On January 1, 1895, Wang Jundao announced to the world that the Chinese Empire would be established, and the era name would be changed to China, which was called the first year of China!

On the same day, Wang Jundao ascended the throne as emperor in the newly established Huaning Palace, assumed the post of commander-in-chief of the army, navy and air force of the Chinese Empire, and canonized Tangtai Mingyue as the empress, Xu Luoyan as the concubine, Xu Qingyun as the virtuous concubine, Yunya as the concubine, Yuxiu as the concubine, Xiao Yuyan as the concubine, and Biyuxue as the jade concubine.

On the same day, the cabinet reorganization was completed, and the cabinet leaders were changed from prime minister to prime minister, with one prime minister and four vice premiers, all of whom were personally appointed by Wang Jundao, with Cui Jingluo as the first cabinet premier, and Bai Yuncheng, Tang Shaoyi, Xu Shichang, and Wei Zhongcheng as vice premiers, in charge of various cabinet departments, directly subordinate agencies, and administrative organs.

On January 2, Germany needed a strong foreign aid as a partner, so it was the first to announce to the world that it would recognize the Chinese Empire and establish diplomatic relations with China.

On January 3, in order to obtain more high-end technology from China, the United States announced to the world for the second time that it would recognize the Chinese Empire and establish diplomatic relations with China.

On January 4, Austria-Hungary announced to the world that it recognized the Chinese Empire and established diplomatic relations with China.

On January 5, Spain announced to the world that it recognized the Chinese Empire and established diplomatic relations with China.

On January 6, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands and other countries successively announced their recognition of the Chinese Empire and the establishment of diplomatic relations with China.

On January 7, Japan bitterly announced to the world that it recognized the Chinese Empire and established diplomatic relations with China.

On January 8, Britain and France recognized the Chinese Empire at the same time. Establishment of diplomatic relations with the Chinese Empire.

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In just one month, more than 30 countries in the world have announced their recognition of the Chinese Empire, of which 18 have established diplomatic relations with the Chinese Empire, and more than 10 have also announced that they will establish diplomatic relations with the Chinese Empire.

On February 1, Wang Jundao completely reorganized the military hall, and the military hall set up a military hall chief and two deputy military hall directors, who were only responsible for handling the daily affairs of the military hall, and were all appointed by Wang Jundao himself. He is only responsible for Wang Jundao. Lin Zhengnan served as the chief of the military hall, and Yang Poyu and Xu Jian served as the deputy chief of the military hall.

The General Staff Headquarters of the former subordinate departments of the Military Hall was split into the General Staff Headquarters, the Equipment Headquarters, and the Logistics Headquarters, and the War Department was reorganized into the Army Headquarters, and the Navy Department was reorganized into the Navy Headquarters. The Ministry of the Air Force was reorganized into the Air Force Headquarters. Each headquarters shall have a general director. There is one deputy director, and the rest of the departments and institutions directly under the military hall remain unchanged.

Among them, Pang Wai served as the chief of staff. Xu Zhengrong is the deputy chief of staff, Xiang Zilong is the chief of equipment, Tang Jian is the deputy chief of equipment, Wu Wenruo is the chief of logistics, Xiong Xiling is the deputy chief, Nie Yuanzheng is the chief of the army, Yue Fengxian is the deputy chief of the army, Ye Zuqi is the chief of the navy, Sa Zhenbing is the deputy chief of the navy, and Wang Jundao is the chief of the air force.

After the reorganization of the military hall was completed, Wang Jundao convened the high-level officials of the military hall to discuss the matter of re-reforming the military system, and for three whole days, he finally discussed the matters related to the reform of the military system completely, and all the plans were completed.

In the following months, Wang Jundao personally took charge of the major reform of the military system.

First of all, the army was renamed, the Chinese Empire was established, and Wang Jundao was also called the emperor, so it was naturally not good to use the name of the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army, so Wang Jundao directly renamed the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army as the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire, referred to as the Chinese Army.

The navy was renamed the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, referred to as the Chinese Navy.

The Air Force was renamed the Royal Air Force of the Imperial Chinese Empire, or the Chinese Air Force for short.

The Chinese Army, the Chinese Navy, and the Chinese Air Force can be collectively referred to as the Chinese Army, referred to as the Chinese Army (the Chinese Army sounds too awkward, and although the National & Army sounds good, it is not easy to use, so it is called the Chinese Army), just like the British Army, Navy and Air Force can be collectively referred to as the British Army.

After the title of the army was changed, Wang Jundao set up eight theater joint operations command organs below the military hall, collectively known as the eight military regions.

The eight military regions are directly under the command of the military hall, and the command is vested in the commander-in-chief of the army, navy and air force of the Chinese Empire, that is, the emperor of the Chinese Empire.

The eight major military regions are the Central Military Region, the Central Plains Military Region, the Northeast Military Region, the Northern Military Region, the Northwest Military Region, the Southwest Military Region, the Southern Military Region, and the Southeast Military Region.

The commanders of the military regions are only in name only, and do not handle the affairs of the military region on weekdays, and the daily affairs of the military region are handled jointly by the deputy commander and chief of staff.

The Central Military Region has jurisdiction over directly subordinate provinces, Shanxi Province, and Shandong Province, and the armed forces are the Guards Corps, with Lin Zhengnan as the commander of the Military Region, and the headquarters of the Military Region in Beijing.

The Central Plains Military Region has jurisdiction over Henan Province, Hubei Province, Anhui Province, and Jiangsu Province, and the armed forces are the First Army Corps, with Yang Polu as the commander of the Military Region and the headquarters of the Military Region in Kaifeng.

The Northeast Military Region has jurisdiction over Liaoning Province, Jilin Province, and Heilongjiang Province, and its armed forces are the Third Army Corps, the 81st, 82nd, 83rd, 84th, 85th, 86th, and 87th Divisions.

The Northern Military Region has jurisdiction over Chahar Province, Rehe Province, Suiyuan Province, Mongolia Province, and Ningxia Province, and its armed forces are the Seventh Army Corps, the 77th, 78th, 79th, 80th, and 81st Divisions.

The Northwest Military Region has jurisdiction over Shaanxi Province, Gansu Province, Qinghai Province, Beiting Province, Anxi Province, and Hezhong Province, and its armed forces are the Fifth Army Corps, with Xiang Zilong as the commander of the Military Region and the headquarters of the Military Region in Lanzhou.

The Southwest Military Region has jurisdiction over Sichuan Province, Yunnan Province, Qinghai-Tibet Province, and Guizhou Province, and its armed forces are the Second Army Corps, with Xu Jian as the commander of the Military Region and the headquarters of the Military Region in Chengdu.

The Southern Military Region has jurisdiction over Hunan Province, Guangdong Province, and Guangxi Province, and its armed forces are the Sixth Army Corps, with Tang Jian as the commander of the Military Region and the headquarters of the Military Region in Guangzhou.

The Southeast Military Region has jurisdiction over Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Taiwan Provinces, and its armed forces are the Fourth Army Corps.

Under the major military regions, there are a number of provincial military districts, and under the provincial military districts, there are a number of military subdivisions, that is, each city under each province has a military subdistrict.

Wang Jundao's legislation stipulates that the commander of a large military region shall have the rank of general or general, and the deputy commander and chief of staff of a large military region shall all have the rank of lieutenant general or general. The deputy chief of staff of the Grand Military Region has the rank of major general or lieutenant general. The commander of the provincial military district shall have the rank of major general at the rank of regular army, and the commander of the military subdivision shall have the rank of brigadier general at the rank of full division.

After the establishment of large military regions, provincial military districts, and military sub-districts, Wang Jundao reformed the military establishment system as follows:

Ten men in a squad, thirty in a platoon, one hundred in a company, three hundred in a battalion, one thousand in a regiment, three thousand in a brigade, and ten thousand in a division (if the number of reinforced divisions increases, it will increase as the situation changes). 30,000 people per army (under normal circumstances, there is no army-level establishment).

Followed by. Wang Jundao also carried out reforms in the armed forces in various localities, abolished the establishment of regimental units, and transformed the armed forces into regular combat-ready units directly under the command of the central government and local garrison units directly under the command of major military regions.

Wang Jundao first drew out the elite troops of each corps and set up three group armies each. The Guards Corps formed six army groups. The group army is a combat-ready force. It is a unit that does not need to be mobilized and can go to the battlefield at any time, and is nominally subordinate to the major military regions. However, like the major military regions, it is directly under the command of Wang Jundao and directly under the command of the military hall of the central military command organ.

Each group army is composed of a number of divisions, a number of brigades, and a number of regiments, and there are three types of group armies, namely, group army A, group army B, and group army C. Group Army A is generally 70,000 to 90,000 men, Army Group B is generally 5 to 70,000 men, and Army Group C is 3 to 50,000 men.

Each group army shall have one group army commander, one deputy commander, one chief of staff and one deputy chief of staff of the group army. The commander of a group army of type A has the rank of lieutenant general or general, the commander of a group army of type B has the rank of major general or lieutenant general, the commander of a group army of type C has the rank of brigadier general or major general, and the deputy commander of a group army and the chief of staff of a group army are of the same rank, and under normal circumstances the military rank is one level lower than that of the commander of a group army.

The group armies under the jurisdiction of each large military region are:

Central Military Region: 08th Group Army, 09th Group Army, 10th Group Army, 18th Group Army, 19th Group Army, and 20th Group Army, with stations in Beijing, Taiyuan, Shanxi, Qingzhou, Shandong, Baoding, Tianjin, and Qinhuangdao.

Central Plains Military Region: The 01st Group Army, the 11th Group Army, and the 21st Group Army, stationed in Kaifeng, Henan, Nanjing, Jiangsu, and Wuhan, Hubei, respectively.

Southwest Military Region: The 02nd Group Army, the 12th Group Army, and the 22nd Group Army, which are stationed in Chengdu, Sichuan, Kunming, Yunnan, and Guiyang, Guizhou, respectively.

Northeast Military Region: The 03rd Group Army, the 13th Group Army, and the 23rd Group Army, which are stationed in Pyongyang, Liaoning, Shenyang, Liaoning, and Harbin, Heilongjiang, respectively.

Southeast Military Region: The 04th Group Army, the 14th Group Army, and the 24th Group Army, which are stationed in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Nanchang, Jiangxi, and Fuzhou, Fujian (two of which are stationed in Taiwan).

Northwest Military Region: The 05th Group Army, the 15th Group Army, and the 25th Group Army, stationed in Beiting Yili (now Ili), Lanzhou, Gansu, and Xi'an, Shaanxi, respectively.

The Southern Military Region consists of the 06th Group Army, the 16th Group Army, and the 26th Group Army, which are stationed in Guangzhou, Guangdong (one of which is stationed on Hainan Island), Guilin, Guangxi, and Changsha, Hunan.

The Northern Military Region consisted of the 07th Group Army, the 17th Group Army, and the 27th Group Army, which were stationed in Yasu, Mongolia (now Uriya Sutai), Suiyuan Guisui (now Hohhot), and Chahar Zhangjiakou.

Among them, the 01st Army to the 10th Group Army are Group Army A, the 11th Group Army to the 20th Group Army are Group Army B, and the 21st Group Army to the 30th Group Army are Group Army.

If it is the 2nd Division of the 01st Group Army, the troop number is the 0102nd Division, which can also be called the 0102 Troops, if it is the 1st Brigade of the 2nd Division of the 01st Group Army, it can be called the 01021st Brigade, and it can also be called the 01021 Troop, if it is the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Brigade of the 2nd Division of the 01st Group Army, it can be called the 010212 th Regiment, and it can also be called the 010212 Troops, and the unit number at the battalion level is gone.

That is to say, the first two digits are the number of the group army, the third digit is the number of the army, the fourth digit is the number of the division, the fifth digit is the number of the brigade, the sixth digit is the number of the regiment, and the number of the battalion is gone.

The main tasks of the regiments are to replenish the number of soldiers of the strategic forces, garrison the localities, defend local security, prevent the invasion of foreign enemies, and participate in local construction, the reclamation of military farms, the construction of reservoirs, the construction of roads, the fight against floods and disaster relief, and so on. (To be continued......)