"Didn't I say that if there is a shortage of coal, we will send barges to transport it. [Read the full text]" Ma Qianzhu said impatiently at the meeting, "The carrying capacity of 1500 tons, even if it is brought back from Vietnam, it will be enough to burn several coals." Months old?"
"It's easy for you to say, Vietnam also has a court."
"Let's go to Li Dynasty later."
"Being crowned by a monkey—" Xi Yazhou expressed contempt for this, "I might as well send an expeditionary force to destroy it."
"Don't say that, the monkey is still ruthless enough at this time. It's a bit tiring for us to fight it." Yu Eshui said, "For places where stable political institutions have been established, we can't do what the Europeans did in black Africa. So messing around, the only choice is to trade with them."
"That must be unequal trade -" Xi Yazhou suddenly became full of nationalist passion, "where there are cannons, there is trade."
"Okay, okay, let's not go too far," Ma Qianxu interrupted Xi Yazhou's lyricism, "Now let me talk about the army."
After the traversers won the first counter-encirclement and suppression campaign and then wiped out the Gou family, they opened up the situation in Lingao and won a peaceful period of construction. But we should clearly realize that as the days for them to land on the 6th get longer and longer, and their actions become bigger and bigger, all eyes will eventually pay attention to the travelers. Whether it is pirates or Ming Dynasty, it is expected that they will take action against travelers in the near future. Therefore, he asked the committee and all traversers to establish a new army as soon as possible. And form a complete training-combat system.
From a mid- to long-term perspective, the backbone of the time traveler's combat force must be a new type of army that is mainly composed of the indigenous people of this time and space. Whether it is called a "new army" or an "indigenous army", its core idea is the same. The time-travelers are extremely weak in terms of human resources. Even if they serve as administrative officials and technical personnel, it seems inadequate, let alone serve as soldiers to fight in the war.
The existing army with the time travelers as its main force must be disbanded and reorganized into a new army. Currently, the number of personnel who have served long-term in the military group has exceeded 10% of the total number of time travellers. These people who have mastered modern technology and ideas are responsible for a large number of patrols, vigilance and small-scale operations. This is a serious waste of human resources.
It is expected that the newly formed army in China - Ma Qianzhu proposed to call it the "New Army" instead of the "indigenous army" to distinguish it from the lower-level army in the future - the soldiers and non-commissioned officers are all from the Ming Dynasty. As the size of the army expands, the future officer corps will also be dominated by people from the Ming Dynasty.
The soldiers of the new army will mainly come from farmers and the old army, especially ordinary military households under the guard system. After training they will serve as primary non-commissioned officers. In the early days, the officers of the New Army will mainly be time travellers, and they will gradually be supplemented by military academy students. Therefore, the Rebel Military Academy should be established as soon as possible. The initial students of the military academy were mainly local children and educated soldiers. In the early stage, military schools may consider cooperating with administrative officer schools and technician schools. If this condition does not exist, you can also consider using a training team to develop officers.
The New Army implements a commander-in-chief system, but soldier committees are organized at all levels. The soldier committee has the right to object to the officer's orders other than combat. If the chief officer insists, the opinion should be obeyed. However, the soldier committee has the power to submit orders to the superior chief officer and even the travelers. The military department appealed. Soldiers' commissars may not be executed without review by the military department, even in the line of fire. Mistreatment of soldiers will be severely punished.
The new army implements a professional soldier system. Both officers and soldiers enjoy employee treatment, preferential housing allocation and private land, and use new varieties of crops for free (other farmers who use new varieties of crops will have additional taxes in the second year. In fact, the source of manpower for the new army is the manpower saved by new crops) .
"Here, let me give my opinion." He Ming said, "I don't know the situation of the Ming army. But the army has not fought for a long time, and there are often many bad habits. There were also many problems in the army before we fought in Vietnam in 1979. The Ming Dynasty army Is the quality of soldiers in a typical old-style army good enough, and won’t it attract a lot of soldiers?”
"You are still from the People's Liberation Army," Zhang Bolin interjected, "Have you forgotten the invincible political work? The liberation fighters back then were not all from the old army like gmd, they were also transformed."
"Can you do political work?" He Ming expressed doubts about Zhang Bolin's words.
"Don't worry, I will definitely take care of it." Zhang Bolin was full of confidence.
Ma Qianzhu said: "What He Ming said makes sense. We don't have much time and we don't have much time to change their minds. We need to do more screening of the personnel of the old army."
"We sent our own people to serve as grassroots officers and made a good start. Once the three disciplines and eight points of attention are tightened, the atmosphere will naturally be corrected." Xi Yazhou recalled the process of training militiamen in Yanchang Village, "... chief officer If you act upright and set an example in everything, the little bosses below will not dare to mess around, as the old saying goes? One good thing suppresses a hundred evils."
"I'm afraid it's unreliable to recruit soldiers from military households." Yu Eshui said, "Military households in the late Ming Dynasty were no different from ordinary people. They were basically tenants of officers, and most of them were old, weak, sick, and disabled."
"But do they suffer greatly?" Ma Qianzhu said. "As far as Lingao is concerned, military households suffer much more than ordinary people. The ordinary people here who work as tenant farmers have a much easier life than they do."
"Recruit soldiers from the Li people. They are all in the mountains and can form mountain infantry." Wei Aiwen began to advocate his idea of Li people troops - recently he often traveled to the Li area for trade and had established a certain relationship with the locals. Basics, for this reason he consumed a lot of personal lighters.
"It is better to recruit Miao people than to recruit Li people." Yu Eshui reminded, "The Li people have deep ethnic conflicts with the Han people here. We can only resolve them slowly and cannot easily arm them. With good guys in hand, You will be more courageous. If anything happens to this Li armed force, we will be Zhu Bajie looking in the mirror."
The Miao people in Hainan were left behind after the Miao army who came to Hainan from Guangxi with the Ming army to fight during the Li people's uprising was disbanded on the spot. Because they arrived late, they had no choice but to settle in the mountains. Most of them worked as long-term laborers or tenants for Li cave owners and Han landlords, and some simply made a living by hunting. Life is more difficult than that of Li people. In the history of Hainan, the relationship between the Miao people and the Han people was relatively good.
"Are there any Miao people here?"
"Yes, yes," Wei Aiwen said quickly, "The master of Zhudong in Nandong said that there is a Miao village not far from their place. There are about a hundred families. If necessary, we can go there and explore the way."
"We can consider recruiting Li and Miao people." Ma Qianxu thought for a while, and it was still manageable to recruit only a few dozen people to form a reconnaissance team.
"Let me talk about the control of the army." Ma Qianzhu continued.
The military is a tool for time-travelers, and the tool cannot backfire on its owner. Therefore, the current independent operation method of the military department must be changed. Once the new army is established, a new military system must be put on the agenda. And when the new army exceeds 500 people and there are more people than the traversers, they must also control the new army in an effective way. Therefore, he makes the following recommendations.
At the beginning of the establishment of the new army, the original members of the military team must be preserved. Serve as trainer and monitor of the new army. The establishment of the New Army requires officers, so we adopted the method of halving the size, retaining 20 people as internal guard troops, equipped with modern weapons, and another 30 people entering the New Army as officers to establish a training camp.
Once the new army system is completed, the mission of the armed forces directly controlled by the Ministry of Military Affairs will end, and except for the internal security forces, everyone else will be included in the sequence of the new army. All subsequent military operations will be carried out by the New Army.
The new army mainly uses 19th century weapons and cold weapons. The initial decision was to use Minie-loaded rifled rifles and spears. The ratio of spears to spears is tentatively 1:1. The size of the first batch of new troops was 500, consisting of one battalion and one artillery company equipped with 9 smoothbore cannons. If new weapons are needed in battle, you can apply to the committee and have them released by the Internal Guard.
The General Staff Headquarters will be established under the Military Commission, under which there will be two systems: the Army and the Navy. The General Staff has the authority to command the Navy. However, the General Staff has no authority to command the internal defense forces. The Military Commission is responsible for the training and supply of the internal defense forces, but it has no jurisdiction and command authority and is directly controlled by the Executive Committee.
The military cannot be used in internal conflicts. The main tasks of the internal security forces are to maintain order, protect government agencies and store important supplies. Also responsible for modern weapons control.
An independent military intelligence department was established under the General Staff Headquarters to be responsible for military intelligence collection and investigation activities.
Military logistics will not be established as an independent department for the time being. The Executive Committee will entrust various professional departments to supply it, and the specific allocation will be controlled by the Planning Commission.
The militia program that has been implemented in Damei Village and Yanchang Village will continue to be implemented, not only in these two villages, but also in Bairen Commune. In the early days, the basic militia system was adopted. One out of three was drawn, and the traversers went down to each village to train the basic militia in rotation. The weapons of the militia currently consist of captured cold weapons, old-style muskets, rifles and standard 6-pound smoothbore cannons (mainly used for village defense. After a certain industrial capacity is achieved, the militiamen can be equipped with Mini rifles.
The Crossing Group does not have a formal maritime combat force, and only fishing boats are used for patrols - limited by fuel and accessories, the use of these modern fishing boats must be controlled as much as possible. In view of the fact that pirates in this era are the most powerful combat force in the southeast region, and it seems difficult to cooperate with them at present, a naval base should be built in Bopu to complete the fortressization in the short term. The Sixth Army should support the construction of naval fortress artillery and station a defense force at the naval base. The navy established a fort at the seaport at Lingaojiao to protect the construction of the port and dock.
Zhang Bolin blinked when he heard this, which meant that you were dragging me along, why should you humble yourself and come to me to ask for a cannon?
After the establishment of the Navy, the original fishery production group was abolished and merged into the Navy. Fishery production is still one of the main tasks of the navy at this stage. Therefore, the Navy was under the dual leadership of the General Staff and the Council of Agriculture, and the Bobu fish processing plant continued to be owned by the Council of Agriculture. Navy personnel are recruited and trained by the Sixth Army, and will be formed into an independent system in the future.
In order to unify maritime power in the early stage and avoid multi-headed management, a system of "everything floating on the sea belongs to the navy" is implemented. Whether it is a ship brought from another time and space or purchased locally, regardless of its current use, all Under the jurisdiction of the Navy.
