Zhang Yue was using a curve model to eliminate guardsmen in Huguang and Jiangxi. Naturally, it was impossible for everything to work according to his ideas. There would always be many accidents in the process.
For example, a group of guards soldiers who were sent back to Wuchang to work mutinied when they approached Wuchang. A guard commander who was unwilling to change from an army commander to a contractor led his own soldiers and killed the supervisor who accompanied the team.
He then took the name of the Qinwang Army under the banner of the Tang Dynasty and tried to flee south to join the Tang Dynasty.
It's a pity that as soon as this happened, even Zhang Yue was not alarmed, and was suppressed by the governor led by Song Zhiwen who stayed behind!
Thousands of mutinous guardsmen were suppressed by more than 500 supervisors. They could not hold on for a long time, and then they completely collapsed. The leading rebel generals were imprisoned on the spot, and most of the other captured soldiers were beheaded on the spot.
When the incident reached the ears of Jiangxi Li Chunjing, Li Chunjing felt quite regretful!
What a rare publicity event this is. A group of Ming soldiers were loyal to the Tang Dynasty and decisively broke with the Ming Dynasty. What does this mean? It shows that the prestige of the eternal sage has spread all over the country. It shows that the Tang Dynasty is only
The true only master of China!
It's a pity that this matter is a bit of a drama. If the Ming army guards can sustain it and enter Jiangxi, Li Chunjing won't even mind giving it to His Majesty personally to get preferential treatment for this group of guards.
ending.
such a pity!
However, the occurrence of this incident not only did not lessen Zhang Yue's determination to eliminate the guards, but instead strengthened his determination!
In the past, he just felt that the guard soldiers were useless, but now he felt that the guard soldiers were not only useless, but also felt that these guard soldiers were an unstable factor.
The Ming Dynasty has been fighting against the puppet Tang Dynasty for several years. Although there have been cases where the Ming army surrendered and senior officials also surrendered, there has never been a direct rebellion by troops in the rear and then defection to the puppet Tang Dynasty.
After this incident occurred, Zhang Yue took several measures in succession. In addition to sending these guardsmen to Wuchang to make guns and cannons, he also ordered the guardsmen to leave the front line and then go to the rear to colonize.
At the same time, he also accelerated the scale expansion of Dubiao!
Fifty thousand people are not enough, he wants 100,000 people or even more!
Where did the military expenditure come from? Naturally, it was diverted from the military expenditure originally used for the guards. In addition, Zhang Yue also began to vigorously integrate Huguang and Jiangxi to recruit troops.
That is, those local officials such as prefects and governors use local finances to recruit soldiers on their own!
He integrated the recruits recruited by various local officials. Although they were not directly incorporated into the supervision standard, they were trained according to the supervision standard and integrated into a team with complete organization and equipment.
The new army units are also called military training, with the state capital as the basic unit, and are called so-and-so military training.
For example, Hengyang Army Training, Changsha Army Training, Yuezhou Army Training, Jiujiang Army Training, etc., each has a number of battalions under its jurisdiction.
The formation pattern of the scale of these local military trainings is also quite interesting. The establishment, equipment and even training are directly based on the supervision standards, but the personnel and funds come directly from the local government.
While Zhang Yue was making big moves in the north, Li Xuan in the south was not idle either!
Because the war situation in the north has once again fallen into a confrontation and a decisive decision, although the Datang Army has a new offensive plan, it will take time to prepare for a large-scale offensive, especially if a new offensive is to be launched.
The first step is either Jiujiang or Fuzhou.
Each of these two places requires a large number of troops and sufficient artillery preparations to conquer.
When the frontline troops were planning the next offensive, Li Xuan in the rear also began to discuss military expansion with the army.
Yes, that’s right, the Army is still determined to expand its military!
After the regular army was unable to expand due to financial constraints, the Army proposed another plan, which was to organize local garrison forces.
This garrison is not the same concept as the previous garrison composed of soldiers from the Ming Army. It is also different from the previous robbery camps. The previous garrison was actually a professional combat force, but it had poor personnel, poor equipment, and poor combat effectiveness.
It's just bad. As for the bandit camp, it's actually more like a patrol. It's okay to deal with ordinary bandits, but it basically doesn't have regular combat capabilities.
The shortcomings of the above two types of troops were also an important reason why the Tang Dynasty did not hesitate to disband them. Keeping them had almost no effect except a waste of money.
This time the military proposed a local garrison force, or even a new structure of the force, with retired officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers who returned to the local area as the core to form a local garrison force.
This kind of local garrison only retains the most basic structure on weekdays. Most of the personnel do what they are supposed to do. During slack periods, intensive training is conducted at intervals, and certain subsidies are given during the training period.
If there is a war, they will be gathered together to undertake garrison tasks. In terms of equipment, they will mainly be equipped with cold weapons and old weapons replaced by the military.
When Li Xuan first heard about it, he found that the local garrison force conceived by the Army was very interesting. It combined the two properties of reserve and militia, and it had great potential!
Of course, what interests Li Xuan the most is that this kind of local garrison basically does not spend much money on weekdays, and will only be given certain subsidies during centralized training.
And with the retired military personnel as the core, and then select some young people, and do some intensive training during the off-season, it won't take long, just one month of training a year is basically enough.
In this way, this kind of garrison can be used to deal with bandits and small-scale rebellions in peacetime. If there is a shortage of front-line troops, they can also be urgently recruited and replaced with new ones.
The system initially possesses certain combat effectiveness.
Li Xuan, who was deeply interested in this, quickly summoned relevant army generals to discuss the feasibility of this plan.
After discussion, Li Xuan also made up his mind to launch this model in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions first. At the same time, it will not be called a garrison, but a militia, and this militia organization will be directly promoted to the village level.
Militia at all levels directly accept the leadership of the Privy Council, and are even an important component of the imperial military force. They are responsible for local repression and bandit suppression on weekdays, and directly form large-scale militias to participate in wars during wartime.
The birth of the militia system was also the first attempt by the Tang Dynasty to establish a reserve system. However, the specific effect is still unknown and can only be observed in the future.
At present, the Imperial Army of the Tang Dynasty still has to rely on the main forces to carry out wars, so the main energy of the land side is to upgrade the existing regular armies!
Because reorganization requires a large number of guns, the major arsenals under the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty are manufacturing guns almost every day. As the front gradually advances northward, in order to ease the logistical pressure, the Ministry of Industry is already in Ganzhou,
Shaoyang each opened a new arsenal to supply frontline troops nearby.
As the scale of the war further expanded, the demand for guns and artillery was almost endless. The Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty also became one of the two busiest internal departments in the entire Cabinet of the Tang Dynasty. Every official of the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty
, are all very busy.
And what is the other busy department? Naturally, it is the Tax Department of the Tang Dynasty!
The Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Taxation were important forces supporting the Tang Dynasty's external expansion!
Without the money and food that the tax department worked so hard to collect, it could not build guns or recruit soldiers.
Without the guns and cannons manufactured by the Ministry of Industry, the army would not be able to expand its troops or fight a war!
Li Xuan has been keeping an eye on these two departments personally, and the various systems in them are considered to be at the forefront of official agencies at all levels in the Tang Dynasty, and the office efficiency is quite efficient.
The Ministry of Industry decided to open a new arsenal in Ganzhou. It only took half a month to transfer the relevant machinery and equipment, as well as the main engineers and workers to Ganzhou, and then directly requisitioned a large number of private houses to start construction!
In just one month, small-scale trial production began. Currently, the main focus is on ammunition production. In fact, when the Second Army went north, part of the ammunition was supplied by the Ganzhou Arsenal.
However, the scale is still relatively small, so the supply is limited. Most of them are provided by several large arsenals in Guangdong and Guangxi!
It was November after today, and Li Xuan once again saw a report from the Ministry of Industry, saying that last month, Datang's output of various ordnance reached new highs.
Including standard matchlocks used by infantry and marines, and short-barreled matchlocks used by cavalry, various arsenals under the Tang Dynasty produced a total of 1,800 in October.
In addition, the further improved cavalry-specific pistol has also been officially finalized. Trial production just started in October. Currently, less than a hundred have been produced and delivered to the Guards for testing and equipment.
Muskets are even one of the most important materials currently needed for the reorganization of the Tang Army. The reorganization of the troops has resulted in the existing troops' demand for muskets increasing several times.
In the past, an infantry division was only equipped with a total of more than a thousand muskets, but now, an infantry division includes three infantry regiments of musketeers, grenadiers, cavalry in the cavalry battalion, a baggage regiment, and an artillery regiment.
For the muskets required by the auxiliary arms, the total number of muskets required needs to be more than four thousand.
Based on the current ordnance output of the major arsenals of the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty, even if the current full production is maintained, it will take two months to complete the task of reorganizing an infantry division.
In addition to muskets, artillery is equally important, and can even be said to be more important, because the Tang Dynasty currently relies heavily on artillery for critical battles and even field battles.
Therefore, Li Xuan pays more attention to the production of artillery!