Chapter 118 New characters
When Yang Song heard Li Jing say that something was wrong, he had a bad premonition, but he could not do anything if his subordinates had something to do, so he had to let Li Jing continue.
"I have another matter to report to the king. I also have to do with the army's reorganization." Li Jing had no choice but to say his conclusion in one breath: "I suggest forming an army dedicated to mountain combat!"
When Yang Song heard this, he knew that it must have been his combat experience in attacking the western mountainous areas in the last war.
Yang Song thought for a while and asked, "How will the mountain army be formed? What is the scale?" He agreed to form a mountain army, but it still needs to be asked clearly how to form it.
As for who will form it and who should be led by general... Yang Song has no need to ask about these questions again.
Anyway, the mountain army formed is held in turn by generals, and there is no question of who will form or who will command.
Thinking of this, Yang Song suddenly remembered a problem point about taking turns to serve in each division - a problem that was not a problem for Xia Guo.
That is, in the future, the Xia Kingdom will have various armies, mountain troops responsible for mountain combat, heavy equipment divisions responsible for support and strong attacks, and several regular standard divisions, which will be a great test for the rotation generals.
The rotation system has very high requirements for the general's comprehensive abilities. You must be proficient in various tactics, whether it is mountains, plains, cavalry, or infantry, you must be able to command it!
Thinking of this, Yang Song couldn't help but feel emotion. Fortunately, the generals of Xia State were not short of this ability. In the future, as batches of graduates from the military academy continued to enter the army, there was no need to worry about not having a general to be available in the future.
Li Jing did not care what Yang Song felt, he answered Yang Song's question: "Return to the king, I suggest that the formation of the mountain army is also the organization of a division. The specific organization is no different from the standard division, but the training and combat of this army are all carried out in the mountains."
Li Jing means that the standard division is already sufficient. The 46,500 troops of a standard division are not small.
The five standard regiments plus a cavalry battalion and an artillery battalion have powerful firepower of 300 field artillery and 100 siege artillery, and 3,000 cavalry used as mobile power. No matter how you look at it, the organization of a standard division is sufficient to use.
The terrain of the mountains is complex, mostly light equipment, while the five standard regiments are mostly musketeers, with one standard regiment having 8,400 people. In addition to the number of gunfire companies and cavalry companies, the number of musketeers is 7,500.
As for the 300-man cavalry company in a standard regiment and a thirty field artillery company with ten siege artillery guns, it is completely sufficient to serve as the firepower support of a standard regiment.
Just as Li Jing said, the composition of a mountain army depends more on the quality of the troops and combat experience. If there is a ready-made organization, there is no need to set up another organization.
Yang Song thought about this for a while, and according to what Li Jing said, including the heavy equipment division adapted from the Cavalry Division, plus a mountain division, and a company of the First and Second Divisions, there must be a total of four divisions.
Suddenly, Yang Song thought about the purpose of their trip north, wasn’t it just to accept a standard division’s army?
The current first and second divisions in Xia Kingdom, one cavalry division and one new division, also happens to be four divisions!
Yang Song didn't think this was a coincidence. It turned out that Li Jing and Liu Ji were here to find him now for this newly emerging teacher!
After thinking it through, Yang Song couldn't smile bitterly. Li Jing, if you want to coordinate all the troops, just say it directly. Why do you have to be so twists and turns?
"Okay, it's already very late today." Yang Song felt relieved after thinking it through. He said to the two of them: "For the construction of the army, the pharmacist will write a plan. Then I will make a unified arrangement and we will welcome the new army tomorrow!"
When the two saw that Yang Song was driving people, their goal had been achieved tonight, they bowed to Yang Song and left immediately.
A night passed, and early the next morning, Yang Song, Li Jing, Liu Ji, and the Imperial Guards guarding Yang Song, a battalion of Jinyiwei, and the logistics supplies prepared by Yang Ren for the new army, headed towards the "empty city" ten kilometers away - the Planning City.
Nearly two hours later, the group came outside the planning city and saw that the gates of Guihua City, which was originally an empty city, were closed, and an army was stationed above the city wall.
"Look at this!" Yang Song thought to himself, and was about to ask someone to open the door when he saw the gate of Guihua City in front of him suddenly opened.
Yang Song looked and saw two people walking out of the cave-opened city gate first, and there was a neat army waiting behind him.
Not long after, after the two armies communicated with each other, the two men who walked out of the city gate rushed to Yang Song, knelt on one knee and said to him:
"The last general Qi Jiguang will meet the king!"
"The last general Sun Chengzong meets the king!"
"Leading a standardist, forty-six,500 people are willing to join the king's command and serve the king!" This sentence was said by Qi Jiguang.
After hearing the two people's claim, Yang Song was very happy. It seemed that the system had sent him two more talents!
"Hurry and don't give me a gift!" Yang Song hurriedly asked the two of them to get up, and then he even said three words "good" in succession, then continued: "I welcome the arrival of the two talents and the arrival of the entire army!"
After Yang Song and Qi Jiguang and Sun Chengzong talked for a few words, they introduced Li Jing and Liu Ji to each other. Yang Song pointed to Qi Jiguang and Sun Chengzong said, "There are the logistics and material things you need behind. Yang Ren!"
Finally, he shouted to Yang Ren, and Yang Ren immediately handed the material list in his hand to Qi Jiguang and asked him to count it.
After a while of busyness, Yang Song took advantage of the early time and did not enter the city. Finally, he ordered Qi Jiguang: "You are new, and the rest will be led by the pharmacist to familiarize you. Let's go back now!"
Yang Song and Li Jing had already discussed the placement of this new standardist, and decided to place the standardist in the military camp outside the Tianqi City first.
On the way back, Yang Song had the time to take a look at the life profile of the two:
Qi Jiguang: whose courtesy name was Yuanjing, his nickname was Nantang, and his later title was Meng Zhu. He was named Wu Yi. He was a famous general in the Ming Dynasty to fight against Japanese Japanese, an outstanding military strategist, calligrapher, poet, and national hero. His most famous one was to fight against Japanese pirates. In addition, he later fought against the Mongolian tribes in the north for more than ten years. At the same time, Qi Jiguang was an outstanding weapon expert and military engineer. He transformed and invented various fire attack weapons. The large and small warships and chariots he built made the Ming army's water and land equipment better than the enemy. He creatively built hollow enemy platforms on the Great Wall, which can attack and retreat or defend, which is a very distinctive military project.
Sun Chengzong: his courtesy name was Zhisheng and his pseudonym was Kaiyang. He was an outstanding military strategist in the late Ming Dynasty, a loyal patriot, a national hero, and an excellent educator, scholar and poet. He once built the Guanning Jin defense line and recovered more than 400 miles of lost land. He also defended Huang Taiji in the capital. In the 11th year of Chongzhen (1638), the Qing army attacked Gaoyang. Sun Chengzong led the people and their families in the city to defend the city. After the city was broken, he hanged himself to death.
Chapter completed!