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The question of whether the Min soldiers could fight was difficult for Hou An to answer.

If you ask how many soldiers and horses there are in Fujian, Hou An's heart still has a spectrum. Since the beginning of the Jiajing period, Fujian has set up additional general officers, and the four battalions of the front battalion, the right battalion, Fuqing, and Zhendong are directly under the jurisdiction of the general army. Each of the four battalions has 1 battalion officer, 1 general, 5 sentinels, and 21 sentinel commanders and secretaries. The soldiers and miscellaneous currents are rated at 576 people, and the four battalions have a total of 2,300 soldiers.

In addition, there are Fuzhou Wei, Xinghua Wei, Quanzhou Wei, Zhangzhou Wei, Funingwei, Pinghaiwei, Yongning Wei, Zhenhaiwei eight guards, although the eight guards have a lot of empty salaries, but the number of soldiers can also be counted forty percent. Among them, the Yongning Wei Zhongzuo Institute has jurisdiction over the Penghu Inspection Institute of the Outer Sea, which is the strongest of the guards, with thousands of boat divisions. (Middle Left Firm: Xiamen)

On the whole, Fujian's existing soldiers and horses are maintained at 20,000 to 30,000, which is much less than that of its neighbor Zhejiang, but it is stronger than that of Guangdong.

However, whether this is combatable or not, Hou Anzhi, who is the admiral of the water division, does not dare to talk nonsense, even if the Lord Futai in front of him is a new official, he Hou Anzhi does not dare to deceive. Because whether the Fujian soldiers can fight or not at the moment, in fact, Fujian officialdom has long been tacitly known - they cannot fight.

In fact, the Fujian soldiers were capable of fighting, and in the 42nd year of Jiajing, when Yu Dayou was the chief military officer of Fujian, and Tan Lun was the imperial history and governor of Fujian, the Fujian officers and soldiers under the command of Yu and Tan and the Zhejiang soldiers Qi Jiguang jointly defeated the Japanese invaders. Later, because of Qi Jiguang's great contributions, the imperial court changed Yu Dayou to the chief military officer of Southern Jiangxi, and Qi Jiguang was the general soldier of Fujian. Far from making Fujian's officers and men less combative, this series of personnel changes has become stronger and stronger.

For more than 20 years since then, thanks to the presence of this group of Fujian soldiers and generals who have been trained in actual combat, the officers and men of Fujian's guards have always maintained their strong combat effectiveness. When Jin Xuezeng became the governor of Fujian, the Fujian guards finally completely wiped out the coastal pirates and won a naval victory against the Dutch. And this is not the glory of the Fujian soldiers, the real glory of the Fujian soldiers is that they were transferred as the main force of the expeditionary force against Japan.

After the outbreak of the Korean War, Jin Xuezeng, the governor of Fujian, who was incompatible with the traditional scholars, wrote to the imperial court as a hard-line main war faction and an unswerving foreign pioneer faction, proposing that the ultimate cause of the solution to the "Imjin War" was not on the Korean Peninsula, but on the Japanese archipelago. Jin believed that at that time, the Fujian Naval Division was strong in combat and invincible, so it was necessary to use the Fujian Naval Division as the main force and transfer the officers and men of Zhejiang and Guangdong to form a joint expeditionary force to the southeast to attack the Japanese archipelago, and quickly force Japan to submit with the superiority in the number of ships.

This is called "once and for all, the war to destroy the country".

Wanli, who had long been overwhelmed by the protracted Korean War, and Wanli, who had a poor treasury and could run mice, heard that there was a way to end the war quickly, and was happy and directly ordered Kim Hak-tsang to implement it.

As a result, Jin Xuezeng formed the second expeditionary force against Japan in Chinese history, the last one was the Pseudo-Yuan period. It is a pity that the expeditionary force was formed and trained, and the intelligence system against Japan also played a huge role, and all kinds of signs indicated that the thief chief was dead, and the expedition would be able to achieve a great victory, but at this time, Yang Yinglong, the Tusi of Miao Territory, launched a rebellion, and in the face of abdominal turmoil, Wanli had to withdraw the army to quell the rebellion, so he ordered to stop the attack plan on the Japanese mainland.

History has once again opened its grace to Japan.

As the main force of the expeditionary force, the Fujian soldiers were brilliant, but they were also tragic. After the plan for the expeditionary war against Japan was stopped, the officers and men of Fujian were successively transferred, either to counterinsurgency, or to supplement Zhejiang and Guangdong, and most of the generals who could fight well were also transferred. For example, Shi Dezheng, the current general of Zhejiang, and Shen Yourong, a staff general, were all "young Zhuang factions" among the Fujian generals at that time, and after 18 years, Fujian Zhuwei can be said to be old, weak, sick and disabled.

Take the four battalions of the most elite general standard battalion as an example, the rated soldiers are unchanged, but the battalions are far more miscellaneous than soldiers. The so-called miscellaneous currents are actually auxiliary soldiers, and most of them have not gone through the battle array. This kind of soldier is more than enough to suppress the people's rebellion, but if he really wants to take it out and use the soldiers, Hou Anzhi really doesn't have the confidence. He didn't know how to answer the governor's inquiry, saying that he could fight, but what kind of war? said that he couldn't fight, where did he put his face as a naval commander.

"Zhongcheng wants to use soldiers?"

Hou Anzhi wanted to find out what kind of soldiers the new governor intended to use.

"A letter from the senior university in Zhejiang, inviting my Fujian officers and soldiers to cross the sea to get chicken coops."

There is no need for Huang Chengxuan to conceal this important matter, and the Zhejiang Gao Da is the governor of Zhejiang. Although the matter of the joint forces of the three provinces was proposed by the lieutenant official of Jiangnan Town, it has always been led by the Zhejiang Party, and the matter has not been officially reported by the imperial court, nor has it been approved by the Ministry of War, and only the emperor's acquiescence is currently available. Huang Chengxuan was able to be the governor of Fujian, and he was recommended by Congzhe, a sub-auxiliary party from the Zhejiang Party, for the convenience of joining forces.

"Chicken coop?"

Hou Anzhi's brows furrowed, what is there to do with that desert island. There are not many inhabitants on the island, and it has recently been mostly occupied by pirates, and there are many people along the coast, and the island is plague-ridden, so it is really not a pleasant place.

"In the second half of the year, my Fujian officers and soldiers, Zhejiang officers and soldiers, and the soldiers and horses under the maritime yamen will jointly crusade against the chicken coop, and at that time, the joint fleet will have a seat in Fujian, and this officer intends to have you as the commander of the combined fleet on my behalf with full authority, I don't know what the commander wants?"

Huang Chengxuan said and handed a newspaper sent from Hangzhou to Hou Anzhi, who took it and looked at it, and the title was "The Plan for the Formation of the Combined Fleet".

According to the confusion in his heart, Hou Anzhi opened it and took a closer look, it turned out that this combined fleet was composed of the Wusong Royal Navy, the Zhejiang Naval Division, and the Fujian Naval Division, and the fleet had the post of commander, which was directly subordinate to His Majesty the Emperor, and was established as the Son of Heaven's pro-army navy.

According to the plan for the formation of the combined fleet, the fleet has a headquarters, including the commander and the supplementary staff, the chief of staff, the deputy chief of staff, the chief of staff, the gunnery staff officer, the mine staff officer, the liaison staff officer, the navigation staff officer, the organ staff officer, the combat affairs staff officer, the administrative staff officer, and the adjutant.

According to the plan, the Royal Navy, the Zhejiang Naval Division, and the Fujian Naval Division will transfer large main ships such as fortune ships, building ships, and gunboats to form the standing fleet of the combined fleet, and the rest of the large and small ships will be organized into the garrison fleet. The generals will be appointed from each of the three in proportion to the ship.

In the end, the plan was signed by the admiral maritime eunuch Wei Mouliangchen, and there was a letter from the governor of Zhejiang, Gao Gaocheng, and it seemed that Zhejiang had reached an agreement with that Wei Gonggong on the composition of the joint fleet. This made Hou Anzhi very worried, if he followed this composition plan, whether the military power of his Fujian naval division would be taken away by this combined fleet, after all, the original Wusong naval division and Zhejiang's naval division had many more ships and officers and soldiers than his Fujian.

"This combined fleet is only temporary, and each will return to its own army after the East is pacified."

Xu saw Hou Anzhi's worries, Huang Chengxuan said lightly, and then pondered for a moment, "Although my Fujian soldiers have been peaceful for nearly 20 years, this time the use of troops is not a national war, and I think the officers and soldiers should be able to deal with it." Since the official came to Fujian, he felt that this Fujian was really poor, and if he could get the east and thought that my Fujian people would find a way out, it would be a great good government, and I hope that the admiral can do his best to make my Fujian not fall behind. ”

Hou Anzhi responded to the matter without much thought, because he knew that since the governor had said so, it was not something he could object. As for whether or not to contribute, the three coalition warships have hundreds of warships, and even if the officers and soldiers of Fujian are unbearable, they will not be defeated.

Huang Chengxuan attached great importance to the crusade against Dongfan, and told Hou Anzhi that he would go to the center and left a few days later, and if possible, he should take a boat to Penghu to inspect, which means that the chicken coop is just in front of Fujian, and if it can be obtained, it should be under the jurisdiction of Fujian, so Hou Anzhi must also make a good contribution, and then he can block the mouth of the two families.

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