Chapter 636 The new establishment of the broken army
Early in the morning of August 12, 433, in the Taiyuan Hall of the Imperial Palace in Canglong City, the Emperor of Jin, Liu Sheng, sat on the throne of the emperor in the hall. There was a curtain behind Liu Sheng. At this time, Empress Dowager Zhao was sitting behind the curtain, and more than a hundred imperial officials were placed on both sides of the hall.
"Start up if you have something to do! You have no time to retreat to the court!" An eunuch standing next to the emperor Liu Sheng shouted in a sharp voice.
At this time, the Grand Marshal Dou Yan of the Ministry of War came out and said, "Your Majesty, the Emperor, and the Northern Governor Liu Ji led the Polu Army to defeat the Dayuan Kingdom, which invaded the Western Governor of our Great Jin, and forced the Dayuan Kingdom to ced the land of ten provinces and imposed it on the Western Governor of our Great Jin. Moreover, the Northern Governor Liu Ji led his troops to defeat the Lu army that invaded the southeast of our Great Jin, and regained the eight states occupied by the Lu Kingdom. These eight states originally belonged to the Jiao Kingdom, Xun Kingdom, Gu Kingdom and Lai Kingdom. All four of them were vassal states of our Great Jin. The Northern Governor Liu Ji made an extraordinary contribution to the Great Jin. I asked the Empress Dowager and the Emperor to issue an order to summon the Northern Governor Liu Ji to lead troops into the court and accept the rewards from the court!"
After Dou Yan, the Grand Marshal of the Ministry of War, said these words, Yang Zhong, the Grand Marshal of the Ministry of Personnel, came out one after another, saying some similarities, and asked Empress Dowager Zhao and Emperor Liu Sheng to issue an order to let Liu Ji enter the court and be granted a title.
Hearing that the Grand Marshal Dou Yan and other important officials of the court all spoke in unison to ask Liu Ji to lead troops to Canglong City, the emperor Liu Sheng's face looked very ugly, but Liu Sheng knew that he had no way to stop Liu Ji from entering the court. Once Liu Ji led his troops to Canglong City, his throne would basically not be able to be preserved.
Queen Mother Zhao immediately said loudly: "The great governor of the north, Liu Ji, is indeed a meritorious person. Since all the beloved ministers agree to Liu Ji's entry into the court, then I will issue an order to let Liu Ji lead the Polu Army to Canglong City! As for how to reward Liu Ji, Taiwei Dou, Taiwei Yang, Taiwei Wang, Taiwei Zhao, Taiwei Sun, Taiwei Zheng, you six of you first draft a charter. After Liu Ji enters the capital, we will ask for Liu Ji's opinions!"
At the end of the morning court, the Taiwei of the Ministry of War Dou Yan, the Taiwei of the Ministry of Personnel Yang Zhong, the Taiwei of the Ministry of Rites Wang Zhihuan, the Taiwei of the Ministry of Punishment Zhao Boran, the Taiwei of the Ministry of Works Sun Mingtao, the Taiwei of the Ministry of Revenue Zheng Kai, the Taiwei of the Ministry of Revenue Han Renji, the Taiwei of the Ministry of Personnel Wu Ziyu, the Taiwei of the Ministry of Revenue Zhang Shunran, the Taiwei of the Ministry of Revenue Chen Sikai, the Taiwei of the Ministry of Cavalry Xiao Su, the General of the Cavalry He Guangzong and the General of the Cavalry Li Hong did not return to their own residences, but all came to the residences of the Taiwei of the Ministry of War Dou Yan.
In a conference hall, the Grand Marshal Dou Yan of the Ministry of War said in a deep voice: "It seems that the news is true. The Empress Dowager and the Emperor are indeed preparing to voluntarily abdicate the throne to Liu Ji. Otherwise, the Empress Dowager would not have agreed so happily to let Liu Ji lead his troops to Beijing in the morning court today!"
General Xiao Su immediately said, "That's not just for us. This will save us a lot of trouble. At least we don't have to bear the name of a rebellious minister!"
Yang Zhong, the Grand Marshal of the Ministry of Personnel, shook his head and said, "But in that case, our thirteenth family's achievements in following the dragon will be gone!"
At this time, Zhao Boran, the Grand Marshal of the Ministry of Justice, said in a gloomy tone: "It's not a husband without poison. It's better to just do it before Liu Ji enters Beijing..."
Before he could finish his words, Zhao Boran, the Grand Marshal of the Ministry of Justice, was interrupted by Dou Yan, the Grand Marshal of the Ministry of War. "We cannot be too hasty. Liu Ji has not made any specific statement yet. No one knows what Liu Ji planned. Should we wait until Liu Ji leads his troops to Beijing and act again!"
When the imperial court summoned Liu Ji to lead troops to the capital, he had already returned to the Northern Governor's Office in Shangyuan City. He was working with many civil and military officials and generals under his command to formulate a new organization for the defeated army.
Originally, the eight major legions of the Polu Army, whether they were cavalry or infantry, each brigade had five battalions, and each battalion had four divisions, each division had about two thousand people, and the entire brigade had about 40,000 people. There was no "guard" organization above the brigade.
However, with the continuous expansion of the Polu Army, the previous organization was no longer suitable, so at the suggestion of Zhang Liang, Guo Jia, Bai Qi and others, Liu Ji re-formed the organization of the Polu Army.
In the new organization of the Polu Army formulated by Liu Ji, five people are one army, ten people are one brigade, fifty people are one team, hundreds of people are one garrison, five hundred people are one song, two thousand people are one sector, eight thousand people are one battalion, forty thousand people are one brigade, and twenty hundred thousand people are one guard, and each legion has several guards.
Most of the newly established guard-level organization of the Polu Army will adopt a mixed organization. For example, five brigades under one guard may be composed of two cavalry brigades and three infantry brigades, or they may be composed of three cavalry brigades and two infantry brigades, or other combinations. Of course, there are cavalry guards entirely composed of cavalry and infantry guards entirely composed of infantry.
The eight major legions of the Polu Army will be transformed into ten major legions, among which the names of the Western Regions, the Western Frontier Legion, the Grassland Legion, the Beiting Legion and the Dongman Legion have not changed. The names of the local legions, the Guard Legion and the Xichang Legion will be cancelled. Liu Ji named the other five legions after the Chinese divine beast, namely the Qinglong Legion, the White Tiger Legion, the Vermillion Bird Legion, the Xuanwu Legion and the Qilin Legion.
According to Liu Ji's plan, the Western Regions Legion, the Western Frontier Legion and the Qinglong Legion will guard the thirty prefectures of the Western Regions Protectorate. Among them, the Western Regions Legion and the Western Frontier Legion have ten guards, each guard consisting of two cavalry brigades and three infantry brigades, and the Qinglong Legion has eight guards, and each guard consists of three cavalry brigades and two infantry brigades.
In addition, each state of the Western Regions Protectorate will form several garrison battalions. In the end, the garrison troops of the thirty states of the Western Regions Protectorate will reach 1.4 million. In this way, the total force of the Polu Army in the entire Western Regions Protectorate will reach 7 million. With the Western Regions Legion, the Western Frontier Legion, the Qinglong Legion and the garrison troops of the thirty states, it is enough to deal with the threats from Dayuan, Cheshi Kingdom and Anxi Kingdom.
The commander of the Western Regions Legion was Lian Po, the commander of the Western Frontier Legion was Xue Rengui, and the commander of the Qinglong Legion was Wang Jian.
The Grassland Legion and the Beiting Legion will continue to guard the twenty-five states of the Beiting Protectorate. Both of these legions have ten guards, of which the ten guards of the Grassland Legion are composed of five cavalry brigades, and the ten guards of the Beiting Legion are composed of three cavalry brigades and two infantry brigades.
Each state in the Beiting Protectorate will also form several garrison battalions, and the garrison troops of the twenty-five states can reach about one million. In addition to the grassland army and the Beiting army, the total force of the Polu Army in the entire Beiting Protectorate will reach five million, which is enough to intimidate several powerful tribes such as the Huns and Khitans on the grassland.
Liu Ji appointed Li Mu as the commander of the Grassland Legion and Di Qing as the commander of the Beiting Legion.
The Eastern Barbarian Army is still stationed among the 100,000 mountains. The territory of the Polu Army in the 100,000 mountains has expanded by almost twice the area compared to before. In the war with the Qingyi people, the Polu Army seized about one million square kilometers of territory and almost three million people in the central province of Qingyi people.
After Wumengergu, the western king of Qingyi people, led two million Qingyi troops to attack Huazhou, he was attacked by three elite troops of the Eastern Barbarian Army, Baigang soldiers and Wei Wushu. In the end, Wumengergu, the western king of Qingyi people, had to withdraw from Huazhou with less than 900,000 Qingyi troops, who were left with less than 900,000.
Then the Dongman Legion and Baigan soldiers took advantage of the victory and attacked the central province of the Qingyi people. They were unstoppable and seized more than one million square kilometers of land in the central province of the Qingyi people. If Lu had not suddenly sent troops to invade the southeast, Liu Ji issued an order to stop attacking the Qingyi people and Baigan soldiers, perhaps the entire central province of the Qingyi people would have been captured by the Dongman Legion and Baigan soldiers at this time.
In order to calm the anger of the Polu Army, the Qingyi people took the initiative to conduct a ceasefire negotiations with the Polu Army and signed a ceasefire agreement to ced the more than one million square kilometers of land occupied by the Polu Army in the central province of Qingyi to the Polu Army. In addition, the Qingyi people would also marry Wumeng Yisha and Wumeng Gemeng, the two most beautiful princesses of the Qingyi people, to Liu Ji. However, the Qingyi people only won the title of a pacified wife for Wumeng Yisha and Wumeng Gemeng.
Liu Ji did not directly enter Huazhou for the more than one million square kilometers of territory in the central Qingyi province, but formed a new state named Xianzhou. Based on Huazhou and Xianzhou, the Dongman Protectorate was established, which was also the third Protectorate established by Liu Ji.
You should know that the Western Regions Protectorate and the Beiting Protectorate are two giants. Liu Ji established the Eastern Man Protectorate, which was equivalent to revealing his peeping of the vast 100,000 mountains.
The Dongman Legion stationed at the Dongman Protectorate Palace was expanded into ten guards by Liu Ji, all of which were infantry guards composed of five infantry brigades. The commander of the Dongman Legion was Su Lie.
The White Tiger Legion, the Vermillion Bird Legion, the Xuanwu Legion and the Qilin Legion all have eight guards, each of which consists of two cavalry brigades and three infantry brigades. Among them, the White Tiger Legion and the Suzaku Legion are stationed in the seven southeastern prefectures of the Great Jin Dynasty and the eight prefectures seized from the Lu State. The Xuanwu Legion is stationed in the five southwest prefectures of the Great Jin Dynasty, and the Qilin Legion is stationed in Qianzhou, Pizhou, Qinzhou, Xiangzhou, Fuzhou, Meizhou and Yuzhou.
The commander of the White Tiger Legion is Bai Qi, the commander of the Vermillion Bird Legion is Wang Ben, the commander of the Xuanwu Legion is Zhang Han, and the commander of the Qilin Legion is Le Yi.
In the states stationed by the White Tiger Legion, the Vermillion Bird Legion, the Xuanwu Legion and the Qilin Legion, Liu Ji is also preparing to form several garrison battalions, with a total force of more than 1.6 million.
In addition to the ten armies, the Polu Army also has ten individual elite troops, namely the Tiger Ben Army, the Xuan Armored Soldiers, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, the White Horse Congyi, the Mo Dao War, the Seizing Camp, the Northern Mansion Soldiers, the Wei Wushou, the Baigang Soldiers and the Qin Ruishi.
In order to enhance the combat effectiveness of the top ten legions, Liu Ji drew a lot of soldiers from these ten elite troops and allowed them to join the top ten legions.
However, these ten elite troops still maintained a huge organization. Liu Ji summoned the 30,000 Han Dynasty Tiger Ben Army, 30,000 Tang Dynasty Black Armored Soldiers, 40,000 Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and 40,000 White Horse Congyi in the system, so that the Tiger Ben Army, Black Armored Soldiers, Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and White Horse Congyi all reached 120,000, and tens of thousands of elite cavalry were dispatched to the cavalry units of various legions.
The Mo Dao Bing's troops were 250,000, the Shantou camp's troops were 400,000, the Beifu soldiers were 500,000, the Wei Wuzhus' troops were 800,000, the Baigang soldiers were 450,000, Qin Ruishi's troops were 350,000, and the total strength of the ten elite troops exceeded 3 million.
Lu Bu was the commander of the Hu Ben Army, Li Cunxiao was the commander of the Xuanjia Army, Yang Zaixing was the commander of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, Yuwen Chengdu was the commander of the Baima Congyi, Dian Wei was the commander of the Mo Dao Army, Gao Shun was the commander of the trap camp, Lu Xun was appointed as the commander of the Northern Palace Army, Wei Xiaokuan was the commander of the Wei Wuzhang, Zu Ti was the commander of the Baigang Army, and Jiang Wei was the commander of the Qin Ruishi.
In the system, there are fifty groups of Han Dynasty Tiger Ben Army, fifty groups of Tang Dynasty Xuan Armored Soldiers, fifty groups of Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, fifty groups of White Horse Congyi, fifty groups of Tang Dynasty Mo Dao Soldiers, fifty groups of Seizing Camp soldiers, fifty groups of Eastern Jin Dynasty Northern Mansion soldiers, sixty groups of Wei State Wushang soldiers, sixty groups of Ming Dynasty Baigang soldiers and sixty groups of Qin State sharp soldiers, not summoned by Liu Ji. These 550 groups of elite soldiers were kept by Liu Ji just in case.
Among the ten elite troops of the Polu Army, only the Baigang soldiers were stationed in the Dongman Protectorate Mansion. In addition to the ten guards of the Dongman Legion, the Polu Army arranged an army of 2.45 million in the Dongman Protectorate Mansion.
The other nine elite troops will be temporarily stationed in various states in the Jin Dynasty and act as mobile troops to use them.
If Liu Ji's reorganization plan is followed, the ten major armies of the Polu Army, ten elite troops and the garrison troops of each state will all be together, and it will reach an astonishing scale of 25 million people. After Liu Ji finished this reorganization plan, he couldn't help but be stunned, but Liu Ji still conveyed the reorganization plan.
Now the Western Regions Protectorate has a population of about 90 million, the Beiting Protectorate has a population of about 40 million, and the Eastern Man Protectorate has a population of about 10 million. The 19 Great Jin states controlled by the Polu Army and the eight states seized from the Lu State, totaling 260 million people. All of these are included, the population of the territory under the Polu Army has reached 400 million.
Although the size of the 25 million army is really scary, according to the population base controlled by the Polu Army, the size of the 25 million army is still acceptable. Therefore, the plan for the Polu Army reorganization formulated by Liu Ji was not opposed by the civil officials and generals under his command.
Chapter completed!