Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 293 The First Anti-Bandit Alliance (Seventeen)

After setting up seven battalions, Qiu Tianxing set up two new armies, the first army and the second army.Among them, the first army is stationed in Zhejiang, with three and nine battalions under its command, and Zhang Chengwu, the commander of the third battalion, concurrently serves as the commander of the first army.The main enemies faced by the First Army were Zhu Yihai and Jin Li from southern Zhejiang, and Geng Jimao and Zhu Chenggong from Fujian.

The Second Army is stationed in Lu'an, Luzhou, Anqing, Chizhou, Huizhou and Ningguo west of Jinling.The Second Army has the fifth battalion, the seventh battalion and the eighth battalion, and the commander of the fifth battalion is Zhang Liansheng.The enemies facing the Second Army are mainly the Wu Sangui Department in Jiangxi and the Xinshun forces in Hubei.

Neither the First Army nor the Second Army has established a military-level training officer, and the position of army commander is only temporarily established, and there is no military-level rank.Now, apart from Qiu Tianxing, the security team has the highest rank at the ministerial level, and there are no ministerial-level or above.Therefore, both Zhang Chengwu and Zhang Liansheng are battalion commanders, and their army commanders are only convenient for managing the army.

The Guards Battalion and the Tenth Battalion did not merge into one army.The guard camp left a column to guard Jinling, and the rest of the troops were distributed in Taiping Prefecture, Hezhou, Chuzhou, Zhenjiang Prefecture, Changzhou Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, Songjiang Prefecture, Taicang Prefecture and other places.The Tenth Battalion was not only stationed in Yangzhou, but also divided up to guard Tongzhou and Haimen Hall.

In order to protect the safety of the estuary of the Yangtze River and prevent the enemy from entering the Yangtze River by sea and directly attacking Jinling, the Guards Battalion and the Tenth Battalion deployed heavy troops in Haimenting and Taicang Prefecture.Moreover, because the security regiment does not have a navy, several new columns and brigades were established under the command of the Guards Battalion and the Tenth Battalion.

After this layout, the heavy troops of the security regiment headquarters gathered on the west, south, and east fronts, appearing to be empty in the middle.

Scattering and not concentrating troops is also a big taboo for military strategists. The best way is to concentrate all the forces and attack all the way, so that you can sweep the southern heroes all the way.But Qiu Tianxing also has difficulties to say, let alone how to solve the money, food and military resources for the expedition of millions of troops thousands of miles, even if those territories have been laid down, how can they be completely brought under the rule?Are the remaining troops of the Defense Returning Corps enough?Are there enough cadres?Is the money and food invested in the premise enough?How do you defend yourself against the retracted heavy blow when you stretch the front line and the enemy shrinks?The Tartars in the north don't care anymore?Are the first battalion, the second battalion and the fourth battalion still supporting it?If all the money, food and military resources are concentrated south, and the three battalions in the north can't stop them, what should the Tartars do if they go south?

All of this was a headache for Qiu Tianxing, so he didn't dare to use all his strength to go south, so he had to honestly digest the territory first, and then...then talk.The security regiment's fight against the country is different from other forces. The gentry scrambled to surrender, and the county relied on the self-government of the gentry and landlords.In terms of labor costs, it is quite economical, and in terms of money and food harvest, well, it is quite wasteful.But the speed of fighting the country will be faster, and if you are lucky, you will be able to dominate the world in a few years.However, the security team hit the country in pieces of arable land, and then pulled out the weeds in the field one by one, so the speed was much slower.Fortunately, Qiu Tianxing is very patient, he is still young, he is not in a hurry.Compared to dominating the world like a storm, Qiu Tianxing prefers to slowly encroach on the territory like a colony.

It's just that Qiu Tianxing wanted to stay at home and digest the fruits of victory in peace, but the southern heroes didn't give him the chance.

According to the information reported by the Hunan Section, Fujian Section, Guangxi Section, and Guizhou Section of the Military Intelligence Department, it seems that the speed of their alliance is accelerating.

Therefore, before the enemy attacked, Qiu Tianxing ordered the army to adapt to the new formation as soon as possible, so as to restore combat effectiveness faster.And less than half a month after the new establishment was arranged, the title system was officially launched.

Nowadays, many people in the army have made meritorious service, and they have also won a lot of second-class and third-class merits, large and small.Although these things are useful when they are promoted and recommended to enter the military academy, they are not as respectable as a title.The morale that was slightly damaged due to the team reorganization has also recovered a little.After all, the four battalions were reorganized into seven battalions, so there were more promotions and more non-promotions.Moreover, this reorganization almost broke up all the troops, starting from the squadron. In addition, many troops were transferred from the barracks where they had been stationed for several years, which also damaged morale.However, when the title system was actually promulgated, some officers became more morale after obtaining the title, and the officers who had not yet received the title but were not far behind also began to count their merit points with their fingers, counting how many times they were short of credit You can get a title.As for the soldiers, seeing their superiors have been honored one after another, they also have hope in their hearts. Their superiors are their role models. As long as they do a good job in the army and make more contributions, they will also be honored one day in the future.As a result, the morale of the entire army rose.

Just when the reorganized team of the security regiment resumed its combat effectiveness, the connection between the heroes in the south became closer.

In Jiujiang Mansion, Jiangxi Province, Zhou Wang Wu Sangui of the Yongli Regime of the Remnant Ming Dynasty quietly rushed over from Changsha.At this moment, Wu Sangui kept attacking the city under the banner of Yongli, and now his territory has covered half of Hunan and half of Jiangxi.Half of Hunan is due to the existence of the Great Western Army. When Wu Sangui was upright, he would confront Li Dingguo's department of the Great Western Army in Xiangtan County, Changsha Prefecture.Over the past few years, Wu Sangui's forces have occupied the north of Hunan, and Hengzhou Mansion, Baoqing Mansion, Yongzhou Mansion and other places in southern Hunan belong to the Daxi Army.

After stopping in Changsha, Wu Sangui turned his attention to Jiangxi again.At this moment, the overall situation in the south of the Yangtze River has changed, and Wu Sangui in Hunan has rebelled. Zhu Yanqing, the worried Tartar governor of Jiangxi, died of illness.Xia Yie, the former Jiangnan inspector who was supposed to succeed him as governor in the official history, also died along with Ma Guozhu during the Jiangning battle.In addition, the north and the south are now separated, and Xia Yie's successor, Cai Shiying, did not come from the capital, so in the end, the Tartar court simply promoted Lu Zhenyang, the left governor of Jiangxi, to the governor of Jiangxi, and Zhuang Yinghui, the right governor of Jiangxi, Promoted to Zuo Buzheng.

Jiangnan, Hubei, Hunan, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong are all in turmoil, and all fields are lost. Jiangxi is like a small boat among wild wolves in the sea.Taking advantage of the fact that the Security Corps is fighting endlessly with the Tatars Jiangdong and Jiangxi camps, Daxi Army Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo are in a confrontation, Xinshun is still fighting with Huguang Governor Luo Xiujin, and the Yongli regime is still fighting with monks. When Zhu Chenggong and Geng Jimao seized Fujian, Wu Sangui personally led the main force into Jiangxi.Jiangxi was originally destroyed in the war with the Tartars after Jin Shenghuan Wang Deren anyway, and Nanchang City was even more dilapidated.As a result, Wu Sangui successfully captured Nanchang. The new Jiangxi Governor Lu Zhenyang and Zuo Buzheng Zhuang Yinghui died in battle, and Jiangxi Governor Liu Guangbi surrendered.

However, although Liu Guangbi, the admiral of Jiangxi, surrendered, Wu Sangui's troops were not strong enough to control the entire territory of Jiangxi, and in order to prevent Hong Chengchou, who was still based in Anqing Mansion, from crossing the south of the Yangtze River, Wu Sangui had to deploy heavy troops to defend Jiujiang.So Wu Sangui couldn't reach Jiangnan even more.After Hong Chengchou's Jiangxi camp retreated to the north, the security regiment occupied Anqing Mansion again, so Wu Sangui in Jiujiang Mansion had to continue to deploy heavy troops.

In this way, without the persecution of Wu Sangui's army, some small warlords in southern Jiangxi occupied the city and became king one after another.In addition to these small warlords, there are also some rout soldiers who are also gathering in the mountains and forests in the mountainous and dense forests of southern Jiangxi.As a result, Jiangxi became even more chaotic.

(End of this chapter)