Chapter 977 Uehara Station
But in addition to the peasant soldiers, the Qin army will be one million people, plus 400,000 auxiliary soldiers. Among the one million people, 200,000 are actually rotating, which means that the actual number is 850,000 active soldiers.
One million active service, of which 100,000 foreign soldiers were maintained at about 10%.
"Will there be too many layoffs?"
A few people asked worriedly, and the huge number of troops from 4.3 million to 850,000 suddenly became 850,000. No matter how you look at it, how cruel it is.
"Even if it is 850,000, this is a large number. Everyone, 30 million people have a million troops, which is already a heavy burden ratio. Look at the past few years, our lives are very tight, and the army continues to expand, and the ultimate is not only a logistics supply problem."
With too many troops, it is inevitable that the management will be insufficient and the military discipline will be even relaxed. Moreover, Li Jing has been guarding against one thing, that is, the generals have too much power in their hands, and they will eventually be unrestrained, and a new army will appear. Especially in recent years, fighting has been continuous, and the Qin army's organization has been expanding. In the past, when it was not combat, the battalion level was the largest unit. But now, not only are there countless wings and troops, but there are even long-standing corpses, and the commander of the legion held ten troops and 50,000 troops. If this momentum is not good, and over time, it is inevitable that there will be a faction in the top of the mountain.
To fight against foreign countries, we must first settle the country.
Taking advantage of the ease of the situation, Li Jing was going to sort out the inside carefully first and just stare at the outside, but it didn't work.
By the way of disarmament, Li Jing put forward his second plan, which is to reorganize the army. The best way to deal with the military leaders of the mountain faction is of course to frequently change officers, but this is not thorough enough. Therefore, Li Jing took advantage of this disarmament and the reduction of foreign soldiers to launch a plan to reorganize the army. Of course, this is not a simple reorganization. The Qin vassal one million troops will be divided into 200 armies, 1,000 wings, and 2,000 battalions. From the wing level, the entire army will be ranked, from the first wing to the first wing, and each army will also go from the first wing to the 200th wing. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Jing directly disrupted the original wing and abolished the organization of each legion. The wing organization is gone, and the commanders of the legion will naturally be gone. After the wing level is abolished, the generals can only command one army at the highest.
Moreover, in non-wartime states, the army at the battalion level or above only retains basic organization, but all officers are not in the army, but stay in the office of the Five Army Governor's Office in Yanjing, and plays guest lecturers and professors at the military academy. Only in wartime can they rely on military orders and military talismans to mobilize their own troops. In non-wartime, the troops are stationed in various places in battalions, with the battalion being the highest actual chief officer leading each battalion. This is also the separation of soldiers and generals according to the initial twelve guards of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, control military power, and prevent the emergence of military leaders and warlords.
Especially for the 200,000 guard troops in the capital, they were led by multiple generals, restricted and supervised everywhere. The stronger the Qin vassal, Li Jing began to pay more and more attention to internal defense. It can be said that at this point, the possibility of external forces defeating the Qin vassal was very few, and the biggest possibility was internal problems. Many heroes in history defeated most of the East Mountain with one hand, but in the end they were one step away from unifying the world. The biggest problem was that internal contradictions were difficult to reconcile. For example, Cao Wei was seized by the Sima family, Northern Zhou and Northern Qi, and even many short-lived dynasties of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, were not all like this. Heroes in the end. In the end, the dynasties did not live long. The big reason was not only the incompetence of later generations, but also mainly because the foundation of the dynasty was unstable at the beginning. Just like the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, these monarchs could be considered heroes, but in the end they did not successfully unify the world. It has a great relationship with internal instability.
"How to arrange the six legions controlled by Qin Zongquan, Shang Rang, Ge Congzhou, Zhang Guimu, Qian Liu and Yang Xingmi?" Gai Yu asked. In Li Jing's plan just now, these six legions that were nominally affiliated with the Qin army were never mentioned.
Li Jing didn't mention these six so-called legions just now, naturally because these six legions were not actually controlled by Li Jing. It was just nominal surrender. Not only Qian Liu and Yang Xingmi, but also Shang Rang and other four surrendered generals were the same.
Qian Liu and Yang Xingmi ignored him for the time being. Now they were frightened by the power of the Qin army. Although they gradually became disengaged from the self-reliance, they did not dare to act rashly for the time being. Since this is the case, Li Jing planned to maintain this situation first. As for Shang Rang and others, although these people surrendered Li Jing, the two sides were actually more similar to cooperation rather than affiliation. Li Jing now wants to use them, so he did not intend to rush to annex them to avoid causing their rebound.
"Well, give them six from the 41st to 46th, six new legion numbers, and the rest remain unchanged. Anyway, military expenditure is self-sufficient and the number of soldiers is 50,000. If he wants to make more calls, it doesn't matter if he wants to attack more. Well, don't touch the four prefectures in western Henan for the time being, and the province is full of suspicion. Especially when Shang Rang waits for the four generals of Huang Chao. Keep them in western Henan and still use them sooner or later." Li Jing understood that these military leaders were unlikely to surrender directly. They had territory and soldiers, how could they do this?
It's easy to surrender. But Li Jing doesn't care much about the territory of those states. He keeps them stuck in the south of Luoyang. The person who feels most uncomfortable is the Yang brothers, Zhu Wen. All Li Jing needs to do is wait. Sooner or later, they will have a fight. When they fight with fish and clams, that is, when the Qin vassal fishermen gain benefits, let them go first. Otherwise, if Li Jing intervenes too early, they will be afraid that they will fight against the Qin army, and they will be cheaper than Zhu Wen and Yang brothers.
"Anyway, we have three things to do at present, which is the most urgent task. First, the first is to disarmament and reorganize the army. Second, establish a production corps, recruit slaves, refugees, and the Hu people to go outside the pass to cultivate land and reclaim wasteland and develop the Northeast. Third, and most important, fully prepare for the battle in Hebei next year and make comprehensive preparations." Li Jing waved his hand to pay tribute to the rumbling parade troops, and said to the important officials in a deep voice. Li Yi, the military supervisor, the military and national affairs, Li Yi and Li, the military supervisor, the military and national affairs of Pingzhang, and the military and national affairs of Li Yi and Li.
Bao and the other two stood on one side, looking at Li Jing from time to time. They vaguely felt that Li Jing was talking about something important, but they could not hear anything clearly between a distance. Although Li Yi was the governor of the country and the highest official position in Yanjing, Li Yan and Li Bao were also the third and fourth persons of the Qin vassal after Li Yi and Li Jing. But they knew in their hearts that this was just nominal, and in fact, they were excluded from the core circle of Yanjing.
Chapter completed!