Lord of Ming Dynasty

Regarding the Huaxia Army, the Qing Army has already suffered from a phobia. Unless it is necessary, all Qing soldiers who have been in contact with him do not want to see the Huaxia Army again. They were promoted by the Huaxia Army, but the Huaxia Army often gave them unforgettable lessons like dreams, and they would not even be given a chance to repent.

Liu Liangzuo proposed to ask Nanming Kingdom for Gao Zhixiang, which would exacerbate the turmoil in the relationship between the Huaxia Army and Nanming Kingdom, which is not advisable for Zhang Qiang who wants a stable rear.

Therefore, he felt that Liu Liangzuo's proposal should not be ignored. Liu Liangzuo glanced at Zhang Qiang's hesitation, and finally had a decisive expression. He immediately knew that Zhang Qiang didn't want to care about this matter, but Liu Liangzuo couldn't ignore it. He accepted Gao Zhi Xiang's advantage, if you don't try your best, then no one will ask you to do things in the future. Besides, there is also a Li Chengdong in it. His idea is to win Li Chengdong over. Isn't this the one he established in the Huaxia Army? Is it a great contribution?

In the Huaxia Army, if you want to talk about military exploits, I do have some. When I served as a garrison in Quzhou Mansion, I did my best to ensure the stability and development of Quzhou Mansion. There is hard work even if there is no merit, I believe this is remembered by the entire Huaxia Army. Later, he followed the army to attack. He was the most important person and hero who guarded the Rao Prefecture to guarantee the big battle. This point was made clear. Later, The Huaxia Army even awarded him a medal and rewarded him with a lot of gold and silver. His reputation is still very loud in the Huaxia Army.

After that, he attacked Nanchang Mansion, guarded Nanchang Mansion and Jiujiang Mansion, and confronted the Qing army, and never had any accidents. This clearly remembers his credit. He was a little slack and returned to his previous style of being an official in Daming, and was relegated to the deputy envoy of the punishment camp, the deputy director, and subservient to Lin Yangcheng. Or gain a firm foothold in the Huaxia Army and gain the right to lead troops.

In view of this, he had to seize the opportunity. This time Gao Zhixiang approached him because the two had met before in the Qing army and had a good relationship. If Gao Zhixiang could be rescued successfully, he would There are also partners in the Huaxia Army. Gao Zhixiang has received his life-saving grace, so why not follow him in the future?

He has stayed in the Huaxia Army for a long time, and he knows that in terms of the army, Wei Wuji is undoubtedly a master, a considerable force, with unquestionable power and prestige. Following him, he had a good relationship with the officials who had defected from Daming, especially after he had won over Zhu Dadian, no one could shake him among the civil officials.

Next is You Haibo's family. There is Du Ge in the army. Du Ge is a mobile manpower, and he is also an officer. At the same time, Du Ge has a good relationship with Tang Dianfeng in the civil servants, and there is also Admiral Zhang Ying in the navy as a helper. , is the third largest force in the court.

The weakest forces in the court are He Jin and Lin Cheng's lineage.

He Jin was related to Ruan Shu and Ruan Wu in the navy, and Ruan Jin, Qi Sansheng, Ma Weiren, and Ma Weixing in the army, and the officers and soldiers of the Nanming Navy, and Lin Chenggong belonged to his faction.

The other people in the civil service system are Jin Sheng, Qian Bingdeng, Fang Yizhi, and Gu Yuesheng. Their attitudes are unclear, but they are all self-proclaimed, and they do not join any faction. It seems that they have always been loyal to Zhang Qiang, the governor. , but the relationship will not be too close to each other, it can be said to be a loose alliance.

Needless to say, Xuanyuan Longfei, he does not rely on anyone, he is only loyal to Zhang Qiang and the governor, everyone knows this.

Liu Liangzuo knew that he could not rely on anyone, and he was sure of his loyalty to Zhang Qiang, but he must have his own power in the court, or be attached to a certain power, otherwise he would not be able to make progress. If he pulled Gao Zhixiang over, he would have a younger brother. If Li Chengdong pulls over, he will have allies, or his allies can include Zhang Mingzhen and the others. He is a defected official of the Lu Jianguo family. If he owns a family, he can form a loose alliance with them, while loyal The governor, on the one hand, can make his own voice in the court.

This is his plan.

Thinking about it, thinking about it, seeing Zhang Qiang's hesitant and decisive expression, he knew something was wrong, and quickly said: "Commander, the reason why the Huaxia Army did not surrender before was because the Huaxia Army did not have a good reputation, and now the Huaxia Army has swept across the country. The great cause is just around the corner. We can't just rely on force to conquer this land. We need to implement more gentle policies, recruit surrender and rebellion, and disintegrate the enemy's forces.

Only in this way can we get twice the result with half the effort, and we can drive the aliens out of our Han land as soon as possible, regain the Daming River, move into Dabao as soon as possible, and rule the world. Gao Zhixiang is an opportunity. Our army, what about serving our army? "

Hearing what Liu Liangzuo said, Zhang Qiang also felt that what he had done before was too conservative, so that the Huaxia Army had traveled through it for 11 years, and it had only unified a quarter of the land of Ming Dynasty. It was only the southwestern provinces. Not a little too slow.

If I follow the progress I planned before, it may take me 20 years to unify the entire homeland of Ming Dynasty. Although I was only 16 years old when I traveled through time, I have been 11 years old now, so I am 27 years old. In another 20 years, who will enjoy the reunification of the country?

Although I was only in my 40s at that time, I was more than half of my life. The sanitation conditions in this era are not good, and I am not a big deal. Maybe I will leave at the age of 60. At that time, even if my son is not young, He is around 20 years old, but does he have time to rule the world?

Do you have the ability to subdue these arrogant soldiers?

It seems that we have to speed up, and we will start assimilation education in the future, and we must first lay down the territory.

Thinking of this, he said to Liu Liangzuo: "It's not impossible. How about this? I'll send someone to Nanming Kingdom to discuss Gao Zhixiang's affairs. Do you have anything to report? If not, hurry up and manage your mess Let the captives dig mountains and pave roads, build bridges, and dig rivers, just like what we did in Zhejiang and Fujian, I think you will be familiar with it, can you do it?"

Liu Liangzuo didn't feel dissatisfied with Zhang Qiang at all. I reported this matter to you, and I counted it as a meritorious service, but I didn't hear you rewarding me. Instead, I urged me to work hard for you, because he Knowing the temperament of the governor, he affirmed his credit by saying this, and there is hard work without credit.

And the main reason is that he was not a small official before, admiral, Xiao Fei was exhausted, and now he is only the chief soldier. He was promoted, and now he is only a general soldier, but Zhang Qiang did not demote him, he is still an admiral, think about how much effort, effort, life and death, and military merit will be required to be promoted to the rank of admiral in the future. So he will not have any dissatisfaction.

Chapter 476 It's a Good Way

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, of course Liu Liangzuo would not pester Zhang Qiang anymore, so he immediately got up and bid farewell to Zhang Qiang.

Seeing his tiredness, Zhang Qiang also shook his head and said nothing, waved his hands, and wanted to drive him away and let him contribute to the Huaxia Army. Now the militia is enough, and there are still many local civilians who are young and strong. Organized and trained as new militias, these militias will become garrison troops, labor armies, construction armies, and territorial patrolling, surveillance, and policing armies.

After the work of the Ministry of Civil Affairs is completed, the transferred personnel will completely infiltrate these troops, and the militia troops will become the reserve candidates for the regular garrison troops. After the investigation and guidance of the intelligence personnel of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, it will become the basic backbone of the militia. At that time, the militia will be readjusted, and those who are obedient and loyal to the Huaxia Army will be in charge. These loyal personnel will be used for a period of time .

They will be transferred to supervise the work of captives and hard laborers. Those who pass the political review and have no faults will be sent to the local new barracks for new military training.

Qualified personnel will be sent to the army, and follow the army to defend, attack, and fight. After completing the task, they will immediately undergo a second round of review. After the review is completed, they will continue to conduct firearms training, cavalry training, and combat training with the firearms unit. , Then they will be sent to the garrison, become recruits in the garrison, and serve in the garrison. At this time, they will truly become a soldier of the Huaxia Army, a regular army.

These regular troops will be organized into combat units of hundreds of households, and will be sent to the newly occupied towns to take on garrison and combat tasks. After redeployment, or when the troops are reorganized, they will become the backbone of the garrison battalion.

Excellent and loyal soldiers will be selected into the field brigade by dispatched elite soldiers and become a recruit of the combat force.

It can be said that as the Huaxia Army becomes stronger and stronger, the selection and training of soldiers is becoming more and more systematic. If an ordinary person wants to become a soldier in the regular army, he needs to pass several tests, not only testing courage, skills, and physical fitness, but also testing Patience, carefulness, experience, loyalty, and skills are tested from all aspects and then divided into countless levels.

Those who are incapable and fail the test will retire and return to be your ordinary people. Those who pass a little bit will continue to stay in the militia.

Those who pass two items will be promoted to the backbone of the militia, and those who pass three items will become small officers in the militia, with emphasis on training.

After passing the four items, enter the new barracks for training. After the training in the new barracks, they will go to the battlefield to assist the regular troops to fight and show bravery. Those who pass one of the remaining tests will be sent to the garrison. Most of them have reached this point. That's it.

They can only circle around in the small group of Baihu in the garrison until they are discharged from the army and become civilians again.

Only elite soldiers like elite soldiers can enter the field brigade. If you want to enter the guard brigade, you have to be an elite soldier. If you want to get a half-job, you have to reach the level of a professional officer trained by Zhang Qiang's previous coaching skills. Now is not the time for the Huaxia Army to do rough work.

At that time, as long as you have participated in battles and have combat experience, you can join the field brigade at will, and after a while, you can join the guard brigade. Now the guard brigade is the elite of the elite. The reason for only expanding to four brigades.

It took more than ten years to accumulate four guard brigades, with a strength of only a little more than 3. How elite and powerful this army must be is the trump card of the king.

Although the strength of the [-]st Guards Brigade and the [-]nd Guards Brigade is small, they are only equivalent to the strength of a D-level field brigade, but one such Guards brigade can defeat at least four first-level field brigades, and the first-level field brigade is nine Thousands of five hundred troops.

It can be said that soldiers are more expensive than fine.

After talking about the militia and the prisoners, the former prisoner camp was the biggest reliance of the Huaxia Army in fighting the enemy, and they could be used as cannon fodder to offset the enemy's military superiority. Later, the prisoners were an important source of soldiers for the Huaxia Army. In the early days of cold weapons, many troops were Transformed from captives, as the Huaxia Army is getting bigger and bigger, developing more and more into firearms, and paying more and more attention to loyalty, captive soldiers are rarely placed in important places, and they can only be transferred to Militia units, to supplement the huge gap in the militia units.

The former 200 million captives have now been transformed into captives of a second-class field brigade. These captives are Thai-Western, forming a loyal Thai-Western field brigade. They are now serving the Huaxia Army. The field brigade monitors the movement of Hong Chengchou's Ming army in the east on the border.

That is the No.20 Third Field Brigade.

In the newly formed No.20, 25, and 26 field brigades, most of the cold weapon units are captives who have been imprisoned for six or seven years. They have joined the Huaxia Army and served as militiamen for a year or two. It was time, so they were transferred to the newly formed field brigade, the C-class field brigade as soldiers.

Four field brigades are obviously not enough to accommodate a large army of converted captives. As a large number of militias were drawn from the fringe areas and areas newly occupied for a year or two, the backbone of the militias in those places were quickly captured by these transformations. Filled up, and the garrison and surveillance work of the punishment camp was also taken over by these transformed prisoners.

In this way, a large number of captives that were idle due to the completion of the territory construction were consumed, and about 30 captives were digested and transformed.

Then this time, with the arrival of the militia troops who escorted the captives, another 20 captives were placed in the newly liberated Huzhou, Guangzhou and Hubei prefectures, undertaking part of the work of the militia, defending the territory and building the territory.

These captives will be converted into militias in large numbers, and then there will be 30 captives later. These captives are stubborn captives, or captives who refuse to be rescued. Their fate will be tragic. They will become the leaders of the construction army The main force will continue to serve the Huaxia Army.

In this way, 70 captives will become soldiers, garrison soldiers, militia, or civilians, and 30 captives will remain guarded captives to contribute to construction. A total of 100 million captive reserves will be consumed to reduce the burden on the territory. fiscal expenditure.

With the increase of prisoners and prisoners, the captive camps and hard labor camps will become a major financial burden for the Huaxia Army. Therefore, this time Zhang Qiang took advantage of the time to enter the new enemy territory to get them over and let them continue to work hard to consume part of the captives. , to reduce financial pressure.

With 200 million captives, a large portion of food would be consumed just to feed them, and the Huaxia Army did not want to bear this part of the burden any longer.

Some captives were released to be civilians, about 10 people.

Get 100 million people, and 70 people will become soldiers. After this battle is over, some will die, some will be disabled, and some will be eliminated. Maybe another 20 people will be converted into civilians in the new territory. This will enrich the strength of the territory. Deficiency in population can reduce financial pressure, food pressure, and population pressure, and can also obtain some elite soldiers to enrich the army.

This is the plan proposed to Zhang Qiang by the cabinet after careful consideration.

Zhang Qiang readily accepted.

The newly formed brigades actually made room for these captives, making these captives a helpless choice for soldiers and civilians.

What is troublesome is that through this battle, more than 3 Qing army prisoners were captured in Huguang and Hubei Prefecture, their homes were ransacked, the enemy was suppressed, and another 100 prisoners were captured, and bandits were wiped out. One hundred thousand captives, and the number of captives rose to one million.

In addition, with the continuous expansion of the territory and the steady development of the Huaxia Army, the number of criminals in the territory has also increased. Criminals were thrown into prisoner camps or hard labor camps. These people had 30 people. Although some of these criminals The crimes are relatively minor, and after a few years of reeducation through labor, they can return to the common people, but for now, it is still a heavy burden, with as many as 130 million people needing food.