If the so-called trend of "correcting the past must be too correct, but it is not enough to correct the past" If the trend is carried out nationwide, even in the late Ming Dynasty, when land annexation and even social contradictions were far greater than those of the Republic of China, Xiao Xuan would have concerns. However, concentrated in the late Ming Dynasty, a few areas where the contradictions were most prominent and social changes were most appropriate, even if there were some negative costs, were completely within a reasonable range. Even in his previous life, Xiao Xuan was not a universalist full of Western individual spirit and "humanistic care", but a pragmatist who agreed with the advantages and disadvantages.

In the entire territory of Xuzhou, not only the storms and social changes in Fengxian County are going very smoothly, but the actions of completely overturning several other powerful households such as Pingyunshan Temple and Xujiazhuang seem to be more smooth. Compared with the Liang family, which is at the grassroots level and does not have too large-scale bad deeds, Yunshan Temple and Xujiazhuang are not fuel-efficient lamps. The only problem encountered was that even some of the teenagers in the volunteer camp were somewhat hesitant to purge the Buddhist sect thoroughly. Therefore, although the entire process of the public trial conference was finally completed through a small number of arranged people, it was obvious that there were not too many people who were willing to go too far, and the solution to Xujiazhuang was relatively smooth.

How to get rid of the concerns about the three religions and nine streams has become one of the problems that need to be considered, Xiao Xuan weighed it again and again, and still felt that it was different from the era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, until the late Ming Dynasty. The power of Buddhism is far from being as rampant as it was a thousand years ago. There is no soil for social criticism and negation. Moreover, to a large extent, when the socio-economic level cannot be raised much in a short period of time, religion that does not advocate monotheism and abandons the struggle for social and political power is also an important supplement to social welfare. Some of these forces that have become the scourge of the party, it is enough to directly send troops to eradicate them and carry out widespread propaganda. There is no need to adopt a policy of involving the public in the same way that other powerful people are involved.

In this way, under the condition that the peasant associations and other grass-roots organizations had not yet been fully established, through the mobilization and propaganda of the grass-roots units by transferring manpower from the army, and in coordination with a series of policies of dividing land and floating wealth and equalizing land rights, 50,000 armed forces were quickly recruited in Xuzhou, with a population of about one million, and more than 3,000 people who volunteered to join the army with strong initiative without any incentives or coercive means, reaching a scale of about 6 or 7 percent. It seems that the proportion of these people is very small, but Xiao Xuan is not too demanding in this regard. The 3,000-strong volunteer group under the initial revolutionary practice and propaganda still had a certain age range, not including those over 20 years old, which was enough to expand the volunteer infantry regiment at this time into a "division" of about 5,000 or 6,000 people composed of three infantry regiments and some divisions.

Through a lot of time from the offensive and defensive battle of the capital to the battle of Tongzhou, Xiao Xuan also summed up many truths. If for the general troops, the main goal is to defend and ensure that there are no leaks. Perhaps a battalion or other similar form would be more appropriate. But if you want to seek a strong offensive nature, or even seek a war of annihilation. The elite forces, firepower application capabilities, combat logistics capabilities, and ability to resist high losses and high risks brought by small regiments are not comparable to those of battalions. Throughout modern warfare, the emergence of brigades is often a phenomenon that can only occur when a large country with superior national strength prepares for a colonial war during the interwar of the world. In a high-intensity war of attrition, the divisional structure must be the decisive force. Because in the case of serious casualties and losses in actual combat and the supply of troops cannot be replenished, it can at least be used as a brigade. If the original brigade-sized "regular barracks" are seriously depleted, it will be too thin for the troops to form a tactical group alone.

In the subsequent reorganization, Xiao Xuan also expanded the Volunteer Regiment of the 235th Regiment of the 79th Division of the 27th Army of the Militia to the 1st Volunteer Division of the Revolutionary Army. The number of the modern army that used to be relatively good, Xiao Xuan thought about it carefully, it was better not to grab the credit. After all, when the "Ninth Column" was reformed into the 27th Army in history, the quality of the entire contingent was already relatively consolidated as the main force of Huaye. However, the team that is about to grow in the development is likely to be relatively "water" in many cases, and the title of the excellent one is really a bit eye-catching, according to the requirements of the revolutionary powerhouse. After all, although the existing range of members of the Datong Society is quite strong, the entire original volunteer battalion has been expanded to the volunteer group, which is already a little short of the ideal standard. Expanded into a volunteer division. In the short term, in addition to the fact that it may be much stronger in terms of confrontation losses, I am afraid that the attack power and combat effectiveness will not be greatly improved. Although the source of those newly recruited soldiers is not bad, it is obviously not far behind the original officers and soldiers within the scope of the volunteer regiment.

The original 1st and 2nd Brigades of the Teaching Brigade were integrated with the Guards and Yongwei Army, and even many men and horses under Li Zicheng's command to form the 1st to 10th Brigades of the Revolutionary Army, with a total of 50,000 main forces. The artisan battalion has undergone many tests as an important auxiliary force of the army, and at the same time, the level of management and attitude towards the cause in the north have also changed dramatically. Establish the awareness that if the front-line team encounters a side, it is very likely that you will finish the game. At the same time, more than two years have begun to make the first round of apprentices in the past more and more able to play a more and more role in the manufacture of ordnance.

In order to strengthen control over the army and prevent the "warlordization" of the sub-main forces, the core of the artisan battalion was placed on the side of the old battalion composed of the former 1st to 3rd brigades. Although the other battalions were also equipped with some craftsmen with the army, there were not too many middle and high-level talents.

The 20,000 people with the 3rd Brigade of the old battalion as the core, plus the 25,000 or so troops formed by the 1st Division of the Volunteer Battalion, became the core of Xiao Xuan's vision of conducting the main battle and strategic showdown. The other six brigades and the militia have about 150,000 troops, and after the reorganization, about 30 brigades have become the core force to maintain regional control. After obtaining a large number of recruits from Xuzhou, the militia also has many more means to transform and supervise. After all, the sources of troops are more extensive, and it is easy to form too consolidated closed groups within the brigades through checks and balances

In this way, the entire winter of the second year of Chongzhen began, and the once fierce war became relatively calm. Whether it is the Nanjing regime of Ying Tianfu and the powerful people in various places, or the forces led by Xiao Xuan, they are all stepping up preparations and training, accumulating strength and preparation for the showdown after a few months, but at most half a year.

Although he gained a lot of strength from the Xuzhou area, Xiao Xuan was not too optimistic. The reason is actually very simple: in ancient times, the organizational power brought by many forces and many power cores still had to significantly exceed their own power core. When Chongzhen was in the third year, he was likely to face a strength that would probably exceed that of the previous offensive and defensive battles in the capital, and no one knew whether the main force of the Houjin Dynasty, which had been fighting for a year or even longer, would return to the division at any time, and it was impossible for him not to leave a decent force in the north.

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