Fang Dongquan and the others were just illiterate, but when it came to being sophisticated and capable of fighting for power and profit, Liu Bagou, Qian Mengjiu, and Wang Wenhua, these three people who were just academics, were really no match for them.
Otherwise, in the past six months, Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren and Chen Tufu would not have been able to firmly control the military power, leaving Liu Bagou and the others unable to get involved at all.
Even Emperor Li Xuan and Empress Dowager Bai could only start from other aspects. Li Xuan found half-grown children to form the Guards, while Empress Dowager Bai took advantage of the Ming army's capture of prisoners and asked Bai Yunqi to build a rear army.
If this were not the case, I'm afraid they still don't have anyone at all.
When these three people expressed their opinions of "cautious", "comprehensive" and "good changes", Li Xuan nodded towards Bai Yunqi again!
Immediately, Bai Yunqi said: "The first step in the reform of the military system is to determine the unified establishment. I have a detailed establishment here, please read it!"
With that said, he took out a memorial from his sleeve and handed it to Li Xuan.
Li Xuan took it and pretended to read it. Why was he pretending? Because he actually wrote the memorial. After it was written, he handed it over to Bai Yunqi. Bai Yunqi asked someone to copy it again. What was written on it?
Of course he knew everything.
After pretending to read it, he handed the memorial to Liu Bagou who was nearest him: "My dear friends, take a look at it too!"
Liu Bagou took it and took a look, only to see a lot of data listed on it, which made him a little stunned for a while.
However, he can still understand it, but it is wrong to say that he can understand it, because he can understand the words inside, but he can't understand what these words mean.
There is no way, although the things Li Xuan wrote are not very profound and do not have any professional terminology, they still emptied out all the military knowledge Li Xuan had in his two lifetimes.
Moreover, many modern words were used, such as the word firepower density, which Liu Bagou could only understand literally.
After looking at the half-understood information, Liu Bagou passed it on to Wang Wenhua, Qian Mengjiu and the others looked at it, and the two of them did the same, looking at it for a while.
However, after these three civil servants read it, they did not pass it on to Fang Dongquan and the others. Why? Because everyone knew that they could not read.
At this time, Bai Yunqi started to explain: "I made this establishment with reference to the establishment of the Guards and the Puppet Ming Army, and considering that our army does not have many troops, we compiled it together
Prepared as follows.
Our Tang Dynasty has six armies in total, including the front, rear, left and right armies, the West-Suppressing Army, and the Guards. Among them, the Guards are the personal army of the emperor and are not included in this reorganization. Therefore, this military reform mainly focuses on the fifth army of the standing army.
Nowadays, each of the five armies has spearmen, sword and shield soldiers, and archers. The numbers are different, the organization is different, and they are uneven. They cannot coordinate together during battle.
Therefore, I believe that these five armies should be integrated, organized into armies according to their types of arms, and finally formed into a large army.
For this reason, we in the Tang Dynasty should form three teams of spearmen, with thirty-six people in each team. The spearmen are the backbone of the army and will fight against the enemy's central army in war.
Organize a team of thirty-six heavy armored sword and shield soldiers to serve as the vanguard of the entire army.
Organize two teams of light armored sword and shield soldiers, with thirty-six men in each team, to fight for the entire army.
Organize two teams of archers, each with thirty-six men, to provide long-range firepower for the entire army.
Organize a heavy supply team, each team has thirty-six people, to provide logistics supplies for the entire army.
Each of the above-mentioned teams consists of one captain and one deputy.
So there are nine teams in total, with a total of 324 people, which is exactly the same number as our standing army."
This time, Bai Yunqi didn't speak quickly, and it was easy to understand. Everyone nodded in unison while listening.
The so-called establishment and number of people Bai Yunqi mentioned are actually similar to the current strength and various types of troops in the Tang Dynasty's standing army. For example, the current Tang Dynasty's standing army only has more than 20 people, and it can only be organized into
A team that is not fully organized will not have that much armor no matter how large it is.
The same is true for the archers. Even if the three bandit dens of Jiguan Mountain, Black Tiger Village, and Huang Guishan were recaptured, there are only more than fifty archers in Huangzhu Mountain. If there are more, there are only two.
Team.
As for the lightly armored sword and shield soldiers, since the equipment requirements are not high, a sword and a small buckler are basically enough. However, the sword and shield soldiers have certain requirements for the personal bravery of the soldiers. If they can form two teams, it will still be about the same number of people.
Hollow out.
On the other hand, spearmen are much simpler and can basically be used by any young bandit, so they have the largest number.
As for the heavy troops, there are even less requirements, not even the young and strong can serve.
This organization plan was made by Li Xuan based on the Guards and the existing bandits in Huangzhushan. Its core goal is to gather the archers, sword and shield soldiers scattered in various armies, and then form a complete army.
's army.
After all, the standing army of the Tang Dynasty was originally small in number. If there were five more combat units fighting each other, it would be okay to fight against bandits. However, if they encountered a large number of enemies, and they were regular troops like the Ming army, they would face a head-on confrontation.
, will die miserably.
But if they can be divided into nine squads according to military types, then these more than 300 young and strong bandits can be transformed into a whole and then fight against the enemy.
This kind of combat efficiency is definitely much better than small unit combat.
Of course, this organization also has its biggest flaw, which is the lack of flexibility. These more than 300 people must fight as a whole, and cannot be said to be separated into dozens of people to fight alone.
However, Li Xuan did not intend to engage in any special operations. Their opponents were not just a few or dozens of bandits, but Ming troops who could number thousands at every turn.
Your own military strength is already small. If you don't concentrate on using your troops and do something small and refined, you will easily be eaten up by others.
Fang Dongquan and the others naturally understand what Bai Yunqi said, but they are concerned about one issue, that is, according to this establishment, more than 300 people will have to be gathered together, and everyone's subordinates will be mixed together, so
As soon as this happened, the nature of each of their armies was broken.
Breaking the individuality of each army, softening them together, and establishing a top-down command system is also the important purpose of Li Xuan's military reform this time.
After Bai Yunqi finished speaking, Fang Dongquan and the others stopped being silent and began to talk. However, they did not have any objections to the detailed organization. It was normal for a team of thirty-six people.
They even put forward some additional suggestions. For example, under one team, there could be another six corps. This would not only make management easier, but also create more official positions, so that the people below could be easily promoted and have a head start.
In addition to these supplementary opinions, they are more concerned about if the five armies are integrated into one army, who will be the commander-in-chief of the new army?