Su Zhi did have the idea of stuffing his eldest daughter Manyue to Yi Feng recently, and this idea was very resolute, and he was very resolute in wanting to be Yi Feng's father-in-law. Su Zhi very much hopes to be Yi Feng's father-in-law, if his daughter Manyue can be a woman for Yi Feng, this is not only to find a good home for his daughter, but also for him Su Zhi, for the Ah Hui Department, and even for the entire Xi clan. The benefits are obvious, and he has faith in his daughter. Although Manyue has just died of her fiancé, her daughter Manyue has been educated by Mr. Han since she was a child, and her growth is also outstanding, especially in the night attack battle in Shehe Valley, where her daughter went out on horseback, which seemed to have left a good impression on Yi Feng, so he had a plan to match this good thing.

Regarding Su Zhi's idea of marrying his daughter to him, Yi Feng didn't know at all. These days, he has indeed met Manyue many times, Manyue is a very capable woman, with a kind of enthusiasm that ordinary women do not have, generous, and a bit spicy personality, but Yi Feng only appreciates Manyue, and feels that she has a kind of freedom and ease of women in later generations, but she never thought that she would pick flowers when she saw them. Although the northward border continued to achieve great victories this time, the purpose of the expedition was also achieved, and the three groups of men and horses of Tieledong were all submerged under the Wuzhou saber. However, it has been more than a month since the army came out, and seeing that it has entered November, we have to hurry back for the New Year. There are a lot of various affairs, and Yi Feng is very busy these days.

The Wuzhou Army was organized into three armies, and then he also recruited a total of 6,000 recruits from the Khitan and Xia tribes. At present, the matter of the expansion of the Wuzhou Army in the army is once again in the dust, and there is a lot of gossip of all kinds. It is still rumored that they have noses and eyes. It is no wonder that the army is so excited about the expansion of the army, and the expansion of the army is a great good thing for the officers and men in the army. Expansion of the army. Not only does it mean that the strength of the Wuzhou Army has increased again, but there is also a vital interest for the officers and men, that is, the expansion of the army also means that many new positions will appear, and a large number of officers can be promoted. Being a soldier and fighting a war, protecting the family and defending the country is very good in words, but in the final analysis, promotion and wealth are what everyone is most interested in. No one is exempt from vulgarity.

At present, there are tens of thousands of troops, but there are mainly two systems. One is the garrison army, which is a garrison force and a second-line garrison force with slightly inferior combat strength. The town garrison army has more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, but it is stationed in each town and fort in the town and the garrison. Now it has not been in the military town. The largest unit of the town soldiers is the middle town, each of which has 500 soldiers, and the fort is 300 soldiers. The more than 20,000 town garrisons are composed of 14 middle towns and more than 100 forts and inspections, which are directly subordinate to the general's mansion, and there are no officers above the middle town general below. The most important military strength of Huaihuang is the Wuzhou Army that fought this time, and the Wuzhou Army organized as the state army sequence belongs to the field army. At the beginning of the organization, there were more than 10,000 people, and the establishment of an army was formed. The following are all levels of the battalion and regiment, and the military master is served by Yi Feng himself, and he is also directly under the General's Mansion.

However, now the Wuzhou army has expanded rapidly, and after the Shehechuan war, 8,000 Xi soldiers were replenished, and after the battle of Rao Leshui, 6,000 Khitan and Xia recruits were added, plus after the war, the baggage and supplementary soldiers were successively replenished from Huaihuang, and now the Wuzhou army in the military camp has almost 40,000 horses, with four infantry battalions, three cavalry battalions, two chariot battalions, a baggage battalion, a mixed battalion, in addition to the directly subordinate engineer regiment, artillery regiment, etc., which does not count the newly recruited more than 14,000 recruits. If these more than 10,000 recruits are organized, they can almost add five battalions, so that the Wuzhou Army will have more than 40,000 people and more than a dozen battalions, which has long exceeded the establishment of five battalions in the first army.

It is possible to directly organize such a large number of soldiers into two armies, or even three armies.

Setting up armies above the battalion level and adding one or two armies to the Wuzhou Army is beneficial to the command and avoids the Wuzhou Army being too bloated and large and the command is sluggish. But for Yi Feng, the army does not mean that the army will be expanded, although in the territory of Huaihuang, he does have the cheap power to expand the army. However, if it is now expanded to two or even three armies, then an important question that he has to consider next is the question of who will be the commander of these two or three armies, and who will he have to hand over these armies to lead. And although there are a large number of outstanding officers such as Shan Xiongxin and Qin Qiong, Yi Feng believes that they are still very young, and the army has been expanded several times in a short period of time, which is still very unreliable. And there is another problem that he must also consider, the Huaihuang Army has not been established for a long time, and the composition of the army is also very complicated, now it is only an army, he has a good grasp, but if it is expanded again, this control may decline.

But if it is not split, then the Wuzhou army is indeed too large. And whether to split it into two or three armies, and who to choose as the chief general and leader of these armies is also a question that bothers him. If you don't consider the question of who will lead the armies after the split, Yi Feng's plan in his heart is to split the Wuzhou Army into three, and the Zhenshu Army will remain unchanged for the time being. The Wuzhou Army was divided into three armies, each of which consisted of three infantry battalions, a cavalry battalion and a chariot battalion, and a baggage battalion, as well as one engineer regiment, one artillery regiment, one reconnaissance regiment, one guard regiment and one gendarmerie regiment directly under the army, each regiment was 500 people, each battalion was about 2,700 people, and the entire army had more than 18,000 soldiers. Now the Wuzhou Army has four battalions of infantry, and it still needs to form two new infantry battalions, and there are three battalions of cavalry, which no longer need to be added, and there are two existing battalions of the chariot battalion, and one more battalion needs to be formed, and there is only one battalion of the baggage battalion, and two battalions also need to be expanded. Then the shortage of soldiers can wait until they go back and recruit a group of new recruits to form two baggage battalions, and almost more than 50,000 people in the three armies can be pulled up.

After the split, the three armies will be mixed armies, not pure infantry or pure cavalry or pure chariots, but will adopt the establishment of six battalions and five regiments directly under it, with a three-infantry battalion, a cavalry battalion, a chariot battalion and a baggage battalion, and one regiment each for external processing, artillery, reconnaissance, guard, and gendarmerie. The number is very similar to the establishment of the large army at this time. Yi Feng also has some understanding of the combat mode of the Sui army, and at present, the Sui army has government soldiers and border army town soldiers, and the government soldiers are mainly deployed near Gyeonggi. And the garrison was arranged on all sides. In peacetime, the government soldiers took turns to train and defend the Beijing division, and the town soldiers were stationed in the border areas. Once there is a war, the imperial court mainly mobilizes some soldiers and horses of various hussars and chariots, and then mobilizes some border troops from nearby places where the war breaks out to form a camp. If the scale of the war is small, only one marching commander is usually appointed, and the number of soldiers is generally one army or less. The maximum number of an army was about 20,000, but there were 6,000 heavy soldiers among them, and the actual number of soldiers was generally about 14,000. Among them, there were 4,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry. If the scale of the battle is large, it is organized into several armies, which are led by several marching commanders. On it there is a marching chief or marching marshal. After the end of the war. The soldiers were disbanded and returned to their hometowns, and the generals returned to Beijing to surrender the seal.

Yi Feng planned to have more than 18,000 soldiers in the first army, including nearly 3,000 baggage soldiers, which was nearly half less than the 6,000 baggage soldiers in the first army of the imperial court. However, Yi Feng had a large number of chariots and horses in his hands, so a baggage battalion of nearly 3,000 people, as long as it was not too far away from Huaihuang to fight, the combat time would not exceed three months. Then a baggage battalion of 3,000 men can fully afford the task of providing combat supplies to more than 15,000 soldiers.

After being organized into three corps, it is more conducive to command. In the future, it will also be able to divide troops more effectively and adapt to the needs of more battlefields.

It's just that in the end, he still feels that the current time is too short, and if it is split up immediately, there is still no suitable candidate for the commander. After thinking about it, Yi Feng finally felt that it should be split, but he could change the way for the time being. For example, the name of the Wuzhou Army remains unchanged, it is still an army, but the whole army can be divided into three parts according to his expectations, and the names are three parts: the front army, the middle army, and the rear army. Yi Feng still directly commands the Wuzhou Army, and there is no need to appoint the chief generals of each army for the time being, and when the conditions are ripe in the future, there is no need to formally split it.

However, even so, the commanders and deputy generals of each army can not be considered for now, but after the expansion and splitting, the Wuzhou Army will also have 18 battalions and 90 regiments, and if you add 15 regiments directly under the three armies, there will be a total of 105 regiments. Eighteen battalions plus one hundred and five regiments, there is a big shortage of battalion and regimental level officers, and it is necessary to promote a large number of generals, and it is not a simple question of who should be promoted. Originally, there were only 11 battalions with a total of 58 regiments, which was equivalent to adding seven battalion generals and 47 regiment commanders, as well as seven sets of battalion-level officer corps and 47 regiment-level officer corps, and suddenly needing to add 30 or 40 battalion-level officers and more than 200 regimental-level officers. Not to mention, there are more shortages of junior officers at the rank of all ranks.

If we are promoted according to seniority, then there are now dozens of regimental-level officers who can be promoted to battalion-level officers, and more than 200 prefectural-level officers who can be promoted to regimental-level officers, followed by a large number of corps-level officers who have been promoted to prefectural-level officers.

It can be said that after the establishment, there will be a large number of positions at all levels, a establishment and a pit, for the current officers at all levels of the Wuzhou Army, this is really a rare opportunity, this large number of new positions, so that they ushered in a better promotion opportunity than the two battles of Shehe River and Raolehe combined, and it is no wonder that there is only a little wind and grass, and now the whole army is excited, and they are all waiting for the final decision in the tent of the commander of the Chinese army.

Of course, after preparing to expand the Wuzhou Army into three armies, there are still many things that need to keep up. The front, middle and rear armies are still subordinate to the Wuzhou Army for the time being, and they are not considered an army, so there is no need to appoint a military commander or deputy army commander for the time being. He planned to set up a staff office in the front, middle, and rear armies to command the six slots and sections, but the staff office was only responsible for liaising with the upper and lower levels, connecting the upper and lower levels, and enhancing Yi Feng's direct control over the battalions and regiments below the three armies. In this way, even if there is no military-level leadership for the time being, he can strengthen his control over the one hundred and five regiments of the eighteen battalions below.

At the same time, Yi Feng also decided to set up several additional departments in the military headquarters of the Wuzhou Army; on top of the original six Cao, Yi Feng planned to set up four departments, namely, the General Staff Department, the Equipment Department, the Logistics Department, and the Internal Affairs Department, and used the four departments and six Caos to enhance the command and coordination capabilities of the whole army. The General Staff Department is responsible for the staff of the General Staff, the Equipment Department is responsible for equipment, the Logistics Department is responsible for logistics and heavy military supplies, and the Ministry of the Interior is mainly responsible for internal supervision, commanding the military police, presiding over military discipline, and also supervising intelligence and other affairs.

The Special Affairs Section of the Ministry of the Interior will be responsible for intelligence gathering and will be Yifeng's intelligence adviser. Prior to this, in fact, Yi Feng had always had an intelligence agency in his hands, and there was more than one. After Yi Feng became the master of Huaihuang, he also integrated several forces, among which he also received and integrated the original intelligence organizations of those forces. The intelligence agencies of the Tiger League, the Gao family, and other parties, Yi Feng, have been used, but they are not completely integrated, but divided into three relatively independent parts. While gathering intelligence, they also supervise each other. Now Yi Feng plans to give these three departments an official name, and the intelligence officers of the original White Horse Hall will mainly become the Special Affairs Section of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Wuzhou Army. In addition, those intelligence officers who were mainly from the former Tiger League will form the Hucao Statistics Bureau of the Wuzhou Governor's Office. The group of personnel, mainly the former Gao family intelligence personnel, will form the Military Intelligence Department of the General's Palace.

The Special Branch, the Military Intelligence Department, and the Bureau of Statistics are all intelligence agencies and secret service organizations in Yi Feng's hands, and Yi Feng did not bother to establish three, one is to let them supervise each other, ensure that they listen to each other, and are not deceived by the following. Second, the three institutions also have their own focuses.

The main tasks of the Special Branch are intelligence analysis, analysis, intelligence collection, and internal supervision, while the Military Intelligence Department is mainly responsible for military intelligence, and the Statistics Bureau is responsible for counter-terrorism, assassination, and counter-rebellion. The three agencies have their own focus and oversight of each other. In fact, this is Yifeng's spy organization, which not only collects intelligence, but also has the task of surveillance.

In addition, under the three intelligence agencies, Yi Feng also plans to establish an action team, the General Banner Guard under the Special Branch, the Flying Tiger Commando of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and the Special Logistics Regiment of the Statistics Bureau, these three troops will all be special operations forces, although the number will not be large, but they are definitely the most loyal and reliable special operations forces around Yi Feng.

Tekko and the Military Intelligence and Statistics Bureaus all have existing staff, but they just need to add a new sign. However, the three special elite forces, the Flag Guard, the Flying Tiger Commando and the Special Logistics Regiment, still need to start from scratch!

Writing the last word on the white paper, Yi Feng put down the pen, leaned back on the recliner, rubbed his wrist with some pantothenic acid, and looked at the plan written on more than a dozen pages, and couldn't help but show a smile on his face. The ship was getting bigger and bigger, and he needed more means to control it. (To be continued......)