In the following time, Yang Feng's main work was to expand the army. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Although in fact, the war between him and the Aixin Jueluo family has come to an end, and now the only one who has really become the climate is the emperor of the Northeast AD, as for the Yinci of Yan'an, after the Ming army conquered Datong and escorted tens of thousands of bannermen, old and weak women and children to the Badaling railway construction site, he knew that it would be his turn next, so he simply packed up and embarked on the road to flee west, which means that he is ready to see a good place in our Tianshan Mountains! And Yinyou of Lanzhou, under the oppression of the Ming army, also embarked on a long escape, he went to find his second brother, who had already arrived in Lhasa and was warmly ......

Not welcome.

According to Jinyiwei's intelligence, the regent of Lhasa, Sangyel Gyatso, did not welcome him, for fear of luring the Ming army over, in fact, a brigade of the Fourth Army had already arrived in Qamdo, but the supply of materials was really not available, so he stopped.

This is also no way, that ghost place is nothing more than an ancient tea horse road, to say that that thing is really lifting, even the car can't pass, only rely on pack horses to transport supplies of the sheep intestine trail, can supply a brigade of Ming army to continue to fight is too exaggerated. Yang Feng has already asked his soldiers to stop advancing, and it is enough to go to Qamdo, as for entering Tibet in the future, he is going to build the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, at least this route is more reliable, in fact, purely from the cost consideration, if he wants to enter Tibet, it is better to go north from India!

In short, His Majesty the Yongzheng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, who has no eggs in the short term, can still survive in Lhasa.

But even so, Yang Feng still needed to expand his army on a large scale, because he already had to face the resistance of the colonies, such as Sulabati on the island of Java, Sultan Amengula III in Mataram, the Bugis in the Malay Peninsula, and the Tamils in Ceylon all resisting the Ming Dynasty's manifest destiny. The newly formed Eighth Army has been transferred to Nanyang, but Nanyang is too vast after all, and only one army is absolutely not enough, so Yang Feng immediately followed up with the new Ninth Army to prepare for Nanyang. According to his plan, the Eighth Army will be returned to the Nanyang Economic Envoy, and the Indian Economic Envoy will be set up, after all, the Ming Dynasty will also receive the Dutch colony, so that the Ninth Army will belong to the Indian Economic Envoy, and the Tamils in Ceylon will be cleaned up first.

As for the Marines, this one had to be withdrawn.

And then there's his cavalry corps.

One cavalry corps is enough for the time being, because the infantry of the Ming army is also being used in horse-drawn carriages, especially new carriages will be popularized, and the marching speed of these vehicle-mounted infantry is no worse than that of cavalry.

The main thing, of course, is that he doesn't have so many Arabian horses.

Playing cavalry without good horses is definitely not good, although the battle of Zhili allowed him to obtain hundreds of thousands of horses, but the vast majority of them are Mongolian horses, of course there is no problem with pulling carts, but if you let the cavalry ride, those cavalry will cry. It is said that now the cavalry of the Ming army has long been all Arab horses, and even Yang Feng's dragoons have been replaced with Andalusian horses, as for the British horses, they are the standard for officers, and the main goods exported by the British East India Company to the Ming Dynasty in recent years are war horses.

However, the standard configuration of the Ming cavalry was still Arabian horses, and Yang Feng had a large horse farm on Jeju Island and Zhili, and the Ming army's war horses were mainly provided by these two horse farms.

But the current scale is not even enough for him to make up another cavalry army, but in recent years, those Ming merchant ships have brought him a very good addition, a horse breed that even Yang Feng did not expect, India's Mawari horse, a shape and Arabian horses are almost no different, even slightly taller, but there is a pair of iconic small curly-eared war horses, mainly produced in northwest India, the Mughal emperor is now smoothed out by those pervasive Ming merchants, and does not mind selling war horses to them.

Together with these horses, Yang Feng finally gathered another cavalry army.

In this way, the total strength of the field troops of the Ming Army was expanded to nine armies plus one cavalry corps, with an actual field force of 300,000, and in addition to this, there were 60 local garrisons totaling 150,000 people. Garrisons are not available everywhere, but on the coast, in the inland ethnic areas, and some military frontier areas, it can be said that basically every province has them, including those that have been upgraded from the original state. The combat effectiveness of these garrisons is somewhat worse than that of the field army, of course, this difference is only relatively speaking, in fact, any garrison can be pulled out to beat the same number of European troops.

In addition, the troops directly under the General Staff, the inland river fleet, administrative agencies at all levels, military academies, military stations, logistics storage bases, military horse farms, and hospitals add up to a total strength of 700,000 in the Ming Army.

There is also the Navy left.

At this time, the crusader warships captured in Nanyang were repaired in Changguo, so the strength of the Ming navy also skyrocketed, and of course, the size of the navy also skyrocketed.

Two ......

In fact, it should be five, including Weihai, the original three battleships with 80 guns were also classified by Yang Feng as second-class battleships, plus the two captured Dutch, the Ming Navy has five second-class battleships, and four third-class battleships with more than 70 guns. The remaining twenty fifty and forty guns were divided into four-class battleships by Yang Feng alone, originally this division was proposed by the British a few years later, but now it has become Emperor Yang's appointed, as for the remaining cruisers are counted as five-class ships, this Ming has a total of thirty ships.

Frigates, small gunboats, communication ships, and patrol ships are all counted separately, and the main fleet of the Ming Navy is battleships and cruisers, a total of fifty-nine.

Powerful.

But the scale is still second-rate.

Even if the defeated Dutch navy is still far superior to the Ming army in terms of scale, in fact, it is still far superior to the Ming army, and it is even more inadequate to compare with the British, the British navy now has more than 100 battleships alone, and the cruisers are not regarded as capital ships at all.

Of course, if there is a real fight, Yang Feng will not be afraid of the British, after all, his fleet is open.

Originally, the division of the two-ocean fleet was no longer enough, and it was necessary to have three oceans.

The Beiyang Fleet remains the same, mainly responsible for Goryeo, the Wa Kingdom, and the area north to Sakhalin, Kamchatka, and the Aleutian Islands. In addition, the Pacific Fleet was set up, with Changguo as the home port, mainly responsible for expanding to the Americas, and the next step was to defeat Hawaii. The Nanyang Fleet moved south, with Yazhou as its home port, that is, the Yulin Military Port in Sanya, Yang Feng's next step was to develop the Shilu iron ore mine, and set up a steel plant and arsenal on Hainan Island to supply the Nanyang Fleet, and in the future, Southeast Asia, Jinzhou, and the Indian Ocean were all under the responsibility of the Nanyang Fleet.

These three fleets are still dominated by the Nanyang Fleet.

A fourth-class battleship of the Beiyang Fleet as the flagship, plus six fifth-class ships is enough, anyway, soon a new propeller sailing ship will be built, and you still have to rely on this to go to Alaska.

The Pacific Fleet has a third-class battleship as the flagship, plus two fourth-class ships, as for the fifth-class ships, they don't need them, and it's too exaggerated for a small ship of five or six hundred tons to go to the Americas, the Beiyang Fleet needs this thing to bully the Japanese and scare Goryeo, and the Pacific Fleet's area of activity has no nearby opponents to bully. Three battleships were enough to run rampant in the Eastern Pacific, and at this time there was no warship activity in the Eastern Pacific, and later the construction of sailing ships would also give them priority.

All the remaining warships, including five second-class, three third-class, sixteen fourth-class, and twenty-four fifth-class, were all given to the Nanyang Fleet, including the two sailing warships.

This division is more reasonable.

After all, in the future, the South Sea Fleet will be the main job.

There are more than 25,000 sailors serving on these main warships alone, and the number of sailors on those auxiliary warships can basically reach 50,000, and the number of warships of this type is almost 200. The territory of the Ming Dynasty is too vast, and there are many pirates in this territory, and the work of protecting merchant ships and maintaining the safety of maritime trade is done by these ships, especially the work of suppressing colonial resistance is also mainly responsible for them, because they have a shallow draft and can drive into most inland rivers.

There are also two brigade-sized marines.

Coupled with the administrative system at all levels, the personnel of the naval base are all in a mess, and the total strength of the Ming Navy is 100,000.

In other words, the total strength of the current Ming Army and Navy is 800,000.

In addition, there are 100,000 Jinyi guards, who actually act as internal security forces and intelligence agencies, surveilling the people internally, cracking down on progressive ideas, exercising spy rule, stealing intelligence from the outside world, carrying out terrorist attacks, creating riots, and agitating against Zhengfu forces......

In short, it is such an institution that is spurned by the forces of justice.

In addition, there are three to ten reserve brigades in each province, which can ensure that Yang Feng can pull out more men and horses at any time.

And the same Ming has more than 20 million reserves.

According to Emperor Yang's holy decree, all men over the age of 17 and under 50 in the Ming Dynasty are reserves, and they must undergo ten days of military training every year according to different situations, and they must be assessed every year.

Maybe Thunderrage will exile a few more.

He is the emperor, he is the law, he can punish as much as he wants, he wants to say that he will be shot directly, and the latter will also have to be thankful for the death.

"This is my manifest destiny!"

His Majesty the Emperor, who was watching the palace maids pole dance in the conservatory, shouted again.

These 800,000 troops, these 100,000 Jinyi guards, these more than 1 million reserves, and more than 20 million reserves are his Zhaozhao Mandate of Heaven, the Zhaozhao Mandate of the Ming Empire.

The power of the emperor is in the four seas, and the preaching is in all countries.

All those who dare to resist will be reduced to dust under the rolling wheels of history. (To be continued.) )