Zhu Jianji asked the young soldiers to continue training, and said to Chen Qi, Li Jiu, and Zhao Er who were following him: "Why don't you see the commander Wang Yue? Where has he gone?"
Wang Yue was a civil servant.
But after several years of contact, Zhu Jianji found that this scholar had the heart of a military general in his heart.
And he is familiar with the art of war.
The Young Army is also good at close combat, but is essentially a firearms unit.
Scenes of face-to-face fighting generally do not happen to young armies. If there is a face-to-face hand-to-hand combat, either your own side is in a desperate situation, or the enemy is finishing the battle.
So what is needed is a commander with a strategic vision, not a brave and invincible general.
Wang Yue fits the bill perfectly.
So this scholar, who was a censor, changed his military position and became the commander of the young army.
However, civil servants generally cannot serve as commanders.
For this reason, Zhu Jianji also fought with the Manchu civil and military forces for a round.
When the Young Army was first established, Chen Qi, Li Jiu, and Zhao Er challenged all members to become a Hundred Households. They were extremely powerful. After the Young Army expanded, the three of them were promoted to the rank of Thousand Households.
It turns out that almost all of the 300 people in the Young Army were promoted.
Deputy 100 households, 100 households, deputy 100 households, trial 100 households, general banner, small banner... there are almost three hundred people.
This is the backbone of the young army.
Chen Qi smiled and said: "Commander Wang is practicing the fire gun formation."
Zhu Jianji said, "Let him come to see Gu."
Fireguns are obsolete.
At the latest, one month later, all members of the young army will be equipped with Dongfeng rifles, fire gun formations, etc. Except for the three-stage shooting, all other tactics will be eliminated.
After a while, Wang Yue came over and bowed and apologized.
He actually knew that Zhu Jianji was coming, but he didn't want to waste time. After the expansion of the young army, it had reached 3,000 troops, but it was far from the size of the Shenji Battalion back then.
In order for the young army to maximize its combat power, it must rely on firecrackers to research more advanced tactics.
Three-stage shooting is just a conventional strategy.
Wang Yue was a little touched by the small flag system that His Highness once mentioned.
There are ten people per small flag, and a group of ten people.
The three thousand men of the young army can almost cover the entire battlefield. However, there is a problem. After a group of ten people are separated, the firepower will be scattered. The shooting accuracy of the fire blunderbuss is not high. Most of the time, it relies on intensive shooting to increase the lethality.
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If the small flag system is spread out, the lethality will drop sharply.
Wang Yue wanted to make up for this shortcoming through improved tactics.
However, it has been two years and Wang Yue still has not found an effective method.
Zhu Jianji asked Wang Yue to stand up and said with a smile: "Commander Wang, Gu knows what you are worried about. This is a good thing. As the first commander of Gu's young army, the more you study the better, because you want to lead
This is an army that has never appeared since ancient times. However, you have temporarily put down the research at hand for the past few days, found some people, and made more targets. In a month, the small army will be equipped with new weapons and need to practice diligently.
, the ugly words are ahead, let those bastards save some money for me, ammunition is not cheap!"
Bullets are expensive as hell.
Wang Yue smiled and said, "Your Highness, are you still worried about money?"
The country has not yet imposed a sea ban, but the imperial court's more than 20 treasure ships and your three treasure ships sailed to the Western Ocean twice in a row, making a lot of money, not to mention you made a lot of money in Fujian.
Zhu Jianji rolled his eyes and said, "As the commander, you don't know how good the young army is at spending money, right?"
Three thousand people, three thousand sets of armor are 24,000 taels, one year's military pay is 72,000 taels, three thousand swords are 2,000 taels, one hundred thousand taels are spent on expanding the barracks, 2,700 horses are bought for 160,000 taels, and one year's maintenance is 45,000 taels.
Two, plus food for three thousand people for a year...
In the eleventh year of Jingtai's reign, he spent more than 400,000 taels on military expansion.
In the next few years, the annual expenses will be more than 100,000 taels.
The Ministry of Household Affairs still only allocates funds based on the scale of 300 people, and only gives 15,000 taels per year.
One or two more won't do.
Chen Xun, the Minister of Household Affairs, is really stingy.
Fortunately, my family has a strong foundation. In the past few years, my expenses have been basically the money I earned from my overseas voyages.
Think about it, three treasure ships can support a young army of 3,000 people.
What if there are thirty ships?
What about three hundred ships?
Before the sea ban is lifted, we must work hard to make another big profit!
Colonial expansion was inevitable.
Wang Yue smiled and said, "Actually, young troops can also be cultivated in fields."
Zhu Jianji shook his head, "No, what I want is a professional army that exists only for combat, not an amateur army that stays in the fields and weeds at all times."
What kind of combat capability does such an army have?
For example, these 3,000 young troops, even if they are only equipped with firecrackers, can still overwhelm a regiment of 10,000 people.
And you won’t necessarily lose.
After three rounds of shooting, even if it enters hand-to-hand combat, the three thousand infantry army will not lose its grip.
What the young army lacks is actual battlefield experience.
Only Dulbert's troops from the 11th year of Jingtai were on the side. At that time, the young army went to test their skills in the final stage and achieved good results. They almost beat Dulbert's cavalry on the butt.
He said to Wang Yue: "Be prepared mentally. The young army will continue to expand, at least to the size of a guard."
Three thousand people is still too few.
At present, the money I have saved is enough. When I was in Fujian, I took 500,000 yuan from the Tang Dynasty King Zhu Qiongxing. In addition to the house deed given by Zhu Yunwen, the land deed was "sold" for 1.8 million and was given to Lao Zhu for 1 million.
There was still 1.3 million left. In the 11th year of Jingtai's reign, the young army expanded, and a lump sum of 400,000 was spent. Later, all the money was earned from going to the West.
The Ordnance Supervision spent more than 300,000 yuan.
In other words, Zhu Jianji's East Palace now has more than 600,000 taels of money, and he can definitely expand his young army to 10,000 people.
But raising a young army in the future is a costly affair.
So Zhu Jianji knew that in order to develop this modern army, he had to plunder overseas money.
Suddenly I feel...
Why didn’t King Ning rebel yet?
Tang Wang Zhu Qiongjing also quickly rebelled.
Without you...
I'm very poor.
If it doesn't work, the Zhunge'er tribe, the Dulbert tribe, and the Jurchens all come to harass the border - hey, forget it, these tribes in the northern part of the country are extremely poor, and there is no way to make war money from them.
The vassal kings in the south will still have to rebel.
Wang Yue was puzzled, "Where did they get the troops?"
Zhu Jianji said: "You don't have to worry about this. Just do as Gu said, prepare the training ground, and then quickly formulate training methods. We must make sure that the young army equipped with new weapons has combat capability before the end of this year. Well,
...When the time comes, we can take them to the northern border for actual combat training and use the iron cavalry of the Mobei Yi tribe to train troops."
Wang Yue seemed to be listening to a fairy tale, "Using the iron cavalry of the Mobei Yi tribe to train troops?"
What are you thinking!
The Mobei Yi tribe has always been a major concern for the Central Plains Dynasty. Now His Highness is using them to train troops. Is it because he dislikes the young army's 3,000 people and cannot afford to support them, so he drags them out to fight and kill some of them?
Zhu Jianji did not explain to Wang Yue, but said: "You don't need to worry about the source of troops. I have one more thing to tell you. The East Palace Young Army must prepare to practice naval battles and form a navy in the future. This can be regarded as reserving talents for the navy in advance. Wang
The commander asked you to draw up a list later and select candidates for the new generals such as Qianhu, commander, etc. after the expansion of the army."
