Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 253 Difficult Missions
Although it is said that the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army, which is well-organized and more and more ideologically conscious, relies on a group of secret folk associations from the Middle Ages to infiltrate it with superstitious means, it is almost an impossible task.But this also reminded Bai Mingxiu that if the ignorance in these areas continued to grow barbarously, it might be more troublesome to deal with the remaining problems when the Ming army went to take over these areas.

"Stop procrastinating, do it!" Bai Mingxiu said after reading the report on the activities of the White Lotus Sect.

In fact, while the Ming Dynasty's Restoration Army was carrying out the Huguang Campaign, they were already intensively preparing for the Northern Expedition to resolve the Manchu and Qing wars at once.

Su Shuhuan had wiped out the last remaining Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing in Henan. The Manchu Qing had encountered the greatest crisis since the founding of the country. Now the Manchu Eight Banners have fewer soldiers to fight than in Nurhachi's time. After returning to the customs, in fact, Manchu Qing's control over the northern provinces was on the verge of collapse.Jin Yiwei's activities in the north these days are like a fish in water. There are already many officials and soldiers of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties who are already planning to change the situation and start flirting with Nanming.

The Great Ming Restoration Army itself is also planning new military expansion and construction, and this time Bai Mingxiu is ready to do it in one step.

At the national defense conference, all the generals were dumbfounded when they saw the military expansion plan drawn up by the prince.

Minister of the Ministry of War Zhao Xu looked at the thin plan in his hand and said, "...the army will form a total of 36 divisions, 30 infantry divisions, 6 cavalry divisions, plus the independent guard brigade and special operations brigade. , the total combat force is 42 people..."

Sister Lion also looked at the part about the navy: "100 main warships, 10 naval forces——Your Highness, are you planning to engage in naval warfare?"

Zhang Xianyu frowned, looked at Bai Mingxiu and said, "Your Highness, our country has a population of nearly 60 million, and it is indeed in the early stage of economic take-off, but the problem is that our army with a total strength of more than 3000 people is not full of Qing Dynasty. We raise troops The cost of the military is extremely high. The salaries of the soldiers are high, the allowances and benefits are also very high, and the equipment is also very expensive. In addition to a series of expenses such as the research and development of new equipment, our current total military expenditure is only [-] million taels. To expand to the scale you propose, probably [-] million taels won’t be enough.”

Bai Mingxiu couldn't help but be moved when he saw that a group of military personnel were actually opposing his military expansion.They are all a good group of comrades!It has always been a group of soldiers crying and complaining that they are short of money and need more and bigger troops. As a result, they have only built a basic version of the national army. The military is like a tiger and a leopard. Everyone became very vigilant. It seemed that in their eyes, the current army of 10,000+ people was already very sufficient.

Bai Mingxiu said naturally: "This is not a matter of one year. This is a five-year army reorganization plan. We will make up the plan of 60 troops within five years and complete the basic building of the Ming army."

Some of Bai Mingxiu's personal concepts and styles have actually been integrated into the current army.For example, Bai Mingxiu is a person who pays great attention to efficiency and cost-effectiveness. He now has more than [-] Great Ming Restoration Army, which is already the most powerful army in the world, equipped with the most powerful weapons, and has the most With advanced tactical thoughts and combat concepts, it can be said that he is confident that he can lead this army to conquer the entire world.

Maintaining a standing army of 60 is a very heavy financial burden for a country.Although ancient China often heard about 40 troops, 80 troops, or even millions of troops, the real combat forces among them were extremely limited, and most of them counted the civilians in charge of logistics, or even falsely reported a number to scare the enemy. .The 60 people that Bai Mingxiu wanted were the real 60.

It was Zhao Xu, Minister of the Ministry of War, who came out to smooth things over and said: "In the final analysis, it depends on our country's economic capacity. If my Ming Dynasty's economy is at its peak, industrialization is successfully completed and the economy takes off, 60 troops is still a very scientific figure. But Your Highness, is it too radical to rush to launch such a large-scale army now? I know that you want to quickly pacify the north, but in fact, with the establishment of public security departments in various places and the establishment of the garrison, our military strength is still very large. Those who are rich, as long as the logistics can keep up, the existing troops can immediately carry out the Northern Expedition."

Who knows, Bai Mingxiu said: "The Northern Expedition is going to be carried out quickly. I have ordered You Long to start preparing for the independent guard brigade, and the new special operations brigade will be in place soon."

Bai Mingxiu's so-called special operations brigade is actually a new mercenary unit, a new unit he just discovered from the exchange list.

Originated from the SRPG Fire Emblem series, it should belong to the category of magic fantasy, but it can still be exchanged by Bai Mingxiu for a 5000-man army. In the game, these soldiers are just the most basic swordsmen, axes, and spears. Soldiers and archers, but this group of soldiers has hero-level fighting skills, strong physique and great strength. They can walk freely in armor weighing hundreds of catties, and they can also perform tasks such as climbing steep mountains and carrying out armed swimming. .

Originally, the exchange price of this army was extremely high, but every week there will be an extremely cheap discount army in the exchange list. This week's discount army is the Fire Emblem Legion.Although there is no army of magicians, no ladies who can transform from humans into dragons, and no flying knights riding pegasus and flying dragons, but at least these high-quality fighters are already very useful.

The only bad thing is that these soldiers still don't know how to use thermal weapons and need to be trained slowly.

The reason why Bai Mingxiu dared to call out such a frenzied military expansion plan was because he once again received the main mission issued by the system.

"[Main task · Ascension to the Temple of Heaven], please conquer the capital within 1000 days, the task reward: 1000 million gold finger coins, 100 tons of gold, task failure: [-] million Manchurian Eight Banners troops will be armed according to the standards of "Napoleon Total War" , and randomly appearing in various parts of China, waiting for your people, it may be a bloody massacre - the difficulty of this mission: high difficulty, hereby reminded."

It is impossible for all system tasks to be completed, but the task rewards are directly linked to the difficulty. When Bai Mingxiu saw the reward of 1000 million gold finger coins and 1000 tons of gold, Bai Mingxiu felt as if he had fallen for a thief Boat.

The system has held back its big move for so long, and finally came up with a task that it can set the highest difficulty.But for Bai Mingxiu, conquering the capital is not a difficult task. Why is the task so difficult this time?
(End of this chapter)