Chapter 1398: Disarmament Preparations

In the turbulent times, all political deployments are for military operations later.

Qin Hao's large-scale transfer and appointment of officials this time was actually to allow the Qin army to have a better development in the military, so after rectifying the internal affairs, it was immediately followed by the reorganization of the army.

In order to quickly defeat Wang Mang, and Yang Lin, who was entrenched in Yewang City, and then unify Sizhou, Qin Hao had to collect the Liang army prisoners on a large scale, which made Jingbei bear the consumption of 300,000 troops with four counties.

Although Qin Hao's accumulation in Jingbei is quite rich, he also consumed almost seventy-seven eighty-eight in the Sizhou Unification War.

In order to defeat Temujin and keep the Hetao area, the Jin army also had to recruit an additional 300,000 troops, and only with the two places of Bingzhou and Hetao, it provided 600,000 troops to fight with Yuan Meng.

Let's put it this way, it is now the second year of Chuping (192), and Qin Hao is already twenty-two years old.

Since the first year of Zhongping (190), Qin Hao has been fighting in the east and west, and has been fighting for two years in a row.

In the past two years, Qin Hao unified Sizhou, unified and merged the state, defeated Yuanmeng, kept the Hetao, and achieved unprecedented great achievements, but he also wiped out the foundation of Jingzhou, and also the foundation of the merger and the Hetao.

Because of the treasure of the Heavenly Prince, the current Qin army is not short of money, but it is seriously short of food, and it is short of all three states.

The current Qin army may not be able to support even a big battle of 50,000 people, so the next step is to recuperate and recuperate.

After the unification of Qin and Jin, in order to deter Yuanmeng and the princes of various places, the Qin army temporarily retained a large number of troops.

Not counting the armies that have been killed and injured in the war, just the number of all the armies in the establishment:

At present, among the Qin army, there are nearly 300,000 troops in the establishment of the Qin family;

The Jin army had nearly 450,000 troops (of which 200,000 were militiamen);

The Liang system has nearly 70,000 troops;

It does not belong to any faction, and there are as many as 30,000 elite battalions directly under Qin Hao's direct jurisdiction.

The territory of Jing Si and the four rivers and the territory of the twenty counties actually supported an army of 850,000, although it is only a number on the establishment, and there are not so many people in fact, but it can also be imagined how tight the Qin army's finances are.

Although the number of Qin troops today is large, due to the bloated combat power of the system and the complexity of the components, the combat power of the army has seriously declined.

In addition, the consumption of raising so many troops also overwhelmed the logistics of the Qin army.

The current Qin army is the maximum mobilization of troops in wartime, so this is only the establishment of 850,000 troops, and only relying on the territory of Jing Si and three prefectures, one place and twenty counties cannot support so many troops, so it is urgent to rectify the army.

After the transfer and appointment of officials, Qin Hao immediately summoned Liu Bowen and other military advisers, as well as the middle and senior ranks of the army, and held a three-day meeting.

The content of this meeting is to streamline the armed forces, that is, to disarm and reorganize the armed forces.

In the end, after the meeting, Qin Hao decided to eliminate the old, weak, sick and disabled, retain the elite, and directly disarm 250,000 at one time, and only retain the regular army of 600,000.

The output of the twenty counties under Qin Hao's command, although the strength to raise an army of 850,000 is somewhat insufficient, but the consumption of 600,000 regular troops is still out.

After the major disarmament, the Qin army will not be so bloated, and after eliminating all the old and weak, the overall combat effectiveness of the Qin army will also be improved.

Disarmament is only the beginning, and after disarmament, the next step is to reorganize the armed forces.

Among the 600,000 regular troops, the proportion of infantry, cavalry, and crossbow men is also the top priority of this military administration.

In the Battle of Hetao, the Qin and Jin armies used 120,000 cavalry, of which 10,000 were still cavalry of the Ming army.

After the battle, only 60,000 of the 120,000 cavalry remained, and nearly half of them suffered casualties.

Only 60,000 cavalry could not deter foreign races, and considering that cavalry was needed to conquer Hebei, and cavalry was also needed to protect the northern frontier after unifying Hebei.

So this time the Qin army was reorganized, and the other armies were disarming, only the cavalry was expanding.

Cavalry will definitely be the top priority in future wars, and a large number of war horses were captured in this battle of Hetao, so Qin Hao decided to directly expand the cavalry to 200,000, so that the cavalry accounted for one-third of the total strength.

With 200,000 cavalry in hand, Qin Hao will become the prince with the largest number of cavalry, even Dong Zhuo, who originally had more than 100,000 Xiliang iron cavalry, is far inferior to him.

In addition, as long as there are 200,000 cavalry in hand, when Qin Hao unified Hebei and bordered the Manchu Dynasty, he would no longer have to fear the soldiers of the Manchu Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, and the 200,000 Iron Cavalry would be enough to protect the safety of the entire northern Xinjiang.

As for the crossbowmen, they are also a type of infantry, and there are also crossbow cavalry among the cavalry, and the crossbow soldiers of the Qin army at critical moments can also be used as infantry, so the proportion of crossbowmen in the infantry is equally important.

After discussion, Qin Hao decided to arm and train 100,000 crossbowmen among the 400,000 infantry, and 100,000 crossbow cavalry among the 200,000 cavalry.

If this arrangement is made, the Qin army will have 200,000 crossbowmen of all kinds in the future, and the total number of crossbows in the Qin army is only 100,000, and the gap of crossbows has reached nearly half.

As for the arrangement of 400,000 infantry, it is simple, nothing more than training, changing clothes, and so on.

An army of 600,000 is not a small number, it is impossible to gather all of them together for training, and for the distribution of the 600,000 army, Qin Hao's final decision was:

Jingzhou 100,000

Sizhou 150,000

and state 200,000

One hundred and fifty thousand in the Hetao

Qin Jun's arrangement is still very reasonable.

The Qin army will not expand southward for a long time in the future, so this time Jingzhou will occupy the least number of troops.

Bingzhou has nine counties, the largest territory and the largest population, and it is the bridgehead for the conquest of Jizhou, so it directly accounts for one-third of the total number of the whole army.

Sizhou and Hetao are decent.

Bingzhou and Hetao are more suitable for training cavalry, so Qin Hao put all 200,000 cavalry in these two places for training, and after the cavalry is trained, he will be transferred to other regions to change defenses.

Qin Hao's big move in Luoyang naturally couldn't be hidden from the princes everywhere.

After Qin Hao was only disarmed, and after being transferred to officials, the princes everywhere were all relieved.

The terrifying number of more than seventy or eighty Qin troops overwhelmed all the princes, although they all knew that Qin Hao would be disarmed sooner or later, after all, no one could last long in the wartime military structure, but that day had not yet come after all.

Now that Qin Hao has finally carried out disarmament, the princes of all parts of the world, especially those who are neighbors with Qin Hao, can finally sleep well.

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