The military power of the Han Kingdom consisted of two parts, one was the Han army and the other was the police. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the five-year development plan, the Han Kingdom should prepare to expand and reorganize the original eight brigades and one regiment of the Han army into four divisions and two brigades with a total of 70,000 first-line main forces, and then re-recruit soldiers to form six second-line divisions with about 10,000 people.

In addition, the Admiralty of the Han Army planned to form a fleet of 12 500-ton gunboats on the Yangtze River, and at the same time a brigade-level marine corps of more than 4,000 people.

The five-year development plan also includes a police force of up to 100,000 people, including 50,000 security police and 50,000 armed police.

The combat effectiveness of the public security police is relatively weak, and it is only suitable for maintaining law and order, while the armed police with semi-military training have a combat effectiveness that directly catches up with the Beiyang Army, and their main task is to be responsible for suppressing bandits, of course, they can also assist in maintaining law and order, and if necessary, the armed police can be directly incorporated into the Han army and participate in large-scale battles.

Excluding the weaker security police, the kingdom will have an armed force of up to 190,000 by the end of the five-year development plan.

However, four years later, the military power of the Han Kingdom has grown far beyond the goals set in the plan.

The four divisions of the main force of the Han army on the front line remained unchanged, and the remaining heavy artillery brigades and brigade-level Praetorian Guards were expanded to division level.

The artillery division is mainly composed of two 105-mm howitzer regiments and two 150-mm howitzer regiments, one regiment is equipped with 36 and 24 artillery pieces respectively, and the artillery division is equipped with a total of 120 artillery pieces of two types of artillery.

In addition, the heavier cannons were eliminated and a special shore artillery unit was formed to defend against the enemy fleet.

The division-level Praetorian Guard is almost the same as the main division, except that there is an extra female battalion.

In this way, the main force of the Han army on the front line became six divisions, with a total number of 83,000 men.

In addition, three second-class divisions are being organized and trained, and it is expected that they will join the Han army's operational sequence in the second half of '88, and by that time, the second-line troops of the Han army will increase to nine divisions with a total of 90,000 troops.

The Admiralty of the Han Army, at present, all twelve 500-ton gunboats are in service, the gunboat has no name, only one "Type 86" number, the number of the first gunboat is 8601, to the number of the twelfth gunboat 8612. (The gunboat is too small to be named, at least it must be named after a battleship of more than 1,000 tons...... ）

Type 86 gunboats

Cost: 65,000 taels of silver

Production service: 1886

Displacement: 560 tons

Ship length: 42 meters

Width: 9.4 meters

Draft: 3.5 m

Power, speed: 500 hp, 10 knots

Armament: two 120 mm long-barreled cannons, three heavy machine guns for the Rainstorm.

Establishment: 61 persons

Except for the 4,000-strong brigade-level marines of the Admiralty, the shore artillery unit is under the control of the Admiralty, and the shore artillery unit is mainly equipped with 100-mm cannons and 120-mm cannons.

As for the police force, on the basis of the original 50,000 public security police and 50,000 armed police, each has increased by 20,000 to 70,000.

By the second half of '88, the armed forces of the Han Kingdom would reach 250,000.

With this armed force, it was easy to overthrow the Manchus and unify the whole country, and even if there was a war with foreign powers later, they were sure to keep the enemy out of the country.

However, the plan did not change quickly, and in April 88, the last three towns of the Beiyang Army were completed and trained, and after being reviewed by Li Hongzhang and other Manchu ministers, they were about to go to the front, and the war was about to break out.