This Qing is wrong

Chapter 255
Tang Xiejun, literally, assists the regular army units of the Tang Army.

The supreme commander of the Tang Xie Army, who was appointed by Li Changqing as the "commander" of the Tang Xie Army was Li Ergou, who had the honorary title of General Zhengyi.

Li Ergou's dedication to public security over the years finally got the rewards he deserved.

The establishment of the Tang Xiejun was actually a kind of compensation for the disintegration of the Japanese mercenary system by the Tang Empire court.

It is enough for the Women's Legion to be used as a front-line cannon fodder force, but between the Tang Army and the Yamen (police force), Li Changqing also needs an armed force to support the Tang Empire to rule and deter the ever-expanding territory.

From the bottom of his heart, Li Changqing doesn't trust those high-caste Indian noble generals who surrendered. Now the Tang Empire's sphere of influence in the Indian subcontinent is getting bigger and bigger. The usefulness of surrendering to the coalition forces of Indian aristocrats has naturally become smaller.

In the counter-insurgency war, the strength of these Indian servants headed by Sindia was also further expanded.

Because Li Changqing didn't give them much resource support, he just gave them the privilege to plunder freely.

Coupled with the fact that these Indian servants are completely independent, the Indian soldiers below only know their noble generals but not the majesty of the Tang court, making these generals of the Indian servants seem to have the potential to become a warlord.

You know, the Indian nobles who can become the generals of the Indian servant army all have their own fiefdoms!

Someone has territory, money, and an army. Isn't this the prototype of a warlord?

Even if the Tang army has the advantage of a big victory, if the Indian servant army headed by Sindia is allowed to continue to expand, problems will arise sooner or later.

It was in this environment that Tang Xiejun was born.

In Tang Xiejun, there are not only Japanese samurai officers like Yamashita Yasuo who want to continue to make contributions, but also a large number of key members under Li Ergou's command.

In fact, the latter is the framework initially constructed by Tang Xiejun.

On the contrary, the Japanese samurai officers are the flesh and blood added later.

After the establishment of the Tang Xiejun, Li Changqing issued several orders in succession to gradually take back the military power of the original Indian servant army.

In fact, it is to take back the 'legitimacy' of those Indian aristocratic generals leading troops.

This is the benefit of occupying a righteous name.

Of course, the generals of the Indian servant army can completely ignore these wills, but doing so is tantamount to open rebellion!

Tang Jun has reason to suppress it!

Now it is the 16th year of Wuwei. Except for some coastal areas in the south of the Indian subcontinent, there is no decent force on the entire Indian continent to confront the Tang Empire militarily.

The brutal and bloody suppression by the Tang army in the Bengal area made the indigenous nobles of India feel chills in their hearts.

Everyone already knew that those who dared to resist the Tang Empire in the land of India would eventually end up with their entire family being uprooted, and the nine clans would be wiped out in the true sense.

If not, where can the Women's Legion get so many ready-made 'materials'?
Of course, in the Great Tang Empire, the official name of the Women's Legion was the Suzaku Legion.

Now the Tang Empire has established four standing army systems.

It is a system, not a single legion!
The unity converted by the sin bag soldiers was incorporated into the Suzaku Legion system.

No matter what race the soldiers of the new Tang Xie Army came from, they were all included in the Xuanwu Army.

It can also be called Tang Xiejun.

The guards and soldiers of various systems under Li Changqing's direct control were incorporated into the Qinglong Legion, which was directly under the Emperor of the Tang Empire, ranking first among the four major legion systems, with a high status.

The Guards can only be regarded as a branch of the Qinglong Legion.

The White Tiger Legion is the military system of the ordinary Tang army composed of Han Chinese, Mongols and other oriental races in the Tang Empire.

In the Western Regions and Central Asia, the White Tiger Legion is the main force, but in India, the White Tiger Legion basically does not have many people, mainly controlled by the three major armies of Qinglong, Suzaku, and Xuanwu.

The Indian aristocratic generals headed by Sindia had no choice but to submit to the powerful imperial edict of the Tang Empire.

He obediently handed over his military power, and returned to the fief with his personal guards to live a decadent and depraved aristocratic life with little room for improvement.

This is the benefit they can get by surrendering to the Tang Empire, and continue to maintain the decent living standards of the original high-caste nobles.

Although these preserved Indian aristocratic fiefdoms have a high degree of autonomy, these fiefdoms are the product of a similar tax system. The court of the Tang Empire will not interfere excessively with the administration of their fiefdoms, but they need to pay taxes regularly.

Moreover, the imperial court of the Tang Empire will also have a team of visiting officials to conduct regular inspections of the surrendered aristocratic fiefdoms in the Indian region.

There are two main purposes of such inspections.

First, check the fiscal revenue level of the fief to set the tax payment standard for the next quarter.

Second, check the scale of private soldiers in the fief and limit the armed forces of these Indian nobles.

The second is more difficult to implement. After all, if the feudal nobles in India really wanted to raise soldiers, they could hide their soldiers from the people when the search group came over, and only pull out a very small part to deal with inspections.

Therefore, the main inspection team has never been the number of soldiers, but the military production capacity.

The Tang Empire clearly stipulated that all aristocratic fiefdoms on the entire Indian continent were not allowed to establish any arms production workshops.

And strictly limit the inflow of gunpowder.

The manufacture of cold weapons is not easy to guard against. After all, people also need various iron tools in their daily life, and it is impossible for blacksmiths to ban them.

But gunpowder weapons can still be controlled.

In the era dominated by guns, Li Changqing really didn't care how many cold weapons those Indian aristocratic fiefdoms made.

It doesn't matter even if they manufacture bows and crossbows on a large scale.

Bows and arrows are high-tech and high-cost weapons, and they can't be played in line to be shot.

The maintenance cost of crossbows is higher than that of bows and arrows!
The Great Tang Empire moved all the arms workshops found on the Indian subcontinent, including people and tools, to nearby big cities, and they were directly under the central court of the Great Tang Empire.

It is commonly known as the transfer of commercial office to official office.

Amid various restrictions, the Indian servant army quickly disintegrated and diverted, and most of the abandoned Indian servant army entered the newly established Tang Xiejun.

For the Indian servant army, there is no difference between the grassroots organization, and it is nothing more than the officers above.

Tang Xiejun reformed the system strictly in accordance with the "modern officer system" taught by Li Changqing.

The basic principle is to use the company as the grassroots management.

Below the platoon, a Shifu chief will be set up to assist management.

The Chief Shiv is generally served by the Indian himself, and the appointment right is in the hands of the company captain.

The second lieutenant is the lowest rank in the Tang Xie Army. He usually serves as the deputy platoon leader, the lieutenant is the platoon leader, and the senior lieutenant can serve as the company leader's deputy.

Captain is the standard military rank for a company captain.

A major is a cross-level middle-level officer, usually the leader of a battalion, and a senior captain can serve as the major's deputy, that is, the deputy battalion commander.

Like the standing army of the Tang Army, the battalion level is the basic combat unit, with the number ranging from a few hundred to a thousand.

Depending on the size of the battalion, the battalion commander can also be a lieutenant colonel.

As a matter of course, the battalion commanders served by lieutenant colonels are all battalions with large establishments.

From lieutenant colonel to colonel, he is the head of the regiment who can act alone. The official name of the Tang Empire is the head of the regiment.

A lieutenant colonel will often serve part-time as deputy regimental commander.

The regiment is organized at the division level, and the infantry division is also the largest standing establishment in the Tang Xie Army.

The armies above the division level are all temporarily organized during wartime, and the army commanders do not lead troops on weekdays.

The rank of the ordinary Tang Xiejun division commander is major general, and the division commander of the strengthened division is the rank of lieutenant general.

At this time, Yasuo Yamashita exchanged his accumulated military titles for the rank of Major General in the Tang Xie Army!

Landing on the ground is the seat of the teacher of the Eight Classics!
This is a senior general in the Tang Xie Army.

In the Tang Xie Army, the difference between ordinary divisions and reinforced divisions is not only in the number of troops, but more in the number of artillery and muskets equipped.

That's right, the Tang Xie Army is not a full-armed army!

The Tang Xie Army had just built a force of 10,000+ troops. Where did Li Changqing find so many muskets for them to deploy?
You know, in the original Indian servant army, only the city of Il was equipped with muskets.

Among the four major legions of the Tang Army, the Suzaku Legion, the White Tiger Legion, and the Azure Dragon Legion should be given priority to equip firearms, and the Xuanwu Legion belongs to the last sequence.

The White Tiger Legion has no sense of presence on the Indian mainland, so there is no need to mention it. The Qinglong Legion has a small number of people, and they have already completed the firearms for all members.

But the Suzaku Legion is also a newly established legion, and its number has been steadily increasing, and firearms are given priority to the Suzaku Legion.

Therefore, Tang Xiejun's armament is not much better than the previous Indian servant army. The reform is only a change of generals and officers, and the combat effectiveness has not been strengthened.

What is strengthened is the loyalty to the Tang Empire.

Therefore, the ordinary infantry divisions of the Tang Xie Army are not equipped with artillery.

When Yasuo Yamashita took over his team, he found that although his soldiers had increased dozens of times, the weapons and equipment were completely behind an era.

Even among the muskets that were installed, the matchlock guns that should have been eliminated long ago accounted for the majority.

Of course, don't look at the Tang Xiejun's backward military equipment, but compared with the feudal aristocratic armed forces in the Indian subcontinent at the same time, it is already considered good.

Especially after the Great Tang Empire imposed strict restrictions on arms control!
Now that the war in Europe is raging, except for a very few desperate arms smugglers, no one in Europe has sent arms to the Indian subcontinent.

Even if it was a small amount of smuggling, most of it was cut off by Kang Mazi...

On the continent of India, the main weapons of its own are cold weapons, and gunpowder weapons are all brought from Europe.

Although Indians also have imitations, they are all small workshops and have never formed large-scale production.

Starting from the second lieutenant officer of Tang Xiejun, all of them are Japanese and Han Chinese under Li Ergou's command. The grassroots control of the army has risen by more than one level!
And after these Japanese and Han people took control of the Han Union Army, the first thing they did was to replace the non-commissioned officers like Shifuchang below with their own people.

To put it bluntly, it is the Indian traitor that everyone recognizes.

At this time in India, the most indispensable thing is Indian traitors.

Including those untouchables, there are also many Indian traitors.

With such a large base of untouchables, it is natural for some agile untouchables to find that if they work for the Tang people, they can effectively improve their lives, and they don't even have to bow their knees when facing high castes.

Not to mention, some Indians of high caste are willing to be Indian traitors.

Li Ergou's changes to the Tang Xie Army may not have increased the combat effectiveness of the Tang Xie Army, but the Tang Xie Army has become the best dog leg of the Tang Empire in a very short period of time.

Because those Indian rebels who could fight were all suppressed by Scindia and his party before, during the period when Tang Xiejun was first established, it faced very little military pressure, not to mention that there would be women soldiers from the Suzaku Legion. to deal with.

The existence of the Tang Xiejun allowed the Datang Empire to spread its rule in the Indian subcontinent very smoothly.

The behavior of the Tang court's crossing the river and demolishing the bridge made those Indian feudal nobles who surrendered dare not speak out.

With the assistance of 10,000+ Tang Xiejun, the Tang army will have the confidence to stabilize the rear and start a larger-scale migration of Indian aristocratic fiefdoms.

Collect those rich grain-producing areas into the directly governed areas of the Tang Empire.

Including the population there!
Later, the court of the Tang Empire even threatened the local Brahmin religious leaders to include the faces of Tang people into the sequence of higher castes.

This is not a matter of a few people becoming a high caste in Hinduism, but a nation that wants to become a high caste that oppresses Indian untouchables!

With the addition of the Japanese in India, the Tang State will incorporate several 10 people into the Hindu high-caste system. This is definitely a huge impact on the Hindu high-caste group...and an insult!

However, after some hard-line Brahmin families were exterminated, the voices of opposition were quickly suppressed.

Compared with the Kshatriya, who holds secular power, the fighting power of the Hindu Brahmins is really hip...

However, the Tang Empire also completely offended Hinduism, the largest local sect.

It's just that the Indian Servant Army, the largest military force controlled by the Indian aboriginal nobles, has been transformed into the Tang Xie Army. Relying on those Indian noble private soldiers, resistance is tantamount to suicide. No matter how dissatisfied the Hinduism is, they can only swallow this bitter fruit.

This is why the Tang Empire did not act until the Tang Xiejun stabilized.

However, after Tang people became a high-caste group in India, Hinduism was not without any benefits. The state religion of Hinduism was equivalent to being tied to the interests of the centralized court of the Tang Empire.

In order to maintain its own ruling foundation, the Tang Empire will inevitably continue to support Hinduism as the state religion on the Indian continent.

In fact, after Tang people became a high-caste group of Hinduism, the Taoist court of Tang State had begun to tamper with Hindu teachings, trying to combine the identity of Daoist Li Changqing with the status of Brahman God.

(End of this chapter)