After the establishment of the North Indian Overseas Territory, the Tang Army also adjusted some of its deployments accordingly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe Indian Ocean theater of operations in South Asia was fixed and became a new theater of operations. The original theater establishment of Datang has also changed with the continuous expansion of Datang's territory and control area. The West Coast Theater is responsible for the vast expanse of the West Coast of the entire North American continent, and in fact the deployment focus is still on Jiazhou, Gangzhou, and British Columbia. The Southeast Theater was renamed the East Coast Theater, and the defense zone was expanded from Yuzhou, Florida, and Pengzhou, and Texas was added, as well as areas along the Mississippi River to the north to the Arctic Ocean. The Central Theater is responsible for a vast area from Gwangju and Luanju to the Arctic Ocean in the north, and in fact the focus is also on Gwangju, Baoju, and Luanju. The Mexican District is still a separate column, called the Sino-American theater, in addition to the defense of the homeland, there is also the responsibility to prevent incidents in South America.

The defense zone of the Far Eastern Theater was also expanded with the acquisition of the Eastern Hanhai Province from Russia. When the Indian Ocean Theater is established, it will take over defense zones from the Far Eastern Theater, including Burma and Donghui, and will also be responsible for South Africa, Madagascar, Ceylon, and the North Indian region. The European theater is basically across Europe and safeguards Datang's interests in the European region.

Except for the central theater, which is basically not very heavy, the other six theaters are responsible for a very large area, and there is even a shortage of troops in some areas. With more and more territories and interests that the country needs to protect, Datang has to further expand the scale of its military power.

Perhaps compared with other countries, the number of standing armies of the Tang Dynasty is indeed too reckless. But considering that the area of Datang is too vast, there is already the shadow of the empire on which the sun never sets, and the economic situation itself is good, so more troops are needed to defend the country anyway. Naturally, it also carries the mission of obtaining more benefits and living space for the country.

As a result, the Ministry of National Defense made a new military development plan to comprehensively expand the scale of the Tang Army. With the exception of the central theater, which is not very heavy, each theater retains at least two mechanized infantry divisions. That is to say, the Tang Army will develop from the current size of eight divisions and two independent brigades to the scale of more than 13 divisions, and there is still a gap of at least five divisions.

The original motorized division was also to be armed into a mechanized division in this reform, which was obviously a change made in response to the growing strength of the armies of the European powers. The strength of Datang's standardized infantry division is 18,500, and there are some units that have been strengthened and slightly more in number, such as the Second Division of the Datang Army stationed in North China, as the ace unit of the Datang Army, with a strength of nearly 23,000. Of course, there are also some units that are not fully staffed, and the number of soldiers is slightly smaller.

Overall, if the Tang Army completes this major expansion, the strength of the army will increase to 250,000 men.

The Marine Corps has also increased its strength to a certain extent, and after the completion of the reconstruction, the Marine Corps will have three heavy brigades, capable of carrying out high-intensity and high-intensity landing operations, which is actually similar to the combat mode of the Army. The total number of soldiers is roughly equivalent to that of a division of the Army.

Naturally, the size of the navy is constantly growing, and every year there are several to more than a dozen main battle ships joining the battle sequence, and if it is a big thing like a battleship, then it will take at least a thousand people to operate.

After the Tang Army completes this round of reconstruction, it is obvious that the number of troops will exceed 300,000. The local population of the Tang Dynasty was more than 20 million at this time, and it is estimated that the local population of the Tang Dynasty will reach 30 million between 1798 and 1799. The military-civilian ratio is roughly 1:100, which is a relatively healthy situation according to the size and actual needs of the country.

In addition, Datang also has a large number of ad hoc corps, 6 Yamato divisions, 3 Gallic divisions, 2 Latin divisions, 1 European division, 1 Siamese division, 1 Burmese division, 1 Vietnamese division, 1 Gurkha brigade, and a South African brigade. There are also some sporadic small corps troops, so that the total strength of the ad hoc corps will reach as much as 400,000.

Finally, counting the 100,000 Wuwei troops nominally subordinate to the Qing State, the military strength of the Tang Dynasty has reached an astonishing 800,000. You must know that these 800,000 troops are in a relatively high state of combat readiness, and they are combat forces that are completely out of production and have frequent training and exercises, and this is also a huge military reserve that has not existed in the past and ever since. The entire strength of the Tang army has completely overwhelmed the Qing Dynasty, which now has a population of more than 300 million.

And it won't be long before everything in the Qing Kingdom will also belong to the Tang Dynasty, and at that time, the Tang Army will obviously usher in another wave of rapid military growth, making it even more difficult for other forces in the world to match.

For this great merger, Datang still has many expectations in China. Nowadays, if you look at it from a national perspective, the Han people definitely account for less than half of the population in Datang. Japanese, Latino, and Siamese Americans all account for a relatively large proportion of the country. In absolute terms, each minority population is not large, but together there are more than Chinese. After the completion of the annexation of the Qing Dynasty, the Chinese achieved absolute proportional superiority. Naturally, it is also a very difficult thing to develop and cultivate such a large population, and it is also an unavoidable thing.

The Tang Dynasty itself also has a hidden policy of assimilation, such as many Japanese, indigenous Indians, Siamese and Vietnamese, all of whom belong to the race in terms of population. After some overseas residents moved out, they were given better living conditions, they were basically able to use Chinese, and their children were raised with a Tang-style education. Just like in another face, after the Chinese went to North America, the second generation is banana people, except that their appearance may be similar to the Chinese, but the living habits and behavior patterns are not much related to the Chinese. Even a significant number of second-generation immigrants are no longer able to speak Chinese and only speak English. The Tang culture has a relatively high inclusiveness, and most of the immigrants of other ethnic groups can no longer be regarded as people of the original nationality after two generations, and they have assimilated into a relatively standard Tang people.

This is a theory of the evolution of a dominant nation, and the progress of a nation is accomplished on the basis of constantly absorbing and integrating the points of other nations and developing the strengths of its own nation. First, it requires the subjectivity of the nation, that is, the population of the nation is large enough and the strength is strong enough to ensure the correct trajectory of evolution.

Otherwise, the failure of the evolution of the Indian nation and the Tatarization of the Han nation since the end of the Ming Dynasty are examples of failure. (To be continued.) )