I want to be emperor

Chapter 201 Arranger
After the establishment of the commander of the West Route Army and the appointment of Huang Guangmao as the commander of the West Route Army, Luo Zhixue continued to prepare for the war in Xiangyang City.

On June 28, the main force of the Third Infantry Brigade, which had captured Zaoyang before, arrived in Xiangyang City.

And when the [-]rd Infantry Brigade also arrives in Xiangyang City, add the [-]st Infantry Brigade, Guards Brigade, Artillery Brigade, Cavalry Brigade and other units that were originally stationed in Xiangyang and the [-]th Mixed Brigade that followed Luo Zhixue to the south. The last [-]th Infantry Brigade who had just completed recruit training.

Then Xiangyang City has gathered more than 1 main forces with three main brigades as the core.

At the same time, the Rural Protection Army has been continuously recruiting and training new recruits. It won't be long before thousands of new recruits will complete the training and join various combat units. Luo Zhixue will definitely need to set up a few more main forces in the future.

But before that, Luo Zhixue still had to solve the problem of the current confusion in the establishment and title of the Township Protection Army.

As the Rural Protection Army has more and more brigade-level troop numbers, which is almost breaking through twenty, it has become increasingly difficult for the Rural Protection Army to directly command so many troops.

Although the North Route Army Headquarters and the West Route Army Headquarters were successively established before, these were only temporary measures and could not fundamentally solve the problem.

At the same time, the names of the main brigades and the traditional mixed brigades are highly similar and difficult to distinguish. They are also brigade commanders, and the military ranks of the two are also too different.

In order to solve the problem of confusing titles and establishments, Luo Zhixue officially issued an order on July [-]st to set up a garrison establishment.

All existing traditional formations will be reorganized into garrison formations, and the numbering will be rearranged.

At the same time, it is aimed at the current situation that the brigades are too small in strength, and the military-level organization is relatively large, and the deployment area is relatively large, so it is difficult for the military headquarters to directly control the operations of the brigades.

Luo Zhixue instructed: Add regiment-level establishments, all existing brigades will be reduced to regiment-level establishments, and brigade-level establishments will evolve into larger-scale establishments.

Tentatively, the two regiments are one brigade, and the two brigades are one division.

The division envisioned by Luo Zhixue is a strategic-level unit that needs to be solely responsible for a battle on one front. Therefore, it needs to be directly attached to auxiliary forces such as cavalry, artillery, and luggage. Such a division is expected to have a strength of 1 to 3000.

A division can fight a large-scale battle together with its spouse, or it can strengthen artillery, cavalry and other auxiliary units for a certain brigade separately to form a mixed brigade of about 5000 people.

This kind of mixed brigade is also a classic in the history of modern warfare. It is mainly more convenient for senior generals to command, and at the same time it is not lacking in flexibility, and it is in line with the new tactical application of the Rural Protection Army.

After this series of renaming, all the troops will change their designations and be divided into infantry regiments, infantry brigades, garrison regiments, and garrison brigades.

For example, under the jurisdiction of the North Route Army, the Fourth Mixed Brigade and the No.11 Mixed Brigade stationed in Yuzhou were taken as examples. They were reorganized into the First Defense Regiment and the Second Defense Regiment.

The above two garrison regiments were reorganized into the first garrison brigade.

The No.12 mixed brigade stationed in Nanyang City and the sixth mixed brigade stationed in Xinye area were also renamed the third garrison regiment and the fourth garrison regiment, and were organized into the second garrison brigade.

The above-mentioned two garrison brigades were combined into the first garrison division, which was still under the jurisdiction of the Northern Route Army Command, and the division commander was temporarily concurrently held by Zuo Yingzhe, Chief of Staff of the Northern Route Army.

The three traditional mixed brigades under the West Route Army will also be gradually reorganized into the fifth garrison regiment, sixth garrison regiment, and seventh garrison regiment.

The above-mentioned four garrison regiments were preparing to establish the third garrison brigade and the fourth garrison brigade respectively, and they were jointly organized into the second garrison division. They were still under the jurisdiction of the West Route Army Command, and the division commander was temporarily concurrently held by the commander of the West Route Army Huang Guangmao.

The fifth mixed brigade stationed in Xiangyang City was reorganized into the ninth garrison regiment, and a tenth garrison regiment was planned to be established later. The above two brigades will be reorganized into the fifth garrison brigade, which is temporarily under the direct control of the staff.

Luo Zhixue also adjusted the main forces.

The [-]st Infantry Brigade will be downsized into the [-]st Infantry Regiment, the [-]th Infantry Regiment into the [-]nd Infantry Regiment, and the [-]rd Infantry Brigade into the [-]rd Infantry Regiment. Formation of the [-]th Infantry Regiment.

The First Infantry Regiment and the Second Infantry Regiment formed the First Infantry Brigade, and the Third Infantry Regiment and the Fourth Infantry Regiment formed the Second Infantry Brigade.

The above two brigades will be combined into the first division.

The [-]st Division also governs the [-]st Artillery Regiment, [-]st Cavalry Regiment, and [-]st Supplies Regiment.

The First Artillery Regiment, which will be drawn down from the First Artillery Brigade in the future, plans to have 36 field artillery units under its jurisdiction.

The First Cavalry Regiment, selected from various cavalry infantry, plans to govern 650 cavalry.

The division does not have a division commander for the time being, but is under the direct control of the staff department, that is, Luo Zhixue is personally in command.

There is only one main division for the time being, because the main force of the rural protection army is not many.

Even the newly formed First Division still lacks a Fourth Infantry Regiment.

The Second Infantry Brigade and Seventh Infantry Brigade stationed in Nanyang will be reorganized into the Fifth Infantry Regiment and the Sixth Infantry Regiment, which will be combined into the Third Infantry Brigade.

Luo Zhixue instructed the staff to reorganize in strict accordance with the numbers when continuing to reorganize and add new troops.

The strength of the above-mentioned divisions, regardless of whether they are garrison divisions or main divisions, if the strength of each division is full, it will reach more than 1 people, and it can be completely independent.

However, although Luo Zhixue added a regiment-level organization and a division-level organization, he did not abolish the North Route Army Command and the West Route Army Command, but continued to retain these two military-level organizations.

Because these two organizations are not establishment organizations in the traditional sense, but belong to the campaign direction command organization.

For example, the Northern Route Army is responsible for the northern defense zone, and according to the severity of the task, the strength of its jurisdiction will also change. ), the Sixth Infantry Regiment (formerly the Seventh Infantry Brigade) was transferred to the Northern Route Army Headquarters.

The same is true for the West Route Army. Although there is only the second garrison division (less than a garrison regiment) for the time being, it seems that there is no need to set up a military-level organization, but it is not the case. The follow-up West Route Army needs to continue Fight on the Western Front.

According to the situation, Luo Zhixue will also appropriately send additional troops to the commander of the West Route Army.

It is better to keep it if it is added later.

Although Luo Zhixue issued a lot of orders for this reorganization operation, in fact, it was more of a change in the number of the troops, and did not make a big mobilization of the troops under the jurisdiction of each defense zone.

The troops fighting in the north and west were the same ones.

What can be regarded as a relatively big change is actually the plan to expand the Fourth Infantry Regiment.

This is the expansion of the main force of the Township Protection Army after the Second Infantry Regiment (formerly the Eighth Infantry Brigade) and the Fifth Infantry Regiment (formerly the Seventh Infantry Brigade).

Moreover, it is different from directly establishing a brand new army before. This time, Luo Zhixue selected troops from other main forces to serve as the backbone of the new army, and used it to shorten the formation time of the new army.

Although this will weaken the combat effectiveness of the old troops, Luo Zhixue believes that this effect is acceptable.

Seeing that it took only a few days for the Fourth Infantry Regiment to recruit thousands of new recruits, Luo Zhixue swiped his pen.

A battalion was drawn from the Fifth Infantry Regiment as the core, and after recruiting recruits, the Seventh Infantry Regiment was formed.

A battalion was drawn from the Sixth Infantry Regiment as the core, and recruits were recruited to form the Eighth Infantry Regiment.

The lack of recruits in the above-mentioned regiments will all be supplemented by recruits from the recruit battalions in Nanyang Mansion.

Although these two regiments were still on paper, in order to avoid subsequent troubles, Luo Zhixue directly combined these two regiments into the Fourth Infantry Brigade.

The brigade will be combined with the third infantry brigade into the second division, and the commander of the division will be concurrently held by Huang Dingquan, commander of the North Route Army.

Then on July 1000, Luo Zhixue transferred more than [-] people from the first division to serve as the backbone of the newly formed third division. The lack of recruits was supplemented by recruits from Xiangyang Prefecture.

After entering mid-July, the paper organization of the Township Protection Army became the first division, the second division, the third division, the first garrison division, the second garrison division, and the fifth garrison brigade.

In addition, the First Cavalry Brigade still maintains an independent organization, and Wang Xiazi still leads the most elite cavalry in the rural protection army. Half artillery.

It is worth noting that after this reorganization, the Guards Brigade still maintains the designation of the Guards Brigade, but it is the same as the main force, and the establishment is directly expanded to a mixed brigade-level establishment of more than 5000 people.

However, the above-mentioned troops seem to have a large establishment, but in fact many of them are empty-handed.

For example, the second division now actually has a total of more than 5000 people, and even the recruits have not been fully replenished.

The third division has only a thousand people, and it will take at least two months to form an army.

On the contrary, the garrison divisions were relatively well-equipped. After all, the Xiangbao Army had captured too many prisoners of war such as the Ming army and rogues, so thousands of people could always jump out and replenish them.

After all the reorganization was completed, Luo Zhixue also personally led the army to the south.

The reason why Luo Zhixue went south at this time was because a sentry sent news that a Ming army with nearly 2 troops in the south was heading north to Yicheng along the Han River.

This news finally prompted Luo Zhixue to personally lead the main force to go south.

Because there are already 2 or [-] Ming troops garrisoned in Yicheng now. If this group of about [-] Ming troops can enter Yicheng smoothly, it will be even more troublesome to attack Yicheng later.

Therefore, even if the reorganization of the troops has not been completed, new weapons such as siege mortars and large-caliber field guns will not be affected.

Luo Zhixue still took the first division (owed to the fourth infantry regiment), cavalry brigade, guard brigade, and fifth garrison brigade to the south.

As for Xiangyang City in the rear, it was temporarily garrisoned by the Third Division and the Fourth Infantry Regiment.

It's funny to say that Xiangyang City now seems to have divisions and regiments garrisoned, and it seems to be safe and sound, but in fact the total garrison strength is only a thousand people...

Because the third division has just been established, even the soldiers are not yet in place. Most of the thousand people now are officers and non-commissioned officers, and only about half of them are pure soldiers... The scheduled soldiers of the third division are still being recruited. .

The Fourth Infantry Regiment is full of personnel, but only a hundred or so are veterans, and the rest are all recruits, and they don't even have muskets, so they can only hold spears for the time being...

Adding up this division with another regiment, it is estimated that even a strengthened main regiment will not be able to beat...

But now Xiangyang also belongs to the rear, as long as the army led by Luo Zhixue in the front does not suffer a disastrous defeat, then Xiangyang City will not face the threat of a large number of enemy attacks.

As for the long-distance raids by the sporadic enemy troops of hundreds or thousands of people, the city walls, moats, and a large number of old-style artillery on the city head of Xiangyang City are for viewing.

When Luo Zhixue personally led an army of tens of thousands to the south, the Ming army in Yicheng area also immediately discovered the change of the bandit protection army.

For a while, the atmosphere in Yicheng became extremely depressing.

(End of this chapter)