It seems that the Zhejiang army is indeed different from the guards’ officers and soldiers, no matter the military discipline or combat strength, it is not comparable to the guards’ officers and soldiers.
Chen Dacheng had to face up to it, put away the face to cope with, seriously asked Zhu Pingan, “I do not know what is the condition of your army?Your army is a regiment, if you are recruited as a soldier, what future will you have in the future?”
Hearing Chen Dacheng’s enquiry, Zhu Pingan could not help but feel happy in his heart, Chen Daneng’s enquiry about the conditions of recruitment and the future after enlisting in the army was naturally inclined to agree that clan sons and villagers should be enlisted in the army.
“As long as it is young and strong local farming children, miners, have brothers to support the elderly, can come to sign up, from which the selection of the best recruitment; I Zhejian army is a regiment, but the soldier’s salary than the guards officers and soldiers to be much higher, one and a half silver per month soldier’s salary, if the performance appraisal is excellent, you can get the reward of silver and the opportunity to promote the officer, the battlefield kill the Japanese pirates one person rewarded 30 silver, the more kills, the higher the reward, can also be due to the Japanese army’s performance appraisal.The more you kill, the higher the reward, and you can also be promoted to a higher rank and have a wife and children. In addition, my Zhejiang army is a regimental army, not hereditary military status, is a civil status, can be discharged at that time, does not affect to engage in industry and commerce, as well as to participate in the imperial examinations and so on.”
Zhu Pingan briefly introduced the conditions for recruiting soldiers, focusing on the treatment and promotion space of the Zhejian army, with additional emphasis on joining the Zhejian army is not a hereditary military status, there is no disadvantage of military households, and you can be discharged from the army.
“Thank you for your explanation, I still have a question, I don’t know how to practice after your recruitment?”Chen Dacheng asked again.
When Zhu Pingan heard Chen Dacheng’s question, his heart was even happier, the more detailed Chen Dacheng asked, the deeper he asked, the more he wanted to know, the more it showed that he was inwardly inclined to agree that clan sons and villagers should be recruited to join the army.
In response to Chen Dacheng’s question, Zhu Pingan replied with a serious face: “Sweat more in times of peace to bleed less in times of war. After I have recruited soldiers, I naturally have to drill them rigorously, but unlike other people’s training, I train my soldiers with one emphasis on military discipline, two on ideology, and three on firearms.”
“Your Excellency attaches importance to military discipline, I understand, but what is this thought?”Chen Dacheng asked in doubt.
“The so-called ideology, is the ideological education also, simply put is to improve the ideological awareness of the generals, let them understand for whom to fight, why to fight, condense the spirit to gather the tree faith, an army with faith and discipline, will never be a group of rabble, iron will cast iron army.”
Zhu Pingan on Chen Dacheng’s doubts, no surprise, even Zhang Jing is puzzled by this, let alone him, the importance of ideological education work to be in a few hundred years before the importance of attention and discovery, to become a major tool in the construction of the army.
Iron general will, cast iron general army …… Chen Dacheng sniffed, unknown.
“My lord, the grass people also have a certain understanding of military affairs, has always been, firearms in our army are auxiliary status. The Ming Real Records recorded: ‘For every one hundred households, there are ten cannons, twenty swordsmen, thirty archers, and forty gunners’, and the cannons that use firearms in the army only account for one-tenth of the total, and are in an auxiliary position. Your Excellency’s emphasis on firearms seems to be a bit of a reversal of priorities.”Chen Dacheng raised a question.
“Does Patriarch Chen know about the Shen Ji Battalion?”Zhu Pingan asked.
“Grasshopper knows.”Chen Dacheng returned.
“History rolls forward, everything evolves, and firearms are no exception. The Ming Shilu is from the Hongwu period, where the Singijeon made up one-tenth of the population. To the Yongle years, Yongle the Great built Shenji battalion, is a specialised firearms unit, more and more emphasis on firearms. Firearms are ten or a hundred times more powerful than cold weapons, and whoever can effectively use firearms will have the winning hand in the war.”Zhu Pingan said to Chen Dacheng with a confident face.
“My lord, Yongle the Great built the Divine Mechanism Battalion to aid other military battalions as well. The Yongle Emperor proposed the combat method of ‘Shenji Singijin at the front, and the horsemen at the back’, and to this day, it is the same, firearms are used before receiving the enemy, not the main tool of war, and after receiving the enemy, they still have to use swords and spears to kill the enemy, and in addition to cloudy and rainy weather, it’s difficult to use the firearms, and the singijin players need protection from the lancers and so on. Firearms can only be in a secondary position, your honour attaches importance to firearms, is it not a reversal of the primary and secondary?”Chen Dacheng persistently questioned.
Zhu Pingan heard, not surprised, this is the limitations of this era, but also the limitations of history, do not blame him, even the future emphasis on firearms Qi Jiguang, is also limited firearms utilisation theory, Qi Jiguang also stressed that “firearms is to receive the enemy before use, can not rely on as the main tool of war,” although the Qi family army firearms ration of up to half, but the Qi family army standardAlthough the proportion of firearms in the Qi family army is half, but the standard Qi family army is not firearms, but rattan cards, wolf brushes, Qi’s sabre and other cold weapons, the Qi family army’s combat style is also cold weapons, yuanyang formation is the main, firearms are only used before receiving the enemy.
However, Zhu Pingan is different, Zhu Pingan has hundreds of years of historical experience beyond them, know that firearms to replace cold weapons is inevitable, who can effectively use firearms, who will be able to master the war, it is not an exaggeration to say, who can effectively use firearms, who is the king of the world’s armies, there is no one!
To be honest, Zhu Pingan’s advantage for military training lies in firearms, in the hundreds of years of experience in firearms development and use. Relative to this era, whether it is outstanding Ming army generals such as Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou, or western countries such as the Franco-British and England that have begun to pay attention to firearms, all of them are far inferior to Zhu Pingan, and all of them together are not as good as Zhu Pingan.
Of course, for cold weapons, Zhu Pingan read more military books, have more experience, but also can not compare to Qi Jiguang and others.
The more Zhu Pingan studied the future Qi Jiguang’s masterpiece “Jixing Xinshu”, “Practising Actual Records” as well as the ancients’ “Sun Tzu’s Art of War”, “Yuliao Zi” and other military books, the more he felt that the ancients were powerful, and in terms of cold weapon combat, Zhu Pingan was ashamed to be inferior to himself.
This is not simply something that experience can make up for, this is still talent, on the cold weapon track, Zhu Pingan thought to himself that he couldn’t catch up with them even if he tried harder, and he couldn’t do better than Qi Jiguang and the others, but firearms, Zhu Pingan had confidence.
As long as he practiced a firearms army, Zhu Pingan was confident that he could beat the Japanese invaders who could not take care of themselves and kneel down to shout at their father!
Even, Zhu Pingan is confident enough to step on the Japanese Fusan, long tassel binding their bullshit emperor, generals to ask questions.
On the one hand, to avoid the shortcomings; on the other hand, to lead the military trend.
Therefore, Zhu Pingan’s army training was to train an army that was mainly equipped with firearms and fought with firearms.
“Patriarch Chen, the wheel of history rolls forward, those who go with it prosper, those who go against it die. Although firearms have many drawbacks, as long as they are targeted for improvement and refinement, none of them are a problem. Although I’m not talented, I have unique research on firearm warfare methods as well as firearm improvements, for example, I’ve increased the efficiency of gunpowder loading by three times, revolutionised the use of firearm warfare methods and so on, but it involves military secrets, so please forgive me for not being able to say more.”
Zhu Pingan shook his head slightly and said firmly, a pair of eyes like the sun, his gaze full of confidence.
Improved gunpowder loading efficiency by three times ……
This means that originally, only one round of cannons could be released, but now three rounds of cannons can be released, increasing the lethality by a full three times;Improvement in the method of warfare for the use of firearms ……Although I don’t know how to improve it, but by the looks of it, it shouldn’t be worse than gunpowder loading.
In this way, the role of firearms has been increased by at least five or six times, and it makes sense that Lord Zhu attaches so much importance to firearms.
“Grasshopper understands, thank you for your explanation, Your Excellency.”Chen Dacheng clasped his hands and bowed deeply to Zhu Pingan.
