Chapter 137 The pillow is of endless use when the wind blows

Chapter 136

"As long as we seize the Guangning Acropolis after the fall and push the defense line to the Guangning Guards, I will have enough territory to feed more soldiers!"

Cheng Shijie made up his mind to take the route of elite soldiers, and it was absolutely impossible to lower the treatment of Ning Haijun's soldiers. He would give the soldiers a low-quality knife or spear and let them go to the battlefield. Such soldiers are not soldiers, but just cannon fodder.

Cheng Shijie has no interest in cannon fodder, and he is not like the Guan Ning Army. The Guan Ning Army is said to have 200,000 troops. In fact, Cheng Shijie guessed that the Guan Ning Army, including the garrison with relatively low combat effectiveness, has at most fifteen

Ten thousand men and horses, of which only fifteen to twenty thousand servants are capable of fighting.

With less than 20,000 combat-effective servants scattered among more than a dozen generals, it is strange to be able to defeat tens of thousands of Eight Banners plus Mongolian soldiers. Therefore, the Eight Banners' ability to defeat these soldiers actually relies on using more to defeat fewer, not

How powerful is the Eight Banners' combat effectiveness?

Ning Haijun's expansion plan was formulated in this way, and a Guards Division was added. The Guards Division was under the jurisdiction of four generals and a total of eleven bureaus, including eight infantry bureaus, one cavalry bureau, one artillery bureau, and one fire support bureau.

Bureau.

The Guards Division is the same as the Left and Right Divisions, with a total strength of more than 7,600 troops.

In Cheng Shijie's plan, one of Ning Haijun's commanding officers must have the strength to carry the flag of Jiannu. In the case of a field battle, Ning Haijun can now pull out the left and right command divisions, the guard commanders and the cavalry commanders, a total of four

All are in charge.

The focus of the army expansion is the Guards Division and the Cavalry Division. Of course, the Ning Navy is a whole system. It is not only the soldiers that are being expanded, but also the supporting Military Supervision Department system. Each division adds medical and paraphernalia troops.

Among the sixteen bureaus in the newly established capital division, six of them are cavalry, and three of the cavalry bureaus are dispersed to each capital division, one artillery bureau, one fire support bureau, and eight infantry bureaus.

Cheng Shijie's newly established artillery bureau is not actually equipped with Folan rapid-fire cannons, but the newly developed flying thunder cannons. The caliber of this flying thunder cannon reaches an astonishing one foot eight inches and four minutes, which is about

580mm. Thunder cannon can also be called heartless cannon.

The Jiannu have not yet tried the power of this giant cannon, but in the near future, they will have the opportunity to taste this power.

Although the artillery bureau of the Imperial Guards Division is subordinate to the Imperial Guard Division, during actual battles, it will be flexibly adjusted according to the actual situation and deployed to the left and right divisions.

As for the bulky, small-caliber front-loading smoothbore cannon that can only fire solid shells, Cheng Shijie has no interest in playing with it at all. The artillery unit he retains is, firstly, as the seed of artillery to cultivate artillery talents for the future. Secondly,

, when facing enemy artillery bombardment, it can effectively suppress the opponent.

As for using artillery to bombard the enemy's infantry or cavalry units, that is what the thunder cannon should do. Since the cost of the thunder cannon is extremely low, just pour the molten steel with manganese powder into the mold, and then cool it.

.As for adding cannon hoes and wheels, that is not necessary.

When the thunder cannon is fired, it uses the recoil absorbed by the soil. Even though it is just an artillery bureau, it is equipped with more than 160 thunder cannons with a diameter of 580 mm. This

If more than a hundred flying thunder cannons were spread out and fired at the enemy, the effect would be absolutely refreshing.

What Cheng Shijie wants to play must be a breech-loading rifled gun, but it is not easy to make a breech-loading rifled gun. Just carving the rifling in the barrel is a big problem. In addition, there are also shell processing, fuses, explosives, etc.

They are all necessary. The most unfortunate thing is that he basically knows nothing about these. Looking up some publicly available information from later generations is of very limited help to the craftsmen.

To achieve a breakthrough, a lot of money and a lot of experiments are needed.

After the recruitment of new recruits is completed, the training of the new recruits in the training bureau only lasts for half a month. These new recruits are assigned to various divisions and units to undergo more rigorous training together with the veterans.

Li Zhixiang, Shen Shikui, Li Fang, Chen You and other naval officers were very disappointed. This military expansion, like the last time, had nothing to do with them.

However, after the meeting, they were taken to Lushun by Cheng Shijie.

At the southwest end of the Liaodong Peninsula, on the north shore of the Yellow Sea, there is the majestic Golden Mountain to the east, the Laohuwei Peninsula to the west, and the majestic Laotieshan Mountain to the southwest, surrounded by Lushun Port. "Lushunkou" and "Shizikou" are nearly 300 meters wide.

It is an outlet formed by two mountains facing each other. There is only one 91-meter channel in the 300 meters, and only one large warship can pass through it at a time. It can be said that "one man can guard the barrier, and ten thousand people cannot open it." In strategic terms,

It is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Now the Ning Haijun has no pressure from the sea. After the Administrative Committee negotiated with the Dongjiang Army, the jurisdiction of Lushun was transferred to the Administrative Committee, and this place was used by Cheng Shijie as the new naval base of the Ning Haijun.

Li Zhixiang and other naval generals saw a scene that shocked them. Thousands of workers were working on the project. A large amount of steel, cement, sand, stone, and wood were transported from all directions. Thousands of workers were busy working.

"Commander...this is..."

Li Zhixiang became excited.

Cheng Shijie explained: "This is a large-scale naval base built by this commander for the navy. The pressure on your naval forces is very heavy. The security of a total of eight ports from Lushun, Jinzhou, Haizhou, Fuzhou, and Gaizhou requires

For your naval protection, there are still a large number of immigrants that you need to transport!"

Li Zhixiang looked at the wood on the shore, which had piled up into a hill. He said with some uncertainty: "Commander, we can't use so much wood to build the port!"

"This is not for building a port, this is for future shipyards!"

Cheng Shijie pointed to the dilapidated battleships on the sea and said: "Take our Ning Navy's current main battleship, the 400-material gunboat, as an example. This kind of ship is too small. If it encounters bigger waves, it cannot go to sea at all. Even if it is forced to go to sea,

It will also face catastrophe!"

At this point, Li Zhixiang was also a little embarrassed.

During this period of immigration work, it was not all smooth sailing. The Ninghai Navy lost seven 400-material battleships and eleven old and broken ships. The losses accounted for nearly half of the Ninghai Navy, which was enough to fight a small battle.

A large-scale naval battle.

Since the navy joined Cheng Shijie of the Ninghai Navy, the navy has almost been divided into two shifts, with no rest for a whole month. The work of transporting supplies and immigrants to southern Liaoning has been very hard.

If it weren't for Cheng Shijie's improved treatment for the navy officers and soldiers, the navy soldiers would be paid four cents more per month than the infantry soldiers. Moreover, these navy soldiers are the first to come into contact with refugees when transporting immigrants.

, if you meet a woman you like, then find someone to talk to you.

If they were originally poor soldiers, no one would be willing to marry their daughters to these poor soldiers. But the problem was that Ning Haijun was different. They lived and ate in military camps at almost no cost.

Every month's military pay can be saved. The navy officers and soldiers are the same as the infantry officers and soldiers. Each of them has a minimum of fifty acres of military land and a homestead ranging from one to three acres. Today's Ning navy soldiers

, are all wealthy people with land and houses.

Many soldiers of the Ninghai Navy have recently gotten married. Even those who have been singles for twenty or thirty years are still willing to get married.

For these newly married soldiers from Ning Haijun, Cheng Shijie stipulated that each person should receive two red beddings, sheets, a washbasin, a large wardrobe, plus 60 kilograms of flour, 60 kilograms of rice, 10 kilograms of oil, 10 kilograms of maltose, and

There was a congratulatory gift of two or three taels of silver.

Added together, these things are almost equivalent to half a year's salary of a soldier.

Of course, officers' congratulations are more generous. The standards for this congratulations are based on the military pay of Ning Haijun soldiers multiplied by two, which is equivalent to two more months of salary.

This is what Cheng Shijie learned from Hansteel Group. Hansteel Group has its own large supermarkets, large shopping malls, and more than a dozen hotels such as Hanhai Grand Hotel, Hanhai Grand Hotel, and Hanhai Business Hotel. When employees get married, inside Hanhai

You can enjoy a 20% discount for banquets in hotels. When you have enough wedding supplies, you can also enjoy a 20% discount, including home appliances, furniture, etc. purchased by newlyweds, all have a 20% discount.

These discounts add up to tens of thousands of yuan. If there are more seats, more tobacco and alcohol are needed, and the discounts are more. When Cheng Shijie organized a baby banquet for his son Cheng Jialong, he saved only 20 tables of seats.

Six to seven thousand yuan.

Cheng Shijie said: "I plan to change our name to Ning Haijun Navy in the future. Do you know the difference between navy and navy?"

Li Zhixiang shook his head and said, "I don't know!"

"Now our Ninghai Navy's warships can only undertake offshore operations. Only fleets that can perform ocean operations can be called a navy. The difference is very big."

Cheng Shijie said: "In our Ming Dynasty, what can be called a navy, Zheng He's fleet can be regarded as a navy, and part of Zheng Zhilong's fleet can also be regarded as a navy!"

Li Zhixiang seemed to understand: "What the commander-in-chief means is that the navy must have large ships that can sail across the oceans?"

"There is actually no necessary connection between the size of a ship and its quality!"

Cheng Shijie said: "The key is to have ocean-going capabilities. Our Ninghai Navy can go as far as the Korean Peninsula, or in Dengzhou, Jinzhou, and Haizhou. In such a short distance, we can sink nearly 20 coastal areas."

Ship...you guys are really good at it!"

Shen Shikui explained: "Commander, the transportation task is just too tight!"

"This is nonsense. No matter how tight the task is, if the ship is not overhauled, can it go to sea?"

Cheng Shijie stared at the generals and said: "You know best what you are thinking. Transporting immigrants and equipment is not a war mission. Everything is about safety... However, I am considering that our Ning Hainan Navy will develop and grow in the future.

, I will build more and bigger warships!"

Li Zhixiang stared at the small mountain of timber, and there were still many timbers nailed into rafts, dragged over by big ships, and piled on the dock.

"How many ships can be built with this wood?"

"It doesn't take much, as long as we can plant the flag of Ming Dynasty in every corner of the world, and our flag will be everywhere where the sun shines!"

"That would require thousands of ships!"

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "Are thousands of ships a lot?"

"Thousands of ships are indeed not many!"

At this time, a foreign devil who was working not far away raised his head and said with pride: "In our Republic of Venice, we have more than 3,000 armed merchant ships. There are our merchant ships everywhere in Europe, and there are also our merchant ships."

The golden lion flag of Venice!”

Catherine has always wanted to meet Cheng Shijie. In order to meet Cheng Shijie, she was even willing to become Miss Xu Si (according to readers' comments, Miss Xu Si's name is now Xu Shumin). Unfortunately, she still failed to meet Cheng Shijie.

However, as a laborer, Giovanni struck up a conversation with Cheng Shijie due to some strange combination of circumstances.

"Listen, Venice is only a small country with more than 100,000 people, but it has more than 3,000 ships!"

Li Zhixiang said in disbelief: "A country with only a hundred thousand people, not an army of hundreds of thousands? How many people do they have on a ship?"

According to the population ratio, at least half or almost half of the hundreds of thousands of people are women, so there are only 780,000 people in Venice. Among these 780,000 people, more than 20 to 30% are old and weak, and no more than 70% are young and strong.

Thirty to forty thousand people.
To be continued...