641. Military reorganization
In July 198 AD, the war of Zhu Wei, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Lü Bu against Yuan Shu finally ended.
In this battle, Lü Bu first rebelled against the coalition army and surrendered to Yuan Shu, and then because of Zhou Yu's strategy, he died at the hands of Yuan Shu, so that Lü Bu's forces left in Xuzhou fell into a masterless situation.
Yuan Shu escaped and was captured by Zhu Wei's ambush, and then escorted back to Xu Du for Cao Cao to punish the crime, but he committed suicide in prison within a month, so Yuan Shu died in the world.
However, Yuan Shu's generals all surrendered to Zhu Wei's account, and Zhu Wei also fought a battle and occupied the Huainan city of Shouchun, and his power touched the Central Plains from the south to the north.
After Zhu Wei's victory, he also rewarded the three armies in Shouchun City, rewarded the land of Jiujiang Shouchun for meritorious soldiers, and reorganized and eliminated Yuan Shu's army, and used tens of thousands of Yuan Shu's soldiers to open Tuntian in Shouchun, which is also thousands of hectares of Tuntian, which can be used for military rations in Shouchun and Guangling.
After that, Zhu Wei distributed more than 90,000 elites obtained from the reorganization of Yuan Shu's army to his subordinate armies.
First of all, Zhu Wei divided 10,000 soldiers into the Tai Shi Ci Divine Arrow Battalion, making the total strength of the Shen Arrow Battalion nearly 30,000, but after that, Zhu Wei was ready to wait for the matter to be settled in Xuzhou, and then transfer Tai Shi Ci's Divine Arrow Battalion to Pengcheng, Langya, and Beihai in Xuzhou.
In this way, Tai Shi Ci can go back to his hometown Beihai to take a look, but in the future, he will also directly face the threat of Yuan Shao in the north and Cao Cao in Gunzhou, and maybe he will also have an intersection with Yuan Tan, the eldest son of Yuan Shu in Qingzhou.
After that, Zhu Wei was divided into 20,000 and incorporated into the Jiangdong Battalion of Huang Zhong, and simply let the Jiangdong Battalion led by Huang Zhong be renamed the Huainan Battalion, with a total strength of about 30,000, stationed in Huainan.
In Huang Zhong's new Huainan battalion, Lu Su is the commander of the generals, Lu Dai is the deputy general, and the four members of the Le Zhuo, Li Feng, Liang Gang, and Chen Ji will be used.
The role of Huang Zhong, the newly organized Huainan Battalion, is naturally to protect the bridgehead of Shouchun, and he can send troops to the land of Yuzhou in Huaibei at any time, and of course he can also cooperate with the Shenjian Battalion of Tai Shici in Xuzhou to support.
As for the original Jiangdong battalion, there are probably 16,000 or 7 troops now.
Zhu Wei promoted Zhu Heng, a clan relative who had previously made meritorious contributions to the suppression of Shanyue in Jiangdong, as the main general, and other deputy generals Zhang Ying, Changshi Kan Ze, and generals Mao Gan, Jin Qi, Yan Baihu, Yan Yu and others basically remained unchanged.
Next, Zhu Wei also added 20,000 troops to Pang Yan's Xionglu battalion, bringing the total strength of the Xionglu battalion to nearly 50,000, but the 5,000 light cavalry that originally belonged to the Xionglu battalion were recovered.
Of course, Zhu Wei also incorporated Hao Meng and Cheng Lian, two generals from Lu Bu's side, and two generals Lei Bo and Chen Lan from Hefei to Cheng on Yuan Shu's side, and also incorporated Xiong Lu's battalion as generals.
At the same time, Zhu Wei promoted Zhou Tai to be a deputy general with the right to command the troops, so that the left, middle and right soldiers and horses were divided into three troops and horses in the Xionglu battalion, and Pang Yan, Ling Cao, and Zhou Tai each commanded one army and horses, so as to facilitate Zhu Wei's control of the deployment of troops in the Xionglu battalion.
After all, this Xiong Lu Battalion is nominally an independent army, but in fact, it is similar to the situation under Zhu Wei's direct control, so Zhu Wei is not worried about the excess of the Xiong Lu Battalion's strength.
The remaining more than 40,000 troops, Zhu Wei was still incorporated into his own Chinese military camp, and at the same time, Zhang Xun, the general under Yuan Shu's account, was also incorporated into the Chinese military camp, but it was a pity that Ji Ling, a fierce general under Yuan Shu's account, was still seriously injured and died, so Yuan Shu's side was left with one Zhang Xun to be considered a usable talent.
However, in this way, the total strength of Zhu Wei's Chinese military camp has also reached nearly 80,000, including 3,000 Baiyu battalion guards, 8,000 sword and shield men who can be deployed into a Bagua army array, gradually increasing to more than 10,000 bows and crossbowmen, 10,000 archers and cavalry led by Mu Lan and Teng Yuyan, nearly 8,000 Lujiang troops annexed on the Lujiang side, more than 5,000 elites left by Lu Bu, and now 40,000 Yuan Shu surrendered troops.
For this reason, Zhu Wei also divided the Chinese army camp under his direct control, of which the 3,000 Baiyu battalion and the 8,000 sword and shield men were still directly subordinate to the Chinese army, while the remaining crossbowmen and the Lujiang and Shouchun new armies totaled about 60,000 troops were divided into left and right divisions.
In this way, the directly subordinate guard Chinese army has Mu Lan as the main general, Sun Shangxiang as the deputy general, and the left central army has Zhou Yu as the commander, and the right central army has Zhang Xun as the commander.
Of course, let Zhou Yu and Zhang Xun lead the troops, and Zhu Wei also decided after determining their loyalty, Zhou Yu's loyalty to Zhu Wei has now reached 79, obviously his mentality has changed again, and he is almost about to completely return to Zhu Wei.
As for Zhang Xun's side, it was because Yuan Shu asked him to help take care of his heirs, so after Zhu Wei promised to settle Yuan Shu's heirs Yuan Yao and others, as long as Yuan Yao and them had no accidents, Zhang Xun would not have any change in mentality.
Now Zhang Xun's loyalty here has also reached 75, obviously hoping that through his efforts, Zhu Wei can maintain his kindness to Yuan Shu's heirs, so that Zhu Wei can now be regarded as trusting him.
However, Zhu Wei did not do much to the more than 10,000 light cavalry and more than 5,000 old soldiers of Lu Bu in Bingzhou, most of Lu Bu's old soldiers in Bingzhou were actually converted from cavalry, although they have become infantry soldiers now, they can also be restored to cavalry in the future, so Zhu Wei is ready to be integrated into a cavalry unit in the future.
At the same time, Zhu Wei did not have any changes to Zhang Xiu's cavalry camp this time, and the reason was the same, in the future, this cavalry battalion would need to be reorganized into a cavalry battalion as a whole, so Zhu Wei had already greeted Zhang Xiu in private, so Zhang Xiu didn't need to have any other ideas.
It's just that this matter will be decided slowly in the future, and the Liangqi camp will not change for the time being.
In fact, Zhu Wei wanted to wait for the situation in Xuzhou to determine the reorganization of the Liang cavalry battalion, and Zhu Wei planned to wait for Zhang Liao to come over from Xuzhou, so he could use Zhang Xiu as the main general and Zhang Liao as the deputy general to form a cavalry force.
Of course, Zhang Liao's ability must be above Zhang Xiu, but Zhu Wei also has to consider the sophistication of the world, and now let Zhang Liao serve as the deputy general, which can already be regarded as reusing and promoting Zhang Liao, so that when Zhang Liao makes meritorious contributions in the future, he can naturally be promoted.
And this arrangement also made Zhang Xiu not feel cold, thinking that Zhu Wei was going to unload the mill and kill the donkey.
However, in the future, this cavalry unit, like Pang Yan's Xionglu battalion, will basically only follow Zhu Wei's main force of the Chinese army to fight, and will not let them be stationed anywhere.
In this way, with Zhu Wei's 80,000 troops in the Chinese military camp, 50,000 troops in the Xionglu battalion, and nearly 20,000 cavalry to be established in the future, Zhu Wei has about 150,000 elite troops that can be recruited from all over the country, just like the liquidity of a commercial company, which can be used at will.
Although most of the new recruits have been added to Zhu Wei's Zhongjun Camp and Pang Yan's Xionglu Battalion, and the training and morale of many recruits are low, as long as Zhu Wei is given some time to train, then these 150,000 troops will be Zhu Wei's main elite army to conquer the world in the future.
After handling these military matters, Zhu Wei also began to arrange some local personnel arrangements......