The capture of Xi'an City means that the entire Shaanxi is basically solved. Because there are not many troops in other places except Shaanxi, only one regiment of troops needs to wander around other cities to scare away those remnants of the defeated generals. Liu Xia doesn't need to worry about the next thing.

So on April 1st, Liu Xia returned to Luoyang, and just arrived in Luoyang, Shang Chuang sent a letter to Liu Xia, this letter was naturally written by Zhang Yang a few days ago and asked Shang Chuang to give Liu Xia, Liu Xia immediately tore the letter open, laughed twice after reading it, and then said: "Go and give Liu Dazhuang an order, let him give Zhang Yang the extra thousand war horses, by the way, where is Zhang Yang now?" ”

Standing in the garden, Shang Chuang smiled slightly: "General Huiyu, Xiao Yang has arrived at Tongguan at this time. Liu Xia nodded and said, "How many recruits are there in the boot camp now?" Shang Chuang opened his mouth directly and said: "General Hui has 20,000 recruits in the new corps now, excluding the 2,500 people who Jiang Xin is leaving, and the 3,000 people taken away by Zhang Yang, there are more than 14,000 people left. After that, 2,000 prisoners were escorted back for the first time, and 1,500 remained, excluding the old, weak, sick and disabled. The next 6,000 captives were 4,500 of the old, weak, sick and disabled. A total of six thousand people. ”

Liu Xia nodded with satisfaction, and asked again: "Can the more than 14,000 people before be usable now?" Shang Chuang immediately said: "General Hui, those more than 10,000 people have been trained now and can be used at any time!" Liu Xia said with satisfaction: "Okay! Let's go to the study! Immediately, Liu Xia led Shang Chuang to the study, and at the same time, Liu Xia also asked the guards to notify Chen Liu and others to come.

It didn't take long for Liu Xia to see that everyone had arrived, and Liu Xia said: "General Ben has an idea, and this idea was inadvertently thought up before because of the needs of the war. Chen Liu continued to take out his broken fan and fanned it, and said, "What the general said about the garrison?" Liu Xia nodded slightly after hearing this, and said: "It is this matter, the city we occupied before was guarded by combat troops, but once it is time to fight, these combat troops will be transferred to the battlefield, then the city will have no one to guard, and the armed personnel in the entire city will only have investigators, and there are not many investigators, their responsibility is to be responsible for the security of the city, but this guarding the city tower and killing the pole armed enemy is not competent." ”

"Does the general have any ideas?" Chen Liudao.

Liu Xia smiled slightly when he heard this: "Yes, it is the garrison just mentioned." The general envisaged a garrison regiment in each province and then used the garrison regiment to guard the local city. These garrison regiments do not have to participate in battles during war, and they will not enter the battlefield unless absolutely necessary. There are many advantages to establishing a garrison regiment, not only can it be equivalent to the training of a reserve army, but it can also allow some old and weak old soldiers to retire and give them a way to live. ”

"Then I wonder what the general's plan is?"

Liu Xia thought for a while and said: "First screen each brigade, screen out some old and weak troops, and then select some weaker troops from the new corps to form a local garrison regiment." Of course, if these soldiers are very capable, they can also enter the combat corps. ”

"The local garrison corps is only responsible for the garrison of the local city, and at the same time assists the local investigation and crime fight when necessary. Luoyang has established a garrison regiment, which is currently in charge of Jiang Xin, and the regimental headquarters is stationed outside Luoyang City. Establish a Luoyang garrison camp. However, the defense of Luoyang City is responsible for the personal guard brigade, and the garrison regiment is responsible for the other cities. The two passes of Tiger Prison Pass and Tongguan Pass are all responsible for the pro-guard brigade. The Xiongshi Brigade no longer garrisons Tongguan, and at the same time, the Tiger Brigade no longer guards the Tiger Pass. The three regiments of the Xiongshi Brigade all entered the territory of Shaanxi, and asked Liu Dazhuang to pacify Shaanxi as soon as possible. A garrison regiment was set up in Kaifeng, and a garrison camp was set up in Xiangfu. A garrison regiment was set up in Ruzhou Prefecture and a garrison camp was set up in Xuzhou. A garrison regiment was set up in Guide Province and a garrison camp was set up in Shangqiu. Let the wolf howling brigade in Ruzhou be stationed in Runing Mansion, and sweep the pole of Runing Mansion, exchange a peace in Runing Mansion, and at the same time strictly guard against Wu Sangui and Shang Kexi. ”

"Let the Tiger Prison Pass enter Fengqiu, Weihui Mansion, Huaiqing Mansion and other places north of the Yellow River, focus on preventing the Qing army, and at the same time crack down on the local landlord poles, etc., to lay the foundation for the future jurisdiction. The Leopard Cavalry Brigade was stationed in Guidefu, Fengyang Mansion and other places to guard against the Southern Ming army. The new corps was disbanded, and two new battalions were set up in Luoyang and Xi'an. Responsible for recruiting recruits. The recruit battalion was placed under the management of the Logistics Division. In the future, Wang En will be responsible for the recruitment of troops in the recruit camp, and Chen Liu, the director of the military service, will be responsible for the whereabouts of the recruits. Liu Xia said, and Shang Chuang suddenly looked at Liu Xia with a blank eye. After all, the recruit regiment has been downgraded to a new barracks, so what can he do about it!

Liu Xia didn't look at Shang Chuang, he still just said, and said: "Allocate 5,000 men and horses to establish the Iron Eagle Guard, which has four ordinary infantry battalions, two musket battalions, an archer battalion, an artillery battalion, and a guard corps, of which the artillery battalion is responsible for logistics and personnel by the artillery regiment. Sweep west to Gansu and other places, and if necessary, wipe out the enemy in Qinghai, Tibet, and Hamiwei! Niu Chao was appointed as the commander of the Iron Eagle Guard, promoted to the rank of Yangwei School, and Shang Chuang was appointed as the deputy commander, and the military rank remained unchanged for the time being. Shang Chuang was immediately happy when he heard this, although his rank had not changed, his position had risen a lot, and he had been promoted from the commander of the new regiment to the deputy commander of the combat corps, which was enough to make him excited. When he was in the new corps, Shang Chuang even thought that even if he was a deputy commander in the combat corps, he should not be the head of the new corps.

"It's a general, and his subordinates will definitely live up to expectations!"

Liu Xia nodded with satisfaction and continued: "The main officers of the Iron Eagle Guard are the students in the Armaments Academy and some people in the Guards Regiment who have been transferred to serve as them, and the specific matters are decided by the Military Division." It was temporarily decided to appoint Chen Liu, Meng Yu, Wang En, Liu Dazhuang, and Wang Shishi as the Riding School, which is one level higher than the Yangwei School. As for the others, it remains the same for the time being. Li Ke was appointed as the deputy commander of the Xiongshi Brigade and the head of the Lion Regiment, and was promoted to the rank of Yangyong Colonel. Shou Biao served as the captain of the Guards and was awarded the Yangwu School. Shouhu continued to serve as the deputy commander of the Pro-Guard Brigade and the head of the Investigation Division, with the same military rank. "This Shou Biao is Shou Hu's brother, and Shou Biao was the deputy head of the Pro Guard Brigade and the Pro Guard Regiment before. Shouhu did not show displeasure, after all, this official position is still in the hands of his family, Liu Xia said: "Shouhu, you have too many positions, and the pressure should be quite high." Therefore, the captain of the guard will let your brother serve for the time being. "Liu Xia's move is to tell Shouhu that he doesn't distrust him, isn't this still using your brother?

Shouhu got up and said: "The subordinates don't dare, the subordinates will definitely do their jobs!" ”

"En" Liu Xia nodded, and said: "As for the appointment of the garrison corps and other personnel, it will be uniformly dispatched by the Military Division, and then report to me, and the general will personally approve it." Liu Xia looked at Chen Liu and said to Chen Liu. Chen Liu nodded slowly in response.

Now Liu Xia's army, to the north is the Tiger Brigade, and the main task of the Tiger Brigade is to prevent the Qing army, and if necessary, it can attack the Qing army. The Tiger Brigade was Liu Xia's most elite army, and it was just right to fight with the Qing army. To the east is the weakest Leopard Cavalry Brigade, although the Leopard Cavalry Brigade is relatively weak, but compared to Nanming's army, it is already very powerful. In the south is the Wolf Howling Brigade, and the task of the Wolf Howling Brigade is to prevent Wu Sangui and Shang Kexi, and at present, Liu Xia has no time to deal with Wu Sangui, so at this time, he can only prevent Wu Sangui from coming over secretly to rob.

At present, Liu Xia has a total of nearly 60,000 troops. There are the Guards Brigade, the First Brigade (Huben Brigade), the Second Brigade (Xiongshi Brigade), the Third Brigade (Wolf Howling Brigade), the Fourth Brigade (Leopard Cavalry Brigade), Eagle Yang Guard, Iron Eagle Guard, Zhang Yang 3,000 Guards (no name yet), Luoyang New Barracks, Xi'an New Barracks, Luoyang Garrison Corps Battalion, Kaifeng Garrison Corps Battalion, Guide Garrison Corps Battalion, and Ruzhou Garrison Corps Battalion. A total of 40,000 men in the five full brigades, 700 in the Eagle Guard and 5,000 in the Iron Eagle Guard. Zhang Yang's men and horses are 3,000 people, and the number of people in the Luoyang new barracks and Xi'an new barracks is not fixed. The remaining four garrison regiments had a strength of 10,000 men. A total of 55,700 people, nearly 60,000.