Although the problems in Shandong and taxation made Zhu Youxiao feel numb, he was not idle during this month.
Because the city defense army and police department were established, he abolished the auxiliary barracks.
The auxiliary barracks were originally established to serve as reserves and logistical support.
With the city defense army, the auxiliary barracks became redundant.
Moreover, Zhu Youxiao's move also had the intention of reform.
The Ming Dynasty's military system had a very big flaw.
It's just that soldiers are amateurs. They carry knives to fight in wartime, farm the land, and work as cattle and horses for civil and military officials.
Zhu Youxiao remembered that when he first read the Ming Dynasty records, the civil servants of the imperial court moved, and actually went to the Ministry of War to apply for documents, and transferred thousands of people to the Beijing camp to work as free labor for them.
It is simply the most ridiculous thing in the world. The soldiers in the Beijing camp are like this, and you can imagine it in other areas.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao must completely professionalize the Ming army.
When you become a soldier, you just focus on training, fighting, and obeying military orders to go out.
Moreover, this army must also be divided into levels, divided into field army and defensive army.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with developing the army in the direction of modernization for future generations.
Naturally, the guard army, which has long been corrupted, cannot serve as a field army or a defensive army.
At that time, they will be completely converted into field troops, and they will only be responsible for farming and transporting grain.
Of course, now is not the time to carry out such a major reform. First, he must set up a framework and implement it in the capital before it can be promoted nationwide.
Although the 70,000 sergeants in the auxiliary barracks have never fought in a battle, their daily military training is very good.
And most of them have more than one year of military service. According to the level of daily training, these auxiliary soldiers have already met various requirements.
The only thing they lack is the experience of actual combat and the baptism of war.
But this is not a problem. The Yulin Army now has a hundred thousand troops, most of whom have fought in battles. Two of them can lead one, which is more than enough.
Therefore, his 70,000 men were divided into two groups, one with 50,000 men organized into the four major camps of the Habayashi Army.
After the replenishment, the strength of the Yulin Army will reach 150,000.
Among them, the total number of cavalry in the Xiaoqi Battalion should be about 40,000, including 15,000 Mongolian light cavalry.
Three thousand musketeers in training, and two thousand heavy armored cavalry.
As for the firearms soldiers of the Shenji Battalion, there are about 30,000, with a total of 7,000 fire muskets, and a thousand of them are equipped with the latest Shenwu flintlock muskets.
Although other fire gun soldiers are not equipped with Shenwu fire gun, they are all improved matchlock guns with guaranteed quality.
In today's era, it is not backward, and it still has very strong combat effectiveness.
At least there is no problem in attacking Jiannu and Mongolian Tatars.
As for the Hongyi cannon, there are a total of fifty, and there are more than two hundred large and small Folang machine cannons.
Although Bi Maokang's improved Folan cannon was successfully developed, it is still in mass production, so it has not yet been installed. Most of these guns are qualified ones left over from the past.
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There are also some produced by arsenals, but they are still in a minority.
In addition to cannons and fire guns, the Shenji Battalion also possesses many firearms such as the Streaming Shenji Arrow, the Shenhuo Flying Crow, the Crouching Tiger Cannon, and the newly developed continuous rocket launcher.
If these equipment were taken to the grasslands or Liaodong, the attack on the Jiannu and Mongol Tatars would definitely be devastating.
Due to the vigorous development of firearms, artillery, and cavalry, the heavy armored infantry of the Taishan Battalion has remained the same in the past two years, still numbering 5,000.
There is not much need for heavy armored infantry. Their role is to charge or defend the formation at critical moments. There are very few opportunities for them to be truly useful.
The remaining sergeants of the Huben Battalion, who accounted for up to half, have not changed, and they still have ordinary weapons and equipment.
The only difference is that more than half of the more than 70,000 ordinary infantry are armored.
Zhu Youxiao has been working hard to build armor in the past two years, and even stopped the needs of the border troops, and fully supplied his personal guards.
But the Ming Dynasty's army will eventually change and develop towards thermal weapons.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao is not so crazy about making armor now, and only needs normal supply.
Just like the 30,000 sergeants in the Shenji Battalion, except for the Fire Gun Soldiers who have a layer of iron armor, the rest of the sergeants are unarmored.
What kind of armor do soldiers who play long-range strikes need? If the enemy forces break through your center or even the rear formation and rush in front of the artillery, then you have lost the battle.
After two full years and spending up to tens of millions of taels of silver, Zhu Youxiao finally created a personal army that satisfied him.
Therefore, the current Zhu Youxiao is also a little confused. As long as he does not engage in any tricks, the Ming Dynasty will definitely be invincible in East Asia.
Such a huge force has already caught up with the strength of the Beijing camp of the Zhengtong Dynasty, and is close to the strength of the Beijing camp of the Yongle period.
Moreover, these 150,000 people are not empty, let alone the old, weak, sick and disabled who are just trying to make up the numbers.
They are all young and strong, and they are well-trained and drill every day, far exceeding the training level of Jiubian elite soldiers.
He was a battle-hardened elite general who followed him on two expeditions to Monan to quell Yang Hong's mutiny and the southwestern chieftain rebellion.
Therefore, with the support of such a powerful army, Zhu Youxiao can be said to have nothing to fear.
But in order to better control the army, Zhu Youxiao made another major adjustment to the army's system and system.
The first is the expansion of the military law enforcement team. The law enforcement team is mainly composed of royal guards and is in charge of the palace eunuchs. There are only more than 700 people.
Naturally, it is impossible for an army of 150,000 to be managed by just 700 people.
Therefore, he decided to implement the entire supervision and law enforcement system at the grassroots level.
There are thirty people in each post of the Yulin Army. Each post can be equipped with one law enforcement supervisor, and the number above the post is "hundred". Except for three posts, there is another law enforcement supervisor.
In this way, the unit is sentry, hundred, battalion, regiment, battalion, and so on.
But since there are a thousand people in a regiment, the number of people begins to increase, so each regiment needs to add three people.
The level of law enforcement supervisors is also differentiated according to the level of the army.
The highest one was naturally the eunuch who accompanied the army personally appointed by Zhu Youxiao. The eunuch who accompanied the army represented his will in the army.
In addition to serving as his own eyes and ears, monitoring the generals and controlling the law enforcement teams, he also has the important task of doing ideological work.
The previous law enforcement team was composed of uniformed guards and ordinary soldiers. Zhu Youxiao felt that this was both troublesome and insecure.
So he simply took it apart completely, also to prevent them from collaborating.
The chief officer of the Jinyiwei is only responsible for the Jinyiwei, and the leading general is only responsible for the law enforcement supervisors who are composed of ordinary soldiers.
Moreover, Zhu Youxiao deliberately separated them, so that law enforcement supervisors would serve as all the commanders below the regiment level.
PS:
Combat unit details:
The system mainly refers to the establishment of the Qi Jiajun, which is the team, sentry, hundred, battalion, and regiment, which is the three-three system. (The Qi Jiajun also has the three-three system, but more of the four-four system)
The chief officer of each unit serves concurrently. For example, if a regiment is composed of three commanders, then the commander of the regiment, besides Mr. Qian, he is also the commander. In addition to his own part, the other two commanders also belong to him.
No matter what, I believe it’s made very clear.
The Zuoyang General was the original system of the Ming Dynasty's capital camp, so it was retained. It was a permanent official position but not a permanent combat unit. One person was selected from the five thousand generals to fill it.
As for the guerrilla generals, readers who have read about the late Ming Dynasty should all know it, so I won’t go into too much detail. During wartime, they were similar to partial divisions, a unit that fought independently and had neither permanent official positions nor permanent combat units.
The chief generals of the four major battalions all have the rank of staff general, which is one level higher than that of other regions and is equivalent to the general military officer. (This was originally the case in the capital camp of the Ming Dynasty)