From Soldier To Emperor

"Unexpectedly, the declining state of Tang has such a strong strength that it can recruit more than 100,000 people to guard Liangzhou City."

Richard, who was sitting in the official residence of Liangzhou City, sighed after listening to his report.

"Master, in fact, you know better than anyone how these hundreds of thousands of people came. If there is no debt equalization order, there will only be 30,000 Tang troops in Liangzhou city. Even if you forcibly recruit young people to defend the city, it will not What fighting power will it have."

Genevieve, who was peeling the fruit for Richard, said with a smile.

"If there is no equalized land exemption order, how could Daming win the hearts of the people so quickly?"

Without popular support, ordinary people have no land, and the Northwest New Army cannot be trained continuously, and the military pay cannot be so low.

Moreover, the equalization of the land debt exemption order also allows us to stand upright in the jurisprudence and looting the big families. These fat sheep are an important source of wealth for maintaining our Ming army. "

Richard smiled back.

Richard didn't expect the huge defenders in Liangzhou city. It doesn't mean that he regretted pushing the landlord squire and the local celebrity power on the opposite side.

Richard has gold fingers, and the most feared thing is that there are many enemies, especially the mob organized by the rich!

But this time Richard also realized why in the history successful rebels would eventually win over the landlord gentry class, this class group is really not that easy to provoke!

Even the invasion of foreign races in the history of the earth will eventually suppress the landlord and gentry class, that is, the scholar class, and draw in groups, instead of being as simple and rude as the low-level peasant uprising army.

If you indiscriminately eat the big ones, they will eventually be united and wiped out by the big ones!

This group of landlord and country gentry, who looked like fat sheep in peacetime, will often burst out with powerful strength after being driven to a dead end!

Richard couldn't help but sounded the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement in the history of the earth. At that time, apart from internal strife, the great Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was actually overthrown by the landlord and gentry class. Zeng Guofan was just one of the best!

The so-called Hunan Army was formed after the landlord armed group was strengthened. In the history of the earth, apart from the troops with the advanced revolutionary ideas of later generations, no uprising force can completely eradicate the landlord gentry class!

This is the power of money!

In a mere Liangzhou city, the army organized by the landlord's armed forces and local cliques turned out to be more than the regular army of the Tang state!

Richard can already foresee that the main enemy he will face in the future is no longer an enemy country, but an entire landlord gentry class!

The local celebrities are actually more ancient and solidified landlord gentry classes, but because their background is more substantial and their land wealth is broader, they are no longer at the same level as ordinary landlord gentry.

The local celebrities are more like feudal lords.

It's just that it's essentially the same as the landlord gentry class...

"How is the reorganization of prisoners of war done?"

While enjoying the grapes Genevieve brought to his mouth, Richard asked Genevieve, who had actually become a military secretary.

"Master, after the follow-up arrest and the large-scale search of Liangzhou City, we have captured more than 60,000 prisoners of war, all of whom are young and strong soldiers who have received basic military training.

More than 20,000 of these people came from the regular army of the Tang state, and the rest were messy landlord and squire armed forces and local cliques.

Of course, the warriors and the children of the landlord and the squires of the local clan were identified and locked up separately from ordinary prisoners of war.

Those warriors were directly packaged and given to Jin Yiwei, but it was easy to deal with. The children of the landlord, the country gentry and the local clan gentry were directly killed in public to serve as examples, and the rest were sent to the Northwest Mine to work to death without a problem.

But now we are facing a big difficulty, the reorganized more than 60,000 prisoners of war are seriously lacking officers!

Choosing officers from the 60,000 prisoners of war is very detrimental to our control of the newly reorganized Liangzhou Army. Their composition is too complicated, and many of them have been favored by landlords, country gentry and local celebrities. It is difficult to tell whether they are against the Ming court. With hostility, even if we promised to waive the debts of their families, we did not fully control their loyalty.

I suggest that it is best to mobilize people with higher loyalty to serve as grass-roots officers, and then drop a group of middle and high-ranking generals into it, and you can control the reorganized Liangzhou army.

As long as the grassroots army is our own, even the middle and high-level generals can be mediocre, and it will not hinder the control of the Liangzhou army.

But, where do we find so many grassroots officers? "

After hearing Genevieve's explanation, Richard frowned involuntarily.

The Liangzhou army is different from the new army prepared and trained in the northwest. The new army is controlled by the Ming court from the beginning of recruitment to the formation of the army. There is a department that belongs only to the Secretary of the Army Qi Jiguang to manage the operation, and the officer promotion system has a mature mechanism. According to the performance during training, the UU reading www.uukanshu.com officer assessment, as well as the accumulation of military service after arriving in the northern defense line, and the performance of the Northwest region in combating banditry, etc., there are traces to follow.

But the Liangzhou Army assembled by prisoners of war was different.

The prisoners of the Liangzhou Army mainly came from the regular army of the Tang state and the private soldiers of the landlord armed gate cliques in the Liangzhou city defenders. There were not many young and Zhuang militias temporarily recruited in Liangzhou city.

The reason is simple. The Qingzhuang militiamen in Liangzhou City’s defenders are natives of Liangzhou City, and they collapsed and fled back home when they attacked the city. It is difficult to see them in the ensuing battles. And this group of locals have families and rooms, it is difficult to find out whether they have taken refuge in Tang Jun.

The most important thing is that the local youth militia in Liangzhou City are committed to the order of exemption from debts, and the Ming army is very lenient in searching for them.

Therefore, the prisoners of the Liangzhou Army are not actually residents of Liangzhou City. Even though most of them are from Liangzhou, there are still big differences.

The most important thing is that most of the teams of landlord armed forces and private soldiers have undergone basic military training, instead of just pulling weapons on the front of the city like Liangzhou Chengqingzhuang militia.

Not to mention the regular troops of the Tang Army, as long as they are reorganized slightly, they can get on the battlefield.

Therefore, the newly reorganized Liangzhou Army still has a certain combat effectiveness, and Richard attaches great importance to this force.

Richard has no shortage of elites now, what he lacks is an ordinary army.

The Northwest New Army has filled the meat grinders of the northern defense line, and wants to expand south to Tang, how can it rely on only 20,000 people?

However, it was easy to reorganize the Liangzhou Army. After all, all the soldiers were left at the bottom. Allocating land to their families would ensure the military strength, but the control became difficult due to the extreme lack of grassroots officers.

The Liangzhou Army Corps with more than 60,000 people needs not a small number of grassroots officers!

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