Valley Emperor

No matter what the regime, the change of the military structure and the command system, especially when it is a big change, it means that the power of the generals will change.

Although the Datang Dynasty was only a mountain dynasty, it could not escape such a fate. It was like this when the standing army was established before, and it was also the same when the five armies of the standing army were combined into one army.

Now, Li Xuan wants to build a full-time professional army on the basis of the two militia-type armies of the Guards and the Standing Army, which will naturally lead to greater job changes, which will affect the power of the generals.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the formation of the new army has attracted the attention and even competition of Fang Dongquan, Wang Danxu and even Chen Tufu.

However, before deciding on the generals, it is still necessary to determine the detailed preparation.

In order to develop the organization, first of all, he must know that what Li Xuan will build in the future is a modern army with hot weapons as the main and cold weapons as the supplement. , artillery combined mixed troops.

However, it must also be taken into account that the production of arquebuses in the Tang Dynasty is not high, and there are still many performance defects in the arquebuses. This has also led to the two arms of the Tang Dynasty, the sword, shield and archer, will still be long-term. exist.

Taking it all into consideration, Li Xuan intends to combine the formation of the former Guards and the Standing Army, first of all, the heavy armored swordsman and the archer. These two arms are actually more difficult to expand than the musketeer, especially the archer, whether it is a bow and arrow. Or the archers themselves, the Tang Dynasty could not obtain them in a short period of time.

So you can only make up as many as you have. There were more than 70 archers in the previous two archer teams. Unfortunately, several people were killed and injured in the previous battle with the Ming army. Now there are only less than 70 people left. Among the 70 people, the quality is mixed, and some people are simply not suitable to exist as professional soldiers.

Therefore, Li Xuan is going to select the best and select thirty-six people from these mixed archers to form a team of archers. In other words, the two previous teams of archers have been reduced to one team.

The remaining archers who were not selected usually go back to farming honestly, and when a war breaks out, they will be pulled out and used as ordinary young men.

These thirty-six archers will all be assigned to the strong bows of the Ming army, and then undergo various physical and tactical training. They do not expect them to become sharp shooters, nor do they expect them to be able to compete with the soldiers of the Guards. They can be disciplined as well, Li Xuan just asks them to become a normal archer army.

The requirements are not high, and they are almost the same as those archers in the Ming army guards.

But even so, it is quite difficult for these archers to meet Li Xuan's requirements.

Like archers, the number of heavy armored sword and shield soldiers is not as much as you want, because limited by the amount of armor, the Datang Dynasty can only arm more than 30 heavy armored sword and shield soldiers, no more. Not anymore.

These heavily armored swordsmen and shields need to rush into battle, and they have certain requirements for physical fitness and even personal bravery and courage. Therefore, in addition to the more than 20 armored bandits inherent in nature, Li Xuan intends to select the best from the bandits and then select ten Of the remaining people, there are thirty-six people in total.

In this way, there is a team of 36 archers and a team of 36 heavy armored sword and shield soldiers.

In addition, there are spearmen and musketeers. The requirements of the two are basically the same. There are no requirements for personal skills, even average physical fitness. In addition to the original 90-odd people in the Guards, Li Xuan was going to choose from more than 1,000 people who had just joined the big family of the Tang Dynasty.

In terms of specific organization, there are three teams of spearmen, each with 36 people. The training of this spearman is simple, the soldiers are also simple, and the weapons are simpler, so there is no technical difficulty, and most of the spearmen used are still the same as before. For the guards, the missing part was filled with honest people.

For the musketeers, first determine the organization of the two teams, which are also 36 people per team. However, compared with other arms, they can immediately select enough people and train them into an army. The musketeers only have an empty system now. There are seventy-two people in these two teams. I don't know how long it will take, because the Tang Dynasty did not have so many muskets.

There is a team of baggage soldiers, each with 36 people, but Li Xuan does not intend to use these baggage soldiers as civilians, but as multi-purpose infantry. Need to undertake more technical work, such as repairing ordnance, such as building camps, building bridges and opening roads.

If the time of war comes, it is impossible for this mere thirty-six people to complete all the logistical transportation tasks of the army, and it must be expanded on a large scale.

Therefore, the troop corps is actually just a framework in peacetime, and it will expand rapidly in wartime. At that time, one of these thirty-six troopers may transport food and grass with hundreds or even more civilians.

Therefore, the baggage soldiers must also be equipped with weapons and be able to fight. If they cannot fight, then they are not soldiers, but ordinary people.

Therefore, the main task of the troopers, "transporting grain and grass", will be undertaken by the civilians in the subsequent actual operations, and the main tasks they need to undertake will be escorting grain and a small amount of technical work.

With the accident of musketeers, spearmen, archers, sword and shield soldiers, and baggage soldiers, it was natural that there was a cavalry team that was just a few days after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, with a total of thirteen cavalry.

Thanks to the more than ten horses seized from the Ming army, the small Tang Dynasty now also has cavalry, although the riding skills of these cavalry only stay on horseback and walking, even riding a horse a little faster. It's very reluctant, let alone riding and shooting, they can't even hold a knife on horseback.

And the horse he rides is also a little short, a little thin, and a little old!

But it still cannot be denied that they are a cavalry, and they are also the most expensive and most intimidating arms in the entire Tang Dynasty. These thirteen cavalry are even nicknamed by the bandits of Huangzhu Mountain, called the Thirteen Taibao!

Within a thousand miles, only the Ming Dynasty can match the number of cavalry with the Tang Dynasty.

In this way, the strength of the Great Tang Wang Shi can barely be regarded as the second in the world!

Of course, Li Xuan will never say that this is because within a thousand miles, all are the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty in the middle is like an isolated island.

The above-mentioned three teams of spearmen, two teams of musketeers, one team of heavy armored sword and shield soldiers, one team of baggage soldiers, and a small team of cavalry will form a brand-new professional army of the Tang Dynasty.

Except for the cavalry, all other teams consist of six teams, each with a corps leader and a deputy corporal. In addition to the thirty-six people in each team, there is an additional captain, a deputy captain, a messenger, and two guards.

From this, a standard team is formed, with a total of 41 people in each team.

Like its eight teams, there are a total of 300 people, one is not much, and one is not much!

However, this establishment does not include a higher-level command system, because Li Xuan intends to imitate the previous standing army. He plans to serve as the commander of the entire army himself, and the staff and paperwork in the army will also let Liu Bagou and other civilians. work for you.

It's just that although the establishment is confirmed, there are still a lot of people in it, especially the musketeers have two teams, but now they can't even get one team together.

They only have more than twenty musketeers. If they want to gather more than seventy people, they have to rely on the craftsmen to build more muskets in the future.

There were only a few craftsmen in the original Tang Dynasty, and the production of muskets was quite low. Only single-digit muskets could be made in a month. This time, a total of more than 30 people were invited from Longhua Town and other villages outside the nearby mountains. Most of the craftsmen are blacksmiths, and half of them are craftsmen who used to make various weapons for the Ming army in Longhua Town. A few people know how to make primitive fire guns, and even some people know how to prepare gunpowder.

In order to increase the production of muskets and other cold weapons, the Datang Dynasty also assigned a large number of ordinary young men as assistants to these artisans, which relieved the ordinary manual labor of the artisans, so that these artisans could concentrate more on technical work.

It can be expected that the output of muskets in the Tang Dynasty will be rapidly increased in the future. Not to mention the output of muskets every month, there should be 20 or 30 muskets.

In this way, after three months, they can hope to build the muskets needed by the two musket teams and form a preliminary combat effectiveness.

But the premise is that there are sufficient raw materials for making muskets and configuring gunpowder.

These raw materials are not easy to deal with. A large amount of iron is used to make muskets, sulfur and saltpeter are used to prepare gunpowder, and lead is used for bullets.

Among them, saltpeter is the best~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Even if Li Xuan has no knowledge, he knows that you can get soil saltpeter in the toilet. Although the amount is not large, they do not use much. He does not believe it. More than 3,000 people Shit and urinating, but there is not enough soil.

Tomorrow, he will ask people to build a lot of public toilets. In the future, the big and small must go to the toilet. If they catch the toilet, they will hit 20 large boards. This toilet waste can not only fertilize the soil, but also fertilize the fields. It can be used for multiple purposes. What a good thing, how can it be thrown everywhere!

Even if they can't extract the saltpeter from the toilet, they can buy saltpeter secretly in the name of buying medicinal materials.

Sulphur can also be purchased from drugstores.

But the amount should not be too large, it can only be bought little by little, but this is enough. After all, in this era when a decisive battle can be fired at most, and soldiers only bring ten rounds of ammunition to the battlefield, lead The amount of ammunition and gunpowder is actually very small.

Therefore, this lead can also be obtained from copper coins. These days, copper coins are all made of lead, and there are many low-quality lead coins, or simply go out to purchase.

Whether it's gunpowder or buckshot, these aren't the big problems, the real big problem is iron!