Chapter 299: Reorganization of the Army

As for Zhang Fei's reward, it is even more unsealable, with the status of his country's uncle and the brother of the first emperor, he didn't need to pay attention to any false name, if he needed anything, he didn't need to be polite at all, just take it directly, can his son-in-law give it to him?

And he is indeed honest and unkind, no matter how powerful Liu Hou is, in front of him is also the little kid who grew up watching him. Since he is not polite to himself, Liu Hou will not be polite to him, so this reward only gave him five hundred taels of gold, and as for the official position and title, all of them were saved.

And his son Zhang Bao, he has his inherent future in the Hong army, and he doesn't need to rely on his father's shadow at all. For the two Xiahou generals who surrendered, Liu Hou specially summoned them, said kind words to them, and like Cao Xiu, threw them into a certain army to serve as a deputy.

They are all the same as Cao Xiu, they need to play the role of a benchmark, they need to erect an example of horse bones, anyway, one sheep is also a drive, and three sheep are also a drive, so let them go to the army together to learn the rules of the Hong army.

Of course, they were organized in different units, otherwise it would not be good for these original Wei generals to be connected together, although this possibility is small, but it must be guarded against. Since a large number of Wei soldiers were captured in Runan and Xuchang, it was easy to form a few more brigades.

The total number of Wei soldiers captured in Runan and Xuchang exceeded 100,000, and after screening, 28,000 people were selected and reorganized into four brigades, each with 7,000 people. The rest of the people were also organized into a production and construction corps according to the old rules. At this time, Shu has added 70,000 to 80,000 elite laborers, and the domestic productive forces have been greatly promoted.

The capture of the enemy's capital is something to brag about, even though it is equivalent to the enemy's automatic abandonment. The ministers suggested that Liu Hou hold a ceremony and give amnesty to the world, and some people even suggested moving the capital.

However, Liu Hou did not take any of these suggestions, he felt that it was too troublesome, and it was a waste of money, and it was better to keep it for war if he had money. He dismissed these suggestions one by one under the pretext that the world was undecided. Although he didn't accept the suggestion to move the capital, he didn't plan to continue walking, joking, if the emperor had to go out in person in every battle, then what would so many courtiers do?

He decided to stay in Xuchang for the time being, and he mediated in the middle, allowing his troops to attack everywhere and recover the homeland of the Han Dynasty. Anyway, there is a ready-made palace here, and the living environment is very good, thanks to Cao Pi for not ordering the burning of the palace before leaving, or even the burning of the city, maybe he is still looking forward to returning to his homeland one day.

However, before attacking from all sides, it is necessary to reorganize the troops, and the current organization is too chaotic. The 1st Division was too large and urgently needed to be reorganized. The original 1st Division had 10 brigades, but now it has 4 new brigades, a total of 14 brigades, and the numbers are numbered in the past.

Since Liu Hou was going to make a big move this time and planned to reorganize all the troops at once, he disrupted all the newly organized brigades this time and the new brigades last time, and then disrupted the 30,000 rattan armor soldiers of the second and third divisions and Zhu Bao's fourth division, and reorganized them into various brigades according to the proportion of rattan armor soldiers in the first and second brigades.

Before the Northern Expedition, the 1st to 6th Brigades were successfully mixed, and the 7th to 14th Brigades could be said to be haphazardly grouped together. The Seventh Brigade originally had 10,000 men, and the Eighth to Fourteenth Brigades totaled 50,000 men, adding up to 60,000 men.

There were 30,000 rattan armor soldiers, 20,000 in the Fourth Division, and more than 110,000 troops in total. According to the establishment of 7,000 men in each brigade, a total of 16 brigades were formed, and the shortage of personnel was made up from the capture of the Wei army. In this way, the brigade was numbered up to twenty-two.

Among them, the original Fourth Brigade led by Zhang Bai to fight on the north bank of the Yangtze River and Dongwu is equivalent to breaking away from the scope of the First Division, and Huang Xu leading the Third Brigade in Nanchang is also equivalent to breaking away from the First Division, so it is necessary to fill the gap in this part again.

Liu Hou signed an order to formally appoint Huang Xu as the commander of the Sixth Division, and his Third Brigade was also expanded into the Sixth Division. Zhang Bai served as the commander of the Seventh Division, and his Fourth Brigade was expanded into the Seventh Division, and as for the soldiers, Liu Hou gave him two new brigades.

After Huang Xu's 3rd Brigade and Zhang Bai's 4th Brigade were separated from the 1st Division, two more brigades were transferred to Zhang Bai to form the 11th Division, and now Liu Hou still has 18 brigades left on hand. Liu Hou transferred the original first and second brigades to Yulinwei as his own pro-army, and now there are only sixteen brigades left.

The sixteen brigades were organized into five divisions, each with three brigades, and one brigade was left Liu Hou to transfer to Guansuo. Among the upper, middle and lower forces that clamped down on Soochow, Guan Suona was the weakest and should be strengthened. Although this brigade is only a cold weapon unit, it is believed that it can also play a very important role in Guan Suo's hands.

The five newly reorganized divisions are:

Zhang Bao, commander of the 1st Division, Guan Xing, commander of the 2nd Division, Zhao Tong, commander of the 3rd Division, Wutu Gu, commander of the 4th Division, and E Huan, commander of the 5th Division. These five divisions are all mixed units of firearms and rattan armor, and they are the main combat units of the Hong Army.

The five divisions consisted of fifteen brigades, numbered from the 1st Brigade to the 15th Brigade, and in military communications, they had their own numerical naming conventions. The first number represents the army where it is located, and the current number of the Hong Army is one, that is, the first army of Shu Han, Pang Tong and Zhang Fei's army are two, and Guan Gong's Jingzhou army is three, of course, their troops do not follow the unified numbering rules of the Hong army.

The second number represents the division, the third represents the brigade, and the fourth number represents the delegation. For example, the third regiment of the second brigade of the third division is numbered 1323.

Zhao Tong originally led the Seventh Brigade to garrison Maicheng, which had long since become a safe inland city, and his defense line was moved north accordingly.

Now he is called back, promoted to division commander, and the main battle unit is formed, which can be regarded as officially returning to the team. The vultures fought bravely, and after such a long period of observation, his loyalty was unquestionable. E Huan is the same, although these two people are still division commanders in official positions, they have been promoted by one level from the division commander of the cold weapon unit to the hot ~ soldier ~ weapon unit.

With the political commissar system, Liu Hou did not need to worry about the rebellion of the troops. However, the vulture bone and E Huan are both fierce generals, they are brave, but they are a short board in terms of military strategy, Liu Hou sent a large number of military academy graduates to form a staff to assist them, and better make up for their shortcomings.

Fortunately, after a period of accumulation, the "Ministry of Industry" in Chengdu has continuously sent newly produced fire~ guns, which has solved a considerable part of the problem. According to Guo Youzhi's calculations, after waiting for another half a year, these five divisions will be equipped with fire~guns.

Now each army can only take a part of the fire ~ gun, and the rest of the shortfall has to wait, and one day it will be replenished one after another.