Chapter 355 Army Group

In the eighth year of Shenmu, the Chinese Empire conscripted 200,000 servant troops from Korea, of which 100,000 were sent to Hawaii to prepare for the Empire's colonial war against Peru, and the other 100,000 were sent to Hirado to fight against Japan.

Due to the Tokugawa shogunate's policy of seclusion, Yan zhòng hindered the trade of the Chinese Empire with Japan. On the one hand, the imperial government carried out the opium trade in Hirado, Nagasaki and other places on a large scale, and prepared for a long-term war against Japan. On the other hand, the imperial government did not abandon its plans to conquer Japan by force.

However, against the Tokugawa shogunate, the imperial government had a better way, and that was to recruit the Korean army and use the Koreans to fight the Japanese.

It has only been more than 30 years since the end of the Asahi Imjin War, and the Tokugawa shogunate's invasion of Korea more than 30 years ago brought disaster to the Korean people, and the Korean people's hatred for the Japanese is still strong.

Based on this, the Imperial Government carried out a great deal of mobilization work in the Korean Metropolitan Protectorate. For example, the Koreans were promised that if they became soldiers, they could get high salaries and high benefits, and if they participated in the war against Japan, the benefits would be doubled, and seventy percent of the plundered wealth would go to them, and those who had made outstanding contributions could get a large amount of land or even fiefs in Japan.

As a result, Koreans enthusiastically joined the army, whether out of hatred for the Japanese or out of the pursuit of profits.

In February of the eighth year of Shenmu, the Chinese Empire conscripted 200,000 Korean servants to Japan and Peru, and then again recruited 300,000 to participate in the colonial war against Japan.

On 7 February, the War Department of the Imperial Chinese Army reorganized the 300,000 Korean troops and the 100,000 Korean servant troops who had arrived in Hirado and organized them into the 51st Army Group of the Imperial Chinese Army.

Although the Korean Servant Army was organized as the 51st Army Group of the Imperial Royal Army, in the eyes of the Han army, they were still just high-level cannon fodder. This can be seen from the number given to them. They were organized into the 51st Army Group, because the number of the first 50 Army Group could only belong to the Han Chinese army of the Chinese Empire.

The 51st Group Army Group has five group armies under its jurisdiction, each of which has five armies, each with 20,000 men each, and is organized into 20 thousand-man teams. It can be seen from the allocation of troops that the DPRK army still uses cold weapons. Each army consisted of a cavalry team of 10,000 men and an infantry team of 10,000 people, and the cavalry was equipped with Mongolian horses and sabers of the first class, without armor sets, and belonged to the category of light cavalry. The infantry 10,000 people fought with spears, swords and shields.

The 51 st Group Army Group is equipped with 500,000 men as standard, with Koreans themselves serving as officers below 1,000 troops, Han Chinese as principal officers above 1,000 people, and Koreans holding deputy posts.

Four armies of the 51st Army Group participated in the war against Japan, and the 105th Army was transferred to Hawaii to form a colonial army fighting against Peru.

The 400,000 Korean troops who went to Japan to fight became the vanguard of the invasion of Japan, and the social contradictions in the Korean capital were soon transferred to the war against Japan, and every family hoped that their sons and husbands would be able to obtain military industry and fiefdoms in Japan.

With hope in life, the Koreans forgot about the former Korean kingdom and regarded themselves as part of the big family of the Chinese Empire.

The Imperial Chinese Army currently has only three army groups, namely the First Army Group composed of Han Chinese, the 51st Army Group composed of Korean ethnic groups, and the 52nd Army Group composed of the natives of the Southeast Asian colonies.

The span is very large, in addition to the middle number as a reservation, it is a powerful deterrent signal to the outside world. Let foreigners see that the troops sent by the Chinese Empire have been numbered to the 52nd Army Group, and it is conceivable that there are still 50 powerful army groups on the territory of the Chinese Empire.

This deterrent will make the enemy country feel enormous military pressure.

Of course, in military affairs, this is always the case, just as the Red Army's first front army was the Red Second Front Army, which gave the Kuomintang the illusion that the Red Army still had a powerful Red Front Army, and that's it.

However, for the Imperial Chinese Army, the First Army Group of the Imperial Army was only 400,000 men. This is all because the imperial government does not want the army to drag down the economic recovery, so the total number of imperial ** troops set up is maintained at 500,000 standing troops.

The First Army Group has five group armies, each with 100,000 troops, and five armies and 10 divisions. Infantry divisions were from the 1st Infantry Division to the 20th Infantry Division, and cavalry divisions were from the 1st Cavalry Division to the 30th Cavalry Division. Each corps is marked to form two infantry divisions and three cavalry divisions, and according to the different war situations, coordination and arrangements can be made within the army group to form a pure infantry group army or a pure cavalry group army.

The 500,000 standing army does not include the Royal Praetorian Guard and the Royal Guard, which is only stationed in the Gyeonggi area and is responsible for protecting the city of Beijing, with a total strength of 80,000, including 50,000 infantry divisions, which are organized as the 1st to 5th Janissary Divisions. There were 30,000 cavalrymen, and they were organized into the 1st Cavalry Division, the 2nd Cavalry Division and the 3rd Cavalry Division.

The Imperial Forest Army has 20,000 people, guarding the imperial city and the imperial palace, all heavy cavalry, luxuriously decorated and equipped, and non-combat troops, which are organized as the first cavalry division and the second cavalry division of the imperial forest army.

The Praetorian Guard and the Imperial Forest Army had a total strength of 100,000 men and were directly under the command of the emperor. But in reality, the emperor only called the Imperial Guard, and the Praetorian Guard was commanded by the Ministry of Defense on behalf of the emperor.

The Praetorian Guard and the Imperial Forest Army are not part of the front-line combat units, and the two armies are luxuriously equipped and more ornamental than actual combat. Although it is not a front-line combat unit, the fighting quality of the officers and soldiers is not low, and it does not belong to the fist embroidered leg type.

Of course, this is under the supervision of Emperor Shenwu to have this effect, as for the future emperors of Emperor Shenwu, it is unknown how effective the Beijing army will be in their time.

With the outbreak of colonial wars in the Americas, South Asia, and Japan, as well as a potential war in the Suez Canal in Egypt in North Africa, the imperial government had to change the law and temporarily increase the number of standing armies to meet the needs of the current war.

Although the cabinet was not very happy with the military's call for military expansion, in view of the huge wealth plundered by the empire from overseas, in order to maintain the continuous supply of this wealth for the development of the empire, the cabinet had to squeeze out some funds from the gold and silver mountains of the imperial treasury to expand the army.

At this time, in the first-line battle sequence of the emperor's ** team, the Royal Navy accounted for 100,000, and the Royal Army, which had the fastest update, only 400,000. The 500,000 troops of the Korean nationality have been named the 51st Army Group of the Royal Army, so in order to maintain the absolute quantitative and qualitative superiority of the Han army, the cabinet had to add an army group to the Royal Army, and the Second Army Group of the Royal Army was born, with 500,000 troops.

Because of the shortage of heavy war horses, the Mongolian war horses were given priority to supply the 51st Army Group and the 52nd Army Group, so the 2nd Army Group was dominated by infantry divisions. Including thirty-five infantry divisions and fifteen cavalry divisions.

The standing army has been increased from 500,000 to 1 million, and the navy has to be increased from the current 100,000 to 200,000. However, the establishment of the navy is affected by the speed and number of warships, and the requirements of the navy are much higher than those of the army arms, and the assessment is strict, so the number of naval personnel has always been insufficient.

In the eight years of Shenwu's reign, the Chinese Empire had reached a considerable scale in terms of funds and materials, so the General Staff had very high requirements for army commanders and soldiers.

In addition to being required to skillfully recite the Yellow Emperor's instructions on the first day of enlistment and swear allegiance to the royal family and the empire to the national flag, officers must be qualified graduates of various military schools in the empire, as well as active duty officers and enlisted men who have lived in the military for many years or have actual combat experience.

For ordinary soldiers, in addition to being physically qualified, they must have a valid certificate issued by the government of the place where they are registered, have no bad habits or bad beliefs, and conduct basic queue and order training within three months of enlistment, and then after half a year of political brainwashing, they can become a force that is absolutely loyal to the emperor like the officers, and then they can become privates to serve in the regular army.

The strict selection system makes the combat effectiveness of the imperial team strong, and the single idea of loyalty to the royal family makes the cohesion of the army unprecedented, coupled with the unique personality cult of the people to the Shenwu Emperor, it seems so logical.

The civil and military officials of the imperial government all pursued one principle, that is, the basic national policy of wisdom and foolishness. However, Tang believes that this is not a long-term solution, and that if the imperial family is to remain in the empire forever, it is necessary to pursue a constitutional monarchy like the United Kingdom and Japan in later generations.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of this foundation in China, and from the Song Dynasty onwards, the relationship between the monarch and the minister was already close to a constitutional monarchy, and by the middle and late Ming Dynasty, this system had become de facto and accepted by the Ming bureaucracy. The only difference is that the emperor still has supreme power.

Deng Haonan naturally wants to think about his descendants, but he is not in a hurry, he has a lot of time. Therefore, he hoped that during his long reign, he would slowly use his personal influence to gradually promote the reform of the constitutional monarchy.

Deng Haonan hopes to open up the wisdom of the people, and the civil and military officials hope that they will be wise and foolish, and this conflict needs to be adjusted slowly, otherwise it will cause a catastrophe, like the British civil war. To this end, Deng Haonan chose a compromise method, within the scope of all educational institutions, in all books, specially found a large group of outstanding literati, so that they can develop teaching materials and materials at the same time, strengthen and deepen the idea of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, so that the first idea of all the political, military, and cultural ideas that the people of the empire have been exposed to since childhood is "loyal to the royal family and love the motherland". It's like people in later generations who will never forget the eight words "study hard and make progress every day" wherever they go.

This compromise approach was approved by the civil and military officials, and it avoided direct conflict in the country's stability maintenance education.

The eight-character creed of loyalty to the imperial family and love for the motherland was accepted by the people of the empire in the personality cult of Emperor Shenwu and passed down from generation to generation, even in the era when the imperial power disappeared in later generations, the imperial family of the Chinese Empire was still a symbol of the spirit and honor of the empire.

The national conscription work was carried out in an intense and orderly manner, and the recruitment of 500,000 troops did not go smoothly, because the common people of the empire did not like war, especially to go overseas for colonial wars. Traditional thinking makes it impossible for the children of ordinary people to leave their parents to fight thousands of miles away, and the dead bodies cannot be transported. Such an idea was quite common, and with the Imperial government's policy of recuperation and emigration, it was better for the common people to produce at home or to go to the colonies than in the army.

Moreover, due to the harsh recruitment conditions of the army and other reasons, the imperial government's conscription work went on for several months, but only a pitiful 110,000 or so qualified citizens joined the army.

In the imperial study of the Forbidden City, Deng Haonan looked at the report sent by the Ministry of War, and his face suddenly darkened.

"It's been more than three months, and only 110,000 people have joined the army"

Deng Haonan's words were very light and light, but when it came to the ears of Lin Feng and others, the weight was quite heavy.

Several leaders of the military department winked at each other, and finally fell on Lin Feng's head, who had to smile bitterly.

"Emperor Qi" Lin Feng bowed and replied: "The main reason why the common people are reluctant to join the army is that the treatment of the army is not as good as the rest and recuperation policy and the immigration policy, and the cabinet has only allocated 10 million silver dollars for this recruitment, and the local government secretly obstructs the military recruitment work in order to complete the annual economic development target. At the same time, local farms, ranches, mines, factories, workshops, and merchant groups are recruiting young and strong laborers at high prices, and the military is competing for surplus labor resources, which makes it impossible for the military to complete the recruitment work on time."

Well, Lin Feng put all the blame on the cabinet and local government.

In this regard, Deng Haonan just glared at him and did not blame him for shirking his responsibility. This kind of mutual demolition and accusation between the military and the government has never stopped since ancient times, and it is a pair of contradictions that cannot be reconciled. Deng Haonan naturally does not focus on the struggle between them, as an emperor, Deng Haonan has too many things to deal with every day, and he can only pick the most important thing to deal with. If everything is handled by the emperor, then such a huge Chinese empire will be enough for Deng Haonan to deal with every day without eating, drinking or sleeping for a year.

"I don't want to hear that"

Deng Haonan naturally didn't care about how his subordinates completed their work, he only looked at the results.

"The latest urgent report from Zhang Fengai, the governor of the Suez Canal, said that the war in the north of the Ottoman Turkish Empire tends to ease, and the Russian Empire and the Turkish Empire have been fighting for several years, and they are both a little exhausted. The war between the two sides in the Ukrainian region has reached a stalemate, and no one can help the other. ”

Liu Hu asked: "So it seems that both countries are ready to temporarily withdraw their troops and take a break to recuperate?" ”

Deng Haonan nodded and said, "Zhang Fengai also means this."

Lin Feng said: "The two countries temporarily withdraw their troops, so the Ottoman Turkish Empire has the strength to turn around and pay attention to the Suez Canal?" ”

Deng Haonan nodded and said: "Zhang Fengai has prepared for the worst, he asked me to send troops to Egypt as soon as possible, the canal is about to be completed, and the Turks will seize the canal at any time."

Liu Hu said: "The Ottoman Turkish Empire has a strong military, and once it wants to seize the canal, it will inevitably make a big move. Now the Ismailia fortress has only 10,000 garrisons, and I am afraid that it will not be able to withstand the attack of the Turks."

Lin Feng asked, "Your Majesty, I wonder if Lord Zhang has predicted the required troops?" ”

The Chinese Empire and Egypt are thousands of miles apart, and the emperor can only rely on the news provided by Zhang Fengai in Egypt to make a judgment, so Zhang Fengai's thoughts basically sway the military's thoughts.

Deng Haonan also just felt the difficulties brought about by the news blockade in this era, and at this time, Deng Haonan was also blind to the North African region, and could only use the news sent back by Zhang Fengai as the main basis for judgment.

"Zhang Fengai asked me to send 200,000 troops to block the Turkish army from seizing the Suez Canal"

"Two hundred thousand?"

Lin Feng and the others all gasped, sending so many troops on an expedition, this Zhang Fengai's mention was really bold.

Deng Haonan said: "So you have only recruited 100,000 people in the past three months, which is not enough at all."

Liu Hu said: "The empire is now fighting in Mexico, Peru, Japan, and Mughal at the same time, and the war against Peru and the Mughal has dragged down more than seventy percent of the manpower and material resources of the General Logistics Department.

Deng Haonan looked at them and said: "I can tell you with great certainty that I will never give up the Suez Canal, what to do, you study it yourself, I only look at the results Of course" Deng Haonan added: "On other battlefields, I don't want to lose good news Lin Feng and the others rolled their eyes, secretly said that the emperor's move was really tight, lowered their heads and looked at each other, and then they all shook their heads and smiled bitterly.

There is no way, those who are courtiers have to share the emperor's worries. The emperor set the tone, and they had to find a way to get it done.

In addition to doing what the emperor thinks steadfastly, the other gods and horses are floating clouds

Thinking of this, Lin Feng had no choice but to bite the bullet and say: "Wechen must go all out to solve the emperor's worries, but Wechen has a request."

"Speak"

The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, Deng Haonan knows this very well, so he knows that Lin Feng is making conditions.

"Wechen hopes that the emperor will allocate another 50 million silver dollars"

Deng Haonan nodded subconsciously, then raised his head suddenly, and said, "Fifty million? It's too much."

Lin Feng hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the army is on an expedition thousands of miles away, and the ordnance, materials and battle damage, 50 million is just a conservative estimate."

Still a conservative estimate?

Seeing the emperor's surprised look, Lin Feng hurriedly added: "The emperor doesn't have to worry about the cost, Weichen promises to invest 50 million silver dollars, and he will get it back soon."

Seeing Lin Feng's very sure look, Deng Haonan couldn't refuse him. Anyway, now that he is financially rich, it is not a problem to allocate 50 million to him.

Thinking of this, Deng Haonan said: "I still say that, I only look at the result"

"The emperor has approved it?"

"Accurate" X