"I plan to dismiss the army!" Li Jing suddenly raised an unexpected topic.

Several important officials of the Qin vassal who had been paying attention to Li Jing and Gai Yu were shocked. Disarmament? The army can be said to be the top priority. Other vassal states wanted to arm all the young and strong into an army, but Li Jing was thinking about disarmament. What did the King of Qin think? Although the situation is a little better now, it is not optimistic. There are so many vassal states, and at least two-thirds of the traditional territory of the Tang Dynasty were not taken down. Faced with dozens of vassal states, there are at least various vassal state troops with more than one million. Is it appropriate to disarmament at this time?

"A part of the foreign army can be removed. Now the proportion of foreign army in the Qin army is very large. If this continues, the army's components will be too mixed, which will affect combat effectiveness, and too many foreign army will have considerable consequences in the army." Jing Xiang couldn't help but speak out. He felt that Li Jing's proposal to disarmament might refer to the foreign army. After all, in order to deal with the war situation in the Northeast, especially the unique terrain of the Northeast, he recruited a large number of foreign soldiers and used Hu to control Hu. But now the war in the Northeast has been resolved, so there is no need to retain too many foreign soldiers to save future troubles.

Li Jing nodded, "The British soldiers do need to be lifted out, but the disarmament I am talking about does not refer to the British troops, and other troops must also be laid off."

Now, everyone was really shocked. The army was very serious, especially in the current situation of constant war. Although the Qin vassal army has been continuously expanded over the years and brought great logistical pressure, disarmament has reduced its strength.

"Disarmament is my idea after careful consideration. The more troops the better. Especially after we have completely controlled the Northeast region, now, outside the pass, we have no threat. And we are in the southeast. We will not have too many enemies in the short term. For a long time in the future, our opponents will mainly be Hedong, Henan, Hebei. In the Central Plains, we will also take steps to gradually erode the war. Therefore, we will retain too many troops. There is no need to keep the army in the essence but not too many. Too many troops will reduce the combat effectiveness of the army, increase the logistics burden, and affect civil production. Therefore, a part of the army is now abolished. I think it is completely possible. It can streamline the army and reduce expenses, killing the number of birds with one stone."

Everyone was a little hesitant. They had just wanted to convert most of the tribal troops that surrendered to peasant soldiers, and then they had to disarmament. This was not a small move. There were too many things involved, and it would even affect the future situation of the Qin vassal.

"Zi Ming, how many troops do we have now?"

As the envoy of the General Staff, Jing Xiang immediately replied without thinking: "At present, we have 16 legions of the Army Field Army and 800,000 soldiers and horses. In addition, there are 200,000 naval troops, 200,000 border guards, 100,000 road guards, and 200,000 city defense guards in various places. In addition, there are 200,000 guards in the Jingji Guards. In addition, there are 200,000 four legions including Shangrang, and 200,000 ten legions reorganized in Bohai, 500,000 Khitan, Heishui, Shiwei, Tatar and other tribes reorganized in 12 legions. In addition, we also have 300,000 registered united soldiers, 400,000 township soldiers, and 600,000 militias!"

When Jingxiang reported a series of numbers, everyone was a little surprised and surprised. The number of hundreds of thousands of times was indeed shocked. Everyone did not expect that before they knew it, the Qin army had so many troops.

The direct field army alone has 800,000, the other is 200,000 guards in the capital and 200,000 naval divisions. It can be regarded as 200,000 frontiers on the second line, 200,000 local guards and 100,000 road guards. These numbers add up to 1.7 million people. This does not include the surrendered troops and the army of various tribes that have surrendered, which has 1.3 million. In addition, it is also considered as the united soldiers, township soldiers, and militias of the reserves.

Don’t know if you don’t add it, OnePlus was shocked. The total strength of the Qin army was 4.3 million?

"Is there so many?" Everyone showed such a look. It was more than four million, and it was really a whip that could break the flow, and even spit out, it could flood the other party's city.

Jing Xiang smiled and explained: "Of course, this is actually just a literal number. Of course, there are not so many real troops, but the Qin army has indeed quite a lot of troops now."

In fact, the Qin army's real elite troops are now 16 field corpses, plus 200,000 naval divisions and 200,000 guards. But that's enough, there are only one and two million. Of course, this is actually a bit humid, because the Qin army counts all military academies and large-scale ordnance manufacturing units, and the personnel are also counted as active-duty soldiers. If these logistics departments and military academies are removed, they can still reduce a lot. In fact, they can reduce almost half of them. There are many military academies in the Qin army, especially

It is a Scout school, with nearly 100,000 people in all classes from seven to eighteen years old. This is the largest source of high-quality soldiers in the professionalization of the Qin army. The relevant logistics personnel who provide equipment logistics for the Qin army, from weapons research to ordnance production, and including the war horse farm and various related logistics personnel, have as many as 500,000 people. Therefore, if these personnel are deducted, they are considered in the army, the real active combat troops are only 600,000. The sixteen legions of the field army, as well as other armies, are actually not full.

However, even if there are only 600,000 combatants, the Qin army still has a large number of reserves and surrendered troops. No matter how you calculate it, the number is amazing.

"I plan to withdraw all non-combat troops from active service, such as cadets from various military academies, military workshops, military horse farms, etc., and retire them from active service. They only belong to the military logistics department, but not active service." There is still a big difference between active service and non-active service personnel. Although it is just a change of name, it will have a great impact. At least, the treatment of military personnel in the Qin vas is very good now. With hundreds of thousands of non-combat personnel withdrawing active service, the Qin vassal's military expenditure will be much reduced.

"I agreed to the Qin King's proposal that the Qin vassal soldiers are sacred and glorious. Non-combatants should retire from active service, which is different from the active service, which further demonstrates the special nature of the soldiers. Moreover, if non-combatants retire from active service, the annual military expenditure will be reduced a lot. No matter from any aspect, it is very good." Jing Xiang immediately agreed to Li Jing's proposal.

If Li Jing wants to disarmament, of course it is impossible to just lay off these.

"The border guards retain a size of 200,000 people, but the road guards and local garrisons will be abolished, and part of them will be merged into the border guards and some will be abolished. Their original local garrison tasks will be handed over to the Unity Army and the Township soldiers to jointly undertake."

"The navy troops will also be abolished, so as to reduce the current size of 200,000 people by half, and retain 100,000 people. A part of the shore defense troops will be incorporated into the Unity Soldiers and Township Soldiers, and a part of the Marines will be transferred into the Marines." The Qin army had basically no opponents on the water, so naturally there was no need to retain a huge water force. The scale of 100,000 people is enough.

"In addition, the number of reserves must be reduced. Currently, in the 18 provinces, each province retains a united army of 5,000 troops, one village soldier, and one militia retains it on the scale of one army in each state."

The Qin Fan now has a large territory and many places have become large rears, so there is no need to retain a large number of united soldiers and rural soldiers as before. Although united soldiers and rural soldiers are reserves, they have to be trained for at least three months each year, and the military has to be responsible for a considerable expense. After the abolition according to Li Jing's plan, it will be reduced by three to four times. The township soldiers and united soldiers will each remain below 100,000, while the militia will be around 200,000. The total number of reserves will be reduced from the original one.3 million to 400,000.

Of course, the focus of the disarmament is to lay off the foreign troops. Although it is not all of them to be abolished, Li Jing required that the total number of foreign troops should not exceed 20% of the total number of troops, and that the pure foreign cavalry troops will no longer be retained.

This is a huge move. In Li Jing's overall disarmament plan, the first thing is to lay off 600,000 military academy students and military industrial departments to remove active troops, and then attack the foreign soldiers. First, the tribes, which are as many as 1.11 million, tribes, corps, composed of old, young, and even women of various tribes, should be revoked. In fact, these people are not really all army, but Li Jing brought them back from the Northeast and managed them according to military organization. Now, they are all going to disband, most of them have to be transferred to the production corps, a small part is placed in various places, and a small part is transferred to the army.

In addition, some of the foreign soldiers in each unit were about to be removed. In the end, from field army tribes to border guards, only 100,000 soldiers from more than 100 tribes were retained in total, and they were scattered into the various armies.

According to Li Jing's plan, the Qin army was finally classified as the garrison troops of the Jingji, field troops, border guard troops, local garrison troops and reserve troops. The Jingji Guard troops, that is, Yanjing and the important nearby Guancheng, retained 200,000 people. The field troops were finally retained 300,000 people. The 200,000 border guard troops were retained. The local garrison troops were composed of united troops and township troops. The local garrison troops were between the standing army and the reserve troops. The 200,000 local garrison troops implemented a rotation service system. In the absence of war, only one quarter of the service was retained, and the troops were rotated in four batches, each batch was one quarter. Only in wartime states, all gathered. The other 400,000 militias became reserves, trained for two months every year during the slack season and were recruited during the war.
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