Jining Mansion, there are two new military towns of the Qing army transferred by Hong Chengchou Qing Army, 30,000 green battalion soldiers, 10,000 Han army flags, and 3,000 Mongolian cavalry, if Hong Chengchou knew that he was opposite the First Guards Brigade, maybe he would not have arranged it like this, but he definitely didn't know that the First Guards Brigade had only been transferred over in the past few days, and the original 27th Field Brigade belonged to the C-level field brigade of the Huaxia Army.

Of course, this is the reason for Hong Chengchou's backward intelligence, in fact, in the 27th Field Brigade, he participated in Li Dingguo's extermination of traitors in Yunnan Prefecture, participated in the battle of Baodao together, and then transferred to Annam to exterminate the natives, and then transferred back to Hubei Prefecture to garrison, and it has been reorganized into a B-class field brigade.

The 6,500 troops of the C-level field brigade are actually a combination of the militia and the garrison battalion, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers in that mode plus the backbone of other field brigades has all been tempered, and some elite soldiers of the Guards Brigade have been reorganized later, so that the B-level field brigade with more than 8,000 troops has been made up today, so in terms of combat effectiveness, the 27th Field Brigade is already quite powerful at this moment.

Hong Chengchou's intelligence of the Qing army was quite backward compared to that of the Huaxia army.

In his opinion, the 6,500 troops of the 27th Field Brigade may be able to defeat the cold weapons units sent to the Green Battalion and the Xiangyong and regimental training units that have not undergone the whole training, but they will definitely not be able to defeat a new army town unit, and with 6,500 troops to defeat the Qing Army's new army town with 1,300 troops, it may be possible, but two new army towns will definitely not work, and the more than 30,000 cold weapons troops are basically equipped with muskets, bird guns, arquebuses, and artillery. This is the real intention of him to lead the army along the sea to attack the Weifang Mansion of the Huaxia Army.

This is the reason for the information asymmetry, but because the Huaxia Army is now fighting on several fronts, and it is going to attack the Dajin Kingdom, and it is necessary to suppress the people who have been disrupted on the treasure island, as well as the rebellion of the natives in the mountains, the small countries in Southeast Asia are being conquered by the Huaxia Army, where a large number of troops are involved, the Huaxia Army has transferred almost all the militia troops and half of the garrison battalions to where, for the strategy of Zhang Qiang of the Huaxia Army, it is no longer a problem to unify China, and it is a problem to conquer small countries in Southeast Asia, so the force tilt is quite high.

Even the troops on the Yangtze River defense line have been transferred to subdue Southeast Asia, but the battle against the Dajin State has been tepid, and so far Xiao Fei's army has only fought a small fight with the remnants of the Ming Dynasty in Sishan Prefecture, and Wu Sangui's troops in the Dajin State have only fought for three days, a five-day truce, and they can't fight several battles in a month, showing a gradual encroachment.

Xuanyuan Longfei's legion needs to guard against the Dajin Kingdom, and also needs to guard against the Great Qing State, and at the same time, it also needs to fight against the Great Qing State, guard against Hong Chengchou's Qing army, and form a siege of Hong Chengchou's Qing army and the army of Jin Qi on the Yangtze River defense line.

Feng Wuyu's army needs to attack Wu Sangui, guard against Sishan Prefecture, suppress the divided and disintegrated Yunguizhou and mixed immigrant rebellion, although the troops are not many, but the task is also very heavy, so this is also an important reason why Zhang Qiang brought the Guards Brigade to participate in the war.

Except for the troops guarding the center of Jinhua, the troops in other areas are almost empty.

Then a large area is defended by a guard brigade, and a garrison battalion is placed in a prefecture to defend the city, and the militia only has some rudiments in the core area, or an empty shell, because there are only a few retired garrison battalion soldiers left behind in the general armed forces department in the county to act as guards, and a retired garrison officer to act as an officer in the armed forces, and the others are civilian officials sent from some counties. Only a few officials were arrested to maintain law and order.

The war is fought in countless directions, military spending is like an open faucet, and the number of troops seems to be unable to meet this state, but Zhang Qiang still feels that there are too many troops, which need to be reorganized and dismantled, in fact, there are many soldiers in the normal ruling areas of the entire Huaxia Army, but these soldiers have been turned into ordinary people, if you need an order, you can instantly gather hundreds of thousands of militia troops, and even some elite garrison battalions, but the cabinet does not want to bear the military expenses of these people anymore, Therefore, it is not easy for Zhang Qiang to form a new field brigade, so he can only combine the old field brigades and form them into a more elite first-class field brigade.

Compared with the front-line combat troops, more places need garrison troops, militia troops, after the occupation of many places, the people are disrupted and resettled, the internal situation is complicated, there are many contradictions, so Zhang Qiang means that some C-level field brigades are dismantled, and even B-level field brigades are dismantled and turned into garrison forces, liberate the military expenditure of the Ministry of National Defense, and transfer these expenditures to the local and even the military departments directly under the garrison troops, and the cabinet will support them.

But no matter what dynasty, the army and the government are opposites, the army needs to be expanded, advanced weapons, elite soldiers, and the local people do not want to bear the military expenses of the army, they do not want so many soldiers, they need to use the saved funds to improve the living standards of the people.

With the Huaxia Army from a rebel army, similar to a loose rebel army to a regular army at the national level that can compete with the Qing Army, the Huaxia Army has gone through so long, and has also established its own kingdom, with everything that a national level should have, the Huaxia Army has actually officially become the Huaxia State, and the contradictions that all dynasties have to experience have appeared, the government and the army, that is the main one.

With the maturity of the officials of the Southern Ming Dynasty and the officials cultivated by the Huaxia Army who have grown up and gradually moved to high positions, their demands have increased, and the government has successfully operated, with their own words and lives, so Zhang Qiang can no longer control them with personal prestige and orders as he did at the beginning, he has to learn to listen to the needs of the officials below like an emperor and a king, and meet their requirements with balance, and Zhang Qiang is a little beyond his power in this regard, so in most cases, Zhang Qiang will let the government run by itself, It's just that in some places it's mandatory to do what they do.

That's why the Guards Brigade needs to be put into battle, and it's not that Zhang Qiang wants to come to the front line to play on a whim and re-experience the cruelty and fierceness of the war.

However, since he came to the battlefield, Zhang Qiang of course hoped that he could personally participate in the battle, so he came to the front line with his personal guards, and at the same time transferred a battalion of the Guards Brigade back to Jinan Mansion to participate in the defense and strengthen the defense of the place, but he still would not participate in the command of the First Guards Brigade.

All the command was handed over to the commander of the 1st Guards Brigade, and he acted as a small soldier, of course, as the 1st Guards Brigade, the general of his henchman combat unit, would definitely not put him on the front line, but put him in the rear of the general's guard, acting as his own supervisor and watching him fight.

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