Although the Baoxiang Army has long decided on its own gray military uniform, the Baoxiang Army has expanded rapidly in recent months. The new army of the Baoxiang Army alone has rapidly expanded from three to four thousand to tens of thousands.
The new military uniforms produced by the Baoxiang Army can barely supply these new armies, and there is not much production capacity to supply the traditional armies that are expanding faster and with more troops.
More importantly, in order to allow the traditional troops to quickly form combat effectiveness, they often only have a short reorganization time, and then they are sent to various fronts. There is no time to carry out large-scale re-equipment of these troops.
Under such circumstances, they can only continue to wear the original Ming army uniforms for a short period of time. They just tie an extra gray cloth strip on the sleeves as a simple distinction. Only junior officers can be issued the new gray military uniforms. of.
However, this situation will not last long. The various ordnance production capacities within the Baoxiang Army have been rapidly expanding.
These ordnance are not only guns, armor and other weapons, but also include all kinds of military supplies, such as military uniforms, quilts, tents, new four-wheel carriages, and even military kettles, shovels, flags and other messy things. Many military supplies are produced.
Previously, most of these military supplies relied on the Li Qingdian Arsenal and several other factories affiliated with the Ministry of Industry for production.
After the Baoxiang Army captured Nanyang City and Xiangyang City, the Ministry of Industry, under the instructions of Luo Zhixue, began to gradually transfer various factories and workshops in Li Qingdian to the two major cities of Nanyang City and Xiangyang City. go.
The location of Li Qingdian was still too remote, so various factories including arsenals were chosen to be built here.
It was purely because the rural protection army wanted to implement the strategy of going south, and they did not capture any cities after going south, so they could only choose Li Qingdian for construction.
However, with the expansion of the rural protection army and the capture of Nanyang City and Xiangyang City, various jobs and technical personnel naturally need to be transferred to these two cities one after another.
In this way, transportation is more convenient, safety is more guaranteed, and more and more factory personnel can be better arranged.
Now there are more than ten factories of various types in Li Qingdian, and the number of workers has reached more than 10,000.
The supply of materials needed to feed, drink, and sleep so many people is not a small amount. Li Qingdian is relatively remote and the transportation is troublesome, so the Baoxiang Army decided early to move these factories to Nanyang City and Xiangyang City. .
However, the various factories in Li Qingdian are still the most important ordnance material production base for the rural army, so the overall relocation will be very cautious. The relocation will not affect production capacity, and even use the opportunity of relocation to further expand production capacity.
In the case of relocation while producing, the relocation speed of each factory in Li Qingdian is relatively slow, and it is estimated that it will take at least three months to complete the relocation.
During the relocation process, the Ministry of Industry established the Xiangyang Quilt Factory in Xiangyang Prefecture in accordance with Luo Zhixue's instructions. The factory will expand production while accepting various technical personnel from the Li Qingdian Quilt Factory, and will subsequently become the Baoxiang Army. It is the largest production base of various military textiles such as military uniforms, military shoes, military quilts, blankets, tents and so on.
At the same time, in order to expand production capacity in a short period of time, and also to provide ordinary people in the war with a way to make money, many production tasks of the factory with low technical requirements, such as spinning, weaving, sewing and many other processes, will be Some will be arranged to be shipped out.
These days, many women among the people can spin, weave, and sew clothes. Giving them some overseas orders can also allow them to earn some money to support their families.
After the Xiangyang Quilt Factory is put into large-scale production, the production capacity of Baoxiang Army's military uniforms and other military textiles will be greatly increased. By then, even the traditional mixed brigades of various descendants will be able to get new military uniforms.
The large-scale outsourced production model practiced by the Xiangyang Quilt Factory is not just a unique case for them. In fact, many factories under the control of the Ministry of Industry will have this outsourced production model, but the proportion of outsourced production is small. That’s all.
And this set was not done by Luo Zhixue, but a pattern that had been formed during their time in Funiu Mountain. When they were nesting in Funiu Mountain, there were not many professional military supplies factories, and many military supplies, such as The new winter military uniforms produced on a large scale last year were all produced by mobilizing many civilian forces in Funiu Mountain, especially women who are good at spinning, weaving and sewing.
Otherwise, with only a few dozen people in the quilt and clothing workshop under the control of the Baoxiang Army at that time, thousands of sets of textiles and military supplies could have been produced there in just a few months.
It was not just a set of military uniforms, but also a complete set of quilts, boots, towels, etc., as well as military tents and other textile supplies.
Similarly, other factories and workshops will actively involve the private sector in order to increase production capacity in a short period of time, especially for processes that cannot be completed by machinery and require a large number of ordinary manpower.
In this way, the munitions assets of the many factories affiliated to the Baoxiang Army can be quickly guaranteed.
Of course, even so, all kinds of military supplies in the Baoxiang Army are still in extremely short supply. The Baoxiang Army is expanding too fast. It is difficult to meet the needs of all troops in a short period of time, especially the surrender of troops. The needs of the traditional mixed brigade.
Therefore, the ordinary soldiers of the Fourth Mixed Brigade are still wearing the previous Ming Army uniforms.
In this way, outsiders can easily know the fact that these thieves-protecting troops were former officers and soldiers.
If we can investigate and inquire in detail with Zuo Liangyu and others, it will not be difficult to find out that most of the soldiers in the fourth mixed brigade are from Chen Yongfu's army.
It has to be said that Chen Yongfu was very good at training soldiers before. After these soldiers surrendered to thieves, stimulated by good treatment and equipped with more sophisticated traditional equipment, their combat effectiveness has exceeded that of ordinary soldiers. Army war soldiers troops.
This is also the direct reason why Zuo Liangyu led his troops to attack Yuzhou City many times and ultimately failed.
After all, no matter how many guns and artillery the Fourth Mixed Brigade has, they still need qualified soldiers to control them, right?
And this also made Zuo Liangyu and others even more angry with Chen Yongfu. He Renlong cursed: "Chen Yongfu, you just lost the battle and surrendered to the thieves. Otherwise, how could those thieves easily obtain thousands of officers and soldiers?" ."
"If it weren't for these elites under Chen Yongfu, we would have already entered Yuzhou City!"
Zuo Liangyu also sighed: "Who says it's not the case!"
It was so difficult for them to defeat Yuzhou City because Chen Yongfu was such a bastard!
If the people from the Baoxiang Army heard their conversation, they would laugh out loud!
Their Baoxiang Army reorganized and surrendered, and they had nothing to do with senior surrender generals like Chen Yongfu!
According to their process of reorganizing and surrendering troops of the Baoxiang Army, whether Chen Yongfu personally surrendered to the traitors or not could not actually affect the fact that the Baoxiang Army reorganized the Ming Army and surrendered troops into a traditional mixed brigade.
After all, when the Baoxiang Army recruits more and lowered troops, it does not accept them into the establishment and reorganize them. Instead, it directly reorganizes ordinary soldiers, and the retained establishment is limited to the next level.
More importantly, the Baoxiang Army has never integrated the mid-level and senior generals who have surrendered into the mixed brigade.
These defecting officers, including the mid-level and senior generals, such as Chen Yongfu and his son, are usually given false positions, with the title of advisor, but do not even have actual positions, let alone being able to continue to lead troops in the original army.
On the other hand, some low-level officers can stay in the field troops after passing the assessment. However, when they stay, they can only serve as low-level deputy positions such as deputy captain and deputy sentry commander. They will be promoted after meritorious service.
The reorganization of the Baoxiang Army was aimed at ordinary soldiers, and was actually not very enthusiastic about middle- and low-level officers and even senior generals.
At the same time, the personal attitudes of senior generals cannot affect the reorganization behavior of the Baoxiang Army.
Lu Xiangsheng did not surrender to the thieves, but died on the battlefield directly, but this did not affect the Baoxiang Army from reorganizing a large number of Ming troops captured from Sanyuanzhuang into the 9th Mixed Brigade and the 10th Mixed Brigade.
Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong didn't know this, so they complained.
But after complaining, they still had to discuss countermeasures honestly.
He Renlong said: "It is definitely not possible to continue to attack Yuzhou City. The bandits are more than ten miles away. If we continue to attack, we will easily be attacked from both front and rear."
Zuo Liangyu said: "What Brother He said is true. Now it is impossible to attack Yuzhou City by force. We still have to retreat early and strengthen the camp to observe the effects."
He Renlong said: "It is okay to retreat to the camp, but if there is a chance, we can also annihilate the 10,000 reinforcements of the rebel army directly on the road!"
"Although the thieves are not weak, they only relied on the thick walls of Yuzhou City before. If it were on the plains, the two or three thousand thieves in Yuzhou City would have been swallowed up by us, even if they had Not even dozens of artillery pieces!"
"In a battle in the wild, our many offensive artillery and tiger squatting artillery can be put to use. And between your and our armies, there are more than 200 small artillery pieces of various types. So many small artillery pieces form a vehicle formation. , a mere thief is definitely not our opponent!"
"And in a battle in the wild, the general cannons among the bandit army will not be used. Those general cannons often weigh hundreds or even thousands of kilograms. Although they are useful on the top of the city, they are our living targets outside."
Listening to He Renlong's words, Zuo Liangyu nodded after thinking for a while and said: "Surrounding the area to call for reinforcements is a good way. Maybe we can also draw out the bandits hiding in Yuzhou City! "
"But we still need to be cautious. We'll send additional reconnaissance cavalry to find out the details of the bandit army first."
