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Chapter 148 5.30 Army Details Arranged by the Emperor
Chapter 5

5.30 Details of the army, the arrangement of the emperor

In the 12th year of Yongzheng in the Dashun Dynasty, the first snow in the capital came earlier than usual, because even during the Chinese New Year, the heavy snow kept on going, and many places in the city were carried out every day. dead refugees.

But these have nothing to do with the royal family, nobles, and officials. No one cares about these "little things". They only wear shirts in the room through a layer of window paper, cursing and saying "it's so hot".

Imperial Palace, Dragon Head Palace, Upper Study Room.

"In less than three months, there are basically new barracks, sufficient food and wages, and thousands of elite soldiers have roughly formed!" The Supreme Emperor slowly put the information in his hands into the brazier, "Are they really elite soldiers?"

"Back to the Supreme Emperor, I dare not speak nonsense." Xia Shouzhong quickly replied, "A total of ten households, including two strong crossbow households, six heavy infantry households, and two cavalry households."

"Cavalry?" The Supreme Emperor's expression suddenly turned serious, "Jiangnan border, where did he get the horses? And there are two hundred households, and the food and salary allocated by the Ministry of War to the entire thousand households may not be enough."

"The war horses were transported directly to Jinling by sea. The fleet was written by Xue Tu, the second wife of Xue's family. The one who came forward to provide the war horses was the Shui Family of the Zhenbei Army. The ships loaded in Tianjin Wei went all the way to the destination.

In addition to these personnel who are regarded as soldiers, there is also an additional general banner, which should be his personal servant, with different weapons and clothing.

Not only that, all the soldiers and horses in the entire Thousand Households were dressed in court-style iron armor. Although the servants under the servants could not get close to observe, from a distance, these iron armors were all well-made.

As for the strong crossbow, the slave has nothing to say. This kid made a strong crossbow privately when he was in the capital. After arriving in Jinling, his blacksmith camp should be located in the mountains and forests not far from the river in the northeast of Jinling.

But the servant sent people over ten times to find out the specific situation, but so far they have never returned. They only know that there is a problem with the Tongfu Inn, and the person in charge is one of the boy's little slaves, Zhou Yunyang.

If there is no accident, these weapons, armor and crossbows should all come from there. With such a large number, he should have never stopped since he arrived in Jinling, and the manpower must have been brought there when he left the capital.

His military ration route has also been found out, and he took the route of the Xue family's "Xuezihao" branches in various places, but the monthly consumption is really high, which should be related to his extremely high training intensity. "Xia Shouzhong obviously did his homework.

If Wei Xu were here, he would definitely admire Xia Shouzhong's intelligence ability, because according to his standards, these people under him actually didn't even lay a good foundation, but the general intelligence was exposed.

The overall level of these people is actually much higher than Xia Shouzhong's guess. On the one hand, it is because the secrecy work is done well, and on the other hand, the times limit the vision of outsiders.

When recruiting troops, all the personnel were above 1.7 meters [-] in height. This is also thanks to the inexplicable world level of the world of "Red Mansion".

All of them have Han Dynasty-style half-body Zhajia, which is also the standard equipment for the elite soldiers of the Dashun Dynasty, but Wei Xu has modified a lot in details, because these armors are all "composite armors".

With thick linen as the base, there are small pockets on the inside and outside, the inner layer is filled with thin steel plates, the outside is equipped with hard ceramic inserts, and there is a thick linen base in the middle, and the hem is protected to the middle of the big crotch.

After testing, an ordinary crossbow can only effectively guarantee to penetrate the armor within [-] steps, but the arrow will still be caught by the thin steel plate lining, and the damage to personnel is very limited.

If the slashing attack hits for the first time, the effect can basically be ignored. Unless the outer ceramic plate is completely scrapped, it will be difficult to cause substantial damage to soldiers, but the defense against blunt damage is limited.

What's more, this kind of Zhajia is very light in weight, only a little more than half of the same type of Dashun Dynasty armor, but its protective performance has more than doubled, almost catching up with generals' armor such as "Mingguang Armor" .

All infantry are all spearmen, using heavy spears measuring one foot and two feet. In addition, each person carries a tool with him, such as a pickaxe, engineer shovel, and axe, which are used when camping, and are also used as secondary weapons.

There is nothing to say about the crossbowmen. They replaced the infantry's spears with strong crossbows, and carried an additional 36 crossbow arrow bags. The other places are exactly the same, and they can also use secondary weapons for close combat when necessary.

The cavalry and infantry have exactly the same weapons and equipment, but they carry an additional cavalry crossbow with a range of about forty steps and 36 crossbow arrows on the horse, but they have their own standards for training.

The only exception is the standard general flag of Wei Xu's servants, a uniform cavalry unit with the same equipment as ordinary cavalry, except that the uniforms are changed to dark red, and the selection and training of personnel are more stringent.The training of the above personnel is basically based on the modern military standards that have been appropriately lowered and combined with the actual conditions of the feudal era. It was done by Wei Xu personally. The intensity can be called "scary" according to the standards of the same era.

Every morning is three kilometers. In the morning, he focuses on queues, discipline, and cultural education. In the afternoon, he continues physical fitness and tactical training after a break. Must keep up.

Food is easy to talk about. Keeping the Jiangnan granary, Shuojiang is the Huguang granary. If you have money, you don’t have to worry about not having enough money. Meat mainly depends on the fish and shrimp in the Yangtze River. The cost and effect are good.

According to Wei Xu's plan, it will take about a month for these people to basically take shape, but the cavalry is estimated to take half a year. When the time comes to wipe out the bandits in the surrounding area, it will be regarded as military training and some military merits.

"It's interesting. Such an army can definitely be called an elite soldier, but the consumption will be astonishing. Can you find out the source of his salary?"
"This is also where the slave is puzzled. He pays for his own money to raise soldiers, and the little rations allocated by the Ministry of War will be enough for half a month if he exercises for three days, let alone his kind of day and night exercises.

But the slave searched all over his property, but still couldn't make up enough money to consume, but if he had other sources of money, the slave shouldn't be unable to find out. "Xia Shouzhong was very puzzled.

"There's no need to check, he now controls more than half of the salt roads around Jinling, even the entire Jiangnan Province. Excluding the handed-in part, the rest is definitely not enough.

But don't forget, the Xue family is one of the largest businesses in Jiangnan, and it is actually under his control now, right? "The Supreme Emperor asked a little annoyed.

"The slave is stupid. At the end of last year, Miss Xue entered Wei's house in a small sedan chair. This family must have made up for the missing part." Xia Shouzhong hurriedly bowed his head to plead guilty, "The slave is also very surprised that the Xue family would do whatever he wants." From an only daughter to a good concubine."

"There is also Yangzhou's money. I heard that there are twenty more inner court guards in Lin Ruhai's yard? Now it seems that if there is no accident, it should be the work of this kid." The Supreme Emperor sighed.

"The Supreme Emperor, do you want the slaves to arrange manpower?" Xia Shouzhong showed a ruthless expression.

"Let the Zhen family continue to attack, this time there is no need to hold back anything." The Supreme Emperor said coldly, "That kid is too skilled, and there are too many masters around him, it is really difficult to make a move, but this does not mean that he is invulnerable."

"The Supreme Emperor, the Zhen family is afraid now." Xia Shouzhong hesitated, but still said, "For more than half a year, in order to compete with that kid for the salt road, the Zhen family has almost taken all the salt into it.

But the result was bleak. Now the Zhen family can control less than [-]% of the salt roads around Jinling. At the end of last year, they even applied for funds. This is the first time in the past ten years. "

"A bunch of trash!" The Supreme Emperor was very annoyed, "If he is not considered loyal, I wish I could chop off Zhen Yingjia's head! He has the guts to claim 'the first family in the south of the Yangtze River', and now his son is so frightening that he dare not even go out."

"Your Majesty, this slave didn't expect that there are so many masters in the hands of the Wei family boy." Xia Shouzhong said with a wry smile, "The second son of the Zhen family is just a playboy. When he woke up on the flower boat, he found that all the bodyguards outside were slaughtered." up.

Not to mention, he originally spent the night with a famous prostitute, and when he woke up, he found the body of a bodyguard replaced by a bodyguard, but the famous prostitute was found on a small boat by the shore. He's not bad. "

"You can't let the power of the Zhen family be consumed like this." The Supreme Emperor was thinking about his control over Jiangnan, "Isn't the Yan family of the Zhen family dying? You arrange a group of people to go there, at least let the Zhen family restore the salt road to the original level." previous level."

"This——" Xia Shouzhong looked distressed, "The Supreme Emperor, there are not many people who can be transferred by the slaves now, let alone hundreds of people, it is really powerless.

It's better to arrange Zhao Quan in private. Although the Jinyi Army in his hand is a lot worse, the victory is definitely enough, even three to five hundred people are not a problem. "

"You arranged it yourself. Also, how much did Yuan'er find out about Jiangnan?" The Supreme Emperor nodded, approving his solution.

"This—" Xia Shouzhong knelt down on the ground, "I dare not speak nonsense."

"Okay, you go down!" The Supreme Emperor immediately understood what he meant, with obvious anger on his face, "find a way to let him know!"

"The slave obeys the order!"

(End of this chapter)