Li Xiao said that he would do it, and immediately began to discuss the army expansion plan and specific personnel arrangements with Jiang Yueguang and Chen Zilong.

In the end, the three of them agreed that at least three towns of soldiers and horses should be available in Shandong, one of which would stay in Shandong to deal with thieves and Tartars, and two new towns of soldiers and horses should be urgently organized as a reserve force to deal with the turmoil in the country and large-scale wars in the future.

In this way, Li Xiao has five towns of soldiers and horses available, plus the newly formed soldiers of the two towns, there are always seven towns of soldiers and horses available, which can be described as strong and strong, and the strength is incomparable.

At the same time, Li Xiao decided that the current soldiers and horses in various towns would no longer use the method of naming them by direction, such as Dingbei Town and Pingnan Town, as before, so as to prevent the army from developing a narrow idea of regional localization, and then prevent the army from being dissatisfied and complaining because of the transfer of them to leave the local area.

Li Xiao ordered that from now on, the numbering of each town should be arranged in a more concise and clear way, so as to make the troops under his command more clear at a glance, reduce the regional thinking of the soldiers as much as possible, and make it more convenient to mobilize or mobilize in the future.

The specific numbering rearrangement is to rename the army in the order in which it was formed. The town of Improvisation was changed to the first town, the town of Zhengxi was changed to the second town, the town of Pingnan was changed to the third town, the town of Dingbei was changed to the fourth town, and the town of Andong was changed to the fifth town.

As for the newly compiled soldiers and horses of the two towns, they are named the sixth town and the seventh town respectively.

The name is decided, and the next step is to focus on the composition of the soldiers and horses in each town.

At present, the main body of soldiers and horses in each town is a structural model of three battalions, each battalion under three generals, each under three posts, and each post under five teams.

In addition to this main body of soldiers, each battalion of soldiers and horses is equipped with artillery units, musketeers, light and heavy cavalry, and a number of related auxiliaries. So that each battalion of soldiers and horses can become a single main body of battle to engage the enemy.

This structure, since the formation of the army, has been used to this day, all armies have been accustomed to it, so Li Xiao also intends to follow the old habits, no longer make relevant adjustments in terms of rank, and what he wants to do is to reduce the number of shield soldiers and spearmen in each total number of soldiers and horses.

Li Xiao ordered that the original quota of five teams for each team be reduced to three teams for each team, so that the entire army would have a clear three-three system structure from top to bottom.

In this case, each of the three teams is divided into three groups, one for shields and two for spearmen. The number of shieldmen and spearmen has been reduced compared to the previous one.

Among them, the quota of the first team is 100 people, plus the captain and deputy captain, a total of 102 people. The number of sentries is 306, plus the chief and deputy chiefs for a total of 308. The first total number of soldiers is 924 soldiers, plus the chief and deputy commanders, a total of 926 people. The soldiers of the first battalion are 2,778 soldiers, plus the chief and deputy battalion commanders, a total of 2,780 people.

Now, Li Xiao plans to fill the gap of the two reduced teams of cold-weapon soldiers with firecrackers who have released the flintlock-fired guns, and greatly increase the number of firecrackers, so as to greatly enhance the attack power and combat effectiveness of the troops.

The final quota for these troops was 30 musketeers with 102 men per battalion, and the total number of musketeers was 3,060.

The artillery unit is 30 guns per battalion, basically all of which are heavy dragon bombarders that fire 32 pounds of shells, each gun is operated by 5 people, and the number of artillery units is 150 people in total.

At present, the number of firearms in each battalion is more than the total number of spearmen and shield soldiers combined, and together with the artillery units with 30 heavy dragon guns in each battalion, it shows that Li Xiao attaches great importance to the use of firearms.

In addition, each battalion is equipped with 600 Flying Harrier light cavalry, 600 Xuanhu heavy cavalry, and the number of cavalry is 1,200.

In addition to these combat units, each battalion is also equipped with 2,000 auxiliaries, who are responsible for carrying ordnance, food, grass, and many miscellaneous tasks in the army.

The number and structure of such a military force, compared with the original, seems to have greatly reduced the number of soldiers, but due to the large increase in the number of musketeers and artillery units, in fact, the combat strength of each battalion has not weakened, but has increased greatly with the reduction of personnel, especially in long-range attacks and city attack and defense battles, Li Xiao's Tang Army, which attaches great importance to the use of firearms, has a completely higher combat capability than other armies of this era.

In this case, the total number of soldiers and horses in each battalion is 9,190, so the total number of soldiers and horses in each town is 27,570. Therefore, the total number of soldiers and horses in Li Xiao's seven towns is 192,990.

If the troops are successfully organized, then the Tang Army, with a total number of nearly 200,000 troops, will undoubtedly make Li Xiao, who commands it, the most powerful and powerful person in this era.

Moreover, if more military and town troops are needed for future operations, Li Xiao's economic capacity can fully support the response. The reason why there are no more soldiers and horses in the military town is because although Li Xiao has no problem with the number of soldiers and economic ability, he is still limited by the ability to build guns in the firearms factory and the number of artillery cast. Therefore, in the current time and such an urgent situation, we can only reorganize two new military towns first.

After the above things are agreed, the next step is to arrange the generals and personnel of each military town.

To a certain extent, this matter is much more important than the above quotas for the number of military branches.

After all, the most important thing in marching and fighting a war is to look at people, especially the generals who directly command this army, which is the core of the entire army.

After detailed discussions with Jiang Yueguang and Chen Zilong, Li Xiao finally came up with a list of generals and personnel that he was quite satisfied with.

1. Tian Wei, the mayor of the first town, and Qin Liangyu, the deputy mayor of the town, are in charge of the two battalions A and B, and the commander of the C battalion is Zu Dale.

The first town adapted from Xingzhong Town, the mayor of the town is Tian Wei, the former mayor of Xingzhong Town, and the deputy mayor is Qin Liangyu, the current commander of the C battalion.

Zu Dale, the former chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, although he was his own father-in-law, Li Xiao did not attach much importance to him. What Li Xiao appreciates the most is that Zu Dale was in such a situation where he was outnumbered and isolated, and he did not slander his reputation and bend his knees to protect himself like Wu Sangui, but instead desperately resisted the Qing army, and insisted until the Tang army rushed to receive Shanhaiguan, and recently successfully lured down the 3,000 soldiers and horses of Tang Tong, a general of the Liukou, which is really a great achievement, so the position of the commander of the C battalion, although Zu Dale is a new Li Xiao, is absolutely worthy.

Li Xiao planned to temporarily put them in charge of the garrison of the soldiers and horses in the first town, and temporarily put them in charge of the defense of the Shandong territory, Lushun City, Jeju Island, Dongjiang Islands, and the newly acquired Shanhaiguan.

2. The second town is a monk and Mo Changrong, the deputy mayor of the town, and the two are in charge of the two battalions A and B, and the commander of the C battalion is Gao Jie.

The second town adapted from Zhengxi Town, the main generals remain the same, the mayor is the former Zhengxi Town Mayor Chang'an monk, and the deputy mayor is the former Zhengxi Town Deputy Mayor Mo Changrong, who also has jurisdiction over two battalions, both of which are Li Xiao's elder brothers, so it is the best choice for them to lead the second town.

The commander of the C Battalion of the Second Town was served by Gao Jie, who had defected to Li Xiao a few years ago and was an important general under Li Zicheng.

Over the years, after Gao Jie joined Li Xiao, he fought in the east and west, let him drive, but he made a lot of military exploits, full of outstanding talents that embody the outstanding talents of an excellent general. Li Xiao admired him very much, and he was promoted all the way to deliberately cultivate, so he just took advantage of this reorganization opportunity to promote him to the post of battalion commander.

Li Xiao arranged for them to continue to garrison in eastern Sichuan, Yunyang, and Suizhou. Their role is mainly to supervise and guard Zhang Xianzhong, a rogue who has already seized Sichuanzhong and is about to ascend the throne as emperor. At the same time, it is also to use the troops of the second town to exert a potential deterrent force on the ambitious Zuo Liangyu Department stationed in eastern Hubei.

3. Li Dingguo, the mayor of the third town, and Luo Zheng, the deputy mayor of the town, have jurisdiction over two battalions, A and B, and the head of Camp C is Li Wanqing.

The mayor of the town is Li Dingguo, the former mayor of Pingnan Town, the deputy mayor is Luo Zheng, the former deputy mayor of Pingnan Town, and the head of the third town of the C battalion, because the former C battalion commander Cao Bianjiao was promoted to the town mayor, so it was changed to Li Wanqing, the former head of the C battalion, and the original Liukou Meng will serve in the future.

After experiencing such a tragic battle as the Battle of Vladivostok, the original Pingnan battalion was greatly injured, and its troops and horses gradually recovered after resting for several months in Shandong. Subsequently, the whole team re-headed from the southeast of the mountain and went to garrison various places in Nanyang.

The scope of the garrison of the third town is extremely vast, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the area under the jurisdiction of Li Xiao is the most extensive. From Japan's Satsuma, to Taiwan, to the Ryukyus, to the Philippines, to the island of New Guinea, to the whole of Australia, all of them had to be garrisoned.

Fortunately, although Li Xiao has vigorously transported displaced people to the newly acquired land in Li Xiao, the population is still very sparse compared to the country, so in a short period of time, there should not be any hostile forces that pose a threat, so the defense task of this third town is generally relatively easy, enough to be free, and even have the spare strength to transfer the interior to fight. This is also an important reason why Li Xiao was confident and transferred the soldiers and horses of the original Pingnan Town to Vladivostok to fight.

4. Duan Shidi, the mayor of the fourth town, and Liu Wenxiu, the deputy mayor of the town, have jurisdiction over two battalions, A and B, and the head of Camp C is Zu Dashou.

The fourth town adapted from Dingbei Town, the main generals are the same as before, the mayor is the original Dingbei Town Mayor Duan Shidi, the deputy mayor is Liu Wenxiu, and the commander of the fourth town C Battalion is Zu Dashou, who has recently taken refuge in Li Xiao.

The original ancestor of the Shou Department rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and experienced the battle of Zhenyuan Fort with Duan Shidi and others, and after seeing the outstanding combat power of the Tang Army, he was deeply afraid of the Tang Army's bravery, and he had no dissent. And Li Xiao also took care of Zu Dashou, the former old superior, a famous general in the late Ming Dynasty who guarded the border for many years for the Ming Dynasty, and deliberately promoted him.

The reason why he let Zu Dashou, who was judged to be the Qing Dynasty anyway, was to make full use of Zu Dashou's outstanding generals, and secondly, to set an example for many soldiers and horses who surrendered to the Qing army. Let them all understand that as long as they can correct in time and serve the Tang Army sincerely, then the Tang Army will definitely trust them, and will not deliberately be cold and despiseful.

The soldiers and horses of the fourth town are mainly stationed in the area of Xuanfu North Road. Since the Xuanfu was captured by the Liukou on the same day, the remaining soldiers and horses in the fourth town of Jintang City took advantage of the emptiness of Xuanfu North Road to seize the entire Xuanfu North Road. After Duan Shidi led his troops back from Zhenyuan Fort, Duan Shidi, the mayor of the town, ordered the whole army to be stationed in various important military forts on the North Road to strictly prevent the rogues or Qing captives from attacking.

The soldiers and horses of the fourth town are like a sharp knife stationed in the north of the country, intimidating the Mongol tribes in the north and Li Zicheng in the south, so that the various Mongolian tribes and the rogue soldiers and horses stationed in the south do not dare to act rashly.

5. Wu Zhuang, the mayor of the fifth town, and Feng Shuangli, the deputy mayor of the town, have jurisdiction over two battalions A and B, and the head of Camp C is Ma Xianglin.

The soldiers and horses of the fifth town changed from Andong Town, Wu Zhuang, who was promoted from small soldiers all the way to the mayor of the town, and Feng Shuangli, the deputy mayor of the former general under Zhang Xianzhong's Liukou, are all the same as before, and the commander of the C battalion is Ma Xianglin, the son of Qin Liangyu and the former chief of the first and second battalions of Andong Town.

Since Ma Xianglin went to Andong Town to serve, whether it was building the Temple Street Fort, or attacking Yakutsk in the north, or plundering the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the south with the army, he has made great contributions, which Li Xiao appreciated very much. After being loyal and good, he was also a representative of the white pole soldiers, so Li Xiao also attached great importance to him and had a heart to set an example, so he took advantage of this good opportunity to be reorganized and immediately promoted to the commander of the C Battalion of the Fifth Town.

The area of the Fifth Town, however, was very different from that of the Third Town, which was stationed in Nanyang, and they were responsible for Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and the entire Outer Manchurian region, including the Temple Street Fort, Boli Fort, and Vladivostok, as well as the entire East Siberian region, which included the city of Yakutsk, which was extremely vast.

The main opponents of the fifth town were the Manchus in the south and the Tsarist Russia in the west. At present, the Fifth Town, except for a small group of troops who often harass the Manchus, the rest of the provinces are basically in a state of calm. But that doesn't mean they're just doing nothing.

Because in Li Xiao's plan, after the Liukou is calm and the Tartars are subdued, the soldiers and horses of the Fifth Town must act immediately, continue to attack the west with all their might, and must attack the Western Siberian region, and wipe out all the Tsarist forces in these areas. Eventually, it was necessary to reach the banks of the Yenisei River, where the logistical capabilities of the side had reached the limit, and the Tsarist Russia would be separated from it by the river.

6. Liu Guoneng, the mayor of the sixth town, and Bi Lun, the deputy mayor of the town, have jurisdiction over two battalions A and B, and the head of Camp C is Zu Dabi.

The new sixth town, its mayor is the former deputy mayor of Xingzhong Town, the former general Liu Guoneng, the deputy mayor has been serving for himself for many years, from north to south, all the way from Shandong to Australia, the eldest son of Mang Gurtai, Ebi Lun, the two of them are under the jurisdiction of the two battalions A and B, as for the commander of the C battalion, it is the new Li Xiao, the former Liaodong Striker General Deputy Chief Zu Dabi.

7. Cao Bianjiao, the mayor of the seventh town, and Jin Tongwu, the deputy mayor of the town, have jurisdiction over two battalions, A and B, and the commander of Camp C is Wanyan Yechen.

The newly formed seventh town, the mayor of the town is Cao Bianjiao, the former commander of the C battalion of Pingnan Town, the deputy mayor is Jin Tongwu, the former commander of Jeju Island, and the commander of the C battalion is Wanyan Yechen, who led his troops to surrender himself in the first Lushun offensive battle. After the surrender of Lushun, this person actively surrendered, and then went all the way south, under the command of Li Dingguo, the mayor of Pingnan Town, attacked Taiwan, the Philippines, and the island of New Guinea, and finally pacified Australia, set up a great battle, and he was also promoted to the former Pingnan Town B Battalion C Commander-in-Chief.

This person has been in the army for a long time, and has long been sinicized and married and had children, so Li Xiao selected the merit and ability, and did not avoid his original Manchurian identity, but still promoted and reused, and let him serve as the commander of the C Battalion of the Seventh Town.

All three of us knew that an era of greater turbulence and excitement was coming.