Chapter six hundred and thirty-eight to solidify the country
Li Xuan has always felt that he was quite miserable. He lived well in his previous life, and he and the girl at the front desk were in an affair and passionately in love. No, it should be said that he was in a passionate stage, but he ran away all of a sudden.
It’s this weird and miserable era!
Before traveling through time, God never asked him if he wanted to. If he had asked, Li Xuan would definitely have raised his middle finger: Go away, don’t disturb me playing with my legs!
However, life is so helpless and miserable. When he wakes up, he is transported back four hundred years to this frightening era, with a mentally retarded father who deceives his son.
Even if Li Xuan thought about it with his toes, he couldn't imagine that there would be such a weirdo in the world, who would actually rebel? Damn, isn't it good to be a landlord? You have to rebel.
Just play and kill yourself!
As a result, when he arrived at this time, he was chased like a dog by the officers and soldiers. He was frightened and had a sad face all day long. If he hadn't had a good psychological quality, he would probably have gone crazy by then.
After spending a period of extremely hard times in Huangzhu Mountain, Li Xuan finally led a group of bandits to break out of the mountain, seize Xingquan Mansion, and then grow and develop step by step, forcing him to dominate the Tang Dynasty where his father left him.
The dynasty flourished.
But who can know the hard work Li Xuan put into this process?
Do you think Li Xuan was born to be a model worker? He spends more than ten hours every day dealing with government affairs. He has a bunch of idiots and lunatics under his command, and there are only a few normal people. If Li Xuan doesn’t keep an eye on him every day, everyone will
All kinds of messy and weird things happen. The Haojing incident is an obvious example. If Li Xuan hadn't discovered this while reviewing the memorial, he wouldn't have known that those daring local officials had sold Haojing!
Moreover, he even risked his life several times and led his troops to fight in person. It was a war. A war in which he could lose his life if he was not careful. If possible, Li Xuan would have stayed far away from such a dangerous thing.
How far.
Even if he abandons these, Li Xuan is still on guard against anyone under his command rebelling and trying to seize the emperor's throne under him every day!
It’s not that he has persecution fanaticism. He thinks about some unscrupulous people who want to harm me every day. This is a fact!
The emperors of the feudal dynasty always had a lot of people who wanted to kill them, so they had to be on guard against them, and they had to be on strict guard against them.
That's why Li Xuan rebuilt the Guards and separated the Guards from the Tang Army, so that the Guards directly belonged to him, the emperor's vertical management wisdom, and not even the Privy Council had the power to interfere in the affairs of the Guards.
In addition, in order to ensure the loyalty of the Guards, Li Xuan also tried to reduce the risk of rebellion among them as much as possible in terms of personnel. First of all, in terms of soldiers, the newly recruited soldiers were all children of poor families. Priority was given to the recruitment of Xingquan Mansion, the Longxing clan.
Children from poor families recruited from the fields.
As for officers, priority will be given to hiring those who are related to the royal family. Generally speaking, officers are students of the emperor who were born in the Imperial Academy.
Because Li Xuan has also served as the president of the Imperial Academy for a long time, and even goes to teach in person at regular intervals, it is not an exaggeration to call the students of the Imperial Academy the emperor's disciples.
In a word, today's Guards, and even the many armies under Li Xuan's command, belong to the direct line among the direct line!
At the same time, in order to ensure the loyalty of these direct lineages and to differentiate the relationship between the Guards, the Army, and the Navy, Li Xuan also played a small trick, which was to create differentiation.
To put it simply, the salary of the soldiers of the Guards is generally higher than that of the army and navy!
Although basic benefits such as salary and field allocation are consistent with those of the Army, it is worth noting that the rank of the Guards officers is generally one level higher than that of the Army. As long as a soldier completes recruit training, he will be awarded a rank.
As soldiers, those with better qualities in all aspects will soon be promoted to non-commissioned officers. After serving for two years, most of them will be promoted to non-commissioned officers.
In other words, among the soldiers, the proportion of non-commissioned officers of the Guards is relatively large.
Similarly, the military rank of officers is generally one level higher than that of the army. The captains of the infantry of the Guards are all captains, but when they reach the camp level, they are generally lieutenant colonels.
This is to improve the treatment of the Guards in disguise!
Of course, the ranks of the Guards are generally relatively high, which is also related to the special organization of the Guards!
The early establishment of the Guards was exactly the same as that of the Army, but during the Army's reorganization in the second half of the second year of Xuanping, the Guards also took a ride and made changes based on the ideas proposed by Li Xuan!
Therefore, the organization of the Guards is different from that of the Army!
In the current organization of the Guards, the basic core organization of the team is the same as that of the army, which is an infantry team formed with the six-platoon system as the core. In other words, a team has six platoons!
Why? Because the infantry team will often form six rows in depth during normal combat. Unless it is to carry out a final salvo, otherwise the musketeers will maintain a six-row line formation.
Each platoon, including the platoon leader, has a total of sixteen people!
An infantry team, whether it is musketeers, spearmen, grenadiers, swords, shields, bows and arrows, etc., has six platoons, plus a captain, deputy captain, and two platoons at the team headquarters.
Guards, two musicians, a coachman, and a medic.
This formed the standard infantry formation of the Tang Guards, Army and Marine Corps, with a total of one hundred and four people.
However, the ratio of officers and non-commissioned officers is different.
In the army's standard infantry team, usually only the captain and deputy captain as well as the platoon leader of the first platoon are officers. The team officer is a lieutenant or captain, the deputy captain is a lieutenant or second lieutenant, the first platoon leader is a second lieutenant, and the other second platoon leaders are second lieutenants.
The platoon commander of the sixth platoon is a sergeant, the deputy platoon commander of the first platoon is also a sergeant, and the deputy platoon commanders of the other five platoons are sergeants or corporals.
Then among ordinary soldiers, ordinary soldiers are only second-class soldiers. Only those who have served for one year, or who have participated in many battles with outstanding performance within one year of service, are first-class soldiers.
But in the Guards, there are more officers in the infantry team. The captain is a captain, the deputy captain is a lieutenant, and there are six second lieutenants, that is, the platoon leader of six platoons, and even the deputy platoon leader.
They are all sergeants. Generally, there are many corporals in the line infantry. The privates are almost invisible, and the lowest ones are all first class privates.
If the Army and the Guards are about the same at the level of the infantry team, then when it comes to the level of the infantry battalion, the gap is quite large. First of all, the infantry battalions of the Guards are not five teams, but eight.
There are three more teams than the army's infantry battalions.
Among these eight teams, there are four musketry teams, three spear teams, and a bow, arrow, sword and shield team.
The battalion headquarters also directly has a battalion artillery team, equipped with two two-pound shotguns!
The number of such an infantry battalion has reached a thousand people.
Of course, the commander of an infantry battalion of a thousand people cannot be a major, but a lieutenant colonel!
At the same time, the deputy battalion commander of this Guards infantry battalion is also a major. Li Xuan also assigned a chief of staff to this Guards infantry battalion.
If the army uses infantry regiments as the basic tactical unit, then in the Guards, the infantry battalion is actually the basic tactical unit!
The Guards has a total of four such infantry battalions!
In addition to these four enlarged infantry battalions, the Guards also has a Guards artillery battalion that is larger than the Army Artillery Battalion. The entire artillery battalion has twelve seven-pound artillery and eighteen five-pound artillery.
, six three-pound shotguns.
In addition, there is a Guards Cavalry Battalion comparable to the First Cavalry Battalion, with a full strength of 400 cavalry!
In addition, there is also an enlarged supply camp!
The total strength of the entire Guards has already exceeded 6,000, reaching a scale of nearly 7,000!
One thing worth noting is that the musketeers of the Guards are different from the musketeers of the Army, because the musketeers of the Guards are also equipped with grenades. Although the overall quality of the soldiers cannot be compared with the professional grenadiers of the Army, they carry grenades.
There are not too many grenades, but equipping each musketeer with grenades is enough to greatly improve their close combat effectiveness.
The well-equipped Guards have always been stationed in Zhaoqing City!
Why? Li Xuan is afraid of death!
The Tang Dynasty has developed to its current scale. Li Xuan feels that as long as he does not act stupidly, it will be extremely difficult for the Ming Dynasty to wipe out its own Tang Dynasty. Even if the Ming Dynasty suddenly explodes in combat power, but with the current huge
The size of the Tang Dynasty could sustain it for several years or even decades even if it was just surviving.
In a short period of time, Li Xuan's biggest enemies were not actually the Ming army, but potential enemies from within the Tang Dynasty, especially generals with heavy troops who suddenly rebelled!
Yes, Li Xuan has always been on guard against rebellion by the generals under his command, because he feels that he is not a true eternal sage. With his personality charm alone, I am afraid that he will not be able to make the people under his command give up their hatred of him.
Thoughts of the emperor's throne.
Especially when the Tang Dynasty, as a feudal dynasty, did not even have an heir, once it died and had no heir, it would give careerists an opportunity.
Those generals who held heavy troops would not believe Li Xuan if they said they had no thoughts of rebellion. They did not do so now just because they had no chance.
What Li Xuan has to do is not to give them this opportunity!
So he vigorously developed the Guards, but in addition to military defense, Li Xuan felt that it was time for him to need a successor!
But how will the heir come? Of course, Li Xuan will need to work hard!
Therefore, flying with the Thigh Times is definitely not for pure pleasure, but for the Tang Dynasty to have an heir as soon as possible to consolidate the country's foundation!