However, on the waterway to Jingzhou, Qiu Eun, the leader of the important officials, also got a rather shocking news again. For a while, there was a lot of discussion on the ship.

"Leading the army to establish the Taiping Army Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in Xiangzhou? ,Then he really became the governor of Zhouda.。。 But I don't know where Jiangdong Erqiao is. ”

"This is the governor of the capital, compared to the Xingtai Shangshu Province during the Northern Dynasty, the marching commander of the founding of the old dynasty."

"Isn't that the name of the conquest and self-dictatorship, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese and foreign militaries? What is the difference with today's generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses? ”

"But anyway, this is also a great opportunity and future for my generation."

"I'm afraid that when this news spreads, those people in the local area who are still waiting and watching will have another wave of going to work.."

"It's a pity that I missed the original origin and opportunity, even if he wants to come now, the Taiping Army may not be willing to accept it easily."

And Xie Wen, a student official who was also in the entourage who asked for orders to go to Xiangyang, was also congratulating on his choice; While looking at the ship behind him, a cabin carefully guarded by several strong female guards.

- I'm the dividing line -

It's just that for Zhou Huai'an, the so-called Metropolitan Governor's Mansion is nothing more than a further upgrade and expansion of the original functions of the Guangfu Division, and completely extends to the new control areas of Hunan, Jingnan, Shannan, Jiangxi and other places corresponding to the province.

Then, the military administration and large and small administrative areas established during those special periods were gradually merged and restored into a two-level situation in which the cantonment stations, collective farms (key areas) and towns and villages (peripheral areas) continued to coexist.

This requires a large number of grass-roots affairs personnel who have mastered rough arithmetic and writing, as well as experienced officials to fill it, which is also a disguised reward and upward space for those people at all levels who can persist in serving the Taiping Army outside the Ling.

As long as you don't make obvious mistakes or big mistakes, it's normal to be promoted one or two levels in the process of external transfer; If there are outstanding performers or outstanding in specific matters, it is not impossible to jump two or three levels in this rank to take charge of themselves.

Then the vacant places will be filled by the junior students who are still waiting for the apprenticeship in the big training center; This is also a potential drawback of balancing and dividing in disguise and alleviating the excessive involvement of the military in local affairs, thus forming a corresponding fetter of interests.

After all, the two-legged approach of the military and local government affairs, coupled with the rational brain center to supervise and direct everything, is the basic royal road to the long-term survival of a healthy regime.

It has jurisdiction over eight major military orders (six of which have been completed), and six garrison defense areas, with 93 battle fronts and garrison battalions, totaling 110,000 troops.

The first military commander is the middle general, the deputy is the left and right generals, and the third is the lang general; The command is divided into three compartments on the left and right, plus a direct capital (battalion), and each compartment will lead several battalions of men and horses.

The establishment of the front battalion and the garrison battalion is roughly the same, and they are all composed of five levels: battalion, regiment (290 + 20), brigade (135 + 10), team (40 + 5), and fire (9 + 1), but at the battalion level, the battalion of three regiments and one team of the front team (1,100 people), and the garrison battalion is the middle battalion of two regiments and one brigade (960 people).

The chief officers are all called Du Lieutenants, but the former is the Du Lieutenant of Zhichong, and the latter is the Guo Yi Du Lieutenant of the second rank in the command sequence, and the other ranks are analogous to them. In this way, a fully staffed military order is between 12,000 and 13,500 soldiers.

Among them, the higher the numbered military order, the better the equipment, the highest proportion of veterans in the army, and the proportion of the front battalion and the garrison battalion is inversely proportional. However, under normal circumstances, these eight military orders are only the corresponding military management establishment; and resides in the corresponding area.

In addition, the daily training and logistics management, discipline correction, and personnel transfer must also be sent by the Metropolitan Governor's Office to assist the military commander in management and deployment. In addition, there is a secret department (special working committee) to prevent espionage and a committee from the bottom as a covert insurance measure.

Therefore, as the main combat force, only after receiving the order with complete procedures, can the corresponding military order be transferred to a specific wartime command sequence on the spot, or it can be combined with other military orders to form a new offensive and defensive command sequence, and the corresponding staff and staff groups can be organized.

Therefore, the battalion and regimental composition of the unit is the benchmark establishment in combat. Among them, each battalion has an establishment of a fire throwing team and a pack animal team, and above the battalion level will also be equipped with a team equipped with heavy weapons and firearms, so as to strengthen the corresponding ability to attack fortifications independently.

Normally, the First Army is also the arch guard force in the key area where the Governor's Office is located; The exclusive military name is "Chang Cong". The size of the establishment is also the first among all the armies. At present, it is sitting on the front line of Xiangzhou to conduct follow-up military operations against Shannan Prefectures.

The second army is a cavalry unit with hussars and assault cavalry as the core, and the exclusive military name is "Qi Fei"; Because the source of war horses is limited, it is also the smallest and most streamlined establishment. At present, arrangements are made to stop at the junction of Jingzhou and Xiangzhou, where water and grass are relatively abundant, for training.

The Fifth Army is an establishment of sailors and ships to cooperate with jumping gangs and landing combat soldiers, and its exclusive military name is "Fubo". It belongs to the sequence with the largest number of equipment and scattered berths. With Jingzhou as the main assembly area.

The other third, fourth, and sixth armies are standard mixed forces, and there is no military designation for the time being. The mule and horse were based on the traditional infantry with knife platoons, bows, crossbows, and spears as the main equipment, and a number of mounted infantry battalions were equipped to enhance mobility, combat range, and durability.

At present, it is mainly arranged to be stationed in the second-tier cities, which are relatively rich and prosperous in Tanzhou, Yuezhou and Hongzhou, so as to use local materials for support and maintenance, and at the same time upgrade the equipment in batches.

As for the Seventh and Eighth Armies, which only had a few actual battalions and the others were empty shelves, they played more of a role in managing local supplementary battalions and reserve military service training; Only when needed will the battalion be filled with only a few veterans and officers.

Among them, the Eighth Army was stationed in Quang Fu and the Seventh Army was stationed in Annam, both of which were equipped with corresponding boats and boats as means of transportation, and at the same time served as the task of protecting sea routes and canal navigation.

In addition, there are also pro-direct battalions, teaching brigades, model teams, combat engineering regiments, three detachments, and so on, and several special units and technical units ranging in size from hundreds to thousands are directly under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office.

However, the garrison areas that need to be extended to confront the enemy and even suppress the subordinate ones are slightly more self-occupied in terms of establishment. Basically, in accordance with the size and critical order of the defense area, a number of simple garrison battalions of different sizes are the mainstay, plus some boats and boats, and the special arrangements directly under the horse team;

The corresponding military rank is also a general, and often concurrently serves as the local state chief; In order to coordinate and deploy the manpower and material resources of local institutions in a timely manner, and carry out corresponding preparations or emergency needs.

Although the area under the rule of the Taiping Army is extensive, the territory is also full of large areas of wild land with miasma and barbarian and mountainous forests; That is, there are several large plains, which are considered to be the most elite areas of domination.

Among them, the delta of the Pearl River Basin, the Chaoshan Plain, the Red River Impact Plain, and the Guilin Basin, which have been connected by waterways, are relatively stable and stable output areas.

However, the central Hunan Plain, the Jianghan Plain, the Dongting Lake basin, and the western part of the Southern Jiangsu Plain, which have been occupied in the Lingnei, have not yet had the same high degree of development as in later generations.

Moreover, there are also years of flooding, coupled with the disaster of war and the need to calm down and suppress local resistance; It will take a period of persistence to take control and influence to another level; and even to the extent that output and consumption are equal, or even surplus.

Therefore, most of the current garrison areas are distributed along the Yangtze River and the Han River, with Ezhou, Xiangzhou, Runzhou, Xuanzhou, Guizhou and Jiaozhou for the time being.

At the same time, at the lower levels of the state and county towns, there are correspondingly smaller garrison regiments and semi-full-time patrol teams in the towns; The equipment mainly comes from obsolete variegated equipment, with low maintenance costs and subordinate local jurisdiction, constituting a pressure force for maintaining law and order at the middle and lower levels and suppressing low- and medium-intensity conflicts and riots.

In addition, there is a certain number of units that remain militarized and regularly operated, dedicated to the development of specific areas (engineering construction without a permanent presence) and production units (armed cantonment regiments).

In this way, under the banner of the Taiping Army's Metropolitan Governor's Office, the military management and combat readiness system of the three lines and one auxiliary was initially formed. It is almost the production capacity of 2 million strong laborers to support almost 130,000 off-duty troops.

If there were no subsidies and adjustments from other sources, including the profits of maritime trade and the organization of collective production, and new agricultural technologies, even in this era, the burden would be quite heavy on the military-civilian ratio.

In particular, the cost of providing for cavalry is often several times that of ordinary foot soldiers; And in the south, it is even more expensive. Of course, most of them are still just planning, and they can only be fully rolled out after the corresponding personnel and resources are gradually put in place.

However, at least it can give most people a direction to look forward to and hope for. It's much more than entertaining yourself by calling a king behind closed doors, but it's much more to kill one stone.

During this period, news from other aspects was also constantly fed back from the locality; For example, the three states of Xiangxi, which were the source of turmoil and invasion.

The first to be pacified was in Langzhou. Because of the result of Lei Man coming out of the nest and being defeated and dying on the shore of the lake; Relying on the assistance of the Taiping Navy and new vehicles and ships, Su Wuming's troops quickly occupied most of Langzhou and pacified;

It can be said that except for the Wuling Mountains on the edge, on the plains west of Dongting Lake, there is nothing that can hinder the existence of the Taiping Army, just wait for the subsequent three detachments to settle in to clean up the villages and villages.

Then, the detached division led by Qu Chengyu encountered Duan Yanmo, the deputy envoy of Jingnan, who had occupied the state city, and his Taining army under his command in Lizhou; In this way, there were several fierce battles, and each won and lost;

In addition, after Xiang Zhu, the leader of the barbarian army, was able to lead the remnants to retreat into the upper reaches of the Lishui mountains, there were also local Hao clans who took the opportunity to rebel against the rebellion, and they were making a mess of porridge in the local area. Therefore, Qu Chengyu is currently stationed in Anyang County, waiting for the next step of replenishment and support.

followed by Shaozhou, which has always been in constant local resistance since Zhou Yue was attacked and killed by Min Miao in front of the battle; Under the attack of Zhao Yinggong, who took the initiative to lead the attack based on the state city, he was killed; The evaluation of the eyes is also just around the corner.

Without the instigation and support of the three states of Xiangxi, the water bandits and mountain bandits along the Xiangshui coast have also been greatly stopped and calmed down; However, in order to solve the long-term problem once and for all, subsequent piecemeal military operations continued.

In the process of clearing up the bandits and bandits who roamed among the mountains and forests in Hunan, the local mountain people and miners from Lianzhou and Chenzhou, especially the Guiyang prison, formed a special mountain battalion and played an unexpectedly huge role.

They are very hard-working and adaptable to climbing and trekking in the dense forests of the mountains, with only a small amount of supplies and corresponding sophisticated equipment, relying on the cooperation of groups of three or five, they can defeat or chase those bandits hidden in the mountains and forests or occupy dangerous points.

Even those mountain village settlements and barbarian villages suspected of hiding, sheltering and harboring related bandits have not been spared; Under the raids and assaults of these brave mountain soldiers; Only more than a thousand casualties were paid.

The cottages and settlements within dozens of miles inland along the river were not obediently relocated to the management area of the river under the mountain for transformation; After being broken down the stockade, it was burned to the ground, and then captured and filled into the newly built mines, stone pits, and forest farms in various places for heavy labor.

In this way, even if there are still some fish in the interior, and the lack of hiding points and supplies, it will not be enough to pose any decent threat to the new order dominated by the Taiping army.

However, as the war progressed, new problems were born. In order to control these newly occupied areas, a large number of men were also required; Especially the clerks who fill the grassroots.

After all, it is relatively simple to try and raid the homes of the old forces, but it is another matter to re-establish order and maintain subsequent dominance according to the needs of the Taiping army.

Even if Zhou Huai'an has opened more accelerated training courses in key cities such as Xiangyang, Tanzhou, and other key cities, it can only ensure the emergency needs in these key areas at present, and does not care about the new marginal areas for the time being.

It's a frustrating annoyance. To this end, he has issued a new order that all incumbent officials and senior practical personnel, as well as the dependents of generals who are not in service in the army, should devote time to these training courses and serve as lecturers in the corresponding courses.

(End of chapter)