After the Huizhou soldiers were reorganized, the Taiping Army had seven towns of soldiers outside the cavalry brigade, water camp and cannon camp, including the old four towns and the new three towns.●⌒,.

The seven towns are the first town of Geyi, the second town of Tieyi, the third town of Tuzi Jianghe, the fourth town of Shao Jiugong, the fifth town of Zhao Ziqiang, the sixth town of Suna, and the seventh town of Hu Qili. Among them, the first to third towns actually had 8,250 soldiers, and the fourth to seven towns actually had 7,575 soldiers. The seven towns totaled more than 55,000 soldiers, plus more than 2,000 soldiers from the cavalry brigade, 5,000 soldiers from the water camp, 5,000 soldiers from the artillery camp, and 800 soldiers from the Iron Man Guard. The scale of the entire Taiping Army has more than doubled from 20,000 soldiers before the Eastern Expedition, with actual troops of more than 70,000 soldiers, and the same number of security forces.

In other words, after the Eastern Expedition, Zhou Shixiang was able to actually mobilize commanders and commanded more troops than King Li Dingguo of Yunnan, and became the second heavy army group of the Nanming, second only to Jinxia and Zheng Chenggong. In the territory it owned, Zhou Shixiang had already stabilized his head and actually occupied the three prefectures of Guangzhou, Chaozhou and Huizhou.

The candidates for the town generals were Ge Yi, Jiang He and Shao Chengguo were old brothers from Daqiao Mountain. Tieyi was a rescued miner, Qi Hao was from the Daxi Army, and the rest were all surrendered generals. According to the time of surrender to the Taiping Army, Shao Jiugong was the first, followed by Zhao Ziqiang, Suna, and Hu Qili.

On the level of the general, the surrendered generals accounted for half of them. When they went down to the brigade school, there were more than one level of the camp. Zhou Shixiang asked the military commander's office to do statistics. The total number of surrendered soldiers in the army is more than 30,000, accounting for 50% of the total number of Taiping Army. The remaining 50% are the young and strong people who Luo Ding went all the way to the Xiangshan Mountains. Nearly 20,000 people from all over the country recruited by the Qing army.

Among the officers, about 60% of the surrendered generals were born. Among them, half of the green camp originated, 30% were the remaining Han army originated, and the remaining two were from Manzhou and Mongolia. The dozens of people who were in Daqiao Mountain were alive today. In addition to three town generals, the other two were brigade schools. Although they were all in high positions, the death rate of the people in Daqiao Mountain was 90%. Because there were only a few people left, most of the officers who were from surrendered generals in the Taiping Army were from Luo Ding and Xiangshan, and they all served as the camp lieutenant, the guard lieutenant, and the commander of the An army, and they were considered the backbone of the Taiping Army.

In terms of population, Guangzhou has more than 500,000, Huizhou has nearly 800,000, and Chaozhou has nearly 180,000 (currently more than 130,000, and more than 40,000 people have forced to move to Huizhou and Guangzhou). The number of people in the three prefectures has reached more than 1.4 million. The population of 1.4 million is located in developed coastal areas in later generations or Henan, Sichuan, and large-capital provinces like Sichuan are only the population of one city, but now it is half of the population of Guangdong Province. Zhaoqing, Gaozhou, Lianzhou, Qiongzhou, and Leizhou occupied by other troops of the Southern Ming Dynasty, which are originally remote areas, and the population of one million is the extreme. However, the population of Shaozhou and Nanxiong, which were still occupied by the Qing army, is about 400,000 to 500,000.

The population of the entire Guangdong Province, Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong made the most optimistic estimate, which was about 3 million. Before the Qing army entered Guangdong, the population of Guangdong was 12.56 million according to the Huangcai statistics of the 12th year of Chongzhen. In the past 20 years, the total population of Guangdong dropped by three quarters. In addition to normal deaths, the deaths were caused by military disasters. Among them, about 5 million people were massacred by the Qing army, and 1.4 million people were killed in Chaozhou and Guangzhou alone. In some areas, such as Luoding Zhilizhou, only thousands were killed.

(In nonsense, some contemporary historians calculated that the population of tens of millions in the late Ming Dynasty, but the death of the Qing Dynasty was more than 400 million. The conclusion showed that the "Qing Dynasty" made great contributions to China's population prosperity. However, their tens of millions of people were killed by the Qing army, and the billions of creatures who died in vain were selected to ignore them. Furthermore, the increase in the population of the Han people was because the Han people attached great importance to the reproduction of their descendants. The Qing court also needed a large number of Han people to produce for them for their rule. In addition, there were potato crops that could fill their stomachs. The Han people's population reached 400 million in more than 200 years. But without the 200-year foreign rule, I am afraid that the population of the Han people would have exceeded one billion. The tens of millions who survived could still reproduce to 400 million. How many more than 100 million people could have reproduced?

The population data in this passage is not a silence. Just using the historical materials of the massacre recorded by the Qing court, it can be roughly estimated that there were about 100 million Han people who died in large-scale massacres, which is not counted as those in the countryside. Of course, there are many people who died in the hands of the Ming army and the peasant army, but in any case, they are not as good as those who died in the hands of the Qing army. After all, after the Qing army entered the pass, it organized the massacre of Han people. The reason is that they did not have any food supply at all, and the Han people who were almost hungry for stability can only adopt the simple, rough but very effective "harmonious" method of massacre. These two passages are not billed, and are purely thoughts when they are written.)

The large reduction in population has caused the Taiping Army to build villages and townships in the occupied areas to basically not encounter any resistance to concentrated land cultivation. Even in Xiangshan, except for the several family destruction caused by Tieyi, the Taiping Army has not targeted the landlords in various townships. The reason is that there is a large amount of unowned wasteland for cultivation, which makes the land conflict less prominent.

A group of surrendered generals and staff members from the military headquarters summarized the gains and losses of the Eastern Expedition in detail, and visited each town respectively to report a result, that is, if the advantages of the Mongolian cavalry could be used, the Taiping Army could still have a field duel with the Qing army of the same size without a geographical advantage, and the hope of winning was 60%.

This estimate is based on the premise that the Taiping Army had completely integrated the surrendered troops, and had rested, supplemented military equipment, and the commands at all levels were also in place, and the morale was high. So after reading this report, Zhou Shixiang just laughed it off and did not follow the optimistic estimates of those guys in the report, immediately heading west to Guangxi.

After resolving the military and political affairs of Chaozhou and Huizhou, Zhou Shixiang had to return to Guangzhou to integrate the Ming army entrenched in Zhaoqing, Gaozhou, Lianzhou and Leizhou. Whether it was tough or cooperative, these Ming army with complex factions had to be unified into the Taiping Army. Zhou Shixiang also had to establish a food and grass transportation line from Guangzhou to Zhaoqing and then to Luoding to Gaozhou. With Gaozhou as the stronghold westward and entering Wuzhou, Guangxi, he decided to seize Guilin and Liuzhou to open a liaison channel with Kunming, or enter Guizhou to seize the Qing army's retreat, forcing them to retreat.

The more than 4,000 people eliminated by Huizhou soldiers were not dismissed on the spot because many of them were bandits. These people had blood on their hands and had tasted the sweetness of looting. It was difficult to put down their swords and become an honest farmer or continue their former fisherman's career. If they were dismissed like this, most of these thousands of people would return to their old careers and cause trouble in Huizhou.

Therefore, Zhou Shi ordered these people to be sent to Guangzhou in several batches, one was placed in Xiangshan, the other was placed in the South China Sea, and the rest were placed in Zengcheng.

All counties in Guangzhou have long implemented the construction of villages and townships. Every village has security squadrons, every township has security brigade, and the county has garrisons. These Huizhou soldiers who were scattered to dozens of villages for farming were closely monitored. Even if they were willing to make trouble, facing the Taiping Army, which had woven a strong net from top to bottom, they were afraid that they would be suppressed immediately if there were any signs. Hundreds of old and weak were dismissed on the spot because they were not threatened. Zhou Shi ordered officials from Huizhou to take them back to their hometowns to settle them so that they would not wander outside. Those who could move were given some power to support themselves, while those who could not move would be helped by the government to arrange some people who could make a living.
Chapter completed!