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Chapter 124 transfers in!The rebels have upgraded again!
According to the letter from the Red Lady, since October 21, when Liu Sheng led the main force of the rebel army to leave Queshan, there have been no shortage of refugees coming to Queshan County every day to seek relief.

The number of new refugees added every day may be as low as 1000 or more than [-].

The Red Lady sent people to conduct a secret investigation and learned that although there were fewer refugees coming from Fucheng, there were more refugees coming from other counties in Runing.

Not only did refugees come from Suiping, Xiping, Shangcai, and Xincai in the Ru River Basin, but also from Zhenyang in the south and even Xixian, Luoshan, and Xinyang Prefecture, after hearing the news!

By the time the Red Lady wrote this letter on the fourth day of November, there were nearly [-] newly added refugees with families outside Queshan County!

The number of single young men who were left outside the county to train as civilian husbands and warriors also reached more than 8000!

Previously, when Liu Sheng left Queshan County on September 24, he left more than 6 shi of grain behind.

But later the Red Lady was responsible for transporting refugees and food, and each time she transported more than 1 stones of food to Tianmu Mountain.

Coupled with the consumption of the rebels themselves and the consumption of refugee relief, the food collected by the rebels has rapidly decreased.

By late October, Liu Sheng sent troops from Queshan to attack Suiping. The rebels in Queshan County had less than [-] shi of food.

Fortunately, Hong Niangzi and others had sent people to Zhuangbao villages in the countryside to "borrow food", otherwise the rebels would have even less food left in Queshan County.

In the short half a month after Liu Sheng left, the number of rebels and refugees in Queshan County reached a peak of more than 3.

Four to five hundred stones of food are consumed every day.

In order to reduce the food pressure on Queshan and facilitate Liu Sheng's return to immigrate to North America, the Red Lady moved about [-] refugees to Tianmu Mountain.

Even so, after less than half a month, the rebel army only had more than [-] shi of food left in Queshan.

(Food will also be consumed during transporting food and migrating immigrants, and there are quite a few.)
Even if there are no more refugees coming outside Queshan County, the remaining food will be used sparingly. If the food used for refugee relief is halved, it will only be enough for two months at most.

The problem is that as winter approaches, the number of refugees will only increase, not decrease.

Besides, the rebels have to hold on until next summer's harvest.

Although Liu Sheng plans to attack Ruyang to obtain food, it is still unclear how much food he can obtain from Ruyang.

The red lady wrote a letter to tell her about the food shortage.

She hoped that Liu Sheng would act earlier to avoid failure in attacking Ruyang, or not getting enough food from Ruyang after breaking the city, which would put the rebels in a real food crisis...
It was indeed beyond Liu Sheng's expectation that so many refugees would come to Queshan.

After thinking about it for a moment, he guessed that it was probably the Runing government office that asked the county offices below to lure the refugees to Queshan, so that the rebels would have a greater burden on rescuing the refugees.

Although in Liu Sheng's plan, it would be most appropriate to attack Ruyang in late November.

But Lady Red’s concerns in her letter are not without reason.

He cannot pin all his hopes of obtaining food on conquering Ruyang.

Although even if the attack on Ruyang fails, or he fails to obtain enough food from Ruyang, he will not starve to death by sending all the refugees to North America.

However, when food and other supplies are insufficient, the efficiency of immigrants' reclamation in North America will inevitably be greatly reduced, and many people will even die in the winter.

Therefore, it is better to attack Ruyang earlier and leave some room for time.

As for the defeat of Ruyang, it may attract the attention of the Ming Dynasty court and send heavy troops to suppress it, but it will be next year.

At worst, the rebels will withdraw from Ruyang and even Queshan and retreat to Tianmu Mountain.

It is estimated that at that time, he would have a small number of 10 people under his command, and with North America as his base, he would no longer be afraid of the Ming army's siege and blockade.

Moreover, when Li Zicheng breaks Luoyang first and then opens the seal, the Ming army will probably not care about Runing.

Therefore, on the day he received the letter from the Red Lady, Liu Sheng sent a fast horse to Wuyang County to notify Yang Heqing, Peng Youyi and others to evacuate.

In the past three days, they have sent the Arms Bureau and hundreds of craftsmen and their families who were forcibly recruited from the county to Tieshanji.

A batch of food and supplies collected in the county town were also sent over.

All you need to do is send the remaining supplies over later.

He organized the transportation of money, grain, iron materials and other materials in Tieshanji.

With more than 1000 miners organized into 19 Mingyong Battalions as miners, and on the way to Wuyang, he led the rebels to borrow food, mules, horses and vehicles from Zhuangzhai along the way, so he didn't have to worry about Tieshanji. Supplies cannot be transported.

Moreover, in such a large team, all the civilians were young men who had worked as miners, so there was no need to worry about bandits and bandits on the road.

As long as the bandits and bandits are not blind, they will not have the idea of ​​escorting the rebel team.

The destination of the escort is not far away, which is Suiping County, eighty or ninety miles away...

In just three days, the money, grain and materials seized by the rebels in Tieshanji, Wuyang County and other places, as well as the collected craftsmen, were all escorted outside Suiping County.

November tenth.

Liu Sheng held a military meeting in his tent.

The battalion commanders, battalion deputies, and military and political officers from the three battalions of the Guards and the five battalions of the standing army were all present at the meeting.

Among them, Shen Zhaoxian arrived with three sentries from the Sixth Battalion just today - at Tieshanji, Liu Sheng wrote a reply to the red lady and asked him to be sent to Queshan quickly.

In the letter, he mentioned the military expansion again.

Shen Zhaoxian brought three sentries of the Sixth Battalion to cooperate with the army expansion.

After the meeting starts.

Liu Sheng stood like all the generals.

He got straight to the point: “This meeting mainly announced two things. The first thing is emergency military expansion.

I plan to expand the standing army to twelve battalions and form a regiment-level military establishment based on the battalion-level establishment. "

Although the military establishment of armies, divisions, brigades, regiments, and battalions appeared in the [-]th century in imitation of advanced foreign armies, their names are actually ancient names selected from traditional culture.

It is not unexpected for Liu Sheng to use it now.

It should be noted that the Ying Dynasty existed here in the Ming Dynasty, and the Tuan Dynasty existed in the Song Dynasty.

The generals of the rebel army were not highly educated, or had little education. Even Wen You, who was born as a child, had only read the Four Books and Five Classics before.As for those who said they had read military books, none of them did.

Therefore, they had no objections to the new military unit proposed by Liu Sheng, and were only excited.

Because expanding the army and establishing higher military units will undoubtedly mean that another group of people will be promoted!
Then, Liu Sheng directly announced the expansion plan he had studied and the list of senior generals for the five additional battalions.

The eighth battalion of the standing army is commanded by Liu Erhe, battalion deputy Zhang Xin, and military and political officer Xu Yu.

The ninth battalion commander Zheng Erli, battalion deputy Lin Zhanfei, and military and political officer Feng Yun.

The tenth battalion commander Zhang Ao, battalion deputy Zhang Shijie, and military and political officer Tan Yajun.

No. 11 Battalion commander Huang Gan, battalion deputy Ma Mingfeng, and military and political officer Bai Fengyuan.

No.12 Battalion commander Shi Jinhui (former battalion deputy of the third battalion), battalion deputy Li Zhaoxiang, and military and political officer Song Yi.

The commanders of the five new battalions were originally battalion deputy commanders.

The battalion lieutenants are all promoted from the former standing army sentry commanders with outstanding merits.

Military and political officers are also outstanding candidates selected from sentry-level military and political officers.

Among them, the No. 11 Battalion and the No. 12 Battalion will be formed by Hong Niangzi in Queshan County, mainly to absorb the earliest trained Qian Min Yong.

The earliest training batch of civilian warriors was originally 2000 people. It has been a month and a half since late September. During this period, they have also cooperated with the standing army to perform various tasks, and they are basically trained.

Liu Sheng attacked Sui and took away a thousand, but Queshan only had a thousand left.

These 1000 people will all be organized into the No. 11 and No. 12 battalions of the standing army.

In addition, the red lady will also be ordered to organize and train five new Mingyong battalions in Queshan - the 100 extra people from the old Mingyong will serve as instructors and general officers in the new Mingyong battalions.

In this way, Queshan will have two and a half standing military camps and five civilian warrior battalions, which are enough to undertake the defense tasks of Queshan and even the transportation and maintenance tasks from Queshan to Tianmu Mountain.

As for the civilian husband camp, as many young and single people as there are, we can accommodate them.

Liu Sheng has already thought that the rebel army will adopt this model when dealing with refugees outside the country in the future - those with families will be sent to North America or nearby suitable places to cultivate wasteland and farm, and single young adults will be first incorporated into civilian camps.

The civilian warriors outside mainly replenish their troops from the civilian camp, and the standing army recruits its troops from the civilian camp.

As for his personal guards, they naturally recruited elite soldiers from the standing army.

This not only ensures that he is in charge of the most powerful troops, but also gives the soldiers enough room for promotion. It can also solve the hidden dangers of single refugees. It can be said that it kills multiple birds with one stone.

Seeing that the meeting was coming to an end, all the generals became more and more nervous and expectant.

Because Liu Sheng has not yet announced the appointment of regiment-level generals.

Under the expectation of all the generals, Liu Sheng took out the appointment letter he had written long ago.

"Today, the First Regiment of the Standing Army is established, and Peng Youyi, the former commander of the First Battalion, is appointed as the commander of the first regiment, Hu Dongliu is appointed as the deputy of the regiment, and An Jun is appointed as the military and political officer of the regiment.

In addition, due to the temporary vacancy of cadre candidates, the three of them also served as the commander of the first battalion, battalion deputy, and battalion military and political officer! "

Hearing this, Peng Youyi couldn't help but stand up, clasped his fists and responded excitedly: "I accept the order!"

Hu Dongliu and An Jun also followed suit and clasped their fists, saying in unison: "I accept my orders!"

No wonder Peng Youyi was so excited.

Liu Sheng's new regiment-level unit includes three combat battalions, and a regiment headquarters will be formed later.

The regiment headquarters is also organized into a battalion.

There are guard posts, artillery posts, reconnaissance posts, military police posts, health posts, and service posts. The service posts include correspondents, clerks, logistics officers and other personnel.

The most important thing is that a regiment of the Standing Army will also be equipped with a civilian brave battalion dedicated to the task of transporting armor, grain and other baggage, which can be called the baggage battalion of the regiment.

In other words, a full regiment of the Rebel Army will consist of five battalions, with a total of 3000 people!

You can be responsible for all the combat missions alone!

But according to what Liu Sheng said just now, it will probably take some time to set up a regiment headquarters.

Otherwise, they would not be allowed to serve as battalion officers of the first battalion.

Subsequently, Liu Sheng announced the appointment of generals for three other regiments.

The commander of the second regiment was Wen You, regimental deputy Mao Chengguo, and military and political officer Wang Dalu.

The third regiment commander Yang Heqing, regiment deputy Shi Jincai, and military and political officer Zhao Deyou.

The fourth regiment is commanded by Hong Niangzi, regimental deputy Wang Laowu, and military and political officer Sun Qifai.

It can be seen that, except for the first regiment, the regimental deputies of the remaining three regiments were all transferred from the Guards.

In this way, the general positions of the Guards have naturally changed.

In the Xiaoqi Battalion, Yang Kuiwu is still the acting battalion commander and the first sentry commander, while Li Rongguang is the second sentry commander.

Li Rongguang was originally good at riding. After joining the rebel army, he has been practicing hard in the knight camp. Now he has mastered the skills of riding, shooting and riding, and he can convince others, which is quite outstanding.

As for Shi Jincai, Liu Sheng saw that he was really not suitable to stay in Shengjie Camp, so he simply transferred him to the standing army.

Wang Laowu is actually still in Liujiazhai - he is a solid person, meticulous in his work, loyal and not afraid of death, so he is very suitable to be the second-in-command of the Red Lady.

Liu Sheng announced the establishment of a standing corps-level establishment and the appointment of battalion and regiment chiefs and deputy generals, which took less than half an hour in total.

After making the announcement, he asked his guards to hang up a map.

When the generals took a look, they saw a very detailed military map of Runing Mansion!
Liu Sheng glanced at the generals and said, "The second thing in the meeting is to discuss how to attack Ruyang!"

　Second more.

　　The update came late.

　　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)