Chapter 182 Foreign Legion
The army is a whole. The issue of military factions and the requirements for military discipline are actually efforts to integrate the army into a whole.
If you follow Fang Chengfeng's method.
Then, such an army may still have certain combat effectiveness in small-scale battles. After all, these Japanese stick together. But in a larger-scale war, it simply cannot be used.
It's just a ragtag group of people.
Fang Chengfeng said calmly: "Why does he need to be able to fight in formation? As long as he has blood and courage at his disposal. Just dare to fight and charge."
Qu Liangcai was shocked and could hardly believe what Fang Chengfeng said.
War is a very serious matter, and determination cannot be fought with courage and courage. A brave man can be regarded as a fighting general at most, and he can reach the top if he can reach a thousand households at most. Not to mention, the Ming army after the military reform is now so brave that it cannot even serve as a member of a thousand households.
How could it be arranged like this? It's simply a waste of human life.
Of course, Qu Liangcai didn't care too much about the lives of Japanese troops. Many of these people had no choice but to defect to the Ming Dynasty. Even if these people were allowed to stay in Japan, they may not be obedient ministers of the Ming Dynasty.
If these people die more, Qu Liangcai will only lament that his capital is less. After all, the position of general sounds very philistine, just like a businessman. It's just that a businessman's capital is money, while a general's capital is his soldiers.
There aren’t many other ideas.
Only Qu Liang was not worried about the number of Japanese casualties. However, Qu Liangcai was concerned about whether his task could be completed. In other words, it does not matter how many Japanese died. The important thing is whether the death of so many people can have any effect.
Fang Chengfeng said: "Major General Qu, I don't know something. This time when we go south, the chief assistant has no idea of us going around the sea to attack the southeast. At most, it is harassment. In other words, most of our wars are fought on the islands. In the battle for the islands, many times we can't take action, and there aren't many arrangements on the battlefield. As long as we have control of the sea, the enemy will be a trapped beast. These people are just used to clean up the battlefield. And the ship is in our hands, life and death depend on it. We can’t help them anymore.”
Fang Chengfeng's words, his positioning of the Japanese army, is quite British, and the Lu family is like the cannonballs fired by the navy.
But Fang Chengfeng had no choice but to do so. Having no other choice, I came up with this last resort.
If possible, why wouldn't Fang Chengfeng want to transform these Japanese troops into the Ming Dynasty army to add combat power to his own men? But it turned out that there were too many problems. But the war time is left here.
There is still no news about the victory of the Hejian Battle. How can Fang Chengfeng not be anxious?
Naturally, I have to think of a solution.
After much deliberation, I came up with this method.
Fundamentally, it does not make any changes to the Japanese army. It only controls the Japanese army in terms of logistics, equipment, rewards and punishments, etc., and systematically recognizes the factions in the Japanese army, and transforms 100,000 Japanese troops into dozens of large and small armies. head. It can even be said that he is a small warlord.
If the war is fought on land, there won't be too many problems here, and the Japanese may even defect before the battle begins.
It is simply an unstable factor.
But I am not afraid at all at sea.
What are you afraid of? The ships are all in their hands. Without ships, no matter how many troops there are, they are dead things.
As for defection?
If the Navy continues to win, there is no fear of them defecting. If the navy loses the naval battle, even if it does not defect, the navy will not care about this army at all.
In short, Fang Chengfeng's plan is to build a low-cost, disposable army. The biggest advantage of such an army is that it does not use Han people. Now we can use Japanese people, and in the future we can recruit strong men from Southeast Asia.
A large number of servant armies can be organized.
Qu Liangcai had some resistance to this model. After all, he is a general, and he does not want the troops he leads to be like this. Because, if they all had such an army, Qu Liangcai also saw that in future maritime wars, he would not be able to do anything outstanding. At most he is just an organizer. However, facing this
In this situation, Qu Liangcai had no other choice.
He just said: "I will obey the order of the Marquis."
Neither of them thought that the famous Foreign Legion model of the Ming Dynasty would be developed based on today's charter. Decades later, overseas expansion played a huge role.
In many cases, Ming Dynasty only needed to send 10,000 to 20,000 troops and lead hundreds of thousands of foreign legions to conquer a big country.
Fang Chengfeng didn't think about this at all. He said: "Okay, in that case, you make arrangements immediately. Set off immediately. The target is Penghu."
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Fang Chengfeng has been thinking about Penghu for a long time.
Penghu is a strategic location connecting Taiwan and the mainland.
The Penghu Islands may not look big, but they are actually not small either, enough to station a large army.
Fang Chengfeng knew that he quickly captured Jingjiang.
The reason is simple: Fang Chengfeng's logistics line is too long. The materials Fang Chengfeng needs need to depart from Liaodong, first be transported to Japan, and then to Penghu.
But even by sea, such a long supply line is a big test for frontline operations. But taking Jingjiang is different.
Jingjiang is the foundation of King Jingjiang. He Xi also contributed his efforts when opening up Jingjiang. King Jingjiang is also a restless person. The rebellion was being prepared in Jingjiang, so many things were available in Jingjiang City.
In addition to some high-tech artillery, ships, gunpowder, food, medicine, and even personnel can be replenished from Jingjiang.
I have to say that no matter how unreliable King Jingjiang is, the people of Jingjiang still have feelings for King Jingjiang.
After all, they lived under the rule of King Jingjiang for more than ten years. I've long been used to it. Not to mention, many people had nothing on land, and it was only when they arrived in Jingjiang that they had their own land.
No matter what the purpose of King Jingjiang was, whether it was to win people's hearts, have evil intentions, or to better develop Jingjiang, in short, the local people have reaped dividends from the construction of Jingjiang city until now.
They attributed these dividends to King Jingjiang.
This is also the reason why King Jingjiang was able to persuade tens of thousands of people to rebel.
Not to mention, many things need to be compared.
There may be many local people who have a favorable impression of King Jingjiang. But this good impression was not enough to make them rebel against the imperial court. But after the defeat of King Jingjiang and the imperial troops entering Jingjiang, these people knew what to choose.
Generally speaking, Nanjing indulges the powerful, or it cannot be said to be indulgent. It's redemption. Zhu Yunwen gave benefits to these powerful people, and these powerful people supported Zhu Yunwen's ascension to the throne.
Doing so is not without effect.
After experiencing Zhu Yuanzhang's high-pressure rule, both military officials and civil servants were very satisfied with Zhu Yunwen's lenient administration.
This is also the foundation of Zhu Yunwen's rule.
This is why many people in the world regard it as orthodox.
But doing so is not without side effects. On the civil servants' side, there is a problem with the Ming Dynasty's tax base. In the Hongwu Dynasty, it was not that there were no taxes owed, but they were all real common people, and the proportion was very small.
As soon as they entered the Jianwen Dynasty, tax arrears became a big problem, and they were even growing rapidly.
For military commanders, they are more unrestrained in many things.
In the Ming Dynasty, under the emperor's eyes. We dare not go too far in many things. But where is this place in Taiwan? Although it is very close to Fujian, it is still considered an overseas country and there is no place under the control of the imperial court at all.
King Jingjiang even made this place very prosperous.
How can the generals who occupy this place not be tempted?
Even the nobles participated in maritime trade. But there is no way to do business quickly. Shi Lang settled Taiwan and allowed the people of Taiwan to pay Shihou's great rent for more than 200 years. The generals who are occupying this place now do not dare to go so far. But it is only natural to make a lot of money as a rebel.
However, every extra penny they took from Jingjiang made the people of Jingjiang resent the Nanjing court.
Just understand this
At this point, Fang Chengfeng made up his mind to win Jingjiang, because although Jingjiang is smaller than the cities on the southeast coast, such as Taizhou and Wenzhou, he decided to take over Jingjiang. But it’s not exactly a deserted place. The most important thing is that the people may not be convinced by taking other places along the coast. But to capture Jingjiang, the people of Jingjiang must do their best to serve the army.
Because they dare not defeat a second time. If you want to get to Jingjiang, go to Penghu first. By capturing Penghu, the army has a solid foothold. At the same time, there are also strong strongholds that hinder mainland attacks.
