Chapter 377: The Seven Great Branches
Liu Xia deliberately asked those soldiers to adapt to the plateau climate, that is, to invade Tibet one day, take Tibet completely, and eliminate those disobedient ethnic groups that should be exterminated and killed.
Li Dingguo served as the commander of the Southwest Expedition Division, and he was awarded the rank of general of the chariot cavalry. He was the only general to join halfway, but in a high position. However, Li Dingguo's ability is also obvious to all, and there are not too many people who oppose him as the commander of the Southwest Traveling Capital Division. As for Li Gu, his qualifications were not enough to hold the high position of the commander of the general capital.
Then Liu Xia reorganized the Guards Brigade and reorganized the Guards into the Yulin Legion, with 20,000 soldiers and horses. As for the Guards, they were numbered 5,000 and were brigade-level positions, responsible not only for the security of Liu Xia, but also for the security of Luoyang City.
The establishment of the Central China Xingdu Division, responsible for the defense of Henan, Huguang and other places, by the Yulin Corps. Liu Xia fell back from Shouhu and served as the commander of the Imperial Forest Legion, and served as the commander of the capital of Central China, and awarded the rank of chariot general.
The establishment of the East China Xingdu Division, responsible for the defense of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, Nanzhili and other places, the original 50,000 horses of the Griffin Legion were divided into two, one was the Lion Legion, the other was the Griffin Legion, Jiang Xin continued to serve as the commander of the Griffin Legion. As for the commander of the East China Travel Division, Zhang Liang served as the commander. Compared with Zhang Liang, Jiang Xin's qualifications are still very different.
Then the southeast capital division was also established, and the commander of the capital was Ma Peng, and the Kui Wolf Legion was also divided into two, after all, there were 50,000 people in a legion, and Liu Xia was not at ease. The Southeast Metropolitan Division was responsible for the defense of Guangxi, Guangdong, and Fujian. When the southeast row is set up.
At present, there are a total of Northwest Division, Northeast Division, Southwest Division, Southeast Division, Central China Division, East China Division, and North China Division, except for the Central China Division, which is one corps, the others are at least two, and the Southwest Division has three corps. The reason why so many people are arranged in the Southwest Traveling Capital Division is mainly due to Tibet, but there are also reasons for some small countries in Southeast Asia.
Taking the initiative to provoke trouble from Myanmar made Liu Xia understand that some small countries must be deterred by force, otherwise he will think that you are a sick cat.
However, with the exception of the split Quewolf Legion, the Beast Legion, and the Griffin Legion. The Blue Dragon Legion, the Vermilion Bird Legion, the Iron Lion Legion, the Xuanwu Legion, and the White Tiger Legion each still have 50,000 people. However, the North China Army, the Northeast Army, and the Northwest Army are all fighting at the moment, and if Liu Xia splits it in half now, it will have a certain impact on the battle, so he will not rebuild it for the time being. But it was only a matter of time before it split into two.
Liu Xia established seven Xingdu Divisions to basically cover the entire territory of China, and although the strength of these legions was not too many, it was already sufficient in terms of operations. After all, their task is not to defend the city, the city has a special place to defend the legion.
After the establishment of the Seven Branches, Liu Xia was promoted to the three chiefs of the Military Division, the Supervision Division, and the Logistics Division, and Chen Liu, Meng Yu, and Wang En were hussar generals. At a time when the army was constantly improving its establishment, Taiwan's Zheng Zhilong could not sit still.
He sent ten warships and began to stealthily head towards Liaodong. But it was known in advance by the East China Sea Fleet. Although it has been a long time, the sailboat is not as fast as the steamship. Yu Mingjun used carrier pigeons to send a message to Bai Menghu, the commander of the North Sea Fleet, asking him to send warships to intercept him, and on the other hand, he sent three of the fastest warships of the East China Sea Fleet to pursue. At the same time, it joined forces with Zhang Liang, the commander of the East China Travel Division, to guard against the threat from Taiwan. Zheng Zhilong thought that he would succeed immediately, so he was not worried in Taiwan.
But he didn't know that Liu Xia's warships were much more advanced than his warships. It can be said that it will be hundreds of years ahead of time. After all, it was not until long before the steam engine was used on ships.
Then Zheng Zhilong seemed to think that Liu Xia's navy was not strong, so he often sent several warships to harass the coastal area. As soon as the ships of the East China Sea Fleet passed, they immediately slipped away. From time to time, they also go ashore to rob. Disaster. This completely angered Liu Xia.
However, there were not many troops along the coast, and most of the Kuiwolf Legion went to pursue Wu Sangui in distress. The two corps under the East China Expeditionary Division, one was stationed in Shandong, and the other was stationed in Jiangsu and Nanzhili. I can't control Fujian, after all, Fujian is the scope of the southeast capital. Only the East China Sea Fleet defended that side, but the East China Sea Fleet, which simply relied on only a few dozen ships, would certainly not be able to completely defend against it. So Liu Xia split the Vermilion Bird Legion into two, one called the Vermilion Bird Legion and the other called the Black Dragon Legion. The Suzaku Legion went to the southeast and stationed in Fujian and Guangdong to guard against threats from Taiwan. As for the new commander of the Suzaku Legion, Xia Di served as the envoy.
On the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea Fleet, under the command of Yu Mingjun, caught up with Zheng Zhilong's fleet heading to Liaodong, while the North Sea Fleet also surrounded it. The ten battleships suddenly felt bad. The East China Sea Fleet, under the command of Yu Mingjun, fired directly at the ten battleships. At the same time, the North Sea Fleet, under the command of Bai Menghu, also began to fire on the enemy. Without giving them time to reflect at all, six of the ten battleships had been blown up, and many soldiers had fallen into the sea. But fortunately, they are all water armies, and they can naturally swim. Almost all of them were blown up, and very few drowned.
In a few moments, the ten legions were all finished, and the North Sea Fleet lost two wooden warships. Then the two fleets salvaged all the enemy troops that had fallen into the sea and put them in cages. The crisis has come to an end. But Yu Mingjun knew that this was not just Zheng Zhilong's carelessness, Zheng Zhilong didn't know the strength of Liu Xia's navy, and thought that Liu Xia's navy was on the same level as Wu Sangui's navy. That's why such a weak fleet was sent.
If Zheng Zhilong knew the strength of Liu Xia's naval army, he would definitely send a large number of warships. It's easy to dispatch hundreds of ships at once. But the total number of combat warships of the East China Sea Fleet is only twenty-five. It can't be compared with Zheng Zhilong's warship at all.
At this moment, Yu Mingjun realized the importance of warships, so for the next period of time, he continued to write notes to Liu Xia, asking Liu Xia to allocate funds to build warships. Some time ago, I thought that the construction of transport ships delayed the construction of warships, and then because of the construction of railways, the construction of warships was delayed, and now that the output of steel has risen, Liu Xia can no longer stop building warships.
Soon Liu Xia agreed to build a shipyard in Songjiang Province and a steel mill. At the same time, the construction of the railway from Luoyang to Nanjing and Songjiang was approved. Jiaozhou is the base of the North Sea Fleet, so a railway from Luoyang to Jiaozhou was built, and now Songjiang is the base of the East China Sea Fleet, so it is naturally necessary to build a railway to Songjiang Province. Good for transporting all kinds of supplies. At the same time, Nanjing's status is not ordinary, the population of Fujian and Zhejiang is large, and the construction of a railway to Songjiang can also better serve the people.
At present, the railway department has a set of primary train passenger transport system. Most of the people around Luoyang go out by train. On the one hand, the train is fast and cheap, and on the other hand, it is also curious. Compared to ordinary people. Merchants loved trains the most. In the past, when there were no trains, they used to transport goods at an expensive price, but now with trains, they can transport goods for very little silver.
From Luoyang to Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, it is basically a train trip, and the train track from Xi'an, Shaanxi Province to Chengdu has also begun to be planned. At that time, it is completely possible to go directly from Luoyang to Yunnan through Sichuan.
However, many railways are in the planning stage and have not entered the construction stage, so it is not that they cannot find manpower. It's that the production of steel can't keep up. At the moment, there is no shortage of iron ore in China. However, the technology of steelmaking is not too mature, and the steel produced is still relatively small. Liu Xia could only build the main railway first. As for the other railways, they will be slowly built when they have enough steel reserves in the future.
Soon the news of the defeat of the fleet sent by Zheng Zhilong in the Yellow Sea reached Taiwan, and Zheng Zhilong was furious and was about to order a full-scale attack on Fujin on the spot. To attack Luoyang, slaughter Liu Xia.