Late Tang

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At the beginning of August of the second year of Qianfu.

On the alluvial plain along the Yellow River and Jishui line in Ziqing Town, there are soldiers and horses walking all the way.The autumn wind is bleak, and everything is chilling. In mid-autumn and Guiyue, the weather starts to turn cold.

However, this marching army is full of energy, vigorous and fierce.

They marched forward in a rare and orderly procession, scattered dozens of miles forward and backward, and there were sentry rangers whistling past everywhere.The infantry is in the front, the luggage is in the middle, and the cavalry is guarding the advance on both wings.A team of sergeants, one group of ten people, one team of 50 people, each team is a marching sequence, each team commander and team leader, the flag bearer behind them carries the team flag to the wind Fluttering.The soldiers strode forward with proud expressions on their faces. They are the prestigious town [***], and they have the right to be proud.

Li Jing stood on Huashan Mountain in the south of Licheng in Qizhou, looking at the soldiers and horses on the plain not far away.

The resettlement plan of Ziqing Town has almost been carried out, and now the town [***] and the Pinglu Army are switching defenses.According to the plan of the General Staff Department, two 5000 Pinglu Army and [-] Ziqing United Army will be transferred to Dengzhou and Liaodong, and will be reorganized with other left-behind troops in Zhen [***].The sixteen counties of Ziqing and Sanshan are temporarily garrisoned by the town [***] with [-] troops.

Zhen [***] now has a large number of soldiers and horses. Li Jing has 4000 soldiers and horses, 10 troops stationed in Youzhou, [-] sailors and infantry in the south, and [-] soldiers and horses left behind. Five thousand new recruits and eight thousand united soldiers.All the soldiers and horses added up have reached [-] horses. If you add the two [-] soldiers and [-] united soldiers of the Pinglu Army, it has reached [-] horses.

However, there are not many elite soldiers and horses, and it is imminent to integrate them together.

As early as when Li Jing was in Chang'an, he had already begun to prepare to integrate the town [***] into five armies and five yamen, and to separate the united soldiers.There are 5000 troops in each army and 5000 soldiers in each government office, and there are 1000 soldiers in the town [***].Now Pinglu Pin Li Jing also plans to reorganize them into the Fifth Army of Pinglu Army.So the two armies will have 24 men.In addition, the Unity Army will be organized on a scale of 4000 people per county. The town [***] now has [-] counties, and will have [-] troops divided into three armies.

Except for the soldiers and united soldiers, the rest of the auxiliary soldiers will be disbanded and returned to the peasants, but not completely disbanded.On the contrary, Li Jing proposed a task to the Chief of Staff, which is to form a 10 township soldiers among the people in the town [***].

The united soldiers are trained in autumn and winter and recruited in wartime, which is equivalent to the reserve army.As for the country soldiers, according to Li Jing's plan, they are similar to the archers of the Song Dynasty.Archers in the Song Dynasty, their actual duties were more similar to the police than to the army, similar to the security regiment.However, Li Jing wanted to form a village soldier, not just a local militia.The township soldiers will be recruited from among the good people in the counties and townships. The [-] township soldiers will be divided into four squads, and each squad will serve for three months every year.The selected township soldiers are exempted from the tax of their households, and the government will provide salary subsidies during their service. Inspection of tin and other monopoly items.

In the Song Dynasty, there were about 24 archers in one county, and Zhen[***] is now planning to form 4000 township soldiers in 24 counties, with an average of almost 200 people per county.Even if the population of [-] counties in the town [***] has reached [-] million, this proportion is still huge.

However, in the Song Dynasty, archers were finally reduced to low-level slaves, and archers had to tattoo like soldiers.And Li Jing's plan is to develop the rural soldiers into the Fubing system.Township soldiers should choose those strong children from good families, rich families, and after becoming township soldiers, they can be exempted from land tax and labor, and at the same time, they will have salary subsidies when they are on duty.They are on duty for three months every year. In addition, during the autumn and winter slack seasons, the village soldiers also need to conduct training.

When the time of war comes, these township soldiers also have to serve as auxiliary soldiers and be transferred to the battlefield.

This is Li Jing's idea, to hide soldiers among the people, and usually do not raise so many troops, but when needed, he can pull out a well-trained army at any time.

Archers in the Song Dynasty were commanded, trained, and dispatched by county lieutenants.However, Li Jing did not intend to hand over such power to the local government, but to separate them, and the town [***] would re-establish a command system in each county and township.As for the establishment of the township soldiers, Li Jing did not use the establishment of the Zhen [***], but took out the establishment of the Fubing.Five people form a team, two teams form a group, five groups form a team, two teams form a brigade, two brigades form a regiment, and five regiments form a battalion.

Although the township soldiers still have three levels of Xiang, Jun, and Xiangjun in the battalion, Li Jing plans to set up the Xiang, Jun, and Xiangjun at the headquarters like the Fubing. Although these three levels of officers are usually appointed, But they can neither command nor mobilize these township soldiers in normal times.

Only in wartime, the senior officers of the township army can lead the talisman letter to dispatch troops under the command of the Chief of Staff, Bing Cao, Marching Sima and Li Jing.

In non-wartime, the highest unit of the township soldiers is the battalion. The township soldiers are a battalion of 200 people, a regiment of 100 people, a brigade of 50 people, a team of [-] people, a group of ten people, and a team of five people.

Although it is impossible for the township soldiers to form a scale and combat power within a few years, everything needs to be prepared for a rainy day, and everything can be institutionalized to prevent many problems from appearing.The more troops there are, the more Li Jing has to prevent internal problems.The biggest problem in the army of the late Tang and Five Dynasties was the internal power struggle, the upper and lower guards against each other, and internal fighting were the reasons for the continuous mutiny in the late Tang and Five Dynasties.

Li Jing reorganized the army again and again, and this was what he was defending against.The town [***] and Pinglu army were divided into fifteen armies, and the military power was dispersed to prevent officers from becoming small warlords.

The other generals were in favor of Li Jing's reorganization of the army. After all, every time the army was reorganized, the number of soldiers and horses was expanded, and correspondingly, there were many vacancies for military positions, which gave many officers a chance to be promoted.

The officers of the Pinglu Army have some opinions, but their opinions are basically useless to Li Jing.Song Wei, Kang Chenghui, and Cui Yunqing were all going to be transferred away. If the [-] Pinglu Army did not have Li Jing's support, they would not only have to face the pressure of Zhen [***], but also face Wang Jingwu's pressure, they have no choice.

The Pinglu Army was previously divided into several categories: Ya Bing, Outer Town Bing, Zhizhou Bing, County Town Bing, and Unity Bing. Now, the Ya Bing and Tuan Bing have been separated, and the remaining few soldiers and horses are scattered like sand. Yes, I can only accept Li Jing's reorganization.

However, the sergeants of the Pinglu Army are full of expectations for the reorganization, because everyone knows that the treatment of Zhen [***] is much better than that of the Pinglu Army.Not to mention the excellent equipment, but their food, salaries and rewards are far higher than those of the Pinglu Army.In particular, they already knew that after the reorganization, all the Pinglu troops would be allocated a piece of land immediately, so they were even more excited.

For the reorganization of the Pinglu Army, the heads of the three staff departments, Li Zhen, Jing Xiang, and Gai Yu, led the staff department to work for several days, and finally submitted a proposal for reorganization.That is to directly reorganize the two 5000 soldiers of the Pinglu Army and the [-] soldiers left behind in Liaodong, Dengzhou, together with the [-] united soldiers and more than [-] united soldiers from Ziqing Town.

Finally, the elite soldiers and horses were selected, and finally formed the fifth army of the Pinglu Army with 5000 horses, the other formed the two armies of Zhen [***] with [-] people, and the rest formed the fifth army of the United Army.

The [-] soldiers and horses stationed in Youzhou were reorganized into the Yanyun Army of the Fourth Army of the Town [***], and the [-] soldiers and horses of the Fleet heading south were reorganized into the [***] Town Water Army.

The two 5000-strong troops in Ziqing are now designated as the Seventh Army, the Black Banner Army, the Iron Forest Army, the Silver Spear Suburban Army, the Jinjiasheng Jie Army, and the Five Armies of the Crane Army, which are compiled into the Five Yamen.They are the Qianya Controlling Crane Army, the Zuoya Silver Spear Suburb Army, the Right Yamen Jinjia Shengjie Army, the Yanei Black Banner Army, and the Houya Tielin Army.

The Pengyue Army was reorganized into the Front Army, and the Selected Front Army was reorganized into the Rear Army. Of the three newly reorganized armies, the Yanyun Army was the Zuo Army, and the other two new armies were respectively named the Feixiong Army and the Sirius Army. The right army, the Sirius army is the middle army.

The 8000-man navy is an army alone.

Town [***] Five Army, Five Yamen, plus a Navy Army, Pinglu Army Five Army, the rest has the United Army Fifth Army, and the Tenth Army of the Township Army is still in the plan.

Just the Zhen [***] Pinglu Army and the United Army plus the Water Army, there are 21 armies with more than [-] soldiers and horses.The Sixteenth Army of the Warriors and the Fifth Army of the United Army.

In this reorganization, Li Jing transferred nearly half of the officers at all levels from the Seventh Army in his hand to the remaining Ninth Army.The Ninth Army also had a large number of officers who were demoted and transferred to the United Five Army.

The Seventh Army in Ziqing also recruited a large number of soldiers from other armies. After adding more than 5000 soldiers, the Seventh Army's establishment reached the standard of 8000 soldiers per army.After the reorganization of the five armies and five yamen in Zhen [***], since the Yanyun Army had 5000 people, the final strength reached [-].The Fifth Army of the Pinglu Army reached the standard [-] troops.The five armies of the United Army are [-], and the level is [-].

In the end, the total number of people was 11!

Fighting the sixteenth army and uniting the five armies, Li Jing's troops broke through the 21 mark and reached the [-]st army!

Among these soldiers and horses, Li Jing has increased the number of cavalry this time. The Black Banner Army has two thousand heavy cavalry and three thousand light cavalry, the Silver Spear Suburban Army and the Golden Jiasheng Jie Army each have two thousand light cavalry plus three thousand infantry, and the Crane Army has five. A full cavalry army composed of thousands of Qingqi.Even the Iron Forest Army has a thousand Qingqi.There are 5000 soldiers and horses in Wuya, [-] cavalry, [-] heavy cavalry, and [-] light cavalry.

In Zhen [***], the Fifth Army and the Ping Lu Army's Fifth Army also have several cavalry units. Adding up, the number of cavalry in Zhen [***] and Ping Lu Army has exceeded [-].

Although many of the establishment of the [-] cavalry is only on paper, Li Jing now has territory, food, soldiers, and horses. All that is needed to form this cavalry unit is time.

The reorganization this time is very big, and it can even be said that it directly lowered Zhen [***]'s combat effectiveness, but for Li Jing, this must be done.Temporarily due to the decline in the combat effectiveness of the reorganized army, but after the reorganization is completed, in time, Li Jing believes that this army will be completely reborn, with a new look from the old! (To be continued.)