Chapter 341 The Great Tournament
Since the Chuzhou army occupied Bozhou in May last year, it has occupied more than 20 prefectures so far.
Whether it is an ordinary state or a large prefecture like Hangzhou, there are lessons learned in management and everything is in order.
Nowadays, Hangzhou and Taizhou have left important generals to guard the situation, because they just got the local area and were just for stability.
By October, the newly occupied prefectures were admitted and there would be another personnel transfer.
The Chuzhou army emphasizes "qualification", but it is not "selected by seniority", but it emphasizes "the capable work more", which has made many newcomers stand out.
Those who can control the military and political power of a state prefecture are basically the elderly in Bozhou, but civil and military officials from Hezhou, Luzhou, Yangzhou, Jinling and other places have begun to emerge.
Previously, the Chuzhou army divided the mountain tops with the generals as the core, or the area divisions such as Heimang Mountain, Quyang, and Yongyang City in Chuzhou.
Now the factions in the military are in a little mess.
The divisions of the generals, the divisions of one state and one prefecture are also divided according to the White-Shirt Army and the Official Army.
When it comes to the outside world, everyone is naturally comrades-in-arms, hello, I, everyone; but after the war, you are still you, and I am still me.
After a while, there were signs of struggle.
Master Lin was happy to see that he succeeded, and privately said to Huo Wu: "It's good, if it is really divided according to the power of several marshals, it is easy to become a hidden danger."
Everyone is a founding hero of the Chuzhou army, and it is not yet time for civil and military wars to compete.
Master Lin just wanted to be in the head and did not want the Chuzhou army to eventually split.
Otherwise, the Chuzhou Army's forces would be divided by the marshals' forces. If someone had a quarrel, the Chuzhou Army would fall into division.
Now that all kinds of factions are intertwined, even the marshals above cannot control all their subordinate forces.
Huo Wu snorted: "It's all idle. Xiaobao said that a martial arts competition will be held in the twelfth lunar month, and then let them see the truth."
Master Lin listened and looked at Huo Bao.
This is indeed what Huo Bao means.
The Chuzhou Army has expanded significantly this year and a half, and now it is time to rest and recuperate. Otherwise, the Qichun Army last year would be a lesson for the past.
Last July, the Qichun Army was full of momentum, and the troops were divided into three groups. Only the "East Expedition" was the way, and they captured more than ten prefectures and directly fought to Hangzhou.
You should know that Qichun is 1,500 kilometers away from Hangzhou.
This is just a group of people. The other two groups of people "expeditions in the west" and "expeditions in the south" at the same time. The front line is too long and the territory is occupied too quickly, so it cannot be digested at all.
Then, two groups of people from the imperial court "recovered" Hangzhou and the prefectures on the "East Expedition" route. The whole group of people surrounded Qichun, almost causing Qichun to fall into a desperate situation.
If Shou Tianwan hadn't had a few powerful generals under him, and if he had defended Qichun, he would have lost his old nest.
With such a lesson, the Chuzhou army gave up its pace of conquest.
Now the white shirts in Taizhou next to the couch have been eliminated. What remains is to digest the eight newly occupied prefectures in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as well as the three prefectures that Monk Feng had previously occupied in Jiangxi, which are eleven prefectures.
You should know that the territory of the Chuzhou Army before was Chuzhou, Hezhou, Luzhou, Yangzhou, Shuzhou, and Shouzhou, as well as the six prefectures of Taiping, Jinling, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou, and Songjiang in the south of the Yangtze River. Among them, Shuzhou, Shouzhou, Changzhou, Suzhou, and Songjiang were occupied after the New Year. After half a year, the same was true.
The eleven state prefectures that have just been obtained must be calm and stable before they can be truly in their hands.
With the conquest of the marshals, they recruited county soldiers, government soldiers and road guards along the way. Now the number of soldiers has exceeded the 500,000 mark.
The biggest problem facing the Chuzhou Army now is that there are not enough civil servants and the generals are too leisurely.
There is no way for civil servants. The Chuzhou Army trained itself to be the only one who can be the only one, and even if the demoted officials can only be used.
An important prefecture can only send important officials like Song Lin to sort them out.
There is Yangzhou in front, and now there is Hangzhou.
The population of Hangzhou is not as good as that of Jinling, but it is not much different.
Since last year, Hangzhou has changed its chief several times, and the city is very messy.
First, the Qichun army occupied it, then the Jiangxi army came, and now the Chuzhou army is again.
There are also benefits when it comes to repeated.
That is, the gentry and people in Hangzhou were calm and did not flee a large area of gentry and people in other prefectures that had not experienced war.
The disadvantage is that the local snake in Hangzhou Prefecture has become so sarcastic that it has suffered one or two previous encounters and lacks fear of the Chuzhou army.
Except for a few gentry who had previously had contact with the Chuzhou army, they were happy to see the Chuzhou army occupying Hangzhou Prefecture, and more gentry were still waiting and watching and were not obedient to the Chuzhou army.
Such a large mansion has a larger population than Yangzhou and an important position. Huo Wu had no choice but to ask Song Lin to go out again and preside over the government affairs of the Hangzhou government.
Civil officials are frequently transferred, and they want to break up one by one, but military generals are too idle.
Except for the generals guarding the local area, the remaining generals returned to Jinling.
They are all young and strong men, and they have had several frictions after a while.
Although no one dared to know the law and violate the law and directly attack their own people, they have fought against each other several times.
"There are all idle people. They don't accept anyone, so let's have a big competition!"
Huo Baodao:: "Anyone with more than a thousand households can register, and the army can compete, and they can also train new recruits."
Another disadvantage of the rapid expansion of the Chuzhou Army is that more than 500,000 soldiers have not all seen blood.
Some old soldiers have seen blood, but many new soldiers have been promoted with the crushing progress of the main general and have never experienced the battle formation.
Now that Chuzhou Army is fighting against one prefecture and one county, the old and weak county soldiers who lack military equipment and do not complain, there are no decent opponents.
The army crushes, either seizes the city, or directly accepts the other party's surrender.
For soldiers, even if they go through the formalities, they don’t see any blood, and they are not considered to be experienced.
If you really encounter strong soldiers, the Chuzhou army will become a "mob" and cannot resist.
The reason why there are unstable sounds in the army is that the generals who have seen blood have become arrogant because of their merits and despise those generals who have not seen blood and feel dissatisfied with them.
Those generals who did not see blood were also looking forward to experiencing the battle formation.
The promotion of the Chuzhou Army generals must be considered as military achievements.
If you don’t fight, you will have no military achievements and they will be depressed.
In the name of "big competition", it is also a training and integration of these soldiers, so that the generals can have an opportunity to distinguish between strength and weakness.
When the generals met, Huo Wu mentioned the "big competition" with everyone.
Deng Jian was very interested: "Just, daily exercise is just for the most important tasks, which can be counted as the exam!"
Chuzhou military civil and military performance tests are divided into quarterly and annually.
Deng Jian got half of Huo Wu's "The Fifth Army Strategy" and thought too much, and no longer focused on the matter in front of the battle.
Monk Feng was always lazy, so he calculated his fingers and said, "Except for the 200,000 defenders in the local area, there are about 300,000 soldiers and more than 300,000 households and more than 300 people in Jinling City. How many places are there?"
Huo Wu smiled and said, "Xiaobao has a conspiracy, let Xiaobao say it."
Everyone looked at Huo Bao, but Huo Bao didn't keep it a secret and said, "First hold a competition for the qualifying competition, and divide it into groups according to the number of applicants, and divide it into sixteen groups. Each of the two strongest teams will enter the rematch. The third-ranked team will compete for the remaining four places. A total of thirty-six teams will participate in the competition. Each group of six teams will select the first and second, first select the twelve teams, and then decide four of the six thirds. The sixteen teams will be in the next round..." Speaking of this, he paused and said, "When this competition is over, it will be a competition at the level of the deputy general."
The Chuzhou military system is based on the current imperial military system, with thousands of households under the jurisdiction of dozens of people and more than 5,000 deputy generals.
There were 300,000 soldiers in Jinling City, including tens of thousands of logistics soldiers and defenders, and only about 200,000 soldiers.
If all thousand households sign up for the competition, there will be about 200 people and the deputy generals, there will be more than 40 people.
Although Monk Feng grew up in the temple, he had a lot of hills and valleys in his heart. He immediately calculated the approximate competition schedule and nodded and said, "It's good that I'll be safe before and after the New Year."
According to Huo Bao's plan, the Chuzhou army can take half a year to conduct a "big competition".
This is just right, so that the Chuzhou army can have time to digest the newly occupied eleven prefectures.
At the same time, it is also preparing for war. Now the White-Shirt Army has four major forces left, all of which are conquering and expanding.
The court has lost two-thirds of its territory, but it is still intrigue.
This world is not far from falling apart.
The leader of the village came to the side and said, "Although it is for training troops, since there is a difference between victory and defeat, you have to give it a reward so that the boys can do their best."
As for what the head is, it will take Huo Wu Ding.
Most of the Chuzhou troops were captured in the Taiwei Mansion, and Huo Wu was not short of money.
Chapter completed!