Chapter 10 Inventory

Since the Xing Tianjun defeated tens of thousands of officers and stopped large-scale expansion operations after the Spring Festival, each battle camp has carried out a considerable period of rest, replenishment and training, taking this opportunity to replenish the soldiers, and the temporary 4th Battalion of the Soldiers has been determined, and Liu Bao is temporarily appointed as the 4th Battalion. The battalion generals made the Xingtian Army's battle barracks reach the state of four battalions. As for the new barracks, at this time, a relatively complete township military system has been formed in the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army, which is enough to provide sufficient reserve troops for the Xingtian Army, so it is not necessary to continue to retain it.

In terms of weapons and equipment, not to mention, the fire rope gun has been continuously produced and equipped into the army. By July, the equipment of the four battle barracks, the equipment of the fire rope gun in the army had basically reached more than half, making the combat effectiveness of the battle camp of the Xingtian Army reach a higher level. As long as each battalion fires with 700 birds, it will be a large area. In several small-scale conflicts with the surrounding officers and soldiers, the officers and soldiers faced the fierce criminal army and never fought a decent battle. They were often defeated as soon as they were touched, so that the officers and soldiers in the prefectures and counties around Shanxi did not dare to touch the Xingtian army again. .

Moreover, after a long period of production, the assembly line operation has also made the craftsmanship of craftsmen specializing in the production of an accessory more proficient. Nowadays, the power and quality of the bird is much better than the original production. Xiao Tianjian specially took them from Xu Dingguo. Several Lumi gunshots captured in the hand were taken out and compared with the self-produced musket. After comparison, it was found that the heavy bird gun of Xing Tianjun was only high and low compared with the most advanced Lumi gun currently equipped by the officers and soldiers, and it was basically the same in weight. Compared with Lu Mi gun, there was one more bayonet, in addition to having a long-range attack. In addition to the ability, the function of close combat is also added.

This is nothing. The use of the iron casting gun technology has also greatly improved the speed of Xing Tianjun's casting gun, and the quality of the cast iron cannon has gradually improved a lot, and the quantity has met the needs of Xing Tianjun.

In addition to the three-pound and six-pound field guns, Gao Su also began to try to make eight-pound cannons. In this way, as long as the eight-pound cannons are successfully tested and used, the field and attack capabilities of the Xingtian Army will rise to another level. It is difficult for ordinary counties or Zhuangbao to fight in the face of the bombardment of eight-pound cannons. It is.

In terms of cannonballs, Gao Su and Gao Cheng lived up to Xiao Tianjian's expectations. In addition to producing casting quite sophisticated solid bullets and grape bombs, the two of them finally made useful flowering bombs by using several newly recruited northern craftsmen at the end of June of the ninth year of Chongzhen. The test.

This kind of flowering bullet is actually a hollow iron ball with a raised hole on it. After the gunpowder is filled in it, the small hole is stuffed with a hollow wood plug, and then the slow-burning gunpowder is loaded into the hole. In this way, it can be used. Although the loading speed is slower, it is more powerful than ordinary solid bullets. It's much higher, but this thing is more dangerous to use, and the loading is also more cumbersome. Sometimes the shell does not fire or explode early, so it can't completely replace the ordinary solid ammunition. However, for Xing Tianjun, it's good to do this. Xiao Tianjian personally ordered to start production of this kind of bombs. Six pounds of flowering bullets will be used in the artillery team in the future.

Only the tachlock gun encountered some problems in the development. Yang Changshou and the craftsmen also tried to make the huskling gun. This kind of huskling gun is based on the schematic diagram hand-painted by Xiao Tianjian. Through continuous improvement, the barrel is still a heavy bird gun. The barrel is replaced with a new set of firing device, which cancels the dragging fire rope, and can basically be used after the test. However, there are problems that the trigger firing force is too heavy, the quality of the steel spring plate is unstable, and the failure rate is high, which also affects the accuracy of shooting to a certain extent, and The fire rate is not as good as the fire rate of ordinary fire rope guns. After the firearms in the camp, they don't like this thing very much, so that the fluff guns have not been officially listed in the regular army of the Xingtian Army for the time being.

However, for such a problem, it is also within Xiao Tianjian's expectation. For these domestic craftsmen, the flimplock gun is still a new thing after all, and the structure is much more complicated than the musket. The production of many parts requires a process to mature, and it can't be achieved overnight. In just a few months. If you want to completely improve it, it is still a little difficult for him to improve it at present.

Therefore, Xiao Tianjian is not very anxious. While Yang Changshou and other craftsmen continue to temporarily maintain the production of muskets, they gradually expand the production of fl Like-fire guns, so as to speed up the technical maturity of fl-fire production, and also require Yang Changshou and others to start producing short-tube flist short guns on this basis, that is, As the saying goes, the handgun is specially assigned to officers and cavalry equipment, so that the cavalry have the ability to fire once or twice before the enemy, and enhances the firepower and combat effectiveness of the cavalry in close combat. Even he himself personally wears two flintlock guns to promote the birth of flintlock guns in the Xingtian Army. Production and use.

As for the construction of the army, after the war after the New Year, Xiao Tianjian only ordered the battalions to replenish their troops, and there is no expansion for the time being. The current number of soldiers is already the limit he can bear. If he continues to expand his troops, his military grain problem will be more serious, and he has just reached income and expenditure. The balanced financial system will collapse, so now he is not in a hurry to expand the army, but begins to shift the focus of building the army to the construction of the township army.

Originally, the chief protection system of the Xingtian Army is to set up a chief security guard in each village, and each village sets up a township army to maintain local security. This method effectively improves the ability of each village to protect themselves, but there is also a problem, that is, the troops are scattered to fight separately, and they cannot exert greater combat effectiveness, nor can they exert themselves. More functions.

Therefore, at the end of last year, Xiao Tianjian added a general manager in some important areas, under the jurisdiction of several villages. If necessary, the township soldiers in several villages can be gathered together to form a security battalion, so that the township soldiers can play a greater combat effectiveness and role.

After passing the test of the New Year's War, the effect is quite good, which is equivalent to invisibly expanding the strength of the Xingtian Army a lot, and also completely liberates the war camp from local garrison affairs.

Therefore, this method began to be implemented in all parts of the Xingtian Army after the Spring Festival. Taking the township as a unit, the area under the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army is divided into townships, with a township director and a general manager. The township head is the civil affairs officer under Fu Deming, who is responsible for presiding over the civil affairs of the township, while the general manager is an officer, who is responsible for presiding over the army of each township. Political affairs, the general's government and civil affairs are completely separated, and their respective duties do not interfere with each other, so that the efficiency can also be guaranteed.

In this way, the general manager can gather the soldiers of a township when needed and become a relatively large combat unit. In wartime, he can become one and take on the responsibility of defending the land of his hometown.

The equipment quality of the township soldiers, after the First World War, Xiao Tianjian distributed a large number of captured weapons to the township soldiers in all townships and villages, so that the equipment quality of the township soldiers has also been greatly improved. As for the training, the village chiefs are required to have sufficient benefits as long as they have a little free time. To use it, in the way of training the Xingtian Army, the township soldiers are trained in basic training. Every month, the general manager must also gather the township soldiers in his hometown together for a joint training, so as to ensure that the local township soldiers can have considerable combat effectiveness and can fully bear the auxiliary forces of the Xingtian Army's battalion in wartime.

In this way, these township soldiers are for the people in their spare time and soldiers in wartime. In the jurisdiction, they basically achieve all the whole people's soldiers. Moreover, these township soldiers do not need Xiao Tianjian to raise at all, and they also play the role of Tibetan soldiers in the people. Once Xiao Tianjian needs it, he can not only supplement the soldiers as soon as possible, but also And it also secretly has a large number of available troops.

During this period, Xiao Tianjian personally went to various places to randomly check the training situation of the township soldiers in various places, so as to urge the construction of the combat effectiveness of the township soldiers, so that the security chiefs in all places did not dare to neglect them, and set off an unprecedented wave of training in the jurisdiction of Xing Tianjun, ensuring the development of local armed forces.

In addition, Xiao Tianjian, under the condition of ensuring that the number of soldiers will not be greatly expanded for the time being, Xiao Tianjian officially set up a water camp of about 500 people in the ancient town with the group of Yang Kunshan as the backbone, which was directly under his personal management. With Yan Chongxi's battalion stationed in Yuanqu County, this small-scale water camp has become For the formal establishment of the Xingtian Army, the water camp is not equipped with any warships for the time being. It mainly uses fishing boats as the main combat equipment. At ordinary times, it also disguises as fishermen on the river and acts on the Yellow River, specializing in plundering official ships and merchant ships on the Yellow River, so as to obtain more material supplements and monitor the activities of patrolling the officer ships on the river. At the same time, he is also responsible for the delivery of detailed work to the south bank of the Yellow River.

In the past few months, several major cases have been made in the water camp, which gradually aroused the idea of Henan officials. The patrol department of the upstream Fenglingdu had to strengthen the patrol on the surface of the Yellow River. In this way, the ships of the water camp and the government launched an open and secret battle for the control of this section of the Yellow River.

The Fan family is very happy about the fact that Xing Tianjun blocked the river and plundered the river. Originally, the communication between the Fan family and Xing Tianjun used to be carried out by land transportation in Zezhou, Qinshui or Wenxi County and other places. Since the government governments set up cards on the road after the Spring Festival, the communication between the Fan family and Xing Tianjun has been cut off, making Fan The freight of the family does not enter the jurisdiction of Xing Tianjun, and the iron of Xing Tianjun cannot be transported out, which really gives the Fan family a headache.

However, when Xing Tianjun established the water camp, all these problems were solved. The Fan family simply began to give up their contact with Xing Tianjun on land, and all changed to take the Yellow River waterway and deal with Xing Tianjun. Their ships started from Fenglingdu, Pinglu County wharf or Luoyang wharf and passed through the ancient town. Dock, put down the goods, load the goods given to them by the Xing Tianjun, and then transport them to another place. The Xingtian Military Water Camp will receive and escort them. Although there is also a Yellow River Inspection Department in the government of Shaanxi Prefecture, the Inspection Department at this time does not have the ability to block the Yellow River at all, let alone easily find the trouble of Xing Tianjun. In this way, even the government has nothing to do with them.