In Jiang Yugang's design, the troops of Mang Castle needed at least a thousand or so troops as a direct force to support their own military exploits and control Luchuan on behalf of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

This is the lowest estimate of the manpower required to make a war feat and influence the battle situation, and it is also the name of the agent Luchuan.

The military institutions set up by the Ming Dynasty in different regions had different troops, and key cities may have several guard posts plus some special forces to defend them, and general cities may have more than one guard post, and more may be set up according to the defense pressure of the region.

In some less important areas, there are 1,000 households, which is different from the 5,000 households. The military strength of the guard can reach more than 5,000 people at most, while the thousand households are only 1,000 people.

Therefore, the military strength of 1,000 people was the lower limit of the troops stationed in the Ming Dynasty.

There is no need for extra manpower as a supplement, and a team of 1,000 people is directly provided, and the vast majority of these people are still from Luchuan, which will be an important capital for Jiang Yugang to compete with other people who are interested in taking over Luchuan in the future.

Jiang Yuyan was not worried that there would be people with deep backgrounds to compete with him.

First of all, this Luchuan place is extremely dangerous in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, and the years of war have not been able to completely pacify the forces here, not to mention, even the most powerful Mujia Qianguo Duke in the southwest has been defeated here, and no one will take coming here as a good errand.

Secondly, even if there are people with deep backgrounds who take a fancy to Luchuan, they may not be able to get the promise of those in power. The Ming Dynasty still favored the use of locals to govern the locals in this kind of remote place, and even if they were not locals, they must be familiar with the local environment and have enough prestige and power, as can be seen from the local official policy maintained for many years.

It is not difficult to see from this that Ming Ting's thinking is clear, and they trust people who have a certain amount of power here more than a stranger parachuted in. The Ming court's attitude towards the Xuanwei Division region was rigorous, and it would only give the banner of the Heavenly Empire to those who already had absolute ability.

What they need is foolproof stability, a recognition of the authority of the Ming Dynasty, and they will not hand over the places they have gained at the great cost of war to anyone who needs to develop their forces and cultivate their abilities, but cannot fully control the situation.

The Ming court does not like to make bets on the issue of the Xuan Wei Division, they like an affirmative answer.

Zhu Zhanji, the former Ming Xuanzong, preferred to give up because he could not absolutely control Annan, but at this time, Yingzong decisively sent troops on the border issue, without the slightest hesitation and room for manoeuvre.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty, before the change of Tumubao, was still a tiger that dominated the world, and he appointed talents to take charge of one side, and only recognized absolute ability.

Take the Longchuan Xuanfu envoy as an example, the first Xuanfu envoy was even a rebel general of the Luchuan army, but because he had enough ability and prestige, the Ming court still used him to govern the border towns without sticking to one pattern.

Therefore, Jiang Yugang also believes that as long as he can prove his strength, there will be no other people with deep backgrounds from within who can intervene in the distribution and competition for the authority of Luchuan, and in the Luchuan front, the people who are qualified to fight for this authority are themselves big men in charge of military power, and they will not want to fight for this dangerous Luchuan place.

Except for him, no one else can develop a force like Mang Castle, which is Jiang Yugang's confidence.

The army of Mang Castle is the key source of his confidence.

After several months of development and the manpower support of the entire Manggu Castle, coupled with sufficient manpower and material supplies from Mengyang City, the Mang Castle army finally developed to a scale of 1,200 people, of which 900 were born in Luchuan, 300 were from the Ming army, and the re-organization of the Ming army's reorganized troops and other scattered troops, as well as the original team of 30 people from Manggu Mountain.

Although Jiang Yugang is now in an official position of 100 households, and there is a thousand households that are his nominal boss, this Qianhu first has less than 500 people under his own command, and secondly, he also commands Jiang Yugang's Mang Castle army.

In fact, among the more than 8,000 people in the entire Mengyang City garrison plus the people, Jiang Yuyan can be regarded as the officer with the largest number of people directly managed.

Even his actual boss, Qu Jingwei's commander Bai Qianfan, the supreme commander of the Mengyang City garrison, sealed the Mengyang garrison, and could directly mobilize less than a thousand troops.

It's just that Jiang Yuyan still has to obey Bai Qianfan's words at the moment, after all, more than sixty percent of the food and materials he maintains the operation of the entire Mang Ancient Castle still rely on the support of Meng Yangcheng, and the one who provides support is Meng Yang's garrison, and Qu Jingwei commands Bai Qianfan.

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Bai Qianfan would support Jiang Yugang so strongly, and it can even be said that he was selfless and supportive at any cost, or because he personally watched the Manggu Mountain defense line under Jiang Yugang develop step by step.

At first, he was a small banner of the Manggu Mountain defense line that could not be seen compared to other officers in the endangered defense line.

But he fought an incredible victory, destroying the vanguard of the Luchuan army's activities in Manggu Mountain, and from then on, Bai Qianfan vaguely realized that he was unusual.

After confirming the fact that the Manggu Mountain defense line had won, Bai Qianfan strongly recommended Jiang Yugang to be promoted to 100 households and take over the Manggu Mountain defense line.

As a result, Jiang Yugang really did not disappoint him, and even achieved an achievement that Bai Qianfan did not expect.

He showed courage that no one else possessed, went deep into the mountains and forests, won the trust of the people of Luchuan, and joined forces with farmers and hunters who had almost no military training to annihilate the main force of the Luchuan army in the Mangu Mountains.

After hearing this news, Bai Qianfan's heart was no longer simply shocked, he even had a sense of admiration for this young hundred, who might not be thirty years old, and then deeply trusted.

For the troubled Mengyang defense line, Jiang Yu's Manggu Mountain is the only hope in his opinion.

As the supreme commander of the Mengyang garrison and nearly 10,000 defenders in the area of Mengyang City, Bai Qianfan is also the supreme person in charge of Mengyang's defense.

Jingyuan Bo Wang Ji handed over to him thousands of elite soldiers who were no less than the main force under his own account, with only one purpose, that is, to hold Mengyang, the most important center of the Ming army after penetrating deep into the hinterland of Luchuan, as long as Mengyang maintained the transportation channel of materials for one day, the Ming army could continue to fight with the Luchuan army one day.

Even if a military village is pulled out one by one, sooner or later there will be a day when the war will be won and the forces of Luchuan State will be completely defeated, and once the city of Mengyang is broken, the 100,000 troops of the Ming army will only have one choice left ———— retreat.

At that time, the person in charge of the fall of Mengyangcheng, Bai Qianfan, will flee from responsibility, which will be an unimaginable felony.

From the four years of Ming Yingzong orthodoxy, to the current orthodoxy fourteen years, which lasted ten years, the battle of Luchuan consumed countless manpower and material resources of the Ming Dynasty, and this fourth expedition to Luchuan, the investment is even more desperate, if this time still can not succeed, maybe the Ming Dynasty will no longer have the ability to regain control of Luchuan.

This is Bai Qianfan's unimaginable price, and the corresponding guilt is also unimaginable to him.

Of course, Bai Qianfan would not have thought that although he lost Meng Yang on the world line in the past, but immediately after that, there was a huge Miao uprising and the Tumubao Rebellion, and Ming Yingzong was taken captive, so naturally no one would think of holding him accountable.

And in the army, in fact, no one will come to investigate his responsibility, and it is too late to appoint him to pacify the Miao Chaos.

Bai Qianfan, who did not have the ability to predict the future, saw that the Mengyang garrison was getting tired day by day, and the surrounding Luchuan army was growing, so he naturally went from being worried to having trouble sleeping, waking up early every day, opening his bloodshot eyes, and it seemed that he could see the picture of himself being punished by death because of the felony of losing Mengyang City.

In the entire Mengyang area, the only thing that could give him inner comfort was Jiang Yugang's Manggu Mountain defense line, which kept coming good news.

After sweeping the entire Luchuan army in the Manggu Mountains, Jiang Yugang actually further gathered all the people in the Manggu Mountains area, organized them to build a large-scale new camp, and continued to take root and develop in various parts of Mengyang, and even connected to the trade route to Ava.

Bai Qianfan admired that this Jiang Yugang was really a rare genius in a hundred years, less than a year after coming to Luchuan, he had become more imposing than the forces of Luchuan State, and with the current stalemate of the war, I am afraid that the forces of Luchuan Country did not have the bearing to engage in development and construction of this kid.

It is said that in the past few months, thousands of people have gathered in the newly built Mang Castle in Jiang Yugang, and Jiang Yugang is constantly selecting people from it to organize new troops.

In the face of such achievements, Bai Qianfan has already responded to Jiang Yu's various requests, managing the resource allocation under his command to the limit, and also ensuring the sufficient supply of Manggu Mountain.

Considering the consequences of losing Meng Yangcheng, Bai Qianfan is betting his life on Jiang Yugang, believing that he can change the battle situation of Meng Yangcheng as before.

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Jiang Yuyan naturally didn't know Bai Qianfan's thoughts, he could guess that under the pressure of such a predicament, Bai Qianfan would definitely be unhappy, but he didn't expect Bai Qianfan to have such great expectations for him.

If Bai Qianfan himself had no confidence in how to defend Mengyang City, Jiang Yu was afraid that he would be more worried about the situation.

He does not have such a great mental burden as Bai Qianfan, and he can clearly judge the situation, with his own troops, plus the original defenders of Mengyang City, it is impossible to hold Mengyang alone, so he can only ask the army to send troops to support.

Initially, during the period of continuous expansion of the army, he adopted the modern squad-platoon company system as a transitional organization for the army, and after the formation of the army entered a period of stability, he redesigned the organization and reorganized the troops.

With ten people as the basic organizational unit, it is called an operational group. In addition, there is a team leader and a deputy team leader.

Every ten combat groups, as an array, can complete the basic three-stage, five-stage, or even ten-stage attacks. In addition, there is an array supervisor, a deputy supervisor and four array commanders. Among them, the array commander is responsible for the firing command of the first line.

For every three arrays, a battalion is formed, with a battalion commander, two deputy battalion commanders, and five staff officers. From the battalion level onwards, all officers were appointed by members of the Shinkashi Academy, the "Apostles".

Each regiment selects a main array, all equipped with bird guns, for the main attack, and the other two arrays are auxiliary arrays, using new fire guns, for coordination.

Theoretically, every three battalions formed a regiment with a regimental commander, a superintendent, three deputy regimental commanders and a regimental staff headquarters. However, because there are only four battalions in total, the four battalions are temporarily organized into a regiment, which is numbered as the First Regiment of Manggu Castle.

In his vision for the future, Jiang Yugang planned to set up divisions above regiments and armies above divisions, with an army of 10,000 men. The troops above are a small number of corps organized into corps, and most of them into group armies, but those are still in the imagination.

No matter how much imagination he makes, he only has the current strength, and the war is coming.