After getting such grassroots feedback from both the Jinyi Guard system and the imperial trainer system, Zhu Fugui also became good and made changes in the army number.

In this Ming Dynasty, Zhu Fugui copied Jiang Gong, copied India, and copied Yuan Datou, all of which were seamlessly connected, but my rabbit's experience was always unadaptable.

It seems that I have a big pill!

Anyway, history will prove that the Pill Party is just a paper tiger, and Zhu Fugui will not be afraid of it.

Therefore, the number of the first army is now the real martial saint Yue Feiyue Wumu in China, and the number of the third army is Li Dingguo, the first general of the late Ming Dynasty.

Wu Mu Army and Dingguo Army were born.

This was not decreed by Zhu Fugui as the Son of Heaven, but by the military chiefs of the two armies after extensively soliciting the opinions of the troops, they themselves applied to the Generalissimo's Office.

This can be regarded as a small preferential treatment given to the troops who formed the army first.

As for the division of labor in this War to Resist France and Aid Mexico, the two armies are also different.

The relatively more motorized Wu Mu Army was the main force of this operation, and the goal was to seize the opportunity to penetrate directly into the hinterland around Mexico City.

However, this requires the Dingguo Army to first attack the mining area of Sonora in northwest Mexico, fully mobilize the enemy's vital forces to climb over the important mountainous areas of Mexico, and enter the western theater of operations for support.

From north to south, Mexico is high in the middle and low on both sides, with plateaus and ridges in the center.

It can be understood as an enlarged bay.

Therefore, as long as the enemy's main force is moved to the side of the ridge, then the Wumu army can take advantage of its high mobility to penetrate directly into the heart of the enemy and disrupt all the enemy's strategic deployment.

Moreover, since the route of the Wu Mu's advance was on the east side of the central ridge, which meant that this route was close to the Gulf Coast, which was directly exposed to the French navy, it was difficult for the enemy to predict.

Because of the regular cavalry infantry advances

This time against France, he faced the powerful French army, as well as a considerable number of Mexican puppet troops.

The greatest advantage of delaying the dispatch of troops is the complete destruction of the organizational structure and popular identity of the United Mexican States, which has only been born for 42 years, and completely disappears into the sea of history.

This also had some side effects, such as the French army gaining a foothold and co-opting the Mexican rebels.

According to the intelligence obtained by the Jinyiwei spy department and the reconnaissance department of the Royal Army, there are currently 87,000 regular troops, 63,000 foreign legions, and 77,000 Mexican puppet troops who have taken refuge in France, totaling 227,000 people.

The two group armies of the Ming Dynasty have a total of 6 infantry divisions and 2 independent armored brigades, with a total of only 88,000 people.

In other words, the average Ming soldier faces 2.5 enemies.

This is more than the comparison of forces in the Franco-Prussian War.

It's just that in the Franco-Prussian War, there were fewer of them, and it was actually the French army that was considered to be better in terms of individual quality.

The French army was superstitious that its veterans of a hundred battles in Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America were stronger than the immature Prussian soldiers.

This arrogance ended up in a tragic end.

But in fact, now Daming is also making the same gamble.

The bet is that the Ming army, which has completed basic literacy and patriotic education and uses equipment that is beyond the times, will be able to crush the enemy with one Han and three hu.

Historically, the French lost their bets, but Zhu Fugui believed that he could win the bet, and the chances of winning were huge.

McMahon, a name that makes Chinese gnash their teeth.

But Marie Edham Patrice Morris de McMahon was not the Englishman who drew the line on China's southwestern border, but the commander of the Châlons Corps, who had just arrived in the Santa Ana region of Sonora (northwest Mexico).

At the same time, McMahon was also the Imperial Marshal, the Senate of Parliament, the Duke of Makenta, and the former Governor of Algeria.

Why add the word "original"?

Naturally, because McMahon was a mess in Algeria and was unanimously opposed by the locals and the archbishop.

When France suffered defeat in the Far East, Napoleon III gave him two options.

One was to go to Vietnam-Cambodia and transfer to Saigon as governor.

The second is to return to mainland France and once again assume the post of commander of the corps.

Rather than in the far East, McMahon eventually chose to resume his military duties.

However, the annual salary of the commander of the legion was only 30,000 francs, equivalent to 6,000 Ming yuan, 1.5 million yuan.

Even with the Senate's other 30,000 francs allowance, the legal income for a year is only equivalent to 3 million yuan.

It's too poor.

When McMahon was governor, he had 125,000 francs, equivalent to 25,000 Ming Yuan and 6.25 million yuan.

Not to mention that the emperor is far away, he can do everything in Algeria and live a luxurious life like a sultan.

So for this damn transfer, this damn Mexican war, McMahon hated it.

It's not about loyalty, it's about banknotes.

As a high-ranking military officer in France, McMahon was well aware of how this all happened.

Whether he was transferred to Saigon or entered Mexico to fight this time, His Majesty the Emperor's real goal was only one, and that was to completely defeat the illegal armed organization called Daming.

Yes, in McMahon's opinion, these damned Orientals are a bunch of outright illegal armed forces.

When he was governor of Algeria, he met many such barbarians.

Living in the Middle Ages, they lacked education and training, and even if they had a numerical advantage, they would soon collapse before the uniform line of the French professional soldiers.

"Commander, the Mexican instructors still want to talk to you......"

A translator appeared in front of McMahon and said with some embarrassment.

The Mexican instructors were sent by His Majesty the Emperor and Marshal Bazin to teach the Chalons at the forefront of the Chalons the experience of Ming style warfare.

The name of the Chalons Army comes from the small French city of Chalon, with the 1st, 5th, and 7th Divisions, the 1st Foreign Army Division, and the 2nd and 3rd Cavalry Divisions, a total of 6 divisions.

In addition, there is 1 Mexican servant division, which mainly does some miscellaneous work.

The Santa Ana area where the Chalons army was stationed was an important obstacle to the southward movement of the Ming Dynasty, and it was related to the control of the mines in the northwest.

That's why the French sent elite troops led by veterans, and didn't have a large number of Mexican servant divisions with questionable loyalty.

It can be said that as the commander-in-chief of the war, Napoleon III looked at the map, flipped through the records, and thought hard for three days and three nights before making such an arrangement.

It's just that he never imagined that the general he had painstakingly selected was actually probably the one who was the most unsuitable for this task.

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2 chapters are still owed