Chapter 98: Commendation to subordinates and expand the battalion

On the court outside Wuzhai Fort.

On the wide field, there were ten hundred households and more than one thousand five fort soldiers lined up in line with their own hundred households, neatly and solemnly. However, at this time, many people showed an excited expression in their eyes. This was Huang Laifu commendation and reward for the entry of those who fought with horse thieves in Shenchi Castle.

This time, the two horse and infantry officers and soldiers of Wuzhai Fort defeated the horse thieves in Taiping Village, Shenchi Fort and beheaded at level 256. According to Huang Laifu's prior promise, they beheaded at level 1. Wuzhai Fort will reward 40 taels of silver. In this way, the reward for the beheaded by the soldiers alone will cost more than 10,000 taels of silver.

Fortunately, Huang Laifu collected more than 80,000 taels of cash in Liu's house in Taipingzhuang this time, and he gained a lot. Otherwise, he would have to take out so much silver reward in one breath, but it would have cost a lot.

"A hundred households Su Dong'an, kill thieves at level 3, reward 120 taels of silver..."

"Ding Chaoyong, the general flag, kills the thief at the second level, and rewards 80 taels of silver..."

"Li Yunzuo, kill the thief at the second level, and reward 80 taels of silver..."

"Soldier Wang Guixiu, killing the thief for one level, rewarding 40 taels of silver..."

"Soldier Zhang Dasan, killing the thief for half a level, rewarding 20 taels of silver..."

"Baihu Jiang Dazhong killed the thief level five, captured the thief leader Liu Shaoan, and rewarded 356 taels of silver..."

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As Huang Laifu received his name, in the envious eyes of the soldiers below, they were all excited and went to the Martial Arts Hall with their heads held high and their chests to receive the silver reward. Huang Laifu smiled and distributed the silver rewards to every soldier who had made contributions.

On the side of the sergeant, there were relatives of the soldiers who made meritorious service this time. Seeing their sons or husbands earning meritorious service, these people had the same honor. Everyone's face turned red with excitement and raised their chests high.

The old officer Jiang Yongsheng and Jiang Baihu were also sitting in the martial arts hall, watching his precious son Jiang Dazhong receive the award, with a very glorious expression on his face, which made the old officers next to him feel quite jealous.

In addition to these rewards, Huang Laifu also announced the imperial court's commendation to the soldiers of Wuzhai Fort. Huang Laifu was promoted to commander and added guerrilla rank. Needless to say, everyone knows it. There is also the commendation to the soldiers of Huang Laifu by the Ministry of War.

The 100th household in Wuzhai Fort, Changjiang Dazhong, bravely killed the thief, and captured the thief leader Liu Shaoan, and promoted it to Thousand Houses, and added the rank of garrison. The 300th household in Wuzhai Fort, Su Dong'an, was promoted to Thousand Houses. In addition, there were some small flags, general flags, and soldiers who bravely killed the thief, and each had their own promotions.

The entire commendation event was always full of joy. The soldiers who received the reward were very happy, while the soldiers who were not rewarded for not participating in the war were all extremely envious, thinking that if there was any war next time, they would definitely ask the commander to let them go to war.

After the commendation, the amount of silver and money received by the soldiers of Wuzhai Fort also caused a sensation in the entire Wuzhai Fort, and the streets and alleys were talking about this. The soldiers of Wuzhai Fort had a high status in the fort, and the current generous rewards were even more enviable. The current custodians of Wuzhai Fort farms have already made everyone envious of everyone inside and outside the fort, but the treatment of these people is far worse than that of the soldiers of Wuzhai Fort.

Suddenly, many farm wardens and some young and strong workers working in workshops all started to think about it and would be great if they could enter the army of Wuzhai Fort.

After the soldiers who were rewarded that day returned, Jiang Yongsheng and Jiang Baihu pulled their son Jiang Dazhong to explain carefully. It was the soldier Zhang Dasan. When he handed over his 20 taels of reward silver to his third son's father, the third son's father, the third son's mother, and his wife were so happy that they could not see each other. The family had nothing else to say, just let Zhang Dasan follow the commander and kill the enemy bravely.

There is also this time when Huang Laifu independently opened the guards, and he could lead a battalion of war soldiers, about 3,000. In the current Ming Dynasty, the generals of each town led 10,000 soldiers, and were the main soldiers. The deputy generals led 3,000 soldiers and were surprise soldiers. The generals were divided into various east and west, supporting reinforcements. The guerrillas led 3,000 people to defend field battles and were raiders.

Wuzhai Fort was a thousand-household office, with only more than one thousand soldiers. Now it has been upgraded to guards, and it can also be organized into a battalion of 3,000 people. Of course, this expansion of the army is in front of you again. In addition, Wuzhai Fort also officially has a military supervisor, which is Ma Jiuying. In the emperor's edict, he formally determined the status of Ma in Wuzhai Fort and got rid of his previous awkward identity in Wuzhai Fort.

The soldiers of Wuzhai Fort are also the objects that everyone yearns for. In addition, Huang Laifu rewarded the soldiers who made meritorious services this time, for a time, there were even more people in front of the gate of Wuzhai Fort barracks.

However, for Huang Laifu, the targets he recruited were selected from the various farms of Wuzhai Fort. Over the past year, the garrisons of Wuzhai Fort have been busy with current affairs and practiced in their spare time, and have become the de facto reserves of Wuzhai Fort. After joining the army, these people all had certain military knowledge. It can be said that the combat effectiveness of the garrisons of Wuzhai Fort alone was stronger than that of the officers and soldiers of many garrisons in the Ming Dynasty.

Finally, Huang Laifu recruited more than a thousand soldiers from various farms in Wuzhai Fort. Yuzhe recruited hundreds of young and strong men inside and outside the fort, and formed a battalion of about three thousand. The backbone of the officers were naturally the officers and veterans in the Wuzhai Fort army.

The treatment of these people is still one or two taels of silver per month, which is no different from other places in the Ming Dynasty. The difference is just various benefits, such as casualties and rewards for killing enemies. In fact, it also proves that the system of Huang Laifu is effective.

However, even if each soldier costs one tael of silver per month, Huang Laifu is here, and only military pay is not considered weapons and equipment, he will spend nearly 30,000 taels of silver a year, which is a huge sum.

In fact, Huang Laifu's current soldiers are considered war soldiers, and the superiors may allocate some money. However, after layers of deductions, the ones that fall into Huang Laifu's hands are afraid that only a few thousand taels of silver a year will be paid by Huang Laifu in the end. In the end, Huang Laifu has to pay by himself. If he doesn't want his soldiers to become the same as those of the tofu soldiers in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, the military pay must be given enough.

Also, for the organization of this battalion, it is somewhat inappropriate to organize the troops by 100 households and general flags. According to the military system of the Ming Dynasty, in the military of the garrison, the battalion was usually organized according to the organization of thousands of households and hundreds of households, and it was only organized in wartime. But Huang Laifu knew that the organization of the camp system was the trend of the future.

At present, Huang Laifu took it according to the popular battalion and military organization in the Ming army. That is, the unit, bureau, flag and team sequence when Qi Jiguang was appointed as the general of Jizhen. Although the sparrows were small, they were all complete. Among the battalions of Wuzhai Fort, there were infantry, cavalry, chariot, baggage and other troops.

In preparation:

There are 12 people in a team, each team has a captain. Each team is divided into two teams, each team takes the three talent formation and the five flower formation. In each team, there is a small flag, and in each team, there is a middle flag.

Three teams are one flag, each flag has a total of one person, and there are 37 officers and soldiers in the banner. There is always one blue flag and three door flags.

There are 3 flags in one bureau, each bureau has one hundred general and one officer and 112 officers and soldiers. There are four sides of the Hundred General Flag, five sides of the Five-Terminal Flag, five sides of the Five-Terminal Flag, and one pole lamp.

The four bureaus are one department, each department has a total of one officer and 449 officers and soldiers. There are one five-sided flag, one masterpiece, and four inspection flags. There are also one master number and twelve Golden Drums.

The two departments are one department, each department has one person in charge, and a total of 899 official troops.

Several units were combined into one battalion. Among the battalion, there were two infantry units, with a total of 1,800 people. As for the chariots, three chariots were divided into three flags, one hundred general and one person. There were also baggage troops, which were also divided into three flags, one person with one hundred general and one person with one person. Finally, there were cavalry, with 449 people in 4 bureaus, and each bureau was set up by Jiang Dazhong and Yang Xiaolu, and were directly led by Huang Laifu, and were considered as servants of the Huang family.

In addition, there were some miscellaneous people in the Wuzhai Fort army, such as flag officers, drummers, gunpowder liners, blacksmiths, doctors, medical practitioners, archers, etc. In addition, the squad, cavalry, chariot, and baggage officers and soldiers, a total of 2,700 people in the battalion.

In this way, the first battalion of soldiers in Wuzhai Fort was completed and had new force armed forces in their hands, which was a good thing. However, a trouble rushed towards Huang Laifu, which was that the battalion soldiers needed a large amount of weapons and equipment.

At present, the Wuzhai Fortress, except for some military uniforms, armor, bird guns, swords and guns, which can be made by themselves, the remaining weapons such as bows, arrows, rattan cards, wolf silos can only be remitted or purchased. If you want to buy it, this will be another huge cost.

Indeed, if all weapons and equipment are to be purchased, although Huang Laifu has more than 100,000 taels of silver in his hand, he will probably spend all his money to equip the next battalion of soldiers. So these days, Huang Laifu has been intimate with Ma Jiuying's father-in-law, hoping that he would say a few words to the emperor and give him some weapons.

"Sir, it's okay to speed up the manufacturing of waist knives, spears, armor, and the quality can be guaranteed, but it's difficult to speed up the production of bird guns."

In the Wuzhai Fort Military Craftshop, Liu Tianlu, the leader of the military weapon group, sighed to Huang Laifu.

In the past few months, the Wuzhaibao Military Mailhouse has expanded a little more than 500 military maids and men. Every day, there are jingles here, and everyone is busy.

Since Huang Laifu has minerals in Shenchi Castle, both iron and coal are very sufficient. In this way, the Wuzhaibao Military Craftshop will no longer have any raw material restrictions. As long as Huang Laifu has enough money, he can produce as many weapons as he wants. Unlike before, if he buys tens of thousands of kilograms of iron, he has to carefully consider where to buy iron after using it.

The current Wuzhaibao Military Mailhouse can make thirty bird guns every month, and they are made of fine iron, so the quality is absolutely right. The concept of later generations, coupled with the achievements of the war between Wuzhaibao soldiers in Shenchibao, made Huang Laifu pay more attention to the production of bird guns. This battle also made Wuzhaibao's top and bottom of the Wuzhaibao have a new understanding of the power of firearms, greatly breaking through the previous concept of despising firearms and bird guns.

In this battle, it can be said that the bird gunner is the only one. Some other troops have the intention to become a bird gunner, kill more enemies, and get more silver rewards. Even Huang Laifu's third brother-in-law Tian Dafu also found out the power of Huang Laifu's bird gun, and also intends to buy some bird guns from Huang Laifu to go back.

Unfortunately, Huang Laifu himself is not enough, so how can he take out? At present, in the Wuzhaibao Military Craftshop, thirty bird guns can be made every month, and placed in other places in the Ming Dynasty, which is an impressive achievement, but Huang Laifu is still very dissatisfied. However, in the Ming Dynasty, there are always so many processes for making bird guns. The process of a bird gun cannot be found without a month.

In the Wuzhaibao Military Mailhouse, there are not many skilled military craftsmen who are skilled in fighting bird guns. In addition to letting military craftsmen focus on fighting bird guns and firearms, Huang Laifu can only try his best to recruit military craftsmen to the outside world.

In addition, during these days, Huang Laifu was busy recruiting soldiers and organizing soldiers, and also was busy commanding everyone to build barracks for the Wuzhai Fort army. The Wuzhai Fort army now has nearly 3,000 people, and of course all the barracks in the Wuzhai Fort can't be occupied, so some of them had to live outside the Wuzhai Fort. Huang Laifu built a barracks outside the south gate of Wuzhai Fort, all built with cement, which was extremely sturdy, similar to a small fortress.

A few days later, Huang Laifu drank Jiang Dazhong's wedding banquet again. The young man, 21 years old, has all his sons, and he finally got married. The bride is the daughter of Yang Baihu's family in Kelanzhou City, named Yang Meixiu.

At the same time, while Huang Laifu was busy, another great harvest of Wuzhai Fort also began.
Chapter completed!