A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 283 It Looks Like I Really Need to Learn the Way of Wang Dou

Wang Dou wanted to expand the number of officers under his command, and everyone naturally agreed with it.It is no problem for the new army to recruit into the various headquarters and departments. After months of brutal drills, they have basically formed the habit of obeying the orders of the superiors. Especially when Wang Dou is in the Shunxiang Army, and the prestige of Baoan Prefecture is so high, who would dare to object? ?
The only point is that most of the newly recruited troops were selected from the refugees in Zhending Prefecture and Baoding Prefecture last year. Many of them have different clans, languages, and customs.It’s just this language. Although the accent in the north is similar and not as complicated as that in the south (often there are several dialects in a village), it is actually different from each other. Many people have never spoken Mandarin in their entire lives.These people talk to each other, maybe they have to speak slowly, and listen carefully, then they can barely understand.

Although they had intensively trained in Mandarin for several months in Shun Township Fort, the army still had a large concentration of various accents.During the several months of training for the new army in Shunxiang Fort, some prestigious people were appointed to lead the training. Now that they have to break up and mix up, I am afraid that it will be an important problem to convey the orders of the superiors in the future.

This is also the reason why in ancient times the army fellows were in charge of the fellows, the patriarchs were in charge of the clansmen, and the superiors generally did not step down to intervene.This language custom alone has caused countless famous generals to have a splitting headache.At this time, Wang Dou couldn't take care of that much anymore, and only planned to promote Daming Mandarin in Baoan Prefecture in the future.

After a few days of reorganization, they will go to battle. The weapons and equipment of the sergeants are a problem. Half of these new troops are firearms soldiers and half are pikemen.When they came, each of them only had mandarin duck battle jackets and red hats, basically no armor.When Wang Dou went out to fight, he looted all the armor in Shunxiang Fort, and even the old soldiers under Han Dynasty had no armor.In the past few months, Shunxiang Fort made a total of less than [-] pairs of iron helmets and armor, which were only distributed to some officers in the army.

Fortunately, since Wang Dou fought against the Qing soldiers, he has seized a total of [-] or several hundred pairs of armor from the Qing army. Although [-] pairs were given to Xu Yue'e, there are still nearly [-] pairs of armor in the battalion's logistics convoy.Among them are iron armor, armor inlaid with iron wool, and chain mail. Although the colors of the armor are different, they are scattered all over the Qing army. Fortunately, these sergeants have red cotton and wool cloaks on their bodies, which can be clearly distinguished. The difference between the enemy and ourselves.In the future, after these captured armors were transported back to Shunxiang Fort, the craftsmen were ordered to make a good modification.

In this way, Wang Dou has nearly 7000 troops in Liujingzhai, but everyone is wearing armor to protect their lives to the greatest extent.

It's just that these armors came with the heavy army escorted by Hu Dawei and others, and it took a few days to wait for each person to share the armor.

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On the fourth day of the first month of the 12th year of Chongzhen, in the afternoon.

Yesterday afternoon Wang Dou and Yang Guozhu arrived at Liujing Village. After nearly a day of rest, time was running out. Before Hu Dawei and others arrived, Wang Dou and the generals took the time to reorganize the army.

The weather was still bitterly cold, the cold wind hit people's bones, thick ice formed on the North River on the right side of Liujing Village, and at this time it was on the river flat five miles behind the village.More than 700 sergeants and more than 5000 reinforcements from Baoan Prefecture lined up quietly.

Although the weather was extremely cold, all the soldiers were motionless, and many of them had hands and faces purple with cold, but they still stood silently holding long guns and firecrackers.Needless to say, the [-] veterans who survived the battle with Wang Dou all held their heads high and their chests upright, with their own armor on their bodies. Not to be outdone, the troops under Han Dynasty also stood up straight.And those new recruits, under the stimulation of this serious atmosphere, recalled their hard training in Shunxiang Fort, and they all tried to stand upright.

The sky and the earth were silent, and thousands of people were silent, only the sound of the cold wind blowing their military uniforms and red tassels on their caps.Yang Guozhu, Guo Yingxian and others, who were not far away, turned pale when they saw this formidable formation.Not to mention the powerful soldiers who accompanied Wang Dou in the battle, the new troops from Bao'an Prefecture who came to help them were actually so well-organized.According to Wang Dou, most of them only practiced for a few months.Although many of these people have never been on the battlefield, but just looking at this "look", after fighting a few battles, they will definitely be a first-class strong army in the future.

It can be seen that Wang Dou has nearly 7000 subordinates here, all of them are soldiers, and there are still many soldiers in Baoan Prefecture. In the future, they will all be warriors. His strength is too terrifying.Yang Guozhu sighed long to Guo Yingxian beside him: "Wang Dou is right, you need to train the new army."

Guo Yingxian's face was bruised and purple, which was opened by the cold wind, and the beard around his mouth was even more white. He sucked his nose and just nodded vigorously.

Today when Wang Dou reorganized the army, Yang Guozhu hurriedly brought his own general Guo Yingxian and several thousand generals from the battalion to watch the generals. They called it "inspection". There is no need to hide his strength from him anymore.

At this time, if you display your military power openly, you can even increase the respect and power you deserve.Therefore, Wang Dou still let Yang Guozhu and others stand aside and watch the things that were taboo in other camps.

First of all, the Han and North Korea began to reorganize and supplement the troops. According to the new organization, each thousand generals expanded into four generals. Han and North Korea stayed one general in Baoanzhou, brought two generals out, and a new general. Zong Gao Xun returned to his command.Among the Korean and North Korean subordinates, only Gao Xunyi always needs to replenish his troops.

During the Battle of Julu, Gao Xun lost half of his troops, as well as two team officers, six armor leaders, and seventeen corporal leaders.The lost army chiefs and officers were promoted by the veterans of the headquarters long ago. These veterans who have gone through the test of life and death are just ordinary soldiers, and they are good enough to serve as the chief of the general's internal corps, the chief of the armor, and even the ranks of officers.Moreover, these new officers who survived the brutal war have a deeper understanding of the battlefield.In the future, whether they lead troops or train, the standard of their subordinates will be very high.

The lost sergeants began to be replenished from the new army.Chi Dacheng, the governor of the town, personally took the roll call, and reported how many sergeants needed to be replenished for each team and armor in Gao Xun's general.

After hearing their names, the more than 500 new troops standing quietly, holding their spears or firecrackers, came out of the array one by one, and filled the vacancies in Gaoxun with various moods. Completion of a team.

You can't choose, you can't complain, everything is in accordance with the list of soldiers.

After these new troops arrived in Gao Xun's headquarters, Gao Xun led them back to their own camp to get acquainted with each other as soon as possible.In the camp, the armor commanders of each team and each armor must record the names of all the sergeants in the armor on the back of their waist cards. From now on, they must always know the names of their ten subordinates, who is strong and who is weak, and their personalities, etc. One by one is clear.

And the team officer of each team, on the back of his waist card, writes down the names of several armor commanders, and he also needs to know the specific situation of the several army leaders under him.

Finally, after the replenishment of each team in the Gaoxun headquarters was completed, all the soldiers were collected into a book and sorted into three books, one was kept in the general, one was handed over to the Qian headquarters, and one was handed over to the Wangdou battalion.

After Department A replenished its troops, it successively became Department B and Department C.

Under Wen Fangliang and Zhong Xiancai's command, most of the casualties were more than half. In addition, the wounded sergeants stayed in Zanhuang territory, and there was an increase in the overall establishment, so the two troops needed to replenish nearly a thousand soldiers each.

In the process of reorganization, there is a general in the two ministries that is all supplemented by veterans, and the remaining three generals are all mixed together by old and new soldiers.

Those officers are all served by veterans in the Ministry, and the team officers who die in battle are filled by the team deputy or armor leader.A chief died in battle and was replaced by a corporal chief or a veteran.Also consider the meritorious service record and the level of military force of the sergeants in the Jiawu.These veterans who survived the war are basically qualified low-level officers.

In just one afternoon, Wang Dou's three generals, Han Chao, Wen Fangliang, and Zhong Xiancai's army had been reorganized and replenished, and more than 2000 people were recruited from the new army.Yang Guozhu also watched for an entire afternoon. He roughly estimated that only the three generals under Wang Dou's command already had a force of nearly 4000, which was almost equal to his own force in the town.

Although there are quite a few new recruits among these three generals, under the leadership of those officers with rich combat experience, it is no surprise that they will soon show strong combat effectiveness.

Yang Guozhu's eyes were wide open by bringing the old with the new, constantly increasing the force, and strengthening the combat power. He sighed deeply and thought to himself: "It seems that I really have to learn the method of Wang Dou, otherwise it will continue like this..."

He shook his head, his heart was full of disappointment. Although he was the chief soldier, he was far inferior to Wang Dou, a guerrilla general, in leading and training troops.

(End of this chapter)