159 The King and the Loser
In order to share the power of the Army Department, there is no limit on the number of positions of deputy ministers!
In addition, the Army Department has a series of staff positions...
This division further distinguishes the military and political power. The Army Department seems to be the direct superior of the garrison and field corps, but in fact it is a department with no money. All logistics supplies need to be coordinated with other departments of the cabinet. Without Richard's order, they have no ability to mobilize, let alone fight independently...
The garrison legions are divided into administrative units at the level of the prefecture, and each prefecture will be equipped with a garrison regiment. The size of the garrison regiment ranges from 1,000 to 2,500 people according to the territory and population under the jurisdiction of the prefecture. This will allow more targeted troops to be arranged.
The garrison corps also used the method of giving field merits to teach the field, but because the garrison corps encountered very few wars, the room for the soldiers' ranks to increase their military ranks is very small, so it is very difficult to expand the garrison ceremonies to teach the field merits to give field merits to...
In order to stimulate the upward motivation of the officers and soldiers of the garrison corps, Richard also regarded the garrison corps as a field corps to supplement the reserve training. Anyone who meets the standards in training and makes certain contributions in local encirclement and suppression of green skins can apply for transfer to the field corps.
Moreover, the moment he was transferred to the field legion, his rank was automatically promoted to one level on the original basis!
Because the military rank is linked to the area of military merit awards, this kind of level transfer is very attractive.
To a certain extent, it made up for the disadvantage of slow promotion speed of the garrison corps.
Of course, if necessary, Richard will also draw out the garrison corps through the Army headquarters to form an expeditionary army.
However, if you do so, it means that Richard is in a dilemma of insufficient troops and is not far from the destruction of his power...
The garrison corps is the security lock that Richard governs the local area, and Richard will not be transferred unless it is absolutely necessary.
If there is a lack of troops, Richard cannon fodder, and if the cost is low and the consumption is too high, it will not affect the foundation of the power.
Once the garrison corps are all on the battlefield, where will Richard find so many qualified Han soldiers to rebuild the garrison corps?
Because of this, Richard has always called three field groups, and is also the first field group now, rather than the Han corps that guard other places.
This kind of institutional change is just a number change for the lower level, and has little impact. The transfer of official positions at the upper level is also limited to a small area, so it is not troublesome.
The soldiers of the garrison corps were not deprived of their military merits and land treatment, but the change of organization did not touch the fundamental interests of officers and soldiers, and had a very small impact.
The submission of the three field teams is still different from the original field team soldiers. Their military merits were not implemented because they were surrendered soldiers and needed to go through a war or accumulate enough merits before they could be assigned to the real military merit field.
This measure prevents Richard from immediately taking out a large amount of fields for new rewards. After a great war, Richard will naturally occupy new territory, and naturally there will be fields for military merits to be given to fields.
Because the local Han gentry class controlled a large amount of land, Richard could only set up many restrictions when he taught field merit. Fortunately, he had been winning battles, and this restriction did not arouse the disgust of officers and soldiers under the inspiration of victory.
They believe that with the power of the Ming King, if it continues to expand, they will sooner or later receive enough land rewards.
This is the general trend of people’s hearts!
After all, the military merits of the fallen soldiers will not be recovered, and the newly added surrendered soldiers will have to be released from other places.
If we use the military merits of the fallen soldiers to the newly joined surrendered soldiers, then who will dare to fight to the death in the future?
Fortunately, there is still a large area of land in the Western Regions waiting for Richard to invade, and the problem of military merit fields is far from the critical point of the outbreak.
After the entire Western Regions were controlled, if Richard wanted to fill the gap in military merit, he would probably have to attack the gentry class who had mastered a large amount of land. However, at that time, who in the Western Regions could still fight against Richard?
The local gentry class naturally could not see this, and did not know that Richard's military merits and field teaching system would have irreconcilable conflicts with them in the future.
Richard's trick of boiling frogs in warm water well paralyzed the Han gentry class who had mastered a lot of military force, and even became the cornerstone of Richard's expansion!
After reorganizing the first field legion composed of three field groups, Richard's troops were divided into two groups and ordered the second and third field group with average combat effectiveness to continue attacking Yuchi Yingzhe's territory, and he led the army of the system headquarters and the first field group with basic combat power to head north.
Although Richard dispersed his troops, his strength did not decrease much, and even carried the general trend of defeating Yuchi Yingzhe's main force, which scared the local government and Long Letian!
After hearing about the defeat and fleeing of Yuchi Yingzhe, and the fact that Richard personally led nearly 10,000 cavalry and thousands of elite infantry to the north, Long Letian immediately stopped attacking Richard's sphere of influence and led his troops to retreat without hesitation!
In the Western Regions, nearly 10,000 elite cavalry in the wild are sweeping!
While withdrawing troops, Long Letian also sent a secret envoy to Richard to plan to promote peace talks!
Even Long Letian proposed the intention of both sides to share Yuchi Yingzhe together!
The rulers agree that success and defeat of the king is the consensus of the rulers. Yuchi Yingzhe, who destroyed the main infantry, only had about 3,000 cavalry under his command, and the rest were local garrison troops with weak combat power. This little force was no longer enough to support his expanded territory!
After receiving Long Letian's handwritten letter, Richard readily agreed and agreed that no heavy troops should be deployed in the border areas of both sides!
Long Letian naturally would not object. If he did not deploy heavy troops, he could mobilize all field troops for territory expansion, which was exactly what Long Letian wanted.
So, Richard, who had just arrived north for a few days, returned to the front line of Jumi Mansion south of the Qinling Mountains with his main force.
When Richard's army arrived, the second and third field team were sieging the city of Jumifu without any rush.
However, after Yuchi Yingzhe learned that Richard's main force was back and the Long Letian army north of the Pamir Mountains also retreated, he knew that something was wrong, so he fled from Jumi Mansion with his 3,000 cavalry at night, and even the infantry inside could not care about...
After Yuchi Yingzhe fled, the people in the city of Jumi Mansion were panicked. Soon, Richard's army came to the city. Under the threat of the massacre, Jumi Mansion did not continue to resist and open the door to welcome the surrender!
After occupying the Jumi Mansion, Richard left the Third Field Army to maintain the logistics line and reorganize the local Han garrison troops for the Jumi Mansion garrison regiment, and followed the fleeing Yuchi Yingzhe to pursue him.
After the news of the surrender of the city of Jumi Mansion spread in the Western Regions, all forces, including those under the control of Yuchi Yingzhe, saw clearly the weak nature of Yuchi Yingzhe!
Chapter completed!