Volume VIII 1223 Green Dragon White Tiger Vermilion Bird Xuanwu

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The Chinese army evolved from the Ryukyu New Army in the past, and the Ryukyu New Army was the first to be cobbled together by Xiao Lotian using the four major parts of the Heavenly Kingdom veterans, Han Chinese refugees, Japanese samurai, and Ryukyu natives.

Before Xiao Lotian became the prime minister of the Ryukyus, these warriors under his command could only be called guards, or even business bodyguards, although they received rigorous modern military training arranged by Xiao Lotian every day, but they still regarded themselves as ordinary people to the outside world.

It wasn't until Xiao Lotian overthrew the rule of the Japanese Shimazu family in the Ryukyus and became the prime minister of the Ryukyus that he began to train the new army on a large scale, but because Xiao Lotian knew very well what he wanted from the beginning, his future strategy was very clear that he would take the path of elite soldiers, and the most resources would still be reserved for the navy.

With the giants and cannons of the navy as the dots, the ferocious firepower as the radius, and the fierce marines, a special zone or Chinese autonomous region was established in the coastal and riverside areas where the Chinese people lived in the Qing Dynasty.

As the number of these special zones grows larger and the market becomes more and more prosperous, mercantilism will naturally bring abundant wealth returns, which in turn can further improve the level of industrialization of the Chinese themselves and further build a more powerful fleet.

This is a very virtuous circle, there is no need to carry too much of the burden of the army, and the limited resources are used on the blade, which is the guarantee of the super combat effectiveness of Xiao Letian's army.

At present, Xiao Lotian has four reinforced divisions in his hands, each division has a strength of about 8,000, this is the entire combat effectiveness of the Marine Corps, although there is no clear naming ceremony, but I don't know how to do it, the officers and soldiers at the bottom prefer to call the four reinforced divisions by the names of the four holy beasts of Qinglong, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu.

Before Xiao Letian's expedition to Europa, the new army of the Ryukyus actually only had four reinforced regiments, with a total strength of only about 15,000 people, although at that time the Ryukyus had trained a huge reserve force, but Xiao Lotian has been very cautious in expanding the army, and the number of regular troops has been suppressed.

At that time, the First Regiment was the predecessor of the current First Division, and its members were basically composed of veterans of the Kingdom of Heaven. This is the old foundation of Xiao Letian's own beginning, plus China has used the dragon as a totem since ancient times, so the first division is called the green dragon by many people.

These veterans of the Heavenly Kingdom have been fighting for many years and have very rich experience in warfare, and of course they are also the highest, so their combat effectiveness is not unconvinced, and it is not an exaggeration to call them Qinglong.

The 2nd Regiment later developed into the 2nd Division, commonly known as the White Tiger. This is a team formed by Xiao Letian absorbing a large number of Japanese samurai and ronin, the core of which is the sword drawing team with the right to sabble.

These white-knuckle combat masters have always been commandos on the battlefield, and at the most critical moment of the war, a strange soldier suddenly and quickly interspersed with the bloodiest hand-to-hand combat into the enemy's military formation, and the panic created by Zào can definitely turn the tide of the battle.

The White Tiger is a fierce beast, and these fanatical Japanese samurai deserve this name.

The third regiment was the Xuanwu, which was composed of Qing refugees, mainly people who were persecuted by the war and could not survive, as well as the original Han immigrants from the Ryukyus.

Xuanwu is good at defending, which is very similar to the hard-working character of ordinary Chinese people, and the third division developed by the third regiment is the most awesome in civil engineering and front defense.

The fortitude of this army is not to say, all the soldiers are silent like old scalpers, they can build fortifications as fast as they can, digging trenches is the fastest in the world, and their endurance in the face of Yan zhòng casualties is also unmatched.

Xiao Lotian once made a joke, if there is such an army in this world, when he still has morale not collapsed after losing two-thirds of the battle, and still continues to fight silently, if there is really one, then it can only be the third division.

The last army was the 4th Division, whose skeleton was basically composed of the indigenous people of the Ryukyus, who were known to have been colonized by the Shimazu family for nearly 200 years, and Xiao Lotian's redemption was almost equivalent to that of the phoenix Suzaku reborn from the ashes.

These Ryukyu natives cherish this hard-won opportunity to restore the country very much, and they know that if it were not for Xiao Lotian, the Ryukyu would probably have only one fate, which would be annexed by Japan.

Only those who have tasted the taste of enslavement will cherish the opportunity to rise in front of them even more, so the army formed by these Ryukyu natives is also extremely fanatical in combat.

Qinglong, White Tiger, Xuanwu, Vermilion Bird, these four nicknames all have their own origins, and these four teams basically represent the earliest four components under Xiao Letian's command, which are also equivalent to the four major forces.

For Xiao Letian, the spirit of the four major forces themselves must of course be retained, but at the same time, they must not be allowed to have the mind to pull the mountain, so in the next few years, Xiao Letian carried out several military reforms.

Expanding the army, dismantling the system and then rebuilding, the four major forces must not form an army alone, but integrate with each other and run in with each other, break one qiē and then knead it together.

In fact, the current Four Masters Regiment is no longer the pattern of the past, every army and even every company is made up of mixed personnel, including Han Chinese, Fusang people, Ryukyuan people, veterans of the Heavenly Kingdom, and even Chinese in Nanyang.

However, the army is a very magical place, where inheritance is most important, and it is clear that the composition of personnel has changed, but the original military spirit of that army has been preserved.

This may be the sentence that Xiao Lotian often says: 'Iron battalion and flowing soldiers'!

Today, the four divisions of the Marine Corps are facing the first battle after the establishment of the Chinese nation, and people are not only fighting for glory and titles, but also for the future survival of the Chinese people, so the most difficult task is naturally fought for by countless people.

The hall has become a vegetable market, Xiao Letian looked at the qiē in front of him with satisfaction, this is the sharp spirit, the enterprising spirit of a new force, as dazzling as the morning sun.

Raising his hand, the chaotic scene gradually calmed down, Xiao Letian smiled and said, "Four battalions, two thousand soldiers, I will make arrangements later! The duty of a soldier is obedience, and it is useless to fight in front of me......

At this moment, Ryoma Sakamoto, who was leaning on the stretcher, suddenly spoke: "Prime Minister, your strategy is indeed very subtle, but there is another important question that you have not answered...... Excuse me, what exactly do you want to block the east and west entrances of the Sagawa Strait and the Oshima Strait?"

"Don't forget that even if the Zhiyuan can come back in time, it is just a warship, and he can only block a section of the strait!"

Ryoma-sama's question calmed down the frenzied atmosphere just now, and the people asked in confusion, "Yes, what if the Russians find that they can't move the 694 heights, and if they run away?"

Note: This one is still for the second layer of the cake, well, tomorrow we will start to add more to the third layer of cake, book friends continue to give their best!