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In this expansion, four new regiments were added to the standing army, and each regiment was merged into four civilian warrior battalions with longer training times.

As a result, there are only 16 minyong camps left, with a total of 9600 people.

The standing army has eight regiments, each with 3000 men, totaling 24000 men.

There are three battalions and seven posts of the Guards, totaling 2500 people.

Why are there seven more whistles?

In October, when Liu Sheng led his army out of the mountains to conquer Suiping and Wuyang, he left 50 guards from the Huben camp in Liujiazhai and Huachu camps.

After the Battle of Ruyang, the three battalions of the Guards following Liu Sheng were replenished to full strength, and the Huben Camp Guards also had one more sentry.

Later, Liu Sheng simply selected elites from each battalion of the standing army, and established one post of Tiger and Ben guards, two posts of Shengjie guards, and two posts of Xiaoqi guards.

After the wedding, the female soldiers who stayed with Lady Hong as guards were also included in the bodyguards.

Only then did the Guards have seven more sentries.

Therefore, in total, the Kueibu Guards, Standing Army, and Mingyong Battalion totaled 36100 people.

As for the fishing and hunting groups and civilian braves of the Kuei tribe in North America, they were not included.

The young men and women in the major camps in the Kuaibu region still maintain the habit of morning training.

Therefore, if needed again, Liu Sheng can urgently recruit at least 30,000 civilian warriors from North America (North American immigrants account for the vast majority of young men).

To be honest, this amount of troops is not much compared to Li Zicheng, who will have "hundreds of thousands" of troops this year.

Even if Zhang Xianzhong breaks through Xiangyang and wreaks havoc on Huguang again, his troops will explode to "hundreds of thousands".

Among the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, Zuo Liangyu, who now has a tendency to become a warlord, also has tens of thousands of troops.

Therefore, during this military meeting, Liu Sheng also gave the generals responsible for guarding Queshan, Suiping, and Ruyang a task, which was to continue to train single young refugees to serve as brave men for the people.

There is still no upper limit on the number of people. As long as their age and physical fitness meet the minimum requirements for civilian bravery, as many young and strong single refugee men as they come can be trained!

Anyway, at present, the people of the Ebu tribe are still only responsible for food and clothing, but no military pay, which will not bring too much burden to the finances.

After agreeing on the expansion of the army, Liu Sheng began to announce the tasks of each regiment of the standing army——

"The Red Lady leads the fourth regiment and three civilian warrior battalions, and is still responsible for guarding Queshan and Tianmu Mountain.

At the same time, the bandits, bandits, and bandits in the area must be eliminated within the first month of the year, and all Zhuangbao villages must be formally submitted to the Wei tribe.

Depending on the situation in each village, we will appoint village chiefs, village governors and village brave captains who are loyal to our tribe. "

"Wen You leads the second regiment and three militia battalions to still guard Suiping. They are also responsible for suppressing bandits and making all villages surrender. They must not be left out!"

When Liu Sheng said this, he paused.

The red lady and Wen You immediately stood up together, clasping their fists and shouting: "The last general takes orders!"

"With Peng Youyi as the chief general and Hu Dongliu as the deputy general, he led the first and sixth regiments to form the West Route Army, which was responsible for attacking Xincai County and Yangbu and other important military places.

He is also responsible for suppressing bandits, organizing and training civilian bravery, and assisting in resisting the invading Ruyang and Xincai Ming armies! "

"With Yang Heqing as the chief general and Zhang Ao (the third regiment deputy) as the deputy general, he led the third regiment and four civilian brave battalions to form the South Route Army, responsible for attacking Zhenyang County and Minggang, Changtaiguan, Chuwangcheng, Yuecheng, etc. Military important place.

He is also responsible for the area's bandit suppression affairs and the training of civilian bravery.

Wait until February, and if the time is right, you can capture Xinyang Prefecture, Guangshan, Luoshan and other places! "

Peng Youyi and Yang Heqing are generals who like to attack and are good at attacking.

After hearing Liu Sheng's announcement of their military mission, they couldn't help but look happy, clasped their fists together and said: "The last general takes orders!"

"With Shi Jincai as the chief general and Mao Chengguo as the deputy general, he led the 7th Regiment, the 8th Regiment and the remaining six civilian brave battalions to guard Ruyang County.

He is also responsible for suppressing bandits in Ruyang, training people's bravery, and making all villages surrender.

You need to put the safety of Ruyang City first—if you encounter any major issues that are undecided, you can call me! "

One of Shi Jincai and Mao Chengguo was a mediocre general, and the other was a newly promoted regimental commander. In fact, they were a little uneasy about serving as the chief general and deputy general.

The two of them originally wanted to accept the order like the others, but they keenly noticed that Liu Sheng's words were "telecommunications".

Both of them knew about the walkie-talkie, but as far as they knew, the longest range of the walkie-talkie was only a dozen miles.

If Liu Sheng leads his army to Xiangyang, which is hundreds of miles away, how will they communicate?

Although Shi Jincai's fighting talent was mediocre, he was very self-aware and never pretended to understand.

He immediately asked: "Commander, what does this telegram mean?"

Liu Sheng smiled and said, "This involves a big help I want to give you - go and bring all three telecommunications groups here!"

The last sentence was said to the personal guard in the big tent who was responsible for delivering orders.

The guards went out and quickly brought a dozen people with them.

Except for the red lady, who had already seen it, everyone else was stunned when they saw it.

Although these 12 people all wore Tang scarves (a kind of hat) and the latest style of gray-green military uniforms with lapels, their appearance and figure showed that they were all young women!

This made Yang Heqing and others confused about what Liu Sheng was going to do.

They definitely didn't dare to think about the prostitution camp - the rebel army prohibited soldiers from going to brothels on non-holidays, so how could they set up a prostitution camp?

Soon, the generals were attracted by a one-foot-large box that came in behind.

Liu Sheng said at this time: "They are all telegraph operators trained by me, and they are responsible for sending, receiving and compiling telegrams.

As for what is contained in the wooden box at the back, it is the telegraph machine. It functions like a walkie-talkie, but can transmit messages tens of thousands of miles away in just one breath! "

After hearing Liu Sheng's words, all the generals looked at the wooden box in shock.

They were already surprised by the walkie-talkie that could communicate instantly from a distance of more than ten miles.

Unexpectedly, Liu Sheng actually had a telegraph machine that could send messages across tens of thousands of miles!

Presumably the real fairy treasures are nothing more than this, right?

They all say that the Marshal is a banished immortal and descended to earth, and it is indeed true!

While the generals were shocked, Liu Sheng remembered another very important thing.

During his training as a telegraph operator, he asked a group of telegraph operators to send him a telegraph in North America, but he did not receive it in Liujiazhai!

Then he sent a message from the top of Fangshan Mountain, but it was also unable to be received in North America!

Logically speaking, given the pure electromagnetic environment of the seventeenth century, he should be able to receive telegrams from North America even if they were tens of thousands of miles apart, with countless mountains, rivers, and oceans in between.

He didn't know whether this was due to some geographical or weather factors, or something else.

Or perhaps, North America on the other side of the "gate" is not in the same time and space as the late Ming Dynasty where Liujiazhai was located.

When he first discovered that the day and night in North America were almost synchronized with those in Liujiazhai, he had such a guess, but he was not sure.

Judging from experiments with telegraph machines, this possibility is quite large.

However, geographically it should undoubtedly be North America - he has verified this through stargazing and other methods.

I just don’t know if it’s the seventeenth century that’s about 12 hours behind Liujiazhai, or another century with a larger time gap...