Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 63 Expanding the Qi Family Army
After all, Qi Jin is a veteran on the battlefield. After his eyes were wet, he wiped them forcefully and said:
"There was sand in the eyes, which made His Highness laugh."

"Where..." Zhu Youjian was helpless, and then he also talked about the business:

"The old general went north to Liaodong this time, did he know about Nurhachi's Houjin Eight Banners?"

"Hmm..." Hearing Zhu Youjian talk about serious business, Qi Jin also became serious:
"To tell you the truth, the last general's trip to the north is also the result of Xiong Jinglue's many visits to the late emperor."

"Xiong Jinglue also sent a report to the last general. The army under the command of Nurhachi, the general of Jianzhou Weilonghu who rebelled this time, according to the [-]th year of Wanli, the full number of soldiers was no more than [-]. Quickly expand to the current [-] people."

"Although the Tang newspaper also said that the old slave had built an ordnance station and an armor factory for more than ten miles under the city of Hetuala, the general thought that within three years, with the strength of Jianlu, it would be impossible to move The whole army is equipped with heavy armor."

"According to what General Mo has seen, there are no more than three to forty thousand people in the army under the old slave's command now wearing heavy armor."

After Qi Jin finished his opinion, Zhu Youjian nodded secretly.

Unlike many people in later generations who believed that Hou Jin was a barbarian, with the support of Li Chengliang, the population of Jianzhou Guard had already exceeded [-].

Nurhachi's troops were the three guards of Jianzhou in the Ming Dynasty. A guard in the Ming Dynasty usually had [-] soldiers, so the three guards of the Jianzhou Department originally had about [-] soldiers.

It is recorded in "Ming History Military System" that the Ming Dynasty had 184 guards and 20 camps in various tribes in the Northeast, and each camp had [-] soldiers, so there were nearly one million Jurchens in the entire Northeast region.

Perhaps it exaggerated the strength of the Northeast Jurchens, or it was recorded wrongly when transcribing. In short, according to the above records, the Jurchens have exceeded one million people, which is naturally impossible.

If the record is reversed, then the Northeast Jurchen should have 20 guards and 184 institutes, which means less than [-] people.

This kind of data is more in line with history. After conversion, there are no more than [-] males.

These [-] males were annexed by Nurhachi and destroyed countless Jurchen tribes during the twenty-five years to forty-five years of Wanli, and then considered the damage caused by the unification war.

In addition, there are about [-] to [-] males on the Haixi Jurchen side, and the Donghai Jurchen has returned to Nurhachi. After this calculation, it is normal for Nurhachi to have [-] males in his hands.

If Zhu Youjian's memory is correct, he said in his previous life that when he read books in his previous life, it was recorded before the entry of the Jin Dynasty that there were 308 Manchurian cattle records in the Eight Banners, 76 Mongolian cattle records, and 16 Han army cattle records, totaling 400 cattle. record.

后金的300户1牛录，5牛录1甲喇，5甲喇1固山2固山1色，8固山1首领，理论上兵丁12万。

In other words, the number of Eight Banners men who were able to participate in the war in the early days of Hou Jin in Huang Taiji was about [-]. At present, Nurhachi has not recuperated, nor has he been merged into Beishan Jurchen, so the strength of the Eight Banners in his hand should be around [-] to Around eighty thousand.

But what needs to be considered is that Nurhachi still has the traitor Li Yongfang under his command. He has gathered tens of thousands of Liao troops under his command, which means that the real force is [-] to [-].

In the future, Jin's size will not be able to equip so many heavy infantry. Therefore, the result of Zhu Youjian's analysis is that at present, Houjin still uses a small number of heavy armored dead soldiers as the main forward, and secondly armored soldiers as the two wings. They are all light soldiers.

Of course, this light outfit does not mean no armor, but an ordinary infantry with only a cloth face armor or cotton armor.

Right now, in the Houjin army, soldiers who can wear triple armor can be called white armor Bayala, which shows that armor is scarce.

If there are enough field troops, it is actually possible to wipe out Houjin in one fell swoop, but the embarrassing thing is...

No.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian could only say to Qi Jin:

"Before the old general came, I had screened out the officers and men of the Imperial Horse Supervisor and Habayashi Sanwei, leaving more than [-] people."

"Brother Huang is invited to send the old general this time, in the hope that the old general can lead the Zhejiang soldiers to train them for a month."

"As long as you train for a month, the generals of the headquarters will know how to train troops, and then they will be able to train troops in this way."

"The old general and others only need to stand firm in Liaodong. It is only a matter of time before the old slave is pacified."

"This point is already clear." Qi Jin replied:

"One month is indeed too short, but at the end of the day, the general can send his youngest son, Yuan Bi, and lead an official Zhejiang soldier to help His Highness train troops."

Said Qi Jin looked at his youngest son Qi Yuanbi, and Qi Yuanbi also got up and saluted:

"President Xiao, leader Qi Yuanbi, pays homage to His Highness."

"Okay! Okay..." Zhu Youjian was also a little happy when he heard that Qi Jin was willing to leave a team to help him lead the troops in a month.

According to the establishment of the Zhejiang Army, there are 192 officers and horses, which is quite a number.

But when he thought that after the division of troops, there would be no more than [-] soldiers in the Zhejiang army, Zhu Youjian said:

"At present, the imperial court relies on the old general, and the general's soldiers are recruited in Zhejiang."

"If the general is willing, I can advise Brother Huang to recruit another [-] soldiers from Zhejiang."

"If that's the case, that's really great!" Qi Jin didn't expect that he could lead tens of thousands of soldiers.

Ever since he resigned, he no longer dared to imagine that he could lead an army of more than ten thousand, but even though he could lead an army of more than ten thousand, but...

Thinking of the military salary, Qi Jin hesitated and said:

"Recruiting soldiers is certainly good, but if we recruit another [-] troops, our department will have [-] people, and the required military salary may be..."

"Don't worry about the military salary." Zhu Youjian raised his hand and comforted:
"Does the general know how much Liao Xiang has spent since the forty-sixth year of Wanli to the present?"

"Er... I don't know..." Zhu Youjian felt a little embarrassed about Qi Jin, but seeing Qi Jin like this, he shook his head and said:

"From the forty-sixth year of Wanli to October of this year, Liao Town has used nearly [-] million taels of Liaoxiang."

"This..." Hearing that Liao Xiang actually spent more than twelve million taels of silver, everyone present was shocked except Zhu Youjian, Wang Chengen, and Lu Wenzhao.

Twelve million taels of silver, even one hundred taels of silver for the head of a Jianlu, can buy the heads of [-] Jiannu.

However, after thinking about it carefully, the Tang newspaper of the Ministry of War has so far obtained only more than [-] beheads of slaves, with an average of [-] taels of silver per head.

"To tell you the truth," Zhu Youjian then said:

"This time the old generals were transferred to station in Liaoyang, and the white-armed soldiers were transferred to station in Shenyang, in order to abolish the local Liao soldiers."

Zhu Youjian broke another news and explained:

"Although Xiong Tingbi has reduced Liaodong's army to [-] and is continuing to do so, many of the Liao soldiers are still unusable."

"After transferring the general to Liaoyang, the troops stationed in Liaoyang can be dismissed by the old general, leaving only the soldiers who dare to fight, no matter how many they are, they can be sent to the south of Liaoyang."

"Even if the [-] troops in Zhejiang are well trained, the old general can send them to garrison southern Liao and withdraw all the more than [-] Liao troops in southern Liao."

(End of this chapter)