The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 29 Ordnance
The camp of the garrison is in the west of Binzhou, not in the city.

The station is divided into five districts, each of which is guarded by a division.

There are three divisions in the first battalion, a total of six divisions of soldiers, and the remaining two divisions guard the periphery of the Chinese army and support the Quartet at any time.

Chen Wang led a group of newly recruited soldiers back to the east of the camp, where his commander should be stationed.

The east side is close to Binzhou City, which is the safest place, so Cao Wenzhao assigned the defense on this side to Chen Wang.

Now Chen Wang is still only the position of the chief executive, but he also has the title of chief executive.

But now the recruits have been recruited, as long as they fight one more time and gain new military merits, they can remove the word Daiba Zong.

Chen Wang's previous head skills had already been exchanged for money, and he saved a lot of money from fighting back and forth.

Almost 600 taels of silver, but most of them were placed in Liaodong.

The head of the thief is worthless, and he was not even rewarded. Of the seven Tartars who were beheaded in Liaodong, only three were rewarded by the court.

The rest were sold to others. A head was 60 taels, 50 taels more than what the imperial court gave. The white armor soldier who was killed received an extra [-] taels from the imperial court's silver reward.

It's not that Chen Wang doesn't have an official status. In fact, despite his status as a battalion soldier, he is still an official in charge of a hundred households.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the power of the capital commander and envoy, which was originally in charge of the military, gradually faded and was controlled by the general army.

The military officer system in the Ming Dynasty was divided into the military officer system related to the five prefectures and the capital guards, and the garrison system.

There is no grade, no fixed number of officers in the battalion, and no hereditary. Only officers under the guard system have official ranks.

During the Ming Dynasty, the positions of the commander-in-chief and other battalion soldiers were actually rank-free military officers and officials.

Battalion soldiers and battalion generals learn from each other. During wartime, there is no need for imperial appointments, and they are directly led by the commander-in-chief, deputy commander-in-chief, generals, and guerrillas.

In order to facilitate things and to be compatible with the two systems, the military position in the guard gradually became a rank official of the latter.

This system is very complicated, even chaotic.

With a more concise understanding, it is much easier to understand these high-ranking military positions among the battalions as the military ranks of later generations, but there are still quite a few differences.

For example, Cao Wenzhao, as the commander-in-chief of Datong Town, took the military position of the second-rank commander-in-chief, and he was doing the job of the commander-in-chief, not the commander-in-chief.

Chen Wang has not yet understood the connection between military and military positions in these two systems.

But there is no need to understand, anyway, after becoming a battalion officer, the subsequent official status will come naturally.

It doesn't take long for the general of the first battalion to get the official title of Deputy Qianhu.

Although Hong Chengchou once overwhelmed Cao Wenzhao's military exploits, his relationship with Cao Wenzhao is no longer as tense as before, and has eased a lot.

Moreover, Hong Chengchou still needs to rely on Cao Wenzhao to put down the rogues, so naturally his attitude has slowed down a lot.

The allocation of armaments had already been dispatched, Hu Zhili entered the camp first, and led the army to move them all back to the camp.

Chen Wang stood outside several tents full of ordnance, constantly flipping through the list sent.

Hu Zhili stood aside and said helplessly.

"The military uniform only has summer clothes, no military caps, some net scarves were issued, 230 collars for cloth face armor, and [-] collars for mail armor."

"Four hundred spears, sixty waist knives, thirty arm shields, twenty high-bowl helmets, and complete hats, 370."

"I have told the people who dispatched the munitions about the bird guns. I don't want messy firearms. I just need to prepare more bird guns. I also showed him the letter from Cao Shoubei. Now there are 120 rods."

There are not many stores in the military allocation battalion, and Hong Chengchou basically assigns officials to allocate them uniformly. Therefore, Chen Wang went to Cao Dingjiao's letter and stuffed a lot of money.

"I saw a few pieces of cloth face armor. The inner nails are not thick and the number is not enough. There are only more than 130 nail leaves in total. Most of them are on the chest. There are only a few nail leaves below, which can't protect against anything."

Chen Wang nodded, and closed the single record in his hand.

"Having more than 100 beetle leaves is not bad, but it's also made of iron."

"In Beijing two years ago, it's not like you haven't seen those soldiers from the Beijing camp. Their armor was really stuffed with paper."

Hearing Chen Wang mention Jingying, Hu Zhili scolded with disdain.

"Bullshit in the Beijing camp, the beggars in Liaodong are better than those in the Beijing camp. They are all as thin as bamboo poles. They eat like that on empty pay. If they are brought to Liaodong to live within three days, they will be beheaded."

Chen Wang was noncommittal, the Beijing camp of the Ming Dynasty was already rotten to the root, and even those who could fight in the tens of thousands of capital camps didn't know if they could pick out 1000 people.

Among all the weapons, those of the Shenji Battalion are still able to use the latest firearms, and the rest of the Beijing Battalion soldiers can't find any weapons that they can handle.

Chen Wang walked into the armory and took a blunderbuss.

The bird gun is quite heavy in the hand, and you can still clearly feel the weight of the bird gun when you hold it in your hand.

The wooden handle held in the hand has no frills or burrs.

The length of the blunderbuss had already exceeded one meter. After putting down the entire blunderbuss, it was almost under his shoulders.

Chen Wang glanced at the group of recruits who were in the training queue next to him. He was 1.8 meters tall, much taller than those recruits, and most people held it at the shoulder position.

"Have you tried the bird gun?"

"A few of them were let go, and the rest were inspected. The ones that were delivered were all with thick barrels. I even asked Old Zheng, who was in charge of ordnance in the camp, to have a look. There was nothing wrong with them, and the barrels couldn't be blown up easily."

Hu Zhili gritted his teeth, feeling some pain in his flesh, and asked.

"This bird gun, is it really that important?"

According to Chen Wang's request, he stuffed 20 taels of silver into the care of the thief who distributed the arms. .

"With this silver, it is enough to buy a good pair of armor and a good knife."

Although he said that the 20 taels of silver was not required from him, Hu Zhili still felt that it was not worth it and felt a little bit painful.

"Naturally it matters."

Chen Wang picked up the blunderbuss, held it in his hand, and raised the barrel to a position parallel to his eyes.

The left eye is slightly closed, the right eye is opened, and the three o'clock line is aimed at the flagpole in front of him.

Holding the blunderbuss, an inexplicable feeling rose slowly from Chen Wang's heart.

Firearms will be the mainstream of future warfare, especially when flintlock guns become popular, the reliability of firearms will be multiplied several times, and they will completely become a weapon of war.

"Choose 120 excellent performers to be the blunderbuss soldiers. All the helmets, cloth visors, and green clothes will be distributed. Forty collars will be reserved for the blunderbuss soldiers with cloth masks. All the waist knives will be allocated to the blunderbuss soldiers, and the rest will be distributed to other flags."

"All personnel are trained in armor."

"Leave the chain armor, high bowl helmet, and covering arms for now."

Chen Wang put down the blunderbuss in his hand, put it back into the tent, and then turned his head to look at the recruits in the camp who were standing in place with their heads held high and their chests held high, motionless.

"After seven days, select officials."

(End of this chapter)