Everyone wants to be the five main forces, and everyone wants to be the first of the five main forces. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 But there are so many establishments, the full strength of the five armies is only 110,000, and the Taiping Army has 37 land divisions, and there are nearly 300,000 people after removing water, which means that the troops that can be included in the five main forces must not only be elites who can fight, but also descendants.

After Ge Yi crossed the river, he patted his chest and said to Zhou Shixiang that if the new first army of the five main forces was not organized from his Jiangbei army, it would look down on him Ge Lao Liu.

Jiang He also rushed to Zhenjiang by boat from Anqing, and heard that Ge Laoliu wanted to grab the new army, so he fought with him without saying a word, and it was useless to persuade the king of heaven.

Tie Yi also rushed over from Changzhou, where he was stationed, so that the four major towns of the old four towns would be all in order, except for Shao Jiugong, who is now in charge of the military administration in southwest Guizhou.

In Zhenjiang, there are also generals such as Suna and Wang Fuchen, who have just quelled the chaos in Songjiang, they are all generals who can take charge on their own, except for the four "giants" whose qualifications are not as good as those of the old four towns, they are not much worse in terms of military achievements, and even surpass them.

For a long time, the blind man Li, who was not interested in military and political affairs, and was proud of staying by Zhou Shixiang's side as the commander of the guard, didn't know how to start a hot up, and also joined the competition for the five main forces. He formed an alliance with Wang Fuchen, who also had the heart to get a piece of the five main forces, to fight against the veteran Ge Laoliu and Jiang Bald.

Zhou Shixiang was too lazy to listen to these generals complaining about their loyalty there, but worked hard, these days he asked Xu Yingyuan to block the guests for him, no matter who it was, he only discussed with Guo Xiong and others in the military headquarters about the organization of the five main forces and the reorganization of the remaining towns.

In the end, the five main constituent towns were officially determined, and the existing 37 towns were divided into first-class towns, second-class towns, and third-class towns.

Class A towns are first-line field armies, Class B towns are second-line support armies, and Class C towns are local armies.

There are three brigades under the first-class town, plus artillery, engineers, and baggage troops directly under the town; Class B town also has three brigades, but there are no artillery and engineers, only baggage troops; There are two brigades under the C-level town, and there are no artillery, engineers, or baggage troops. In addition to this, there must be two or three combat hero units (below the regiment) in the first-class town, and the military flag awarded at the beginning of the army must be retained. There is no such requirement in the second town of B, C 2.

There are 8 first-class towns, 14 B-level towns, and 15 C-level towns in the whole army. In order to distinguish, the first-class town has the prefix "whole", the second-class town has the prefix "new", and the second-class town has the prefix "temporary". Such as the whole town, the new three towns, the temporary five towns, etc.

Of the eight Class A towns, three are firearms-only towns, and one of them is equipped with flintlock pistols that the Ordnance Bureau has just been able to produce on a large scale. The remaining five are all composed of a mixture of cold and hot weapons, and most of them are mainly cold weapons.

The new First Army was composed of the first cavalry town of the former Wang Fuchen and the first town of Qihao, which is now under the Jiangbei Army, and the number was changed to the first town of reorganization and the first town of the new formation. The military headquarters is temporarily stationed in Huai'an, Jiangsu, with Wang Fuchen as the commander and Qi Hao as the commander.

The new Second Army is composed of the original Suna Sixth Town and Shao Chengguo's Second Cavalry Town, which is called the whole second town and the whole third town. The military headquarters is temporarily located in Yangzhou, the commander of the army is served by Suna, and the headquarters is served by Shao Chengguo.

The New Third Army consisted of Li Kuangming's Fifth Town and Zhu Qinglai's New Second Town of the Jiangbei Army, with the nicknames of the Whole Fourth Town and the New Second Town. The military headquarters is temporarily located in Suzhou, the commander of the army is Li Kuangming, and the headquarters is Zhu Qinglai.

The New Fourth Army was composed of the third town of Jiang He, the former governor of Anhui, and the new three towns of Shang Keyuan, with the number of the whole five towns and the new three towns. The military headquarters is stationed in Anqing, and the military commander is Guo Xiong, an officer of the military department, and the head town is Shang Keyuan.

The New Fifth Army was composed of the fourth town of Wang Youxi of the former Southwest Field Army and the second town of Lu Guangzu's expeditionary army, and was called the whole six towns and the whole seven towns. The military headquarters is stationed in Guiyang, the army commander Wang Youxi, and the general town is Lu Guangzu.

Among the five main forces, except for the New Second Army and the New Fifth Army, which are composed of two first-class towns, the other three armies are composed of one first-class town and one first-class town.

There are a total of eight first-class towns, seven of the five main forces, and the remaining one is adapted from the guards directly under Zhou Shixiang led by Li Blind and the firearms brigade of Yu Youming, the son of Yu Shizhong, with the number of the entire eight towns. Li Blind was quite satisfied with this result, although he failed to become the commander of the first army, he was also mixed with a first-class town general, and he was still a guard town next to the marshal, which was no worse than the length of the first army.

The seventh town of the former Hu Qili, the seventeenth town of Han Chaozong, the tenth town of Wang Xing, the sixteenth town of Gan Hui, the fourteenth town of Geng Zhongde, the ninth town of Guo Dengdi, the two towns newly organized by Jiang He in Anhui (the towns will be Daniel Zhang and Li Benshen), the two towns in Zhejiang that were mainly reorganized by the Qing army (Zhenjiang as Jude and Eduo), and the two towns of Song Xianggong in Guangdong (Zhenjiang as Zhang Chao, the former commander of Nanyang, and Huang Sicheng of Qianhu in the former Hua County) were all designated as B-class towns. The remaining towns are all designated as Class C towns.

After the numbers of each department are formally determined, they will be transferred from their current garrisons, and the military department has initially estimated that it will take at least half a year to complete all the redeployments, so at present the main thing is the reorganization and redeployment of the five main forces.

The army's redeployment is not as simple as setting off after receiving an order, but also involves trivial matters such as the resettlement of family members, the handover of camps, and the rectification of defense areas, and most of the towns that need to be redeployed are mainly infantry, and it is difficult to complete the assembly in a short period of time due to the restrictions of transportation roads. Just like Hu Qili's department, which is now stationed in Jinxia, wants to be transferred to Anqing, and he travels thousands of miles down, just walking on the bottom of his feet, which is enough for Hu to drink a pot.

After the introduction of the reorganization plan for the five main forces, the happiest person was undoubtedly Ge Laoliu, because three of the four towns of his Jiangbei Army were designated as first-class towns, and the new first army and the new second army were stationed in the territory of his Jianghuai Economic Strategy, so he was proud, thinking that he was now strong and strong, and he could command the two main forces at once. Among the old brothers, none of them showed their faces like him. I didn't want to be happy that within two days, a new plan of the military department was introduced, but the existing corps was abolished.

This is because there was an establishment at the corps level before, and now the new corps-level establishment will inevitably overlap with the functions of the corps, resulting in confusion in the command system. Therefore, Zhou Shixiang decided to abolish the existing corps and formally restore the Dadu Governor's Office, an institution that controlled Chinese and foreign military forces during the Hongwu period.

During the Northern Expedition from Guangzhou on the same day, Zhou Shixiang used the name of the Metropolitan Governor, but did not restore the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, but always used the Qi Palace's Mansion and the Military Department to carry out the functions of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion. Now the restoration of the Dadu Governor's Mansion and the merging of the relevant functions of the Qi Wangfu and the Military Department into the Dadu Governor's Mansion can also be regarded as an integration of the military and political system of the Zhou Shi relative to the Taiping Army.

Zhou Shixiang himself served as the governor of the capital, and he had five military governors under his jurisdiction, namely the governor of the middle army, the former army governor, the rear army governor, the left army governor, and the right army governor.

The candidates for the five governors are Tie Yi, the governor of the Chinese army, Ge Yi, the former military governor, Jiang He, the governor of the rear army, Shao Jiugong, the governor of the left army, and Zhao Sihai, the governor of the right army.

The governors of the five armies were each responsible for a region, also known as a war zone. Zhou Shixiang personally divided the five war zones, in numerical order, which were the first to the fifth war zones.

Among them, the first theater is Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian provinces, which is under the responsibility of Ge Yi, the former military governor, and has jurisdiction over the new First Army, the first of the five main forces, the new fourth town of Hu Qili, the new fifth town of Gan Hui, the new sixth town of Geng Zhongde, and two second-class towns with a tentative prefix.

The second theater was Anhui and Jiangxi provinces, under the responsibility of Jiang He, the governor of the Later Army, and under the jurisdiction of the New Fourth Army, Daniel Zhang's new seven towns, Li Benshen's new eight towns, Chunde's new nine towns, and Wei Dalong's (Zhehun general) temporarily three towns.

The third theater is Guangdong, Guangxi, and Guizhou provinces, and is under the responsibility of Shao Jiugong, the governor of the Left Army, and has jurisdiction over the New Fifth Army, one of the five main forces, Wang Xing's new 10th town, Zhang Chao's new 11th town, Huang Sicheng's new 12th town, Ta Xince's temporary 1st town, Tan Yi's temporary 2nd town, Yousanpin's temporary 3rd town, and Huang Yuancai's temporary 4th town.

The fourth theater is Hunan and Henan provinces. Zhao Sihai, the governor of the right army, is in charge of the new ten towns of Guo Dengdi, and the two B-level towns and two C-level towns are adapted from the original four towns of the Xiangxi Army.

The Fifth Theater has not yet demarcated its jurisdiction, and is under the responsibility of Tie Yi, the Governor of the Chinese Army, under the jurisdiction of the New Second Army and the New Third Army.

The New Second Army was temporarily stationed in Yangzhou, while the New Third Army was in Suzhou. Both were stationed in the First War Zone, but they were not under the command of Ge Yi, who was in charge of the First War Zone, because Zhou Shixiang only temporarily shelved the plan to go north to Liaodong, but did not give up. After the rectification of the court and the army was completed, Zhou Shixiang still wanted to go north to Liaodong, and the two main armies of the New Second Army and the New Third Army would be the main forces to go north to Liaodong.

From the point of view of the functions of the defense zones, each theater is not only responsible for the armed forces within its jurisdiction, but also has to undertake the corresponding mission.

Both the First and Second Theaters are located on the front line of the Qing Dynasty, and it is obvious that in the future, the forces of the two theaters will be concentrated to advance northward. In the future, the Taiping troops in these two theaters may have to move to the north.

The task of the Third Theater at present is to recover Yunnan and prepare for the invasion of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and in the future, the Second Theater is likely to take on the task of taking on the northwest region, and even the occupation of Tibet and Hami.

The Fourth Theater is the only one of the five theaters without a main force, and it is also the one with the fewest troops. Zhou Shixiang's task for the Fourth Theater was to start "taking over" Hubei and cooperate with the Second Theater to advance into the Central Plains.

Judging from the establishment and strength of the army alone, the Third Theater is undoubtedly the one with the largest number of soldiers, with one first-class town, four B-level towns, and eight C-level towns. It's just that except for Wang Youxi's new Fifth Army, the rest of the towns are either the original local security forces, or the newly incorporated Wu Sangui Army, so although there are as many as 100,000 soldiers, their combat effectiveness ranks second to last in the five major theaters. However, the generals of the Wu army in Yunnan have already intended to surrender to the Taiping army, and there are Ming army forces such as Feng Shuangli, the king of Qingyang, and Lianchengbi, the superintendent, and the strength of the Wu army in Sichuan is very weak compared to the Ming army.

Gao Minzhan, the governor of Sichuan appointed by Wu Sangui, has basically abandoned eastern and southern Sichuan and concentrated his forces on the front line of Baoning. Therefore, the Third Theater will not encounter large-scale battles for a considerable period of time, just like the Fourth Theater, as long as it advances steadily and slowly.

For a large number of C-level towns with temporary prefixes, Zhou Shixiang's original intention was to take the opportunity to cut off half of them, and the generals who came over to surrender to Cheng were the same as before, first organizing training courses for generals, transferring those who could use them to B-level towns, and dismissing and returning to their hometowns if they could not use them. But this is undoubtedly inconsistent with the previous promise to demote the general, including the smell of crossing the river and demolishing the bridge. Therefore, retaining these generals and troops and giving them the treatment of C-level towns is something that Zhou Shixiang does not want to do and has to do.

After several years of expansion, the expeditionary force of Annam continued to absorb the local Han people in Annam and replenish the prisoners of the Green Camp sent from the country, and had the scale of four towns. Now Lu Guangzu brought back a town to be incorporated in the New Fifth Army, and he was given the treatment of a first-class town with a whole word, which must have a light on Zhao Ziqiang's face.

However, the remaining three towns of the expeditionary force that did not return to the country were all given temporary prefixes. This is mainly due to the fact that the expeditionary force is relatively strong compared to the Annan army, but the main soldiers are the green battalion of the original Qing army, and in the eyes of the domestic Taiping army, they are all defeated generals and weak in combat.

The town that Lu Guangzu brought back can give the treatment of a first-class town because the elite he brought back are all drawn from the expeditionary force, and they can be regarded as fighting in Annan in the past few years, and their performance in entering Guizhou is also very outstanding, so it is also said to a first-class town. Moreover, there are too many troops in the southwest, and it is difficult for Shan Wang Youxi to shake the scene in a first-class town, so the treatment given to Lu Guangzu's first-class town is required by the situation. Moreover, it can also be used to reassure the expeditionary force and make them work hard to know that they will not be discriminated against at home when they return home.

For a large number of C-level towns with temporary prefixes, Zhou Shixiang's plan was that after the success of the Northern Expedition, they and a large number of Qing and Wu troops would be converted into engineering troops on the spot, which would be used to build roads and water conservancy and other public facilities.

This idea was inspired by Zhou Shixiang from the military branch of the railway soldiers in his previous life. Now that the war in the country is undecided, the main mission of the army is naturally to fight. However, once the country is reunified, then the direction of the Taiping Army's use of troops will inevitably be overseas, and it will be dominated by the navy. Then the importance of the army will inevitably be reduced, unless Zhou Shixiang is ready to follow the example of the Mongols and march westward from the east to change the era of navigation to the continental age, so that it is necessary to retain the size of the army. On the contrary, a large number of miscellaneous armies will become a burden on the imperial court's finances.

It is certainly not possible to dismiss all the miscellaneous temporary prefixes, so let them play a role and contribute to the devastated and ruined country in the form of a "military industry", which should be the most appropriate way to atone for their crimes. After all, the current ruin of the country is inseparable from these miscellaneous temporary prefixes. Zhou Shixiang can ignore their misdeeds back then and act for the tiger, but he will never allow them to be the same as before.

As for what those surrendered generals thought of this matter, Zhou Shixiang did not consider it. He is now concerned about them because the country is not united. When the country is reunified, he will no longer have such worries as he has a heavy army.

In fact, as long as these generals have officials and money, they don't care what their soldiers will be driven by Zhou Shixiang to do.

In these years, as long as there is enough to eat, how can a soldier care so much. It's better to build roads and dams than to kill people.