The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 27 Troop Organization
Yu Xinnian said: "The whole battalion has a total of 1030 people. Among them, there are 722 infantry, 117 cavalry, 49 artillery, 81 chariot soldiers, and 61 personal soldiers of the commander."

He turned a page and continued: "There are 141 three-coin bird guns, 96 Western guns, 70 fast guns, and 44 three-eye guns in the whole battalion. There are two No. 11 Flang machines and 248 gamete guns. 199 crossbows. [-] horses..."

Zhu Linming knew that the horses she brought from Fujian and captured in Qingliu totaled nearly 180 horses, which meant that Yu Xinbu originally had less than 20 horses!

In addition, this fast gun sounded unfamiliar to him, but after careful questioning, he realized that it was an old-fashioned fire door gun, and it was still equipped with front-line combat troops.

"A total of 5 vehicles of various types. 107 rattan plates, 119 spears, single sword..."

After Zhu Linmi listened patiently, she felt deeply moved. Based on the state of her military preparations, it would be very difficult for the Qing army to win even with half the number.

"Because there are many sources of soldiers and the organization is chaotic, I discussed with Liu Baizong and Zhu Jiadi and drafted a reorganization report." Yu Xin handed over another piece of paper, "Please look over it, Your Highness."

Zhu Linmei glanced at Yu Xin's reorganization plan. It was a common habit of the Ming army's battalion organization, and it was not suitable for the new training and combat methods at all.

He took out a pen and paper, calculated according to the number of people reported by Yu Xin just now, and calculated according to his new troop formation plan, and then asked Yu Xin to call all the main officers to announce the new troop formation.

"The new army of Dragon Guards will be a new type of army completely different from the past. The equipment and tactics will be completely different from the past. To match the new tactics, the team must also be completely new."

He glanced at the surprised expressions of the officers, and continued: "The whole battalion is divided into three parts: infantry, cavalry, and artillery, supplemented by transport, picket, engineering, medical, and miscellaneous.

"The basic organizational unit of all arms is the 'team', above which there are platoons, companies, battalions, and regiments, a total of five levels.

"Infantry: 6 people in each team, 1 in the management team.

"Each 3 teams form a platoon, with a total of 21 people, and there are 1 platoon chief, platoon deputy, and instructor each.

"Each 3 rows is a company, with a total of 72 people. There are 1 company commander, 2 company deputy, 3 orderly soldier, [-] drummers, and [-] company guards.

"Each 7 companies form a battalion, with a total of 560 people. There are 1 battalion general, battalion deputy, staff officer, quartermaster, 1 drum officer, 3 messengers, and 10 battalion guards. The total number of officers and soldiers in the first battalion is 578. people.

"Cavalry: 5 men in each team, 1 man in the management team.

"Each 3 teams form a platoon, with a total of 18 people, and there are 1 platoon chief, platoon deputy, and instructor each.

"Each 3 rows is a company, with a total of 63 people. There are 1 company commander, 2 company deputy, 3 orderly soldier, [-] drummers, and [-] company guards.

"Each 7 companies form a battalion, with a total of 497 people. There are 1 battalion general, battalion deputy, staff officer, quartermaster, 1 drum officer, 3 messengers, and 10 battalion guards. The total number of officers and soldiers in the first battalion is 515. people.

"Artillery: each team has 9 people, and the management team has 1 person.

"Each 3 teams form a platoon, with a total of 30 people, and there are 1 platoon chief, platoon deputy, and instructor each.

"Each 3 rows is a company, with a total of 99 people. There are 1 company commander, 3 company deputy, and 104 messenger each, and [-] company guards. The company has a total of [-] officers and soldiers. The artillery is only in the artillery company for the time being, and it will be built when there are more artillery. Artillery battalion.

"The new Longwei army temporarily organizes an infantry battalion plus two infantry companies, two cavalry companies, an artillery company, a transport platoon, an engineering platoon, two picket teams, and two medical corps.

Zhu Linming saw that these officers looked like they were listening to the scriptures, so she gave them the manuscripts she had written, "Go and copy a few copies." He continued, "In addition, the new Dragon Guards will use new manuscripts in the future. military rank system.

"Officers are divided into four ranks from top to bottom: general, colonel, lieutenant, and soldier. Each rank is divided into upper, middle, and lower ranks. For the time being, they coexist with the ranks of the court."

He also took out a soldier rating standard and handed it to Yu Xin and others, "As for the soldiers, they are divided into four levels: first class, second class, and third class. All soldiers will be classified according to their physical fitness, combat skills, and professional knowledge. The ability of large pieces is assigned to the first to third ranks. And the upper ranks must have military merits to be promoted.

"You have recently evaluated the entire battalion according to this standard. In the future, soldiers of different ranks will no longer have the same salary."

Zhu Linmi paused for a moment to let the officers digest what he said, and then continued: "After the soldiers have finished their ratings, you can arrange the specific personnel according to the troop organization plan I just set up. Make sure that each company and each platoon There is a balance between superior and inferior soldiers. In addition, the original palace guards were organized into a separate company of personal soldiers."

Although several officers said loudly "obedience", almost every officer felt a little guilty in his heart.In addition to their ratings of soldiers, they also slightly agree with them, and most of them think that this young county king who has never been on the battlefield is just talking about soldiers on paper.

Zhu Linmi didn't expect them to understand the new organization plan right away, as long as he followed his orders for now.After many actual battles in the future, they will understand the scientific nature of this way of organizing troops.

The next day, the ranking of soldiers in the Longwei Battalion was carried out in full swing.

In fact, some soldiers noticed during breakfast time that a stone tablet as tall as a person appeared in the middle of the school grounds.Literate soldiers stepped forward to identify it, and it was engraved with "Three Disciplines and Six Attentions".

Of course this is from Zhu Linmi's cottage.He is very clear that the chaotic situation in the world today is similar to the environment of the revolutionaries back then. Since they have already figured out something that is applicable, why don't they just borrow it.

However, he still made a lot of changes in the details, such as changing "pay attention to your attitude" to "no robbery".Nowadays it is common for soldiers to plunder the common people, and it is often the Manchus who rob once, and the Ming army comes to rob again.Instead of asking for an attitude, it is better to solve the terrible problem first.In addition, in order to reduce the difficulty of memory and publicity, he also changed the eight attentions to six.

The soldier continued to read: "Three disciplines, first, obey the command in all actions. Second, do not take the 1.1-meter line from the masses. Third, everything captured must be returned to the public.

"Six attentions, first, no robbery is allowed. Second, you have to pay for things you buy. Third, you have to pay for damages. Fourth, don't hit or swear. Fifth, don't damage crops. Six, don't molested women."

After all the soldiers listened, they lost interest immediately.Everyone thinks this kind of thing is a joke!Soldiers only pay so much, how can they live without robbing the people?

The soldiers didn't take this "three disciplines and six attentions" to heart at all.The food has been very good recently, and everyone is looking forward to the meal.

In addition, there is an evaluation after the meal, so I don't care about discipline.I heard from the officer that the salary will be paid according to the rating results in the future.The big soldiers all guessed that this was another trick to deduct their salary, but they had to make serious preparations and strive for a higher grade.

Wang Keqian, the magistrate of Wang County, has never been so busy during the slack season before.That day when Zhu Linmi asked him to assist in setting up a mission office, he immediately summoned Song Jiaoyu from the county, first explained to him the details of the establishment of the mission office, and then asked him to summon students to announce the selection of officials from the mission office in Longnan County.

And he himself took a few people and began to go around the county to check for places suitable as the official office of the Missionary Office.

Song Jiaoyu received the order from Wang Zhixian, but he was very puzzled. In the past, all new officials were directly appointed by the Ministry of Officials, but this Missionary Office actually conducts its own recruitment, and the appointment of a position depends entirely on the results of the examination and interview. Such a strange thing He had never heard of it.

Although he felt strange, he still had to do what the county magistrate told him. As soon as he returned to the school, he asked the county's students to be summoned.

"According to the proposal of the cabinet, a missionary office was built in Longnan. The reality is that there is a shortage: one chief missionary officer, one publicity investigator, four editor-in-chief officers, and fourteen missionaries." He looked at the discussion below, coughed and continued, " The Chief Propaganda Officer confers the Ninth Rank, "After reading this, his eyelids twitched, he didn't even have a rank in this teaching, what kind of Chief Propaganda Officer is the Ninth Rank!
He continued: "Both chief writers and missionaries are equipped with ninth rank." Seeing that there was another discussion below, he knocked on the table, "The preparation of ninth rank is a new rank newly added by the imperial court. But it is a real court rank." After saying this, his eyelids twitched again, and for a moment he had the idea of ​​going to the Xuanjiao Mansion for reference.

"Among them, Xuanjiao is responsible for visiting villages and preaching the theory of the imperial court to the people. The chief writer is responsible for sorting out and writing missionary manuscripts. The chief missionary officer is in charge..."

The group of students below just heard that it was a high-ranking position, and suddenly lost interest.Most of them are scholars, and there are even a lot of young students. When will they get a high-ranking position?
But after Song Jiaoyu announced the selection rules, these people started to think again—according to the rules, if you don’t have any fame, you can refer to it, why don’t you try it yourself?Now they went home, took up the sage book and began to review it carefully.

(End of this chapter)