I want to be emperor

Chapter 408

The frontlines continued to accept surrenders, and more garrison troops were continuously reorganized. Now there are as many as 28 garrison divisions.

But at the same time, the Chu army is also constantly reducing and reorganizing the garrison. The basic process is to first organize some soldiers of average quality into construction battalions, transportation battalions, and reclamation battalions, or after demobilization and retirement, they are sent to factories affiliated to the Ministry of Industry. Work.

After several times of elimination, the division will often only leave at least one or two thousand, and at most two to three thousand relatively elite soldiers.

Then the army will retrain the remaining elite garrison soldiers, equip them with matchlock guns, two-and-a-half catty field guns and other weapons and equipment, and finally reorganize them into a regular army.

In the past year, many newly expanded regular troops in the Chu army came in this way.

The ultimate goal of the top leaders of the Chu army is to finally restructure all the garrison troops through gradual restructuring, and most of them will be eliminated. They will be resettled through reclamation camps and other methods, and a few will be reorganized into the main force.

In the future, there will only be regular troops left in the army, and there will be no such thing as a garrison.

After all, the overall quality of most of the garrison troops in the Chu army is really average.

Because of the large number of Ming army prisoners that they accepted, among the surrendered soldiers, they were not of good quality. Except for a few professional soldiers, most of them were ordinary guard soldiers or even young men recruited temporarily.

If it weren't for the purpose of preventing these people from wandering to the local area and causing harm to the local area, the Chu army didn't even want to organize them into a garrison.

Because the quality of the soldiers is really average, Rao is a garrison army that has been selected and reorganized, and its combat effectiveness is not good, so it can only fight with the traditional guard soldiers in the Ming army. The new standard army, or those professional fighters are easily defeated.

Therefore, after the end of the Fujian-Zhejiang campaign, Zheng Zhilong was recruited, and the Guangdong-Guangdong campaign was also a complete success in the first few months. After there was no big threat in the southeast, the army began to attack Jiangnan, Fujian and Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, and southern Chu. Even the garrison in the northern Chu area underwent a new round of elimination.

Except for a few elite soldiers and technical arms such as cavalry and artillery, a large number of garrison troops were converted into reclamation and construction troops on the spot.

比如驻防在广东的No.11守备师、No.16守备师、No.17守备师这三个守备师，从中挑选出来的4000多人精锐战兵以及骑兵或炮兵，随后和暂编No.13混成旅合编为陆军No.13师。

Together with the seventh division, the division is responsible for the direction of Guangdong, including Qiongzhou Island, the mouth of the Pearl River, Nan'ao Island and other coastal defenses, as well as inland repression.

The remaining [-] people were collectively reorganized into several reclamation camps, construction camps, and labor camps in October. They were arranged to carry out reclamation, road and bridge construction, or to work in factories affiliated to the Ministry of Industry. Retirement and demobilization, and finally complete all demobilization and dissolution.

Strictly speaking, these three garrison divisions no longer exist.

Several garrison divisions in Guangxi did the same thing. Most of the garrison soldiers were converted into reclamation camps, construction camps, labor camps, transportation camps, etc., and then retired in batches.

Some of its elite were selected and reorganized as the No.14 Division, which together with the Fifth Division was responsible for operations in Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and other directions.

The same is true for the garrison divisions in southern and northern Chu, such as the first garrison division, fourth garrison division, and ninth garrison division. Garrisoning the front line, the overall quality of the soldiers is better, and the combat effectiveness is stronger. Therefore, the garrison forces in these two places are reorganized, and the proportion of remaining soldiers is also larger.

The first garrison division was downsized into a main brigade, and a battalion was transferred from the first division and the third division, and then combined into the No. The two divisions are responsible for fighting in the direction of Ruzhou and Henan Province together.

The second garrison division was also reorganized into a brigade, and combined with the temporarily reorganized first mixed regiment to form the No.17 Army Division, which was dissatisfied with the reorganization. It continued to garrison Yunyang Prefecture and the eastern area of ​​Hanzhong Prefecture, and was responsible for the war in the direction of Hanzhong Prefecture, Shaanxi.

The 18th Garrison Division was downsized into a brigade, and combined with the temporary [-]nd Mixed Regiment into the No.[-] Division, which continued to be stationed at the front line of Badong and Wushan, and was responsible for the war in the east of Sichuan.

The third garrison division and the eighth garrison division were each reduced to a regiment, and then joined part of the troops of the ninth division to form an army No. Wars in Northeast Guizhou and other places.

The fifth garrison division of Huangzhou Prefecture in northern Chu was reduced into a brigade, and the No.13 garrison division in Anlu was reduced into a regiment. These two divisions, together with the temporary third mixed regiment stationed in Hantian, formed a combined brigade. Organized into the No.20 Division of the Army, the four regiments were stationed in Hantian, Jiujiang, Huangzhoufu, Anqing and other places, guarding the river along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and serving as the reserve for the Eighth Division, the First Cavalry Brigade and other troops use.

The Seventh Garrison Division and the No.12 Garrison Division in the Fujian area, plus a garrison division that was reorganized and established after entering Fujian and Zhejiang, were collectively downsized into a brigade, and then together with the temporary No.12 mixed brigade It was co-organized into the No.12 Division of the Army, and was stationed in Fujian and Dayuan (Island) which belonged to Fuyuan Province.

The No.14 Garrison Division and the No.15 Garrison Division in Yingtianfu, Zhili, Jiangnan Province, Zheng Zhilong's garrison on Chongming Island, the garrison on Zhoushan Islands, and a garrison brigade in northern Zhejiang, These many garrison troops were downsized into one and a half divisions, namely the Army's 21st Division and the Army's No.40 Third Brigade, stationed in Jiangnan Province and Zhejiang, and will be responsible for the coastal defense of Jiangsu and Zhejiang and internal suppression.

At the same time, the No.40 Third Brigade of the Army will accept some veterans who are not adapted to the new tactics and a batch of equipment after the first division is refitted, and will be expanded into the No.20 Second Division of the Army and stationed in Jiangnan Province.

As for the first division originally stationed in the south of the Yangtze River, now the first division has begun to fully replace the flintlock guns. If there are no major accidents in the future, this division will become one of the main forces in the Northern Expedition, and it will not stay behind. Jiangnan.

Taking advantage of the cessation of fighting in the autumn and winter, there was no threat to the south, and the Ming court in the north did not counterattack, and it was still a few months before the Chu army launched the Northern Expedition.

The Chu army began to carry out a large-scale rectification of all the garrison troops. The old and weak garrison soldiers with a number of more than [-] were transformed into farming soldiers. Only the elite of the tens of thousands of garrison troops were reorganized into regular troops.

After this round of reorganization, although many newly reorganized divisions were dissatisfied with the reorganization and lacked matchlock guns, artillery and other equipment, the regular army in the Chu army was still expanded to 22 divisions.

This does not include the two divisions in the Guards.

Not to mention the few units equipped with flintlock guns that the Chu army is reorganizing and has not yet been awarded a designation to officially form an army.

The troops equipped with flintlock guns in the Chu army have already formed an army, and only the Tenth Division of the Army, the No.11 Division of the Army, the Second Guards Division and the No. The fully staffed Army No.15 Division.

In addition to these, the Chu Army is currently changing the flintlocks of the Army's First Division and the First Guards Division.

At the same time, there are more than 5 people who are receiving recruit training in several recruit training camps. The recruit training that these recruits receive is different from the training in the old old recruit camps, mainly training queues, the use of flintlock guns, etc. New book Tactical Stuff.

To put it bluntly, these 5 people were trained to form new units like the Tenth Division, No.11 Division, No.15 Division, and the Second Guards Division.

When these more than 5 people are successfully trained, at least three new fusiliers will be able to be drawn out.

These are the future of the Chu army, especially the core main force in the Northern Expedition.

Of course, it's useless for these recruits to train now... because there are not so many flintlock guns for them to equip.

In order to increase the production capacity of flintlock guns, Luo Zhixue has been heartbroken in recent months. After entering November, he even went to inspect Dangtu Armory in person.

The flintlock production line under Dangtu Armory has been in trial production for several months, but it still failed to achieve mass production, which made Luo Zhixue quite dissatisfied.

So before he came to inspect the Dangtu Armory Factory, he had already dismissed the right servant of the Ministry of Industry who was in charge of supervising the Dangtu Industrial Zone, the supervisor of the Dangtu Armory Factory, and the manager of the Musket Branch Factory. The Procuratorate should investigate and arrest those who should be arrested.

A group of waste, for more than a year, asking money for money, asking people for money, asking for equipment for equipment... It has been so long that they have not even achieved mass production... The Hantian Arsenal has built flintlock guns from the beginning to the end The production line does not take so long.

Letting them directly copy homework is not good enough to fire, so what is the use of such a courtier?
It would take ten or eight years for them to study it from scratch.

During the war, the Northern Expedition was just around the corner, how could they have so much time to waste.

The most important thing is that the last batch of mechanical equipment built by Hantian Machinery Factory for the flintlock production line has been in place for more than a month, but Dangtu Arsenal has not yet completed equipment debugging.

Some of the equipment is still piled up on the pier, and it has not been installed at all, and no protective measures have even been taken, allowing these equipment to be piled up in the open air.

After the impeachment came up from below, Luo Zhixue sent people to investigate and found that the official in charge of equipment installation fell into the water a while ago and became seriously ill, and was unable to handle the affairs... But the person in charge of the boss did not arrange a new person in charge, and let those equipment installation wind up. Blow the rain!

In this case, it is not a problem of insufficient hardware, but a problem of people.

Luo Zhixue just dismissed them and asked the Procuratorate to investigate instead of directly throwing them into the Yangtze River to feed the fish.

Otherwise, Luo Zhixue's house would have been ransacked long ago!
When the production of the Tu Armory Factory was not going well, Luo Zhixue thought it over, and pulled out Ding Gangyi, who was already the left servant of the Ministry of Industry, and asked him to directly act as the supervisor of the Tu Armory Factory as the left servant of the Ministry of Industry.

Although the people below did not have a good opinion of Ding Gangyi, and some people impeached Ding Gangyi for wanton corruption during the supervision of Xiangyang Factory and Hantian Factory, Luo Zhixue also asked the Inspectorate to investigate a little bit... There is really corruption.

But Luo Zhixue only beat Ding Gangyi a little bit, and he didn't intend to dismiss him from office at all.

Not for anything else, just because Ding Gangyi is really good at running a factory!

(End of this chapter)