Bai Nam's focus has now shifted to the military, and as the general person in charge of the Cuckoo Project, the documents he handles every day and the various inspections he conducts revolve around this matter. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The expansion of the Tang army went relatively smoothly, except for the veterans of the original Republic of China, the new Borneo immigrants who arrived in Jiazhou were originally male, and now most of the new immigrants know the fact that the Tang army is invincible with advanced weapons and tactics, and there are few casualties in each battle. Taking the North American War of Independence, in which the expeditionary force ended last year, as an example, the Tang Navy and Army sent a total of more than 2,000 soldiers, and the casualties did not even exceed 20, and the number of casualties did not seem to be in the double digits.

That is to say, only if you are quite unlucky, you will lose a life, and as long as this life is still there, at the end of the four-year service period, you will not only be able to get a good job arranged by the Ministry of National Defense, get a higher salary than ordinary people, but also give priority to marriage matching, and at the same time you can get a "military merit field", and your children can get further preferential treatment when they go to school, and you can also be taken care of in the employment of your children.

Needless to mention, the social status of the Tang Dynasty soldiers is generally high, and they can quickly get ahead as soldiers.

Not only new Borneo immigrants, but also naturalized Indians are keen to become soldiers. Rather than entering the farmland to grow crops, or entering factories and mines for simple manual labor, the Indian warriors who advocate courage and violence hope to become real warriors, so every time the Datang Ministry of Defense recruits soldiers, they will be crowded by the Indians. However, not everyone will be able to join smoothly. Many people can't pass the first level of language, and the Indians who joined the Tang Army can at least maintain basic language communication. Able to understand the orders of superiors.

Of course, because the scale of this conscription is relatively large, and because of the fact that there are many smallpox Indians last year, the naturalization process was accelerated, so the Ministry of Defense decided to select potential Indian recruits, first give them certain language training, and then send them to the army.

It was not until April and May that the recruitment of troops in the Ministry of Defense was basically completed, and as many as 13 regiments of the army had been established. They will also undergo up to six months of military training to master a variety of military skills. Of course, several regiments that were originally formed also dismantled some veterans into the new units. As the seed that leads the team.

In fact, Datang's newly formed troops are more than these, as far away as the Bahamas, an additional brigade-level unit has also been quietly established. Bai Nam is far away in Los Angeles. But the formation of this brigade. It was he who pushed it.

This is the Tang Army Foreign Legion.

Before the end of the American Revolutionary War, Bai Nan suggested that the Ministry of Defense conduct a recruitment campaign among the prisoners of the Hessian army. The Tang waved money and eventually recruited more than 2,000 soldiers among the Hesses who wanted to be paid. In this war, the Hessian mercenaries contributed a lot, and the British king also paid a large amount of military expenses. But the money all went into the purse of the Grand Duke of Hesse-Kassel, and the soldiers did not receive anything.

throughout the war. Nearly 30,000 German soldiers from the German Confederation took part in the war, of whom about 5,000 were killed or wounded, and the rest were taken prisoner. More than 17,000 people returned to their homeland after the war, while some of the remaining could not fulfill, some were guilty of crimes and were not allowed to return home, and about five thousand remained in the United States, joining the German immigrant community in the United States. There are more than 2,000 people who have accepted the recruitment of Datang, and have changed from mercenaries serving the British to mercenaries of Datang.

The United States disbanded the Continental Army of up to 40,000 people after the war, and most of them returned to their hometowns to live, but there are still a small number of people who prefer this kind of day of licking blood with knives, and they don't have much survival skills except for combat, so they were also recruited by Datang, with more than 1,000 people. There are also some American sailors who are also recruited, and there is no doubt that the remuneration given by Datang International Trade Company is higher than that given by any captain, and sailors are originally a profession that is almost borderless, so more than 2,000 American sailors boarded Datang's merchant ships with dreams and began to transport various goods and immigrants for Datang.

In addition, Datang also recruited some pirates in the Bahamas, as well as some Europeans scattered to recruit, including Germans, Poles, Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, etc., almost all of the names of the countries can be called, but the number is not much.

In addition, the Tang people liberated a group of black slaves from the Bahamas and the black slaves from the British slave trading ships that were stopped before, and finally formed such a combat brigade of 5,000 people in the Bahamas.

There is no doubt that this brigade can no longer be described as a mixture of fish and dragons, and the soldiers of the entire brigade come from dozens of countries and probably speak nearly a hundred languages. It is really not an easy thing to command them. The brigade commander of the Foreign Legion Brigade is Yue Zhenfu, a former military adviser in the United States, and he also has a headache for this brigade. According to language and ethnicity, Yue Zhenfu organized the brigade in a general manner, so that the squad leaders and platoon commanders at the grassroots level could give orders to his soldiers without hindrance, and then he demanded that at least these officers have enough Chinese to communicate and be able to accept and carry out orders from him, a Tang man.

There is no way to do this, a black slave from Africa can't communicate with the Americans, and a Hessian can't communicate with the Spaniards, so they can only communicate in a language that no one else knows. Although it takes a lot of time to organize a brigade-level unit in Datang, it will never be as laborious as Yue Zhenfu, but fortunately, Bai Nan did not demand too much from him, so that he could basically complete the establishment within a year, and basically form combat effectiveness within another year.

Obviously, it is difficult for the Tang army to have any too high guarantee for the discipline of such a foreign army, so Bai Nan does not plan to put it into the cuckoo plan, and an army that is all of different skin colors is difficult to be recognized by the Chinese, at least the Tang army brought by Bai Nan is Chinese in appearance and language, and everyone thinks at most that it is an army that has changed dynasties, and will not think of it as a foreign invasion, and the degree of resistance should be weaker than that of ethnic groups such as Mongolia and Jurchen.

It can be said that the establishment of the Foreign Legion, in fact, Bainan has made a long-term layout. One of the most important tasks of the Foreign Legion was to be in charge of the colonial war, and since Bai Nan could not have much trust in such an army composed of pure foreign soldiers, the standard weapons of the Tang Dynasty would not be issued to them. The Foreign Legion will only use first-class Datang foreign trade weapons, that is, weapons such as SC-2 rifles and SC-1776 guns. Equip them with some grenades or something, and even machine guns can't equip them.

In the future, Bai Nan had already foreseen the war in the vast colonies, and on the side of Spain alone, the Tang Dynasty was bound to win New Mexico and Louisiana in Spain, and there would be a war with Spain. If the regular army of the Tang Dynasty would attack directly east from Los Angeles into New Mexico, then the Foreign Legion could operate along the Mexican coast or attack the Louisiana area.

Even in some colonies in South America, Africa, and Asia, Bai Nan can use foreign legions to fight, after all, this is a brigade with a total number of 5,000 people, which is not enough to deal with ordinary European powers, but it is not a problem to overthrow a backward and small country.

And in any case, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were the era of Europe, and European affairs determined the development and direction of the whole world to a certain extent, and the Foreign Legion was actually used by Bai Nan to interfere in European affairs. Europe is experiencing a brief period of relative peace, but the conflict still exists, and if a major European war breaks out, it will be relatively quick to intervene directly from the Bahamas.

There is another significance that must be mentioned, that is, although Datang has single-handedly pulled the United States up, it does not mean that the two countries will always be at peace, and the existence of the Foreign Legion is also a constraint on the United States.

It costs much less to form a brigade of the Foreign Legion than to form a regular brigade of the Tang Army. Although the soldiers of the Foreign Legion were paid well, they were no different from the regular soldiers, and even slightly lower. Their consumption of equipment, training, and logistics is even less than that of the regular army. People are killed without the high pension costs and other costs in the Tang system, and it will not affect the country's population because of the large number of war deaths.

Of course, it has many disadvantages, but with the current population situation of Datang, it is almost inevitable that the foreign army will be activated. At least now it has been formed into a foreign brigade, except for the cavalry regiments placed in Pengzhou and Florida and the marine regiment in Yuzhou, even if the Tang Dynasty encounters any tricky battles, it does not have to worry about having no soldiers to fight on the east coast, and it avoids the army having to travel 20,000 kilometers to fight on the east coast.

Now Datang's national strategy is the Cuckoo Plan, but a few years later, the Cuckoo Plan is successfully implemented, and a large number of people are obtained, Datang will inevitably seek more colonies, and then this foreign army will be more able to come in handy, at least with Bai Nan's idea, these colonies in South America should change their masters.

That is, now a large part of Datang's financial expenditure is on the Cuckoo Plan, and the country is so big, and there is not much money to spare, if the financial department allows, Bai Nan feels that there is no problem at all to raise 20,000 foreign troops and be responsible for various wars in the Atlantic Theater. Nowadays, the European nation-state consciousness is very thin, even if they defect to the Tang people, it is not a shameful thing to work for the Tang Dynasty, and the European battlefield is full of mercenaries, and it is not particularly difficult to recruit a group of mercenaries. (To be continued.) )