Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 198 Warrior Standard Bearer
"Your Highness, what should Fang Bu do?"

University scholars Xu Shiqi and Shen Chenquan followed the army one step later, and as soon as they entered the city, they saw Fang Guoan's head hung up for public display, and they were very shocked.

From a rational point of view, Fang Guoan shouldn't be killed, let alone Zhu Yihai.

After all, Fang Guoan is a general, and there are tens of thousands of people under his command. At this time, Jianguo killed Fang Guoan himself, and if the news spread, the unity that had been maintained so hard for a long time might be destroyed.

But he killed them all, and now he can no longer blame Jian Guo, and can only think about how to help with the aftermath.

Fang Yuanke and the other five generals were still trembling as they listened to Hou's words. As for the other generals, they had already been surrounded by the imperial army.

"Disarm all the equipment first, and carefully screen and review. Young and brave fighters, stay and use them, but they must be scattered and organized into other armies."

"The old, the weak, and the disabled will all be dismissed,"

"There are also some nearby strong men who were forcibly recruited and returned home."

Fang Guoan has many bad habits of the military leaders in the late Ming Dynasty, that is, he likes to support his troops and be self-respecting, recruiting troops everywhere and even forcing strong men. One person has many powers, but has no combat effectiveness.

Bullying the people is a good hand, but in real war, one is more cowardly than the other.

It is useless to have more soldiers like this.

Fang Guoan's real elite consisted of [-] cavalry and [-] infantry, and the rest could only be used by the servants of the generals, deputy generals and other officers, and the rest were all made up.

Zhu Yihai asked Fang Guoan to reorganize the team several times before and streamline the soldiers, but he ignored it at all and went his own way. Anyway, it is impossible to disband the army, and he is even constantly expanding the number of recruits.

Up to now, it is said that there are [-] to [-] people, and they are called [-].

But at the beginning, he could neither defend Hangzhou nor beat Zhu Dadian's Jinhua Xiangyong, and he didn't dare to fight the Tartars in Fuyang, only dared to bully the people.

Zhu Yihai originally wanted to get rid of these cowardly soldiers, but after experiencing the first Northern Expedition, he also understood that those simple recruits are reliable, but in real wars, all recruits are not enough.

Soldiers such as cavalry, sailors, and gunners are all very technical, and they can't even be trained without three to five years of training.

Therefore, it is necessary to properly absorb some veterans.

But it is also necessary to disband these soldiers and reorganize them, so that their bad habits can be slowly changed, otherwise, it will be useless if they are retained by the reorganization system.

"Above the sentry officer, none will be retained." Zhu Yihai added another one.

Fang Yuanke and the others looked even paler.

Although Fang Yuanke and others are considered to have rich battle experience, these running generals are all of the same virtue as Fang Guoan.

"Then how to deal with it?"

"First of all, all of them will be removed from their positions, but they will be lowered by three ranks to retain their grades, and they will be given a half salary. Before sending them to the line, they will have to reform their thinking."

Zhu Yihai is going to hold a class to pull military leaders like Fang Yuanke to take two months of classes to strengthen the ideological transformation training of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism. It is a waste for these people to give up and use it directly, but it is not at ease to use it directly. .

I can only sit on the bench for two months, make a good transformation, and decide to use them based on their final performance.

"Ming Yousi carefully reviewed the past experiences of these people and asked them to reform deeply."

"Of course, for Fangbu's soldiers, no matter whether they are retained or dismissed, they will all be paid settlement or severance allowances."

Fang Guoan's team needs to be completely dismembered, but it is also necessary to prevent chaos, and what needs to be appeased must be appeased.

Fortunately, Fang Guoan plundered wantonly and robbed a lot of money and food, but he was still accumulating, but it was cheaper for Zhu Yihai, and it was just right to use it directly to deal with the aftermath, and there might even be some surplus.

Fang Guoan's thousands of horses, many armors and equipment, are not old or young. In short, after Zhu Yihai annexed Fang Guoan's men and horses this time, he did not lose money, and even made a fortune.

The Fang Guoan tribes in Lin'an and other cities, as well as the remaining tribes in Yanzhou, had to be appeased and dealt with as soon as possible. Originally, many people suggested that the generals of the local ministries should be retained in their original positions, and even be ordered to lead the ministries, but Zhu Yihai refused.

Now that Fang Guoan was killed, none of his generals would remain.

Although this may cause them to mutiny, but Zhu Yihai thinks that long-term pain is worse than short-term pain, and if they dare to rebel, then take the opportunity to calm down.

"The original Yongwei First Battalion was reorganized into the Imperial Battalion Infantry Warrior Town. Liu Mu served as the commander-in-chief. The backbone was drawn from the towns of Banner Bearer, Yulin, and Shenji, and some of Fang Guoan's troops were absorbed, plus the original Liu Zongbing. Formed partly under the command, with a quota of ten battalions, [-] soldiers and [-] auxiliary soldiers, they will go out of Zhenyan Prefecture."

"After Banner Town replenished some of the troops from Yanhang and Hangzhou, it was commanded by Zhang Quan, the commander-in-chief, stationed in Fuyang, and responsible for the area west of Hangzhou in the north of the Fuchun River."

"The former Hangzhou West and Yanzhou ministries and horses have been integrated into the two towns of Warriors and Banner Bearers."

Zhu Yihai struck while the iron was hot. After dismembering Fang Guoan's department, he took advantage of the opportunity to reorganize and merge Liu Mu's miscellaneous soldiers.

He still believes in his own imperial army the most. This time, he normalized the soldiers in Yanhang and Hangzhou. The two towns have 1 battalions with [-] soldiers, plus [-] auxiliary soldiers, so that the quota is full. Real soldiers and real pay.

The rest were sent home.

Or organize them into local regiments to enrich the armor and joint defense.

In the original Qiantang River defense line, there were too many soldiers and horses of all kinds, battalions and rebels, whether everyone was loyal or wanted to take the opportunity to join in the fun and seek an official position, it was a bit chaotic.

In order to rectify the army in the cabinet, it has not had much effect, and the enthusiasm for dismissing one side and the other side is extremely high.

But when the soldiers came, they had to have food and pay. If the supply was not enough, people would be looted.But to supply so many soldiers, the logistics pressure is also great. The key is that so many soldiers consume food and pay, but they are not of much practical use.

Along the Qiantang River, there are soldiers and horse camps everywhere, but they don't even have complete banners, let alone armor and equipment. The tattered ones are really going to fight, and they probably will be scattered as soon as they are charged.

Zhu Yihai's Northern Expedition to the Three Wus had also seen the strength of the Qing army. In a real duel, five hundred Tartar cavalry would definitely be able to forcibly charge tens of thousands of this so-called righteous army.

And the righteous teacher is still bound to lose.

Just like Huang Fei's 7 people, the result was that the whole army was defeated by the news of a defeat.

Zhu Yihai is now focusing on building the imperial battalion. This imperial battalion is not governed by the five armies, the Ministry of War, or the cabinet, but is directly controlled by the emperor. It is even one level higher than the Beijing camp. The eunuch is supervised by the eunuch, and he is also assisted by Rongzheng Shangshu.

But the imperial battalion is Zhu Yihai's pro-army, and he directly commands it.

From these aspects, his imperial battalion was even stronger than the Shence Army of the Tang Dynasty.

After the Anshi Rebellion, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty relied on the Shence Army to maintain his rule. Not only did he keep Guanzhong, but he even expanded his territory outside the pass step by step. Without the Shence Army, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty would have been unable to keep his dragon chair.

However, the emperors of the late Tang Dynasty used eunuchs to control the Shence Army. Although this ensured that the Shence Army led by the eunuchs would loyally support the emperor, it also gave the eunuchs and lieutenants who controlled the Shence Army the power to abolish the emperor.

(End of this chapter)