In the new military system, the rank of military attachés has been significantly lowered, but the real power has been expanded. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIn the original guard system and the suppression system, the military attache was characterized by high rank, small real power, and the general army of the first and second grades had to listen to the governor of the fourth rank. Moreover, the collapse is terrible, and the status of the second-rank commanders of the guard station is not as good as the third- and fourth-rank generals and guerrillas in the suppression system.

After Chongzhen, the town system is also gradually collapsing, the general army deputy general gradually flooded, the original country is also more than a dozen general soldiers, most of them are concentrated in the nine sides, to the Southern Ming Dynasty, a Xun town general under the hand, often there are dozens of general army deputy generals, each leader of the army ranges from 3,000 to 5,000, the first and second grade of the military profession is flying all over the sky, more and more worthless.

In the original military system, tens of thousands of people were involved, and the commander of a large corps of more than 100,000 people was either a governor or a governor, and a military general was not qualified to be the commander of the aspect, and the size of the power determined the status, which is also one of the main reasons why the first and second rank commanders were inferior to the fourth rank governors.

In the new military system, there is a governor, and even above the governor, there is a generalissimo, all of which can command tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, although they are all temporary official positions, military power is very great, these powers were originally in the hands of civil ministers, military generals have no chance to get involved, and now military ministers also have the opportunity to master, in fact, the real power of the town control system of the three products in the new military system has been equivalent to the original town system in the rank of governor of the first grade, if you add the title of earl, the political status is still above them. In the new military system, the real power held by the governor of the second rank is not much different from that of the governor of the second rank, and the rank and power position are truly corresponding, but the overall grade of the military generals is still suppressed.

If the military generals are still in accordance with the original suppression system, the first and second grades of the high grade, and the real power of the governor and governor, the future is not good, and it is a bunch of festival envoys, and it will repeat the mistakes of the late Tang Dynasty.

Jiao Lian and Wu Jisi and others originally hung the rank of the governor of the five armies from the first rank of the governor, but the new appointment was only the third grade, the rank did not rise but fell, and the heart was originally a little dissatisfied, under the help of the people, they finally understood the key to it, during which the emperor also did a lot of ideological work for them, and they were always motivated to be loyal, and everyone willingly accepted the fact of demotion, the grade is virtual, and the real power is not reduced, and the emperor also added a medal to them, although it is only the lowest level of the eleventh rank, The status has been greatly improved, although it is a third-grade, it is no longer a fourth-grade Wenchen governor can control. With the cooperation of several leaders of the forbidden army, the military reform is proceeding smoothly, and it is expected that the rectification will be completed in less than two months.

At the same time as the military reform of Beijing and Guangzhou, Huguang also followed the pace of the center and vigorously rectified under the command of Gu Yinxi.

First of all, it has about 50,000 troops of the loyal battalion, according to the new army system of sergeant four-level standards, to meet the standard of "soldiers" above about 27,000 people, to meet the "guard" standard of about 15,000 people, the remaining seven or eight thousand people all reached the "auxiliary" standard, in view of the particularity of the loyal battalion, the soldiers were not disrupted and reorganized, but were divided into four full towns, each town is about 12,000 battles, auxiliaries, subordinate to the box battalion sequence, the box camp does not have a military number, but the loyal battalion is special, the emperor personally gave the town number, The four towns are Pingyu Town, Poyu Town, Dingyu Town, and Annihilation Town.

Among them, the leader of Pingyu Town is the third-class Xingguo Marquis, the general from the second rank Zhenwei, and the commander Li Chixin (Li Guo).

The leader of the town is a third-class liege, from the second rank Zhenwei to the general, the command of Gao Bizheng (Gao Yigong).

The one who led the town was the third-class Shun Changbo, the third-rank Zhaowu general, and Liu Tichun.

The leader of the town was the third-class Guangchangbo, the third-class Zhaowu general, who controlled the party and guarded the prime.

In the new military system, Li Chixin and Gao Bizheng's military ranks, medals are the highest in both the Beijing camp and the box camp, and because of the large number of soldiers who meet the standards of "soldiers" and "guards", the military salaries and rations are very considerable, and the military is very relieved, and the military reform has satisfied their nominal and material interests, but the only thing that is not happy is probably that after the soldiers and horses of the loyal battalion were split into four towns, the military power was dispersed, and there was no longer a subordinate relationship between the heads of each town. This is also Li Chixin and Gao Bizheng are a little unhappy, Dang Shousu and Liu Tichun are still very happy, whether they are military ranks or real power, after the military reform, compared with other military towns in the same period, they are no longer under the military attache of the Son of Heaven.

The most unhappy are probably the other seven or eight warlords in Huguang.

For example, the number of military battles and auxiliaries of Yizhangbo Luding was directly compressed from 20,000 to 5,000, and the number of soldiers and auxiliaries of more than 5,000 people was ordered to be disbanded, unloaded and returned to the field, and 5,000 people were organized into a mixed battalion, called the "Dingzi battalion", and its scattered rank was also demoted from the original from the first rank to the general of Xuanwu from the third grade, and the rank became the third-class Yizhangbo, both of which were in rank and real power after the military reform, but fortunately, his title was not removed, and he finally saved a little face, and after the reorganization of the army, it seems that the number of people has decreased by half, The military strength has not dropped much, and those who are left behind are elite veterans, and those stragglers who have been laid off He knows that they have no combat power, most of them are pulling to fill the number, and the reason why they are kept is just to bluff and eat empty salaries, after the military reform, they were beaten back to their original form all of a sudden, and it is extremely difficult to eat empty salaries in the future, Lu Ding is a little dissatisfied in his heart.

Compared with Lu Ding, He Tengjiao's supervising standard Chinese army was even more miserable, more than 15,000 people were all dismissed, all generals at all levels were demoted, and only the corresponding military ranks of the new military system were retained for use.

Hao Yongzhong's more than 25,000 troops were compressed into one town, with more than 12,000 battles and auxiliaries. In view of the good combat strength of his department, in order to appease his heart, Zhu Youlang gave him the rank of third-class Shunyi Bo, the rank of general of Zhaowu in the third grade, and the department was called "Guiyi Town", so that Hao Yongzhong's department suddenly became one of the military towns with the largest military strength retained by Huguang after the loyal battalion, and Hao Yongzhong's military rank and rank were also among the best in the same period.

Yuan Zongdi's 20,000 troops were also reduced by nearly half, leaving more than 10,000 men. In order to appease his heart, Zhu Youlang personally gave him the third class Dingbei Bo, the third rank of General Zhaowu, and more than 10,000 people in the department were organized into a town, called "Dingbei Town", Yuan Zongdi weighed again and again, and accepted the arrangement of the imperial court.

Others, such as the Huang Dynasty Propaganda Department, the 10,000 people in the department were compressed to more than 3,000, organized into a mixed battalion, called the "Xuanzi Battalion", and the commander of the Huang Dynasty Xuanwu was from the Sanpin Xuanwu General;

More than 10,000 people in Cao Zhijian's department were compressed to more than 3,000 and organized into a mixed battalion, called the "Jianzi Battalion", and the commander Cao Zhijian was ranked from General Xuanwu of Sanpin;

Yunnan general Hu Yiqing, Zhao Yinxuan's more than 6,000 people were compressed to more than 3,000 people, and they were compiled as the chief and deputy commander of the "Qingzi Battalion" Hu Yiqing, Zhao Yinxuan's rank was from the third rank of Xuanwu general, and the fourth rank was the captain of Dingyuan;

More than 10,000 people in Ma Jinzhong's department were compressed to more than 3,000 people, and they were organized into the "Zhongzi Battalion", and the commander Ma Jinzhong was ranked from General Xuanwu of Sanpin.

Among the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses remaining in the Chinese army of Wang Yuncheng, Zhang Xianbi, Liu Chengyin, and He Ministry, who were destroyed, Du Yinxi selected 5,000 elites from them and incorporated them into the "gentleman's battalion" of his original 3,000 people.

In this way, after a earth-shaking adjustment, Huguang left a total of five battalions, including Pinglu Town, Poyu Town, Dinglu Town, Annihilation Town, Guiyi Town, Danglu, Dingbei Seven Towns, Dingzi Battalion, Xuanzi Battalion, Jianzi Battalion, Qingzi Battalion, and Zhongzi Battalion, with a total of 100,000 auxiliary troops. More than half of the original army of more than 200,000 troops was cut off, and the plan of streamlining the administration of elite troops took shape, and Huguang's financial pressure was suddenly reduced by six or seven percent.

In this reform, the greatest loss of interests was the soldiers and horses of the 13 towns of Huguang in addition to the loyal battalion and the rest of the Shun army, and the army complained about this, and after Du Yinxi reported the military situation of Huguang to Zhu Youlang, Zhu Youlang decisively ordered that several battalions of men and horses with low combat strength and relatively ruthless cuts, such as Lu Dingbu, Huang Chaoxuanbu, and Cao Zhijian, were all transferred from the Huguang front line, of which 5,000 men and horses of Lu Dingbu were transferred to eastern Sichuan, and they were subject to the temperate dispatch of Wen'an, the governor of Sichuan.

More than 6,000 horses and horses in the two battalions of the Xuan Department of the Yellow Dynasty and the Cao Zhijian Department were all transferred to Yunnan, and Yang Wei, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, knew about the dispatch to balance Sun Kewang's troops and prevent Sun Kewang from taking advantage of the situation to divide Yunnan and Guizhou after Sun Kewang defeated Shading Prefecture.

In this way, the Huguang front only had a total strength of about 90,000 soldiers and auxiliary troops, which were stationed in Xiangyin and Yiyang in the north of Changsha; Chenlong Pass in the north of Chenzhou and Yongdingwei in the west of Yuezhou to guard against the Qing army in Changde and Cili in Yuezhou.

At this time, the number of Qing troops in Hubei was not large, mainly the governors of Huguang, Jiangxi and other eight provinces, Tong Yang and Han Eight Banners and the green battalion soldiers who surrendered and reorganized, with a total of less than 30,000, with Xu Yong, the chief soldier of Changsha Town, and Ma Jiaolin, the chief soldier of Wuchang Town, the strongest.

Xu Yong, a hardcore traitor, brave in battle, was originally a subordinate of Zuo Liangyu, in the second year of Shunzhi (1645) in Jiujiang with Zuo Mengeng to surrender to the British prince Azig, the general army of Jiujiang, transferred to Changsha, Longwu had sent someone to lobby him anyway, Xu Yong killed the envoy of Longwu, in the first year of 1648, Jin Shenghuan anyway, sent a messenger to persuade him anyway, Xu Yong killed the Ming envoy again,

In 1649, Prince Yingzheng defeated He Tengjiao, a scholar of Ming University. Transferred to the general army of Chenchang. In the ninth year of Shunzhi (1653), King Gui sent Bai Wenxuan to attack, drove the elephant into a formation, broke the city, Xu Yong fought and died, it can be said that the last drop of blood was shed for the Manchu Dynasty, the Shunzhi Emperor was grateful for his loyalty and bravery, and gave the prince Taibao, a second-class man in the world, and a loyal festival. It's a pity that in the Qianlong Dynasty, the case was overturned by Qianlong and condemned as a second minister, which is really a great irony.

Ma Jiaolin, whose ancestral home is Guyuan, Gansu, belonged to Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty, so he is also a native of Shaanxi. Because he is a Hui and believes in ****** religion, he is nicknamed Ma Huizi.

Ma Jiaolin's ancestors were nobles of the Ming Dynasty, a family of military generals, who fought with the peasant army in his early years, and later attached himself to Zuo Liangyu, and after Zuo Liangyu's death, he turned to He Tengjiao. His subordinates are all children of Xiliang, fierce and fierce Hui cavalry, and their combat effectiveness is very strong.

In real history, after Ma Jiaolin surrendered to the Qing army in Yuezhou, he has been charging for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, making many military exploits, and was regarded as the first strong enemy of the Huguang Qing army by the Yongli court. His greatest contribution was to capture Guilin, pacify Guangxi, and capture the military department of the Yongli court, Qu Shiyun, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and other important ministers, and was therefore appointed as the governor of Guangxi by the Manchu Qing Dynasty. (To be continued.) )