Anti-Qing: Starting from the Jintian Uprising

Chapter 46 Li Yi: Double standards are unacceptable!

First, it is easier to manage by separating men’s and women’s camps.

This can prevent people from having promiscuous relationships between men and women to the greatest extent, which would create chaos in the military camp and affect the army's discipline and morale.

After all, being a soldier is hard, with five girls as company every day, but officers get to sleep with beautiful women and have parties every day.

Who can stand this for so long?

The second is that after the men and women were separated into separate camps, their wives and children were right behind them.

Once they were defeated, given the nature of the Qing army, they would definitely kill the prisoners, and their wives and children would also have to die.

How can you do this without trying your best?
If everyone fights their best, won't the army's combat effectiveness increase?
The early period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the bandits in the late Ming Dynasty were both positive examples of separating men and women into separate camps.

The most typical negative example is Zheng Chenggong.

The reason why Zheng Chenggong was defeated when he attacked Nanjing.

One reason was that he fell into the Qing army's delaying tactics. The Qing army in Nanjing City kept delaying the surrender, claiming that it took time to prepare, and delayed the time until the Qing army reinforcements arrived.

Subsequently, Zheng Chenggong's northern expedition to Nanjing was on the verge of failure due to a surprise attack by the Qing army inside and outside Nanjing, and hundreds of thousands of Zheng's elite troops were almost wiped out in one day.

The second reason is that Zheng’s army at that time was a mixed camp.

Soldiers and their families lived together in the military camp, resulting in chaos in military law and discipline.

What’s even more terrible is that when the military camp was attacked, everyone’s first reaction was to protect their families and escape.

No one organized to resist the Qing army's raid.

Then, Zheng’s army was defeated.

Therefore, there was actually no problem with the system of separating men and women that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom adopted in its early days.

But the problem is that after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom settled down in Tianjing, the kingdom’s top leaders failed to turn around in time.

The strict system of separating men and women into camps is still adopted!

There were even high-ranking officials in the Kingdom of Heaven who were beheaded in public for sleeping with their wives.

More importantly, the top leaders of the Kingdom of Heaven are practicing double standards.

While he strictly enforced the separation of men and women for his subordinates, he himself had many wives and concubines, and was accompanied by beautiful women every day.

That’s right, we are talking about those two idiots, the King of Heaven and the King of the East.

Then, wouldn’t the system of separating men and women into separate camps cause division between the upper and lower levels?
It can be seen that double standards are unacceptable!
Although the separation of male and female camps was abolished after the Tianjing Incident in 1856.

But by this time, it was too late.

After the Tianjing Incident, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had already begun to decline, and the overall situation could not be saved by abolishing the system of separate camps for men and women.

However, this did not prevent Li Yi from temporarily adopting the system of separating male and female camps in the army for the sake of convenience of management.

At worst, I can cancel it when I settle down in the future!

Well, Li Yi doesn’t have double standards.

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The number of Li Yi's troops has increased again and has reached about three thousand.

Among these three thousand people, apart from his regiment, most of them were the people of Xunzhou who followed him spontaneously. The two together numbered about two thousand people.

Apart from these, the rest were the villagers from Lijiazhuang and Wangjiaao who followed to Jintian.

While Li Yi led the entire Lijiazhuang to seek refuge in Jintian, Wang An also returned to Wangjiaao and brought all the people from Wangjiaao over.

Then, the number of soldiers under Li Yi increased again. However, although the number of people under Li Yi seemed large, they were just a mob.

If we want them to exert their combat effectiveness, we must first conduct reorganization and training.

After finalizing the system of separating men and women into separate camps, Li Yi's men were divided into two parts.

One part is a combat battalion composed of young and strong men.

The number of people is roughly around 1,700.

The other part is responsible for logistics, which is a logistics camp composed of the elderly, the weak, women and children.

The number is roughly 1,100.

Li Yi planned to reorganize the combat battalion according to a military system similar to the three-three system that he had developed with reference to the Western infantry drill manual.

Well, the era of breech-loading rifles is not far away, and it is not too advanced for Li Yi to use the three-three system now.

The basic unit of the new military system is the squad. A squad has a squad leader, a deputy squad leader, and ten soldiers under him, for a total of twelve people.

There are three squads and one platoon, with a platoon leader, a deputy platoon leader, a bugler, and a communications soldier, for a total of forty people.

There is one company in three platoons, with one company commander, one deputy company commander, one instructor, three guards, three company buglers, and three communications soldiers, a total of 132 people.

There is one battalion in three companies, with one battalion commander, one deputy battalion commander, one staff officer, three training instructors, and a battalion guard squad, military police squad, bugle squad, and communications squad with twelve people each, for a total of 450 people.

There are three battalions and one regiment, with one regimental commander, one deputy regimental commander, three regimental staff officers, a twelve-person ideological and educational class, a guard platoon, a military police platoon, a bugle platoon, and a communications platoon, each with forty people, for a total of 1527 people.

There are three regiments and one brigade, with one brigade commander, one deputy brigade commander, one chief of staff, one ideological and political instructor, twelve brigade staff officers, a forty-member ideological and political education platoon, a guard company, a military police company, a bugle company, and a communications company, each with 5165 people, for a total of people.

There are three brigades and one division, with a division commander, a military inspector, a deputy division commander, a division chief of staff, one division ideological and political instructor, forty division staff officers, a ideological and political education company of 132 people, a guard battalion, a military police battalion, a bugle battalion, and a communications battalion, each with 450 people, for a total of 17472 people.

In Li Yi's conception, the division is the most numerous combat unit in the army under normal circumstances.

He does not plan to establish a higher-level army or even a group army on a permanent basis.

It won’t be too late to temporarily draw troops to form a force during wartime.

As for logistical organizations such as the kitchen team and medical staff, Li Yi is not planning to set them up permanently in the combat barracks for the time being. He plans to use the logistics camp to take over first.

In fact, it is mainly because Li Yi does not have many young and strong men at present, and they are not enough to serve as combat soldiers. It is a complete waste to ask them to handle logistics.

Anyway, the original intention of setting up the logistics camp, besides facilitating management, was to let them be responsible for logistics.

Now it’s finally put to good use!

Of course, organization is organization. With the people Li Yi has now, he can only pull out a reorganized regiment at most.

Excluding one reorganized group, Li Yi planned to divide the remaining more than one hundred people into two parts.

A part of them formed an artillery company, responsible for operating the artillery.

The other part was formed into a cavalry company, responsible for horse combat.

Well, the artillery and war horses needed to form the artillery company and the cavalry company respectively were all captured by Li Yi in the two battles of Xunzhou.

As for the official position given by the God Worshipping Society, what should I do?
After thinking about it, Li Yi prepared to do both in parallel.

There were actual vacancies in the official positions within his own army, so he used the official positions given by the God-Bearing Church as military ranks.

Take Li Yi himself as an example. He planned to serve as the commander of the newly reorganized regiment, but he was not going to give up the position of military commander given to him by the God-Bearing Church.

To him, the position of regiment commander is a real vacancy, while the position of army commander is an honorary title.

Although it's a bit awkward, there's nothing that can be done about it. Who told Li Yi to temporarily take refuge under the wings of the God Worshipping Society?

It’s not good to make yourself too unique!
(End of this chapter)