Chapter 96: Reorganizing the Army
At noon, Li Jiucheng also came with his men. His current men have more than doubled. Except for more than a thousand people who were killed and nearly two thousand people escaped, the rest have been arrested.
Although the defenders from Qingzhou were all guards, most of Li Jiucheng's subordinates were guards. Qingzhou's guards could not run fast, and Li Jiucheng's guards were not much better. There were only 300 cavalrymen, otherwise none of the guards in Qingzhou would be able to escape.
In order to better reorganize the army, Kong Youde also played cards with Li Jiucheng, and he had to clearly define the ownership rights of the cavalry, so as not to be constrained in the future.
His son Li Yingyuan is no longer under the command of Kong Youde, and the three hundred cavalrymen he brought with him yesterday and the general Mao Youshun are also under the command of Li Yingyuan.
Yesterday, there was no requirement for whom to help Li Jiucheng. These 300 cavalrymen voluntarily chose to follow Li Yingyuan, which means that they were more loyal to Li Yingyuan, so it didn't matter if they gave him, but the rest of the cavalry were still under the command of Kong Youde.
Li Jiucheng had no objection to this proposal. He could be said to have started from scratch, and followed Kong Youde with 60 personal soldiers. Now he has more than 4,000 troops, so he is not unhappy about it.
The final result of the reorganization was that Kong Youde's organization had increased a lot, from the original three battalions to eight battalions.
The three cavalry officers Mao Chengfu, Li Xianneng and Deng Deming were promoted to the top of this battle. Li Yingyuan was no longer the Qianzheng General of the Cavalry Battalion. Mao Chengfu was very smooth and was promoted to Qianzheng General of the First Cavalry Battalion.
Li Xianneng and Deng Deming were promoted to the two generals of the Second Cavalry Battalion. Because there was no suitable candidate, the Second Cavalry Battalion did not have a thousand general for the time being. It was considered to be Kong Youde's direct battalion, and only obeyed Kong Youde himself.
The originally some war horses and captured war horses totaled about 1,200, but there were less than 600 cavalrymen. Kong Youde allocated the captured soldiers of Fubiao Battalion to two cavalry battalions, and then they were responsible for the training themselves.
In the end, the first cavalry battalion had 800 cavalry and the second cavalry battalion of 400 cavalry. After the war horses were seized, the two cavalry battalions were given priority.
The artillery was independent from the firearm battalion and became a separate artillery battalion. The captured bowl-mouth guns, tiger squat cannons, etc. were all allocated to the artillery battalion. Su Kaifeng was also promoted from the artillery battalion to the thousand-level general of the artillery battalion, and his manpower was added to 600 people. Su Kaifeng was still responsible for the training.
The original firearm battalion was organized into the first battalion of the firearms, and the original firearms chief Cheng Xikong continued to serve as the Qianzheng, but the musket soldiers were replenished to 1,500.
Although his original subordinate Su Kaifeng also became President Qian, he was a little unbalanced, but now he has 1,500 people, but Su Kaifeng has only 600 people, and the imbalance in his heart gradually disappeared.
More than 500 people under Meng Youcai were organized into the Second Battalion of Muskets, and their manpower was expanded to 1,000. Along the way, there were almost 2,000 muskets seized. Although the quality was not good, I could only give them the equipment at present, and replace them with better ones in the future.
The remaining soldiers were organized into three infantry battalions. Cui Yongping, the former chief of the infantry battalion, served as the chief of the infantry battalion. After joining a group of new recruits, the number of soldiers reached almost 1,500, which can be regarded as taking care of his identity as an old subordinate.
The original infantry camp commander Zhang Donghe, from the attack on Wuqiao, has been quite brave in these battles. He was promoted to the Thousand General of the Second Infantry Battalion. After replenishing his manpower, he also had 1,000 soldiers under his command.
Bai Yunlong was also promoted to the Qianzong General of the Third Infantry Battalion. Based on the framework of more than 300 prisoners recruited in Wuqiao, it also expanded to more than 1,000 people. Logically speaking, his contribution was not enough to be promoted to Qianzong General, but in order to take care of the direct generals, Kong Youde still put him in the Qianzong position.
In this way, Kong Youde had eight battalions and nearly eight thousand troops. He only needed to manage seven thousand generals and two direct generals. He didn't need to worry about other matters.
Most people have no objection to this arrangement. Although it cannot be said to be absolutely fair, there is no serious imbalance. Almost everyone's contribution has been rewarded accordingly.
As for the soldiers and officers under his command, Kong Youde would not arrange them one by one. If he was asked to arrange them alone, he would be exhausted. All these will be handled by the nine thousand generals or the generals. In the end, Kong Youde would just check it.
The entire reorganization operation lasted almost two days. After all, this is a major project, which is basically everyone involved, and the workload is quite large.
However, after the reorganization was completed, Kong Youde was not in a hurry to make it happen. This change was too big. If you just went out to Dengzhou directly, if you encountered any situation on the way, you would be unable to exert all your combat power, and it would be easy to suffer relatively large losses.
Before, Kong Youde received a letter from Sun Yuanhua, asking him to accept the pacification. If there is any situation, he can tell him that he can help resolve it. If Kong Youde is not as good as other officials, he can go back to Dengzhou directly. Sun Yuanhua promised that the past would be unresponsible and the court would pursue it and he would be responsible.
Kong Youde was quite grateful for Sun Yuanhua's kindness. He felt that after traveling to this world, only Sun Yuanhua and Li Tianjing were the best people to him, and Sun Yuanhua believed him unconditionally.
However, he did not choose to accept the pacification. It was not that he did not believe in Sun Yuanhua, but that he did not believe in the court. Although he did not say that he knew much about the Ming Dynasty, Sun Yuanhua would definitely not be able to withstand this matter, even with the help of Xu Guangqi.
You should know that even Mao Wenlong, who had 30,000 to 40,000 heavy troops, was killed. Killing himself as a small general, was no problem. At that time, Mao Wenlong believed Yuan Chonghuan and went to Yuan Chonghuan's territory: Twin Islands, but his head was gone.
The reason for killing him was just some very forced reasons, and there were even some charges, so there was no problem with Yuan Chonghuan himself. For example, building a temple for Wei Zhongxian, Yuan Chonghuan himself did this, and Mao Wenlong did this was a remnant of the eunuch party. Yuan Chonghuan did this, and he became a real man who could bend and stretched.
As for the sacred manures that were later generations, Mao Wenlong wanted to surrender to Huang Taiji. There was no such thing among the twelve crimes of Yuan Chonghuan killing Mao Wenlong, and I don’t know how he was thinking about it.
Kong Youde studied the twelve crimes that Yuan Chonghuan convicted. Not to mention whether these twelve crimes have not been proved yet. Even if it is true, it is just an excuse to put it bluntly. If Yuan Chonghuan convicted, Yuan Chonghuan should have killed himself first, and 90% of the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty should have been killed.
Based on the general understanding of history in the previous life and the current situation, Sun Yuanhua really wanted to help him. However, Sun Yuanhua was not an emperor and could not do anything in many ways. Otherwise, when Wen Tiren sent someone to frame him, it would be useless for the cabinet assistant Zhou Yanru to come forward, and he was finally chopped off by Chongzhen.
Chapter completed!