On May 31, 1691, Yang Liangfeng returned to Santa Fe City in a blazing manner, where his First Mixed Army Regiment is currently stationed.

This army that made great contributions in South Africa last year has been transferred back to China and stationed on the East Coast Prairie for several months. During this period, the regiment headquarters also generously gave many officers and soldiers a holiday, allowing them to go home to reunite with their relatives. Many of these young men are not married yet, but they are rich. The deposits in their bank accounts are probably not thousands of yuan, but are the focus of every matchmaker in the village. It is also a very glorious thing for those married veterans and officers to go home with spoils and a lot of cash. It is also a glorious thing, and it is said that they have returned home in glory.

The army system is also happy to see it. After all, the soldiers' return home is actually a free publicity advertisement, which makes people realize that participating in the army and going out to fight can bring a lot of money. If you can make some contributions, you may be able to be arranged to be a local official when you retire in the future, such as the village militia director, the township armed forces minister, etc. Inappropriately, the local railways, public security, procuratorial, judicial and tax police systems also have recruitment places for people like them, which is a good way to go.

From here we can also see that to be more precise, the Army has a very deep foundation in the country, and the social influence is also very good. There are many people willing to join the army. Unfortunately, the Army only selects the best from the security groups of each county to join the army, and the Navy only selects the students from the sailing school or merchant ship sailors. In short, there are few farmers or urban citizens who are inexperienced to dig food from the soil.

The only way for farmers to join the army is probably to perform well in the training of village militias and then strive to be selected into the county security regiment. According to the current supplementary regulations on the source of soldiers, only if they enter the county security regiment and are listed on the reserve soldiers’ list can they be supplemented into the army, and other paths are basically blocked.

Compared with farmers, urban youth have much wider choices. Of course, they can register for security teams and compete with rural youth for the quota of the army. At the same time, because of their superior knowledge, they can apply for navigation schools and even the Fenggu Island Naval School Navigation School has basically been handed over to the local area. The Fenggu Island Military Academy is newly opened by the Navy and can try to join the Navy.

In short, whether it is the army or the navy, it is a good way to improve one's social class for ordinary young people who have no choice but to have a background. Of course, you can also improve your class by taking the exam, but for those who are very ordinary in their studies, they can only go to the battlefield with their heads and fight to the death. There is no other way to do that.

The First Mixed Regiment also retired some veterans this time, with about three or four hundred people. Therefore, during the garrison, the regiment headquarters also had close contact with the Army Department and added more than 700 new recruits from the local area to join the army (and some were supplemented with combat losses), successfully completing the exchange of new and old troops.

It is worth mentioning that according to the latest military source supplementary regulations formulated by the Army Department, the military source supplementary site of the First Mixed Regiment is on the eastern prairie, and the military source supplementary site of the Second Mixed Regiment is in the Yazihu ​​River Basin. In addition, before retreating at the beginning of this year, Ma Wenqiang also approved the establishment of the Third and Fourth Mixed Regiments. The former will be formed with the current Portuguese garrison as the backbone, and the insufficient part will be transferred from the local area. The regiment commander is Lieutenant Colonel Mao Jun, and the additional site of the Brazilian Plateau north of Dingjun Mountain; the Fourth Mixed Regiment will be formed with the current eastern shore troops in the Far East as the backbone, and the insufficient part will be recruited on the spot. The regiment commander is Major Tang Moyu (promoted to lieutenant colonel), and the additional site of the military source is counties in the Hejian region.

After Shao Yaoguang took office, he did not overthrow Ma Wenqiang's order, but instead allocated funds to help the army establish these four mixed regiments. After Shao Yaoguang took office, the Army Department issued another report, intending to recruit some soldiers based on the remaining two mixed battalions and some independent troops as the basis, and form the Fifth Mixed Regiment of the Army. The regiment commander was Lieutenant Colonel Lan Fei who had recently been transferred back to China. The registrar was planned to be the South Cone and East Pampa area for the newly-transferred Lieutenant Colonel Lan Fei, and the military source was supplementary to the South Cone and East Pampa area.

After careful study, Shao Yaoguang recognized the Army's request, but asked them to set up the racks first, and the insufficient soldiers and equipment were temporarily suspended. It is best to wait until the second half of next year to gradually improve them to relieve financial pressure. The Army did not make any trouble this time, and simply agreed to Chairman Shao's request. Perhaps they thought that Chairman Shao's new officer took office and was unwilling to fight against their army. It would be good if he could agree to form the Fifth Mixed Regiment. Don't think too much.

Once all five mixed regiments are formed, if some independent troops directly under the Army Department, local security forces and civilian personnel in various places are included, the total number of the army has reached more than 30,000, which is quite large, and is more than some continental countries. For example, Brandenburg-Prussia currently has only about 30,000 army troops, slightly smaller than the east coast, although the population of the two countries seems to be not on the same level (7.5 million: 1.5 million).

The First Mixed Group was one of the first two groups formed on the East Coast. It has a good qualification, a strong style and strong combat effectiveness. This time, it was transferred back to the country as a whole, which was not only a rest, but also a new land for La Plata to ensure the security construction of major cities, including the capital Luoyang Prefecture, and deter the possible number of anti-East Coast elements.

The First Mixed Regiment has 4,995 people, and is currently fully loaded with people landing on the Port of Santa Fe. After arriving here, the divisions will be stationed separately. If nothing unexpected happens, the 1st Infantry Battalion will head north to the area north of Hexi County to search and capture possible Indian tribes. In addition, the battalion also received a secret order that if necessary, it can cross the river and enter the Paraguay area, arrest the large number of Guarani people in the local area, and then secretly transport it to various construction sites in the south to undertake various labor tasks.

The 2nd Infantry Battalion is stationed at Santa Fe, a key port node, and is also alerting the surrounding areas to ensure the construction and transportation safety of various construction sites. The 3rd Infantry Battalion will go to Tucuman, Jujuy, Salta and other places north of Luoyang Prefecture to take over local Spanish towns, and identify the Indians, and then send them to Luoyang Prefecture in the south in batches to put them into construction.

The 1st Cavalry Battalion patrols mobile patrols between Luoyang Prefecture and Santa Fe to ensure the safety of this land transportation line. Of course, a first-class high-level highway is currently being built here (first-class national highway, and also the pre-preparation work of the railway). Ensuring construction safety is also one of the tasks of the cavalry.

As for the regiment headquarters and its direct troops of the First Mixed Regiment, they will be stationed in Luoyang Prefecture and take over everything in the local area. In other words, the people of the East Coast no longer hide, but directly control the entire La Plata. The reason for this is actually very simple, that is, the Spanish's contract change documents have been sent to the capital Dongfang Port. Shao Yaoguang, chairman of the Executive Committee, signed the contract change documents with red faces, officially announcing that the vast La Plata Plata has changed hands.

Since La Plata has already belonged to the East Coast in a legal sense, there is nothing to say about this, and it is appropriate to send troops to occupy various places directly. The First Mixed Regiment is only the first wave at present. The Army Minister Major General Guo Handong will soon lead the Second Mixed Regiment to land in Shanghai County, then control the entire Pampa Plain, and search for Indians in the local area.

Two regiments of tens of thousands of people were sent to La Plata, which can be said to be very important. You should know that this is the vast majority of the regular army forces on the east coast. The Fifth Mixed Regiment is still in the process of being formed, and some of the battalions are even guarding the Tuanjie River Basin. The Third and Fourth Mixed Regiments are far overseas, which shows the determination of the Executive Committee.

However, Yang Liang was a little distracted by this, thinking that the white shirts were really a big deal. Although La Plata is vast, most of the few thousand Spanish soldiers have been subdued. The only white manor owners who refuse to follow cannot become a big climate. Do you need such a big fight? Just because the capital is here in the future, a mixed group was sent over, which is simply nonsense.

But what can I do? Yang Liang sighed, the money bag is in the hands of the white shirts, so they can do whatever they want. Yang Liang's family knows his family affairs. Since he failed to compete with Guo Handong for the Minister of the Army, he realized that he had cut off his path to progress. Considering his age and the youth strategy that the Army is advocating, he estimated that he would soon go to the newly established Army University. This was also something a friend of the Military Affairs Department secretly revealed to him, and it should not be wrong.

"Actually, the Army University is not bad, and it is the first president after all. It should be famous in history in the future." Yang Liang thought to himself on the way to the regiment headquarters.

The Army University is currently under construction. The campus is located in Yuquan District, Luoyang Prefecture. It mainly trains school-level officers and forms a high-level combination with Dingyuan Army Officers School. It improves the entire army education system. The non-commissioned officers of the East Coast Army are trained by various regiments in the battalion schools, the lieutenant officers are trained by Dingyuan Army Officers School, and the school officers are trained by the Army University.

The Army did this obviously because it did not want the positions of officers at all levels to be occupied by the scholars who graduated from the Corps Fort. Those guys were too deeply influenced by the white shirts of the Executive Committee and might not be in the same mind as the Army. Therefore, it is better to keep out as much as possible so as not to command the troops in the future.

In addition, the Army University has also opened a Weapon Research Center, responsible for the research and development of various new weapons and new materials, and together with the research institutions of various military factories, it forms the research system of the East Coast Army's military industry.

Overall, it is not unacceptable to be the president of the Army University, and Yang Liang is very open-minded. If he served for a long time, he could even cultivate a large group of confidants, and it is unknown that his future disciples are spread throughout the entire army system. In this case, Yang's influence in the army will definitely increase greatly. Even if he cannot become the Minister of the Army in the future, it doesn't matter. His descendants now have several people joining the army. With this incense, their path to joining the army may be much easier than that of himself. It is not impossible to win the throne of the Minister of the Army and even the Chief of Staff of the General Staff of the Military Department in the future.

"I'm just a little reluctant to let go of my brothers in the group." Yang Liang thought silently: "Once I leave my post, the First Mixed Group will probably be transferred overseas, right? Where will it be? The most likely thing is the Far East! Judging from the ruling program shown by Chairman Shao, a mixed group in the Far East is still a bit thin, and the possibility of the First Mixed Group being transferred is very high. This is the opportunity for the brothers in the group, but some people cannot be able to come back. Although it is ordinary for the athletes in the army to wear horses and corpses on the battlefield, after spending so many years, I always subconsciously hope that everyone will be neat, but it's so difficult."

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