Zhu Youxiao went from the East Palace to Wuying Hall again.
The newly established Military Aircraft Department does not have a fixed office space for the time being. In order to deal with the troops involved in the rebellion as soon as possible, the left and right corridors outside Wuying Hall were temporarily cleaned out for the use of the Military Aircraft Department.
Last night, Zhang Weixian, Yang Sichang, and Hong Chengchou came in.
Now the table, paper and pens, chairs, desks, maps of the Ming Dynasty, the map of Beizhili, the map of the capital, and even the map of Jiubian and Liaodong are all hung up in the gallery, and a neat roster is placed on the cabinet. It has the atmosphere of a professional military organization, but it is still a long way from a modern staff organization.
Zhang Weixian, Yang Sichang and Hong Chengchou saw Zhu Youxiao coming and hurriedly greeted him and saluted him.
Zhu Youxiao allowed them to skip the ceremony and did not ask for help. He went straight to the point and said:
"Teacher from the British army, dear sirs, we have an urgent task. The Beijing camp is the front of our Ming Dynasty's military force. This matter is so serious this time, we cannot slack off at all. We must first verify the number, age and resume of the soldiers in the Beijing camp." "Understood, we have checked the number of people. There are 130,000 people on the roster, but there are actually only 73,073 people. The vacancies are almost half." Yang Sichang is more capable of working hard, and has led people to verify the number of people day and night.
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"Even if there are 73,073 people, it is estimated that not half of them will be able to stay."
Hearing what the prince said, Hong Chengchou replied: "I have inspected the Shenshu camp. More than 30% of the troops are old and weak, and the remaining 20% are naughty and naughty. They are no different from local ruffians. Those who are capable of fighting are indeed as Your Highness said.
Not even half of it."
Zhang Weixian concluded: "The appearance of the Jingying camp is actually the result of the separate training of Wu Xun and the civilian officials who know the military and horses of the General Rong Jingying camp. We have neglected our duties and really feel ashamed of the Ming Dynasty."
"The British Army, please don't blame yourself too much. The methods of martial arts and civilian training cannot save the Beijing camp, so the Military Aircraft Department is needed. Moreover, the Military Aircraft Department also needs to reorganize the military equipment of our Ming Dynasty so that our Ming army can have Taizu.
, the high morale of Chengzu’s period.”
"I understand!"
Zhu Youxiao said to Zhang Weixian again: "I have seen all the powerful enemies around me, and none of them are scary. The only enemy is Nurhachi, the enemy chief who built the slaves. He was once the Longhu general of our Ming army. The unified Jurchens are unstoppable. Fushun Pass, Sarhu, Kaiyuan Tieling
, we defeated our Ming Dynasty soldiers and horses in three battles, but he was the most serious problem.
I wonder if the old prince thinks he can defeat Nurhaci in a battle?"
Zhang Weixian sighed. He could have imagined it before, but on the night of the rebellion, he knew that he would no longer have the fighting skills of his ancestors...
"I have been sparse for a long time and am not familiar with the terrain of Liaodong. It is really difficult to defeat Nurhaci." In front of Zhu Youxiao, he knew that he must tell the truth and let the arrangement of the prince's supervision of the country be based on his truth. p>
Zhu Youxiao looked into the distance and took a few steps with a little effort.
"The Duke and my teacher told the truth, and I was very moved. But five years later, I believe that the British Duke will definitely defeat Nurhachi."
Zhang Weixian was surprised at first, thinking that the prince valued him becoming stronger, but then he frowned a little, because did the Liaodong rebellion still have to wait for more than five years?
Zhu Youxiao continued: "I looked through the history books of the Chengzu period and saw that the British ancestor Zhang Fu conquered the rebellious Annan, but he overcame all obstacles, defeated the enemy's army, and defeated the enemy's elephant formation, and finally restored the Ming Dynasty.
Jiaozhi.
I discovered that Zhang Fu had never been to Annan or even the southwest before, but he still had high-level skills."
This is about the deeds of Zhang Weixian's ancestor Zhang Fu. At this time, the British prince burst into tears and worshiped: "I will not humiliate my ancestors and live up to my expectations."
"In the future, when our Ming Dynasty's capital camp and Jiubian become stronger, if we don't have experience in the Liaodong campaign, I will send people who are familiar with the terrain to cooperate with the government. If our war experience is not as good as that of the enemy chief, we will use firearms and new tactics to surpass his old-fashioned experience a hundred times.
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We are reorganizing our troops not to seek accountability, but to be loyal and stronger!"
"His Royal Highness the Supervisor of the Kingdom is a wise man!"
The three military aircraft ministers praised together, and the three of them became more clear about the positioning of the military aircraft department.
By the way, let’s first conduct an inventory of the Beijing camp, eliminate redundancies, and select the best.
I have some methods for this selection.
Selection and screening, detailed records of each person's situation, and selection based on physical fitness, combat skills, ideological and moral character, and organizational discipline.
The first step is to find out and eliminate all kinds of military officials in the Beijing camp who have taken short quotas, assumed meritorious service, and assumed their nationality, and let them leave the Beijing camp. These people can no longer be used. As for how to deal with them, they must be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. The second step is to screen out personnel of different levels of physical fitness for registration and grouping through physical training methods such as emergency marches, training, and cross-country loading.
The third step is: conduct various tests on physical fitness, fighting, firearms, riding, battle formations, tactics of war, and military training, and register and organize by grade.
The fourth step is to investigate each person's discipline, character, attitude and performance in performing tasks before and during training, and classify them according to different levels.
Those who excel in physical fitness, fighting, firearms, riding, battle formations, tactics, training and discipline in the Beijing camp will be placed in the first group. After further selection and screening, they will be queued according to their performance.
Select the top 20,000 outstanding candidates.
Then they will practice together with Zhejiang soldiers and Shizhu white pole soldiers and compete.
According to the joint training, the results of the competition were personally inspected and selected by Qin Liangyu, chieftain of Shizhu, Qi Jin, deputy commander-in-chief of Jizhen, and Zhang Mingshi, general of the Zhejiang Army's aid to Liao Dynasty, and some outstanding candidates were promoted as the backbone of the new Beijing camp.
From now on, the troops of Qin Liangyu, chieftain of Shizhu, Qi Jin, deputy commander-in-chief of Jizhen, and Zhang Mingshi, general of the Zhejiang Army aiding the Liao Dynasty, will all enter the new Beijing camp.
It is planned to disband half of the troops to enhance the integrity, that is, the Beijing camp and Zhejiang troops, and half of the white pole troops will be mixed and reorganized. Positions will be re-appointed based on qualifications, abilities, achievements, and popularity.
The remaining half maintain the original organization to ensure combat effectiveness.
For example, the white-pole soldiers are a special unit trained by Qin Liangyu who are good at mountain warfare. The white-pole guns they hold are long poles made of strong white wax logs. The white poles are equipped with bladed hooks and hard iron rings at the bottom.
Ten spears connected with hooks can be used as a tool for climbing over mountains and walls. Cliffs can be climbed instantly, making them very suitable for mountain warfare.
Qi Jin, Zhang Mingshi's new Zhejiang army, is trained according to the Qi family army's method, and focuses more on the use of vehicle formations and guns. This army and horse can be regarded as the last inheritance of the Qi family army.
In order to maintain combat effectiveness, give full play to its advantages, and inherit its characteristics, its organization must also be retained and strengthened.
The planned elimination, selection, and reorganization will take half a year.
The selection and training process takes a long time, and there is time to strengthen physical fitness and combat skills. This is a time specially reserved for those with strong will to catch up.
The most important thing is to train together. The strength of the comrades who work with them cannot hold them back.
Therefore, in addition to screening yourself, you can also conduct competitions and competitions.
This is how the fittest survive.
The more you practice, the stronger your soldiers and horses become, and the more you practice, the more cohesive they become.
Otherwise, what would Zhu Youxiao do to promote reform and change?