After equipping six hundred Changping soldiers with cotton armor and playing cards, it was already the end of March. Except for transporting food to Jinzhou twice, there was basically nothing else. This gave Shi Dayong enough time to train his troops.
While waiting for the arrival of cotton armor and shields, Shi Dayong divided the 600 Changping soldiers into six teams and two battalions, and the two battalions were named "Yong Ziying" and "Wu Ziying" respectively.
Yongzi Yingqian Commander Huang An leads the three teams of A, B and C. The commanders of the three teams are Ma Zhong, Guo Er and Shi Hai.
Shao Wu, the general manager of Wuzi Yingqian, led the third team of Ding Wuji. The commanders of the third team were Zhao Kegang, Lu Jiang and Wang Zhengqi.[
Three hundred cavalry were combined into one battalion, with Jiang Wanli still serving as the commander-in-chief. The commanders-in-chief of the three teams were Wu Tieshan, Sun Youjin, and Li Changhe.
Each commander has five small flags, and one flag leads twenty soldiers.
Shi Dayong originally had a personal regiment of thirteen people, and he drew thirty-seven people from each battalion to form his own personal regiment, with Guo Yi as the captain.
Although I don’t understand why the garrison master wanted to disrupt the original establishment and form a new camp, the generals have no objections. After all, after the new camp is established, the top and bottom are much clearer. In the past, some generals had forty or fifty people under their command, and some
Then there were only twenty or thirty people, and there were more of them than others, and troubles often occurred when military pay was distributed. Now with this change, everyone has the same strength, so there is no complaint.
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After the adaptation was completed, Shi Dayong asked the governor Qiu Hejialing to recruit 300 young men from the peasants who sent food from Ningyuan to form the Songshan Trooping Battalion. In peacetime, he was responsible for the management and escort of the peasants, and in wartime
Serving as auxiliary soldiers, Qianzong of the baggage camp was appointed directly from among the young men, Li Dashan, the former captain of the personal soldiers, and the commander of each team, Xiaoqi.
Ningyuan was quite dissatisfied with Songshan's unauthorized seizure of three hundred young men. He wrote a letter to the governor's office in Jinzhou, but was suppressed by Qiu Hejia. After that, the entire Liaodong's attention was attracted by a major event.
It was after Sun Chengzong ordered to be sealed as a forward general that Liaodong forward commander Zu Dashou led 13,000 troops and 26,000 civilians to build a city on the Daling River, more than 30 miles away from Jinzhou.
This is the third time to rebuild Dalinghe City. Forty to fifty thousand soldiers and civilians were used, which almost wiped out the main force of the Ming army in Jinzhou. The cost was huge. Under the strict order of Sun Chengzong, the army went up to the governor's office in Liaodong and down to the various military stations.
, all devoted themselves to the task of building the city of Daling River. But these things that happened in Songshan were no longer noticed.
The construction of the Daling River city began on the third day of April. From that day on, Shi Dayong's tasks became arduous. In the past, he was transporting the grain stored in Songshan to Jinzhou, which was only a distance of more than 20 miles. Now he has to go quickly to Jinzhou.
Needless to say, the sixty-mile journey along the Daling River was difficult.
Fortunately, after more than two months of luck, nothing happened. The Houjin side seemed to be deaf and ignored the Ming army's reconstruction of Dalinghe City that happened under their noses. Except for the occasional Houjin cavalry coming to reconnoiter.
Outside, there was no movement at all.
The officials who were originally very worried that the Hou Jin Dynasty would send troops to hinder the Ming army from rebuilding Daling River City breathed a sigh of relief. Zu Dashou reported that according to the current project progress, Daling River City will be completed by the end of August.
, the Ming Dynasty's front line in Liaodong would be transformed from Jinzhou to Daling River City, and the memorial reported to the court could also add "recovery of more than thirty miles of lost territory". This was doubtful for Emperor Chongzhen who was eager to see improvement in the Liao affair.
It was a great joy. Under Long Yan's great joy, the civil servants and military generals in Liaodong naturally felt the emperor's grace.
Whether the emperor's favor is great or not, for the little Songshan garrison, it is hard to say how deeply it feels.
Shi Dayong was preoccupied with his own affairs.
Transporting food is a big deal, and training troops is even more important.
The construction of Daling River City is in full swing, and Shi Dayong's military training is also in full swing.
Although the Great Leap Forward-style weapons and equipment revolution using the knowledge of later generations failed, the military training methods of later generations can still be adopted.
For a month, Shi Dayong tirelessly taught martial arts to the soldiers of the Second Yong Battalion every day. The soldiers of the Yong Second Battalion were trained in distinguishing left and right and lining up. The roughness allowed them to reach the level of military training in later generations of universities. Although they were not completely satisfied, they were able to achieve such an achievement.
Shi Dayong is still quite proud.
Formation training is boring and seems useless, but it allows soldiers to find a sense of belonging to the group, which is especially important in wartime.[
An army that is easily broken up cannot become a strong army.
The weapons and equipment of Wu and Yong's second battalion are still the old blunderbuss, which is the standard weapon of the Ming Dynasty army. Although Shi Dayong knows that this kind of blunderbuss has no effect, even if the three-stage shooting method is used, the lethality is extremely limited. But if
He asked them not to use blunderbuss, and he had no good weapons to provide them for the time being. Therefore, he could only let the soldiers continue to use blunderbuss, but at the same time Shi Dayong emphasized the importance of broadswords and spears, and hinted to the generals,
Guns are only auxiliary weapons, the key is to rely on swords and spears.
Under Shi Dayong's continuous indoctrination of the theory of "Decisive Victory", all the generals generally had a clear understanding. Combined with the previous battles against Jiannu, they all agreed with the point of view of the garrison master.
Of course, knowing the disadvantages and not doing something is not Shi Dayong's style, let alone the style of a gambler. With an ugly hand, the wisest way is to give up, rather than pretending to be a big one and trying to "steal the chicken"
win.
On the battlefield, strength always determines everything. "Stealing chickens" has only one consequence, and that is death and burial.
If you want to win, you must have big cards. The truth on the gambling table applies to the battlefield - don't fight the battle with certainty.
It doesn't matter if the cannons are useless. As long as the array can be prevented from being overrun by the Eight Banners cavalry, fire sticks can still have some effect. But to prevent the array from being overrun by the cavalry, relying on cannons will definitely not work.
On April 17, Shi Dayong ordered all the Wuzi Camp and the Baggage Camp to go to the nearby mountains to cut down birch trees. There was only one requirement for the felled birch trees: they should not be too thin or too short.
The standard is one foot, and the thickness should be more than half a foot. Using the measurement method of later generations, the length should be three and a half meters, and the width should be more than twenty centimeters.
Birch wood has the hardest texture, is not easy to break, and can withstand gravity. Therefore, after conducting experiments on more than a dozen tree types, Shi Dayong set his sights on birch.
The subordinates gave the garrison master's order to cut down birch trees inexplicably, but the military order could not be violated. Three days later, in accordance with Shi Dayong's request, one hundred birch trees that met the standard were neatly placed in the camp.
After inspecting the birch trees one by one, Yuan Dahai issued an order: "Sharpen all these trees!"
After hearing the order, Qianzong Huang An had no choice but to order his subordinates to sharpen the birch trees.
A birch tree that is more than three meters long and more than 20 centimeters thick is still very heavy. It is a bit difficult for one person to hold it. It is just right for two people to hold it, but Shi Dayong asked three people to hold one piece.
After ordering all three soldiers in Wuzi Camp to hold a birch tree in their right hand and a shield in their left hand, Shi Dayong climbed to a high platform, waved an order flag, and ordered the soldiers to advance or retreat according to the order flag's instructions.
When marching, the birch wood is required to be carried forward; when stopping, the birch wood is required to be placed flat on the ground with the tip facing outward; when fighting, the birch wood is required to be held diagonally with the tip pointed upward, and at the same time, the shield is raised on top.
"Enter!"
"stop!"
"vertical!"
This exercise was repeated for more than a hundred times, until the soldiers were so tired that their mouths were dry and everyone looked bitter. Shi Dayong nodded with satisfaction, indicating that today's exercise was over and would continue tomorrow.
The next day, I practiced like this again for three days in a row.[