After the naval battle between the Spaniards and the British, the two colonial countries died down at the same time.

The British watched with grief as Bengal became someone else's colony, three months later Portman was transferred to Africa, Phillips returned home and was fired, the governor was transferred back to China, the new governor would not arrive in India until three months later, the British were leaderless here, and the Indians also watched the fall of Bengal with fear and panic.

On the Spaniards' side, there were only nine warships left in motion, six of which were lying on the beach and were urgently repaired, and three of the wounded warships were hastily repaired, barely keeping the law and order here safe.

Of the 2,500 regular army troops, only 300 regular army units are completely unharmed, 800 wounded have not yet left the hospital, and only 700 mercenaries remain, and the rest are either dead or seriously injured and can no longer serve in the army.

Of the three thousand sailors of the fleet, there were less than six hundred left, most of them wounded, or mentally broken, and there was no way to engage in this trade, plus some conscripted sailors and warriors in Bengal, the Spaniards had enough soldiers and officers to start and fight on three warships, and these people were the strength of all the Spaniards in the East.

In fact, this strength can't even be defeated by the garrison of the coastal division of the Chinese Empire, and the garrison of the lowest-level state or even the government of a satrapy can easily copy the territory of the Spaniards.

You must know that the military unit of the government of a state of the Chinese Empire, not to mention the core area, is a regimental-level unit of the garrison army, and although it has been repeatedly dismantled and dismantled, the overall combat strength of the regimental-level unit is only 15 wide-body carriages, 20 horse-drawn artillery wagons ranging from 18-pound to 6-pound cannons, and the total number of combatants is no more than 1,200 people, three battalions of 300 people, a guard battalion of 250 people, a regimental-level staff department of 24 people, a guard squad, and several regimental-level officers.

The armament is not much different from that of the British and Spaniards, the flintlock repeater gun, the five-round version, the British and Spaniards are single-shot, but they can be quickly reloaded.

However, it is such a regiment-level governor's district unit equipped with force, and the current Spaniards can't beat it, because their strength is too small, and the overall combat unit, the elite combat unit, is only 600 people, and although the others have combat experience, they are still not comparable to a regular prefecture-level combat unit under the governor of the Chinese Empire in terms of organization and combat power output.

These combat units are stationed in the counties below in peacetime, and are assembled when needed, and the regimental headquarters is stationed in the prefecture.

The battalion-level combat units below were also split off and stationed in various important townships and towns in the county in the form of companies to control the local areas.

The military units in the state were not reinforced much, and they were only units with one battalion stationed, and then the other regiments were stationed in the key state capitals. A brigade-sized unit with less than one member of the garrison.

After it is full, a brigade-level garrison unit is 6,000 people, at least three to five regiments, and now there are only three regiments, not a regiment of 1,500 people, and sometimes the soldiers of these companies have simply been retired, or they are arranged by recruits, and local recruits serve as soldiers, that is to say, when they want to assemble, maybe the three regiments have 1,200 people with their current strength, or they may only reach about 1,000 people, because there has been no major war in China for decades.

And there are some frictions and small battles in Southeast Asia, otherwise other governors and governors actually have 600 people per regiment, and the core idea is to save military spending and use manpower to improve economic strength as much as possible.

There are generally no garrisons in the governor's district, and there are only some garrisons in important places, because the garrison, as the name suggests, is to defend the core territory of the Chinese Empire, so most of the garrisons are deployed in the core area.

In wartime, the garrison army is the main force of combat preparation, and the establishment must be sent to the field army, and when the time comes, most of the garrison army will become a field army.

Well, by expanding more branches of the army, the elite units and soldiers in the army were retained, which was a core idea of the dismantling of the army at that time.

Perhaps most of the elite soldiers and strong generals are still in old age and disabled, and have been eliminated for various reasons, and some people have to be cut and removed painfully, but in the end some of the core people remained, these constitute the core of the five service units, and even extended to the company-level ranks, after more than ten years of development, these company-level personnel have at least risen to the battalion level, becoming battalion-level cadres, in the garrison army, this kind of company-level cadres have basically reached the deputy regiment-level cadres, at least a regiment-level staff officer.

Of the five armies, the Guards retained the least manpower, 300,000 people, and later some of them were cut and transferred, leaving 230,000 people, but a large part of the reduction and transfer actually entered the field army or garrison army, and the cavalry army, even the soldiers entered the garrison, but those soldiers were some old and close to retirement, and now in the garrison these soldiers have risen to the level of battalion staff officers, of course, most of them have actually retired from the army, because they are old.

Exceeding the maximum limit of the service period, he could only be discharged from the army and transferred to a local job.

Because the cavalry army has to maintain order in Mongolia, Siberia, Central Asia, and the Western Regions, these vast and sparsely populated places, the establishment is relatively large, reaching 1.5 million people, and the garrison army is the national combat force in the core area, so the establishment is also relatively large, 800,000 people, although the garrison army is retired from the elite army above, how can it be said that they are guarding a territory of 20,000 li, so their establishment has reached 2.3 million people, excluding 20 percent of the useless personnel, It is also about 1.8 million troops, and because of its relative weakness and reduced functionality, the field army only retains divisional headquarters and elite officer units at the corps level, as well as officers and elite soldiers who are constantly trained and accepted the decentralization and promotion of other services, and at the same time maintains a variety of local structures that can be filled with garrisons at any time, so there are only 450,000 people.

In this way, the Chinese Empire still has at least 1.6 million elite combat troops, plus the elite combat units of the cavalry army, there are 2.3 million people, plus the elite combat strength of the garrison army, it has reached 2.6 million people, and the rest are supplemented by new recruits and cadets, as well as temporary troops that are constantly adjusted in various places.

If you add the land strength and sailor combat effectiveness of the naval division, at least three million elite combat strength, but the actual total number of soldiers and officers is seven million, and these seven million people are the strength that has to be filled and left within the structure, because every year you have to train recruits, where do recruits go after training? It must be assigned to various troops, and after two years of duty, the extra four million recruits will become veterans, although they have never fought, but after all, they are also troops.

After being discharged from the army in the third year, hundreds of thousands of troops will return to society, and then they will recruit more from society, perhaps less, depending on the situation, depending on the financial situation of each local government, that is to say, the strength of the garrison will fluctuate relatively largely, and the 2.3 million troops may be elite but only 340,000 people, and the rest are new recruits and veterans who have served for less than two years.

The garrison really has to see that the people are walking, patrolling, investigating, temporarily transferring, or working, all of them are these recruits, elite supplements, and the garrison cannot say that they are always those people, and in four or six years, the soldiers of the garrison cannot go up, and they cannot be promoted to officers, and they also have to be discharged, and they also need to be replenished by the garrison, and the soldiers of the garrison are promoted, and the veterans of the garrison are discharged from the army for four or six years, which is a process of cyclical substitution.

These forces, the main garrison force of the troops in the core area is still the garrison, the garrison and the guards who maintain the capital, and the garrison army only maintains local law and order, but in general, the proportion is not very large, and the proportion is relatively large is the hoarding troops on the frontier, that is to say, the governor's district, which approaches the border of the governor's district in a radial shape, and then forms a light or heavy ring protective network on the frontier.

The strength of the garrison in the core area is almost hollow, not much, because the security in many places in the core area is quite good, the garrison army is even equipped with less than two battalions in one prefecture, that is, about 600 people, the strength of the garrison in the state may only be one and a half regiments, or it may be one and a half brigades, the smallest state with the smallest total strength is only equivalent to a reinforced regiment, that is, about 1,800 people, and the largest state garrison is only less than two brigades, which is only equivalent to the size of one and a half brigades.

The only place where the garrison is fully staffed is the county seat on the edge of the core area, and some county towns may be equipped with the level of one battalion to two battalions, and some county towns may have a full regiment of 1,500 people. Together with the various subordinate troops, there may be 1,800 people, and some even 2,000 people.

This is because to prevent the rebellion in some parts of the Governor's District, which will directly impact the core area and undermine the stability of the core area, and it is also for the purpose of urgently recruiting and reorganizing troops in the core area to form an establishment of troops that can attack and defend.

The battle still has to be fought by the field army.

The Guards can be expanded to 500,000 troops within three months, garrisoning the capital and the capital, as well as key industrial areas, and even defending the royal family, defending the imperial family and officials of various central departments is what the Guards have to do.

The cavalry corps will be completely dismantled and merged into the field army and the garrison army, and at present the governorate has completed 60 percent of the total population migration and construction tasks, and in a few years the field army will take over the cavalry corps to garrison these areas, and the garrison army will garrison the governorate.

And with the construction and improvement of the situation in the governorates, or the development of some viceroyalties close to the core areas, they are gradually abolished and incorporated into the core areas, and the strength of the garrison will be further reduced.

The garrison took over the defense of the entire satrapy incorporated into the core, expanding the garrison and reducing the garrison.

(End of chapter)