In the west wing of the Wuzhou government office, the Australian oil lamp was on all night, and Yi Haoran stayed up all night again.
He spent the whole day today on the city tower observing the actions of the Australians below the city. The actions of the thieves were neither slow nor hasty, and their advance and retreat were very orderly. It was indeed a "giant canal" that frightened the officers and soldiers. Such a strong force
Soldiers, even if they don't have strong ships and powerful artillery, even officers and soldiers with swords and guns are no match for them.
He vaguely felt that Xiong Wencan's vigorous collection of "weapons" was not very reliable. Even if all the Ming army in Wuzhou were equipped with Nanyang rifles, he felt that there was little chance of winning. What's more, he only had 500 new weapons now.
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On the surface, this matter was done by Xiong Wencan to balance the conflict between Chang Qingyun and Yi Haoran. However, in Yi Haoran's opinion, Governor Xiong was quite discerning.
The old habits of the officers and soldiers have become heavy, and the serious illness cannot be cured without strong medicine-not to mention his small staff, even Xiong Wencan himself dare not ask about it. An officer like Jiang Suo who came from a "subjugation bandit" background does not have his own staff, so he can't arrange it.
Let alone show off your skills in the army, it is hard to say whether you can survive. Xiong Wencan sent Yi Haoran and Jiang Suo to Guizhou to recruit servants, which is a good thing to start from scratch - Qi Jiguang also started by training the new army.
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Military training costs a lot of money. Fortunately, the land in Guizhou is barren and the people are poor, so four taels of silver is enough for settling down. However, the military salary of three taels of silver per month for soldiers is not a small amount. Xiong Wencan allocated 10,000 taels of silver to Yi Haoran.
: Four thousand five hundred taels is three months' military pay, two thousand taels is settlement expenses, and the rest is "office miscellaneous expenses."
These "office miscellaneous expenses" do not need to be reported and reported. It is equivalent to a budget lump sum system. The remaining part is the benefit of the person in charge. If you are a more courageous veteran, you will also have to swallow up a few percent of your housing expenses and military pay. Therefore.
After Yi Haoran received this job, he immediately became a "popular person" in Xiong Wencan's shogunate. The ministers, officials and generals who were familiar or not familiar with him came to congratulate him one after another and gave him a few favors by the way.
Personally, please ask him for "help".
Yi Haoran has been in charge for many years, so he is naturally aware of these arrangements. It is not easy to refuse: even if he does not help the other party in the future, at least it can prevent them from causing harm. Therefore, when he and Jiang Suo set out, they did not have more than ten people, but a large number of people.
There are more than a hundred people.
The recruitment location was chosen in Yongningwei, Xiong Wencan's hometown, Guizhou. Guizhou was not under Xiong Wencan's jurisdiction, so Yi Haoran was only recruiting "households" for Xiong Wencan, not "recruiting soldiers". Although the court did not prohibit this kind of thing, he
We also know that Xiong Wencan has many political enemies in the court, and there is no guarantee that this matter will not become an excuse for them to criticize. So after recruiting all the troops in a hurry, they quickly drove back to Guangxi for training - the training camp was located in Teng County, not far from Wuzhou.
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A few days after arriving in Teng County, Yi Haoran called Jiang Suo and gave him five hundred taels of silver.
"What kind of money is this?" Jiang Suo asked in surprise as he had never seen such money in his life.
"You followed me to Guizhou and then helped me train my troops here. This is what you deserve."
"Didn't military pay just come out..."
Yi Haoran recruited his own soldiers, and they were paid on time without any arrears. However, the military pay was not three taels per month, but twenty taels. The reason was that the military pay of three taels was only earned when he went into battle. On weekdays, he would only get two taels if he did not fight.
.Only for this one item, there will be an extra five hundred taels of benefits every month. Although Jiang Suo's military salary is quite a penny, he always feels uncomfortable in his heart - among Australians, the amount of money is what it says it is.
, there is never a shortage of deductions.
"This is miscellaneous public funds." Yi Haoran said, "It is also your benefit. Just take it."
Although Yi Haoran has the idea of "loyalty to the public and the country," this does not prevent him from being corrupt and self-enriching. He has already passed the age of five, and it is unknown whether he will have other jobs in the future. If he cannot make money on this job
If he dies, there will be no place to bury him in a coffin! Moreover, since he took this job, all aspects of "entertainment" and "management" have cost a lot. If he hadn't taken it from the head of the big soldier, Xiong Wencan would have given him the "
"Public miscellaneous items" are simply not enough expenses!
"Didn't the public funds have been received before going to Guizhou?" Jiang Suo knew what was going on and was very disgusted. Isn't this kind of money what the political education said when he joined the army, "drinking the blood of soldiers"!
"What do you know!" Looking at his face, Yi Haoran probably knew what he was thinking, and couldn't help but be secretly surprised, "Now you are also a military attache of the imperial court, not a soldier of the bandit. Even if you are an official, you have to have pomp, expenses, and entertainment.
How can it be enough to rely on your salary? Now we are training alone and are self-contained. In the future, when you serve in the army, who among your superiors and colleagues should not be carefully managed?" Seeing Jiang Suo about to speak, he waved his hand, "
Just listen to me. This is a long-standing shortcoming in the officialdom. Let alone you and me who have little future, even Governor Xiong did not dare to make a mistake - even Governor Qi Shaobao and Governor Yuan had to join the powerful people in the court.
―If not, not to mention making achievements, even your official position and even your life will not be saved!"
He sighed: "When you enter the officialdom, you will rarely live up to the standard, and sometimes you even have to disgrace yourself. Don't take it to heart!"
Jiang Suo said nothing more, took the money and left.
"Jiang Suo, you haven't chosen your soldiers yet?" Yi Haoran urged him to choose a dozen soldiers a few days ago.
"I now have a personal soldier, which is enough."
"You, you are really a scholar!" Yi Haoran sighed, suddenly thinking that the other party was not a scholar, "Once you go to the battlefield, no matter you are a general commanding millions of elite soldiers, you must also have a few personal guards who can trust you with life and death.
, otherwise in the critical moment, you will be alone!"
"Yes, I understand." Jiang Suo lowered his head and reported, took the silver and went down.
Yi Haoran shook his head secretly: This person who has been trained by the thief is really stubborn.
Each of these 500 new troops was a strong mountain man selected by Yi Haoran according to the standards in the "New Book of Jixiao". All 500 of his troops were handed over to Jiang Suo for training.
However, although Jiang Suo was proficient in "Kun Cao" and was very knowledgeable when it came to the training of Kun thieves, he was just an ordinary soldier. Although his training results were excellent, he was not even a corporal. In addition to being a militia captain, he was not a corporal.
I have no experience in leading troops. Now it is naturally beyond my ability to teach 500 people by myself. It has been chaotic for several days.
Yi Haoran remembered the military books he had read, and changed his strategy. He first selected the ten smartest people out of the five hundred, and was taught by Jiang Suo himself, starting with walking, lining up, and holding a gun. Then he selected a hundred more people, and was taught by Jiang Suo himself.
These ten people went to train the one hundred people, and Jiang Suo was always there to give guidance and corrections. Finally, the one hundred people went to train the remaining people. In just three months, the "unit was well organized" and "impressive".
Yi Haoran was quite proud.
Even according to Jiang Suo's eyes, the training level in front of him cannot be said to be very high. Not to mention the Fubo Army, even the National Army cannot compare. It is at the level of the militia at best. All he can teach is the most basic formation.
The drills that involved combat formations were just the most basic combat formations of marching, double rows, and hollow squares. In fact, he was not very clear on how to operate it.
The shooting was also carried out according to the training Jiang Suo had received. Unfortunately, the rifles he bought were equipped with bayonets, and the bayonets Yi Haoran asked the blacksmith to imitate were not easy to use. In the end, he gave up the bayonet and trained all his strength on shooting.
The training syllabus is the same as that of the Fubo Army, with fifty "dry firings" and thirty live ammunition firings.
This shooting training made Yi Haoran secretly complain. Because each of these guns only has 100 rounds of ammunition. The ammunition is monopolized by the Australians, and the price is extremely high - not to mention gunpowder and lead bullets, which are called "
No one knows how the small copper piece of "flash cap" was made.
Although the money was not spent on myself, it was too much and it would be hard to explain to Governor Xiong.
However, seeing the performance of the Nanyang Rifle on the training ground, Yi Haoran felt that it was worth the money.
Unfortunately, the number of Nanyang rifles purchased was not enough, only a hundred. Yi Haoran originally planned to arm them with the Fo Langji bird blunderbuss bought from Macau. However, Jiang Suo believed that the performance of the two muskets was different and it was difficult to match each other.
He suggested that Yi Haoran use the Australian method he had seen when he was a militia captain in training: equip him with a spear.
This standard spear was much easier to get than the Nanyang rifle. Not long after, the people sent by Yi Haoran bought back hundreds of Lingao export standard spears in Macau. Jiang Suo followed the training he had received when he participated in the militia captain training.
, combine spearmen and musketeers for mixed training.
The drawing of this joint training sounds simple on paper, but in fact it is not easy. Especially the formation expansion and transformation of the mixed force of spearmen and musketeers, only an elite professional army can do it. Jiang Suo, an ordinary man,
Naturally, Yi Haoran, who was self-taught by reading military books, could not be recruited. Xiong Wencan sent General Song Ming, one of his subordinates, to assist in military training.
Song Ming was a young general who participated in the Chengmai War. He has been depressed since the defeat of Chengmai. He has always been ambitious. When he arrived in Teng County, he hit it off with Yi Haoran and took over the training.
Jiang Suo drew the combat methods of this mixed force on paper one by one, and then Song Ming implemented the training one by one. He trained his troops in a very organized manner, and he soon had a solid basis for advance and retreat. However, the problem came again: Jiang Suo could not learn enough.
He was just scratching the surface, and the largest joint training was only a company-level formation. He didn't know how to cooperate with the five hundred servants, so he could only rely on the cooperation of three people to try. Gradually, he also explored the use of this formation.
Out.
It's a pity that they don't have more time. The Australians suddenly landed and Guangzhou and Zhaoqing fell one after another. This newly formed army will serve as one of Xiong Wencan's last trump cards and fight the Australians in Wuzhou.
"It's a pity that the new army has not yet been trained, and there are only 500 people!" Yi Haoran secretly felt regretful in his heart.