At the beginning of the fortress military meeting, Wu Shigong first announced three decisions:
The first decision was to formally determine the organization of all the soldiers in Wu Shigong's hands.
The first is the cavalry. Wu Shigong and Xue Yongli divided the cavalry into five squadrons. Each squadron commanded five squads. Each squad had ten cavalry. The captain of the cavalry was Xue Yongli.
However, among the cavalry, there are two squadrons with relatively special missions. One of the squadrons is the cavalry reconnaissance squadron with Zhang Biao and Li Sanhe as captains and deputy squadron leaders. The other is the cavalry reserve squadron commanded and trained by Wu Shigong and Xue Yongli.
squadron.
Because in the formulation of this establishment, Wu Shigong and Xue Yongli mobilized nearly fifty guards around them and sent them to new soldiers and Zhou Xun's militia to become officers, and then selected fifty outstanding soldiers from the new soldiers as their own
soldiers.
And these soldiers will all receive cavalry training. Although the gambling house guards Wu Shigong brought from the capital have received nearly a year of riding training from the veteran army chief hired by Wu Shigong, they still received the training after arriving at Qianhusuo Fortress.
After receiving intensive training from Xue Yongli, he reluctantly became a qualified cavalryman. Therefore, Wu Shigong knew that the cavalry training cycle was quite long. These soldiers had to undergo rigorous training for at least half a year before they could become a qualified cavalryman.
of cavalry.
In fact, Wu Shigong has now trained his own cavalry brigade as the officer corps of his own army. Once these cavalrymen have passed the training in all subjects, they will be transferred to various units to become low-level officers.
With those 400 new soldiers, Wu Shigong established four infantry squadrons. Each squadron had ten infantry squads. Each squad also had ten soldiers. The infantry unit also established a brigade, under the direct command of Wu Shigong. Qian
Qi became his deputy to assist Wu Shigong in training these infantrymen.
After this battle, although basically all the new recruits did not even have a chance to come into contact with the Holy Spirit Society rebels during the battle, because they had all experienced the atmosphere of war, Wu Shigong made an exception and did not look at the assessment results.
All new soldiers have been converted into formal soldiers, that is, they all receive 50% of the military pay.
Of course, the assessment process was still conducted. Wu Shigong also selected the fifty best soldiers among them as his own soldiers. These soldiers will also receive full pay. Moreover, if these soldiers can fully master
If you master the various riding skills of the cavalry, you will also receive double military pay like the guards from the capital.
In addition, Wu Shigong also announced among those soldiers who have not become personal soldiers: From now on, every three months, they will be reassessed and select some outstanding soldiers as Wu Shigong's personal soldiers.
In this way, Wu Shigong used the difference in military pay to form a hierarchical system in his army, and also gave each soldier a goal to strive for, giving them the motivation to train hard and climb up.
The patrol militia will also be divided into three squadrons. Their organization is the same as that of the infantry squadron. However, their military pay and support, relying on the output of the 7,000 acres of land, may be barely enough in ordinary days.
, but it is definitely not enough in this famine year, so Wu Shigong will also use part of the money as a subsidy for the military pay and support of the militia.
In addition, the training standards, assessment standards and promotion standards of the militia will be exactly the same as those of Wu Shigong's other soldiers. In this way, on the one hand, the soldiers of the militia will also have the motivation to train hard; on the other hand, Wu Shigong will receive military pay through
and the subsequent mobilization of soldiers, effectively taking the force of the militia into their own hands.
Of course, there is also Liang Hui's artillery team. Because the supply of gunpowder is always insufficient, the artillery team can only maintain a minimum level of training standards.
Wu Shigong asked everyone in the artillery team to participate in infantry and cavalry training. Of course, their training standards and intensity will be somewhat reduced.
There was no way Wu Shigong came up with such nondescript terms as "Squadron" and "Squad" because in his Qianhu Office, all the official positions of the 100 households, the general banner and the small banner were hereditary, and
Now these official positions are also occupied by military households.
However, Wu Shigong himself was not qualified to appoint new military officials, so Wu Shigong had no choice but to use these temporary titles to name his officers.
The second decision was: Wu Shigong and Xue Yongli determined the leading officers of each squadron and squadron. When assigning, Wu Shigong specially arranged the chief and deputy squadron leaders of each squadron: one was a guard of the Xue Mansion; the other was a guard of the Xue Mansion;
One of them is a guard in a gambling house. This arrangement is just a precautionary measure to prevent subordinates from having different intentions.
The only exceptions are Zhang Biao and Li Sanhe. Wu Shigong currently lacks experienced reconnaissance talents. However, this arrangement is not a big problem. After all, the subordinates under Zhang Biao and Li Sanhe are all Wu Shigong's guards.
The third decision is: to recruit another 400 new soldiers.
Wu Shigong's current plan is that even if his fifth brother Wu Shiwen cannot become the county magistrate of this county, then to take a step back, the credit he gave to his fifth brother will be of no use, and these credits will be returned to himself.
Let Wu Shigong obtain the official position of Guide Guard.
Even with the worst plan, Wu Shigong became the guard of Guide Mansion. Before breaking up with Li Lu, Wu Shigong had already asked Li Lu about the basic situation of the guard.
Wu Shigong thought: Even if he had the same quota as Li Lu, who was squeezed out of the garrison, and only had 800 soldiers, and the court only paid 50% of the military salary, then he would finally have enough money to raise 400 more new soldiers.
. Besides, the training of new recruits would be better if it started a day earlier.
As for if the fifth brother Wu Shiwen gets the official position of county magistrate, there will be no problem! With the help of the fifth brother Wu Shiwen, what big deal is it to raise 400 more soldiers?
After Wu Shigong announced his decision, everyone began to hold a summary meeting. Regarding Wu Shigong's decision to strengthen soldier training and recruit new soldiers, everyone who participated in the meeting unanimously agreed.
When Wu Shigong first arrived at Qianhusuo, Wu Shigong spent a lot of money and mobilized a lot of manpower to build the Qianhusuo fortress, recruited soldiers, and strengthened training. Everyone was really confused about Wu Shigong's approach. Because, at that time,
The situation around Qianhu Station is still very stable.
However, in less than half a year, such a large-scale rebellion occurred. To be fair, if Wu Shigong had not made preparations in advance, it is not certain whether this rebellion could have been quelled, or whether people like Wu Shigong could have maintained peace.
Therefore, everyone now fully agrees with Wu Shigong's current approach of expanding military force.
In addition, the participants also summarized the following opinions:
The first is to vigorously develop the cavalry. After the Farewell Charge, the power of the trained cavalry has been fully unleashed. It should be said that Wu Shigong's cavalry was the first to be responsible for wiping out the rebellion of the Holy Spirit Society.
However, Wu Shigong also knew that adding a large number of cavalry at any time would definitely be beyond his financial resources. The method Wu Shigong adopted was that he would rather have people wait for horses than let horses wait for people. Therefore, he asked for new soldiers, all of whom were
To receive cavalry training;
The second is to make more firecrackers. In the defense of the county, everyone saw the role of firecrackers in defensive operations. Moreover, Wu Shigong and others also discovered that firecrackers were useful to those who had never seen firecrackers.
It is said that the effect of psychological deterrence is also very huge;
At present, Yang Goudan's blacksmith workshop is also short of manpower, so Wu Shigong wants to ask him to make as many fire guns as possible.
However, among the copper coins seized from the Holy Spirit Society this time, there were also several large pieces of copper. Those copper blocks were broken into pieces of bronze Buddha statues by the Holy Spirit Society mobs. Wu Shigong asked Yang Goudan to wait for some free time.
Melt those copper blocks and cast a small cannon on a trial basis;
The third is to strengthen the training of the queue. When Wu Shigong was training the young men gathered in the county town of Qi County this time, he was conducting a training program that had them first run side by side and then assassinate, but these young men could not do it.
When Wu Shigong arrived, he realized that the role of queues actually lies here.
In addition, Wu Shigong discovered that his "shrinking turtle flow" idea seemed very good, but in reality it was simply impossible. In this battle, Wu Shigong had to defend against Qi County Magistrate
This county town has to rescue Guidefu City, and there is no way to hide in its own Qianhusuo fortress.
Therefore, Wu Shigong appropriately changed his strategy, which was to rely on Qianhusuo Fortress as the main defense and provide limited support to the surrounding areas for attack.
In line with this change in strategy, Wu Shigong wanted to strengthen his cavalry on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also wanted to strengthen the field combat capabilities of his infantry. At least these infantry must have the ability to escort captured supplies and prisoners. In this battle, something happened
Xue Yongli only had one hundred and fifty cavalry, but he had to escort thousands of prisoners and so much supplies. This was probably too embarrassing.
In addition, there is also a map of the surrounding area. Wu Shigong's army, which is mainly escorted from the capital, is not familiar with the terrain here except for a few major roads. If a limited attack is to be carried out in the future, it will definitely not work without a map.
On the one hand, Wu Shigong asked Xue Yongli to arrange for the new soldiers who were familiar with the local terrain to help draw the map. On the other hand, Wu Shigong asked Zhang Biao and Li Sanhe to immediately lead their reconnaissance squadron to observe the terrain nearby after the meeting.
, draw a map.
Of course, with the cultural level of Wu Shigong's current army soldiers, it is simply impossible to draw a modern standard military map with contour lines. Let alone make a sand table. What Wu Shigong asked them to draw is that kind of
It's just a brief map that illustrates the basic terrain.
This fortress military meeting allowed Wu Shigong to take the first step in the regularization of the army. It also basically reflected Wu Shigong's basic ideas of building an army.
But more importantly, Wu Shigong's army has developed the practice of summarizing the battle after every battle since the Fortress Military Conference. Wu Shigong's army has also become an army that can learn and grow in war.