Chapter 134 Temporary Break

After Xiao Tianjian conquered Wuchang City, the rapid division of troops began to continue to attack the surrounding state capitals and counties. Luo Li and Liu Yaoben each led a man and a horse out of Wuchang City to go everywhere to attack, while Xiao Tianjian ordered Li Jinde to be immediately transferred to Wuchang Prefecture to take over the handling of civil affairs in the Huguang area.

After all, in the past six months, Xing Tianjun has developed too fast. It can almost be said that every few days, it will take a state and county. Occupation alone is not the purpose of Xiao Tianjian. More importantly, it is necessary to integrate these newly occupied territories into the administrative system of Xing Tianjun, so that these sites can continue to flow. To supplement the funds and grain needed for the Xingtian Army for the army's use.

The rapid development brings a big problem, that is, the shortcomings of the civil officials of the Xing Tianjun have become more and more obvious at this time, so that in many places, such a large county, only three, five or even one or two civil officials can temporarily serve as Zhixian and even Zhizhou to manage the place.

With these people alone, it is impossible to completely manage the complicated affairs of the place. Therefore, Xiao Tianjian's first method is to visit the local prestigious and capable people in the local area to come out to be officers of the Xing Tianjun, appoint them as local officials, and manage some local affairs on behalf of the Xing Tianjun. Even among the surrendered or captured officials, some people were selected to meet the needs of Xing Tianjun, but after all, this is not a long-term way. As early as Jinnan, Xiao Tianjian chose a group of teenagers in the youth camp who did not like to dance with knives and guns and prefer to read books. Reserve for reserve officials.

However, the training and governance of local talents and the training of a qualified soldier are not a matter at all. It is absolutely no problem to train a qualified soldier in three months with the training method of Xing Tianjun. It is also no problem to train a man and a man who can fight in three months. However, in terms of training a qualified civil official, it is impossible to achieve it quickly. As the saying goes, ten years of trees and a hundred years of people. In this era, no matter who rules China, they must rely on scholars, and only by using them can they help the rulers govern the country.

Although Xiao Tianjian knows that there are many dross that are not desirable among the things that scholars and doctors have inherited for thousands of years, he also has to admit that this is the cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. If the abandoned scholar wants to govern the country well, at least it is a fantasy at present. He relies on his own cultivation, and I guess he will not wait for him to Talents have been cultivated, and the world has been in chaos for a long time!

And now he uses the method of searching for talent and appointment. Although it can temporarily alleviate the demand for talents, it is not a common thing after all. Sometimes it has a great reputation, but in fact, his ability is very limited. Doing so is more or less a little blind to kill a mouse, relying on luck.

Besides, scholars are also a very important part of this society, representing the interests of the upper class. Without their words, what do the scholars in the world do? Is it possible for them to go to business? It is always necessary to give them a way out. Otherwise, the energy of the scholar group is absolutely not small. Once Xiao Tianjian does not give these people a way, these people will never rest. They collectively oppose him, Xiao Tianjian, and the impact can be so great that Xiao Tianjian knows how powerful it will be!

A warrior is a warrior. He is in charge of the war. There can't be no scholar who opposes him. He will send troops to kill all these soldiers! So, who will inherit the Chinese civilization?

So after taking Wuchang City, Xiao Tianjian had to start thinking about how to get a scholar and make it for his own use. Therefore, after capturing Wuchang City, Xiao Tianjian sent Luo Li and Liu Yaoben to continue to expand the surrounding area, while he stayed in Wuchang City to consider more important things.

Of course, Xiao Tianjian stayed in Wuchang City not only for the affairs of civil servants, but after more than half a year of continuous war, many things have to be solved as soon as possible.

After the Xingtian Army went south this time, it was constantly expanding. It was not only the expansion of the territory, but also the number of soldiers and horses had to expand with the expansion of the territory. However, with the expansion of the number of soldiers and horses, the armies were fighting repeatedly, so that the training of the new army could only be between marches or between battles. In this way, the combat quality of the newly formed battalions has declined rapidly. Only the original main battalions have basically maintained a good combat quality. The rest of the newly formed battalions are much different. Whether it is the quality of equipment, training or even military discipline, they have to advance. It's time for a large-scale rectification.

In addition, the new formation of the Xingtian Army Water Camp can be said to be a warehouse to promote the army. The personnel component is extremely complex. There are not only a small number of old troops transferred from the Yellow River Water Camp of the Xingtian Army as the backbone, but also boatmen and fishermen recruited in Huguang, as well as officers and soldiers who defected directly from the officers and the army. Of course, There are many water thieves who rely on the water to rob their homes and make a fortune, so they are said to be a mixture of fish and dragons, and the soldiers and generals are even better and bad, and the military discipline is very poor.

Previously, Xiao Tianjian was eager to use troops in Huguang. In order to achieve the purpose of speed, these can be tolerated temporarily, but now he has taken Wuchang Mansion, so this situation cannot be allowed to continue. Otherwise, if it goes on like this, he will probably return to other volunteers. On the one level, this is absolutely unacceptable to Xiao Tianjian.

Therefore, in order to prepare for the next step to attack Nanzhili, we also need to occupy the whole territory of Huguang. At this time, we have to take a long rest. On the one hand, we have to strengthen the training of the new army battalions, and at the same time, we also need to re-arm them, supplement their weapons, so that they have stronger combat effectiveness, for the next step. Large-scale military operations have laid a good foundation. Although Xiao Tianjian also wants to seize the world as soon as possible, these basic things must be done first.

Now the battle in Huguang is basically a temporary end, and the rest is just the final work. Xiao Tianjian made up his mind to implement these things one by one first.

So on the one hand, he ordered Luo Li and Liu Yaoben to lead the main battle battalions of their respective subordinates to continue to attack and expand around. On the other hand, he ordered all the newly formed battalions during this period to stop separately with Wuchang as the center, and ordered the generals of each battalions to train their new recruits on the spot and put unqualified soldiers. It will be abolished and eliminated. In addition, the relatively sufficient human resources in Huguang will be used to select a group of qualified recruits to join the army. In addition, a batch of students from several martial arts halls will be randomly selected, so that they can rush to Wuchang and be integrated into the new army battalions to act as the backbone force, and then from the main battalions of the original departments. Among the generals, a group of soldiers will be recruited and added to the new battalion as officers. In this way, the new battalion can be better controlled and used in a short period of time, and it can be trained in the unique training method of the Xingtian Army, so that the combat effectiveness can be greatly improved in the short term as much as possible. .

For the equipment problem of these new troops, the equipment of long gunners and knife hands is easy to solve on the spot. The weapons captured by the hands of the officers and soldiers can even be used directly without modification. However, the equipment of the fireman can only be supplemented by craftsmen in Henan and Jinnan. It is.

In the past six months, the people and horses of the Xingtian Army have expanded rapidly, and almost all of them are engaged in large-scale battles, so the demand for weapons has also increased a lot, and the consumption is also very large. Although the logistics department has stored a batch of self-fire guns and artillery in advance, the number is far from enough to meet the Xing Tian Army. The current need for expansion can only make the craftsmen's camps in various places be built to supplement the use of the troops.

However, even if the current craftsmen's camp is working overtime day and night, it is still far from meeting the needs of Xing Tianjun. Therefore, when Xiao Tianjian defeats Wuchang Mansion, Xing Tianjun's previous war material reserves have basically been run out, which is not enough to support Xing Tianjun to move east. Attacked Nan Zhili. Therefore, Xiao Tianjian could only order the temporary suspension of large-scale military operations after taking down Wuchang Mansion, take a breath and re-accumulate his strength.

Due to the recent rapid expansion of troops, the quality of equipment in the Xingtian Army has begun to decline, especially for those newly organized battalions. The situation is even more serious. Not to mention the number of firearms regarded as a magic weapon and relying on by the Xing Tianjun is far from enough to meet the current needs, so Xiao Tianjian Let the new battalion be equipped with fewer muskets and reduce the configuration of their gunners. However, the problem is that the combat effectiveness of many new battalions is a little worse than that of the old battalions.

For this problem, after some consideration, Xiao Tianjian ordered the army to reorganise again, evaluate each battalion in the army, and divide the battalions into three types of A, B and C according to their combat effectiveness. The A battalions are basically the original war battalions, among which the configuration of firearms can basically reach About 50 percent or even more, and the proportion of armored soldiers is also more than 60% or 70%. The combat effectiveness of such a battalion is quite strong, while the second battalion is mainly based on the formation of an earlier new battalion or part of the reserve battalions that went south with the army this time. The proportion of firearms is about 30%, and the armored soldiers are also about 30%. Such a battalion It also has a relatively strong combat effectiveness. At least for the Shangguan army, it is only strong but not weak in the case of one-to-one, and it can even be said that it far exceeds the combat effectiveness of ordinary officers! As for the C battalion, it is mainly based on the newly formed new battalions. The proportion of firearms is only about one-handed, and the soldiers are basically not armored. Only officers above the team can wear armor. However, in order to ensure that they can also have strong combat effectiveness, they have to add some weapons such as bows and crossbows to them. It is even equipped with a large number of javelers, so that it can at least serve as an auxiliary force for the A and B battalions.

After this distinction, Battalion A is the absolute main force, and Battalion B also has relatively independent combat capabilities, while Battalion C is an auxiliary soldier for auxiliary combat. If necessary, the generals of Battalion C will be used as a personnel reserve of Battalion A and B, which will be selected and added to Battalions A and B at any time. To a certain extent, the C battalion can serve as an auxiliary soldier and a new barracks.

(Today, I thank the rewards of several brothers such as Spicy Death, Outside the Small Town, Fengmu Chunjiang, and Yi Zui Ren! Ha ha!)