In October, the Tianjin navy gradually withdrew to Chongzhou to rest and recuperate.
Before the Tianjin-Hai War, the Tianjin Navy had ten battalions with 6,000 soldiers. During the war, the number was expanded to 30 battalions with 18,000 soldiers. The brutal city defense battle caused the Tianjin Navy to suffer the death of 4,100 soldiers.
More than a hundred people were injured and more than 6,300 people were injured at a heavy price. If they did not abandon the defense of Jinhai and withdraw to rest and recuperate, the entire Tianjin navy would be crippled.
Lin Fu decided to set up two additional units, the Jinwei Special Operation Camp and the Jinhai Camp, in the Infantry Division of the Huaidong Army Division.
The Jinwei Special Operation Camp has Yang Yihang as the commander and Chen Enze as the commander to join the army. It is based on the remaining two battalions of the original Jinwei Navy. One battalion of supply troops is transferred from Huaidong, one battalion of navy troops is added, and the water infantry is mixed and garrisoned.
Jinwei and other islands are responsible for harassing the Yan-Hebei coast, containing the Yan-Hu forces, and guiding refugees to escape from Yan-Hebei by sea and heading south; they are responsible for occupying Beihuangcheng Island at the mouth of the Bohai Sea between Dengzhou and Jinzhou, and building island strongholds for military purposes.
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Jinhai Battalion has Ma Yigong as the commander and Geng Quanshan as the deputy commander. It is based on the remnants of the original 12th Battalion of the Jinhai Navy, and is supplemented by supply troops transferred from the Works and Supply Battalion. An additional 15th Battalion with 9,000 soldiers is stationed in Chongzhou.
, carry out overall training, and military attachés at all levels will also be selected into combat training schools in batches to be thoroughly integrated into Huaidong.
The dead soldiers were buried with monuments on the islands, and more than 6,000 wounded soldiers were dispersed and evacuated to military medical camps in Hecheng, Shanyang, Chongcheng and other places for centralized treatment. Except for a few severely disabled soldiers, most of the wounded soldiers were able to recover.
A group of qualified veterans and grassroots military attachés will be provided to Huaidong.
From the outbreak of the Jinhai city defense battle to the final withdrawal of the defense, the war lasted for about half a year. During this half-year period, the soldiers whose will was not broken were all rare and precious treasures.
Chen Dingbang was transferred to the Military Intelligence Department as a commander and joined the army.
Next came the casualty pensions and military merit awards. Huaidong recognized that the Tianjin Navy held on to Tianjin Sea for half a year, which was a hard and outstanding contribution to Huaidong.
During the Tianjin-Hai War, the casualties and military merits of Tianjin Navy generals were all determined in accordance with the standards of the Huaidong Military Division.
Huaidong allocates 200,000 acres of official land at a time for pensions and merit awards, ensuring that the families of generals who were killed in battle, seriously disabled, and those who received military honors will directly receive about 15 acres of paddy and dry land and a certain amount of land after arriving in Huaidong.
Instead of being resettled as displaced households, they receive money and rice and grain subsidies.
The continuous influx of refugees over the past few years has caused the price of grain and land in areas of Jianghuai that have not been affected by the war to continue to rise. Two hundred thousand acres of fertile land in the suburbs of Jiangning is worth at least three million taels of silver. Even in Chongzhou, where grain prices are relatively stable,
At least it is worth more than two million taels of silver.
Jiang Ning, on the other hand, affirmed the Tianjin Navy's military exploits in the north, and sent envoys to Chongzhou to declare rewards and rewards, and also sent 20,000 taels of merit silver to show the emperor's great kindness.
The imperial army's combat effectiveness is getting worse and worse. It's not that Yanjing before and Jiangning now can't raise basic wages. The key reason is that after the war, they basically adopted an attitude of abandoning the disabled and dead generals, and the financial
There is simply no way they can afford the pensions for the disabled and those who died in war.
In today's world, from ordinary people to gentry and wealthy families, the most profound and most desired pursuit is land.
The New Deal implemented by Lin Fu in Huaidong was not complicated at all. It liquidated acres of land, ensured the interests of small and medium-sized tenant farmers, mainly tenant farmers, reclaimed wasteland, cleared official land, recruited displaced households to farm as military households, and won military honors or
Casualties are rewarded with acres of land, so the generals and soldiers will naturally fight bravely and sacrifice their lives.
After suffering more than half of the casualties, an army rarely recovers its combat effectiveness in a short period of time, even if it does not collapse. The Tianjin Navy eventually had to abandon the city and withdraw, and the damage to morale was even more serious. Simple reorganization could not
The combat strength was restored, but after receiving compensation and military merits, the Jinhai Battalion basically eliminated the frustration and depression and restored morale.
Those wounded soldiers could choose to be naturalized and resettled on the spot after they were cured, and most of them requested to be re-incorporated into the Huaidong Army as generals.
Of course, the price Huaidong paid was the more than 200,000 acres of fertile land acquired by the government after Yudong Palace was removed from the village and established as a county, which was almost all distributed at once.
On one side is the demoralized and half-disabled Tianjin Navy, with a total of only 13,000 to 13,000 people, and on the other side is 200,000 acres of fertile land worth two to three million taels of silver. Perhaps most people want to get both, but not even one.
If you discard it, you will think that the Tianjin Navy was not affiliated with the Huaidong Army before, so there is no need to use so much fertile land for pensions and merit awards.
However, Lin Fu wanted to obtain an elite group of Jinhai battalion troops with usable morale, loyalty to Huaidong, and fearless fighting spirit; and then through allotment of fields, encourage the people who migrated south this time to settle down in the south and take root;
Forty thousand men will be recruited into labor camps to engage in local water conservancy construction and other matters; they will also be used as reserve soldiers and receive basic combat training to encourage them to maintain their desire for war instead of fear.
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The Cao family made a surprise attack on Yinping in late September, and the army entered northern Sichuan.
Jiangning was beyond the reach of the war on the western front. He only continued to send envoys into eastern Sichuan to confer officers and soldiers gathered there with titles and honors, hoping that they could simultaneously exterminate the bandits and block the Cao family's army; some even suggested that eastern Sichuan be
The army was transferred to Jingzhou and the rogue bandits and the Cao family were killed.
After Jiang Ning proclaimed the new emperor, as the center of the southern political power, although the efficiency was not very high, it was still running successfully.
The Ministry of Household Affairs headed by Wang Tian fully took over the taxes of the Jianghuai, Jiangxi and Lianghu prefectures and counties, levied additional taxes and reduced tax rates; Lianghuai salt and silver, over-tax fees, city tax and tea, horse, iron, wine and wine tax revenue were all incorporated.
Mansion, returned to Emperor Yongxing for direct transfer.
Although the mountains and rivers are broken, and the remaining areas are full of vassal towns, the resources controlled by Jiangning are actually quite a lot.
In addition to local expenditures and the money directly used for local military equipment, the Ministry of Household Affairs can also control the summer tax, autumn grain tax and additional levy revenue of nearly 4 million tons of grain, including Pingjiang Prefecture, Jiangning Prefecture, Weiyang Prefecture, Danyang Prefecture
The government contributed most of it.
In addition, the internal government can also control miscellaneous tax revenue of more than 2.5 million taels.
The Imperial Camp Division was set up to take charge of the various armies, and the Imperial Camp Army was organized into the Jiangning Imperial Guard. A Military Leading Division was set up under the Imperial Camp Division to control the supply of money, food and weapons to the armies.
The main combat forces directly controlled by Jiang Ning, in addition to the newly formed imperial camp army, were the Huinan Army led by Deng Yu, the Changhuai Army led by Tao Chun, the Ning Haijun led by Meng Yishan, and the Ning Haijun led by Chen Huawen.
The Haiyu Army.
With the efforts of Yue Lengqiu, Chen Xiyan and others, Deng Yu, Tao Chun, Meng Yishan, Chen Huawen and others all agreed that grain, money and weapons should be uniformly allocated by the Military Command Department, and that the money, grain, taxes and taxes of Pingjiang Prefecture, Huizhou Prefecture and other places should also be allocated
The household department unified the branches, and also accepted the ministers sent by the new emperor as military observers to perform the duties of supervising the army.
In fact, it is Deng Yu, Tao Chun, Meng Yishan, Chen Huawen and others who have weak control over their headquarters. Under the current situation, it is more in line with their own interests to unanimously support Jiang Ning's rule.
However, Jiang Ning's request to centralize power was met with varying degrees of resistance in Huaidong, Ganzhou, Jiangzhou, Jingzhou, Qingzhou, Jinan, Hezhong, Tanzhou and other places. It would be easy to say that it would be easy to send an envoy to observe the army.
It is easy to be arrogant, but the money and food support, and the local vassals all hope to collect and use it for themselves, at least to maintain the status quo.
Jiangning also knows its priorities. If you push the local vassal into a hurry, there will be no good results. However, the resources at hand will naturally give priority to strengthening the army that can be directly controlled.
Jiangning strengthened the passage from Ningguo to Huinan, blocking the She family's troops in western Zhejiang between Dusong Pass, Qianqiu Pass, and Yuling Pass. It was difficult to do anything for the time being. On the southern line, except for Huaidong and Jiangxi, the formation of
Dong Yuan, Deng Yu, Meng Yishan, and Chen Huawen jointly resisted the main defense line of She family's troops in western Zhejiang, and the total number of troops gradually expanded to 80,000.
The total number of soldiers and horses in the imperial camp guarding Jiangning was gradually expanded to 60,000.
On the western front, with the Luzhou garrison as the core, part of the Northern Zhejiang Army and a section of the Changhuai Army transferred westward in the first half of the year were incorporated, resulting in a total of 30,000 Luzhou Army troops.
He sent envoys to Qichun to recruit Luo Xiancheng, asking Luo Xiancheng to cut himself off as the puppet king, and was granted the title of Marquis of Xiangyang.
Wang, gave him the entire Jinghu County of Chu. There was a stalemate for a while, but the situation did not continue to deteriorate.
Before seeing any signs of Zhejiang and Fujian soldiers and horses breaking through on the western front, Luo Xiancheng did not dare to use troops rashly. But fundamentally, Luo Xiancheng did not believe Jiangning's promise to recruit troops.
In addition to the southern front, what Jiangning focused on strengthening on the northern front was the Changhuai Army led by Tao Chun.
After Yanjing, Xuanfu, Sanhe, and Jinhai fell one after another, Yanhu's large-scale military operations in the north basically stopped. Yanhu assembled more than 30,000 infantry and cavalry in the south of Shanxi, facing Hezhongfu;
In Yannan, facing Qinghe, Pingyuan and Yangxin, 60,000 infantry and cavalry were assembled; more troops and horses were gathered in Yanjing and Jizhou to rest.
Judging from this situation, Yanhu seems to be more concerned about forming a stable defense line on the north bank of the Yellow River in order to absorb the newly occupied Jinjun, Yanji and other places.
On the surface, Jiangning would not hold the King of Lu accountable for his secret edict, but the actual sequelae were still very serious for the Liang and Gu families.
Jiang Ning first ordered Tao Chun to lead the Changhuai Army to retreat from Qinghe to Daliang (today's Kaifeng). The 5,000 armored soldiers who had withdrawn from Dengzhou Town were also placed under the control of the Changhuai Army. The salt and silver from the two Huaihe areas were allocated to Changhuai.
As part of the army, the planned annual increase from 200,000 taels of silver to 400,000 taels was planned. Tao Chun originally led King Qin's troops to the north with only more than 20,000 troops. After Qinghe was reorganized into exile and the Dengzhou town army joined, the troops quickly expanded to
forty thousand.
Although Jiangning did not set up another envoy in Dengzhou, he sent Liu Yefei to go out to Dengzhou as the imperial censor of Zuoqiandu, supervise the preparation of local troops and control the Dengzhou town army, and reclassified Laizhou to Dengzhou Prefecture.
On the basis of the original Dengzhou Navy, a water infantry force of 10,000 people was formed.
In fact, the total number of soldiers and horses under Jiang Ning's direct control gradually increased to 220,000 by late October.
But the total number of soldiers and horses not directly controlled by Jiang Ning is even larger.
Let’s not talk about the troops and horses in Huaidong for the moment. Ganzhou, Tanzhou, Jiangzhou, and Jingzhou have four envoys. Jingzhou has the largest number of soldiers and horses, with more than 40,000 troops, and the total number of troops reaches 140,000.
The Liang family gathered nearly 90,000 soldiers and horses from Hezhong Prefecture, Pingyuan Prefecture, and Jinan Prefecture. Because the Liang family was involved in the secret edict of King Lu, the two Huai salt and silver planned to be allocated to the Liang family were completely wiped out.
Liu Yefei went to Dengzhou Town, naturally to restrict the expansion of Qingzhou forces to the east. The extra Lianghuai salt silver allocated to the Qingzhou Army was suddenly reduced from the previously planned 400,000 taels to 150,000 taels.
The Qingzhou Army took over the eastern area of Linzi Prefecture, which was given over by the Liang family. They could loot and poach almost everything, but the Liang family did not keep anything. The Liang family was also afraid of looting Linzi Prefecture too hard and arousing public anger, so they took away the taxes of Linzi Prefecture before leaving.
The tax was reduced or reduced for two years.
In addition to receiving an allocation of 150,000 taels of silver from Lianghuai Salt Silver, the Gu family and his son could only withhold taxes from Qingzhou.
After all, Qingzhou is far inferior to the land of plenty in the south. It governs 11 counties, even Huai'an Prefecture and Hailing Prefecture combined, and has eight million acres of registered land. However, there are many dry fields and few paddy fields, and the summer tax and autumn grain tax quotas are increased.
Stung Treng's tax was only 500,000 dan, which could be used to support the army, about 200,000 dan.
The Gu family and the people in Qingzhou have renounced their relationship with Huaidong, and have withdrawn the principal and interest from Huaidong Bank to the tune of 170,000 taels. With the combined total of the land and land, it is not a problem to maintain the supply of 30,000 troops and horses in peacetime.
The key is to build a defense line around Yangxin to prevent Donghu cavalry from penetrating and infiltrating. The Qingzhou Army's 30,000 soldiers, horses, and armor are only slightly better than the refugees' army. They must greatly strengthen their armor in a short period of time. Only the money and food they control are in hand.
, which is very tight.
Fortunately, Huaidong had already sent 100,000 kilograms of iron materials to Qingzhou before he fell out. Otherwise, the iron materials for making spears and arrows would have to be plundered from local places.