Chapter Seventy-Three: Organizing the Army

In June of the second year of the Great Dispute, the entire Yangwu General's Mansion finally ushered in a rare period of peaceful development. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Since Sima Yu launched the war against Ainengqi in March, the entire Yangwu army has been in the war, and the Yangwu army has once again continued to write the legend of undefeated in a hundred battles.

In the war against Ainengqi, Sima Yu led five battalions of Yangwu soldiers to sweep away the Ainengqi army in less than a month, and included the entire Chenshi County under his command.

Then he led the army back non-stop, defeated 100,000 Pakistani troops in a battle outside Fangjia Town, and chased dozens of miles, and finally made less than one-third of the 100,000 Pakistani troops return to China, and the losses were very heavy, and they could no longer threaten the border safety of the Yangwu army in a short period of time.

After removing the threat of the Pakistani army, Sima Yu led the army to continue to return south, not only sweeping away tens of thousands of rebels along the way, but also defeating more than 100,000 Beishan tribe coalition troops, and finally forced the landing of the three major tribes of Mountain Eagle, Juyan and Flying Bear.

The Beishan tribes, which lost 100,000 young and elite tribes, have lost their strength sharply, and under the influence of the three major tribes, people began to go to Xiangjia Town to throw themselves into the Yangwu army, adding nearly 300,000 people to the Yangwu army, although there are still nearly 100,000 remnants of the diehards who are unwilling to go down the mountain, but they can no longer pose a threat to the Yangwu army.

And just when Sima Yu was fighting with the allied forces of the Beishan tribes, Wang Meng, who had just served as the commander of Zhongba County, also eliminated Xue Ju's father and son, who were not able to get rid of the tail, and annihilated the main force of the Liangshan Army and Naval Division in one fell swoop in the Battle of Hongzui Bay, and beat this newly rising strong neighbor fiercely.

With the subsidence of the war in various places, Sima Yu, who returned to Qilin City, immediately carried out a purge of the entire Yangwu army, and brutally suppressed a number of careerists who participated in the rebellion.

Most of these people were officials under the rule of General Yangwu's mansion and wealthy businessmen with little assets, and there were many people who colluded with them.

In addition to those who were beheaded for their heavier crimes, there were also a large number of people implicated in the detention of those who are still being held today, most of them businessmen.

This purge almost immediately hollowed out one-third of the officialdom and commercial forces under the rule of General Yangwu's mansion. Although it seems to have weakened its own strength, it has enhanced the cohesion of the entire Yangwu Army, making Sima Yu change his previous image of being weak and bullying in everyone's hearts, and establish the iron-blooded majesty of the lord of one side.

Just when this purge turmoil continued to shake, the newly established Qilin Pavilion Outer Pavilion, which was located not far from the Jinyi Guard's command yamen, also quickly jumped into the field of vision of some well-intentioned people.

With the addition of the Song Dynasty and Leng Jing, a group of people from the rivers and lakes who originally belonged to the Dark City also quickly completed their registration in the Outer Pavilion, and some of them directly chose to become the first members of the Outer Pavilion.

With the existence of these two big names and many good players in the rivers and lakes, the Outer Pavilion quickly opened its reputation in the rivers and lakes under the rule of General Yangwu's Mansion, and some wandering people in the rivers and lakes chose to join the Outer Cabinet after hearing about the structure and benefits of the Outer Cabinet.

At the same time, General Yangwu's Mansion also quickly launched a large number of tasks accordingly, mainly focusing on spy investigation and escort, and the good commission quickly attracted a large number of people to participate.

Driven by the appearance of General Yangwu's mansion, some clever high-level officials and wealthy businessmen also began to follow suit, not only began to release some tricky things in the outer cabinet, but also took the initiative to send some talents to join the outer cabinet.

For a time, under the positive reaction of the two parties, the Outer Cabinet developed rapidly, and the General's Mansion also tasted the benefits of forming the Outer Cabinet for the first time, and a large amount of useful information began to be transmitted from the Outer Cabinet to the Yangwu Army.

In this way, Sima Yu has another source of information, and it is more rapid and targeted than Jinyiwei's information source.

After the short-term pain of the Great Purge, the entire Yangwu General's Mansion quickly settled down.

After discussing with Guoyuan, Xiang Lang and others, as well as the generals under his command, Sima Yu decided to make adjustments to the battalions under his command again.

Previously, the entire Yangwu General's Mansion had a total of 10 battalions of the Shaoshan Battalion, the Guards Battalion, the Changfeng Battalion, the Guoyi Army, the Huben Battalion, the Zhongwu Battalion, the White Pole Army, the North Battalion of the Water Division, the South Battalion of the Water Division and the Garrison Battalion, plus 2,000 Jinyi Guards, two Guards Cavalry, and 8,000 Li Mujun and 3,000 Zhongba County Garrison Army deployed in Zhongba County, with a total of 66,000 soldiers and horses.

In the successive battles, although the Yangwu army achieved brilliant results, it also paid a lot of price, with a total loss of more than 18,000 people in each battalion.

At present, there are only more than 48,000 people left in the entire Yangwu army.

This point of soldiers and horses is completely insufficient compared to the Yangwu army, which currently has a population of more than 1.6 million and occupies the four counties of Qilin, Jumei, Zhongba, and Chenshi.

Especially after learning about the situation of several major forces such as the Shu Kingdom in the Shu region from Zhao Yun's mouth, Sima Yu's heart felt a little more urgent.

Therefore, after a few days of rest and recuperation, Sima Yu immediately convened the high-level officials of General Yangwu's Mansion and the generals in the army to discuss.

After some discussion, it was finally decided to expand the army again.

The expansion of the army, the original two guards cavalry was officially expanded into the Xiao cavalry battalion, with 5,000 establishments, by the former guard battalion captain Huang Jingtian as the Xiao cavalry captain, Che Li Ji as the deputy captain, Hu Chuquan as the army Sima, set up a headquarters camp outside Chengshui Town, recruit good cavalry archers into the army.

The original six battalions of the Shaoshan Battalion, the Guards Battalion, the Changfeng Battalion, the Guoyi Army, the Huben Battalion, and the Zhongwu Battalion were all expanded from the original 5,000 to 10,000 people, doubling the number at once.

Except for the captain of the guards battalion, which was vacant because Huang Jingtian was appointed as the captain of the Xiaocai cavalry, he was replaced by Yue Xi, the captains of the other five battalions were still Wang Yanzhang, Wang Yantong, Long Wei, Long Meng, and Honda Zhongsheng, and Zhou Cang, Pei Yuanshao, Chu Yunxuan and others were deputies.

The headquarters of the five battalions of the Shaoshan Battalion, the Guards Battalion, the Changfeng Battalion, the Guoyi Army, and the Huben Battalion were set up in Qilin City, and the headquarters of the Zhongwu Battalion was set up in Daxikou Town.

Qin Liangyu, the captain of the White Pole Military Academy, also officially assumed the post of Captain of Zhengyi, and the White Pole Army under his command was expanded from 5,000 to 15,000 to conquer and expand to the southeast outside Xiangjia Town.

There are only two water divisions under the command of the general's mansion, the north battalion of the water division and the south battalion of the water division, which have been expanded from the original 8,000 and 5,000 personnel to 10,000 respectively, and the captains of the two battalions are still served by Yu Dayou and Jiugui Jialong, who are stationed in Yujia Town and Xiaba Town.

As a later generation, Sima Yu knew the importance of the navy, so although there was no threat on the river for the time being, he still allocated a large amount of materials and spared no effort to develop the navy in preparation for future troubles.

The original garrison battalion was abolished, and the Zhongba County garrison battalion and the Qilin County garrison battalion were combined into one, and a shooting battalion of 10,000 people was established, with Shi Dan as the captain and Xiong Kuohai as the deputy captain, and the headquarters was set up in Chenshi Town.

Shi Dan, the captain of the garrison battalion, who was originally not conspicuous in the Yangwu Army, suddenly became a cadre with heavy troops and a defender.

After the establishment of garrison battalions was abolished, in order to maintain law and order in various localities, Sima Yu decided to set up additional patrol yamen in various towns and counties, with a quota of 500 at the county level and 50 at the town level.

Li Mujun was renamed Wu'an Battalion, expanded from the original 8,000 people to 10,000 people, and Li Mu served as the captain of Wu'an, stationed in Zhongba County.

In 2000, Jinyiwei, as a minions under Sima Yu, maintained the original establishment unchanged, but in order to better control the three counties of Zhongba, Jumei, and Chenshi, three Jinyiwei Thousand Households were added in the three counties, and Jiang Chong, Xiao Sa, and Du Xu were promoted to thousands of households.

In addition, the left and right pro-armies were also added, each with a staff of 1,000 people, with Wu Song and Wu Tugu serving as the left and right commanders, responsible for guarding the safety of General Yangwu's Mansion and Sima Yu.

In this way, the entire army under the Yangwu General's Office expanded from the original 66,000 to 127,000, while the current number is only 48,000, and nearly 80,000 new recruits are needed.

This also became the largest expansion of the army since Sima Yu established Qilin Village, under the temptation of the preferential treatment of the Qilin Army and the high social status of the soldiers, the people under the rule of the people enthusiastically joined the army, and for a time the entire Yangwu General's Mansion was surrounded by young men who were conscripted, which made the battalion generals and colonels busy for a while.

While the battalion owners were busy selecting the source of troops, a large amount of ordnance and materials began to be transported out of Qilin City and distributed to the battalions for the use of the newly recruited soldiers.

"Drive!"

"Pedal Pedal ~"

Just when the Yangwu Army was recruiting troops from all over the country, thousands of miles away, the Tunnel Prefecture Governance Office, outside the Tunnel City ushered in several fast riders who were in the dust.

"Tunnel City!"

As he rode a few horses, the knight in front of him lifted his masked cloak and muttered as he looked at the city in front of him.

The construction of this tunnel city is quite majestic, but there are only sparse pedestrians on this road, which seems a little too withered.

While this person was staring at Tunnel City and muttering to himself, the several knights in strong suits beside him were all silent, their eyes were slightly vigilant and constantly looking around, and the first knight was faintly protected in the center of the standing.

These men were the first batch of members registered in the outer cabinet, and this time they took over the task issued by General Yangwu's Mansion to escort the knight in front of him to Shu Kingdom.