At present, all the agencies under the General's Mansion of the Baoxiang Army, one after another, actually serve the military.
Not to mention the military's staff office, logistics office, ordnance office, military and administrative office, and two directors-general, which are purely military institutions.
Even the purpose of existence of various parts of the internal affairs is to serve military needs.
The grain requisition office obtained money and grain for the purpose of supplying military supplies.
The Industrial Department manufactures ordnance and ammunition for the purpose of supplying military supplies.
The Foreign Trade Office's commercial procurement is also to purchase strategic materials to meet military needs.
The Office of Civil Affairs established local institutions and appointed officials. On the surface, it was to govern the local area, but in fact it was to better collect money and grain to meet military needs.
The entire rural protection army system serves the military.
Luo Zhixue knew this very well, as did Huang Guangmao and Xu Zhixian in the staff office.
Otherwise, when entering the city to fight, the military would not be so willing to send troops to protect the grain requisition officers who ran around to confiscate. After all, the proceeds from the confiscation would eventually be used for military supplies.
Even Chen Xingkai and other internal affairs officials knew that the entire rural protection army system was based on the continuous victory of the rural protection army. Once the rural protection army was defeated, they would also be finished.
Today's Baoxiang Army system is not a political power in the traditional sense. It is just an army, but it has more internal affairs agencies serving the army...
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After Huang Guangmao and Xu Zhixian entered the headquarters, they immediately reported today's war to Luo Zhixue.
It's just that in this report, the casualties between the enemy and ourselves, which should be the focus, seem a bit unremarkable, because in this siege operation, the Baoxiang Army has so far done this, including the siege stage and the attack after entering the city. Including the cleanup phase, only eighteen people were killed and thirty-six wounded.
As a result, they killed a total of more than 250 defenders, gentry, dignitaries and recalcitrant enemies in the city. In addition, they captured more than 2,000 people. The prisoners included soldiers from the garrison, conscripted civilian husbands, and guards of the powerful gentry. Courtyard, servants and other enemies.
As for the injured, they did not count them. Anyway, all the seriously injured ones died. Most of the lightly injured ones were directly counted among the prisoners of war. As for some of the wounded who escaped, there was no need to count them.
It is worth noting that there were about hundreds of officers and soldiers who voluntarily surrendered to the Baoxiang Army under the leadership of some surrendering generals.
The result seems great, but everyone knows that the result is also too watery.
According to the inquiries about the prisoners and surrendered generals after the war, it was learned that the entire number of soldiers in Nanyang City, including the generals' personal soldiers, was only about 200 in total.
It can be said that there are very few!
The remaining people were ordinary guardsmen who had not received professional military training or even young civilians recruited temporarily.
Against such an enemy, even a big victory would not be able to impress Luo Zhixue.
So Luo Zhixue listened calmly to Huang Guangmao's and others' reports on enemy and enemy casualties and prisoners of war, but he was more interested in their follow-up reports on various military trophies.
Just listen to Huang Guangmao say: "In this battle, we captured a total of twenty-six artillery pieces, including two 500-jin old general cannons, a 300-jin Folang machine gun, and a 200-jin 100-jin light machine gun." Five cannons and eighteen small cannons weighing less than 100 kilograms."
"Among them, only three 200-pound light cannons are intact and usable and meet our army's combat needs. The rest are either damaged or of poor quality and can only be recycled into iron materials."
"Eighty blunderbuss of different calibers and more than 240 guns of various calibers were seized. We don't use these blunderbuss. As for bird blunderbuss, only fifty can be used, and the other 30 are Bird cannons and fire door guns can only be used as iron materials for the furnace."
"About 2,000 knives and spears were seized, of which about 300 were suitable for use by our army. The remaining knives and spears were of poor quality and could only be recycled as iron materials."
"A total of thirty-seven sets of various types of intact iron armor and cloth-covered iron armor were seized, and one hundred and twenty pairs of bows and arrows were intact."
The various types of ordnance trophies mentioned by Huang Guangmao were relatively detailed, but most Luo Zhixue didn't care much because the usable quantities of the various types of weapons seized were too small.
Most of the inferior goods don’t know how these Ming troops fought with these materials.
But it was the batch of gunpowder, saltpeter, sulfur and other raw materials mentioned later, as well as mules and horses that made Luo Zhixue pay more attention.
"Twenty trained war horses and 340 ordinary mules and horses were seized. Among the ordinary mules and horses, there are more than 60 ordinary riding horses that can be ridden. However, these ordinary riding horses have not been professionally trained. They are There is no way to fight as a cavalry mount."
"We also seized a batch of gunpowder as well as saltpeter, sulfur, charcoal and other raw materials for making gunpowder. Although the quantity is not large, it can somewhat alleviate the shortage of gunpowder in our army."
Gunpowder and mules and horses are currently in urgent need of the rural defense army, and they are precious strategic materials that no amount is too much.
Among the trophies captured by the military today, all other things are not as important as any of these two.
The Baoxiang Army can make its own guns, cannons, knives, spears and other cold weapons, and the production capacity is not too low. At the same time, the self-made weapons are of better quality and more in line with the tactical needs of the Baoxiang Army.
As for the captured weapons, most of them can only be used as iron materials for recycling.
After Huang Guangmao and Xu Zhixian reported on today's battle situation and harvest, Luo Zhixue said: "In today's battle, the meritorious soldiers deserve promotions and rewards. Treating the meritorious soldiers well is the responsibility of our homeland protection army." Fundamentally, we can’t neglect it.”
"In addition, we will select surrendered soldiers and prisoners of war to recruit soldiers who are willing to join the army and meet the conditions. Anyongduo sent someone this afternoon to say that the Fourth Mixed Brigade is expected to owe 300 people. After the selection, we will Replenish to the 4th Mixed Brigade."
Huang Guangmao said: "Understood."
Anyongduo and the others began to reorganize many surrendered troops from Zhaozhuang yesterday. Although there are many surrendered troops, not all of them can join or are willing to join the Fourth Mixed Brigade. After preliminary selection, the Fourth Mixed Brigade wants to Full staff, but still lacking at least 300 people.
This time, 300 people were selected from the surrendered troops in Nanyang City to speed up the formation of the fourth mixed brigade.
"Tonight, except for a few security troops on duty, the other soldiers should have a good rest. There are more important tasks waiting for them tomorrow. The food supply is also guaranteed. With so much rice and a lot of meat seized, then Let the soldiers have a good meal."
"Remember, anyone can go hungry, but soldiers cannot go hungry!"
Hearing this, Huang Guangmao, who was born in the Ming army, couldn't help but murmur in his heart. Looking at the world, there are probably no soldiers from that army who can be as well-fed as our hometown-protecting army.
The food we consume to feed one soldier is enough for the officers and soldiers to feed three soldiers.
However, General Luo Zhixue was often dissatisfied with the food supply of the soldiers, and always tried to find ways to get more grain and meat for the soldiers.
Luo Zhixue didn't care about this. Luo Zhixue knew better than anyone else why the thousands of people under him could obey his orders. And fight hard?
Righteousness?
He, Luo Zhixue, turned out to be a bandit leader and had a righteous reputation.
All kinds of lofty slogans, such as ending the troubled times and making China proudly at the top of the world. Please, almost all the soldiers can't even recognize the words and have no idea what the imperial court is. If you tell them about your ideals and future, they won't listen at all. I don’t understand and I don’t care.
Not to mention the soldiers, not even the generals care about these things.
Luo Zhixue has been pondering a question for a long time, how can he attract soldiers to fight for him? And fighting the enemy to the death with his head in his waistband?
Especially in the early stage when your own power is not strong enough and you don’t have much territory.
In the end, Luo Zhixue chose the simplest and most direct method: luring him with benefits!
Especially for ordinary soldiers, Luo Zhixue's method has always been very simple. He never talks about his ideals or future to these ordinary soldiers. His method is just two words: control enough!
Therefore, to be honest, most of the soldiers in the Baoxiang Army now come to work for Luo Zhixue purely for the sake of the two mouths of food!
On the contrary, for those generals, they often draw pie and promise the future...and this pie and the future are not the feelings of family and country, but pure glory and wealth.
Follow me to conquer the territory. When the territory becomes bigger, I will become the emperor. Each of you will be a founding hero, not just yourself, but also the glory and wealth of your descendants.
This kind of allegiance relationship based on interests is naturally abnormal and cannot last long, but in the past Luo Zhixue had no other choice but to do this.
How should I put it, why did these generals under Luo Zhixue become rebels? People themselves also want to rebel and gain glory and wealth. If you don't talk about glory and wealth to them, but instead talk about national suffering and other ridiculous things, they will look at you like a fool.
What's going on, you still want to be a saint?
As for the future, Luo Zhixue will naturally gradually use other methods and come up with various brainwashing tricks to brainwash one by one.
He had previously ordered the Military and Administrative Department to set up a military school with the camp, intending to train the officers currently serving in the army.
In Luo Zhixue's plan, in addition to imparting various military knowledge, this military school with the camp will also conduct loyalty education.
For this so-called loyalty education, it doesn’t matter what method you use, the important thing is to brainwash...
Time was too tight before, but now after taking over Nanyang City, the first batch of students will be recruited for training.
It's just that it will take time to see results. Don't expect any good results in the short term.
Before loyalty education can achieve results, Luo Zhixue still has to use the word 'profit' if he wants to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army.
Especially now that the Baoxiang Army has just captured Nanyang City, and the surrounding counties are still in the hands of the Ming Army. Strictly speaking, the Baoxiang Army still lacks a stable territory.
At the same time, the Baoxiang Army will soon face threats from Hong Chengchou in the north and Lu Xiangsheng in the south.
In this case, Luo Zhixue must ensure the combat effectiveness of the army, even if it costs a lot of money and food!
