This Northern Expedition, the total involved the Left Army Certificate, the Central Army Certificate, the Back Army Certificate, and the Ninth Battalion's Raider Cavalry.

The number of participants in this battle was about 20,000, which is the largest military operation of the Taishan Army.

But don't forget that this is just the number of soldiers. There are still a large number of baggage and supplementary soldiers.

After the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans joined the Taishan Army under the leadership of Ji Sun, the elite Lishi Battalion added to the main combat troops of the Five Crown Army's lieutenant headquarters, most of which were baggage and supplementary troops.

This part of the baggage troops is roughly about 10,000. These Qingzhou Yellow Turbans can also fight and kill, but their combat skills are not as good as the main camp.

In other words, if the Taishan Army absolutely explodes its troops, it is already a very terrifying existence to pull out the field guards and the baggage soldiers together, and to pull out at least 60,000 combat soldiers.

However, this scale of troops is unsustainable for the Taishan Army today. The Taishan Army does not have enough human resources to manage such a large-scale military force carefully.

Now the number of 30,000 field troops will be almost the upper limit of the Taishan Army's capabilities.

Why is it so difficult?

Because the reason why the Taishan Army can fight is not that the soldiers are brave enough, they are bandits.

The combat power advantage of the Taishan Army is systematic, because they are a military and technological army.

Take the Taishan Army’s First Army Captain’s Office.

The standard organization is the fifth battalion, which is the organization of 5,000 combat soldiers. In addition, there are about 2,000 baggage soldiers. Each battalion is organized into more than 1,000 people, including 200 crossbow soldiers, 200 long bowmen, and 6 armored soldiers.

Hundred.

The five thousand lieutenant department has its own staffing staff, military department staff and battalion department staff.

The staff of the Military Office are naturally the staff structure of a separate staff structure of the Grand Captain Department.

Its basic composition is the chief secretary, counselor, letter and edict, as well as the four chiefs of the Cao Cao, Cang, Jia, Military, and Law.

Among them, the chief of the army is the chief of staff, in charge of all non-military matters, is an important assistant to the military captain and the target of clamping. Because every chief of the army has the power to secretly write to Zhang Chong, he can report all the situation in the general.

Today's long-standing history grew up during the old Taishan period and was a continuation of the Taoist system back then. It can be said that from one army to another, there are their own long-standing history.

The counselor is very simple. He is a military staff member assigned by Zhang Chong for a military captain. He is the chief general counselor, with a number ranging from three to five.

In addition, the staff of the military department also have letters and edicts. The name of the Han Dynasty is the record room, which is responsible for the work of the secretary's letters and edicts.

Counselors, letters and edicts are all relatively noble positions, and the four chiefs of the Cang, Jia, Military and Law are responsible for fixed functional affairs and important positions.

The so-called chief of the warehouse is responsible for the logistics of the military supplies. Because the Taishan Army implemented the Holy Cushion system, these are also called the Holy Cushion Chief. They not only have the power to control the capture during the war, but also have the power to command the baggage troops. They are one of the few who have the power to do military power.

a staff member.

The chief of the armor is responsible for the management of armor and armor.

When a large army is stationed, all armor needs to be managed in the warehouse. The army cannot have armor unless it is wartime. As a heavy weapon of the military and national army, the position of the chief of armor is so important.

In the Han Dynasty, the eunuchs around the emperor were basically held, and in the Taishan Army, they were basically qualified to serve as Chief of the Jia Cao.

As for the Chief of the Army, this functional department is responsible for the management of the military's military order, the supplementary service, retirement, promotion, and merits of the soldiers.

The last Chief of Law is even more important. In the unit at the level of the military lieutenant, Chief of Law has twenty legal officials and hundreds of law enforcement soldiers, all of whom are elite soldiers in the army. He is responsible for all military affairs stationed in wartime and stationed in all military affairs.

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The Taishan Army began its military law policy in the era of Xue's clan. It can be said that it has been very perfect now.

Therefore, the staff at the military level, from the Chief Secretary to the Four Chiefs, have a small number of more than fifty people, and the large number of more than one hundred people.

A military headquarters is not only a staff member of the military headquarters, but also a staff member of the battalion at the battalion level. Because the unit that Taishan Army can operate independently is a battalion-level unit, which is organized by the two departments, Wuqu, Shitt and Twenty Teams.

Although the staff of the Battle Office are small, their organization is generally consistent with the staff of the Military Office. They all have chief officials, counselors, secretary, and four departments.

This is the guarantee of the combat effectiveness of the Taishan Army, which relies on the large number of staff to conduct refined management.

How meticulous is this kind of refined management?

It is a unit that has already been able to go to the team level, that is, there are fifty people in the army who have aides, but these aides still have military combat matters.

For example, if a team general has one person holding a flag and one deputy team. The so-called flag holding means that the flag is specifically responsible for the flag, which is used to mobilize troops and contact other teams to cooperate with the strike. The deputy team specifically advocates documents,

Rewards for merit.

Taking this Northern Expedition as a matter of success.

The soldiers of Taishan Army first hand over the seized heads to their respective deputy teams for inspection. The qualified and valid records will be sent to the deputy station. The deputy station will be summarized and then sent to the deputy station. After the summary of the music, the deputy station will be summarized and then sent to the deputy station.

, and then go to the Yingshi.

The military clerks and clerks of the camp department will be summarized and then randomly go to each team to inspect the first-level merits. Only if they are correct will they be reported to the final military clerk.

It can also be seen from here that why Zhang Chong has only begun to reward the generals now.

However, although such meticulous management can greatly improve combat effectiveness, the cost is really too high.

Most of the staff members of the Taishan Army are from poor families in various places, and they have no way out if they are educated. However, after so many years of accumulation, the Taishan Army can only allocate sufficient staff members to a field army of 30,000 people.

Regarding the staff, the Taishan Army is a little different from the Han Dynasty.

That is, most of the staff members of the Han Dynasty came from the commander's recruitment, while all the staff members of the Taishan Army came from the appointment of the Shogunate Army.

The generals of the Han Dynasty could form their own shogunate by themselves, and all their staff members were recruited by themselves. Therefore, whenever there was a war, the children of powerful men rushed to enter the shogunate, and even people didn't have to go, just put them on a name.

Also because these aides were personally recruited by the generals themselves, these people have a very strong personal dependence on the generals, which means they have the so-called title of lord.

This was unbearable for Zhang Chong, who specifically asked the shogunate's military department to be responsible for this matter.

Even if a general meets an excellent staff member, he has the right to recommend but not the right to recruit.

All of these recommended staff members must be registered and evaluated in the shogunate's military division, and then distributed to each army by the shogunate.

What is a master of scriptures? This is a master of scriptures. All things have rules to follow and have special personnel to handle.

Therefore, the five military system of the Taishan Army is now very mature and is also the core of the entire military system. Even if the troops are expanded in the future, they will be built according to this framework, such as the Five Divisions and Five aspects.

Now most of the officials and soldiers in the hall are the Central Guards, the left and the latter two lieutenants, while there are not many officials and soldiers in the thunder cavalry system.

The Taishan Army's flying army system and the Five Armies are not the same military system.

Everyone in the army knows that in the same rank, the flying army is two levels higher than the five military officials and soldiers. In other words, the generals in the flying army are equivalent to the battalion generals in the five military, and can be blocked alone.

one side.

Many people have no idea about the 500 cavalry and think that the 500 cavalry is very small and insignificant. But in fact, a built-in 500 cavalry can lead a battle, which is a real important weapon for the military and the country.

According to the laws of the Taishan Army, the First Army's Captain's Office must be equipped with two battalions of 1,000 cavalry to protect and rule the battlefield.

This time, Guan Yu led the left lieutenant to go out to fight, and he was equipped with the two cavalry camps of Feilong and Feihu, which is the regular system.

In terms of the use of cavalry, the Taishan Army compared the Youzhou cavalry and also absorbed the regulations on combat in the inner counties.

In the inner counties of China, the Han army generally used military chariots, infantry and cavalry to fight with deer antlers as a square formation. The Youzhou thunder cavalry was fully organized to fight large cavalry groups.

Zhang Chong learned from the strengths of both and established the current sequence of the 10th battalion of the thunder cavalry.

It can be divided into battalions to cooperate with the five military captains' operations, and can also be organized into an army to conduct group cavalry operations. In short, both clutches and reunions can be used.

When the thunder cavalry cooperates with the 5th Army Captain, they are usually deployed behind the military formation. On the one hand, they can dismount and fight in the field and use them as second-tier troops. On the other hand, they can be used as assault cavalry to pursue victory and expand the results of victory. Very few

It is used to directly attack the enemy's strong formation.

However, there are exceptions. The horizontal heavy cavalry under Zhang Chong's tent can be used to directly rush the formation, but the cost-effectiveness is not high. If a horizontal general dies, it is equivalent to a hundred generals losing, which is really impossible to rush.

It is also because the thunders are generally fighting with the best, and it is easy to capture important commanders of the enemy in the pursuit after the war. For example, if Zhao Yun was not a member of the thunders, could he take down Guo Dian, the prefect of Julu after the war?

Therefore, the officials and soldiers of the Five Army were generally not interested in the thunders, which can be seen from the clearly distinguished seats in the hall this time.

People like Li Hu, Xu Huang, Xi Shen, Li Fu, Li Bi, and Ma Wu were all sitting in a group, and they rarely greeted the five soldiers nearby. However, Guo Liang was a member of the Five Army System before.

He also chats with acquaintances from time to time.

In addition to the five military officials and soldiers, the cavalry system, and some officials and soldiers from the baggage soldiers came to pay the merits this time.

Most of these baggage soldiers were from the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou, and the original old baggage soldiers of the Taishan Army were basically left to the local area as guards.

At this moment, these baggage soldiers were sitting behind their elders, Ji Sun and Xu He.

When they saw the singers in front of them paying off their merits, they felt itchy and hoped to make this military achievements.

That's right, the baggage soldiers also have military achievements.

As a support for marching and combat logistics, the baggage troops are also very important for a war.

Especially this time, Guan Yu was trapped on the north shore by spring water because he was not familiar with the water. It was not because the baggage troops in the rear fought unremittingly to ensure the safety of the food route, Guan Yu's army might also have major setbacks.

In addition to these military achievements, they have also accomplished very well in their jobs.

The Northern Expedition soldiers were almost 20,000, and the daily cost of corn could be 5,000 stones. The war lasted for more than a month, and the road was damaged. In other words, these baggage troops transported at least 300,000 stones of corn.

Frontline. Converted into ox carts, that is, ten thousand carts.

Therefore, the officers of the baggage troop system can naturally participate in this moment of glory and share the glory of this battle with the soldiers.

In addition to the baggage troops, the foreign military system with the flying army carrying flags also came to receive honors.

The flying army of Taishan Army's flying army is a very complex military system. After several adaptations, the internal army has now formed an internal inspection and an external army to explore the enemy from outside.

Among them, foreign troops also divided into two systems: spy and You Yi.

The spy was directly affiliated with the shogunate, and whether it was dispatched or reported, they were directly responsible for the Flying Army Foreign Affairs Department under the shogunate.
To be continued...