Lord of Ming Dynasty

In Zhang Qiang's continuous elimination of old ships and replacement of new ones, since two years ago, a large number of sailors, marines and marines have retired, or they can only go to the new barracks to train new sailors.

Think about it, out of 3 naval warships, 2 ships will be phased out rapidly, how many sailors and artillerymen will be unemployed. Although many people have reached middle age, they are not yet old enough to retire. Hard work, some people have become fishermen, some people have become sailors and hired gunners recruited by merchant ships, even those sea squadron soldiers who are necessary for combat on every ship, although the number is small, there are still nearly [-] people, and they will be eliminated at once With the loss of [-] ships, nearly [-] people were unemployed. Although they were diverted, many people still had no jobs.

The Navy Marine Corps is a marine force for landing operations and guarding the coastline. Because of the elimination of these warships, tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs, and many of them have been transferred to the Coast Guard to serve as infantry on the shore. There were no wars in the past year, and many of them were equivalent to deserted, so they were not even as good as the militia.

Now recruit them again, gather them in the rear of Shandong Province, and conduct training in the camp of the garrison brigade. They can provide assistance to the garrison brigade, stop the enemy's breakthrough and attack, and help catch the enemy's spies and spies and maintain local law and order .

After their training is completed, they can transfer some of the troops in Henan Province to supplement the troops there, because many troops in Henan Province, even the garrison brigade, have been transferred to the border land of Shanxi Prefecture on the other side of the Yellow River that they conquered to garrison there.

Some field brigades in the rear were also transferred to the second-line positions along the Yellow River in Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture. Wherever they were stationed, it was actually tantamount to transferring almost all of the original Xiao Fei Corps and Xuanyuan Longfei Corps to Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture. It is complicated and requires a large number of troops to garrison and wipe out the enemy, so Henan Prefecture is somewhat empty.

Therefore, Li Dingguo needs more soldiers. After the garrison brigade implemented the redeployment policy, several garrison brigades were transferred to Henan Prefecture, Sishan Prefecture and other places. Because of the confrontation in Shandong Prefecture, the situation here is calm, but who knows that the enemy will not pretend to attack Shaanxi and Gansu State, focusing on Shandong State or Henan State.

Li Dingguo considered things very comprehensively. After all, he has been in the officialdom for so many years. Compared with Zhang Qiang's confidant officials, he knows how to deal with all aspects of relations. Compared with Jin Sheng, You Haibo, and Zhang Huangyan, he has the strategy of a general and the plan of an official in the relationship with the officials of the Huaxia Kingdom. This is why Zhang Qiang appointed him as the deputy prime minister.

Zhou Porridge and Wei Wuji are a little younger than him, Zhang Huangyan is a little more radical or extreme than him, after all, Zhang Huangyan is much younger, Jin Sheng does not have such a wealth of experience, and belongs to the thinking of local officials. In terms of overall planning, he is more Be strategic.

Although he also has some stubborn thoughts of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism of the old Ming people, this does not affect his loyalty to Zhang Qiang and the Huaxia Kingdom.

After Zhang Qiang read it, he was very satisfied with his arrangement, and he and Xiao Fei were relieved to carry it out.

Zhang Qiang's current thoughts are still on how to restore the combat effectiveness of the Huaxia Navy as soon as possible.

In terms of internal affairs, with the help of Mi Chun and Tang Dianfeng, Zhou Porridge is not innovative enough, but he is more than able to defend the city, and can resolutely implement the policies promoted by Zhang Qiang. Li Dingguo is good at both military and internal affairs, mainly in military affairs and handling relations. With him coordinating and helping Mi Chun, Tang Dianfeng, Zhou Porridge, Zhang Qiang was very relieved. This proved that he was a good person, and he could be the shopkeeper with confidence and hand over the country to the cabinet.

For the battle in Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture, he gave Li Dingguo full authority to deploy.

He believes that Bagyalu, the captain of the personal guard who has been with him for a long time, can defeat the enemy, Hu Kui, the first captain of the personal guard, can firmly defend Shandong Province, and Mei Linyu, a grown-up general, can cooperate well with several people Defend Henan Province and keep the enemy out.

The troops under the jurisdiction of the two corps are still called brigades. In fact, each brigade has reached the size of a division, with a number of about [-] to [-].

Not only is it equipped with a large number of combat troops, but there is also at least one logistics brigade with about 500 people to provide them with supplies. At the same time, there is also an elite militia brigade to supplement the source of troops for the field brigade and cooperate in operations. The garrison brigade is stationed in the city, and the ordinary militia brigade maintains the surrounding The law and order in the countryside, while transporting the supplies of the garrison brigade and the general brigade, such a complete combat force, if it cannot defeat the enemy's backward musket force, then the Huaxia Kingdom will be in danger.

So his main energy is still on the coast, the navy, and the traitor general Du Ge and others.

Chapter 837 is somewhat unreasonable

Zhang Qiang's eyes are on the sea, the navy, but he will not easily ignore the Qing Dynasty's first large-scale counterattack in the past ten years. This is a counterattack in a battle in the age of firearms, and it is the first time for the Qing Dynasty. No one can be careless .

Judging from the enemy's strength, there are quite a lot, but the main force is the three major aspects, the Japanese, the Goguryeo people, the Han army flag, plus reconnaissance and scouting, and the Mongolian cavalry that can only serve as auxiliary arms in the age of firearms, and the Manchu archer cavalry.

According to the situation reported by the Ministry of Military Intelligence, Shang Kexi has about [-] soldiers and horses, most of whom are conscripted civilians.

Wu Sangui sent [-] soldiers and horses, of which [-] were civilian husbands.

Yao Qisheng’s main force here is 50 soldiers, but in fact the main force is only 32, more than half of which were captured by the local Qing army in Shanxi Prefecture. There are about [-] soldiers and horses from the Jin Kingdom who surrendered to the Qing army. [-], [-] Goguryeo people, [-] Manchu soldiers, [-] Mongolian cavalry, [-] Han army flags, and about [-] to [-] civilian husbands.

On Suo'etu's side, there are [-] Huihui cavalry, [-] grassland horse bandits, [-] Gansu horse bandits each, [-] Mongolian cavalry, [-] Yeerqiang cavalry, [-] Zhungeer cavalry, and [-] Japanese Musketeers. Thousands of Qing artillery, as well as [-] Han army flags and [-] green battalions. The green battalion is the original Ming army frontier army that was reorganized from the captured soldiers after the conquest of Jiang Xiang.

There are also 8 aristocrats from the capital led by Suo'etu himself, the gold rush detachment composed of clansmen, princes, and officials' children, and the 20 Shenji Battalion Manchu Eight Banners soldiers. There are [-] people, claiming [-], because they also have a supply team composed of nearly [-] coated slaves and civilian husbands, which is equivalent to serving them.

Suo'etu actually knew that he was just yelling and shouting, and hearing the sound, the main offensive force was Yao Qisheng's side.Yao Qisheng also has an old clan king, Bumbleshan, beside him.

This is the latest report on the source of enemy troops. The enemy's troops are still gathering, and it is impossible to accurately predict how many troops they will eventually have.

However, the deployment of the two corps in Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture has been basically completed. The retreat of the corps has been stopped, and all members have returned to the camp. While training, they replenish ammunition and survey the terrain. Calm, the place hasn't stabilized yet.

But many places have already begun to send officials, and some of the first batch of officials were people from Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture who had defected to the Huaxia Kingdom, and some were even early Chahar Mongols, because Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture had already been separated from the Gobi Beaches and grasslands are bordered, and many places cannot be managed without these Mongolians.

Li Dingguo took Xiao to Zhang Qiang's place every three days to report the situation.

This time Li Dingguo took the original list of soldiers from Xiao Fei and Xuanyuan Longfei Corps.

It was mainly Xiao Fei who was reporting, "The current situation of Your Majesty's Corps is very bad, mainly because there are many veterans. Although the veterans are powerful and experienced, these veterans are already tired of fighting. Although we have retired veterans several times, we still have Some veterans have not retired, and their official positions are getting higher and higher, and some even reached the high position of generals, leading a brigade to fight.

Since the last proposal to change the brigade to a division, the field brigade has been called a division in name, but everyone still calls it a brigade, but the strength of the brigade has been greatly increased. Each brigade now has two infantry brigades, and each brigade has four soldiers. 100 soldiers, each brigade has two infantry regiments, each infantry regiment has 600 soldiers, each infantry regiment has three infantry battalions, each infantry battalion has 500 soldiers, and each infantry battalion has two hundred soldiers. The household company has 50 troops, and each hundred household company has four general banners, 20 people in each general banner, two small banners under each general banner, [-] people in each small banner, and two even under each small banner. Commander, ten people, revoked the establishment of the corps chief, but has the official position of the corps chief, assisting the chief to manage the soldiers, which is equivalent to two officers and eight soldiers.

In addition, each "brigade "..."

Wait, Zhang Qiang said to Xiao Fei: "It sounds awkward to change your so-called "Brigade" to "Division". With so many troops, you still call it "Brigade". Don't you think it's awkward? Master Li, Let them change "Brigade" to "Division" in any official documents, and now you, Mr. Xiao Fei, continue to report and change it."

Xiao Fei looked up at Zhang Qiang, lowered his head silently, and then continued to report, "Well, each division has 500 people. In addition to the 9000 people in the two brigades, there are also 500 people, including An artillery brigade with 2000 people, the artillery brigade is a unit directly under the division headquarters, the artillery brigade is composed of three battalions, and each battalion has 600 people. field artillery battery.

The remaining two battalions were those with twelve twelve-pounders.

In addition, there is also a cavalry battalion directly under the division headquarters, a 600-man cavalry battalion, which is a dragoon battalion, equipped with new lances and sabers, and also carries three six-pound guns.There are also two hundred-household companies, the division headquarters are directly under the supply company, the division headquarters are directly under the messenger hundred household companies, 200 people, and the division headquarters are directly under the carrier pigeon hundred household companies, with a total of 100 division staff and civilian officials plus the guards. "

Zhang Qiang feels that the distribution of these troops is a bit unreasonable. These formations are really a bit unreasonable. The troops directly under the division headquarters seem to be a bit large, and the two infantry brigades are not many, and they are all infantry. The regiment and battalion headquarters of the army are also somewhat small, and the division headquarters plus the artillery brigade is directly another heavy infantry brigade.

Moreover, there are no engineers, and there are too many heavy soldiers. Of course, it is nothing to have heavy soldiers as an independent combat unit, but there are elite militia brigades and militia brigades in the rear as the heavy soldiers, so the independent troops only need combat troops. At least one unit needs three infantry brigades.

He said to Xiao Fei: "Could it be possible to transfer some members of the elite militia brigade to the division headquarters to form a logistics regiment, which is responsible for transporting combat supplies and supplies for each unit. The logistics regiment will be organized at 800 People, the other troops only retain one supply company, and the others are converted into combat troops. Equip the regiment and the artillery company."

Xiao Fei said: "But this way our troops will be much larger."

Zhang Qiang waved his hand, "Forget it, first fight this battle to stabilize the situation, and then add elite militia brigades to each field army. They are also veterans, and there will be no elite militia brigades in the future. The elite militia brigades can be abolished." Some people join the militia to improve the combat capability of the militia and maintain local law and order. Others are incorporated into the field troops to act as supplies, engineers, artillery, cavalry, and grooms. These technical arms are directly under the division headquarters, brigade headquarters, and regiment headquarters directly under the troops.

From now on, there is no such thing as an elite militia brigade in the Huaxia Army. After completing their missions, those militiamen will be transferred to the local area to maintain public order. Some disabled, old and weak people who are not suitable for serving as soldiers will be dismissed, or they will be transferred to the common people on the spot. ranks. "

Li Dingguo said with a smile, "Your Majesty wants to save some expenses for Prime Minister Zhou again."

"Hahaha," Zhang Qiang laughed with him, and Xiao Fei said in a daze, "Prime Minister Zhou may not be grateful to you, because those abolished will also increase the financial burden, and they will have to arrange jobs for them, and they will also have to bear the burden of disability. And pensions for veterans, the financial expenditure is quite large."

Zhang Qiang pointed to Xiao Fei and said: "You are stupid in fighting, it seems that you have to go to other places to recuperate, let you directly transfer from the front of the battle to the center, and you are not used to it, those soldiers don't need much pension, anyway I'm afraid Zhou Porridge is very happy with the local government's expenses, but the governors are the ones who have a headache, hahaha."

Chapter 838 Difficult to equip new warships

"Okay, that's it, just implement according to your current arrangement, don't retreat the old regiments, and transfer some garrison brigades to Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture to try to stabilize the situation there. How is the Second Guards Division? Sishan Prefecture has stabilized, and when it stabilizes, they will be withdrawn, first withdrawing a brigade.

Well, the Guards Division has not been reorganized yet, and their establishment is still too large, which is equal to the establishment of two Guards Divisions. The original Third Guards Brigade and the Fourth Guards Brigade, after the expansion, their strength has now reached There are more than 2 people, but the accurate establishment has not yet been made, so let's transfer back the former Fourth Guards Brigade.

Transfer a personal guard battalion from the recruit training camp and the personal guard regiment here, and transfer a 3000 student soldiers from the military academy to where to go, and disrupt them to various militia units, garrison troops, elite militia brigades, and cavalry brigades , and inside the Third Guards Brigade left behind.

Let them stay in each position for three months, enough for the two-year internship period, and then the outstanding ones stay in the guard brigade, and almost stay in some local troops. Generally, they are assigned to various garrison brigades, and even front-line militia units Inside, especially in the newly formed garrison in Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture, we have enriched our officer class. "

Xiao Fei nodded straight after listening, and replied, "Yes, Your Majesty, yes Your Majesty."

After finishing speaking, he said to Zhang Qiang: "Your Majesty, Feng Wuyu feels very boring. He doesn't want to guard the southwest anymore. He wants to go to the front line. I think he should be transferred back and let him come to the staff to study. Now that the domestic defense is empty, there are basically no field army guards, so I think that his corps should be disbanded and placed in important areas for guarding, otherwise if the enemy suddenly breaks in from one direction, our core area can be gone. The established guards have defended the capital."

"That's fine, with Wei Wuji watching in Southeast Asia, Liu Liangzuo guarding Yunnan, and the Mahan Corps guarding the states in Southeast Asia, even if Du Ge wants to make trouble, they won't be able to break through Ma Han's defense for a while, so let Feng Wuyu Come back, let the various departments of the corps deploy important locations in the core area, and disperse them at the central node that can reinforce the garrison brigades in other places as quickly as possible."

Li Dingguo silently calculated, "Your Majesty, it will take nearly half a year to adjust. Under such circumstances, we can only fight the enemy with the current conditions."

Zhang Qiang waved his hand, "Don't worry, take your time. The Qing army now only controls Shanxi Prefecture and Yanjing, and the Hukui Corps of Hebei Prefecture has also advanced a lot. Now it has won less than half of the area. I think half a year later." I'm afraid the Hu Kui Corps should encircle Yanjing."

Li Dingguo said with a smile: "The relationship is good, very good."

Xiao Fei raised his head and sighed, "We have been waiting for this day for a long time, and finally we can regain Yanjing."