After Zhao Qiang finished speaking, Hu Wang asked about the more than two hundred Han criminals and their specific placement. [] Zhao Qiang thought for a moment, although most of these Han people were criminals who committed murder and arson, and their character was very low.
, but this is the time to recruit people, and after the reorganization, the number of Han Chinese in the two regiments is very rare, accounting for less than one-fifth. If these criminals are abandoned, the proportion will be reduced to one-tenth. Equilibrium
The power is very uneven. Zhao Qiang does not want the army he built to become a foreign invasion in the eyes of the Han people in the Pass like the Manchus who entered the Pass. In that case, the resistance of the Han officials and the landlord class will make him fall into a trap like Li Zicheng or the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Most of the Han people were the opposite, thus allowing the Manchus to take advantage. So he asked Hu Wang to organize all the criminals into the infantry regiment, and temporarily confer military titles on them. If they performed military merits or proved loyal and reliable, they would be promoted.
Zhao Qiang hinted to Hu Wang that if it turns out that these Han criminals are available, they can be given priority in promotion. Hu Wang understood this.
Hu Wang also brought up the matter of the artillery team, that is, although the establishment is 150 people, there are currently no artillerymen in the military. How can the artillery team form combat effectiveness as soon as possible when the division can learn from it. Hu Wang himself cannot
He knows how to shoot artillery, so for his subordinates to have such an extra artillery unit, he must figure out how to use it and how to train it, otherwise he really doesn't know what the use of this artillery unit is.
Hu Wang's continuous questions did not make Zhao Qiang unhappy. On the contrary, he admired Hu Wang's point of view. If he didn't understand, he just had to ask. If he messed with it, then the meaning of using these four small cannons of the Russian army to form a prototype of artillery was meaningless.
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Zhao Qiang did not settle this issue in one word. Instead, after discussing with Hu Wang and Wu Si, he decided to release the captured Russian troops, select their artillerymen to join the artillery team, and teach their own artillerymen how to fire.
The remaining Russian musketeers serve as instructors of the artillery brigade, responsible for the training of new recruits who do not yet know how to use firecrackers. However, these Russian troops can only be used as auxiliary troops, regardless of the presence of any military commander. After the artillery team has formed combat effectiveness,
In addition to field battles, they can be used as siege weapons. There are several boxes of captured Russian artillery, which can be used for two to three battles with low firing levels. Duncan told Zhao Qiang that the Russians have them in their strongholds in the Far East.
Some small arms depots are transported from the hinterland of Russia. Because they can only be transported in spring and summer, when the Russian army transports arms to the Far East, they always transport enough ammunition for one or two years of combat at one time to prevent
Due to seasonal reasons, the Russian army had no ammunition to replenish and was attacked by the Qing army. Since the Russian army's strongholds had small arms warehouses, Zhao Qiang did not worry that there would be nowhere to replenish the ammunition after the artillery fire.
Wu Si mentioned a suggestion, that is, if the Russians are captured again in the future, should they be dealt with in the same way as now, and let them be responsible for the firepower training of their own recruits instead of killing them again. Qi Zhuang insisted on having more captured Russian troops.
, all were killed. Hu Wang was noncommittal, Bagan and others did not speak. After careful consideration, Zhao Qiang told them clearly that any captured Russian soldiers would be escorted back first, either as coolies or as coaches.
Then decide whether to kill them based on their performance.
Zhao Qiang felt a little pity when he thought of the Russian musketeers who were slaughtered by his order. He was a little impulsive at the time and just wanted to weaken the strength of the Russians as quickly as possible, but he did not expect that these Russian prisoners could be used to increase their own combat effectiveness. After all, they were a little bit impulsive.
The familiarity with the use of fire blunderbuss is much higher than that of the first-time users under my command. Letting them take charge of the training can achieve better results. But it will not work if I don't kill them at that time. Who knows that their number will not be much less than us at that time?
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In the future, perhaps we can establish a Russian team or even a Russian brigade or even a Russian alliance, and let them act as Russian traitors and use the barbarians to control the barbarians. In the official history, didn’t Beijing also have a Russian military commander who was used by the Manchus? This military commander was full of Russian prisoners.
It seems that the Russians have no psychological resistance to serving as enemy soldiers after surrendering. Zhao Qiang thought, if you have the opportunity, you can give it a try. It is best to have a Cossack cavalry of more than a thousand people and a Rakshasa of more than a thousand people.
The security team is so wonderful, so wonderful. Thinking of this, Zhao Qiang couldn't help but laugh out loud, which made Hu Wang, Wu Si and the others very surprised.
Zhao Qiang did not need to worry about the matters of the Cavalry Regiment. The knights transferred to the First Cavalry Brigade were all experienced and had participated in actual combat, and their equestrian skills were basically passable. And the soldiers of the Second Cavalry Brigade were born Mongolian knights, so training problems did not arise at all.
Zhao Qiang, a layman, needs to intervene.
According to what Bagan brought, the five hundred Mongolian men were all Khalkha Mongols. However, as far as Zhao Qiang knew, the Khalkha Mongols were a Mongolian tribe close to the Manchus. Like the Horqin and other tribes, although they had not entered the
The Mongolian Eight Banners, but they have been a die-hard Mongolian tribe since the Qing Dynasty. But I don’t know why Bagan was able to bring five hundred Khalkhas to join the war.
You must ask Bagan about this question. What is going on? Maybe the interior of Khalkha is not as monolithic as he thought. Zhao Qiang glanced at Bogen who was talking to Qi Zhuang and others. So far, he
Bagan has not been told that they have fought against the Qing army. The plan is that for at least a year, Bagan's 2nd Cavalry Brigade will fight against the Russians and will not participate in the battle against possible invading Qing troops.
Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the worst. If Bagan was angry with the Russians just because he was captured by the Russians, and wanted to wash away the suffering he had suffered, so he led his tribe here to participate in the war against the Russians, and
If I had never thought about helping Zhao Qiang fight the Qing army, then once the Qing army suddenly attacked, the Second Cavalry Brigade might become a time bomb in Shouyi City.
Zhao Qiang didn't believe that Ba Gen would bow down to him and be loyal to him because he admired his character, because as of now, Zhao Qiang and Ba Gen had only talked about a dozen sentences, and they didn't have any in-depth understanding of each other.
There was no deep friendship between them. Before that, one party was a conqueror in the garb of a savior, while the other party was just a slave of the Russians.
There are more than a thousand people in the infantry regiment who have participated in the battle. There are also more than 500 Feiyala people and Oroqen men who have passed the test of loyalty. The remaining half are people of various ethnic groups newly captured by Qi Zhuang and Hu Wang and those from the Qing Dynasty.
When Solon surrendered his troops, the ratio between the two sides was one to one. This ratio reassured Zhao Qiang, who believed that the newly kidnapped men of all ethnic groups would not mutiny.
Request for collection and red ticket support, thank you. The relevant division and alliance refer to the German team system, not Japan.