In addition to the formation of the Northwest Field Army, the Military Commission of the Far Eastern Company also carried out a large-scale reorganization of other troops. The troops originally stationed in Liaodong and the outer northeast were formed with field divisions, garrison brigades, and mountain brigades as the backbone. It has two group armies, including a field group army, a cavalry group army, and a reserve group army, as well as a small number of directly subordinate combat and logistical support detachments.

The cavalry group army was formed with the Outer Northeast Indigenous Corps as the backbone, including two main cavalry divisions in the Outer Northeast and several indigenous militia divisions in the Outer Northeast. The establishment of each unit is basically unchanged, and it is equipped with a small number of combat logistics support detachments.

The structure of the reorganized cavalry group army has basically not changed, but the unit has changed its number, and four indigenous cavalry divisions from the outer northeast have been transferred to the northwest, and their strength has not risen but has fallen.

The field army includes an integrated field division with three brigades and nine regiments, a light field division with two brigades and six regiments, four garrison divisions with two brigades and six regiments, and a large number of combat logistics support detachments directly under it.

After the reorganization, there was basically no change in the establishment of the field army, except that the mountain brigade was expanded into a light mountain field division with two brigades and six regiments, and the soldiers required for the expansion were all drawn from the backbone of the musket militia company, making the mountain field division a main field force composed of a mixture of indigenous people from the outer northeast and immigrants from the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, the garrison brigade will be changed to a division-level establishment, and a small number of soldiers will be filled in for some of the missing soldiers, and in wartime, more of them will be reorganized field divisions and mountain field divisions as the main force of operations. The main task of the four garrison divisions is to be stationed in various regions of Liaodong and Outer Northeast China to protect the company's various enterprises, factories and mines and important institutions in this area.

Because the Northeast Field Army is stationed in Shenyang, the degree of integration of its troops is relatively low, and the establishment of units directly under the field army headquarters is only symbolic, and in wartime it mainly relies on the support of troops directly under the Central Military Commission.

The reserve army group also basically did not change. It is mainly formed on the basis of the Outer Northeast Mountain Militia Brigade stationed in Korea and Japan, and has several Outer Northeast Mountain Militia Brigade under its jurisdiction, which are mainly stationed in Outer Northeast, North Korea and Japan.

The Far East Company's overseas control areas include Jeju, Tanegas, the Ryukyu Islands, Luzon, Taiwan and the South Sea Islands, as well as Ceylon, as well as the future India. The Southern Field Army was formed on the basis of overseas brigades and death army units. It has an overseas army and a samurai army, as well as combat logistics support detachments directly under some group armies.

There has been basically no change in the establishment of overseas group armies, and the eight overseas divisions with two brigades and six regiments under their jurisdiction are basically formed from more than a dozen overseas brigades as the backbone. There has been little change in personnel, but the allocation of various units has been improved, and some combat and logistical support units have been strengthened.

The overseas group army that has been formed is mainly to carry out the company's overseas operations and garrison the company's overseas territories. Because the detachments have strengthened some of the units directly under them, the combat capability of the units after the reorganization of the units has been strengthened. It has also been further improved.

The samurai group army was formed as the backbone of the daredevil's army, with 10 daredevil's divisions and regiments of two brigades and six regiments, and the number of unfilled personnel continued to recruit wandering samurai for training and replenishment throughout Japan, and the number of the completed samurai army increased to nearly 200,000.

In the future, the main combat tasks of the troops will be to carry out ground assaults, attack fortified positions, street battles, jungle warfare, public order warfare, defense and garrison, and even massacre and liquidation in various overseas battlefields. As well as all kinds of dirty work such as sweeping in various complex environments, almost all of the samurai armies can be competent.

Armament of the Samurai Army. It is still dominated by katana and front-loading rifled fire cap guns. The various units of the Samurai Army are not worthy of any combat or logistical support detachments, and are drawn from other units in wartime. The troops mainly carry out ground assault missions, and most of them are mainly used to support other units.

After the reorganization of the Military Commission of the Far Eastern Company is completed, it will have the ground troops of the three major group armies and the units directly under the Central Military Commission, and its combat effectiveness will also be greatly enhanced. The establishment and allocation at all levels have become more rational and more suited to the battlefield situation. It is convenient for the Central Military Commission to centralize its command.

In the future, the Far Eastern Military Commission will be able to launch military operations at the corps level, and will be actively preparing for the expansion of territory and the entry into the Central Plains in the future, as well as for the large-scale expansion of overseas colonies.

While the Northwest Field Army was intensively reorganizing in the Hetao area, Li Ming made contact with Song Tao by telegram. They exchanged views on the upcoming Ningxia campaign.

Song Tao agreed with Li Ming's proposal to launch an offensive in the autumn, after all, the training of the Hetao guerrilla detachment has only been going on for a month, and if they casually build a siege or sneak attack on a county seat, it will not be a big problem, but they will face Ningxia Town, an important town on the nine borders of the Ming Dynasty.

That's not something that can be taken down by thousands of homeless people who have been training for a month and have no combat experience. There are tens of thousands of border troops stationed in Ningxia Town, although about seventy percent of the border troops are mainly engaged in agriculture, but how can the elite border army make up nearly 10,000 people.

The terrain of Ningxia Town is also very dangerous, the fortifications are very complete, and all kinds of firearms are extremely sufficient. Coupled with the elite of nearly 10,000 border troops, even if it was Monan Mongolia back then, there was no way to take Ningxia Town. With this treacherous defense, it can be said that it is impregnable.

Li Ming didn't know much about the situation in Ningxia Town, so he planned to take the special combat team to Ningxia Town after the reorganization of the Northwest Field Army was completed. To understand the local situation on the spot, before launching the Ningxia Campaign, the battle plan should be as perfect as possible, so as to avoid undue mistakes during the operation.

Although the Hetao base area has the convenience of the Yellow River waterway from Ningxia Town, there are currently only 12 inland river steam deck barges and 10 towed non-powered barges in the Hetao base area. With such a small number of ships, it must be a fantasy to want to transport the materials seized from Ningxia Town back to the Hetao.

Therefore, Li Ming made a special report to the company on this issue, and asked the company to support the bulk components of some inland river steam deck barges in the Hetao base area, and transport them to the Hetao base area for assembly, so as to strengthen the water transportation force in the Hetao base area.

The company received a telegram from the Hetao base area and immediately began to make preparations. Fortunately, there are still some suites for the steam engines and inland steam deck barges that the company has produced before, and anyway, as long as it is not for scarce materials such as food and cloth, other companies are still squeezed out from various departments. (To be continued.) )

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