New Shun 1730

This can also be regarded as a characteristic that adapts measures to local conditions.

The Junggar tribe does not have well-trained line infantry. The number of skirmishers to harass and contain the front line does not need to be too large. It is enough to rely on one's own line infantry.

If they attack Junggar, the imperial court will definitely dispatch cavalry from the north. The Qingzhou Army does not need to train its own cavalry, but only retains a company of heavy cavalry as seeds.

Junggar has a city, so it needs a specialized engineering force.

Considering the Junggar cavalry, it is also necessary for each battalion to provide light artillery to support firepower.

With the organizational strength at this time, the smallest company could be used as a combat unit, which was far ahead of its time.

The premise is that there need to be enough officers. For the organic infantry alone, company-level officers need nearly two to three hundred people.

As for the heavy cavalry company as the seed, eight officers were directly stuffed into it.

This ratio of trained officers was the source of Liu Yu's confidence, and of course it was also a bait for the emperor to open up Liangjiazi Education and establish more basic education schools in the future.

As trainee officers, some are graduates of the Butoku Palace, and some are good-sounding family members who have received the most basic education.

As for the cavalry, there is no other way.

The military pay given by the court was not enough, and there was no money to train a regular cavalry unit.

Regular cavalry units don't need Songhuajiang soldiers who have been able to ride horses since childhood. They can be trained by grabbing a group of people who have never ridden horses.

The imperial court's thinking was still the same as that of the previous dynasty. All ministries gathered together and sent specialized generals to work together.

Although there will definitely be problems if you cooperate like this. But considering the level of Junggar, this problem is not a big problem.

The compromise idea is that we can only adopt a new tactical system, emphasize the mobility of infantry and the speed of formation changes, rely on infantry to conquer the world, and cannot completely rely on the cavalry deployed by the court to cooperate well.

The role of the staff department is to formulate various tactical plans and make adequate preparations. With Dashun's size, if he is not defeated, he will win.

Liu Yu doesn't care much about various training arrangements.

This batch of trainees in the staff class inherited his tactical thinking and explained the truth clearly. They can formulate specific training plans and follow the steps step by step.

After Liu Yu inquired about the specific situation of the training, he asked: "Before autumn, do you think it will be possible to make the Qingzhou Army look like a combatable force?"

Wu Fangrui thought for a while and then said: "There is no problem. Sir, what needs to be solved now are some details of formation changes. Now the time of formation changes is still a little slower. Even if there are factors that are not enough in practice, there are also some drills that are not very good. Right place."

"Um."

Liu Yu knocked on the training log they had compiled on the table and said: "If there is anything wrong, just bring it up for discussion and study. Three cobblers are like Zhuge Liang. The chief officers of each company and battalion, you also Ask more and discuss and study together. I just have a general idea and a rough idea of ​​what is right and wrong, and I can use this tactical system as a criterion to measure what is right and what is wrong. But you asked me to write everything down. That’s difficult.”

Wu Fangrui nodded and said: "Your Majesty is right. This kind of thing is very complicated, so there are more than 80 people in the staff department, and they are also studying for this. According to your Majesty's request, there should be no problem in the autumn. It should be fine next spring. The key to the long-distance march training of the Qingzhou Army is that the guns are often damaged now, which is insufficient, and it will be even more insufficient if they are damaged.”

"Another one, the shortage of guns is a trivial matter, and I believe your Excellency can solve it. But regarding the issue of reserve soldiers, Your Excellency should also write to His Majesty."

"Now among the nine thousand people, one less person will die. Your Excellency's idea of ​​​​training is to teach others. Ordinarily, there should be some new recruits among the nine thousand people now, so that there can be a continuous flow. Otherwise, after these people are defeated, How to replenish people?”

What he said hit the point, and Liu Yu was helpless about this.

The military system of the imperial court is a big problem. It costs money to raise troops.

Training some reserve soldiers on weekdays... With the organizational strength at this time, I can organize the good family members. Let’s talk about some tenant farmers who have problems eating. If they are asked to give up farm work and go to training, it is equivalent to ruining their families.

The yeoman farmers are better, but the number of yeoman farmers is a problem.

Our own national conditions are here.

The best way is to recruit disaster victims as soldiers. Disasters and famines occur every year, but we are not afraid that there will be no victims.

The question is whether the court can come up with this money?

Dashun's fiscal revenue and expenditure are extremely stretched. Such a huge country simply cannot spare much money, especially for disaster relief.

This matter was unsolved for the time being, so Liu Yu had no choice but to say: "To resolve this matter, it depends on how well we fight in the future. If we fight well, everything will be right, with a high position and far-sightedness; if we fight poorly, we will be right." Well, that’s just rhetoric and talk on paper. People, especially the ministers of the DPRK, are extremely realistic.”

Liu Yu had his own thoughts on this matter, but in the end he still said that there was something wrong with Dashun's military system, and what needed to be changed was the entire military system, not just a single Qingzhou soldier.

Dashun neither needs conscription nor has the grassroots control of conscription, nor does it have the material conditions for conscription.

What is needed is the Xiang army of the Song Dynasty.

The country is vast and disasters occur every year. If there are only 100,000 or 80,000 disaster victims in any given year, one can go to the Temple of Heaven to say "good weather".

Select the young and strong among the victims, give each person a lower military salary, and do some basic training such as formation and firing guns. Once a war starts, recruit people from here to supplement, and the number of soldiers is not a problem at all.

But even with the minimum military pay, people have to be fed.

Most of them definitely don’t have wives and children, but they didn’t come out of nowhere, and they still have to support their parents.

If soldiers are not allowed to support their parents, then such soldiers can’t be considered combat-effective. They can’t all be like Liu Yu did in Shandong, giving priority to those whose families have died.

This requires a thorough change in the military system, cutting a number of useless troops, and freeing up military pay to support them.

This matter cannot be rushed, and it is useless to consider it now, so he said: "You can consider this matter, but you should still focus on training the soldiers."

"I still say that it is useful to be able to fight and speak. Such military and national affairs will be considered after you are promoted in the future. As for whether you can be promoted, it depends on how the soldiers are trained."

"Opportunities are rare, you must seize them. Not for me, but for yourself. You must know that you are still only reserve officers and have not yet been promoted. Do you understand?"

All the staff officers stood up and said, "I understand."

"Okay, since you understand, then continue training. If you have any problems, come to me. Because of the monsoon, the French will come again in three to five months. I need to let them know that we are a meaningful ally. Hurry up."

"Yes!"

After everyone dispersed, Liu Yu did not go to see the army's training. This is a slow integration process. It only takes a few months from being full to training. It will take some time to see whether it can fight, so there is no need to find problems now.

He still went to see the navy that he cared about the most, even though the navy didn't even have a warship at this moment.

On the beach, on the ropes and nets placed on the beach, a group of shirtless soldiers were practicing climbing ropes, and the officers were shouting loudly below.

On the sea in the distance, several training ships were crowded with people, getting familiar with seasickness.

On some small boats, people were practicing rowing.

Most naval soldiers are landlubbers. Even if they can swim, it may be their first time to get on a ship. Fortunately, most of the reserve officers were also landlubbers before, and they were full of patience for these soldiers who couldn't swim at all.

The proportion of reserve officers is very high. The training method of mentoring and the ratio of the number of sailors make each reserve officer and reserve non-commissioned officer only need to train a dozen people.

Most of the reserve officers are looking forward to the arrival of real warships.

On the beach not far away, a group of sailors are taking a short rest. They are tired and exhausted. The weather is still cold, but they are all lying on the beach and unwilling to move.

When Liu Yu walked over, the sailors quickly stood up and saluted even though they were reluctant.

In the crowd, Liu Yu saw a sailor he recognized. He had changed his name, so he shouted, "Zhang Erbiao, come here."

Zhang Erbiao, who changed his name from Zhang Hu to Zhang Erbiao, heard that Liu Yu still remembered his name, so he hurried over.

After saluting, he called him "Sir".

"How is it? How do you feel?"

"My Lord, I am well fed and warmly dressed. Although the daily training is a little tiring, I am no longer seasick and can climb ropes."

"Well, it's pretty good. I remember that several of your brothers and sisters are here, right?"

"Yes. They were selected by Lord Michael. The eldest brother Da Biao is not in the army and chose to go to Vladivostok; the younger brother San Biao is a drummer in the Qingzhou Army; the fourth sister is now in the Yixue School. I saw her a few days ago and she can already write her name."

When it comes to his sister being able to write her name, Zhang Erbiao's face naturally reveals a happy expression. Although he doesn't recognize those words at all, when he sees his sister scratching out some words on the beach with a wooden stick, the mysterious feeling is really beyond description.

The less you recognize the words, the more you feel that there is infinite magic in the words.

At first, he was worried that his sister would be sold to the madam, but he didn't expect that she really learned to read. The only thing that made him feel a little awkward was that boys and girls were studying together, which made him feel very strange.

But it was hard to say anything. I just thought that they were still young, and maybe they would go to school separately when they grew up.

Now my third brother is a drummer in the army, and my sister is also studying on the island. The only thing is that my eldest brother is going to Vladivostok, which he had never heard of before.

He was a little bold, and seeing that Liu Yu still remembered his name, he asked boldly: "Sir, where is Vladivostok? Can I see my brother again in this life?"

The policies were all set by Liu Yu, and he did not answer this question directly, but asked with a smile: "Have you seen your sister-in-law?"

"Yes."

All those who went to reclaim wasteland were married here. It was similar to matching livestock. The female disaster victims were numbered and drawn by lot. Whoever drew the lot would be the one to reclaim wasteland.

In the border areas, there are more men than women. If they immigrated there normally, women would definitely give priority to those who were local residents, rather than those who went to reclaim wasteland.

The soldiers on the other side of the Songhua River offered a very high price. A woman could be exchanged for a horse, and a young and strong farmhand could be exchanged for a cow.

Liu Yu was quite satisfied with this price. After all, in a famine, a person might be worth four or five corn cakes.

He helped some people, which didn't cost much money. He arranged for people to open up the grain storage and immigration line from Vladivostok to the mouths of the Songhua River and the Heilongjiang River. There was a lack of large livestock. One person for a cow, and he was responsible for transporting the cows and horses to the designated location. It was a big profit.

Zhang Erbiao felt that Liu Yu was a benevolent official.

It was almost a dream for them to get a wife, but they didn't expect that their cousin actually drew one by lottery, and the age was just right, and it seemed that she was also able to give birth and work.

Speaking of this, he felt somewhat grateful, but he was still concerned about where his cousin was going, waiting for Liu Yu to tell him where Vladivostok was.