The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 21 Daming Restoration Army

Everyone chattered and discussed, Zhu Hongyu rubbed his chin and fell into deep thought.

After a while, he made a decision.

"Let's call it Da Ming Guangfu Army, which means to restore Daming!"

"Most of the Han people in exile in Nanyang today are righteous people who cherish the Ming Dynasty and are unwilling to submit to the rule of the Qing Dynasty. We use the title of the Daming Restoration Army to show our goals and win people's hearts!"

After Zhu Hongyu finished speaking, Li Guangyuan was the first to stand up and express his agreement.

"Okay, let's call it the Daming Restoration Army. From today on, brother Yu will be the general of the Daming Restoration Army."

"My subordinates greet the general!"

Facing Zhu Hongyu, Li Guangyuan knelt down on one knee and performed a military salute without saying a word.

The rest of the people also marched and saluted one after another.

"I'm waiting to meet the general!"

This kneeling of everyone is considered to have established the upper and lower ranks.

Zhu Hongyu helped them up one by one, and then spoke.

"You don't need to be too polite!"

"We are all brothers, so there is no need to be so polite!"

After everyone sat down again, Zhu Hongyu continued to speak.

"I ordered someone to count how many young men there are in the mine!"

"There are a total of 670 and three people, and all these 670 and three people must be formed into an army."

"The hard-working miners have always been the best soldiers. As long as these 600 people can receive proper training, these 600 people will be a strong soldier."

"It's impossible for the red hair to destroy us!"

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Hongyu spoke out the military system he envisioned.

"These 600 people must be reorganized according to this establishment!"

"My Great Ming Restoration Army, from childhood to adulthood, was organized into squads, platoons, companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions."

"A squad of ten people, one squad leader, and nine soldiers under his jurisdiction!"

"Three squads and one platoon, with a total of 31 platoon leaders. Three platoons and one company. Company-level units must be assigned three scouts, three messengers, and a company commander. There are 100 people in a company."

"Three companies form a battalion, and battalion-level units must be assigned special investigation squads, order squads, cooking squads, and a health team of exactly 340 people."

"Three battalions and one regiment, the head of the regiment must be attached to the guard platoon, with a quota of 54 people."

"Three regiments and one brigade, the brigade commander must be attached to a guard company, with a quota of 660 people."

"The third brigade has a division, and the division commander is attached to the guard battalion, with a quota of 100 people!"

Zhu Hongyu came up with such an arrangement just to line up and shoot.

Because he knows that the future military reform will definitely develop towards the gradual development of firearms, which is the general trend.

Before the large-scale application of rear-loading guns, queuing up and shooting was the most basic and best-used tactic.

The basic formation for queuing up for shooting is three horizontal lines, and the number of people in each formation that Zhu Hongyu provided is a multiple of three.

When fighting with a squad as a unit, the squad leader commands, and the remaining nine people just stand in three rows.

When fighting with a platoon as a unit, the platoon leader commanded, and the rest happened to be in a row of ten people, lined up in three rows and shot in line.

Of course, what Zhu Hongyu said is only a theoretical establishment, and it will definitely be revised in the future.

For example, set up a special staff group, a military law team, a supervising team, a field hospital, etc., and when it comes to wartime, people have to be added to the establishment piecemeal.

"Now we have more than 600 people, which are divided into six companies, and the extra people are organized into the cooking team, medical team, military law team, and supervisory team."

"I am the commander of the first company, Li Guangyuan is the commander of the second company, Shi Yongxin is the commander of the third company, Liu Shantai is the commander of the fourth company, Wang Youcai is the commander of the fifth company, and Hu Dinggao is the commander of the sixth company."

Several people knelt down on one knee to salute, expressing their acceptance of the appointment.

Zhu Hongyu nodded, and then continued to speak.

"We now have a total of more than [-] muskets in our hands. The muskets must be used intensively in order to exert their power."

"These seventy muskets are all allocated to the first company, and the remaining companies still use cold weapons to fight."

"If there are not enough swords and spears, replace them with sharpened long wooden sticks first!"

A sharpened long stick can also kill!

After all, they are now in Nanyang, and the enemy they are facing is the unarmored Spaniards, not the heavily armored Eight Banners soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

A sharpened wooden stick can't break through the heavy armor of the Eight Banners of the Qing army, but it can still pierce the unarmored Spaniard with enough strength.

"I will take out an infantry drill book later, and use it to drill my soldiers of the Great Ming Restoration Army!"

"When you are practicing, don't worry about your personal martial arts, just work on your body. The most important thing on the battlefield is the formation of troops, and fighting in formation."

"Practice the army formation first, and be able to form a neat formation on the battlefield, advance neatly, and retreat neatly, which is more important than anything else!"

"..."

……

Zhu Hongyu arranged the military training.

The three people in 670 were initially divided into six companies. Zhu Hongyu fully delegated power to Li Guangyuan, Shi Yongxin and others, letting them choose soldiers and officers to form their own companies.

The Restoration Army of Ming Dynasty began to transform into a real army.

This kind of decentralization may lead to the formation of a situation in the future, and the final result may even lead to the following generals who hold real power to obey his orders.

But now Zhu Hongyu has not reached the stage of worrying about this!

For Zhu Hongyu, the most important thing at present is to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty's Restoration Army to deal with the Spaniards' advance and suppression.

In order to achieve this goal, he can only choose to fully delegate power to the bottom.

Even if he wants to take power, at least he has to wait until he has won the entire Manila and expanded his strength to a certain extent.

Before that, he couldn't and didn't need to take power!

The Spanish authorities in Manila probably don't know about the miners' uprising in the mine now.

The mine is located in a remote area, with few contacts with the outside world, and the communication is very blocked.

Except at the beginning of each month, someone will send food supplies and Chinese miners to the mine to transport away the smelted copper ingots.

The mine has basically no connection with the outside world!
Calculating the time, it is now NO.1660 of July in 19 in the Western calendar, and it will be about ten days before the next time the outside world sends food and various daily necessities to the mine.

Even if the Great Ming Restoration Army can completely annihilate the Spaniards who will deliver food next time, the incident of the Daming Restoration Army's uprising can be hidden for at most another [-] days.

But that's only theoretical, because there's one more thing that could have caused their riot to come to light!
That was Captain Michael, the group who ordered people to escort the "murderer" Yales to Manila.

Those people are estimated to have arrived in Manila now, but they don't know when they will come back to report.

All in all, the Spanish authorities in Manila don't have much time left for them!
Although there is no shortage of food and grass in the mine for the time being, they will stay in the mine for at most ten days before they have to find another place to stay.

In the past ten days, Zhu Hongyu had to train the Daming Guangfu Army into a basic soldier look!

Don't dare to ask too much, at least you must be able to understand orders, know how to fight in formation, and how to advance and retreat.

Of course, it would be even better if you could simply shoot a dozen platoon guns!

(End of this chapter)