In fact, in addition to these core departments, there is also the Police Department that is also temporarily under the Ministry of War. However, the police system is relatively independent, and the police office has also been established elsewhere.

To tell the truth, although the new organizational and management structure of the military department is advanced, in fact, it cannot significantly improve the combat effectiveness of the Ming army in a short period of time.

The most important purpose of Zhu Linmi's reform of the structure of the military department is to create a set of standardized command and combat systems to avoid the common problem of the army in this era -- the army is almost all the private property of individual officers, and without a specific officer, the combat effectiveness of the troops will be seriously reduced.

Through the existing officer academies and ordinary military academies, the unity of the whole army has been ensured in terms of training and combat skills at the grassroots level. According to Zhu Linmiao's plan, a number of new military schools will be built in the later stage, and even local garrisons will study in military academies as much as possible.

Now, through the reform of the military department, the unity of the command mode at the upper level has been ensured, and the Ming army has completed coordination and unity. Once the whole new mechanism is in operation, it will be able to change the commander of any army at any time, as in the armies of later generations, and be ready to fight almost immediately.

And as long as the state finances can supply it, such an army can simply be "manufactured" in the way of "assembly line" production.

Even if the main forces in the front suffer heavy losses, the military schools in the rear will soon be able to pull out the same number of soldiers to replenish them, and since everyone has the same training mode, the run-in time is almost negligible. There will never be a tragic experience such as after the defeat of the Battle of Salhu in history, when the entire Ming Dynasty was no longer able to fight.

On this basis, supplemented by the joint command and operation mode of staff officers of later generations, the possibility of the failure of the entire campaign due to the temporary mistakes of individual officers was greatly avoided.

In future operations, the strategic command, the highest authority of the Ministry of War, will designate a major operational strategy, such as whether it is a strategic offensive or an offensive, whether it is to attack the west and attack the east, or vice versa.

After the grand strategy is decided, the specific operational command will be entrusted to the General Staff Division. The top military thinkers of the Ming Dynasty are concentrated here, and how to fight each battle, what strategies to use, how to crack the enemy's tricks, etc., are all solved here.

In the traditional sense, officers are now only responsible for directing the charge at the front, and the specific steps of the operation must be subordinated to the arrangements of the General Staff Division. As a matter of fact, the pre-war all-army operational conference that the Long Wei Army had been practicing before was the prototype of this kind of staff system, but now it is more standardized.

In the future, the General Staff Department will be the most important department of the Ministry of War, and almost all of the operations, training, and intelligence of the Ming Army will be in charge here.

Zhu Linmi's efforts to reform the military department also have a very important consideration, that is, to leave the Ming Dynasty with an army that will always be full of combat effectiveness. Even if he, a latecomer, dies of old age one day, as long as the military department still operates according to this model, there will be Chinese descendants to support the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Excellency, please!" Yu Xin turned sideways to open the door of the General Staff Division and gestured to Zhu Linmiao.

The main hall of the General Staff Division is extremely spacious, and in the middle is a map of the whole country with extremely fine standards of two zhang square, and the east and north walls are hung with the numbers of the existing units of the Ming Army, the leading officers, and the current station and military tasks are also indicated in the back.

On the south side of the room were hundreds of tables, on which were piled up all kinds of information, materials, and newspapers, which were the cases of junior officers and heralds.

In the middle of the room, there is a circle of chairs around the map, which is supposed to be prepared for the staff officers who are discussing the battle plan.

Zhu Linmiao sat down at ease and listened to Yu Xin continue to report on the current situation of the reform of the Ming army.

"My lord, according to your orders, the establishment of the Dragon Guard will be expanded to four cavalry battalions, ten infantry battalions, one chasseur battalion, one and a half dragoon battalions, two artillery battalions and an artillery company. In addition, there is an engineer battalion and three medical companies.

"At present, there are still 3,000 soldiers still practicing in the military academies of the two places, but their subordinates have already inspected them, and they can be transferred to the battlefield now. If the Dragon Guard is fully formed, there will be more than 10,800 soldiers. ”

This is the advantage of standardized training in military schools! Although these recruits have only been in the two schools for five or six months, they have been able to go into battle with the veterans to kill the enemy, and their combat power is definitely not weak.

Zhu Linmiao was catching a glimpse of the wall on the east side, and dozens of wooden signs were hung under the column of "Dragon Guards", which were marked: 1st Battalion of Heavy Cavalry, 2nd and 3rd Battalions of Hussars, and 4th Battalion of Lancers. There is also the name of the battalion commander at the back.

He turned to Yu Xindao: "How is Jiao Lian's lancer training?" ”

"Lord Hui, General Jiao's more than 500 people are skilled in guns and horses, which can be called elite. It's just that it's difficult to train on a gun, and the two newly recruited battalions are barely able to fight, and their subordinates temporarily assign them to the broken battalion for use. ”

"Even a battalion can make a big difference." Zhu Linmiao nodded, the training of lancers is extremely cumbersome, and the lancers in the Napoleonic era are the highest-paid troops, which are much more than elite artillery, which shows how difficult the training is.

Yu Xin continued: "In addition, the newly made chaser guns from the Ordnance Bureau have been sent one after another, and the infantry battalions have begun to practice with the new guns. The subordinates also assigned 300 recruits to each of the two schools, so that they could familiarize themselves with this gun as soon as possible. ”

Zhu Linmiao couldn't help but smile when he heard this, the rifled guns of the ten battalions fired a salvo, the picture must be beautiful, I don't know what kind of shocked expression Hong Chengchou will have when he sees this scene.

This does not include the allocation to the broken camp, and by the time of the Northern Expedition, the whole army would have been able to install at least 10,000 chasseurs. As long as the position of the enemy and the enemy is suitable, I am afraid that a single salvo can kill nearly 2,000 people!

Yu Xin continued: "My lord, there is another thing that is quite gratifying. Since announcing that he would help advocate Lang Zhong to join the army, the Dragon Guard Army has now recruited three companies of doctors and soldiers, totaling more than 300 people. His Royal Highness had taught Xia Langzhong the methods of wound cleaning and suturing, which had also been practiced by all the doctors and soldiers. ”

Zhu Linmiao told the doctors about the bent suture needles and wound suturing methods in his memory, but he also knew that before anti-inflammatory drugs, these tips were difficult to greatly reduce the mortality rate.

At the moment, it was only 75 percent alcohol, and each medic was given only a small bottle. As for anti-inflammatory drugs, at least wait for the Fujing laboratory to be up and running, and then research for a few more years, maybe there is hope.

"The situation of this artillery battalion," Yu Xin looked at Zhao Zhibi beside him, after all, he had limited energy and was not very familiar with artillery, "Youguang is still the most familiar." ”

Zhao Zhibi smiled and saluted Zhu Linmi: "Your Excellency, a new battalion has been set up in the first artillery. In accordance with your previous orders, both battalions are now replaced with newly cast artillery, and the old cannons are to be reused by the broken battalion. ”

When he said this, he couldn't help but admire, "This new cannon is so much easier to use than the original!" ”