Wang Chenhao used his powerful force and financial resources as a backing. After completing the reform of the national system,

In order to further control various local governments, Wang Chenhao dispatched the Beiyang Army in the 20 towns to all parts of the country.

The 300,000 Beiyang Army seemed very large when it was stationed in Zhili, but after it was scattered onto 12 million square kilometers of land, it seemed a little overwhelming.

The green camp has trained as many as 600,000 troops, but its combat power is several levels lower than that of the Beiyang Army. Most of them have been adapted into the National Guard, Police Force and Local Guard. It is okay to let them manage social security, but it is too bad to let them become regular combat troops. Because the old concepts of these old troops are already deeply rooted, even if they are trained into new troops, they will change the soup and not change the medicine. Wang Chenhao knows very well how much this disadvantage has had to have a negative impact on China in modern times, so he will not follow this old path that is not as fast as possible.

After the national political system reform, Wang Chenhao immediately implemented military reform.

Based on the twenty-two towns of Beiyang Army, it was expanded into thirty-six towns of standing army, with a total force of 10,000. As a national defense force in peacetime, the standing army does not need to be too many, but only elite. Because too many standing army will affect the development of the national economy and become a heavy burden for the people.

In 1898, the world's most powerful Degu Standing Army had only 880,000 people. Britain had the largest and largest colonies in the world, but its standing army was only 560,000, of which the local area was pitifully small and only 12,000. As the most economically developed country in the world, the United States had only 31,000 people.

As the European continent's army power second only to Germany, France has only 1.22 million permanent troops. If it were not for the sake of Germany, Austro-Hungarian Empire and Italy, France would not have maintained such a huge permanent troops.

Russia, which has the largest land area in the northern hemisphere, has a standing army of 2.82 million. Such a huge standing army is not what the Russian government hopes. In order to fight against the German and Austro-Hungarian Army, Russia deployed 1.55 million troops in Eastern Europe. Russia's economy is too poor, and the Russian army's combat quality is not as good as the German army, so it can only be compensated by quantity. Russia has made enemies around the world and fought against the Ottoman Turkish Empire for centuries. An unprecedented Russian-Turkish war broke out every twenty years. In order to deal with the Ottoman Empire's standing army, Russia had to deploy 1 million troops on the Russian-Turkish border.

It can be seen that the scale of the standing army is formulated according to national defense needs.

In the surrounding areas of China, British Myanmar, India and other colonies had less than 170,000 colonial troops. The British Army was facing an Indian Tashk armed uprising and could not threaten China's national security. The French Vietnamese colonies had less than 20,000 people, which could be ignored. The United States urgently recruited 200,000 expeditionary forces to the Philippines to fight against the Philippine Revolutionary Army. It could not be pacified in three or five years. Before the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Japan had seven standing divisions. After the two Qing-Japanese Wars, Japan was burdened with heavy war reparations and had been reduced to five divisions, which was not a problem.

At this time, the only enemy of China was Tsarist Russia.

After the Qing-Russian War, Tsarist Russia stepped up the construction of the Siberian Railway and successively dispatched 300,000 troops to the Far East. For China, the national defense mission was mainly to prevent Tsarist Russia. Although Tsarist Russia's standing army was nearly three million, it was 1.55 million by the allies and 1 million by the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Excluding the needs of local defense, Tsarist Russia's dispatch of 300,000 troops to the Far East was already the limit.

Of course, this is only a period of peace, and it is impossible to estimate during war.

The national defense policy designated by Wang Chenhao can only be planned according to the national defense policy of hostile countries.

Tsarist Russia currently has only 300,000 permanent troops in the Far East, so Wang Chenhao established 36 towns to handle the situation. If Russia increases troops to the Far East, then Wang Chenhao will expand his troops accordingly.

The Beiyang Army was renamed the Imperial Army of China, referred to as the "China Army". Wang Chenhao split the existing twenty towns of the army into forty associations. Based on each association, he recruited a recruit in his original place, so that veterans led the recruits to form a new town. The veterans were all Wang Chenhao's direct troops, and the recruits were locals. This strengthened the place and guaranteed Wang Chenhao's absolute control over the army.

After the expansion of forty cooperatives, Wang Chenhao only had thirty-six towns to have a permanent army. The additional four towns were reorganized into the Imperial Guards and the Imperial Guards, specializing in the inner and outer cities of Beijing.

The defense of the imperial city. The Imperial Guards and Imperial Guards are directly under the jurisdiction of Wang Chenhao. As Wang Chenhao's si guards, they are also an important tool used by Wang Chenhao to control the city of Beijing.

In accordance with Wang Chenhao's instructions, the General Staff made arrangements for the other six towns in Sanfeng. Among them, the capital was guarded by the Imperial Guards and Imperial Guards, and there was no need to deploy a standing army.

There are two towns in Zhili, one town in Shandong, two towns in Jiangsu, one town in Anqian, one town in Jiangxi, one town in Henan, one town in Hunan, one town in Hubei, one town in Zhejiang, one town in Fujian, two towns in Guangdong, one town in Guangxi, two towns in Yunnan, one town in Guizhou, one town in Sichuan, one town in Shanxi, one town in Gansu, one town in Xinjiang, two towns in Fengtian, two towns in Jilin, two towns in Heilongjiang, two towns in Méng ancient towns, one town in Tibet, one town in Taiwan, one town in Guam and two towns in Bo Duo Rico, one town in total.

The Ryukyu Islands retain an independent division, which is not within the establishment of the permanent army, and is directly under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of National Defense, and the supply of the Ryukyu Kingdom is responsible for it.

The troops garrisons in each province are different. In addition to the strategic factors considered by the General Staff, the Ministry of National Defense also made corresponding requirements for the garrisons for political and economic needs.

For example, Zhili Zai Town, Jiangsu Town, and Guangdong Town are mainly for political and economic considerations. Zhili is Wang Chenhao's base camp,

The Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Industrial Base is located here and has to be heavily protected. Liangjiang, Shanghai and Guangdong are one of the provinces with the largest contribution to taxation in China, so it requires heavy protection.

Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu, Fengtian, Jilin, Heilongjiang and other places also deployed two towns of troops, which is due to regional and national defense security considerations. Yunyan, Sichuan, Gansu and other regions have long distances, but strategic xing is extremely important. For example, Britain continues to erode the Chinese territory in Yunnan. Once an emergency occurs, the troops in the neighboring areas cannot provide timely reinforcements, so it needs to increase their troops.

A town of troops was also deployed in Tibet, which was mainly Wang Chenhao's personal opinion. The Ministry of National Defense and the General Staff did not arrange troops to station in Tibet at the beginning. Under Wang Chenhao's special instructions,

The General Staff sent a town of troops to Tibet. Originally, Wang Chenhao's plan was to send two towns of troops to Tibet, because the British had been eyeing Tibet and constantly encroaching on Tibet's Chinese territory. At the end of Daoguang, the square kilometers of land in Ladakh area in Tibet, which was occupied by Britain, was occupied by the British. It would not take long for the British to fabricate the illegal McMahon Line. Wang Chenhao was foresighted, so he focused on protecting Tibet.

However, in the eyes of the officials of the General Staff, Wang Chenhao belongs to the group who stands and speaks without aches. Tibet is located in a high-altitude area. The army stationed in Tibet will face the threat of plateau diseases, supply difficulties, and living difficulties. The troops stationed in the two towns are stationed in Tibet, and their military expenditure is equivalent to the army of the six towns in the Gyeonggi area. Many things cannot be solved by increasing military expenditure.

In the end, the General Staff convinced Wang Chenhao and only sent a town of troops to Tibet.

Regarding the ancient area, Wang Chenhao did not mention the ancient area, because the ancient area has been in a highly autonomous state since the founding of the Qing Empire. Most of the ancient areas were still in the nomadic era, and other areas had feudal slavery coexisted. The feudal princes and ministers of the ancient times enjoyed the treatment of the Iron Hat King.

Whether or not the reform of the ancient area has little impact on the new imperial policy implemented by Wang Chenhao, and it can even be ignored. It is precisely for this reason that Wang Chenhao did not issue a forced reform order to the ancient.

However, for strategic reasons, the huge strategic depth of more than 2 million square kilometers is valued by Wang Chenhao. With the ancient desert protecting the Central Plains, Wang Chenhao can prepare for the Russian war with ease.

In addition, Wang Chenhao's army urgently needed to recruit a large number of cavalry troops, including ancient war horses and ancient tribal cavalry. For various interests, Wang Chenhao continued to maintain the feudal system in the ancient area and safeguarded the interests of the ancient princes and nobles, so as to gain strong support from the seventy-two ancient tribes.

In addition to consolidating the empire's rule over the ancient area, the two town troops stationed in the ancient towns were more important that the ancient towns had huge industrial minerals. For example, the ancient town had a reserve of one trillion tons, and had world-class iron ore, copper ore, network ore, and the world's largest rare earth ore, which was the raw materials needed for military industry that Wang Chenhao valued the most.

Wang Chenhao plans to build a second industrial base in the ancient Méng area, which mainly collects raw materials. The purpose is to continuously transport high-quality coal, various ores, and various rare earth raw materials to the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Industrial Base, and accelerate China's industrial development and industrialization process.

For the Chinese colonies Guam and Bodo Rico, the two places share a town of troops, and each place is stationed with one assistant. Guam is sparsely populated, and one assistant force is enough. Bodo Rico is densely populated and relatively wealthy, but it is too far from the local area. Wang Chenhao only regards Bodo Rico as a strategic fulcrum and a stepping stone to participate in American affairs. Therefore, only one assistant force is stationed in Bodo Rico. The station is in Fort Buchanan, Bodo Rico, where the Army Department set up an army base,

The funds are paid with a tax on Bo Rico.

After the reform of the scale and organization of the standing army, the Ministry of National Defense and the General Staff were stationed in the Chinese Army in each province, divided into corresponding chariot bases, military alert areas and military supplement areas. For example, the military garrison areas of Zhili Province in Jingji are Beiyuan, Nanyuan, Military Horse Farm, Baoding, Qinhuangdao and other areas. The soldiers adopt the principle of on-site supplements. Each town army has its own fixed military supplement areas and is not allowed to replenish soldiers across provinces.

The standing army implements a compulsory military service system, with half of the soldiers retiring each year and half of the recruits being replenished. Ordinary soldiers serve for two years at standard, and after two years, they can be retained as non-commissioned officers. As the grassroots command force of the Chinese Army, the role of non-commissioned officers is huge. Therefore, non-commissioned officers can serve for ten years in the first five levels, and chiefs of sixth-level officials can serve until they retire at the age of fifty. There are strict age restrictions for officers. Officers can serve until they are forty years old and must retire. School officials must retire until they are 50 years old. After serving until they are 60 years old, they choose to retire depending on the specific situation.

After the reform of the national army by the Ministry of Defense and General Staff, the Imperial Standing Army claimed that the number was 540,000.

But in fact, this is just a strategy for the Ministry of Defense to hide its true strength. This number is only the number of permanent army of thirty-six towns. The imperial guards and imperial guards still have 60,000,000, and 20,000 independent divisions stationed in the Sulfur Ball Kingdom. The guards and guards of various provinces and national civilians have a total of 300,000 garrisons in the guards of each province. The cavalry units of each banner are not included in the standing army sequence. The seventy-two units of the ancient ancient cavalry have a total of 150,000. These ancient cavalry are also trained on time, and the cavalry equipment is also distributed by the General Equipment Department. Jun Nan is also paid by the Ministry of Finance of the Empire. They are actually within the battle sequence of the imperial standing army, but these are not counted.

After the establishment and garrison of the Standing Army was determined, the General Equipment Department and the General Logistics Department followed the pace of reform. The General Equipment Department comprehensively upgraded the existing equipment of the Imperial Army, and the weapons and equipment suitable for the use of Orientals were mainly equipped with light, flexible and stable Browning series rifles, pistols and heavy machine guns.

Nearly one million troops can not be replaced in a short while. The replacement of the equipment starts with Wang Chenhao's 20-town Beiyang Army. The German series of firearms eliminated by the Beiyang Army were handed over to the Imperial Army formed by other provinces for use. The National Guard and Police Force still use their original weapons and equipment. After the Imperial Army of each province completed the replacement of weapons, the eliminated German weapons were given to the National Guard and Police Force. In this way, batches were replaced in sequence according to important orders, and the complete replacement was finally completed.

Beiyang Weapon Heavy Industry works overtime to produce weapons and equipment, but it still cannot keep up with the speed of changing gears.

After obtaining Wang Chenhao's consent, the General Logistics Department established the Imperial Army General Factory in Baoding. Based on the original arsenals in each province, the Imperial Arsenal Branch was established to produce weapons and equipment by Beiyang Ordnance Heavy Industry. The Imperial Arsenal Branches in each province began to produce and manufacture at the same time. In this way, the production speed of weapons and equipment caught up with the training progress of the newly established armies in each province.

The establishment of the Imperial Arsenal integrated the chaotic arsenals in various provinces of the Qing Empire. In the past, an arsenal produced dozens of weapons and equipment in several countries, which was costly and time-consuming, and brought huge pressure and waste of resources to the army's logistics support. The army used various types of weapons and equipment during combat, which greatly affected the overall combat effectiveness.

Nowadays, arsenals across the country have been integrated to produce the weapons and equipment needed by the "China Team", and the above problems and disadvantages have been solved immediately.

According to the requirements of the Ministry of National Defense, the military system of the Zhonggu Army during peacetime was a town, and it was expanded to an army, army, or army group on site during wartime, and its highest commander was the Imperial Marshal.

The Imperial Marshal was born during wartime, and during peacetime, there was only the highest general, but Wang Chenhao could not relax his control over the army. Therefore, the Imperial Cabinet and the Ministry of National Defense granted Wang Chenhao the rank of Grand Marshal of the Navy, Army and Air Force, giving Wang Chenhao absolute control over the empire's navy, Army and Air Force forces.

After the army reform was completed, the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff reformed the Navy.

At this time, the Chinese Navy already owned two all-steel battleships, three armored iron battleships, six heavy armored cruisers, six light armored cruisers, six protective cruisers, forty hunting ships, fifty gunboats, eighty gunboats, thirty torpedo boats, and fourteen submarines. The total tonnage is more than 200,000 tons, ranking fifth in the world, second only to Britain, France, the United States and Russia.

The General Staff formulated a naval development plan, which was carried out by the Navy Department. Deng Shichang was promoted to Chief of the Navy Department, Liu Buchan was promoted to Minister of the Navy Department, and Lin Tai was promoted to Minister of the Navy Department. Considering the coastal defense tasks of the Chinese Navy and the use of new and old warships in the navy, the Navy divided the Chinese Navy into the First Fleet and the Second Fleet of the Chinese Navy. The First Fleet is also called the Pacific Fleet, which is responsible for defending the enemy outside the national gates. The Second Fleet is also called the local fleet, which is responsible for local coastal defense operations.

〖China's first naval fleet is full of new warships, including two battleships, the Dengyun and the Payun, the six heavy armored cruisers, the Hunter, the *yong, the Danyong, the Douyong, and the Gangyong,

The Fenyong, six light armored cruisers, Haiqi, Hairong, Haichou, Haichen, Haixi, and Hailin, among which the Hailin is a dome armor protection, but it is also included in the ranks of armored cruisers. Six destroyers, each with six destroyers, three of the six destroyers are lightning-striking destroyers, and three of the shelling destroyers. The flagship of the first fleet is the Dengyun, the commander of the fleet is Lieutenant General Lin Jianzhang, and the chief of staff of the fleet is Lieutenant General Du Xigui.

The Second Fleet mainly uses old-fashioned warships, including the three iron-clad ships "Jiyuan", "Jingyuan", "Laiyuan", "Zhiyuan", "Zhiyuan", "Yueyuan", "Pingyuan", and six cruisers, as well as eight destroyers such as Feixia and Feiying, thirty torpedo boats, and fourteen submarines. The Second Fleet flagship Weiyuan, the fleet commander Lieutenant General Lie Dingxin, and the fleet chief of staff Lieutenant General Ye Zugui.

After the reform of the division of labor for fleet operations and defense was completed, the station was also adjusted. As the Pacific Fleet, the First Fleet was responsible for defending the enemy outside the national gates. Therefore, the base of the First Fleet was set up at the Baitan Naval Base in the Ryukyu Islands, the Apula Naval Base in Guam, and the San Juan Naval Base on Bo Rico Island far away in the Caribbean Sea.

Of course, the current mission of the First Fleet is not to go to Guam and San Juan, but to prepare to fight the Russian Far East Navy.

The Russian Far East Navy's forward base has arrived at the Ulsan Naval Base on the Korean Peninsula from Vladivostok. Therefore, the local naval bases of the First Fleet include the Huludao Submarine Base, Weihaiwei Base, Lushun Base, Zhoushan and Xiangshan, and cooperate with the Baitan Naval Base to block the Russian Navy.

Among them, the two naval bases, Zhoushan and Xiangshan, are newly built.

The Second Fleet is responsible for local defense. Because the First Fleet occupied Lushun, Weihaiwei and other places, the Second Fleet opened its eyes to Jiaozhou Bay (Qingdao Bay), Ningde Port and Huangpu Port as naval bases, responsible for patrolling the Eastern Ocean and the Southern Ocean to defend the local area. Among them, Jiaozhou Bay is the home port of the Second Fleet...
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