The rise of the prince

Chapter 863 Major Events in the First Year of Zhangwu

At the end of August, Li Xingzhou sent Zhao Guanghua, the commander of the Ma Jun, the bodyguard, to lead the left wing of the Lingjie Army to the north.

According to the military system, each army has two compartments, which are left and right compartments, with 5000 people in each compartment.

The Danling Jie Army is the main force of the cavalry army, with a total force of only about 1 troops per compartment. The main combat force is [-], and the remaining [-] are auxiliary soldiers. They are responsible for logistics supplies, feeding horses, and harassing the enemy when necessary. .

Li Xingzhou sent Zhao Guanghua to the north. In addition to bringing the letter to Yang Hongzhao, he also asked them to escort [-] new Type [-] rifles, [-] obsolete old Suifa guns, and [-] carts of ammunition.

After arriving, the left wing of the Lingjie Army was also dispatched by Yang Hongzhao.

The Lingjie Army was the elite of the Forbidden Army. They were sent to the west of Liaoning under the command of Yang Hongzhao to strengthen the defense to the west of Taihang Mountain.

On the other hand, let the new army, the right wing of the Lingjie army, and the Shenwu army prepare for war and strengthen training.

The Shenwu Army is infantry, and the main force on the left and right sides has 5 people.

As the new army continues to advance and change equipment, there are tens of thousands of Suifa guns that have been eliminated, and these can be equipped with the Shenwu Army.

Li Xingzhou asked Shen Lin to be responsible for selecting the best soldiers in the army, and was responsible for teaching the Shenwu army to use muskets.

In the Shenwu Army, first train 1 battalions, [-] musketeers, using the quick-fire guns that were eliminated by the new army, and train five battalions of artillery, using old-style guns that were eliminated by the new army.

These newly trained musketeers and artillery, a total of 25 battalions, 1 people, are all organized in the left wing of the Shenwu Army.

After everyone's discussion, Li Xingzhou insisted that the Shenwu Army should be commanded by Fan Jili, the former commander of the Fourth Division of the New Army Army.

Except for the 1 people led by Zhao Guanghua to go north to the left wing of the Ling Jie Army, Yelu Dashi served as the commander of the right wing of the Ling Jie Army. He commanded the remaining 1 people, including [-] elite cavalry and [-] auxiliary soldiers.

After discussing with the emperor, Li Xingzhou also personally began to purge the forbidden army, dealing with those who ate their salary and withheld their salary, almost half of them were cleared by the high-level officials of the forbidden army.

Cleaning up the military officers in Jingguo was much easier than cleaning up the civilian officials. Later, Li Xingzhou sent the backbone of the new army to the Shenwu Army to fill the high-level vacancies. In this way, the new army of the Forbidden Army was completely under his control.

In the next period of time, with the grand strategy set and the coastal reforms being carried out smoothly, Li Xingzhou began to make every effort to reform the Imperial Army.

In addition to the transformation of the left wing of the Shenwu Army, there is also an increase in the rank of high-level generals, so that they will not be slaughtered by civilian officials at will.

This move complements the newly changed "Zhangwu" reign title. All the officials in the court understand his intentions. In addition to Li Xingzhou's prestige now, only the old man in the Ministry of Rites said a few words, and everyone else has no objections.

At this point, the highest official rank of military commanders and officials mentioned the same first rank as civil officials, and military officials were appointed as privy envoys, and the senior officials of the three yamen were also promoted to half the rank.

But even so, it only raised the status of warriors to a certain extent. Among other things, there was only one rank of military generals, the Hussar General, and the Taishi, Taifu, Taibao, Shaoshi, Shaofu, and Shaobao were all first-rank officials.

But all kinds of actions made him gain the morale of the army, and the imperial army's combat effectiveness was high.

Then there was the rectification of the Wu De Division. Li Xingzhou trained the four battalions of the Wu De Division as Suifa guns, and one battalion as an artillery battalion, pushing the old cannons to the top of the city to defend the capital.

Many of the reforms were carried out gradually and continued until the end of the year, which is another story.

At the end of September, He Qian and Pu Chaling gave birth to two children for him.

He Qian's daughter, Li Sirui, and Pu Chaling's son, Li Sining, all of a sudden, there were four little guys in the family.

This has also become a major event in Jingguo.

And at the beginning of September, Yelu Yali was also pregnant, which made Yelu Dashi very happy. Taking this opportunity, he actually married a beautiful widow in the capital, who was from the Tang family. In Li Xingzhou's opinion, he was probably just looking for an excuse.

However, I took this opportunity to gain some foundation in the capital. Although Yelu Dashi has the false title of Liao King, his actual official position is only the commander of the right wing of the guards and Ling Jie army, which is far inferior to Tang Zhou's role as the third division. make.

As time went by, when it was time to enter the east, news from the north kept coming.

In October, the left wing of the Lingjie Army led by Zhao Guanghua had arrived at Zhongxing Mansion and handed over to Yang Hongzhao.

Also in October, the Mongol troops from the south bypassed the last fortress of Wushabao and entered Shangjing. The [-] Mongolian army encircled Shangjing, and all the surrounding cities fell and were wiped out by the Mongols.

By the end of October, the Mongolian army had been besieging Shangjing for more than two months. Although all the surrounding cities were captured, the Mongolian army even swept eastward for more than 1000 miles and reached the Songwa River. Fighting, the two sides played against each other in Linquandi by the Songwa River.

Both sides had their own injuries, and the Mongolian army did not dare to rush forward because they had no reinforcements.

However, from Wushabao in the west to the banks of the Songwa River in the east, the Jin people were no longer able to resist the Mongols in the vast territory of the Kingdom of Jin, which spanned [-] miles from east to west.

At the beginning of November, Temujin left his beloved general Mu Huali to continue to besiege Jin Kingdom Shangjing, while he led his army back to the grassland.

After all the reports were sent to the desk, Li Xingzhou looked at the map for a long time, and then based on the description, he probably came to the conclusion that the Mongols had already fought eastward to Changchun and Harbin in later generations. Wanyan Zongbi's men fought against each other.

There is also Mu Huali, who is also famous and one of Temujin's most trusted people.

The situation in the east began to become clear. Temujin's withdrawal of troops showed that he had adopted a laissez-faire attitude towards Shangjing, or let it go, and he did not have much determination to capture Shangjing.

The war between Mongolia and the Kingdom of Jin lasted for more than 20 years. Before the Mongols obtained a large number of craftsmen and technologies from the Central Plains, their methods of attacking the city were very limited.

The main reason for fighting with the Jin people for more than 20 years is that it is difficult to attack the city by fighting tough battles. Most of the time they rely on guerrillas to capture the city by surprise, so it is difficult for them to capture the Jin country as quickly as Jing Guo.

This is great news.

The Mongols can't strike quickly, he has time!
The first year of Zhangwu was the six or seven years after Li Xingzhou gained power, a rare year in which Jingguo did not use troops externally or internally.

The emperor's grandson devoted all his energy to domestic reforms. In the first half of the year, he implemented tax reforms in the southern coastal states and counties, and in the second half of the year he focused on the reform of the forbidden army.

The two major reforms were based on the prestige accumulated over the years of the Southern and Northern Wars.

Two major events, the previous one to curb land mergers, laid a solid and good foundation for the development of the south.

The second time completely changed the appearance of the imperial army, creating a new army of 25 battalions with a total of 500 people.

The morale of the forbidden army was greatly shaken, and Li Xingzhou's prestige in the army was even higher.

At the end of the winter month, the last major event in the first year of Zhangwu was also in front of Li Xingzhou.

The prototype ship of Wangfu's new firepower ship has been completed, and the plan led by Zhao Si and Qiu'er, and the plan ship led by Tieniu, Guan Zhong, and Zhu Rong have all been built. They have been launched in Wangfu Shipyard and the actual test can already begin.

Li Xingzhou attached great importance to this matter, and even pushed away all the big and small matters in the DPRK, and called more than 50 generals of the new army, who were going to go to see the two prototype ship tests in person, compare their performance, and let the military quickly select a suitable plan and invest in it. Production.

Everything is ready for the war on the Western Front.
(End of this chapter)