The garrison camp is in the west of the city of Pizhou, not in the city.
The station is divided into five areas, with one division each guarding the east, west, north, and south.
There are three divisions in a battalion, with a total of six divisions of soldiers. The remaining two divisions guard the periphery of the central army and respond to all directions at any time.
Chen Wang led a group of newly recruited soldiers back to the east of the camp, where his division should be stationed.
The east side, close to Pizhou City, is the safest place, so Cao Wenzhao assigned the defense on this side to Chen Wang.
Now Chen Wang still only holds the position of General Manager Bai, but he also has the title of Acting General Manager.
But now that new recruits have been recruited, as long as they fight one more battle and gain new military merits, they can remove the code for general.
Chen Wang's previous head skills had been exchanged for money, and he had saved a lot of money from fighting back and forth.
There are almost more than 600 taels of silver, but most of them are placed in Liaodong.
The heads of the bandits were worthless, and they were not even given credit for their merits. Only three of the seven Tartars killed in Liaodong were rewarded by the imperial court. This is how he got the test hundred households.
The rest were sold to others. One head cost sixty taels, which was ten taels more than what the court gave. In addition to the silver reward from the court, Cao Wenzhao also gave him an additional fifty taels as a reward for the white-armored soldier he killed. .
It's not that Chen Wang has no official status. In fact, apart from his status as a battalion soldier, he still leads the trial of hundreds of households.
In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the power of the commander-in-chief, who was originally responsible for the military, gradually faded and was controlled by the garrison general.
The military attache system of the Ming Dynasty was divided into the military attache system related to the five palaces and the Dusi Guards, and the garrison military system.
Battalion officers have no rank, no quota, and are not hereditary. Only officers under the guard system have official ranks.
During the Ming Dynasty, the positions of general soldiers and other battalion soldiers were actually unranked military attache titles. They were in charge of soldiers, organized personnel, and their ranks were not fixed.
The battalion soldiers and camp generals know each other, and they do not need to be appointed by the court during wartime. They are directly led by the chief soldier, deputy chief soldier, staff generals, guerrillas, etc. to go on expeditions.
For the sake of convenience and compatibility between the two systems, the military positions of the guards gradually became the ranks of the latter.
This system is very complex, even chaotic.
To understand it more concisely, it would be much simpler to understand these high-level military positions in the camp as military ranks in later generations, but there is still a big difference.
For example, Cao Wenzhao, as the commander-in-chief of Datong Town, held the military position of the second-grade governor Qianshi, and his duties were those of the commander-in-chief, not the commander-in-chief Qianshi.
Chen Wang still hasn't understood the connection between military positions and military positions in these two systems.
But there is no need to understand it. After all, after becoming a battalion officer, the official career will come naturally.
It doesn't take long for the general of the first battalion to get the official status of Deputy Thousand Households. After a few battles and documents showing merit, the official status can be removed.
Although Hong Chengchou once surpassed Cao Wenzhao's military exploits, his relationship with Cao Wenzhao is no longer as tense as before, and has eased a lot.
Moreover, Hong Chengchou now still needs to rely on Cao Wenzhao to pacify the bandits, so naturally his attitude has slowed down a lot.
The ordnance allocation has been completed. Hu Zhili entered the camp first and led the soldiers to move them back to the camp.
Chen Wang stood outside several tents filled with ordnance, constantly flipping through the single records that had been delivered.
Hu Zhili stood aside and said helplessly.
"The military uniforms only have summer clothes, but no military caps. Some net scarves were distributed, and there were 230 collars for cloth face armor and 20 collars for mail armor."
"Four hundred spears, sixty waist knives, thirty armbands, twenty tall hats, and three hundred and seventy hats."
"I told the person who allocated the muskets about the muskets. I don't want the messy firearms. I just need to prepare more muskets. I also showed him Cao Shoubei's letter. Now I have 120 guns."
There was not much storage in the ordnance allocation camp, and it was basically all allocated by officials appointed by Hong Chengchou. Therefore, Chen Wang went to find Cao Dingjiao's letter and stuffed a lot of money.
"I looked at a few pieces of cloth armor. The armor inside is not thick and the number is not enough. There are only more than 130 armor leaves in total. Most of them are on the chest. There are only a few armor leaves below. They can't prevent anything. .”
Chen Wang nodded and closed the single record in his hand.
"It's good to have more than a hundred armor leaves. It's iron-clad anyway."
"In the second year of my life, in Beijing, you had never seen those Beijing soldiers. Their armor was stuffed with paper."
Hearing Chen Wang talk about Jingying, Hu Zhili cursed with disdain.
"Bullshit Jingying, the beggars in Liaodong can be beaten better than those in Jingying. They are all as thin as bamboo poles, and they look like that on free wages. If they are brought to Liaodong, they will be beheaded in less than three days."
Chen Wang was noncommittal. The Ming Dynasty's capital camp was rotten to the core. Even those who could fight tens of thousands of people in the capital camp didn't know if they could single out a thousand people.
Among all the weapons and equipment, those of the Shenji Battalion still have the latest firearms and can still use them, while the rest of the soldiers in the Beijing Camp cannot find a suitable weapon.
Chen Wang walked into the armory and took a gun.
The blunderbuss is quite heavy to hold, but you can still clearly feel the weight of the blunderbuss in your hand.
The wooden handle you hold has no extra decoration and no burr feeling.
The length of the blunderbuss tube has exceeded one meter. After putting down the entire blunderbuss, it was almost under his shoulder.
Chen Wang glanced at the recruits who were practicing in the queue next to him. He was already 1.8 meters tall, much taller than those recruits. Most people would hold it at the shoulders.
"Did you try the cannon?"
"I let a few go, and checked the rest. The ones that were sent were all with thick barrels. I also asked Old Zheng, the ordnance master in the camp, to take a look at them. There was nothing wrong with them. They couldn't be easily blown up."
Hu Zhili gritted his teeth and asked with some pain in his flesh.
"Is this gun really that important?"
In accordance with Chen Wang's request, he stuffed twenty taels of silver into the arms-distributing thief to take care of him. .
"With this money, I can buy a good pair of armor and a good knife."
Although he was told not to pay for twenty taels of silver, Hu Zhili still felt a little hurt that it was not worth it.
"Nature is important."
Chen Wang picked up the gun, held it in his hand, and raised the barrel to a position parallel to his eyes.
The left eye is slightly closed, the right eye is open, and the three o'clock and one line are aimed at the flagpole in front.
Holding the blunderbuss, an inexplicable feeling slowly rose from Chen Wang's heart.
Firearms will be the mainstream of future warfare, especially when flintlock guns begin to become popular, the reliability of firearms will increase several times, and they will become a weapon of war.
"Choose one hundred and twenty outstanding performers as bird cannon soldiers, and distribute them all with helmets, cloth-faced armor, and green clothes. The cloth-faced bird cannon soldiers will retain forty collars, and all waist knives will be allocated to the bird cannon soldiers, and the rest will be distributed to other flag."
"All personnel training in armor."
"The mail armor, high bowl helmet, and arm coverings will all be left behind for the time being."
Chen Wang put down the blunderbuss in his hand and put it back into the tent. Then he looked back at the recruits who were standing motionless in the camp, with their heads held high and their chests held high.
"In seven days, officials will be selected."
