"The new guard troops under the Zhongdu Remaining Department have a total of four associations and one battalion. There are more than 6,800 horse and infantry soldiers who have joined the team, and more than 3,600 cooks and soldiers who have not joined the team. There are 3,000 horses and 2,000 mules each. They are all ready. The preparations are complete. The armor, weapons, and military utensils are all ready for use... Please stay behind and watch the Duke of Kenancheng state review the military appearance!"
More than 10,000 soldiers and accompanying campers have already formed a team in the large campus belonging to Wupingwei in Bozhou City. Wang Jun, Qianhu of the Zhongdu Left-behind Department War Training Institute, who was in charge of the whole team, flew to the front of Zhongdu Left-behind Zhu Chun's Chengdu horse and loudly reported to him.
The current order of the New Army to overcome difficulties is divided into two categories: the new army of divisions directly under the Grand Marshal's Palace, and the new army of guards under the jurisdiction of the local capital department, the General Military Department, and the feudal prince's palace.
Among them, the divisions and new armies are the five divisions on the front, rear, left, center and right that have been formed and the numbered First Division that is being trained. Except for one division that is heading to Denglai, the remaining five divisions are all stationed around Nanjing. They have not gone north, but are undergoing rigorous training.
According to the "New Army Laws" just announced by the Generalissimo's Office, the new army soldiers and generals in all divisions are "Long March" soldiers. Ordinary sergeants can only have three days off per month to go home to reunite with their relatives, and the remaining time has to be four At that time, he was in the camp, doing two or three exercises a day, and he was ready to go to war at any time - this was even worse than the "996" in later generations!
However, the salary of the new army is worthy of "996". The most basic monthly salary is 2 taels of silver, which is guaranteed to be paid in full and on time!
Food is provided three times a day, and meat is provided every other day. In order to ensure the quality, the officers and soldiers are provided together, and it is free.
In addition to adequate pay and food, new army officers and soldiers who have served for 10 years or whose meritorious service reaches certain standards can be awarded meritorious fields. The minimum reward for meritorious fields is 50 acres. Those who joined the New Army to overcome the difficulties before the Nanjing Eunuch Rebellion were awarded Jiangnan paddy fields. After that, it will be awarded starting from 50 acres of dry land in Jiangbei.
Moreover, all meritorious fields will be tax-free for life - until the year after the official who granted the land dies of illness or 20 years after his death, it will be converted into private land and owned by his heirs. However, the part of the land that is more than 50 acres has the nature of professional land, that is, it can be increased or decreased according to the promotion or decrease of official position!
Although the treatment standards of the Zhuwei New Army are not as good as those of the Zhudi New Army, they are still generous.
First of all, the military salary standard of the new armies of the Zhuwei is two levels lower than that of the new armies of the divisions, which means that only the captain can start receiving a military salary equivalent to that of the warriors of the new armies of the divisions - twenty taels of silver a month.
Secondly, the new armies of Zhuwei need to prepare their own rations during the first campaign, and prepare whatever they like to eat.
Third, the per capita land granted to the new armies of Zhuwei reached 100 acres - 100 acres regardless of official position, and these 100 acres of land were not meritorious land, but occupational land. The job field cannot be converted into private land, nor can it be directly inherited by descendants. The job field can only be inherited when the descendants are able to serve in the guard.
Of course, the Zhuwei New Army also has its own pension and pension regulations. In most cases, money is given, and in some cases, land can be granted. However, the heroes in the new armies of the various guards will not be granted land in their own guards. Instead, they will be transferred to the new officers and soldiers of the divisions and granted lands in other places.
Although the treatment is slightly worse, the new army of Zhu Wei is better than the new army of various divisions. The first is to implement a shift system - that is, the working hours are short, no longer "996". Theoretically, they serve in turns, and they can also take collective vacations during busy farming periods. However, you still have to "work overtime" during wartime, and of course the "overtime pay" will not be less.
The second is to be close to home - in principle, he will serve in his own house and neighboring houses, and will not go too far, unlike the new armies of various divisions that move all over the world.
Because of the above benefits, being a soldier in the Zhuwei New Army is still a good job. Therefore, among the five prefectures of Fengyang, Runing, Dengzhou, Laizhou, and Qingzhou where the new armies are currently located, the sources of troops for the new armies of the guards are very secure.
For example, in Fengyang Prefecture, the Four Huaibei Guards under the jurisdiction of the Left-behind Department of Zhongdu, under the auspices of Zhu Chunchen, the commander of the Left-behind Capital, recruited quite strong guards - Fengyang Qingtun and the recruitment of troops were still designed by Li Yan The method is to organize the Denglai guards.
First, warriors were recruited at a high price, and then the fields were cleared and redistributed.
As for the garrison posts that are no longer under the jurisdiction of the squadron, they will be taken over by the generalissimo's military garrison, and the original organizational system will be gradually abolished, and the land and households will be managed by the military garrison of each prefecture (not under the jurisdiction of the prefecture)... ..
Of course, this is another huge new policy. If all the unguarded military fields, official fields, and hidden fields in the areas directly under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty can really be brought under the jurisdiction of the military garrison, then the military garrison alone can take over The land rent received was enough to support Prince Zhu’s Northern Expedition to the Central Plains and unify the world!
Comprehensive rectification is of course not accomplished overnight, but the rectification of the Huaibei Four Guards of Fengyang Prefecture was still very successful.
The more than 6,000 Huaixi warriors who have been allocated land and received a settlement allowance (twelve taels per person) are now all neatly dressed and carrying fairly adequate weapons - in principle, the equipment of Zhuwei's new army is the same as that of the new army. The new armies of all divisions are the same, but now there are not so many useful fire guns, so they can only make do with spears, bows and arrows, and swords. As for armor, it was even more lacking. Only less than 30% of the soldiers had found their ancestral armor and wore it.
Of course, the new guards' weapons and armors are also prepared by themselves... The Generalissimo's Mansion gave each guard a subsidy of ten taels of silver, allowing them to discover some ancestral antiques and build some of their own. .
There are also firearms, mainly tiger squat cannons. Each association (one guard and one association) is equipped with twelve guns, so let's make do with the sound.
These guards officers and soldiers now formed four auxiliary formations. The polished and oiled Tiger Crouching Cannon was placed at the front of the team, reflecting dazzling light in the sun. The few war horses were all led by cavalry, and they were all arranged neatly.
Although this group of guards officers and soldiers have only been training intensively for less than a month, because the training is very intensive and they have some basic knowledge, they now look quite similar.
Zhu Chunchen was riding on a tall horse, neatly dressed, and skillfully drove the horse in a circle in front of the four auxiliary formations. He was filled with the feeling of honoring his ancestors - haha, the Chengguo family finally had a general who could lead the army to fight. That's right, my ancestors would be very happy to see themselves like this in the sky!
Then he drove his horse back to Henan Governor Lu Daqi and Fengyang Governor Ma Shiying, and said to them with a smile: "What's the matter? Compared with Liu Zongrong and Xu Zongrong's troops, our Fengyang new army is not weak, right?"
weak?
Ma Shiying and Lu Daqi both knew how to fight, and they both had strong supervisors and fubiao in their hands. But compared with the new army recruited from the Fengyang Guards in front of me, it is really different - at least their queues are neat, and they can stand upright on the campus for two hours in full gear!
It is said that this army can carry dozens of kilograms of weight, travel a hundred miles a day, and can dig trenches and build forts when it reaches the place.
Just for being so hard-working and hard-working, you can compare with the servants of the Zhuzhen Army... I don't know how they will perform on the battlefield?
"Dong Cheng, Fengyang soldiers have been trained!" Ma Shiying pointed at Brother Thumbs up, "I didn't expect that in just one month, 7,000 strong troops could be formed... The Duke is worthy of being a famous general!"
Lu Daqi also said: "If such a powerful team can have 100,000 people, our Ming Dynasty's great cause of resurgence should be successful, right?"
Zhu Chunchen waved his hands and smiled: "He just granted them fields, gave them money, and took control of their families... What kind of famous generals are they? These 7,000 soldiers are actually just for showing off, and they won't really fight. It will definitely work.
But it doesn’t matter, we are not really going to fight the Tatars this time, we are just escorting Lu Futai into Shangqiu! "
It turned out that Zhu Chunchen not only led the reorganization of the Fengyang Four Guards, but was also ordered to go on an expedition. However, the target was not Beizhili, but Shangqiu County and Suizhou in Guide Prefecture. The former is Liu Liangzuo's base camp, and the latter is Xu Dingguo's home base.
Now Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo were coaxed by Zhu Cixiang to go to Beizhili, so the opportunity for Zhu Chunchen and Lu Daqi came.
Zhu Chunchen had 6,800 new troops and Lu Daqi had 2,000 patrols. A total of 8,800 soldiers were enough to deal with the troops left in Shangqiu and Suizhou by Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo.
