Chapter 516: Reorganization of the Twenty-seventh Field Brigade

The destruction of the loyal battalion of the Dashun Army actually represents the demise of the Dashun Army.

Because there is the Gao clan, the crown prince, recognized by the entire Dashun army, as a symbol of a country, without its own territory, without its own monarch, then it is actually and nominally already extinct.

Although Yongli Ming has territory, but there is no emperor, those generals in the territory do not obey the emperor's command, in fact, it is equivalent to losing the territory, after the emperor's death, the armies will turn to other countries, Yongli Ming nominally and physically has perished.

The same is true of the state of Lu, but its monarch is captured, the generals are disbanded, the people are gone, the land is gone, and even if there is still a captured emperor in name, a vague hope, but in reality he is also perished.

For the arrangements of the generals of the loyalty battalion, the generals who were originally captured were released from the prisoner camp and cut down their nationality to the people, and those generals who actually did no harm to the Chinese army were given some monetary subsidies at the general level, and let him be appointed as the deputy captain of a small militia team in the local area, or a small official such as a security chief or lieutenant chief, so that he could enjoy his old age in peace, and the general level would be given a small militia flag, a local government service and a quick arrest leader, or a small official of the county government and county. Those with good opportunities serve as a hundred households in the garrison camp, and those with bad opportunities directly become ordinary people.

Except for a few generals who had no choice but to take refuge in the garrison battalion or the commander of the garrison regiment, the other generals were sent to other places, such as Fujian Prefecture, where they were disrupted and reorganized, and they could not be brought together.

In addition to giving them 200 family members or family generals, the other soldiers were all exchanged with the militia and garrison battalion soldiers in Jiangxi Prefecture, and the soldiers of the loyal battalion eliminated the old and weak, selected the elite, and sent them to the new barracks after review, and some old but still able to fight elite soldiers were sent to the militia troops, of course, these troops were sent to Jiangxi Prefecture, and it was impossible for them to stay in Nanyang Mansion and Runing Mansion.

They were all sent to Jiangxi Prefecture.

The soldiers and grassroots officers of the garrison battalion who came from Jiangxi Prefecture became the subordinates of the generals of the Dashun Loyal Battalion such as Gao Yigong, and only Wang Neng still retained the soldiers and generals of the originally recruited troops, as well as the more than 4,000 arquebusiers, gunners, and cavalrymen of the loyal battalion selected from the original loyal battalion by the newly formed 27th Field Brigade.

The first regiment of the 27th Field Brigade used the skeleton of the original intelligence officer action team of the Military Intelligence Department, plus the Huai River recruited by the Qing army, and the troops composed of soldiers from Yangzhou Mansion, after the war, these soldiers almost suffered more than half of the casualties, and later joined some arquebusiers and gunners of the Dashun Army, plus some captured arquebusiers and gunners of the Qing Army, the strength once reached 5,000 people, and now after cutting, it is mixed with the backbone of the Huaxia Army sent by Xiao Fei who was loyal to the Huaxia Army and was born in the Huaxia Army with 500 people. The total strength remained at 2,300 men.

The second regiment was built by Wang Yuqun's elite backbone drawn from the 19th Field Brigade of the Huaxia Army, and Wang Neng also transformed it, mixing 200 soldiers drawn from the first regiment in it, and the leader of the action group of the Military Intelligence Department who originally followed him in the Qing army was arranged to serve as the battalion commander of a battalion, and his subordinates took the elite 300 people who were merged from the original Dashun Army, the 100 backbones of the original 19th Field Brigade, 100 militiamen, plus 100 prisoners of the surrender of the Qing army, a total of 600 troops.

In this way, nearly 1,000 troops were arranged by Wang Neng, ensuring his control and command of the army.

The third regiment was composed of garrison battalions and militia elites drawn from Hubei Prefecture and Jiangxi Prefecture, and Wang Neng also arranged for the combined elite of the Dashun Army to enter with Qing army prisoners, occupying a strength of several hundred people and about a battalion of troops, ensuring his control over this battalion.

The cavalry battalion was the target cavalry led by Wang Neng, and the artillery battalion was the artillery gunners and captured artillerymen in the original Qing army.

A militia squad followed, about 1,000 people, was selected from the remaining troops, in fact, they were all the elite of the Dashun Army that they couldn't let go, the elite they led when they were the Qing army, and the squeezed out manpower of the second regiment brought by Wang Yuqun, as well as the remaining manpower of the third regiment, that's it, because it was a second-class combat brigade, the strength was only 8,500 people, and the other surplus troops could only be arranged in the garrison camp and garrison regiment of the generals of the Dashun army such as Gao Yigong.

The surplus troops, as well as the eliminated troops, and the prisoners of the Qing army, were all sent to where Gu Yuesheng in Hubei Prefecture was arranged.

After Gu Yuesheng organized them, they were sent to various mountains, passes, and other small places, but they had to be guarded, a hundred households, a hundred households The arrangement of the troops, scattered them in Hubei Prefecture, and then transferred some prisoners and militia into Nanyang Mansion to replace these forces, and became the militia units of Nanyang Mansion and Runing Mansion.

It can be said that the Huaxia Army's control over the captured enemy soldiers and its own army has reached a point of madness, and its control over the people is also extremely strict, disrupting all arrangements, and sending officials to screen and educate them, and strive to transform them into their own people and troops, soldiers, officials, and generals.

But such an arrangement is clear that for a period of time, this place, other places, every place and department involved is chaotic and busy, which leads to a decrease in the combat effectiveness of the troops at the front.

So for a period of time, the 27th Field Brigade had no way to form combat effectiveness, Pingdingshan was taken over by the 7th Field Brigade, and became Brother Zhu's headquarters and base camp, and the 27th Field Brigade was transferred back to Nanyang Fucheng, for a period of time, Nanyang Fucheng was chaotic and busy, even the commander-in-chief Xuanyuan Longfei did not want to enter Nanyang Fucheng, but only stationed in Xinyang County, where Wang Guangtai was stationed, and contacted Zhu Ge through the messenger, the two discussed how to attack the Qing army, and dumped Nanyang Mansion to Wang Neng to clean up the mess, Fang Yizhi, who was waiting to be promoted and appointed, arrived at Nanyang Mansion to take over the civil affairs of this place.

But even so, after the arrival of the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, Xuanyuan Longfei still joined Brother Zhu, two people each sent a regiment, plus a cavalry brigade and an artillery brigade, to attack the 30,000 Qing army entrenched in Zhumadian.

Within ten days, conquered several towns, killed and captured more than 10,000 Qing troops, the Qing army increased 5,000 troops from Zhoukou County, and was defeated by Zhu Ge's brigade cavalry battalion plus the personal guard cavalry battalion, thousands of remnants retreated to Zhoukou County in embarrassment, the Huaxia army captured more than 1,000 enemies, killed 16,700 Qing troops, and the enemy fled more than 1,000 people, Zhu Ge sent a battalion of more than 600 troops stationed at important passes to guard against them, and then withdrew and continued to send troops to capture the countryside and towns near Zhumadian, the two armies marched against each other, and the Qing army was surrounded by Zhumadian on the fifteenth day, Ma Bao, the commander of the Qing army, fled, and on the sixteenth day, the Qing army surrendered.

The Huaxia Army cleared the Qing army in this area.

The two armies reconciled, and Xuanyuan Longfei moved his headquarters to Zhumadian and directly commanded the whole army, while placing the cavalry brigade on the town of the salient to cover the flank.

(End of chapter)