met free Chapter 242 Taking the opportunity to gain some benefits
Chapter 242 Taking the opportunity to gain some benefits
Ning Yi was still very concerned about the reorganization of the Beijing Camp, but while doing so, he did not forget to occasionally mix in some of his own people.
After several days of rectification, the nominally 100,000 Beijing troops were still there.
It was reduced to 40,000, with so much water that even the Martial Emperor was shocked.
Emperor Wu was so angry that he gnashed his teeth and wished he could kill all the officers who were kicked out, as they were all corrupt officials.
In fact, this matter cannot be blamed entirely on the military officers. From the prime minister to some small officials in the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue, they all tried to take advantage of it.
Not many people actually arrived at the Beijing camp.
Ning Yi also suggested that some reinforcements be selected from those who had been forced to join Fang Chengyu in the rebellion.
They are all soldiers from Hushan Pass. Although their fighting ability is not very good, they are somewhat better than those able-bodied men.
As for the able-bodied men who were forced by King Huai, most of them had been sent home.
There is no need to make things difficult for them, they are just ordinary people.
As for the 20,000 direct troops of King Huai, Ning Yi was reluctant to let them go. The reason was that these people were loyal to King Huai and he wanted to prevent them from being suspected of rebellion.
Let them work hard for two years first.
I believe that after a while, no one will continue to pay attention to these captives, and Ning Yi will take the opportunity to have people add sand in the mix, and select them one by one to serve as his elite soldiers.
After replenishing the captives captured at Hushan Pass, the Laojing Camp has increased its troops from 40,000 to 60,000.
However, Ning Yi deliberately selected the good cavalrymen from the forced army and sent them to his own camp.
Ning Yi would not let go of the opportunity to reorganize the Beijing camp and make some money.
The weapons were also replaced with second-hand but still usable ones, as well as those selected from the soldiers at Hushan Pass.
In addition to the 30,000 elite troops who came to the Beijing Camp for support from the south, and the 30,000 Northwestern Cavalry, Emperor Wu directly ordered all of these troops to be transferred to the Beijing Camp and they did not need to go back.
At the same time, Ning Yi continued to train the thousands of ninth-term servants who had just been sent there.
With Ning Yi reorganizing the Beijing camp, Emperor Wu also breathed a sigh of relief. He was not afraid that Ning Yi would make any rash moves. After all, there were many of his own people in the entire Ministry of War.
He can tell if there is even the slightest movement.
However, Ning Yi would occasionally stuff in some of his own bookworms, old servants, who all served as grassroots officers and were not taken seriously by the old Martial Emperor.
As for Ning Yi taking away some cavalry, Emperor Wu had no idea about it. He had no interest in those prisoners.
Ning Yi had no choice. In wars of this era, cavalry was very important.
He was unable to train good cavalry quickly, so he could only constantly screen them from all over the place and meet all their military supplies so that they would work hard and devote their lives to it.
In order to control the two cavalry armies that had just been reorganized and were still in training, Ning Yi stuffed a large number of his old servants who were good readers into them.
For this purpose, the servants who had performed well this time had to rush into the cavalry from the First and Second Armies.
In order to speed up the cavalry training, a simplified version of the devilish training for the servants had to be introduced into the cavalry camp, and they had to train non-stop every day.
However, a normal cavalry army consists of tens of thousands of people, with more than 7,000 cavalrymen, and the rest are auxiliary troops, specifically serving these cavalrymen.
Moreover, one person rides two horses, and the food and drink provided by the horses are consumed every day, and the training is excessive, which consumes a lot of energy.
Ning Yi doesn't care about consumption now. What he wants is combat effectiveness. If something happens, these cavalry troops must be immediately deployed with sufficient combat effectiveness.
There are now five infantry armies. In addition to the original two armies, there is also an army formed by selecting the elite soldiers left by the fourth prince of Hushan Pass.
The other two newly formed armies were composed of prisoners of war from Fang Chengyu's Fang family army.
In addition, the seventh batch of servants who have been training for a long time have entered the team and taken control. It won’t be long before they can complete their training. The veterans are still fast.
As for the logistics army of 8,000 troops, the training intensity is still quite strong. Although it is not a front-line army, Ning Yi also cares about it.
A considerable number of them are soldiers injured in the last battle who serve as grassroots officers, and some injured servants serve as senior officers. This is enough.
Instead, Zeng Zhizhong came up with a bright idea.
That is, qualified cavalrymen were selected from the thousands of cavalrymen sent by the forced soldiers, in addition to the elite cavalrymen who were secretly replaced among the troops left by King Huai, and a group of old cavalrymen left over from the elite troops of the Fourth Prince were sent by the Intelligence Department. They had always been following the Intelligence Department as guards. At this time, in order to quickly improve the combat effectiveness, they had to be sent here to form a third cavalry army.
Ning Yi thought about it and agreed. In fact, in this case, the combat effectiveness of the Third Cavalry Army is not weak. Everyone in it has served as a cavalryman, and it is not a big problem to gather a few thousand people.
However, it was difficult to recruit officers, so they could only select qualified grassroots officers from the elite left by the Fourth Prince and the old cavalrymen who served as guards for the Intelligence Department.
As for the auxiliary troops of the Third Cavalry Army, it is enough to select a few thousand people from among King Huai's captives. They will be qualified after a little training.
In this way, Ning Yi now has three cavalry armies. If he wants to increase their combat effectiveness, he will have to wait at least three months, and this is the result of high-intensity training.
As for the various infantry armies, except for the First Army, they barely managed to gather a few thousand cavalry to form a large force.
The others only had two or three hundred signalmen, but Ning Yi didn't care. It was already good enough to give them some signalmen.
Want to equip a large number of cavalry as standard? It's simply impossible now.
If this is true, then the war horses looted from the Dongfang family and brought from Hushan Pass have almost been used up.
As for the thousands of war horses looted from Prince Ji's Palace, he threw them all to his servant.
The book boy’s task is very simple, just train madly every day.
Not only learning, but also training in cavalry tactics, infantry formations, and various military regulations.
With so many subjects, all the students were exhausted.
The eighth period is better. They have been following Ning Yi for more than three months and have fought in many battles.
However, the ninth batch had just arrived, and not long after, someone escaped. Once caught, they will be punished most severely.
Anyone who dares to escape will be arrested nationwide.
After more than two months, Ning Yi had almost finished reorganizing the Beijing camp.
The military camp was also trained quickly according to the old military formation.
He often took Qin Haifeng and a group of guards to stroll around the various Beijing camps.
Looking at the Beijing Camp's intense training, Ning Yi was still very satisfied.
Now he has no way to move around with the senior military officers of the Beijing Camp. The old man is watching him very closely. Although he nominally handed over the Beijing Camp to Ning Yi, in fact, he would not let his son get involved in the military power at will.
What Ning Yi liked most was coming to the Beijing Camp of the Northwest Army. He became almost familiar with the officers there, and everyone was very enthusiastic when they saw him.