Chapter 638: Consolidating the Country

Li Xuan has always felt that he is very hard, he lived well in his previous life, and he and the girl at the front desk were in love with each other, no, it should be said that he was in a time of enthusiasm, but he suddenly ran into this strange and bitter era!

Before the crossing, God didn't ask himself if he wanted to, if he did, Li Xuan would definitely raise his middle finger: Get out, go aside, don't disturb Lao Tzu playing with his legs!

However, life is so helpless and bitter, when he woke up, he dreamed back to 400 years, and came to this era that made him frightened, and he also had a brain-dead father who pit his son.

Even if Li Xuan thought about it with his toes, he couldn't imagine that there would be such a strange second force in this world, actually playing rebellion? Ma Dan, isn't it good to be a landlord, you have to play rebellion.

Play and play with your own life!

When he himself came to this time, he was chased by officers and soldiers like a dog, and he was scared and scared all day long, and if it wasn't for his good psychological quality, it is estimated that he would have gone crazy at that time.

After a period of extremely hard years in Huangzhu Mountain, Li Xuan finally led a group of bandits out of the mountain, seized Xingquan Mansion, and then developed step by step, carrying forward the Tang Dynasty left by his father.

But in this process, who knows what Li Xuan has put in?

Do you think Li Xuan is a natural model worker, he spends more than ten hours a day dealing with government affairs, it's not that there are a bunch of fools and crazy people under his hands, there are few normal people, if Li Xuan doesn't personally stare at it every day, all kinds of messy and strange things will happen, the Hao Jing incident in front is an obvious example, if it weren't for Li Xuan's review and folding to find out about this, he wouldn't have known that those bold local officials sold Hao Jing!

And he also took the troops to fight in person several times, it was a war, a war that would give away his life if he was not careful, such a dangerous thing, if it was possible, Li Xuan must have how far away he would hide.

Even if he abandons these, the current Li Xuan is every day to prevent someone under his hands from rebelling and plotting to seize the emperor's throne under his ass!

It's not that he has persecution fanaticism, and he thinks every day that there are always Diao people who want to harm me, which is a fact!

The emperor of the feudal dynasty will always have a large number of people who want their lives, so they have to be guarded against, and they must be strictly guarded against.

That's why Li Xuan rebuilt the Guards, and separated the Guards from the Tang Army, so that the Guards would directly belong to him, the emperor's vertical management wisdom, and even the Privy Council had no power to meddle in the affairs of the Guards.

In addition, in order to ensure the loyalty of the Guards, Li Xuan also reduced the risk of their rebellion as much as possible in terms of personnel, first of all, in terms of soldiers, the newly recruited soldiers were all children of poor families, and priority was given to recruiting children of poor families recruited in Xingquan Mansion, the land of Longxing.

In terms of officers, priority is given to hiring people who are related to the royal family, and most of them are officers, who are also students of the Son of Heaven who were born in the imperial school.

Because Li Xuan has also served as the head of the Imperial Academy for a long time, and even goes to teach in person every once in a while, it is not an exaggeration to call the students of the Imperial Academy protégés.

In a word, today's Guards, and even the many armies under Li Xuan, belong to the lineage of the lineage!

At the same time, in order to ensure the loyalty of these descendants, and also to divide the relationship between the Guards and the army and navy, Li Xuan also played a careful thought, that is, to engage in differentiation.

To put it simply, the officers and men of the Guards are generally treated higher than those of the army and navy!

Although the basic treatment such as salaries and land distribution is the same as that of the army, it is worth noting that the ranks of the soldiers of the Guards are generally one level higher than that of the army, and as long as the soldiers have completed the recruit training, they will be awarded the first class, and those with better quality in all aspects will soon be promoted to non-commissioned officers, and after two years of service, most of them will be promoted to non-commissioned officers

In other words, in the group of soldiers, the proportion of non-commissioned officers of the Guards is relatively large.

In the same way, the rank of officers is generally one level higher than that of the army, and the captains of the infantry units of the Guards are all captains, but when they reach the rank of camp, they are generally lieutenant colonels.

In this way, it is also a disguised increase in the treatment of the guards!

Of course, the ranks of the Guards are generally higher, and it is also related to the establishment of the Guards!

The early establishment of the Guards was the same as that of the Army, but in the reorganization of the Army in the second half of the second year of Xuanping, the Guards also took a ride and changed it according to the idea proposed by Li Xuan!

Therefore, the establishment of the Guards is different from that of the Army!

In the current establishment of the Guards, the basic core establishment of the team level is the same as that of the army, which is an infantry team formed with a six-platoon system as the core, that is to say, a team has six platoons!

Why? Because the infantry team often forms a six-platoon depth in ordinary combat, unless it is a final salvo, the musketeer team will maintain a six-platoon line formation.

Each platoon, including the platoon commander, has a total of sixteen people!

An infantry team, whether it is a musketeer or a spearman or a grenadier or a shield or a shield or a bow and arrow, etc., has six platoons, plus a captain, a lieutenant, two guards, two musicians, a coachman, and a medic.

As a result, the standard infantry formation of the Datang Guard, the army and even the Marine Corps was formed, with a total of one hundred and four people.

However, the ratio of officers and non-commissioned officers is not the same.

In the Army's standard infantry team, usually only the captain and deputy captain and the platoon commander of the first platoon are officers, the officer is a lieutenant or captain, the deputy captain is a lieutenant or second lieutenant, the first platoon leader is a second lieutenant, the other second to sixth platoon commanders are sergeants, the first platoon commander is also a sergeant, and the other five platoon leaders are sergeants or corporals.

Then among the ordinary soldiers, the ordinary soldiers are only privates, and only those who have served for one year, or who have participated in many battles within one year of service, are first-class soldiers.

But in the Guards, there are more officers in the infantry team, the captain is a captain, the deputy captain is a lieutenant, and there are six second lieutenants, that is, the platoon commanders of six platoons, and even the deputy platoon commanders are all sergeants.

If the level of the infantry team, the army and the guards are still about the same, then when it comes to the level of the infantry battalion, the gap is quite large, first of all, the infantry battalion of the guards is not five teams, but eight teams, which is three more than the army's infantry battalion.

Among these eight teams, there are four musket teams, three spear teams, and a combined bow and arrow, sword and shield team.

And the battalion headquarters also directly governs a battalion artillery team, equipped with two two-pound shotguns!

The number of such an infantry battalion has already reached the scale of 1,000 people.

An infantry battalion of 1,000 people, the commander of which naturally cannot be a major, but a lieutenant colonel!

At the same time, the deputy commander of the infantry battalion of this kind of Guards is also a major, and Li Xuan also assigned a chief of staff to this kind of Guards infantry battalion.

If the army side uses the infantry regiment as the basic tactical unit, then in the Guards, the infantry battalion is actually the basic tactical unit!

Such infantry battalions, the Guards have a total of four!

In addition to these four enlarged infantry battalions, the Guards also had a Guards artillery battalion larger than the army artillery battalion, and the entire artillery battalion had 12 7-pound guns, 18 5-pound guns, and 6 3-pound shotguns.

In addition, there is a cavalry battalion of the Guards Army, which is comparable to the 1st Cavalry Battalion, with a full strength of 400 cavalry!

In addition, it also has a baggage camp that has also been expanded!

The total strength of the entire Guards Army has already exceeded 6,000 people, reaching the scale of nearly 7,000 people!

And it is worth noting that the musketeers of the Guards are different from the musketeers of the army, because the musketeers of the Guards are also equipped with grenades, although the comprehensive quality of the soldiers cannot be compared with the professional grenadiers of the army, and there are not too many grenades carried, but each musketeer is equipped with grenades, which is enough to greatly improve their close-range combat effectiveness.

The well-equipped Guards have always been stationed in Zhaoqing City!

Why? Li Xuan is afraid of death!

The Tang Dynasty has developed to the current scale, Li Xuan feels that as long as he is not stupid, the Ming Dynasty wants to exterminate his Tang Dynasty, and the difficulty is not ordinary, even if the Ming Dynasty suddenly explodes in combat effectiveness, but with the current size of the Tang Dynasty, even if it lasts for a while, it can support it for several years or even decades.

In a short period of time, Li Xuan's biggest enemy was actually not the Ming army, but a potential enemy from within the Tang Dynasty, especially the generals with heavy troops who suddenly rebelled!

Yes, Li Xuan has always guarded against the rebellion of the generals under his hands, because he feels that he, who is not a real Saint of the Ages, may not be able to make the people under his subordinates dispel the idea of the emperor's throne under his ass by relying on his personality charm alone.

Especially when the Tang Dynasty, as a feudal dynasty, does not even have an heir, once it hangs up and has no heir, this will give careerists a chance.

Those generals with heavy troops, if they want to say that they don't have any idea of rebellion, Li Xuan doesn't believe it, they don't do it now, just because they don't have a chance.

What Li Xuan has to do is not give them this opportunity!

So he vigorously developed the Guards, but in addition to military defense, Li Xuan felt that it was time for him to need an heir!

But how will the heir come? Naturally, Li Xuan needs to work hard!

Therefore, flying and flying with the thigh era, it is definitely not because of pure pleasure, but so that the Tang Dynasty can have an heir as soon as possible to consolidate the country!