With these words from the Ninth Princess, Su Qi'an felt much at ease and could safely expand the army.
It's just that the targets of this military expansion are mainly recruited from the militia of many towns and villages in Tucheng County.
Tucheng County is divided into three cities. Each city has about ten towns. The militia in each town is organized into companies.
A rough calculation shows that there are about 3,000 people. Su Qi'an's expansion of the army will at least double the number to more than 10,000 people.
The militia is ready. As for the remaining two or three thousand people, Su Qi'an will give priority to the lower-class people mobilized from the beginning by Tong Zhan and Su Yong in the county.
The basic problem of expanding the recruitment by five to six thousand people is not big. Su Qi'an naturally has his own considerations in doing this.
The army is Su Qi'an's biggest source of confidence, and the quality of the soldiers is crucial.
After all, Tucheng County has been developed by Su Qi'an for a long time, and the militias in each township can basically guarantee their ideas.
Su Qi'an could only control the county for less than a month at best. No matter how good he was in all aspects, he could not guarantee that everyone's hearts would turn to him in just one month.
Priority will be given to those who have previously sneaked into the county and developed by Tong Zhan and Su Yong, with at least four or five months of experience.
These people are much better than the original army soldiers in the county and city. After Su Qi'an took over, there were only about 3,000 soldiers left.
After a series of reviews, 2,000 people were directly laid off, and the remaining 1,000 people were retained, but they were divided into batches and divided into counties and towns under Tucheng County.
Even if these thousands of people cause trouble in the future, with their small number and under the supervision of thousands of household heads, household heads, and security chiefs, they will not be able to cause much trouble.
In this expansion of the army, Su Qi'an basically divided all the new recruits into the first, second and third regiments.
It's just that I can't use the Dongshan Army number, but my usual actions are to follow the three regiments.
Each regiment directly increased its number from the previous 1,200 to 3,000, which was equivalent to an additional 1,800 men per regiment.
The temporary designations given to these people by Su Qi'an are the First Regiment, the Second Regiment, the Third Regiment...all the way up to the Sixth Regiment.
Each two regiments are under the jurisdiction of the three regiments of the Dongshan Army according to their designations.
The current three regiments of the Dongshan Army have expanded from the previous 3,600 to 9,000.
In addition to the expansion of the three regiments, the independent cavalry battalion was increased from 500 to 1,000 men and became a regiment.
The reason why the regiment of about 1,000 people was expanded to 3,000 people was also out of actual combat necessity.
After fighting with the big and small priests and the Qingcheng County Sheriff, Su Qi'an discovered that in today's Da Liang society, military operations are always dominated by cold weapons, which requires large-scale legion operations.
With a regiment of about a thousand people, there is no problem in suppressing bandits, but once it encounters an army of several thousand people, one regiment is obviously not enough.
No matter how strong the Dongshan Army was, they ultimately defeated the opponent with less force and more, but their own casualties were also very high.
Therefore, it is very important to expand the regiment-level establishment.
The five companies directly under the headquarters were reduced to three, and the logistics and transportation companies were merged into three expanded regiments, each with logistics and transportation.
With this benefit, even if the three regiments move separately, it can at least ensure that the members of the regiment have food problems.
Intelligence reconnaissance and special operations were merged and named as the Special Operations Reconnaissance Company.
Su Qi'an's headquarters company only has special operations reconnaissance, security, and communications.
In this way, the headquarters can better communicate with subordinates and operate more efficiently, while the number of people in the company remains unchanged.
Based on this calculation, the current Dongshan Army has expanded from the original 5,000 people to about 11,000 people, with an expansion of 6,000 people.
The strength of more than 10,000 men is not Su Qi'an's upper limit, nor is it that he does not want to continue to expand his recruitment.
For now, the strength of more than 10,000 troops is the limit that Su Qian can control.
Before we digest the 6,000 people who have doubled the number of our own backbone, if we continue to blindly expand to 20,000 or 30,000 people, it is very likely that we will not be able to completely control it and will be out of control.
After all, not everyone may be able to adapt to the three iron laws of the Dongshan Army.
Blindly expanding recruitment in order to increase the number of troops is not a good thing.
The Dongshan Army has always been more sophisticated than quantitative. If an army of more than 10,000 people is properly trained and trained well, its strength will not be worse than that of 20,000 to 30,000 parallel imports.
Su Qi'an always maintained a principle in the expansion of military strength, and everything changed according to the changes in battlefield conditions.
For now, more than 10,000 people are enough. One day, his strength will be further strengthened and his territory will be further expanded.
In the Dongshan Army, there will definitely be divisions and corps numbers that are higher than the regiment. Su Qi'an is looking forward to this.
With priority recruitment targets, the army expansion went smoothly this time. Su Qi'an's three regiments, General Su's first regiment were stationed in the county city with him, and Song Biao's second regiment was stationed in Qi'an City.
Qi'an City was the original Little Priest City. The reason why this location was chosen was its superior geographical location.
It is located at the junction of Tucheng County, the county town, and the high priest's territory.
Internally, it can radiate to Tucheng County and Sioux City, and externally, it can be used as a choke point leading to the county town and the high priest's territory.
No matter which territory there is trouble, he can send troops to reinforce as quickly as possible.
Chen Dao's third regiment was stationed in the high priest's territory.
Su Qi'an was least worried about trouble and riots in the high priest's territory.
He is different from the county town. In addition to the county guard, there are also various dignitaries and officials, big and small.
As for the high priest, he is the only master and has absolute power of life and death over everyone in the territory.
This kind of rule is even more high-pressure than the rule of Qingcheng County Governor. When Su Qi'an and Qingcheng County Governor were fighting in the county town.
Chen Dao's third regiment was basically unimpeded. With the help of the soldiers who had sneaked in previously, they easily captured it without much effort.
The development of infiltrators in the High Priest City is better than that in the county city. Chen Dao's arrival did not even require him to send troops.
There were indigenous people who were instigated to rebel, and they personally led the team to maintain local security on behalf of Chen Dao.
Therefore, the high priest's territory management was relatively easy. Of course, Su Qi'an did not relax his vigilance about this land.
The dispatched management personnel, who had not been left behind with the expansion of the Third Regiment, were quickly put in place.
Because the high priest's territory is quite large, as big as two or three counties, with a population of more than 100,000.
Except for the city of the high priest in the middle, the rest of the territory was divided by simple numbers, just like the jurisdiction of the small priests.
In order to facilitate management, Su Qi'an redivided the high priest's territory into five cities.
In order not to cause confusion to the local indigenous people, the previous simple numbering was continued.
From City No. 1 to City No. 5, each city is stationed with a battalion under the three regiments.
Each city is divided into secondary villages and is managed by household heads and security chiefs.
At the same time, the various properties of the high priest should be confiscated, the land should be redivided, slaves should be abolished, literacy classes should be opened, and militias in the countryside should be formed with suitable indigenous people.
It can be said that with the arrival of Chen Dao's three regiments, the changes in the high priest's territory are in full swing.
There have been changes. Of course, there are also some rumors saying that Chen Dao's regiment has jurisdiction over such a large territory. If there is any deviance, it may be detrimental to Su Qi'an.
Such rumors would reach Su Qian's ears from time to time.
Think about it, how long has Chen Dao followed Su Qi'an, and he was the queen of the country before.
First he was exonerated, then he was made the leader of the third regiment, and now he is given sole jurisdiction over all the high priest's territory.
The temptation brought by this kind of right is hard not to make people feel dissatisfied.
There was some truth to this worry, but Su Qian laughed it off. He said nothing and silently took out a large stack of letters from the bookshelf behind him.
These letters are all from Chen Dao, who would report to Su Qi'an every day what he saw and heard after entering the Priest City, and how well he had completed the actions he had ordered according to Su Qi'an's orders.
These are not what Su Qi'an asked for, but what Chen Dao consciously gave to Su Qi'an.
communication.
Some captains who were still discussing suddenly lost their voices, said a few words of agreement, and turned to leave.
Su Qi'an always employs people without questioning them and does not use them with suspicion. Even if there is a problem with the people he employs, it is because he has a problem with his management of subordinates.
There is no perfect system and no entry into the hearts of lower-class soldiers.
Therefore, Soldier Committees were established at the lower levels of the army, and each squad had the backbone of the Soldier Committee.
This was also the reason why Su Qi'an delegated power so much that he dared to let Chen appoint several regiment leaders to lead troops to station in other places.
It is no exaggeration to say that even without Chen Dao's active correspondence, these grassroots soldiers are Su Qi'an's best eyes.
Once Chen Dao, or someone else, wants to lead troops to counterattack him, they will most likely be controlled by other subordinates before they take action.
Not only in the army, but also in the management of the local population, the security chiefs, household heads, and even the thousand household heads sent by Su Qi'an are all people who have completed the training courses that Su Qi'an regularly conducts.
The first point of these people's thoughts is to support all orders issued by Su Qi'an.
They will take Su Qi'an's ideas and go deep into the grassroots of each village to form a complete grassroots organization.
This organization is similar to Li Xiaomei’s women’s association in Dongshan Village.
They are responsible only to Su Qi'an, and they will regularly report on the phased work of the local areas under their jurisdiction through the communication company.
As for the Dongshan Army, no matter how much it expands, they are only responsible for the safety and public order issues of their respective cities.
As for the management of the city, Dongshan Army has no right to interfere.
The separation of military and civilian management is a new order issued by Su Qian.
Only a perfect system can allow Su Qi to sit safely on Diaoyutai without worrying about anything happening to his subordinates.
Su Qi'an's trust in Chen Dao made Chen Dao risk his life to repay him. Even if there were no such rumors, Chen Dao's performance would not make him commit any betrayal.
As Su Qi'an issued orders one after another, the entire Qingcheng County slowly developed in his direction.
This peaceful life lasted for a month, and was broken by news from Zhoucheng.
This time, two pieces of news came to Zhoucheng, one good news and one bad news.
The good news is that Su Qi'an recommended Wu Yong, and he has been approved as the new county governor. To be precise, he is the acting county governor, and there is still a three-month inspection period.
The bad news is that Su Qi'an has occupied the territory of the high priest, causing the priests' alliance to be very dissatisfied. They have gathered 50,000 natives, led by the elder priests, and are heading towards Qingcheng County.
