The 600,000 troops did not all encircle Yangzhou Mansion, and there were many mansions that were not actually captured, but the Huaxia Army has long been a staff with modern thinking, a staff that can formulate battle plans, be good at taking advantage of the enemy's shortcomings, rationally arrange troops, and achieve victory.

When Xiao Fei's corps marched into the west bank of the canal in an all-round way, each army had its own areas to attack, and after these areas were taken, in addition to the corps headquarters, each army transferred a part of its troops to attack Yangzhou Mansion with the Corps Headquarters, and attacked Yangzhou Mansion with the Guards Corps. Instead, they sent troops to surround and contain the enemy, and waited for the army to move south and the rear troops poured in before they were uprooted one by one.

The total strength of the headquarters of Xiao Fei's regiment is 30,000, the accompanying headquarters artillery brigade is 3,000 troops, three temporary 30th field brigades are combined by three field brigades, as well as a militia brigade, an elite militia brigade, and a cavalry brigade, the sixth cavalry brigade.

The Guards Regiment only had the 1st Guards Division, an ordinary militia brigade, accompanied by the 4th Cavalry Brigade, with a total strength of 30,000, and the rest of the troops were stationed in the local area, or attacked some county towns that had not been taken, and eliminated the remnants of bandits.

The Golden Qi Corps was the main force, leaving only two field brigades to defend the rear points, with a total strength of 180,000 troops, 2,000 cavalry brigades, two elite militia brigades, ten garrison battalions, three garrison regiments, the Second Fleet Naval Corps, all 20,000 marines, six field brigades, and the Third Brigade of the 2nd Guards Division.

With such a strong force, of course, the general attack was handed over to the Jinqi Corps, who had been guarding the defensive line for more than ten years, maybe not for more than ten years, because these troops were transferred by Zhang Qiang three years ago.

and Baodao, the front line of the Southern Ming Kingdom, attacking Yungui, suppressing Li Dingguo's department, attacking small countries in Southeast Asia and other places, or even directly transferred all of them, some were abolished and dispersed into garrison regiments, and some because they were all veterans, so they were retired, joined the garrison regiment, the punishment battalion troops, and even the ordinary militia troops, and replaced them with the defense of young troops in those places, so the Jinqi Corps guarding the Yangtze River defense line over the years was actually a new Huaxia Army unit.

It's 1665 now, since Zhang Qiang crossed in 1646, it's been twenty years, this has changed a generation, those sixteen or seventeen-year-old, twenty-year-old young soldiers, the Jinhua Righteous Army has ended his historical mission, many people have retreated, become the cornerstone of the local loyal to the Huaxia Army, these people in their forties, thirties have been promoted to the ranks of senior officers, some have returned to their hometowns, or entered the ranks of civilian officials, and become people with high local prestige, Or serve the civil servants in the local government.

The first batch of retired people were injured in the battle, as well as the old man who joined the army in his fifties, who had become a militia when he fought for a few years in the Jinhua Righteous Army, and later retired veterans in his forties and fifties This group of people was directly arranged to immigrate to Fujian Prefecture, Baodao Mansion became a common people, and then retired people in their thirties, at this time the Jinhua Righteous Army has become the Huaxia Army, and these people have become militia and ordinary people, and they have immigrated to the newly occupied Jiangxi Prefecture.

After retiring were soldiers in their twenties, they became militia and entered the territory occupied by the Shaoxing Prefecture, Hangzhou Prefecture, Ningbo Prefecture, and later Suzhou Prefecture, Anhui Prefecture, and Huaxia Army, and became the common people and armed militia wherever they continued to exert their residual heat to defend the Yangtze River defense line.

Later, the young and middle-aged people who joined in 165 years are already the new army of the Chinese army, and most of them have abandoned the previous history of cold weapon warfare, although the current Chinese army still has a part of the cold weapon troops, but it has been transferred to the baggage army, engineering troops, and cavalry, and most of the main field brigades are already artillery and muskets, and even the cavalry has gradually given up the lancer as a troop and has become a cavalry unit fighting with an arquebus.

However, because the enemy has not been destroyed, in fact, there are still some veterans in the regular army of the Huaxia Army, these soldiers are all about 50 years old, and they have not all been dismissed, because they still need to teach some cold weapon combat experience to the recruits behind.

This kind of veteran regular army guards brigade is the least, because the guards brigade is the most elite, what is needed is young and experienced combat at the same time some veterans in their twenties and thirties, so veterans in their fifties are not needed, the field brigade is the second, the field brigade needs to pursue the enemy in the field, and fight with the enemy many times, so these veterans are more than the guards brigade, and the most in the garrison regiment, because these veterans are promoted to logistics, civilian, and high-ranking soldiers, and there are more in the garrison battalion. However, since the garrison battalion is an elite supplement to the militia force, and the personnel are highly mobile, there are fewer veterans.

There are fewer elite troops in the militia troops, and there are more ordinary troops, because they are the place where the veterans retire, they need to train new soldiers, take the recruits to familiarize themselves with the military, impart experience, and at the same time do not have to fight viciously, and when the training is almost over, they will be sent to the garrison camp for exercise, and the garrison camp will always have a war, or suppress bandits, or fight with the army, and garrison the city.

Why do you want to talk about the topic of retirement of so many veterans because the Huaxia Army has not completely departed from the category of the old army, the enemy of the Huaxia Army is still the mainstream of cold weapons, and still needs some veterans of the cold weapons era, as well as veterans of the firearms era to stand guard for the new recruits, to help them familiarize themselves with the battlefield and the characteristics of the enemy, otherwise when the enemy ambushes you, the young people with firearms generally do not know how to deal with the enemy at all, because when the musket fights with the enemy's cold weapons in close combat, the musketeers are still at a disadvantage.

However, as the Chinese army enters the age of firearms, the enemy also learns to enter the age of firearms, and the situation is gradually improving, the veterans of the era of cold weapons will gradually die out, and the new Chinese army is gradually transforming into a new type of army.

But there is still a market for the old-style army, such as the places where the small countries in Southeast Asia are occupied by the Huaxia army, these troops who gradually retreat to use cold weapons, later use firearms, and then use arquebuses will gradually be used in those directions, and those directions are still useful for cold weapons and troops, and those places still need a large number of troops to defend and sort out, until a generation in their area dies out, is wiped out, and is assimilated, and the Huaxia army has gained a firm foothold in the local area, and the local area is occupied by the Han people and attached to the Han court.

After the three armies reconciled, the garrison on the east bank of Yangzhou Mansion, all the troops surrounded Yangzhou Mansion, and the end of the Lu State finally came.

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