In the winter of 1780, the Wuwei Army completed the task of counterinsurgency in Jiangnan and returned to the north. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Since its establishment, the Wuwei Army can be regarded as a great military achievement, even a success, it stands to reason that it should be relied on and reused by the imperial court, but because most of the officers in the Wuwei Army are Tang people, and they are controlled by the Tang people in many aspects such as military salaries and logistics, so the Qing court can not really trust the Wuwei Army. Even, for the return of the Wuwei Army to the north, the imperial court was a little reluctant.

The Tang army changed its defense, and the Tang army stationed in the north during the Beijing Division Incident had almost gone before, and now there was a cavalry regiment in addition to Nanyuan, an infantry regiment and a machine infantry regiment in Shanhaiguan and Tanggu, and there was no more military strength. On the other hand, in the past year, the Qing army has formed a lot of troops by relying on military purchases and holding the drill codes given to them by the Tang people. The first to bear the brunt is the Praetorian Guard, which was formed with the Eight Banners outside the Fukang'an Pass as the core, with a staff of 30,000 people, equipped with all the mainstream foreign trade weapons of the Tang Dynasty, and has completely undertaken the defense work of the Beijing Division.

Jiaqing even realized that with the Praetorian Guard on his side, even if there was a mixed brigade of the Tang Army in the Beijing-Tianjin area, it would be enough to deal with it. There may be a little trouble is the Tang Dynasty infantry regiment stationed in Tanggu, the Qing army has fully realized the power of armored vehicles, and even when purchasing weapons, the first thing the Qing people proposed was to buy armored vehicles, but the Tang Dynasty naturally would not sell this weapon to them.

In addition to the Guards, the Qing court was also forming the six towns of the Zhili New Army, because the original Zhili Green Battalion was taken up by the Tang Army, and a considerable number of people defected to the Tang Army and became the later Wuwei Army, so the Zhili New Army had to re-recruit soldiers. Although the new army is not a complete firearms army, the scale is not small, which makes Jiaqing feel somewhat secure.

At this time, 30,000 armed guards returned to the north. Let Jiaqing not know whether it is happy or sad. On the one hand, the armed guards are nominally dispatched by the imperial court, and since its establishment, the imperial court's dispatch of the armed guards has not been ambiguous. But the fact that the Wuwei army was assigned by the Tang people at the same time was like a thorn stuck in the throats of the Qing court and Jiaqing.

Now, all areas where the Tang army has garrisons are where the imperial court gives priority to the formation of a new army. Eleven towns of the new army in five provinces of Jiangnan, Fujian and Zhejiang. The two Guangxi New Army and four towns, this is the strength of 150,000 people, and the will of the imperial court is that it must be conclusively trained in the second year of Jiaqing. These new troops were all selected from the original Green Battalion soldiers, and then recruited a part of the people to reorganize. It is a completely new establishment, but the officers are still the same as before, and although they have the help of the instructors of the Tang Army, it is also very doubtful what they can look like.

The transfer of governance in Guangdong. The Tang army also began to transfer the troops originally stationed in Guangdong to return to China. There were more than 10,000 Tang troops in Guangdong, most of whom were the original Borneo garrison. Most of the families of this group of soldiers are in Guangdong Province, and many of them have moved to the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, the Fifth Brigade and the Sixth Brigade of the Army are supposed to be stationed in Guangdong and are stationed in their hometowns. Even after the Qing governors of Canton arrived in Guangzhou, the 5th and 6th Brigades would still be scattered throughout the province, especially Jiaying, Huizhou, Chaoshan, and other places with great potential for immigration. In addition, part of the 5th Brigade is stationed in overseas territories in Southeast Asia to fight with the Foreign Legion.

The defense work left behind by the departure of the Wuwei Army from Jiangnan was taken over by the Jiangnan New Army. However, after a year of intense preparation. Another Wu Yi army, which was funded and trained by the Tang people and served as officers, was also basically completed. The Wu Yi Army was a professional army composed of soldiers recruited from all over the Qing Dynasty. The soldiers came from Guangxi, Sichuan, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Jiangnan and other regions. Even at the beginning, due to the difference in the local pronunciation of different regions, many soldiers could not communicate smoothly. Although there were official words in this era, ordinary peasant children did not need this thing at all.

Wu Yijun will also be stationed in various parts of the southern part of the Yangtze River, mainly in southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang, southern Anhui, northeastern Jiangxi and Shanghai. Like the Wu Wei Army, the Wu Yi Army was equipped with standard Tang Army weapons. The S1 bolt-action rifle, S6 submachine gun, and S8 light machine gun are their main light weapons, and there are also a number of 60mm mortars, 81mm mortars, and 70mm infantry guns in the troops. It can be said that the Ministry of Defense of the Tang Dynasty is still very concerned about building the Wuwei Army and the Wuyi Army, which is basically equivalent to the level of the early Tang Army, compared with the current Tang Army. It's just inferior in the level of firepower.

Wu Yijun naturally needs more training and running-in, Bai Nan is not in a hurry, for the time being, this army will not have anything to come in handy. Even if it takes another year to finally form combat effectiveness, it is not too late.

With the Wu Wei Army and the Wu Yi Army in hand, plus the regular troops of the Tang Army, Bai Nan was able to mobilize considerable troops in the United China Special Administrative Region. Even if Jiaqing, who has a bad brain, uses the New Army and the Praetorian Guard to confront Datang, he will not be able to get any benefits. In fact, the formation of the Wuwei Army and the Wuyi Army also facilitated Bai Nan to mobilize more Tang Army forces and devote them to operations in other areas around the Far East.

Now the Tang Dynasty has only made a little wave in Japan and the Sunda Islands in Southeast Asia, and there are still a large number of beneficial fruits in the Korean Peninsula and the Indochina Peninsula, waiting for the Tang people to pick.

In terms of the navy, the SEZ has also carried out a lot of construction. The Navy's No. 1 base in the Far East is the Wusongkou Base in Wusongkou, Baoshan County, which is also the anchorage of the Chinese Navy on the other side. The Navy has two Pinghai-class cruisers and four Libertywind-class frigates stationed here. In addition, the navy has one cruiser and two frigates in the port of Tanggu, as well as the naval base in Hong Kong. The rest of the Far Eastern territories do not have permanent ships, but the Navy still sends ships to patrol from time to time. In order to strengthen the defense of the base, the Navy also started construction of ships of the third class, that is, offshore gunboats.

The first-class ships of the Datang Navy are the Zhuolu-class battleships, the second-class ships are cruisers and frigates, which are the main force of general operations, and the third-class ships are gunboats of less than 500 tons. The Qiulong-class gunboats developed by the Navy have gradually begun to be equipped with a base. It was a small combat ship with a tonnage of only 200 tons, armed with a 76 mm gun and a twin 57 mm turret, and had a speed of 16 knots. There is no difficulty in building such a warship, which is mainly engaged in coastal operations, and it is not a problem to build 10 ships a month.

Even if the Qiulong-class gunboats are used against those steam ironclad battleships sold to foreign countries, with the cooperation of shore guns, the small gunboats with fast speed and strong firepower will not suffer. (To be continued.) )