Chapter 362: The Concubine Gentleman's Golden Drum Crossing (3)
The words of King Shu Qing attracted a lot of discussion. Not many people were musketeers in the past, most of them were the original spearmen.
After a while, he said: "It's not just that you can't use it, but many people don't know how to use it. In fact, a few years ago, there was not even a musket in the world. Who was born to know it?"
"Just talk about you. If someone told you ten years ago that you could reach within five feet of the King of Chu in the future, would you believe it? Don't talk about the King of Chu at that time, just a doctor, I'm afraid you think it's high in the sky and can't touch it? So, there's nothing impossible, just learn it!"
This seems to be a ridiculous act, but in fact it is a compliment. He found out in public that the thing Shu Qing King is most proud of so far, and he felt extremely comfortable.
Amid the laughter of everyone, Shi Shi said again: "This is a matter that has been decided. No matter what, you must accept it and do it well. Is there no problem?"
King Shu Qing replied hurriedly: "No problem, it's just... it may be more difficult."
Shi waved his hand and smiled, "This is another matter. There must be difficulties, but you are a Mo. In order to benefit the world, you are a Mo. You are a Mo. You must be a Mo. You must distinguish the two things. Since you say you want to do it, then don't say anything that doesn't matter. Instead, think about how to do it well. Are you right?"
Doing or not doing is indeed a bit difficult and doing.
King Shu Qing thought for a moment, stood up and said, "Yes, we must do as good as possible. There is only one thing, I don't quite understand. In the past, the Musketeers of the Volunteer Army had only two companies per brigade... Why did the Seventh Brigade have four companies?"
This is not his own doubt, and many people have this question too.
The Mohist firearms are very primitive and heavy, with more than one or two lead bullets, and a convex gun must have nearly fifteen or sixteen kilograms.
With the sixty lead bullets on his body, two fuse ropes, twelve gunpowders in small clay pots, and wooden forks for shooting, this is not something that a person can carry.
In addition, the elite sword and shield soldiers of the Mohist school were assigned to various companies to be spearmen, and the sword and shield soldiers were reduced sharply, and the cavalry had just formed and had not yet expanded, so the flanks were very dangerous. After the spearmen took over, many musketeers' deputys needed to play the swordsmen, so they were all in groups of two.
After a while, he said: "Today I want to talk about this. In the newly established brigades, the muskets no longer use the original 16-pound heavy muskets. Instead, the projectiles were reduced, and the weight was about ten pounds. In the future, there will be no muskets auxiliary soldiers. All the muskets are included in the whole company."
"If you have a gang, even if the projectile is smaller, you can kill people. Those heavy muskets are mainly for fighting chariots. One or two more bullets are effective on four-horse chariots, but if they hit the peasants and soldiers wearing gang, it will be wasted."
"The Vietnamese are not strong in chariot wars, and the strongest one is the gentleman army in infantry battles."
King Shu Qing recalled the heavy muskets of the charity master before, and thought it was a little bit like that, thinking that this is the case.
Nowadays, those who wear leather armor are already elite soldiers. Many peasants and soldiers are not yet equipped with armor. If they are hit with such heavy lead balls, people will definitely die, but if they are smaller, people will also die.
He also agreed with Shi's words. He pushed forward ten years ago. Who has ever seen a musket? Musketeers are not born to know it. Although it is more difficult, just work hard to do it.
He still cannot know the series of military system changes and military ideological changes involved in this, nor does he know that the righteous army is planning to use spears as shields and muskets as the main killing of the reform ideas. At least he has not fully understood it yet.
After Shi said a few more words, King Shu Qing realized that this time the expansion of the army expanded the number of righteous troops in Pei County to more than double the original one.
Originally, there were only four brigades in service, and Pei County expanded to eight brigades, and all the existing charity troops in the established system were broken up.
But this is not as simple as splitting into two. In addition to the expansion of Pei County to eight brigades, there are five brigades in Pengcheng, Liuyi plus Teng Kingdom, and there are a total of three infantrymen in the Yishi Division, with 16 brigades and 24,000 people.
In addition to the 24,000 righteous teachers, there are also the Mo Shi who are controlled by the Mo family. All the personnel are volunteered to benefit the world. This does not eat a penny and a ration from the Pei County government’s government’s finances. It is completely supplemented by the Mo family. The proportion of Mo people in it is even higher.
The Mo Division had a small number, with a total of only 3,500 people. Among them were 500 cavalry, elite infantrymen of a brigade, and "engineers" of 800 people - mainly full-time miners, digging pits and digging tunnels in the city walls.
All artillery soldiers were controlled by the Mohist school, and the theoretical county and county ritual divisions did not have artillery soldiers.
The elite swords and shields of several companies were mainly those who devoted themselves to the great cause of benefiting the world, and they had nothing to do with Pei County.
Artillery, cavalry and so on, when the Shuqing King retreated, he still didn't know their strength.
However, the infantry brigade in the Mo Shi was convinced that it was the elite among the elites. The proportion of the Mo people in it was extremely high, and they recruited some young people from all over the world who were full of the hearts of benefiting the world.
In the view of King Shu Qing, this brigade's infantry can completely fight against the chariots and keep the formation uneven. It is usually used as a reserve team or when there are any problems with the flanks.
Xiao calculated the scale of this battle, and King Shu Qing was also a little shocked. In this way, the Mo family would concentrate more than 27,000 people. Even though he didn't know much, he also understood that this was all the power that the Mo family could mobilize.
Moreover, this kind of mobilization comes at the cost of suspending or even reducing people's lives and cannot last.
Sure enough, King Shu Qing quickly heard about this problem.
"This battle can only be won but not defeated. Once it is defeated, the princes in the world will covet this place. Their rules are different from ours, and they will not allow this place to be such a rule. Besides, you will not be willing to let you pay taxes to the princes and nobles as their salaries. This is a contradiction, a contradiction that cannot be reconciled."
"You all know why you want to fight. I won't say much about it now. After fighting, you won, and in the next ten or even twenty years, there will be no covetousness in the country of Yue."
"There are only 100 troops in this brigade, but in the future, we will have to add some active soldiers, as well as some old soldiers who have retired before."
"You can't use muskets, you can use them yourself. New soldiers cannot maintain their formation, everyone has come from that time; you don't have to worry about food, clothing, weapons, and food, we have no need to worry about it... If there is any problem, just tell me it now."
"It's September now. In my opinion, this battle will definitely be fought before next summer, which means there are at most ten months left."
"No matter what, ten months later, the Seventh Brigade must meet the standards for various assessments. The standards for assessment will be issued afterwards, which is the top priority."
"In terms of the identity of the Mohist, this is for the benefit of the world. In terms of the identity of the people, this is for such a good day to continue. If you have any ideas, let me say it now."
King Shu Qing thought about the task he was assigned to be the representative of the Mo family in the company, and he felt a little nervous.
This is not new. As a member of the old Yishi, he is familiar with the military system of the Mo family. After all, he has been Sima Chang. When he was Sima Chang, the company also had representatives of the Mo family.
What he was worried about was that he couldn't do well...
Because in his opinion, the company representatives of the Mo family are definitely not something that ordinary people can do.
To be able to fight, to be able to convince the public, and to do all kinds of training well, this is just the most basic thing.
We must organize the company's people to learn to learn literacy, and organize some learning after training. We must charge forward during wars and leave the back of our palace when retreating. This is also the most basic thing.
He thought he could do this, and he didn't recognize much literacy, but he also had more recruits than those new recruits. In addition, some specialized people would be sent to the brigade to be responsible for teaching.
Not only literacy, but also a series of things such as farming, workshops, handicrafts, etc., which need to be organized every now and then.
It was through what he learned that King Shu Qing did a great job in the village and opened a paper-scraping workshop. He has always agreed with this.
Xuanyi’s ministry has always said before that fighting is for the purpose of not fighting in the future, and serving is for the sake of the children and grandchildren to serve less. After all, it is for "benefiting the world" and "benefiting the people's livelihood", so we have to learn a lot in the military.
If you say that you can fight, convince the public, and not be afraid of death, King Shu Qing felt that he could do it.
However, there are more things, I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to do it.
Because, the company representatives who used to be in the Volunteer Army were all old Mo people who had been with many years, and even people who followed the giants to travel around the world.
They also have to reason with the people in the company.
Talking about why we fight, talking about the morality of the Mohist school, talking about what is the paradise of happiness, talking about what is the ministers of heaven and everyone equals, and talking about valuing virtuous things rather than attacking...
And we have to talk about why everyone can be equal? Why should we respect the virtuous? Why should we not attack? Why should we be synonymous...
And he continued to develop many soldiers to join the Mohist school and become the Mohist.
King Shu Qing felt that these things were too difficult for him. If he was just not afraid of death and retreating in front and behind, he felt that there was no problem with him doing it, and it was nothing more than death.
However, the Mo family didn't care about life and death at all, but they cared about the "reasons". He felt that it was too difficult to make himself do these things well.
If you don’t understand the truth, you can’t be a representative well, especially the representatives in the army. He is very clear about this.
Representatives at all levels have the final authority to mobilize soldiers and oppose the officers' order to "violate the righteousness of the world."
If you cannot thoroughly understand how it is considered "the great thing that benefits the world", then there is no way to talk about the most important authority, let alone do it well.
Using his nine numbers in the military middle school and calculating a little, he also knew that the current situation was really helpless.
Each company must have at least five Mo people, which is the lowest. Now that the army has expanded to 16 brigades, it also requires at least eight hundred Mo people.
A few years ago, the number of Mo people was only four or five hundred, which was known to King Shu Qing. In addition to the army, there were also governments, workshops, mining, wealth, Xuanyi and other departments, and many Mo people were also involved. Even in the army, among the more than 3,000 people controlled by the Mo family, the proportion of Mo people was even higher.
Just based on the representatives of the first-level Mo people and the above, this requires two or three hundred people. Those old Mo people who have followed the giants for many years cannot all serve in the army. Shu Qingwang knew that he was also a rush to put the duck on the shelves.
But as Shi Shi said just now, whether to obey the Mo family's orders is one thing, but there are many difficulties to overcome in the process of doing it, which is another thing.
Chapter completed!