Chapter 182: Foreign Legion

The army is a whole, and the issue of factions in the army, as well as the requirements for military discipline, is actually an effort to integrate the army into a whole.

If you follow the method of Fang Chengfeng.

Then, such an army may still have a certain combat effectiveness in skirmishes. After all, these Japanese are in a group on their own. But in a larger-scale war, it simply cannot be used.

It's just a rabble.

Fang Chengfeng said indifferently, "Why do you need him to fight? As long as he can have a bloody courage to use. Just dare to fight and dare to rush."

Qu Liangcai was taken aback, almost unable to believe Fang Chengfeng's words.

War is a very serious matter, and it is not a matter of blood. is brave in blood, at most one fighter, and at most a thousand households can reach the top. Not to mention, the Ming army after the military reform can't even be a thousand households with a lot of blood.

How can it be arranged like this. It's a sloppy life.

Of course, Qu Liangcai didn't care too much about the lives of the Japanese army. Many of these people defected to the Ming Dynasty as a last resort, and even let these people stay in Japan, they may not be the obedient ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

These people die a little more, and Qu Liangcai can only sigh that his capital is less. After all, the position of a general is also very philistine, like a businessman. It's just that the capital of a businessman is money, and the capital of a general is the soldiers under his command.

There won't be many other ideas.

It's just that Qu Liang is not worried about the number of Japanese killed. However, Qu Liang cared about whether his task could be completed. That is, it does not matter how many Japanese died. The important thing is whether so many people who have died can have the effect of dying.

Fang Chengfeng said, "Young General Qu, I don't know. This time we went south, Shousuke-sama did not have the idea of us going around the sea to attack the southeast, at most it was harassment. In other words, most of our wars are fought on the islands. And the battle for the islands is often unplayable, and there is not much on the battlefield. As long as there is sea dominance, the enemy is a trapped beast. These people are just there to clean up the battlefield. And the ship is in our hands, and life and death are up to them."

Fang Chengfeng's remarks were quite British's positioning of the Japanese army, and the Lu family was the style of the shells fired by the navy.

It's just that Fang Chengfeng is also a last resort. There is no way to make this decision.

If he could, how could Fang Chengfeng not want to transform these Japanese troops into the Ming army and add combat power to his command. But as it turned out, there were too many problems. But war time is here.

There is no news about the victory or defeat in Hejian, how can Fang Chengfeng not be in a hurry?

Naturally, we have to think of a solution.

After thinking about it, I came up with this solution.

Fundamentally, we will not make any changes to the Japanese army, but only control the Japanese army in terms of logistics, equipment, rewards and punishments, and recognize the factions in the Japanese army, and transform the 100,000 Japanese army into dozens of army leaders, large and small. One could even say petty warlords.

If there is a war on land, there are not too many problems here, and even these Japanese may even turn against each other.

It's simply an instability.

But at sea is not afraid at all.

Afraid of what? The ships are all in their hands, and without them, no matter how many troops there are, they are all dead things.

As for defection?

If the Navy has been victorious, there is no fear of their defection at all. If the Navy loses the naval battle, even if it does not defect, the Navy will not care about this army at all.

In short, Fang Chengfeng's plan is to build a low-cost, disposable army. The biggest advantage of such an army is that there is no need for Han Chinese. Now you can use the Japanese, and in the future, you can draw the strong men of the South Seas.

It is possible to organize a large number of servant armies.

Qu Liangcai has some resistance to this model. After all, he is a general, and he doesn't want the army he leads to be like this. Because, if it is all such an army, Qu Liangcai also sees the future war at sea, and he will not be able to have anything to show off. At most, one organizer. However, in the face of this

Qu Liangcai had no other way.

He just said, "Obey the orders of the marquis."

Neither of them thought that the famous Foreign Legion model of the Ming Dynasty in later generations was developed based on today's charter. Decades later, overseas expansion played a huge role.

In many cases, the Ming Dynasty only needs to send 10,000 troops and lead hundreds of thousands of foreign legions to conquer a large country.

Fang Chengfeng didn't think about anything at all, he said, "Okay, since that's the case, you go and arrange it immediately. Let's go. Target Penghu."

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Fang Chengfeng has been thinking about Penghu for a long time.

As a strategic location, Penghu connects Taiwan with the mainland.

And the Penghu Islands don't look big, but in fact they are not small, enough to garrison a large army.

Fang Chengfeng knew that he quickly captured Jingjiang.

The reason is very simple, Fang Chengfeng's logistics line is too long. The materials needed by Fang Chengfeng needed to be transported from Liaodong to Japan first, and then to Penghu.

But even by sea, such a long supply line is a big test for front-line operations. But taking Jingjiang is different.

Jingjiang is the foundation of King Jingjiang, at the beginning, when opening up Jingjiang, He Xi also made efforts, and King Jingjiang is also a restless person. In Jingjiang, a rebellion was prepared, so there were many things in Jingjiang City.

In addition to some high-tech artillery, ships, gunpowder, food, medicine, and even personnel can be replenished from Jingjiang.

I have to say that even if King Jingjiang is no longer reliable, the people of Jingjiang still have feelings for King Jingjiang.

After all, they lived for more than ten years under the rule of King Jingjiang. I've been used to it for a long time. Not to mention, many people on land are people who have nothing, and it is only when they arrive in Jingjiang that they have their own land.

No matter what the purpose of the King of Jingjiang is, whether it is to buy people's hearts and conspire against the people, or to better develop Jingjiang, in short, the local people have enjoyed dividends from the establishment of the city in Jingjiang to the present.

They attributed these dividends to the King of Jingjiang.

This is also the reason why King Jingjiang was able to entangle tens of thousands of horses to rebel.

Not to mention, a lot of things are to be compared.

There may be many local people, although they have a good impression of King Jingjiang. But this favor is not enough for them to rebel against the imperial court. But after the defeat of King Jingjiang, after the imperial court officials and troops entered Jingjiang, these people knew what to choose.

On the whole, the Nanjing side is indulgent to the powerful, or it cannot be said to be indulgent. It's a redemption. Zhu Yunwen gave benefits to these magnates, and these magnates supported Zhu Yunwen's accession to the throne.

This is not without effect.

After experiencing Zhu Yuanzhang's high-pressure rule, both Wuxun and civilian officials were very satisfied with Zhu Yunwen's leniency.

This is also the foundation of Zhu Yunwen's rule.

The reason why many people in the world regard it as orthodox.

But doing so is not without side effects. On the side of the civil officials, there is a problem with the tax base of the Ming Dynasty. In the Hongwu Dynasty, it was not that there were no tax arrears, but they were all real ordinary people, and the proportion was very small.

As soon as the Jianwen Dynasty entered, tax arrears became a big problem, and even grew rapidly.

For military generals, they are more presumptuous in many things.

In the Ming Dynasty, under the emperor's eyelids. There are many things that we don't dare to overdo yet. But what is this place in Taiwan? Although it is very close to Fujian, it is also considered overseas, and there is no place for the imperial court to manage it.

The King of Jingjiang is even more prosperous here.

Let the generals who occupy this place not be tempted.

Even the nobles were involved in the maritime trade. But where is the business to grab fast. Shi Lang set Taiwan, so that the Taiwanese people paid the rent of Shi Hou for more than 200 years. The approach of the generals who occupy this place now does not dare to be so excessive. But it is also natural to make a lot of money as a rebel.

It's just that the extra penny they take from Jingjiang makes the people of Jingjiang resentful of the Nanjing court.

It is this that understands this

point, Fang Chengfeng made up his mind to take Jingjiang, because although Jingjiang is a little smaller than the southeast coast, Taizhou, Wenzhou, and other cities. But it's not a barren place. The most important thing is that if you take other places along the coast, the people may not be convinced. But if Jingjiang is taken, the people of Jingjiang will definitely do their best to serve the army.

Because they did not dare to defeat the second time. And if you want to Jingjiang, go to Penghu first. Take Penghu, the army has a foothold. At the same time, there were strong strongholds that hindered the mainland's offensive.