Chapter 277: Expansion of the Army

The "Red Banner Army", the general of the guerrilla battalion, has reached six people, and Emperor Chongzhen thinks that it is very unruly to distinguish between priority and priority.

Therefore, the emperor used Huang Han's development of alcohol to save thousands of wounded Ming troops.

But this is a real level of teaching, and Huang Han's 2,000 more men and horses means that the military salary and consumption are nearly 100,000 taels of snowflake silver and 10,000 thousand stone of grain every year.

The decree issued was a decree drafted by the cabinet and not a central decree, which shows that this promotion was unanimously recognized by the Gungun.

Just three days after getting married, the impatient Huang Han took his wife and concubine back to the "Tiger's Den" city.

The main building here has not been completed, and only a dozen or so houses have been completed in the Huang family's private residence, and the rest are all leveled vacant land reserved in the plan.

In order to welcome the arrival of the head of the family, Song Pengfei could only temporarily set up more than a dozen captured yurts for the guards and servants to live in temporarily.

Who knew that Qin Yanyi and Chu Chu felt fresh when they saw the yurt and resolutely asked to live in it

Huang Han announced that he would leave all the family affairs to Zheng Xiu'e at his discretion, and he would be ready to meet the upcoming battle in autumn.

At present, the number of troops in the "Red Banner Army" system has exceeded 10,000, excluding 11,200 officers at the level of 100 households and above, half of whom are reinforcement battalions and half are guards.

At the end of the first month, all the military servants who participated in the grassland raid were qualified to become regular soldiers of the "Red Banner Army", and only 10% of them were able to ride into the cavalry ranks, and most of the rest were supplemented as infantry.

The infantry, the sword, the shield, and the pikeman now have a full three, a total of eighteen flags, and a thousand people. There were two archers and crossbowmen, with a total number of more than 670 people.

The number of bird gunmen and spear bearers was expanded to three generals, plus one hundred led by Song Pengfei himself, and there were 1,120 people.

The cavalry with the greatest losses is difficult to replenish, and at present it cannot meet the number of more than 1,700 troops, and now it is only 1,500, of which 300 are afraid that they will not be able to fight on horseback for the time being.

There were 100 newcomers who were skilled in archers and horses, but Hanzi, Yang Danian, Wang Zhanpeng and other cavalry generals needed to be on guard against these recruits at all times, because they were the first Mongols in the "Red Banner Army".

These people were selected from about 1,000 Tartar slaves, and if these people could be trusted by Hanzi, Yang Danian and other officers with good performance, they would consider appropriately increasing the proportion of Mongol cavalry in the ranks in the future.

The ranks of the young cadets were more than doubled to forty-six general banners, and they were organized into twenty-three hundred generals, set up as seven generals and one hundred generals who were not satisfied with the number of members.

There are a total of 2,576 junior recruits.

Over the age of 14, there are three generals and two hundred generals, and they are young soldiers who can be engaged in actual combat, and three of these children have experienced actual combat, and now they are all junior officers of the firearms unit, and the most poor are also army commanders.

Under the age of 14, the number of young cadets under the age of 14, mainly teenagers aged 12 or 3, has reached 24 general banners, with a total of 1,344 people, and these children are too young to go to the battlefield.

It stands to reason that Qin Yanyi is also a third-grade guerrilla general of the Ming Dynasty, and there should also be a number of soldiers, and at the worst of all, there must be a family guard that is recognized by the imperial court as payable.

Huang Han didn't want to be embarrassed at all for his wife's face, so when he was in Beijing, he went to the military department to ask for the number of soldiers for Qin Yanyi, and finally the military department Shangshu gave face and approved an infantry with a total of 336 people.

Before Qin Liangyu went back, he left a large number of half-hearted female soldiers with him, and told Qin Rong who stayed behind to take good care of the young lady.

Therefore, in the "Red Banner Army", there were 22 elite white-pole soldiers under Qin Rong, who was actually awarded the rank of chief flag officer with the rank of 100 households, and Huang Han promoted Qin Rong to two levels in a row, and reported to the military department with the rank of a five-grade thousand-household officer.

Qin Rong was appointed as the commander of the newly established "Red Banner Army" female barracks, Ma Yuefeng, a round-faced female soldier, was appointed as the chief flag officer of the seventh grade, and Ma Lanhua, the former small flag officer, was appointed as the official of the six grades and one hundred households.

Qin Rong, who was newly appointed as a new official, was enthusiastic about her work, and followed Qin Yanyi to the "Tiger's Den" city to recruit female soldiers in full swing, and about 10,000 women rescued from the Karaqin grassland responded positively, and finally Qin Yanyi took 22 female soldiers to carefully select 360 people.

The number of soldiers has been exceeded, Qin Yanyi is full of words, and her explanation to Huang Han is that it is inevitable that there will be injuries and illnesses in training, so about one percent of the number of mobile personnel is reserved.

It can be seen that his wife is also a master of Han Xin's soldiers, of course, Huang Han will not care about her, but he put forward a request for the female soldiers, that is, not to train ash pole spear piercing and cold weapon array, and all female soldiers are trained according to the standard of bird guns.

Qin Rong left half of the female officers from Sichuan to train the new female soldiers in military discipline and military posture, and sent eleven female guards to the hundred generals directly led by Song Pengfei to participate in the hot weapon training, their purpose was of course to learn to shoot birds.

The development of female soldiers must not allow women to stab at the enemy, and the development of them into all-hot weapons is the only way, and the shooting of bird guns is a training subject that must be passed.

The three hundred and sixty female soldiers selected were all Tianzu without exception, and so were female guards such as Qin Yanyi and Qin Rong.

Chu Chu and Zheng Xiu'e used to bind their feet, and the situation is okay, this era has not been perverted to the point of breaking their toes, so their feet are only more than an inch smaller than normal girls, which directly causes them to be unable to run and not affect normal walking.

Huang Han had already issued an order that women were not allowed to bind their feet in the system, and violators would be held accountable by their parents, and sentenced to six months of re-education through labor.

The training of the women's battalion of the "Red Banner Army" was in full swing, and the female soldiers who were selected were all devastated outside the fortress for more than a year, they had experienced painful years, and their hearts were full of hatred for the Tartars and Jiannu, and everyone wanted to practice the ability to kill the enemy in order to recover the blood debt.

In the first month, seeing that Qin Yanyi was busy every day, Zheng Xiu'e and Chu Chu were not happy, they often blew the pillow wind, and asked Huang Han to arrange some things for them to do.

Zheng Xiu'e shows off her wisdom and handles things very decently, and the original descendants of the Huang family led by Red Sleeves, Tian Xiang, and Cai Lian all support dignified women, and today's Huang family is also full of feudal social atmosphere, respectful and orderly, and there is a difference between inside and outside.

It stands to reason that Zheng Xiu'e should not have any trouble getting recognition and respect, but in fact, she always thinks that she is not favored, it seems that her husband loves Qin Yanyi more deeply, and she hurts Chu Chu more, although she is respectful to herself, she has a lot of points.