Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Guangxi.

Qingyuan Prefecture governs Yishan.

Today, Yishan and the three chieftains of Yong'an, Yongding, and Yongshun in the surrounding area have become the front line of the Ming court's suppression of Sun Kewang's forces.

Because in the past one or two years, the Guangxi government army faced Sun Kewang's troops in successive defeats, and then stabilized their position. They fought each with their own victories, and finally restricted Sun Kewang's troops to the west and north of Qingyuan Prefecture, as well as Sicheng Prefecture. This area in the north.

Li Dingguo came as the admiral of military affairs in Guangxi, and he didn't say that relying on his status and the imperial court's will, he slowly reorganized the Guangxi army in the rear.

Instead, he led Dubiao Town directly to Qingyuan Mansion and settled in Yishan, the capital city. After that, he led Dubiao Town to take the initiative to attack and defeated the bandits in Huaiyuan Town and Fulu Town (should be towns, not border towns) successively. The bandit army retreated dozens of miles in a row.

With this great victory record, Li Dingguo, as an admiral, called the officers and troops from all over Guangxi to reorganize.

However, the situation of the officers and soldiers in Guangxi is quite different from other places.

The Guangxi official army is actually divided into two parts, one is the real Guangxi official army, including the guard army and recruiting soldiers; the other is the wolf soldiers.

Wolf soldiers were called "Cu soldiers" at first, and they first appeared in the orthodox period of the Ming Dynasty. They were actually chieftain soldiers of ethnic minorities such as Tong (the Zhuang people were called Tongzu in the Ming Dynasty), Yao and other ethnic minorities who were recruited by the court.

Therefore, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty, the so-called wolf soldiers were not only found in Guangxi, but also in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan and other places, but Guangxi had the most wolf soldiers and was the most famous.

Regarding the arrangement of the Guangxi wolf soldiers, Li Dingguo came in accordance with the military order issued by the Military Affairs Council after discussion.

Whether the local chieftain soldiers accept the reorganization of the imperial court is entirely voluntary.If they accept the reorganization of the imperial court, the soldiers will naturally receive the same treatment as the new army, or join the border defense army, or join the Guangxi garrison.

Chieftain generals study in the general officer training class of Guangxi Military Academy. They can graduate after reaching the lower grades of other military academies. In principle, they are given priority to be assigned to the Guangxi Garrison.

Of course, if the chieftain general voluntarily joins other armies, he can apply, but he must also meet the conditions for entering other armies.

Chieftain soldiers who do not want to be reorganized can be recruited according to the old court regulations, but they must be strictly disciplined and must not plunder the people again. The court will give money before the war, and rewards after the war as compensation.

It seems that the imperial court's restrictions on wolf soldiers are extremely loose, and their control is also weak. In fact, there are many reasons for this.

First of all, there are many ethnic minorities in Guangxi today, the Han people are not very powerful, and there are many chieftains.

The chieftain soldiers are actually the chieftain's private soldiers.

If the imperial court comes up and requires the chieftain soldiers to accept the reorganization unconditionally like the mainland officers and soldiers, wouldn't it be the same as forcibly taking the chieftain's military power?In this way, I am afraid that the identity chieftains in Guangxi and even the surrounding areas will rebel.

The situation in the southwest will be completely corrupted, and it will even become a bigger problem than the removal of captives in the northeast.

Daming definitely wants to solve the chieftain problem, but not now.

That's why we have the above conditions given by the Military Affairs Academy.

Among them, the first two are tantamount to giving some chieftains who are determined to make progress and become official military honors of the Ming Dynasty a chance to select such chieftains who are truly loyal to the Ming Dynasty. …

The last one seems to have made a big concession by the court, but it is not.

The fighting power of the wolf soldiers is very strong, but why is the reputation not very obvious in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and the probability of being called is not so high?The main reason is that the discipline of the wolf soldiers is too poor.

The root of the poor discipline of the wolf soldiers is that they are chieftain soldiers.

The chieftain soldiers did not receive military pay, and even the military rations used for the expedition had to be prepared by themselves.There is only one way the chieftain wins over the soldiers, allowing them to rob.

In the past, the Ming court wanted to recruit chieftain soldiers, but did not want to raise them like a regular army. Naturally, they could only let them plunder.

Now that Aimee Zhu is in power, the Ming court has no shortage of money and food for a while, and it is time for the people of the world to recuperate. It would be very cost-effective to pay some money and food to make the wolf soldiers strictly disciplined.

And there is also a foreshadowing here-the imperial court not only gave the money to open, but also stated that the reward will be released after the battle. If there is any chieftain soldier who has corrupt discipline and robs the people, then it is no wonder that the imperial court is not polite.

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Outside Yishan City, there are continuous military camps.

On the campus, Li Dingguo took Qu Shixu, Zhang Tongchai, Zhang Jiayu and other Guangxi officials to watch the reorganized new army drill.

Chen Bangyan, who was a staff officer in the army, introduced it.

"After three or four months of reorganization and intensive training, the imperial court has obtained four towns of the Guangxi Garrison Army. In addition, the military gate has also been reported to the Military Affairs Academy. Please organize it into the No. 19 town of the Border Guard Army.

At present, the equipment needed by the soldiers of the five towns is all obtained by sea and replenished in place.Everyone, please see that the No. 19 town of the border guards is currently practicing on the campus. "

In fact, Chen Bangyan didn't need to remind, Qu Shisi and other officials' eyes were already on the campus, and they couldn't look away for a while.

I saw that all the soldiers were wearing fiery red cloth visors and flying saucer hats. Even though they were performing the simplest array drill at this time, they showed a mighty and extraordinary aura.

Among the three battalions, one is the Swordsmen Battalion, the other is the Mountain Battalion composed entirely of elite chieftain soldiers, and the third is the Musketeer Battalion.

In addition to a steel knife and a dagger, the knife card hand camp has a rattan card lined with steel sheets, two javelins, and several grenades.

In the mountain camp, there is a scimitar commonly used by Tusi soldiers, a sickle hook gun, a crossbow or bow, and a dagger.

The configuration of the musket battalion is relatively simple, one musket, one dagger, and several grenades.

As for ropes, water bags, rucksacks and other miscellaneous items, the soldiers of the three battalions are all the same, and they belong to the standard equipment of the frontier defense army.

However, what attracted the attention of Qu Shixu and other officials the most were the twenty bright cannons directly attached to the artillery post, and the eighty steel tiger squatting cannons carried by the soldiers behind them.

Under the sunshine in the morning, hundreds of steel cannons are shining and majestic!

However, the imperial military training department's intensive training for the soldiers was indeed very effective. During the array exercise, under the command of the command flag, tens of thousands of soldiers advanced and retreated almost as if they were one person.

Yang Guodong, who was behind Li Dingguo, was especially satisfied when he saw this scene.

He is the commander-in-chief of the No. 19 town of the border guards appointed by the Military Affairs Council.

He is a native of Chengdu, Sichuan, the grandson of the famous official Yang Tinghe. …

In the following years, he either suppressed chieftains and bandits in southern Sichuan and Guizhou, or was transferred to participate in the encirclement and suppression of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong.

When Zhan Tianyan entered Guizhou, he was transferred to assist in the reorganization of the local army, and was later appointed as the general of the Guizhou Garrison.

However, he was quite surprised to be awarded the title of Chief of the Frontier Defense Army this time.

The frontier guard is one rank higher than the garrison, and he is actually promoted.

What Yang Guodong didn't know was that the reason why he became the commander-in-chief of the frontier defense army was actually because of his deeds in the history of later generations.

In history, Du Yinxi raised an army to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and awarded Yang Guodong as the general soldier, and added the title of governor and Tongzhi.After that, he defeated the Qing army in Yongdingwei, and defeated the Qing army again through an ambush in the Battle of Mahe, and was granted the title of Wuling Bo for his meritorious service.

It is a pity that in the fourth year of Yongli, Sun Kewang, who failed to fight against Li Dingguo and retreated to Guizhou, surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Yang Guodong stayed at Yongding Guard for many days, but no reinforcements came, and he was defeated and killed.

Aunt Zhu ordered him to follow Li Dingguo to destroy Sun Kewang, which was considered to be the end of a historical cause and effect.

On the large field, the frontier guards retreated in an orderly manner after the drill was completed, and it was the turn of the guards to come over one by one for the drill.

Compared with the border guards, although the garrison is slightly inferior in military appearance, it is not bad.

Qu Shixu looked at it and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "This garrison is also more elite than the old army, and it is even victorious."

Zhang Jiayu smiled from the side: "That's natural. After all, the soldiers of the garrison were also selected from the previous army. After three or four months of intensive training, and the food and wages are sufficient, naturally the fighting spirit is high, even better than before."

Looking at the new army of the Ming Dynasty in Daxiaochang and its surrounding areas, Zhang Tonghua couldn't help his eyes watering, and murmured: "My Daming is able to raise such a strong army, it's all because Your Majesty rebuilt the universe."