Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 19 Establishing the Restoration Army

Bai Mingxiu was very clear about Bai Wenxuan's hesitation and attitude.

At the first court meeting of the Southern Ming Dynasty that Bai Wenxuan attended, Bai Mingxiu simply put forward the policy of "military reform."

"...Judging from Australia's experience, the army will be dominated by firearms in the future. Firearms will become more and more powerful. Neither horses nor shield chariots can stop powerful guns and artillery. The traitor Wu Sangui at this time We have already dispatched troops in Yunnan, and we are advancing in two directions. It is estimated that we will arrive at the city of Ava in three or four months at the most. For the current plan, our army must speed up the formation of a new army. For the current plan, we can no longer stick to whose subordinates. Subordinates, if the Ming Dynasty dies, no one will have a good result. Therefore, this palace will organize the Ming army into different units according to the new law."

Bai Wenxuan would not believe the prince's words. In his opinion, this is obviously seizing the military power. He objected: "Your Highness, as you said, the battle with Wu Sangui is imminent, but at this time, we have to disperse and reorganize the army. It's too risky to manage the army with things that none of us can understand."

Bai Mingxiu, who looked only 14 years old, looked at Bai Wenxuan with bright eyes, and said, "King Gongchang, whether you take risks or not, I have the final say."

Bai Wenxuan felt that it was a bit tricky. He still wanted to find something to object to, but he saw that even Li Dingguo was staring at him, obviously on the side of the prince.

At the same time as the court meeting, Bai Mingxiu instructed his subordinates Zhao Xu, Lin Zheng and others to invite Bai Wenxuan's subordinates to a mansion, nominally to invite his colleagues to have a drink.But halfway through the meal, when Bai Wenxuan's general Zhang Guoyong wanted to leave, Lin Zheng stopped him.

"Why, why don't you let people go? What do you mean?" Zhang Guoyong said angrily.

Lin Zheng simply said: "Under the order of His Royal Highness, the new Ming army will be formed, and officers from all ministries will be gathered for closed training. No one is allowed to leave the training ground without authorization."

Zhang Guoyong was furious: "This is putting us under house arrest!"

Lin Zheng said sternly: "Training is training. Afterwards, if you have good academic performance and good assessment, you can be promoted."

The subtext of these words is, if you don't do a good job and don't satisfy His Royal Highness, then don't do it.

All of a sudden, Ava City seemed a little chaotic again. Almost all the leaders of Bai Wen's army were arrested, and even some people in Li Dingguo's army didn't listen to their greetings. They wanted to make trouble, but finally Li Dingguo personally came forward It was taken away.

Although Li Dingguo also felt that Bai Mingxiu's approach was a little risky, but now Li Dingguo already had a superstitious belief in Bai Mingxiu, and even felt that Bai Mingxiu's resolute methods were exactly what an emperor needed.And at this juncture, the rectification of the army is indeed indispensable.

Bai Mingxiu had his loyal guard company, iron cannon ashigaru, and barbarian soldiers as "gendarmes" to clean up all the dishonest guys. After a whole day of trouble, the Ming army could only accept the adaptation honestly.This process was similar to Bai Mingxiu's idea, and it was not very smooth. Without Li Dingguo's support, he would definitely not be able to go on.

Bai Mingxiu counted the Ming army's equipment. There are currently 2000 flintlock guns and more than 1000 matchlock guns. As for the three-eyed guns, Bai Mingxiu directly eliminated them from the regular army and threw them to the barbarians.Barbarian soldiers do not need to form a line to fight in the mountains, so muskets such as three-eyed guns that can be fired at one time are enough.

Relying on strong means, Bai Mingxiu still pulled out the airs of a modernized Ming army.Bai Mingxiu directly gave this army a new designation - "Da Ming Restoration Army".The number of combatable soldiers in the Ming army was more than 14000, and Bai Mingxiu divided them into line infantry, heavy infantry, spearmen, mountain infantry, archers, rangers and artillery.The specific grouping is as follows:
The first regiment, second regiment and third regiment of the line infantry of the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army, equipped with flintlock guns and matchlock guns.Each regiment has four battalions, each battalion has three companies, and each platoon has 32-36 people.The total number of line infantry: 3521 people.

The first and second regiments of the heavy infantry of the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army were armored, and the main weapons used were cold weapons such as swords and shields. The organization was similar to that of line infantry.The total number of heavy infantry: 2208 people.

The first and second regiments of the Army Spearmen of the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army were equipped with spears about 4.2 meters long, and the soldiers wore light armor.The formation is also similar to that of line infantry.The total number of spearmen: 1860 people.

The first and second regiments of the Mountain Infantry of the Great Ming Restoration Army were composed of barbarian soldiers from Bai Mingxiu, armed with Burmese knives and some Chinese firearms.The establishment is similar to the line infantry, with a total number of 1967 people.

The first regiment of archers of the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army, the main weapon is crossbows, each squadron has 100 archers, and there are 5 squadrons under the brigade. The total number of archers in the first regiment is 1146.

The first regiment, the second regiment, the third regiment, and the fourth regiment of the Army Rangers of the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army are mainly cavalry who wear armor and use cold weapons. There are 8 cavalry companies under the previous ranger regiment, and each cavalry company has about 100 people. .The total number of cavalry: 3366 people.

The First Regiment of the Army Artillery Corps of the Rejuvenation Army of the Ming Dynasty was mainly equipped with "light" artillery such as various Francophones and tiger squat guns in Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan's army, and the M1844 Napoleon 6-pound gun exchanged by Bai Mingxiu. The artillery regiment has 3 subordinate artillery battalions with only 345 personnel.

In this semi-modern and semi-medieval army newly formed by Bai Mingxiu, the real main force is the line infantry regiment. Bai Mingxiu even dismantled the iron cannon ashigaru and sent them to various ministries to serve as small officers. Lin Zheng As the head of the [-]st Regiment of the Line Infantry.Then there are four cavalry regiments. There are a large number of horses in Bai Wen's selection army, which is convenient for Bai Mingxiu to form a cavalry regiment to cover the line infantry.The cavalry can carry out shocks, harass on the flanks, and can also carry out pursuit, which is an indispensable part of Bai Mingxiu's current tactics.

As for the spearmen, Bai Mingxiu learned from Gustav.The "wild boar hair" array formed by spearmen can effectively fight against cavalry, and the array of spearmen is still very powerful.

As for units such as heavy infantry and archers, it was entirely because Bai Mingxiu didn't have enough muskets, so he could only keep some such medieval troops first.When his number of firearms increases, Bai Mingxiu will completely replace the spearmen, so the formation of spearmen, heavy infantry and archers can basically only be regarded as a temporary formation.

In order to build a real artillery for the Ming army, Bai Mingxiu exchanged the few Goldfinger coins left for 18 Napoleon 100-pound guns with a price of up to 6 coins. The system told him that if he exchanged the relevant blueprints later, the price It will be lowered a little.But anyway, the Ming army has artillery firepower that can be seen.

(End of this chapter)