"I'm going to disarm!" Li Jing suddenly threw out an unexpected topic.

Several important ministers of the Qin Domain, who had been paying attention to Li Jing's conversation with Gai Yu, were shocked, disarmament? The army can be said to be the top priority, and the other feudal towns are eager to arm all the young and strong into an army, but Li Jing is thinking about disarmament. What did King Qin think? Although the current situation is slightly better, it is not optimistic. There are still so many feudal towns, and at least two-thirds of the traditional territory of the Tang Dynasty has not been won. In the face of dozens of feudal towns, there are at least all kinds of feudal town armies of more than one million, is it appropriate to disarm at this time?

"You can cut out a part of the Tibetan army, now the proportion of the Tibetan army in the Qin army is very large, if this continues, the composition of the army is too mixed, which will affect the combat effectiveness, and let too many Tibetan troops in the army, there will be a lot of trouble." Jing Xiang couldn't help but speak. He felt that Li Jing's proposal for disarmament might be referring to the Fan army. After all, in order to deal with the war situation in the Northeast before, especially the unique terrain of the Northeast, a large number of soldiers were recruited to control Hu with Hu. But now that the war in the Northeast has been resolved, there is no need to keep too many soldiers to stay in trouble.

Li Jing nodded, "The Fan soldiers do have to be cut down, but when I say disarmament, I don't exactly mean the Fan army, and the other troops also have to be reduced." ”

At this moment, everyone was really taken aback. The military is fundamental, especially in today's war-torn environment. Although it is said that the continuous expansion of the Qin Domain's army in recent years has brought great logistical pressure, disarmament is a self-reducing strength.

"Disarmament is my thought after careful consideration, and more armies are not always better. Especially now that we've taken complete control of the Northeast, now. Outside the gates. We don't have any threat anymore. And we're in the southeast. Again, there won't be much of an opponent in the short term. For a long time in the future, our opponents will mainly be Hedong, Henan, and Hebei. In the war in the Central Plains, we will also take it step by step and gradually encroach on it. Therefore, it is not necessary to keep too many troops. Too many troops will reduce the combat effectiveness of the army. It increases the burden of logistics and affects the production of civil aspects. Therefore, I think it is perfectly possible to cut some of the troops now. It can not only streamline the army, but also reduce expenditures, and count it in one fell swoop. ”

Everyone was a little hesitant, just now they were going to turn most of the subjugated tribal armies into peasant soldiers, and now they have to be disarmed, this is not a small move. There are too many things involved, and it will even affect the future situation of the Qin Domain.

"Ziming. How many troops do we have today? ”

Jing Xiang, as an envoy of the General Staff, immediately replied without thinking: "At present, we have sixteen corps of the Army Field Army. 800,000 soldiers. In addition, there were 200,000 horses and horses of the naval division. There are 200,000 border guards, 100,000 road guards, 200,000 city defense garrisons in various places, and 200,000 Gyeonggi Guards. In addition, there were 200,000 troops in four regiments including Shang Rang, who were recruited, 500,000 in 10 regiments in Bohai, and 600,000 in 12 regiments in 12 regiments of Khitan, Heishui, Murowei, and Tatar. In addition, we have 300,000 registered solidarity soldiers, 400,000 township soldiers, and 600,000 militiamen! ”

When Jing Xiang reported a series of figures, everyone was a little surprised and surprised. This number of hundreds of thousands at every turn really scared everyone. Everyone didn't expect that before they knew it, the Qin army actually had so many troops.

There were 800,000 field troops alone, 200,000 Gyeonggi Guards, and 200,000 sailors. In addition, it can be counted as 200,000 border guards in the second line, 200,000 local garrisons, and 100,000 road guards. These figures add up to 1.7 million people, and this does not include the surrendered troops and the armies of the various tribes, which add up to 1.3 million. In addition, counting the reserve soldiers, township soldiers, and militia, there are 1.3 million more.

Without knowing the way, I was shocked, the total strength of the Qin army was 4.3 million?

"Are there so many?" Everyone showed such a look. More than four million, it's really a whip to cut off the stream, and spitting can drown the other party's city.

Jing Xiang explained with a smile: "Of course, this is actually just a literal number, of course the real strength is not so much, but the Qin army does have a lot of soldiers and horses now." ”

In fact, the real elite troops of the Qin army today are sixteen field regiments, plus 200,000 men of the naval division and 200,000 men of the guard troops. But that's it, it's 1.2 million. Of course, this is actually still a bit watery, because the Qin army counted all the military academies and those large ordnance manufacturing units, and the personnel were also counted as active soldiers. If these logistics departments and cadets are eliminated, they can lose a lot. In fact, it can be lost by almost half. There were many military schools in the Qin army, especially the scout schools, from the age of seven to the age of eighteen, with a total of nearly 100,000 people. This is the largest source of high-quality soldiers in the professionalization of the Qin army. The logistics personnel who provided equipment and logistics for the Qin army included as many as 500,000 people, from weapons research to ordnance production, including war horse farms and various related logistics personnel. Therefore, if you deduct these personnel, who are also counted in the army, the real active combat force is only 600,000 people. The sixteen corps of the field army, as well as the other armies, were practically not full.

However, even if there were only 600,000 combatants, the Qin army still had a large number of reserves and surrendered troops. No matter how you count it, it's a staggering amount.

"We plan to retire all personnel of non-combat units from active service, such as cadets of military academies, military workshops, and military horse farms. They belong only to the military-industrial logistics department, but not to active military personnel. "There is still a big difference between active and non-active military personnel, and although it is just a name change, it will also have a big impact. At the very least, the treatment of the soldiers of the Qin Domain is now excellent, and the withdrawal of hundreds of thousands of non-combatants from active duty will reduce the military expenditure of the Qin Domain a lot.

"A certain agreed to the proposal of the King of Qin, the soldiers of the Qin domain are sacred and glorious, and non-combatants, and should be retired from active duty, so as to distinguish them from the active soldiers, so as to show the special nature of the soldiers. Moreover, the retirement of non-combatants from active duty will reduce the annual military expenditure by a considerable amount. By every measure, it's good. Jing Xiang immediately agreed to Li Jing's proposal.

Li Jing wants to disarm, and of course it is impossible to cut only these things.

"The size of the border guards will be retained at 200,000 men, but the road guards and local garrisons will be abolished, some will be merged into the border guards, and some will be abolished. Their original local garrison tasks will be handed over to the unity soldiers and the township soldiers to jointly undertake. ”

"The naval division troops will also be dismantled, halved according to the current size of 200,000 men, and 100,000 horses will be retained. A part of the coastal defense force was merged into the unity and township troops, and part of the marine corps was transferred to the marine force. "The Qin army basically has no opponents on the water, so naturally there is no need to retain a huge water force. The scale of 100,000 people is enough.

"In addition, the number of reserve forces must also be reduced, and at present each of the eighteen provinces will retain one army of 5,000 united soldiers and one township soldier, and the militia will be retained at the size of one army per state."

The territory of the Qin Domain is now larger, and many places have become large rear, so there is no need to retain a large number of unity soldiers and village soldiers as before. Although it is said that the unity soldiers and the township soldiers are reserves, they also have to be trained in rotation for at least three months every year, and the military also has to bear a lot of expenses. According to Li Jing's plan, after the reduction and abolition, it will be reduced by three to four times, and the township soldiers and unity soldiers will each be retained at less than 100,000, and the militia will be around 200,000. The total number of reserves will be reduced from 1.3 million to 400,000.

Of course, the focus of disarmament is still on the disarmament of the army. Although it was not said that all of them would be abolished, Li Jing demanded that the total number of troops should not exceed 20% of the total number of troops, and that the pure Tibetan cavalry troops should no longer be retained.

This is a tremendous move, and in Li Jing's overall disarmament plan, it is first necessary to dismantle the 600,000 military cadets and military industrial departments from the active forces, and then to attack the Tibetan soldiers, first of all, as many as 110,000 tribal legions composed of the old, young, young, and even women of various tribes must be emphatically abolished. Now, all of them are to be disbanded, most of them are to be transferred to the production corps, a few are to be resettled in various places, and a small part is transferred to the army.

In addition, some of the original Fan soldiers in the various units had to be abolished, and at the last time, from the field army tribes to the border guard troops, the total of more than 100 large and small tribes was retained, and they were scattered and integrated into the various armies.

According to Li Jing's plan, the Qin army was divided into the Gyeonggi garrison, the field army, the border army, the local garrison and the reserve force. The Gyeonggi Guards, that is, Yanjing and the nearby important Guanseong, retained 200,000 men. The field army units were retained at the last of 300,000 men. The border guards were retained in the size of 200,000. The local garrison troops, on the other hand, are composed of a combination of united troops and township troops, and the nature of the local garrison forces is between the standing army and the reserve forces, and the local garrison units with a size of 200,000 people practice a system of rotational service; in non-wartime, only one-quarter of them are retained in active service, and the troops are divided into four batches of rotation, each batch of which is on a quarterly basis. Only in wartime will they all be assembled. Another 400,000 militiamen became reserves, training for two months each year during agricultural slack and conscripted in wartime.

200,000 Gyeonggi garrison troops, 300,000 field troops, 200,000 border guards, 200,000 local garrison troops, 100,000 naval divisions, 400,000 militia reserves. Of course, there is also the largest construction corps cluster, a full 200 construction corps, which will have 6 million male and female peasant soldiers. (To be continued......)