At present, the merchant army has developed to the preparation of the first level of the division. A standard division has three regiments under the standard division.
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Because in the future, the division will become the main combat unit of the Merchant Army, so it is necessary to form some adjustments to each division's troops to make the configuration more coincident and fully play the combat power. Shang Yi also made a decision to make every decision.
Each three regiments are divided into two main combat regiments and one auxiliary regiment.
The main battle regiment will be composed of the muskets, and will gradually use the rogue gun, all of which are used for hair guns. At the same time, the group is also equipped with sixty small and medium -sized field artillery artillery.
以 There are fifteen battalions to strengthen combat firepower.
The auxiliary group is divided into two logistics battalions, and two artillery battalions. A logistics camp will be equipped with 300 cars and three hundred horses donkeys.
The artillery battalion will be equipped with forty to sixty artillery, which will be mainly medium -sized artillery, supplemented by a small number of heavy artillery, the proportion of medium -sized artillery and heavy artillery is also three to one.
Ten tube piano gun trucks provide fire support for the main battle team in the battle. They will not be equipped with a auxiliary regiment for the time being, but after the military industry develops, the auxiliary regiment will also be equipped with a musket, so it also has the role of the reserve team.
This is the power configuration of each division. As for other scouts, cavalry, in general, they are not equipped, but before the war, it is drawn from other teams. At the same time
Let the second division Zhou Shaozhen also set up the second division according to this standard.
Then Shang Yi ordered the six regiments to replace the fifth regiment guarding Suzhou, transfer the five regiments back to Hangzhou, and use the two regiments and five regiments as the core to form the third division and fourth division of the business army.
Strive for this year, all three teachers in Zhejiang will be complete.
Because this trip to Beijing has also received a lot of horses, Shang Yi also decided to choose a group of war horses to expand the cavalry team into cavalry brigades.
The two heads of the regiment, Zhou Qi and Wu Hansheng each have new arrangements, so the head of the reconnaissance team was served as Duan Peng, and Shang Yi's guard chose other people.
At the same time, Shang Yi also redesigned the uniform of the army. The military uniform of the pedestrian was still dark green, while the Cavalry was red and the navy was dark blue.
In the assembly of soldiers, a standard infantry weapon is a bayonet musket, two to four string grenades and sixty -round fixed bullets, grenades and bullets are packaged in a waterproof cowhide.
The cars are divided into two types: light cavalry and heavy cavalry. However, the heavy cavalry of the merchant army and the traditional heavy cavalry are different.
The neck, the front of the iron armor, the actual heavy cavalry also has a strong maneuverability and speed. And the weapon configuration of the light cavalry and the heavy cavalry, all have a spear with a handle, a horse knife, a single knife, a single knife
In addition, the light cavalry will also be equipped with five short -handed flying ax. In the next step, Shang Yi also plans to equip the cavalry with short -tube muskets.
Only the navy's assembly is the easiest. The Navy is divided into two types: soldiers and sailors. Sailors pay responsibility for warships and artillery. Therefore, they are not equipped with armor and muskets.
The side warfare, or landing and fighting, like the pedestrian, equipped armor and musket, but generally do not match grenades.
The key adjustment of the army this time is that in the Navy, the establishment of the Navy of the Merchant Army has been established for more than half a year. People. At present, they have more than 180 vessels, including 52 western warships. It is not small on the scale, but because the navy has always been in the stage of grass and training, it is temporarily for the Navy for the time being. Classified and reorganized, and each warship has not been named. Although the Navy has not yet fought a battle, it has also been available for several tasks and should also be officially organized.
Shang Yi first classified the naval ships, which were roughly divided into four major categories: the main warships, paving the warships, transport ships, and whistle boats. Two 1,000 ingredients, six 600 blessing ships and six four hundred blessing boats, 22 Cangshan boats, eighteen shipbuilding boats; the transport ship has 55 ships, all of which There are 18 whistle ships, including twelve waves of waves and eight flying boats.
At the same time, the main warships are divided into five levels, and 2,500 are the first level; two thousand materials to 2,500 materials are second, 1,500 yuan to 2,000 materials are three levels, one thousand materials To 1,500 ingredients are level four; below one thousand materials are level 5. The first and second levels are called battleships, the third level is called a cruiser, the fourth level is called a destroyer, and the fifth level is called the frigates. Referring to some time later, the British standard for the classification of warships. 毎 The captain of the ship has a captain, a large deputy, and the remaining positions are different according to the size of each ship, each.
In the name of the warship, Shang Yi decided that the first -class battleship was named after the name of the ancient Chinese generals. "One ship, it will not be renamed. When the new battleship was created before, and then named it according to this standard.
The third -level cruiser is also a key development type in the future, and it will also be the largest number of warships in the future. Therefore, it is named after the Tianye Di Xing, but now there are only six cruisers in the merchant army. Tianji Number, Tianxian, Tianyong, Tianxiong.
There are currently twenty -eighth -class destroyers, which are named after the name of 28 stars. There are eighteen ships on the fifth -class frigate, which are named after the place names of Zhejiang. It is also named after the "Fu" name.
However, although there are not few main warships of the Merchant Army's Navy, from the perspective of the formation, the matching of the Merchant Army is not reasonable. There are many small and medium -sized warships, while there are fewer large and medium -sized warships. It is mainly based on the third -level cruiser, and then reduced to both ends one by one, so this structure should be gradually improved in the future.
Then Shang Yi divided the current navy into five sub -fleets. The only branch fleet was the main warship and the shop assisting warships. The captain of the flagship also serves as the captain of the sub -fleet. The transport ships and sentry ships are temporarily assigned to each branch fleet according to the needs of the battlefield.
Because at this time the naval battle is inconvenient, no matter how trained the training navy, it is impossible for a flagship to conduct a hundred warships at all, so a fleet disperses into about 20. Sub -fleet, implementing layers of command is the best way.
In addition, Shang Yi also got a good news. The two thousand ingredients built by himself were successfully tried and used in the shipyard and could be used in service. And the main structure of the shipyard was completed, and the size of the size was ten.
There are two other two thousand blessings, and six thousand -ingredients western -style sailing ships are under construction. It is expected that in 9 October, the second batch of ships built by the shipyard can also be put into use.
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On the other side, the arsenal has also been fully completed and began to be fully put into production. At present, it has produced more than 3,000 muskets, including sixty laborers and more than 500 artillery.
The door, including the twenty cottage version of the breakthrough gun. It also created thirty wind piano guns.
Most of the craftsmen brought back from Beijing are gun manufacturing craftsmen and carpenters. Therefore, the arsenal added more than 1,000 people, and the shipyard also added more than 600 people, which can also greatly increase the output.
At the same time, Shang Yi also provided a unified regulations on the name of artillery and muskets. The standard naming of artillery will be determined by the characteristics of caliber, weight, material, and use.
The nickname or love is called, and in the formal document, the standard must be named.
The weight level of artillery is 800 pounds of weight, 300 to 800 pounds of medium -sized, and less than 300 pounds. The material is divided into cast iron, bronze, copper, steel, etc., and the use is divided into field guns, howitzers, and grenades.
Mortar artillery, mortar guns, carrier guns, fortress cannon, etc. The standard name of the cottage version of the breakthrough cannon is a three -inch six -point caliber heavy bronze field gun.
There are many unnecessary misunderstandings and troubles.
At present, there are not many types of martial arts muskets. The fire rods have been completely discontinued. The main production is the front -loaded slide hair gun, which is two types of front -loading lines. It is collectively referred to as rifles.
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Shang Yi also issued three new research topics to the research department of the arsenal, pistols for mines, mines, mines and troops. At the same time, a new vehicle factory must be created to prepare to produce various military civilian vehicles.
After these things were handled one by one, Shang Yi was relieved, and the time was at the end of May.
On the day of June 1st, Shang Yi received the news that Zhou Shaozhen, who was in Dengzhou. It turned out that after Li Zicheng's defeat and fled in Beijing, the Ming Dynasty officials who returned to Li Zicheng all places all over anyway.
, The principal Cheng Xianzhen, Xie Hai, the brother of the college scholar Xie Sheng, launched the incident and recommended Zhu Shuai Zhu Shuai, the Lieutenant of the Ming Fan of the Ming Dynasty as the leader of the League, and called on the king of Ji, calling on the far away.
The gentleman group responded, and in less than a month, it occupied Shandong, dozens of states and counties in Hebei.
See the place to grab the city. For example, Zhang Daya of Lingshanwei, Zhang Qiancheng, Han Jiben, Gao Mi County's single reward, Zhang Yu, etc.
After the Qing army attacked in Beijing, while chasing the Da Shun army, he also sent a former Ming Dynasty minister Fang Dazhen. Wang Aoyong as the way to recruit Shandong area, but there was no result, and he was planning to send troops to attack Shandong.
Therefore, Zhou Shaozhen suggested in the letter that there is no need to stay in the Dengzhou government now. You can take advantage of the chaos in Shandong to occupy the troops to occupy Laizhou and Qingzhou. With the foundation of the merchant army in this area, there should be no difficulties.
In this way, in the future, fight with the Qing army, and the room for rotation will be greater.
Shang Yi was about to write a letter to reply to Zhou Shaoyuan, and at this time Zhang Gengqiu on the seaside suddenly returned to Hangzhou and told Shang Yi that the Spanish army sent another fleet to attack China.