Chapter 168 Two Military Regions

"Huo Long, I understand your current feelings, but disarmament is imperative, and even the current Jǐng guard force must be reduced! After the gradual expansion of the navy, we now have too many troops concentrated in Nanyang, and it is a serious waste to raise so many non-fighting troops without war, and our finances are not large enough for us to maintain so many military personnel, do you understand?"

Looking at the solemn look on the young master's face, Huo Long nodded with a bitter face! Although he was a little difficult to accept in his heart, he finally agreed, "Young master, don't worry! I will resolutely carry out this order!"

"Well, I don't have to worry about you doing things! I have already read the draft of your just now on the formation and division of the military region! In principle, I agree, but further adjustments are still needed in some details!"

Listening to Huo Shan's words, Huo Long's god sè couldn't help but be shocked, and the god sè said with some curiosity: "Young master, please speak, I'll listen to you!"

For example, the Pacific Military Region, which governs the three provinces and cities in the Pacific, does not have many enemies around it, so it would be a bit wasteful to put our four Marine Divisions here! Therefore, my opinion is that the First Marine Division should be placed in Yingzhou Province, and then two regiments of 10,000 Jǐng reserve troops would be sufficient! As for the abbot province, it will be garrisoned by the 8th Marine Division and a regiment of Jǐng reserve troops! And the garrison of Penglai Province will be able to transfer Zhang Zhe's 39th Division and a regiment of Jǐng reserve troops! In this way, the Pacific Military Region will be composed of 50,000 regular troops, 20,000 reserve troops, and a total of 70,000 troops! Plus the navy, I believe that it will be enough to defend these islands if there is no major enemy around!

Listening to the young master's words, Huo Long lowered his head and thought about it, and felt that the young master's words were still reasonable, although Britain and France are now occupying some islands in the South Pacific, but the troops they have stationed on them are not too many, and 70,000 troops to guard these places is enough! Moreover, now, the Maluku Islands and Sulawesi are the heart of the East Indies, and the two army divisions stationed are indeed a bit much!

"Young Master, will there be too many troops concentrated in Nanyang!" Huo Feng, who was sitting next to him, couldn't help but ask with some confusion after listening. Now that their wars with the Netherlands and Portugal have been completed! Moreover, at this time, they have not received any news that the British are about to send troops to intervene, and in addition, France and Germany, which have already attracted all their attention to the chaotic situation on the Indochina Peninsula, are doomed to return in vain! The threat around them is not too great! However, looking at what Huo Shan means now, he has transferred all the two Marine Divisions that were supposed to be assigned to the Pacific Military Region to Nanyang, and you must know that their numbers have not been reduced, and they are still an integrated division of nearly 20,000 men! In this way, the fifth, tenth, twentieth, fortieth, forty-second, The 43rd Division, the six army divisions that have been reduced by half, plus the six complete Marine Divisions, and the Jǐng reserve force of two regiments in each province, then the number of troops of the Nanyang Military Region, which will soon be established, has reached 120,000 regular troops, 50,000 reserve troops, and nearly 170,000 huge troops, which is more than twice the size of the Pacific Military Region.

Looking at the puzzled eyes of the two, Huo Shan couldn't help but sigh secretly, of course he couldn't say that he was preparing for the Qing-French War that would start two years later! But in order to increase his persuasiveness, Huo Shan got up and took out two or three documents from the drawer of his desk and put them in front of the two of them!

"Young Master, is this true? Didn't we rob their bank some time ago, how can they fight without money?" Huo Long asked with a puzzled expression after reading the document with the top secret words printed on his hand! During this time, he put all his strength on the war between the Huo family army and the Netherlands and Portugal, so the work of the Military Intelligence Bureau was not taken into account, so he was not too clear about the military intelligence in the recent period!

Although he does not have much appropriation in his hands, and even the salaries of many of his civil servants are still in arrears, he has never given up on the action of transferring soldiers from the Indian colonies! Now the number of British ** troops gathered in Singapore and Malaysia has exceeded 20,000! Moreover, it is still slowly increasing! It can be seen from this that this stubborn British guy has not stopped his ambition to invade us! So we have to guard against it!" Huo Shan said with emotion! Having said this, Huo Shan knew that Britain would not have the opportunity to trouble him again for at least three years!

After hearing what the young master said, the two of them had no doubts, because the British were always a big threat to the Huo family army at any time!

"Have you all selected the main responsible persons of the two major military regions?" Huo Shan continued to ask!

"The person in charge of the Nanyang Military Region will be directly succeeded by the personnel of the current Nanyang Theater after some changes! In the Pacific Military Region, we are prepared to have Wu Guangzong, commander of the 1st Marine Division, as commander, and the two deputy commanders are Huo Wenguang, commander of the 43rd Division, and Ren Bangding, commander of the 4th Marine Division! The political commissar will be Bai Yi, political commissar of the 4th Marine Division, and the two deputy political commissars will be Chen Youli, political commissar of the 6th Marine Division, and Wenming, political commissar of the 7th Marine Division! In addition, Wang Xiangzong, commander of the 3rd Marine Division, will serve as the chief of staff of the Military Region, and the two deputy chiefs of staff will be Murong Xin, commander of the 5th Marine Division, and Zhang Zhe, commander of the 39th Division of the Army.

After listening to his words, Huo Shan secretly pondered for a while in his heart, if this list was followed, the commanders of the various division-level units of the Huo Family Army stationed in Nanyang and the Pacific Ocean, except for some of them, would basically be promoted by one level! This can be regarded as an affirmation of their work over the past two years or so!

"What are you going to do with Taiwan and Hainan? What are your plans for Shannan Province (Laos) and our various base areas?"

"Young Master, the status of Taiwan and Hainan is too special, so we haven't made much changes, and we are still garrisoned by two zhōngyāngjǐng guard divisions with four second-line garrison regiments! As for Shannan Province and our various base areas in the Qing Dynasty, because of the constraints of inconvenient transportation and backward communication conditions, I think it is not appropriate to set up a large military region like Nanyang and the Pacific Ocean at this time, but a relatively flexible provincial-level military region is more suitable for our current situation! Just like in Fujian now, it is enough for a division-level unit to garrison the place with two or three jǐng reserve regiments to attack the Qing Dynasty's Green Battalion and Eight Banner Soldiers! There is no need to set up a higher-level command structure!"

Huo Shan nodded slowly, just as Huo Long said just now, in the absence of a strong enemy around, there is indeed no need to set up a large military region system that is stronger to attack and pay more attention to the thickness of troops in the Indochina Peninsula and within the Qing court! After all, at this time, the Huo family army had just occupied the Nanyang and Pacific Islands for not long ago, and the situation there had not yet been completely stabilized, and all kinds of infrastructure construction had not been completed, and it was not the time to continue to expand their territory to the north! So the strategy of slow development while maintaining the status quo is the best!