Chapter 235 I invite you to be the pastor of Liangzhou
After arranging the selection of generals, Liu Bei also made arrangements for the organization of the army.
The Northwest Military Region, the Northeast Military Region, the Xishu Military Region and the Jiangnan Military Region all allocate their forces according to the method of one main force and two recruit armies, while the Central Plains Military Region allocates their forces according to the method of two main forces and two recruit armies.
Although the new army lacks serious combat experience and does not have as much combat experience as the main army to support arduous operations, based on their training level and fighting will, Liu Bei does not doubt that they are unable to assume major combat responsibilities.
Rather, if you give them some opportunities, they will definitely be able to bring Liu Bei rich and surprising rewards.
Therefore, in the Northwest Military Region, Liu Bei arranged for the Tiger Cavalry Army and the 13th Army and the 14th Army under the command of Zhang Fei to be the headquarters of the military region in Lufu County, Jiuquan County.
The Northeast Military Region arranged to lead the Qianniu Army, the 15th Army, and the 16th Army, with Yuyang County, Yuyang County as the headquarters of the military region.
The Western Shu Military Region arranged for Liu Sheng to command the Shence Army, the 17th Army, and the 18th Army, with Jiangyang County, Jianwei County as the headquarters of the military region.
The Jiangnan Military Region arranged for Guan Yu to command the Tianwei Army, the 19th Army, the 20th Army, and the three battalions of Nanyang Camp, Lujiang Camp and Jiujiang Camp, with Jiangling County in Nanjun as the headquarters of the military region.
The Central Plains Military Region arranged for Xu Huang to command the Huben Army and the Yingyang Army led by Cao Ren. The 21st Army and the 22nd Army were also arranged to accept Xu Huang's command, with Changyi County, Shanyang County as the headquarters of the military region.
The remaining six main armies and two new recruit armies continue to remain in the central theater, under the personal command of Liu Bei, who is the top general in charge of the Central Military Region.
After such a thorough reorganization of the army and the adjustment of military garrison locations, Liu Bei ordered the military department of the General's Office to coordinate the matter as quickly as possible, so that all army soldiers could coordinate according to their latest garrison locations.
Complete all transfer arrangements within one year.
By September of the fifth year of Jian'an at the latest, Liu Bei needed the entire army to complete the final deployment arrangements and start garrisoning the local area to perform garrison and training tasks.
All expenditures during this period will be military expenditures, and we will strive to complete the deployment plan and coordination plan as quickly as possible. The overall action needs to be started within one month.
All in all, Liu Bei needs his army to be in place as soon as possible. It is best not to take a whole year to complete the army's garrison plan and achieve a considerable degree of shock to the local area.
Of course, his big move did not require the entire army to be in place at all. It was enough to cause some slight shock to those within the Luoyang court who knew about it.
Because before this, Liu Bei was just recruiting troops, training troops, and building military camps openly. The outside world vaguely knew that Liu Bei was constantly expanding his army, but the specific number was not yet known—the number was more than 250,000.
This is 250,000! Not 25,000!
Didn’t it turn out that there were only 120,000?
In just a few years, it has doubled?
There was a lot of discussion about this matter between the government and the public, and they were deeply shocked by Liu Bei's military capabilities. The military expansion was almost doubled. As a result, the financial expenditure was still so stable, and there was no sign of being unable to sustain it.
Moreover, the royal family had no reaction to this. Neither the young emperor Liu Xie nor the empress dowager Dong had any reaction to this. They directly approved Liu Bei's large-scale military mobilization and army garrison plan.
Obviously, the royal family knew about this matter.
And this matter is indeed Liu Bei's responsibility and power. The general is in charge of the world's soldiers and horses, conquering, recruiting soldiers and horses, forming an army, and mobilizing the army to go somewhere. Other than Liu Bei, it is really difficult for others to do it.
It's just that these more than 200,000 troops all obey the orders of him, which is really shocking.
It is not that the Eastern Han Empire did not have more than 200,000 troops before. The number of the Central Han Army was indeed not large, but at important local passes and border areas, the Eastern Han Empire also had camps, such as Huya Camp and Liyang Camp.
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Including the central Han army and local battalions, the Eastern Han Empire during the era of Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling could maintain a regular army of more than 200,000 people.
It's just that they are scattered in various places and are managed by different people in different regions. It is not certain whether some of them are fully staffed or whether they obey the orders of the imperial court.
At that time, no one person could seriously control so many armies.
Unless it's the emperor.
Liu Bei was not an emperor, but he controlled most of the military power and a considerable part of the financial power and political power of the Han Dynasty. He was simply a trinity of super powerful ministers.
What surprised and frightened them even more was that everything seemed so logical and natural. Liu Bei's entire process of ascending to power and seizing power seemed to be so realistic, legal and compliant, with nothing out of the ordinary.
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People all over the world recognize and accept it very easily, and there is nothing wrong with it.
Even before that, they didn't realize that Liu Bei was already a super powerful minister.
If there is anything wrong with it, since this year, Liu Bei's power and prestige have greatly increased, and his power has further expanded. A group of people represented by Zheng Tai and Jia Xi have conflicts of interest with Liu Bei.
This feeling becomes more obvious when conflicts of interest are difficult to reconcile.
Then, it wasn't until Liu Bei himself revealed it that they realized that Liu Bei had done so many great things quietly and trained so many troops without any fanfare.
His military strength has further increased, and he has even divided his troops to garrison the whole country. You can't say there is anything wrong with him.
Is there anything wrong with the Han army stationed in the Han country?
Is there anything wrong with the general of the Han Dynasty to let the army of the Han Dynasty garrison in a local area to maintain local security and frighten disobedient officials?
Politically correct.
Those who oppose will be considered as having different intentions and being politically incorrect——
What do you mean by not letting the army of the Han Dynasty come to your side?
Are local counties your own territory?
Want to rebel?
It's you who did it!
This is likely to be investigated by Liu Bei for various reasons and excuses, threatening his status, etc., and he may even directly use troops to kill him for just and fair reasons. Resistance is rebellion, and rebellion will punish your three tribes. It is just and legitimate.
Therefore, in the current situation, no one can use upright reasons and excuses to obstruct Liu Bei's military region construction and troop deployment.
However, they can more or less guess what Liu Bei is going to do this time.
By arranging troops to be stationed in various places from Luoyang, the time required to travel from Luoyang to various places can be reduced, and the reaction time will be advantageous. These carefully trained troops can have a huge advantage over the armed forces of some potential local resistance forces.
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If there is a military confrontation, there is no doubt that the forces opposing Liu Bei will be wiped out as quickly as possible.
If Liu Bei really wants to successfully arrange these troops to station in the place, then whatever Liu Bei wants to do in the future, the situation will be very bad.
In addition, Liu Bei will also use the Luoyang Imperial Court Secretariat to deploy about 200,000 "prefecture and state soldiers" who are not part of the local command system all over the world. In this way, local security and armed forces will be in name only.
It belonged to the imperial court, but actually belonged to Liu Bei.
As time goes by, within three years at most, those who resist him will lose their qualifications to resist, and are no longer worthy of being Liu Bei's strategic opponent. That is the most terrifying situation.
So far, although some people within the conservative school of ancient literature believe that Liu Bei will not break out and start a war with them, Zheng Tai and Jia Xi, who have personally experienced Liu Bei's confrontational nature, no longer have any hope that Liu Bei will change.
It is believed that Liu Bei was making some preparations by doing this.