In the military reform plan, the Huben Army and Yulin Army, which originally had special significance, will be transformed into the orthodox field army directly under the Central Han Army.
The original political significance was diluted in the military reform plan, while the military significance was greatly enhanced.
Therefore, the Huben Army and the Yulin Army maintained their original service numbers, and were all expanded into a model of three battalions and one directly subordinate department. The same was true for the other five reorganized armies.
Therefore, at this stage, the entire Central Han Army's establishment was determined to be 70,000 people, with 21 mixed battalions and seven directly affiliated cavalry departments.
From the current point of view, excluding the special army of Bingzhou soldiers, the number of troops under Liu Bei's control is probably sufficient. However, because there are many old, weak, sick and disabled people in each army, they do not meet Liu Bei's army building needs. After they were sent away, there were not enough of them.
After a round of careful selection of the troops under his control, the troops under Liu Bei's control in the Luoyang area were organized into twenty battalions with a total of 60,000 men, which was still some distance from the Central Army's full strength of 70,000 men.
At present, in addition to the twenty battalions in the Luoyang area, Liu Bei also has eight battalions left in Liangzhou and seven battalions left in Yizhou.
There are also fifteen battalions in these two states that have been recruited and trained for a long time, and have initially acquired combat effectiveness and organization.
After calculating the future situation and some needs, Liu Bei decided to directly reorganize the troops left in Liangzhou and Yizhou.
He included the armies of Liangzhou and Yizhou into Luoyang's military reform plan, and organized two military-level structures to be commanded by Guan Yu and Qianzhao respectively, allowing them to continue to stay in Liangzhou and Yizhou.
The remaining troops and generals were all summoned to Luoyang to complete this major reorganization.
In this way, another 25,000 trained troops with certain combat effectiveness can arrive in Luoyang and join the Central Army's system. Then the number of troops Liu Bei can control in the Luoyang area will be 85,000. On a human scale.
After further calculating the number of troops in his hands, Liu Bei felt that the number of troops was still somewhat insufficient.
From the current point of view, together with the two armies of Liangzhou and Yizhou, this integrated field army of 105,000 people is enough to control the Kansai region, but it is only enough for self-protection. A state of having more than enough but not enough progress.
To intimidate the world and truly threaten other areas of the world, one hundred and fifty thousand people are not enough.
To go on an expedition or stay behind, if there is an expedition mission, a larger number of troops will be needed. The guarding and deterrence of important passes in the world all require the support of a large number of troops.
Even the Eastern Han Dynasty, which liked to engage in public security operations, retained the central Han army, border camp troops, local pass defenders and other Han armies directly under the central government, and the daily standing Central Han army general, despite the overall financial decline in the middle and late period. The number of people is almost 200,000.
After this round of crisis coup, the command of the Han troops such as the border camps and local pass defenders is not in Liu Bei's hands for the time being. The central government's deterrence to the local areas relies entirely on the 105,000-strong Han army directly controlled by Liu Bei. The army is not enough in numbers.
Therefore, it is necessary to expand the army to a scale of 200,000 to 300,000.
However, it is not realistic to become a fat man in one bite. Although the money can be spent, there are many aspects that need to be taken into consideration when expanding the army, and it is not just about having money.
Therefore, Liu Bei decided to conduct an initial round of conscription in the land of Sanfu and Yizhou to slowly expand the number of troops. Later, when he actually controls more places, he can further expand the army.
He planned to strive for the formal establishment of three armies after the Han army reorganization of the central seven armies was completed, and to increase the officially established Han army to twelve armies.
One each was placed in Liangzhou and Yizhou, and 100,000 people were placed in the Sanhe area, ready to target the rebellion in the Kanto region.
Then he recruited another 100,000 people and retained them under various names to continue to expand the military power at hand.
At present, the entire greater Luoyang area outside Luoyang City is now Liu Bei's back garden, and as the general in charge of military affairs, he has sufficient space, reasons, and funds for activities.
He had no interest in luxury, so he spent all his money to enhance his strength.
In order to reorganize the army, train new recruits, and complete the construction of the entire army, the army construction work of the Liangzhou Army was perfectly transplanted to Luoyang. Liu Bei carried out military construction around the Luoyang area.
He renovated, expanded and reinforced the original military camps around Luoyang, and successively built military garrison camps for seven armies in the surrounding area. In addition, he built a crucial new military camp in the Shouyang Mountain area of Luoyang. Training camp.
All recruits who have not been recognized and have not completed training must enter the recruit training camp, where they receive the most complete military training, cultural training, and ideological education.
After their cultural literacy, technical skills and tactics are fully recognized, and the entire training process is completed, the recruits can enter the military camps of each main force and officially start serving.
Therefore, there are eight military camps controlled by Liu Bei in the entire Luoyang area, and they are very large in scale.
The eight large camps surround Luoyang City, forming a vague circle. They complement each other with the eight passes of Luoyang, forming a net that tightly traps the Luoyang area.
After the plan was finalized, Liu Bei once again reported to the Little Emperor that after the construction of the seven mixed armies, a special cavalry unit would also need to be built, taking into account the needs of the Xianbei, Huns, Wuhuan, etc. in the northern grasslands.
So he applied to the court for the establishment of three armies, a pure cavalry army, specifically to deal with threats from the northern grasslands.
He can provide war horses and professional training. As long as the imperial court allows it, he will immediately start training the cavalry army to ensure that the Huns, Xianbei and Wuhuan people have no idea of threats to the Central Plains and do their best to protect the imperial court. safety.
After a chaotic fight, Liu Bei's application was approved by the young emperor Liu Xie.
Those who want to oppose it cannot stand and have no strong arguments. They can only talk about finance.
But in terms of finance, they have no financial power at all. The financial power is mainly in the hands of Liu Bei. With Zhen Yan in charge, if it doesn't work, Liu Bei can still use the income from salt to subsidize it.
Isn't it better to use this money to build the army than to waste it on you insects?
So soon, the designations of the three cavalry armies, the Xiao Cavalry Army, the Tiger Cavalry Army, and the Leopard Cavalry Army, were also approved and handed over to Liu Bei for expansion and use.
Now, Liu Bei could build up his army with peace of mind.
After the numbers of the ten armies were approved, Liu Bei held a military meeting with confidence to make comprehensive arrangements for his subordinates based on their actual abilities.
The general who leads an army holds the position of Zhonglang General, and there are not many Zhonglang Generals under Liu Bei's command.
Especially after the end of this wave of military operations, many people were promoted to the rank of Zhonglang General based on their merits, and in Liu Bei's view, they also had the military and cultural standards to lead an army.
He announced that the military positions previously arranged were only temporary measures, and this time they were official, and he made a series of adjustments and changes decisively.
Zhang Fei, Pang De, and Xia Houyuan were appointed as the chief generals of the three cavalry corps respectively. Zhang Fei was appointed as the Tiger Cavalry Commander, Pang De was appointed as the Xiao Cavalry Commander, and Xia Houyuan was appointed as the Leopard Cavalry Commander.
Then, Liu Bei appointed Xu Huang, who was originally the captain of the Yue Cavalry School, to be promoted to Huben Zhonglang General, clan general Liu Yong to be Yulin Zhonglang General, and Liu Sheng, who was also a clan clan general, to be Shence Zhonglang General.
Cheng Pu was appointed as the general of Xuanjia Zhonglang, Han Dang was appointed as the general of Tianxing Zhonglang, Dong Huang was appointed as the general of Xiaoguo Zhonglang, and Cao Ren was appointed as the general of Yingyang Zhonglang.
After the appointment of the top ten lieutenants, Liu Bei did not forget to establish Guan Yu's status and identity.
He relisted Guan Yu's positions and powers, gave the army commanded by Guan Yu the military name Tianwei Army, re-appointed him as Tianwei Zhonglang General, and increased the number of food towns, making his food towns the third largest under Liu Bei's command. On the position of one.
The same goes for Qianzhao. In addition to the governor of Bajun, Qianzhao was given the position of General Qianniu Zhonglang, who commanded the Qianniu Army, and his food was increased.
At the same time, in order to cope with the need for military supervision within the imperial court, and also for some of his own needs for supervision within the army, Liu Bei discussed with the other three assistant ministers and took over the position of Zhi Jinwu and let him serve as the commander-in-chief of the Northern Army. Gai Xun, who was waiting for the throne, served as the governor of Jinwu.
(End of chapter)
