Chapter 533: Great Qin World, Siam-Burma Layout
By the time Saigo Takamori first 'asked for guidance' to Beijing, the Qin army was in the northeast and had taken full control of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's original control of the territory. The Russians were very knowledgeable and did not take the opportunity to cross the border to make small moves. However, the Northeast Military Region, which has only two infantry divisions, one cavalry division, one independent regiment, and one garrison battalion, is still very empty.
Liu Xian felt that at least one more infantry division and a cavalry brigade should be added to the northeast!
At present, it is precisely because the Northeast Military Region has a vast territory and a small population that it is unable to divide troops to use troops in eastern Inner Mongolia.
The Great Northwest has been completely pacified. Jin Shun handed over the military power, Dong Fuxiang was appointed commander of the Xinjiang Military Region, and Wang Guosheng led a regiment of cavalry troops into Urumqi. Liu Xian did not relocate the banner people in Xinjiang and detain them in a centralized manner. When they fought together in Xinjiang, the Eight Banners stationed in Xinjiang also made great efforts.
In the war in Xinjiang in those years, those who made meritorious contributions, such as Xu Dongshan, Xu Xuegong, Kong Cai, Shen Tingxiu, Zhao Xingti, Deng Shengyu, Zhang He, Zhang Xing, Zhang Zhu, and Ma Jinfu among the Han Chinese, and those who made meritorious contributions among the indigenous people, such as Akmall, Aktobi, Herat, Sadolla, and Sanzar, as well as Li Shuangliang, Zhang Wanhui, and Dong Fulu under Dong Fuxiang, were successively transferred back to the interior to enter military academies to carry out education and training in modern warfare. It's just a pity that Le Shan, who was the captain of the Manchurian people who was tied with Xu Dongshan in Yiyong, because of his identity, he was no longer in the army.
It's just that compared with the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, the bannermen in Xinjiang are already much better.
Mongol princes of Qinghai and Xinjiang, Tibetan chieftains, indigenous nobles. For Da Qin, he obediently lowered his head. In particular, the Mongolian and Tibetan tribes in Qinghai have provided more than 10,000 troops and more than 30,000 war horses for the preparation and expansion of the Qin army's cavalry units. Although the price of the war horse was given to them by the Qin army at all.
These people have a good attitude. The foundation laid by Liu Xian's expedition of thousands of miles. Combined with the current Great Qin's soldiers, the effect is very good.
The resumption of the north-south east-west trade route brought a resurgence of Hanzhong's economy and industry. Li Ying was the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu. He is naturally a hundred thousand eccentric Hanzhong. But no matter how much convenience and financial support Li Ying provided for Hanzhong's industry, the gap period of more than two years also made Hanzhong, the most brilliant pearl in western China in the past, lose its former glory.
Hanzhong may be more prosperous than most western towns in the future, but it is absolutely impossible to return to its former glory. The general environment is changing, the policy is changing, and the topography and geography of Hanzhong are not as good as those in the east and central part of the country.
Sichuan has been flattened, and now the biggest task of the local Qin army is to clear out bandits; The second is to set up troops to enter Tibet.
The southwest region was affected by the wars of these years. If you want to recover, you can't do it in a short time. Recuperation and recuperation are the greatest responsibilities of the governments of the three southwestern provinces today. Although southwestern Yunnan was still under the control of the Taiping army, two months earlier the Taiping army was oppressed by the Qin army, and internal turmoil broke out, and some of the Taiping army fled into Burma, and some fled to Siam. The former completely blocked the passage between the Taiping army and the British army, and the latter numbered only more than 500 people, but they were very brave and good at fighting. After entering Siam, they won five battles and five victories, and the Siamese border guards fought with their heads in their hands.
It is said that in recent years, the Siamese army has also been making great efforts to upgrade its weapons. Officers were also sent to study in Europe, foreign instructors were hired, and two divisions were formed. A modern army of 12,300 people.
Naturally, one of the divisions was stationed in Bangkok, and the other was in the north. The Taiping army was on guard, and even more so the army of the Chinese central government. Because Chulalongkorn's police rejection of the Qin army was even higher than that of the Taiping army.
In Chulalongkorn's eyes. Although the strength of the Taiping Army is very good, they are rootless. It will pose a certain threat to Siam, but it will definitely not have the strength to overturn the whole of Siam. The Qin army is different. The attitude of the Qin army towards the outside world is very inscrutable, but it can also clearly distinguish the difference between the actions of the Qin Empire and the actions of the Central Celestial Empire in the past.
Emperor Qin did not notify Siam at the beginning of his ascension to the throne, and it seems that he was dissatisfied with Siam, not only did Siam eat half of the southern palm [Laos]. And according to the etiquette of the southern palm, it is a subject country of the Celestial Empire.
Then there is a feeling in his heart that Chulalongkorn always has some resistance to the Qin army of the Qin Empire. Is it because of the influence of the Celestial Empire's national name? It's a throbbing feeling in my heart!
But now Chulalongkorn did not wait for the Qin army soldiers to arrive, but waited for the Taiping army deserters who went to 500 people.
When he received this news, Chulalongkorn did not care at all. His eyes are more focused on Burma, and the next move of the Taiping Army will have an impact on the drastic changes in the Indochina Peninsula!
However, the development of the war in the north made Chulalongkorn and the entire upper echelons of Siam stunned and speechless!
The 500-strong Taiping Army deserters, relying only on rifle bayonets and a small number of grenades, fought five battles and five victories in northern Siam, defeating the modern armed division guarding the northern border of Siam. I won't say how many rifle bullets were captured, but the Siamese army lost no less than ten artillery guns. The whole of Bangkok was in an uproar!
Even the British in Siam were counted as a piece, and no one realized what was wrong with these more than 500 Taiping army deserters, and everyone's eyes were on the new army in Siam. These people are too unbearable to fight! It's just a pile of rubbish.
More than 500 deserters with only rifles can fight the number, firepower, logistics, and geographical advantages, and the Siamese New Army, which has an absolute advantage, is defeated and lost, can the safety of this country still rely on them to defend it?
On the same day that the news came, Chulalongkorn summoned all the officers of the battalion of the new army division stationed in Bangkok.
The Siamese New Army did not have a brigade-level structure, and there were more than 6,000 people under three regiments and division headquarters under one division.
The next day, Chulalongkorn and his ministers inspected all the new troops at the Bangkok barracks. Looking at the military posture, this is obviously a strong army. How could you fight against a Taiping army deserter and be so defeated?
Three days later, Chulalongkorn found an excuse to hold a large-scale school review in Bangkok. For a while, it also saved the hearts of some scattered people. But how could the people at the Nanyang Division's Bangkok Station watch Chulalongkorn's frequent movements and be silent. Soon, there was a rumor in Bangkok: no matter how unbearable the Taiping army deserters were, they were also the troops of the Celestial Empire. Look at the current Celestial Empire army, this cheered up and Yang Yi didn't dare to face it. How could the small people of Siam defeat the troops of the Celestial Empire......
So now the operation of the General Staff in Siam is successful. Just wait for the Taiping army to desert and coerce some people, and then defeat the new Siamese army for a while, then the real Taiping army can be divided into a part of Siam.
Then there is Burma, whose relations with Britain are becoming more and more deadlocked, and war may break out soon. The tentacles of the MIA penetrated Shan State.
Shan State is located in eastern Myanmar, bordering China, Siam and Laos, and is home to a large number of Han Chinese. This land is the size of Henan Province. It has always been ruled by the Tusi Lord. Because the death was too remote, and the Chinese government did not have officials who could speak the local indigenous dialect, it was difficult to exercise the right to rule directly, so the Tusi system was always practiced on the condition that they recognize the suzerainty of the Central Plains Dynasty.
There is a dividing line between Shan State and Yunnan, but this is not a border, and the current sovereignty of this land definitely belongs to China. To be precise, they now belong to the control category of the Taiping Army.
In recent years, the British have taken advantage of the opportunity to contact the Taiping Army, and their influence in Shan State has increased greatly, but China's prestige here is still deep-rooted. Liu Xian asked the Military Intelligence Bureau to communicate about this piece of land, just so that when the Taiping Army went south, when he cleaned up the Shan Plateau in the future, he would have a score!
Because at this point, Shi Dakai himself did a very bad job. After so many years of controlling Shan State, the influence has not penetrated at all, and in some places it is even worse than the British.
Otherwise, how can you use the military intelligence to take action!
The situation in the southeast, central and southern China, and Lingnan is very calm. Especially in the Liangguang area, there is no need to say that the rich Guangdong does not need to say, the poor jingle sounds, which is not stronger than Yunnan and Guizhou, where has gone, has completely changed dramatically.
The per capita income statistics are definitely among the best in the country.
Many industrial factories have brought changes to Guangxi. One of the major proofs is the banditry in Guangxi, which is too poor and multi-ethnic and has great contradictions with each other, so it has been a constant plague since ancient times. But now? A lot of places can stay open at night.
Modern chemical factories, industry, commerce, and sugar industry, these are Guangxi's industry, agriculture and commerce, and the three aspects of comprehensive development. Coupled with the recent rapid development of the fishing industry and the large number of young and strong people vying to join the army, Guangxi's labor force is already insufficient.
The young and strong people of the Jing nationality, Hunan, and Yunnan and Guizhou in Beiqi are slowly integrating into all walks of life in Guangxi.
The suppression of bandits in southern Gan and Xiangxi is still ongoing.
The Qin army now has 15 infantry divisions, five cavalry divisions, one artillery division, and a number of mixed brigades, independent brigades, independent and garrison regiments and battalions. There are more than 100,000 reinforcements in the new barracks, and there are countless police forces under the local governments.
However, this powerful force, the main force is still engaged in fighting and maintaining the local work, and no large troops can be dispatched to concentrate on encircling and suppressing southern Jiangxi and Xiangxi, or in other words, it is necessary to add the stubborn bandits in Sichuan and northeast. Before new recruits join the army, the work of suppressing bandits must be carried out by relying on the local police, garrisons, and garrisons to complete the work of suppressing bandits.
Therefore, the suppression of bandits in southern Gannan and Xiangxi has been delayed until now.
There is nothing to say about the southeast and the south of the Yangtze River. So many construction projects started by Daqin are now in the process of construction. Last year, the Qin army's fiscal deficit exceeded 200 million silver dollars, and although many places have resumed tax revenue this year, the fiscal deficit will definitely be even higher.
"Send the first and second detachments of the advance team to Japan. In giving Saigo Takamori 10,000 rifles and 2 million bullets. Grenades, small-caliber artillery, mortars, and heavy machine guns are all equipped with some, and more ammunition is given! (To be continued......)