Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 92
Now, Zhu Youjian's direct lineal forces are the First Guards Army of He Xin, the Imperial Horse Supervisor, the Second Guards Army of Ning Wu Bo Zhou Yuji, and the Third Guards Army of Jian Ning Bo Liu Fangliang.

A total of about 15 people.

It mainly controls the areas of Fengyang, Yingtian, Huaiyang, and Shandong, and plays the role of defending the capital of Nanjing.

This is also the foundation of Zhu Youjian's ability to call the wind and rain in the south of the Yangtze River.

However, among the 15 people, there are not many real veterans.

The main reason is that before Liu Fangliang joined the Ming Dynasty, the [-] war veterans among the [-] thieves and Zhou Yuji brought Zhu Youjian to Beijing to guard Zhu Youjian's southward town Zhuangyong.

In addition, some elites later recruited from Liu Zeqing's and Liu Liangzuo's subordinates and the rest of the officers and soldiers attached along the way.

The rest of these officers and soldiers were mainly elite officers and soldiers such as Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting, and Yang Sichang who were defeated and turned into bandits when they encircled and suppressed bandits in Henan, Huguang, and Shandong. Many even became local bandits.

Although to prevent generals from monopolizing power.

Zhu Youjian disrupted and reorganized these experienced elite veterans. Except for themselves, the official archives no longer know whether they were thieves or army soldiers before. What record, but has been recorded.

According to statistics submitted by Li Banghua to the Army Department of the Generalissimo's Mansion, these veterans total about 5 people, and they are all grassroots officers or main soldiers of the Guards.

Now that Zhu Youjian wants to train troops, he naturally needs a large number of grassroots officers who are skilled in military skills and have experienced combat.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian asked Zhou Yuji of the Ministry of the Army to first transfer all the officers who were serving as full-time officers among these veterans to Huai'an.

The deputy is directly promoted to the principal and stays where he is.

All the veterans without official positions were transferred to Huai'an to serve as the training captain.

According to the military officer system of the Ming Dynasty, there are chief soldiers, deputy chief soldiers, deputy generals, generals, guerrillas, guards, thousand generals, general generals, hundred generals, banner generals, and captains.

In other words, the lowest officer is the captain.

Captains generally range from five to ten people. Zhu Youjian is now directly recruiting active officers and veterans from the First, Second, and Third Guards Armies to serve as officers for recruit training.

In this way, it will not lead to a decline in the combat power of the guards defending these defenses, and it will also allow enough instructors for recruit training.

Zhu Youjian currently has about 10 elite soldiers, and he plans to train about [-] more, so that each army has about [-] elite soldiers.

Then it is matched with auxiliary soldiers, and it is more reasonable to have 15 people for each army.

In other words, now Zhu Youjian needs to train one hundred thousand elite soldiers.

Among the existing more than [-] conscripts, the ratio of soldiers from the three armed forces who can become guards is six to one.

The remaining 50 people can only become auxiliary soldiers or be assigned to the other nine guards.

This elimination ratio is not low.

Now Zhu Youjian first screens out veterans who have fame and have learned martial arts or have previous actual combat experience. There are about 1 veterans in total.

The reason why these people are allowed to take the green channel to directly become soldiers is mainly because these people can be regarded as social elites.

Needless to say, scholars, although some of them are relatively weak, they do not need to carry out cultural popularization, and they can gain fame, which shows that their intelligence is not low, and their willpower and psychological quality are strong. .

What's more, these days, those who can afford books are generally not bad at home, and their nutrition can keep up. Unless they are born with spleen deficiency, they are generally not thin. It is feared that these people will have night blindness.

Those who learn martial arts are indeed more suitable than ordinary people to serve as soldiers in this era when cold weapons still have important war value.

Although the veterans who survived the war have experienced defeat, surviving the war is a kind of skill, and many old men who have followed Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Sichang, Sun Chuanting, Cao Wenzhao and others for several years have excellent skills. Even now it is very suitable to be a senior military officer directly.

You know, Huang Degong and Zhou Yuji's qualifications in the army are similar to those of many veterans who have fallen into bandits.

"Your Majesty, according to statistics, there are 740 scholars and [-] five strong men. How do you think these two groups will be trained by whom?" Ma Shiying reported.

"Choose another [-] people who can read and write, and make up [-]. Among the strong and brave, choose a few strong and strong people to make up [-]. One will be compiled as a scholar camp, and the other will be compiled as a strong man camp. Liu Fangliang, director of the General Training Department Personally train the scholar battalion, Zhou Yuji, the chief of the army, trains the warrior battalion, and the two battalions compete in half a month. Half grade."

It will definitely take a long time to screen these 10 people now.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian thought that batch training could be carried out

Now, it is necessary to select these 1 people with special abilities before conducting the first batch of training.

The active military officers and veterans who were transferred to serve as instructors were first transferred to the more than [-] people to serve as instructors.

The rest, together with Li Banghua, Lu Zhenfei and Li Mingrui, are responsible for screening and training other candidates.

As the name suggests, the scholar camp is naturally an army composed mainly of scholars, so Zhu Youjian habitually called it the scholar camp.

It is obvious that this camp has a high level of education, relatively high intelligence, and is relatively easy to accept new things, but lacks social experience, is not obedient, is easy to sing the opposite tune, and has a relatively strong temper. The Heavenly King and Lao Tzu didn't even notice it.

However, Zhu Youjian let Liu Fangliang, who was born as a farmer, go through countless fierce battles. He insisted that Liu Fangliang, who had become a veteran of many battles, lead this talent camp, so that Liu Fangliang could add some masculinity to these scholars.

Most people in the warrior camp are generally more manageable and obedient, but they lack spirituality or are relatively loose. Zhou Yuji is from a family of generals, and although he is a warrior, he is also proficient in writing and ink. They are not just warriors, they can become qualified commanders of the Ming army in the future.

Liu Fangliang looked depressedly at the group of scholars in front of him who were still wearing square scarves and holding folding fans, who looked weaker than women.

He couldn't figure out why His Majesty entrusted this group of people to him to practice and compete with Zhou Yuji.

Liu Fangliang looked at the team that Zhou Yuji was in charge of, everyone was tall and mighty, even a famous general of the Liao army like Liu Zhaoji, he couldn't help feeling depressed for a moment, shook his head dejectedly, looked at Gu Yanwu, Wang Fuzhi and other talents in front of him, Complain secretly:
"Your Majesty, I'm still biased. After all, Zhou Yuji stayed with him for a long time, and gave him all the old people who killed Tartars. Let me take you guys who have only ink in their stomachs but no hair on their mouths. This makes me How to beat him!"

(End of this chapter)