Zhang Yue's cut-off guards who played curve mode in Huguang and Jiangxi naturally couldn't run according to his ideas, and there would always be many accidents in this process.

For example, a team of guards who were sent back to Wuchang to work, when they approached Wuchang, there was a mutiny, and a guard commander who was unwilling to change from the commander of the first army to the foreman of the contractor killed the supervising soldiers with his own soldiers, and then wrapped up the thousands of guards of the team to raise the name of the Qinwang army under the Tang Dynasty, and tried to flee south to join the Tang Dynasty.

It's a pity that as soon as this incident appeared, even Zhang Yue was not alarmed, and was strongly suppressed by Song Zhiwen, who was left behind in the rear, and led by the superintendent!

Under the suppression of more than 500 governors, the 1,000 mutinous guards could not support it for half a day, and then it completely collapsed, and several rebellious generals led by them were Ling Chi on the spot, and most of the remaining captured soldiers were beheaded on the spot.

When the matter reached the ears of Li Chunjing in Jiangxi, it made Li Chunjing feel quite a pity!

What a rare propaganda event this is, a team of Ming troops is determined to break with the Ming Dynasty with the heart of the Tang Dynasty, what does this mean, it shows that the prestige of the ancient saint has spread all over the country, and it shows that the Tang Dynasty is only the only real master of China!

It's a pity that this matter is a bit of a joke, if the Ming army guards can support it and enter Jiangxi, Li Chunjing doesn't even mind giving it to His Majesty in person, and fighting for a preferential ending for this team of guards.

What a pity!

But the occurrence of this incident not only did not reduce Zhang Yue's determination to eliminate the guards, but strengthened his determination!

In the past, he just felt that the guards were unusable, but now he felt that the guards were not only unusable, but even felt that these guards were an unstable factor.

In the past few years of the Ming Dynasty and the puppet Tang Dynasty, although the Ming army surrendered in formation and high-ranking officials also surrendered, there was no direct rebellion of the troops in the rear and then defected to the puppet Tang Dynasty.

After this incident, Zhang Yue took several measures in a row, in addition to sending these guards to Wuchang to make guns, he also ordered the guards to leave the front line, and then go to the rear to reclaim.

At the same time, he also accelerated the scale expansion of the supervision!

50,000 is not enough, he wants 100,000 or more!

Where does military spending come from? Naturally, it was diverted from the military funds originally used for the guards, and in addition, Zhang Yue also began to strongly integrate the local recruitment in the direction of Huguang and Jiangxi.

That is, those local officials such as prefects and governors used local finances to recruit soldiers on their own!

He integrated the recruits recruited by various local officials on their own, and although they were not directly incorporated into the supervision standard, they were also organized and trained in accordance with the supervision standard, and integrated them into a new army unit with complete establishment and equipment, and called it training army, with the state capital as the basic unit, and called it a certain training army.

For example, Hengyang training army, Changsha training army, Yuezhou training army, Jiujiang training army, etc., each has a number of battalions.

The formation model of the scale of military training in these places is also quite interesting, the establishment, equipment, and even training are directly based on the supervision and standard as a template, but the personnel and funds are directly from the local government.

When Zhang Yue was making a big move in the north, Li Xuan in the south was not idle!

Because the war situation in the north has once again fallen into a confrontation decision, although the Tang Army has a new offensive plan, but to launch a large-scale offensive, all kinds of preparations will take time, especially if a new offensive is to be launched, the next target is either Jiujiang or Fuzhou.

And these two places, each of which requires a large number of troops and sufficient artillery preparation, can be conquered.

When the front-line troops were planning the next offensive, Li Xuan in the rear also began to discuss with the army to expand the army.

Yes, that's right, the army is still not willing to give up on expanding the army!

After the regular army could not expand due to financial constraints, the army put forward another plan, that is, to organize local garrisons.

This garrison is not the same concept as the garrison army composed of the Ming army in the past, and it is also different from the previous robbery camp, which was actually a professional combat force, but it was only poor in personnel, poor equipment, and poor combat effectiveness, and the theft battalion was actually more similar to the patrol police, and it was okay to deal with ordinary bandits, but it basically did not have the ability to fight regularly.

The shortcomings of the above two types of troops are also an important reason why the Tang Dynasty did not hesitate to withdraw them, and keeping them has almost no effect except for wasting money.

This time, the military proposed a local garrison force, and even a completely new structure of the unit, with retired officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers who have returned to the locality as the core, to form a local garrison force.

This kind of local garrison unit only retains the most basic structure on weekdays, and most of the personnel should do what they should do, and they conduct intensive training at intervals during the slack period, and a certain amount of subsidies are given during the training period.

In case of war, it is to assemble, undertake garrison tasks, equip with cold weapons and old weapons replaced by the military.

When Li Xuan first heard it, he found that the garrison force in this place conceived by the army was very interesting, combining the two natures of reserve and militia, and the potential was quite large!

Of course, what interests Li Xuan the most is that this kind of local garrison basically doesn't spend much money on weekdays, and only in centralized training will a certain amount of subsidies be given.

With retired soldiers as the core, select a part of the young and strong, and properly concentrate on training during the agricultural slack, it doesn't take long, and the training for a month a year is basically the same.

In this way, this kind of garrison can also be used to deal with bandits, small-scale rebellions, and the like in peacetime, and if there is a shortage of troops on the front line, they can also be urgently recruited and replaced with a new system to initially have a certain combat effectiveness.

Li Xuan, who was deeply interested in this, soon convened the relevant generals of the army to discuss the feasibility of this plan.

After discussion, Li Xuan also made up his mind to first carry out this model in the Liangguang area, and at the same time, instead of calling it a garrison, it was renamed a militia, and he wanted to directly promote this kind of militia organization to the village level.

The militia at all levels, directly under the leadership of the Privy Council, and even an important component of the imperial military force, undertook local ammunition pressure and suppressed bandits on weekdays, and directly formed a large militia to participate in the war in wartime.

The birth of the militia system is also the first attempt by the Tang Dynasty to establish a reserve system, and the specific effect is still unknown, so it can only be left to be observed later.

At present, in the Tang Dynasty, the main forces have to rely on the main forces to carry out the war, so the main energy of the land side is also to upgrade the existing regular army!

Because the reorganization requires a large number of guns, the major arsenals under the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty are making guns almost every day, and with the gradual advance of the front to the north, in order to alleviate the logistical pressure, the Ministry of Industry has opened a new arsenal in Ganzhou and Shaoyang to supply the front-line troops nearby.

Due to the further expansion of the scale of the war, the demand for guns and artillery is almost endless, and the Datang Ministry of Industry has also become one of the two busiest internal departments in the entire Datang Cabinet.

And what's the other busy department? Naturally, it is the tax department of the Tang Dynasty!

The Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Taxation, which are an important force supporting the external expansion of the Tang Dynasty!

Without the money and food that the tax department had worked so hard to loot, it would not have been able to build guns and recruit soldiers.

Without the guns made by the Ministry of Industry, the army would not be able to expand its troops and fight a war!

And these two departments are also what Li Xuan has been personally staring at, and the various systems in them can be regarded as being at the forefront of official institutions at all levels in Datang, and the office efficiency is quite efficient.

The Ministry of Industry decided to open a new arsenal in Ganzhou, and it took only half a month to transfer the relevant machinery and equipment, as well as the main engineers and workers to Ganzhou, and then directly requisitioned a large number of private houses to start construction!

In just one month, small-scale trial production began, and at present it is mainly based on the production of ammunition, in fact, when the Second Army went north, part of the ammunition was supplied by the Ganzhou Arsenal.

However, the scale is still relatively small, so the supply is limited, and most of it is still provided by several large arsenals in Guangdong and Guangxi!

After today's November, Li Xuan once again saw the report of the Ministry of Industry, saying that last month, Datang's various ordnance production climbed to a new high.

Including the standard arquebuses used by the infantry and marines, and the short-barreled arquebuses used by the cavalry, a total of 1,800 were produced in the various arsenals under the Tang Dynasty in October.

In addition, the further improved cavalry special pistol is also officially finalized, and trial production began in October, and less than 100 have been produced and delivered to the Guards for testing.

Muskets, and even one of the most important materials needed for the reorganization of the Tang Army, the reorganization of the troops, has led to an increase in the demand for muskets in the existing troops by several times.

In the past, an infantry division was only equipped with more than 1,000 muskets, but now, an infantry division, including musketeers and grenadiers in three infantry regiments, cavalry cavalry in cavalry battalions, and muskets needed by auxiliary arms such as baggage regiments and artillery regiments, requires a total of more than 4,000 muskets.

With the current ordnance output of the major arsenals of the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty, even if the current full production is maintained, it will take two months to complete the task of reorganizing an infantry division.

In addition to muskets, artillery is equally important, and it can even be said to be more important, because the current Tang Dynasty's offensive battles and even field battles are extremely dependent on artillery.

So the production of artillery, Li Xuan paid more attention!