping'an also specially arranged two groups of soldiers in the Zhejiang Army camp to look in the direction of the beacon tower. Once a beacon is lit, the beacon must be detected as soon as possible in order to prepare a response.
When Zhu Pingan sent the rangers, he specifically emphasized to them:
"Your mission is to give warning. I do not ask you to stop Japanese pirates, let alone kill or injure Japanese pirates. When encountering Japanese pirates, your first priority is to give warning. As long as you give warning in advance, I will give you a great credit."
"After the warning is completed, harass and stop the Japanese pirates to buy time for the people to evacuate."
"We must take advantage of the mobility and flexibility of fire guns and horses to avoid close combat with Japanese pirates."
Zhu Ping'an's orders to the rangers were mainly to warn, and supplemented by harassment and blocking. The Japanese pirates were fierce, and their numbers were powerful. The rangers sent out lacked proficiency in riding skills and were small in number, so they were no match for the Japanese pirates.
After Zhu Ping'an gave careful instructions, he dispatched fifteen groups of rangers to all directions in Suzhou.
As the sun set in the evening, Zhu Ping'an went to Suzhou City to meet with Shang Wei, the prefect of Suzhou.
Although the government office has been released and all the officials have gone home, the prefect is still working in the government office.
"I'm here to pay my respects to Lord Shang." After Zhu Ping'an entered the Yamen, he was led to the study room of Magistrate Shang and bowed his hands to greet Magistrate Shang.
"No, no, Zihou, please don't do these false etiquettes. I haven't congratulated Zihou for his great contribution to the sea ceremony. With this contribution, Zihou will get rid of the 'deputy' envoy's duties."
It is not impossible to even go one step further. The above decree is probably only the work of these few days. When the time comes, I am afraid I will have to salute you." Shang Zhifu chuckled and took Zhu Ping'an's arm.
Invite him into the study affectionately.
Entering the study, Magistrate Shang asked Zhu Pingan to sit down and poured a cup of hot tea for Zhu Pingan himself, who took it with both hands.
"Zihou, your camp has enough food, grass, baggage, armor and weapons. If it's not enough, don't be polite. I'll send someone to deliver it to your camp."
Magistrate Shang asked with enthusiasm, his attitude as a rich man with no shortage of money was immediately revealed.
"That's enough, that's enough. I haven't thanked Governor Shang for his strong support, so that our Zhejiang Army has no worries. There is nothing we can do to repay Ping An and the Zhejiang Army. We can only shed our lives and blood to keep Suzhou safe."
Zhu Pingan stood up sincerely and bowed to Magistrate Shang to thank him.
The Zhejiang Army has just arrived. In the past few days, the Suzhou government has given more support than the imperial court has given since the army was formed.
Although Suzhou Prefecture is the richest in the world, the full support of the Prefect Shang is the most important. Otherwise, other people's wealth belongs to others, so what does it have to do with you.
The Zhejiang Army is stationed in Suzhou, which is its own duty. The Suzhou government has no obligation to provide food, grass and baggage for the Zhejiang Army.
Generally speaking, the garrisoned place will provide certain support to the garrison as a token of gratitude in exchange for the garrison to be loyal to their duties, protect the safety of the place, and not to harass the local people. Of course, the intensity of their support is relatively limited, like Suzhou Prefecture's full support
In this place, it is rare.
"Zi Hou is too polite. To be honest, since I took office, I have been determined to achieve some achievements. Civil affairs are just some minor achievements that are not worth mentioning, but the military affairs are shameful. The local Arms and Arms Department is so depressed that it is difficult to describe it.
He is not familiar with military affairs and interfered several times, which only made things worse."
"Zihou, your arrival makes me very happy. Zihou, you are young and promising, and you are also proficient in military affairs. Especially since your Zhejiang army was stationed in Suzhou, you have done nothing to harm the people. This is very rare. I am not afraid of you poking my spine.
Bones, I have sent people to conduct secret inspections of your army many times. I am very impressed by your army's military discipline. It turns out that no one has committed any crime. Not a single sergeant has harassed or bullied the people. The only thing your army has done since its garrison is
An army that trains, patrols, and deploys defenses is the army that can truly protect Suzhou."
"I, Suzhou, don't support an army like yours, so who do I support?!"