The Tang Empire's strategy for the Goryeo Peninsula, judging from the recent confrontation in the court, has actually already finalized its final plan!
Completely militarily eliminate the resistance forces on the Goryeo Peninsula, including the remnants of the pseudo King Myeonghye and the remnants of the Lee Dynasty on the Goryeo Peninsula. First, through several large-scale battles, defeat their main forces in one fell swoop, especially the pseudo-King Myeonghye’s.
remnants, and then slowly clean up the remaining resistance forces in the historical dynasty of the Koryo Peninsula.
This is a military arrangement, but politically, the Korean Peninsula is divided into four, namely Nanjiang Prefecture, Beijiang Prefecture, Dongjiang Prefecture, and Beijiang Prefecture. All the above four prefectures are under the jurisdiction of Liaodong Province.
After adding these four prefectures, Liaodong Province has become the largest province in the empire, but the number of people is not large.
The reason why the Koryo Peninsula was not established as a separate province is naturally to better integrate this area.
Because various policies will be closely followed in the future. In addition to the intermarriage policy that is planned to be promoted, the cabinet is also preparing to actively relocate landless farmers from the interior to the four prefectures of the Koryo Peninsula. At the same time, it will also start to bring the indigenous people on the Koryo Peninsula to the vast world.
These can be used to arrange immigration from the northeastern border areas and organize the natives on the Koryo Peninsula to immigrate overseas, especially to the Ryukyu Prefecture in the east, the Osumi Islands and even Fuso in the future.
Basically, it can be generally regarded that the Tang Dynasty is preparing to make a major change in the permanent population of the Koryo Peninsula. The goal of the cabinet is to make the local population reach 20% of the mainland population within five years after conquering the Koryo Peninsula.
above, accounting for more than half within ten years.
Twenty years from now, there will be no natives or aliens among the Korean people!
From military to political, the Tang Empire has formulated a complete set of plans for the Koryo Peninsula, and now, it is time to implement the plan.
Although Kang Gaozhi didn't know what the big guys in Jinling City were thinking, he also knew that the big guys in the military were in the consultation meeting between the cabinet and the military.
They were disgusted, but they slapped the table and said that the military will definitely complete the combat mission on the Koryo Peninsula to ensure that the Koryo Peninsula that will be handed over to the cabinet in a few months will be peaceful without much resistance.
The Korean peninsula allows the cabinet to govern calmly.
The big bosses at the top made promises to the cabinet, and the pressure naturally passed down one level at a time, and finally passed to Kang Gaozhi.
Before the cross-river campaign was officially launched, Kang Gaozhi received an order from the Sixth Army garrisoned in Liaodong. After entering the Korean Peninsula, Kang Gaozhi was ordered to use flexible and efficient tactics in addition to annihilating the remnants of the puppet King Myeonghye.
Eliminate any resistance forces on the Korean Peninsula and create good conditions for subsequent local government offices to enter!
Seeing this order, Kang Gaozhi knew that he might not have much time to spare on this trip, and his 15th Infantry Division probably wouldn't have much time to spare either. After defeating Ryugyong, they would probably have to disperse their forces to various places on the peninsula.
Cities and important places were then gradually cleared.
Gradual eradication, although this kind of thing is not risky overall, it is too trivial and very troublesome.
This can be seen when colleagues carry out anti-bandit campaigns in other inland provinces.
Those bandits are naturally unable to fight with the regular army. Even the local reserve divisions can easily deal with them, but they will never fight you head-on.
I'm not stupid, I know how to run and hide!
As a result, most of the reserve divisions and a few regular troops responsible for the task of suppressing bandits are chasing the bandits. It is easy to go up the mountains and down the river. In more serious cases, they have begun to go into the deep mountains and old forests to track down and suppress the bandits.
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It's interesting to say that after this happened, the military found that most of the troops had no problem fighting large-scale battles, but they were a little timid in fighting these piecemeal encirclement and suppression operations, and their performance was not very good. Only one
The branch performed well!
That was the Fourth Infantry Division. Later, the military simply transferred a large number of officers and non-commissioned officers from the Fourth Infantry Division and assigned them to other units responsible for the task of suppressing bandits.
The Fourth Infantry Division, this unit has not always had a strong presence within the Tang Dynasty military. Although its number ranks fourth, its overall strength is not estimated to be among the top ten, and the number of heavy weapons is not even ten.
There are many new units like the Fifth Infantry Division.
Because this army has always been stuck in the quagmire of Yunnan and Guizhou. In the early years, it had been fighting with the Ming army in Yunnan. It took several years of fighting to kill the Ming army. Then it tried to chase and kill the remnants of the Ming army.
Enter Burma, but the environment in that poor place in Burma is even worse, resulting in too many non-combat injuries. Half of the three thousand soldiers who entered Burma to pursue fell ill in just six months. In the end, there was no other way, but
Maybe it was withdrawn.
The pursuit battle in Burma was one of the few times in the Tang Dynasty's army's history that it failed. Three thousand people went out to fight, but in the end less than two thousand came back alive.
More importantly, they have never fought even one large-scale battle with the enemy.
Almost all casualties are caused by disease!
However, many years of scattered combat with the enemy's jungle and mountainous areas in the Yunnan-Guizhou region have also given the Fourth Infantry Division a wealth of experience in small-scale combat in jungles and mountainous areas. Their officers commanding the troops to fight in regular battles will probably be beaten by other troops, but as long as
Entering the jungle, they can easily take down troops like the 1st Infantry Division!
This is also the reason why the military headquarters will transfer the officers of the Fourth Infantry Division to other anti-bandit forces!
The problems Kang Gaozhi is about to face now are different from other domestic troops, but they are similar. The follow-up is to suppress bandits, and northern North Korea is mountainous and has a harsh natural environment!
However, even in the face of these problems, Kang Gaozhi did not dare to show any timidity!
He didn't want his superiors to think that he was someone who was afraid of challenges. He had just been appointed commander of the 15th Infantry Division, and he didn't want to be dismissed from his position soon.
If he was dismissed when he was just promoted, he would be completely relegated to the sidelines just like his predecessor!
Recently, he heard that the previous division commander whom he had pushed out had only served in the Privy Council of Jinling City for a few months, and then was sent to Guangxi to serve as the provincial garrison commander.
Provincial garrison commander, this is a new position that only appeared a year ago in the Tang Dynasty. The background of its emergence is that the number of reserve divisions in each province has increased from small to large. Now basically every province has more than two reserve divisions.
In addition, local militia organizations are also developing rapidly. According to the instructions of the military headquarters, every town must prepare a militia team, and each village can make its own decision based on the situation.
Based on this calculation, the total number of militiamen will actually be very large. In order to better manage and recruit these militiamen in emergencies, a management organization is also needed.
In the past, the military set up militia headquarters in each province. Now, the local aftermath bureaus set up by the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs have been integrated into it and garrison headquarters have been set up in each province.
Mainly responsible for the daily management of reserve divisions and militia units, combat command, placement of retired soldiers, aftermath of casualties, etc.!
Looking at it this way, you may have great power on the surface, but as long as you look at who the garrison commander of each province is, you will know that it is not important. The garrison commanders of each province are almost all those competing for the main infantry division or other major important positions.
Loser, there is another point. Although the garrison commanders of various provinces currently hold the rank of Army Major General, none of them hold the title of nobility!
To put it bluntly, this position is actually used for retirement. If nothing unexpected happens, they will have no chance to return to serve in the Privy Council or various field forces in their lifetime.
The Army of the Tang Dynasty has developed over the years. Even if it was just a grassroots team at the beginning, it has now formed a complete system. In this system, if you want to quickly climb to the top and make contributions, the way is actually very simple and easy.
clear.
That is to rotate positions in the field force and the operations department. After coming out of the martial arts academy, he first served as an ordinary platoon leader, captain, etc., then entered the imperial academy, then entered the operations department as a staff officer, and then transferred to the field force as a battalion commander, deputy regiment commander, etc.
Commander, regimental commander, and then rotate to the operations department to serve in important positions such as senior combat staff officer.
When they come out, they will basically be brigadier generals such as deputy division commander or division chief of staff. After the transition, they will compete for the position of division commander of the main infantry division.
This way you can be promoted faster, and your resume will be perfect. If you lead the troops to win a few battles and make achievements, you can look forward to becoming a candidate for army commander.
Of course, this road is the fastest and easiest, and it is also the most competitive, because everyone knows that this is the fastest way, and everyone is competing.
There are many middle and low-level officers in the military, but there are only sixteen main infantry divisions in total. This means that there are only sixteen division commander positions in the main infantry division, and more than half of them are occupied by a few veterans.
Qualifications are dominated by generals with outstanding military exploits. People often serve as division commanders in one division for one or two years, and then serve as division commanders in another division, accumulating qualifications and waiting for the opportunity to be promoted to corps commander.
For newcomers, there are very few places left!
Sometimes, only two or three division commander positions are available in a year, but there are at least dozens of major generals and brigadiers competing for this position!
In this case, it's either relying on solid military exploits, or relying on a perfect resume and luck!
Kang Gaozhi belongs to the latter. He has no military exploits and relies on his nearly perfect resume and seniority. Of course, luck is also very important.
Naturally, many people were dissatisfied with him when he climbed up like this. Countless pairs of eyes were staring at him, waiting for him to make a mistake, and then pull him down and sit on the throne of the teacher himself!