Chapter 187 Great Disarmament

Just when everyone thought that the Greater China and North Korea would be completely born in the future and make every effort to restore the agricultural economy in various places, the cabinet ministers were also discussing to abolish some soldiers and prepare to devote all their energy to the restoration of the economy and people's livelihood in various places. The navy and the maritime trade group proposed to launch a When the large-scale offensive was to take down Taiwan Island and expel the Dutch who were stationed on Taiwan Island from Taiwan Island, Xiao Tianjian expressed his opposition at the cabinet meeting.

Xiao Tianjian did not object to the abolition of surplus troops. After so many years of the southern and northern wars, the large and medium-sized army has also expanded very much. After rough statistics, in recent years, in order to strengthen the rule of various places, the large and medium-sized army has been constantly conscripted, coupled with the continuous subjugation of each The chaotic army of the land and the old troops of the Ming Dynasty, even if the Dazhong army demobilised idle personnel and old, weak soldiers while fighting, made the Dazhong army reach an unprecedented number of nearly one million by the summer of the third year of Tianyuan.

One million troops may not be too much for future generations, but in this era, it is a terrible number. In terms of the productivity of this era, even if the population under the jurisdiction of the Great China Dynasty has more than 100 million, more than 100 people have supported a soldier and more than 100,000 mules and horses. For the newly established Greater China Dynasty, there is no doubt that It is a very heavy burden. What's more, China and North Korea are also in the stage of prosperity. There are too many places to spend money, and Xiao Tianjian is dedicated to building a strong navy as soon as possible. This navy is a purely money-burning arm. If a large number of land divisions are not abolished, it can't stand such elimination in any case. Consumption.

In addition, the soldiers are basically young and middle-aged workers. Now the middle and the dynasties are thriving, and a large number of abandoned farmland needs to be re-cultivated. Because agriculture in the early stage was seriously damaged due to natural disasters and war, a large number of cattle were killed, and farming needs to focus on manpower. However, so many young people have been conscripted as soldiers, which is for the middle and North Korea. The future recovery is also very unfavorable, so the abolition of land divisions in various places must be carried out as soon as possible.

Therefore, Xiao Tianjian also agreed to the disarmament plan proposed by the cabinet ministers to abolish 30% or even half of the existing million troops and return them to the field.

However, the disarmament plan proposed by the cabinet ministers has been opposed by the Ministry of War. Their reasons are also very sufficient. Now that all places have just calmed down, there are still many remnants of the Ming Dynasty who are ready to try to restore the country. In the northwest, there are still remnants of Li Zicheng who have not been defeated, and among these large and medium-sized soldiers, there are Many people died because of the birth of the Great Zhong Dynasty. Now that they have just been established, they have to drive them home. Once such a large number of soldiers are not well placed, they will become a destabilizing factor, making the situation that has just been slightly calmed down again.

And Yongli is now fleeing to Myanmar, and the problems of Jiannu and Mongols in the north have not been solved. The next step is definitely to move troops in the north, so it is not appropriate to abolish a large number of mainland divisions at present.

The attitude towards the military highlights the serious differences and contradictions between culture and martial arts. This is a game, and Xiao Tianjian is undoubtedly the arbiter of this game between culture and martial arts.

Xiao Tianjian considered this matter again and again and discussed with the cabinet and the military department many times. However, in the end, Xiao Tianjian still issued a decree to carry out a large-scale consolidation of the troops in various places. However, for the number of soldiers and horses, he adopted the method of abolishing in batches. In this year, that is, within three years of Tianyuan, all kinds of soldiers and horses are currently rectified. 20% of the soldiers and horses were abolished, and some of the old and weak soldiers among the generals would be abolished first, and they would be unloaded and returned to the field.

Of course, this disarmament is not simply to demobilize these soldiers to work in agriculture. For the demobilization of soldiers, Xiao Tianjian asked for a good treatment, especially for those meritorious soldiers. According to their different ranks, they will be given different amounts of severance pay.

In addition, after these soldiers are dismissed, they will return to their place of origin for resettlement, and local authorities should make proper arrangements for them. It is absolutely not allowed for the soldiers to fall into a hungry situation as soon as they return home.

Fortunately, after this great change in China, a large number of land that was originally annexed by the relatives of the Ming Emperor and some powerful and nobles have now basically been nationalized. In addition to arranging a large number of landless exiles, there is still a lot of surplus, so the withdrawal of soldiers will return to the original. After the registration, according to the requirements of the court, each person can obtain a different number of fields according to the thickness of the fields as the basis for supporting their families in the future. Moreover, the court will also give these soldiers who are dismissed and returned to their hometowns special preferential treatment for two years, so as to reduce the amount of these soldiers after returning home. Unstable factors.

In addition, there are a large number of special personnel in the Dazhong army, that is, the enemy troops captured over the years. Because they are worried that these prisoners will become bandits as soon as they are dismissed, so these prisoners are mostly listed as auxiliary soldiers to watch and listen to the army.

For this group of prisoners, it is naturally impossible to be treated as well as the generals, but it is not a way to demobilize them on the spot. Xiao Tianjian put forward the idea of establishing a construction corps to transfer these prisoners to some border areas, and take their families with him to these remote places for cultivation.

Due to natural disasters and wars in the north, many parts of the original border area have become desolate places. The utilization rate of land is far less dense than that of later generations, so there is still a large amount of wasteland for cultivation. However, since it is a remote place, the living conditions must be relatively poor, ordinary People are not willing to settle down in these places easily. Only through strong policies can some prisoners be sent to these places for resettlement and brought to these remote places to improve various living conditions, can various preferential policies be introduced to attract mainland people to immigrate. This method is also a good way for the development of remote areas. The way.

After Xiao Tianjian put forward this idea, he immediately received the support of the civil and military sides, so in the second half of the third year of Tianyuan, the Dazhong Army began formal disarmament.

A group of prisoners began to be sent to remote areas around the country, and some old, weak and disabled soldiers began to gradually return to their places of origin for resettlement after receiving severance pay. Although this abdicated and demobilization of so many generals, for the Greater China and North Korea, it will cost a large amount of money at once, but for the future After the long-term stability of China and North Korea, the Ministry of Household still tried to gritt their teeth to allocate the money.

However, as demobilized personnel, the cadets and soldiers who have completed martial arts in various places have been kept by Xiao Tianjian's requirements. These are professional soldiers who have been trained by Xiao Tianjian. Unlike the general recruited soldiers, each of them has received rigorous training. For Dazhong Chao and Xiao Tianjian are very loyal and have been very brave on the battlefield. Once they are withdrawn from home, it will make Xiao Tianjian very sad.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of pacifying and disarming the south, Xiao Tianjian once again made a structural adjustment to the Dazhong Army, reorganized the armies of Dazhong and North Korea, and reorganized the armies again according to the original Fifth Five-Year Organization promoted by the Dazhong Army.

The basic independent combat unit of the Dazhong Army is now a combat unit at the first level of the division. In addition to five standard combat battalions, each army division is also assigned to a divisional company, a division is an artillery battalion, a division is a battalion, and a division is an engineering company.

And a battalion is under the jurisdiction of five battalion companies, a scout team, one battalion is an artillery company, and so that if a uniting division is full of personnel, the number of troops will reach about 10,000.

In addition to the combat units at the division level, an independent combat unit at the regiment level will be added. By abolishing some troops, the remaining personnel will be used to form independent cavalry regiments, independent engineering regiments, independent artillery regiments regiments, independent regiments and other independent arms. Usually, they will not be integrated into the combat division, but they can accompany them in wartime. According to the needs, these independent regiments will be integrated into the combat group as a supplement and reinforcement.

The extra personnel shall be abolished, and the insufficient personnel shall be supplemented with the elite soldiers left after the abolition of other armies, so that they can reach a full state.

It turned out that the Dazhong army was divided into four towns and a war zone, and there was also a direct guard. This time, Xiao Tianjian once again re-divided the Dazhong army.

Cancel the title of the town army, and follow the name of the town army, and change the name of the town army to the military region, and establish the Northwest Military Region, the Central Plains Military Region, the Northern Military Region, the Southwest Military Region, the Southeast Military Region, the Liaodong Military Region and a Guard Garcture Military Region, a total of seven military regions.

The name of the commander of the military region is also renamed as the commander of the military region. There is a chief of staff directly leading a military region staff, and two deputy commanders to form the command system of the military region. According to the intensity of its combat tasks, each has four to seven combat divisions.

The Northwest Military Region is still mainly responsible for the defense of Shaanxi and Shanxi, and the commander continues to be under the responsibility of Yan Chongxi.

The Northern Military Region is mainly responsible for the defense of Hebei, Xuanda and Shandong, and the commander is Diao Zheng.

The Central Plains Military Region is mainly responsible for the defense of Henan, Huguang and Nanzhili, and the commander-in-chief continues to be Liu Bao.

The Southwest Military Region is mainly responsible for the defense of the three provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou in Sichuan, and the commander is Li Shuanzhu.

The Southeast Military Region is mainly responsible for the defense of Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, and the commander is Shi Ran.

The Liaodong Military Region is mainly responsible for the military affairs of the Liaodong area. The commander is Luo Li, but for the time being, Liaodong is still under the control of Jiannu. The Liaodong Military Region is temporarily stationed in Shuntianfu and Yongping Prefecture, which have been renamed Beiping Prefecture, and part of it is temporarily stationed in the area of Denglai, Shandong Province. In the next step, the Dazhong Army is bound to launch the second Northern Expedition. In Liaodong, the Liaodong Military Region can be relocated to Liaodong.

There is also a guard garrison military region, which is in a special situation now. It is temporarily stationed in Nanzhili, responsible for arching the current capital Nanjing, which intersects with the defense of the Central Plains Military Region. However, the Greater China and North Korea have decided that the capital will be Beijing in the future, so in the future, with the relocation of the capital of the capital, it will also move to Beipingfu. A commander-in-chief is Liu Yaoben.

As for the other Lushi generals who were born with Xiao Tianjian, they basically served as the deputy commanders of each military region, but because Zhao Erlu had a gap with Li Shuanzhu, Xiao Tianjian transferred him to the Southeast Military Region as Shi Ran's deputy.

Originally, Xiao Tianjian wanted Luo Rucai to be the commander of the Southeast Military Region. This was a kind of commendation for Luo Rucai for his support for so many years. However, in the battle against Yunnan at the beginning of the year, Luo Rucai fell ill in front of the army and almost lost his life, although later some famous doctors With hard work, he saved his life, but his health was not as good as before. Luo Rucai also knew that he could not continue to work in the army. After the battle of Yunnan was over, Luo Rucai took the initiative to resign and asked to return to his hometown for glory.

So Xiao Tianjian had to grant Luo Rucai as Ding Nanbo, allowed him to withdraw from the army, and awarded him a big house in Nanjing City as a place for him to raise after his retirement, and was supported by the Dazhong Dynasty for life. As a reward for Luo Rucai's contributions over the years, Luo Rucai readily agreed and withdrew from the army and returned to Nanjing Chengrong. Raise.

However, shortly after this major reorganization was finalized, Yan Chongxi was also unable to continue to serve as the commander of the Northwest Military Region because of the recurrence of his old injury, so he also asked to resign and retire. Xiao Tianjian felt that Yan Chongxi's hard work and high achievements allowed him to retire. He was awarded him the third-class Duke of Pingxi, and gave him his mansion in Luoyang for his meal. The commander of the Northwest Military Region was succeeded by Li Lingfeng.

In addition to the land division, the navy has also been reorganized. The originally unified navy was divided into two parts: the Northern Marine Division and the Southern Marine Division, with the Yangtze River estuary of Songjiangfu as the boundary.

Liu Jiang served as the commander-in-chief of the navy, former admiral Xiao Rufeng served as the commander of the Northern Marine Division, and Liu Yanming served as the commander of the Southern Marine Division.

The original naval ships and personnel were re-divided, and a group of generals and ships were allocated to the originally weak northern fleet, which greatly expanded the strength of the northern fleet.

The headquarters of the Northern Fleet was not selected in Dengzhou, which was originally well-equipped, but was designated by Xiao Tianjian to be selected in Fushan Institute, that is, Qingdao in later generations. In addition, the station of the fleet was also selected in Fushan Institute, Weihaiwei and Dengzhou as the main berthing supply base of the Northern Marine Division.

As for the headquarters of the Southern Marine Division, it is located in Ningbo, and the fleet is mainly moored in Zhoushan, Wenzhou, Quanzhou and Guangzhou.

The whole rectification of the army lasted until the end of the third year of Tianyuan, and all the troops completed the reorganization, layoffs and change of defenses.

As for the fact that the navy proposed to send troops to Taiwan and expel the Dutch who occupied Taiwan after pacifing Hainan Island, Xiao Tianjian temporarily suppressed it for no other reason. Just because with the pacifing of the southern provinces, the next step of the Dazhong Dynasty should quickly tilt the focus of the army to the north and solve the problem as soon as possible. Jiannu in Liaodong, Xiao Tianjian does not want to use two-line troops for the time being. Only after solving the big trouble of Jiannu will he start to solve the problem of Taiwan and even the Ryukyu Kingdom and even Luzon.

However, although the Yongli Rebellion in the southern provinces had been paced, the Yongli Emperor Zhu Youqi was not captured by the Dazhong army. When the Dazhong army captured Yunnan, Zhu Youqi saw that the situation was not good, so he fled to Myanmar and was taken in by the king of Myanmar.

This incident made Xiao Tianjian very displeaous. Historically, Zhu Yourong also fled to Myanmar, but he didn't expect that this time he was more than ten years earlier in history, but he still didn't catch Zhu Youjian. Therefore, Xiao Tianjian ordered Li Shuanzhu to send troops to Myanmar after pacifying Yunnan. The king of Dian pressured the king of Burma to hand over Zhu Yourong.

At the end of the third year of Tianyuan, Li Shuanzhu sent a light mountain division of two Southwest Military Regions from Yunnan and entered Myanmar. He began to use troops against the Burmese dynasty. However, the mountains and forests in the north of Myanmar were dense, and the climate and road conditions were quite bad. Although the large and medium-sized army entered Burma, this battle was destined not to be fought. It is very smooth, and it is not expected to achieve much results in a short period of time, but Xiao Tianjian believes that this is an asymmetric battle, and there is no need to invest too much combat strength and consume too many resources. Sooner or later, the problem of Myanmar can be solved.

At least this time the Southwest Military Region entered Myanmar, the whole north of Myanmar should be included in the territory of the Great China Dynasty, forcing the King of Myanmar to bow down to the Great China Dynasty. However, he gave full authority to Li Shuanzhu for such a small-scale battle. As for his energy, he began to put it on the north again.

(Today, I would like to thank General Mao Mao for his reward! Ha ha!)