Chapter 200 Military Reform
Li Bin never expected that the capture of Biyue Congress would be so smooth.
On June 25, 2016, when the army of Zhennan Army arrived outside the capital of Biyue Kingdom, the emperor of Biyue Kingdom Huo Xian, directly brought the civil and military ministers of the court to the city gate to ask for surrender to the Zhennan Army.
By the end of July of the third year of Ruikang, the ten prefectures of Biyue Kingdom, including Shouzhou Prefecture, Guizhou Prefecture, Ezhou Prefecture, Rongzhou Prefecture, Xiangzhou Prefecture, Meizhou Prefecture, Pengzhou Prefecture, Fengzhou Prefecture, Duanzhou Prefecture and Shangzhou Prefecture, as well as the capital road of Biyue Kingdom, all fell into the hands of Zhennan Army.
Then Li Bin changed the capital road of Biyue Kingdom to Bizhou Prefecture, and wrote a letter to the Dayan court, asking the court to issue an order to subscribe the eleven prefectures of Biyue Kingdom to the jurisdiction of Zhennan Grand Governor's Office.
Of course, regardless of whether the Dayan court agrees or not, the Biyue Kingdom has been eaten by Zhennan Army in one bite. Li Bin will not spit out the eleven prefectures of Biyue Kingdom, nor will he allow other forces of the Dayan Empire to intervene in the eleven prefectures of Biyue Kingdom.
At present, the Dayan court has actually controlled the hands of a group of civil servants. These civil servants were indignant about the Zhennan Army's annexation of Biyue Kingdom, believing that this should not be done by the etiquette country.
However, the strength of Zhennan Army was there, and these civil servants were helpless to deal with the other eight generals. How could they dare to provoke the more powerful Zhennan Army? So these civil servants just said that when Li Bin's letter arrived in Yong'an City, the Dayan court quickly approved Li Bin's request and agreed to the Zhennan Grand Governor's Office to govern the military and political power of the eleven prefectures of the former Biyue Kingdom.
Now, with the efforts of the six military advisors Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Zhang Liang, Chen Ping, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, the Zhennan Grand Governor's Office has already had its own civil service system.
Before the Biyue Kingdom invaded the Southern Barbarian Protectorate, the twelve prefectures and two Protectorate Administrations under the Zhennan Grand Commandery were basically firmly controlled by the Zhennan Grand Commandery.
Including the civil officials originally sent by the Dayan court, they also turned to the Zhennan Grand Governor's Office.
No one who can be a civil servant is a fool. According to the current situation in the Dayan Empire, these civil servants know how they should choose.
When the Zhennan Army continued to conquer the cities and territory, the Zhennan Grand Governor's Office began to send civil servants to the cities of the Yuan Biyue Kingdom to take over the various levels of the yamen in these cities. So shortly after the Zhennan Army captured the entire territory of the Biyue Kingdom, the Zhennan Grand Governor's Office completely controlled the entire administrative system of the Yuan Biyue Kingdom.
At this time, because the Zhennan Army's military strength was too large and it had to guard such a vast territory, the current organization was a bit out of place. So after discussing with the six military advisors, Li Bin decided to reform the Zhennan Army's military system.
The twenty-three prefectures controlled by the Grand Governor's Office in Zhennan will be divided into four major garrison offices, namely Guizhou garrison office, Xiangzhou garrison office, Meizhou garrison office and Bizhou garrison office.
The location of Guizhou Town Sect Mansion is in Guizhou City with Zhennan Grand Governor's Office. The entire Town Sect Mansion has six prefectures under its jurisdiction, including Guizhou Prefecture, Yingzhou Prefecture, Lingzhou Prefecture, Luzhou Prefecture, Dazhou Prefecture and Caizhou Prefecture.
The location of Xiangzhou Town Sect Mansion is in Xiangzhou City. The entire Town Sect Mansion also has six prefectures, including Xiangzhou Town, Jinzhou Prefecture, Yizhou Prefecture, Congzhou Prefecture, Fuzhou Prefecture and Junzhou Prefecture.
The location of Meizhou Town Guardian is Meizhou City, and it also has six prefectures, including Meizhou Prefecture, Shouzhou Prefecture, Guizhou Prefecture, Ezhou Prefecture, Rongzhou Prefecture and Xiangzhou Prefecture.
The location of Bizhou Governor's Palace is Bizhou City, which is the capital of Biyue Kingdom. The entire Bizhou Governor's Palace has five prefectures under its jurisdiction, including Bizhou Prefecture, Pengzhou Prefecture, Fengzhou Prefecture, Duanzhou Prefecture and Shangzhou Prefecture.
The four major garrisons each have guards. Each guards have three towns under their jurisdiction, each town has five brigades under their jurisdiction, each brigade has five battalions under their jurisdiction, each battalion has five teams under their jurisdiction, each team has five gangs under their jurisdiction, each gang has five gangs under their jurisdiction, and each gang has a leader and nine soldiers.
Due to the additional town-level organization and the direct troops of each guard, town and brigade, the number of troops of each guard's imperial guard will reach more than 110,000.
In addition to the twenty-four guards of the four major guards, the Eastern Barbarian Protectorate and the Southern Barbarian Protectorate also have six guards. In this way, although the Zhennan Army's imperial guards were reduced to thirty-six guards, the total force was expanded to nearly four million.
The other four major guards and the two major guards will each have six guards under their jurisdiction, with a total force of nearly four million. The organization of each guard will be the same as that of each guard, but the number of cavalry of the guards in the palace is far less than that of the guards in the imperial guards.
According to Li Bin's plan, each town of each imperial guard must have two brigades of heavy cavalry, one brigade of light cavalry and two brigades of heavy infantry.
Each town of each palace guard has a brigade of light cavalry, two brigades of heavy infantry and two brigades of light infantry equipped with iron armor and strong crossbows.
Li Bin himself served as the garrison envoy of Guizhou Governor's garrison, Fan Kuai and Long Qi were the deputy garrison envoys.
Xue Li was appointed as the garrison envoy of the Xiangzhou garrison, and Lu Bu and Yang Zaixing were appointed as the deputy garrison envoys.
Qin Qiong was appointed as the garrison envoy of the Meizhou garrison envoy, and Huang Zhong and Yuwen Chengdu were appointed as the deputy garrison envoy.
Yuchi Gong was appointed as the garrison envoy of the Bizhou Governor's Office, Gao Chong and Xu Chu were appointed as the deputy garrison envoy.
Lu Xun was still the garrison commander of the Eastern Man Protectorate, and Ma Chao and Zhang Liao were the deputy garrison commander.
Zhou Yu was still the garrison commander of the Southern Barbarian Protectorate, and Zhao Yun and Zhang He were the deputy garrison commander.
The commanders of the thirty-six imperial guards were Zhou Yu, Lu Xun, Xue Li, Qin Qiong, Yuchi Gong, Zhao Yun, Zhang He, Ma Chao, Zhang Liao, Gao Chong, Xu Chu, Huang Zhong, Yuwen Chengdu, Lu Bu, Yang Zaixing, Fan Kuai, Long Qi, Yu Juluo, Shi Wansui, He Ruobi, Han Qinhu, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhou Tai, Tai Shici, Pang De, Guan Ying, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Han Dang, Chen Wu, Xu Huang, Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, Dian Wei and Gan Ning.
The commanders of the thirty-six guards were Zhang Xian, Wang Gui, Yao Zhen, Xu Qing, Shi Bao, Deng Yuanjue, Wang Yin, Fang Jie, Zhou Bo, Ling Tong, Xu Sheng, Dong Xi, Pan Zhang, Ding Feng, Guan Sheng, Lin Chong, Wu Song, Shi Wengong, Luan Tingyu, Bian Xiang, Du Ji, Meng Tie, Shi Su, Yang Hong, Li Ba, Li E, Li Teng, Tao Siliang, Tao Siyuan, Tao Sipeng, Xu Tianhao, Xu Tiantao, Fan Hu, Wang Cang, Cao Xun and Li Hongyi.
The commanders of these 36 Imperial Guards and 36 Mansion Guards were mostly generals summoned by Li Bin from the Tai Chi Bagua Diagram. The rest of them have followed Li Bin for many years and are deeply trusted by Li Bin.
Like the generals who joined the Zhennan Army of the Yuantu family, no one could serve as the head commander this time, but most of them served as the deputy commander of the imperial guards or soldiers of the guards.
In fact, many of these generals of the Tu family army were qualified to serve as the head coach, but among the 36 generals of the Tu family army, Yang Zhongjin, Yang Zhongrong and Yang Zhongzhang, secretly colluded with the civil servants of the Dayan court, and were finally found out by Yunshe.
When Li Bin learned about this, he was furious and immediately ordered the military power of the three brothers Yang Zhongjin, Yang Zhongrong and Yang Zhongzhang to be lifted, and the three of them were put into prison.
Although Li Bin wanted to tear Yang Zhongjin, Yang Zhongrong and Yang Zhongzhang the three of them, for the sake of the other generals of the Yuantu family army, Li Bin was not prepared to really kill Yang Zhongjin, Yang Zhongrong and Yang Zhongzhang.
However, when the three brothers Yang Zhongjin, Yang Zhongrong and Yang Zhongzhang learned that the affairs with the court's civil servants were exposed, they actually wanted to raise an army in the Eastern Barbarian Protectorate's Mansion, and at the same time sent people to contact the generals of the former Tu family army in Zhennan Army.
These three brothers have three military towns in their hands, including 165,000 soldiers and horses, but they still don’t know Li Bin too much.
Although Li Bin appears to have a lot of trust in his generals, he secretly asked Yunshe to secretly arrange a lot of spies around these generals. Of course, Li Bin still trusts 100% of the generals summoned by the Tai Chi Bagua Diagram.
Yang Zhongjin, Yang Zhongrong and Yang Zhongzhang were poisoned and killed by others just as soon as they wanted to rebel and raise an army. As for who was the one who attacked him, it goes without saying.
Currently, there are 31 generals of the Zhongyuan Tu Family Army of Zhennan Army, including five Southern Barbarians among the 24 Taishang Guards. All of these 31 people have the strength of a master warrior, and many of them deserve the four words of wisdom and courage.
In particular, Han Zhen, Xu Ying, Wang Sheng, Dong He, Fang Li, Yang Lun, Zhao Tong, Wei Xie, and Huo Qian, the nine generals who were the thirteen King Kongs of the Tu Family Army, were fully qualified to serve as the commander of the One Guard according to their qualifications, military achievements and abilities.
Unfortunately, they were all implicated by the three brothers Yang Zhongjin, Yang Zhongrong and Yang Zhongzhang, so that none of them could become the head coach of the Zhennan Army's military system reform this time.
In addition to the imperial guards and the government soldiers, Li Bin changed the name of the guard regiment to the Zhennan Langqi and returned to the Zhennan Grand Governor's Office directly under the jurisdiction of the Zhennan Grand Governor's Office.
The wolf cavalry in Zhennan formed thirteen towns, each town with thirty-five thousand wolf cavalry, Pei Yuanqing, Xiong Kuohai, Wang Yanzhang, Yang Dayan, Xia Luqi, Gao Aocao, Zhu Yu, Ju Jing, Wu Yunzhao, Wu Tianxi, Lu Junyi, Lu Wenlong and Li Meng, respectively, serving as the commanders of the wolf cavalry in the thirteen towns.
Except for Li Meng, the thirteen people, who are the master warriors, all the other twelve people have the strength of the master warriors.
Li Bin also has a guard team of more than 2,000 people, and these more than 2,000 people are warriors. Chen Jun and Xing Tao, two generals from Tianxing Pavilion, serve as commanders of the guard team.
The heavy armored cavalry has now expanded to 3,200 people. Sun Xiong, Fang Hu, Han Zhang and Han Rui are still the generals of the heavy armored cavalry, each leading 800 heavy armored cavalry.
In addition, the Glory Knights under Li Bin's command have now recovered a lot of energy thanks to the strong support of the Holy Sword Sect of the Tuz Empire, and have 32 purple-light knights and 66 blue-light knights.
Li Bin also had eighteen personal guards, namely the eighteen cavalry of Yanyun summoned from the Tai Chi Bagua diagram, and the forty-eight wolf generals led by Lu Zhishen.
In the prefecture of Fengzhou Prefecture of the former Biyue Kingdom, in a camp at the Zhennan Army camp outside Fengzhou City, Deng Yong sighed and said to Song Qi: "Old Song, I heard that! Our Zhennan Army will carry out military system reform. In the future, in the twenty-three prefectures and two arch-protectives controlled by our Zhennan Army, there are only thirty-six imperial guards and thirty-six military guards. However, none of us, generals from the Tu Family Army, can serve as the commander of the first guard this time."
Deng Yong and Song Qi were both one of the 36 generals of the original Tu family army. They are now the commanders of the Third Mandate and Fourth Mandate Town respectively. They were ordered to lead two Mandate Towns and attack the Fucheng of Fengzhou Prefecture of Biyue Kingdom.
Song Qi shrugged and said, "This matter is no longer a secret. I seem to be the deputy commander of the 34th Mansion Guard. Although we have been demoted in the name of the military system, after the reform of the military system, a Mansion Guard has more than 110,000 people. In fact, the military power in our hands will not be reduced but rise."
Deng Yong smiled bitterly and said, "I should be the deputy commander of the 33rd Mansion Guard. Although it is nothing to me to be the deputy commander. Just as Lao Song said, a mansion Guard will have more than 110,000 soldiers in the future, but I still feel a little uncomfortable. If it weren't for the three sluts of Yang Zhongjin, Yang Zhongrong, and Yang Zhongzhang, we brothers would have become the head coach of the guard!"
Song Qi shook his head and said, "According to the list that was spread, no one of the commanders of the thirty-six Imperial Guards and the thirty-six Mansion Guards is worse than our brothers. Even if there are no three brothers in the Yang family, we are in trouble. Don't forget that there are nine of them, Han Zhen, Xu Ying, Wang Sheng. The reason why the nine of them rank among the Thirteenth King Kong is because of their ability to lead troops to fight."
Deng Yong immediately whispered: "Old Song, I heard that the lord was originally planning to establish more imperial guards and civil guards. It was because of Yang Zhongjin, Yang Zhongrong and Yang Zhongzhang that the number of imperial guards and civil guards was reduced, which was obviously aimed at..."
Before Deng Yong finished his words, he was interrupted by Song Qi, "Erguai, be careful of his words! Don't cause trouble because of talking nonsense. We just need to do our own things well. Don't think about some things!"
Erguai is Deng Yong's nickname.
Deng Yong touched his nose and said, "I'm not just telling you this. Now I don't dare to say anything in front of my personal guards. Who knows if there are people from Yunshe among my personal guards?"
Song Qi glanced at the curtain of the camp, and then whispered: "There must be people from Yunshe among the personal guards around us, so be careful when speaking. The three brothers of the Yang family were poisoned to death overnight. They must be the people around them who poisoned them!"
After pausing, Song Qi said, "But as long as we are loyal to our lord, it doesn't matter if the personal guards around us are from Yunshe."
Deng Yong nodded and said, "Of course, I have no other intentions towards my lord."
Song Qi said again: "We will still have many opportunities in the future. Now our Zhennan Army has controlled twenty-three prefectures and two PRESIDENTIAL PROCEDURE, which is much stronger than the eight generals and the imperial court. In the future, the lord will definitely take that position."
Deng Yong smiled, "That's a must. If the lord hadn't taken care of the mercy, I felt that with the current strength of our Zhennan Army, it would be enough to sweep the eight generals and the civil servants of the court!"
Chapter completed!