From the first year of Jian'an to the fourth year of Jian'an, Liu Bei spent about four years expanding the number of regular troops by more than 100,000.
Among them, the number of regular armies expanded from 12 corps to 23 corps.
In addition to the twelve Tianwei Army, Tiger Cavalry Army, Leopard Cavalry Army, Xiaoqi Army, Tiger Ben Army, Yingyang Army, Qianniu Army, Shence Army, Xuanjia Army, Yulin Army, Xiaoguo Army, and Tianxing Army
In addition to the early armies, within four years, Liu Bei successively used troops from various sources to organize eleven armies.
The soldiers of these eleven armies come from all over the country, including civilians from Liangzhou, Yizhou, and refugees from Yuzhou and Yanzhou. The majority are from the traditional military source areas of Sanhe Land and Sanfu Land, and some are from slaves.
The sources of troops are those from the Southern Xiongnu and Bingzhou mountain bandits.
For example, Zhang Yan's Bingzhou bandits were recruited and reorganized by Liu Bei, forming a new army of 10,000 people.
In terms of numbers, Liu Bei did not grant any numbers to the newly established eleven armies. On the one hand, he could not think of any nice and powerful numbers. On the other hand, he felt that it was easier to compile numbers with numbers, and text numbers were more suitable for use.
Honorary title.
If an army has achieved very brilliant results or achieved a great military victory, then it will be awarded a written number to show its glory. This will not only boost morale, but also make it easier for the honor to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
In terms of basic compilation, it is simpler to adopt digital compilation to facilitate statistics and management.
So at the beginning of the fourth year of Jian'an, when Liu Bei launched a series of operations against the four states of the Central Plains, he also launched a new round of reorganization of the army.
While the twelve armies with existing designations retained their original text designations, they were assigned official designations from the First to the Twelfth Army according to the time they were formed. The remaining eleven new armies were also assigned the official designations in the order of their formation.
The official designations of the Thirteenth Army to the Twenty-third Army.
Of course, since they have not experienced any serious combat since the formation of the army, there is no text number symbolizing honor.
Because these eleven new armies are complete recruits, the training time is basically set to two years. There are also many technical arms that only completed formal military training at the end of the third year of Jian'an, such as crossbowmen and cavalry.
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In addition to these twenty-three formally established armies, there are also independent battalions arranged by Liu Bei to be established and garrisoned in certain special counties.
For example, the Runan camp was led by Gao Shun, the Nanyang camp was led by Gan Ning, the Jiujiang camp was commanded by Shi Huan, and the Lujiang camp was led by Yan Xing, as well as the Three Kingdoms camps of Pei, Jiyin, and Langya.
soldiers.
Before the second army reorganization, there were seven independent battalions in the world, with a total of 21,000 people.
Among them, four battalions in the four counties of Runan, Pei, Jiyin and Langya were established to prepare for the first wave of slave restriction orders, forming a strong local deterrent and utilizing local resources and population.
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Its purpose is to cooperate with the expansion of the slave restriction order.
Now, the first wave of slave restriction operations in the four states of the Central Plains has basically been completed, and everything that needs to be resolved has been resolved. So Liu Bei thought for a while and decided to jointly reorganize the battalions of these four counties into the 24th Army.
, Gao Shun served as Zhonglang General and commanded this army.
The garrison is still in Runan.
The remaining Nanyang Camp, Jiujiang Camp and Lujiang Camp were not jointly reorganized because they were located in the south in a broad sense and had great significance in intimidating the two states in the south of the Yangtze River. They still maintained the original camp system.
So by the time the second wave of army reorganization came to an end, Liu Bei had mastered a total of twenty-four regular armies and three independent battalions, all of which were regular armies, and the total strength had exceeded 250,000.
By the middle of the fourth year of Jian'an, when these new armies were being established one after another, Liu Bei finally felt that he had sufficient room for deployment of the previously somewhat stretched troops.
His final army building plan was 300,000. It is still some distance away from 300,000, but generally there is no big problem with its use. So while the army was being formed, Liu Bei also confidently carried out military operations in all directions.
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Currently, the Tianwei Army under the command of Guan Yu and the Qianniu Army under the command of Qian Zhao are guarding Bingzhou. On the Yizhou side, the Shence Army under Liu Sheng and the Yingyang Army under Cao Ren are guarding. On the Liangzhou side, Cheng Pu
The Xuanjia Army under the command is guarding Yuzhou, and the 24th Army under the command of Gao Shun is guarding Yuzhou.
In addition, some local military servicemen retained from the old era are supporting the scene. Regular troops are mainly stationed, trained and studied in military camps in the surrounding areas of Luoyang.
Mainly, Liu Bei felt that he would not trust the army that had not completed the training and study of the new recruits and was stationed there, so he had been spending a lot of money to raise and train the soldiers so that they could get sufficient technical and tactical training and basic cultural learning.
New recruits also need to live with veterans, compete with them, and hold various simulated combat drills from time to time to enhance the recruits' combat capabilities.
From the first year of Jian'an to the fourth year of Jian'an, these recruits and veterans lived and studied together. Liu Bei spent huge military expenditures every year to train and raise troops, which was painful and happy.
For the military, being willing to spend money can really bring about very significant and intuitive changes.
In the fourth year of Jian'an, the new soldiers were finally trained, and the military reorganization was finally close to completion. Liu Bei was relieved to make a large-scale military garrison adjustment in the area currently under his control.
In line with the increasingly fierce disputes between the government affairs conference and the elimination system in the court, Liu Bei realized that a new political turmoil and social crisis had already appeared, not to mention the Dutian that would slowly unfold in the near future.
So, he decided to prepare for the next stage of dangerous struggle.
The politically defeated insects will never give up the idea of continuing to cause trouble. They will never simply accept the fact of defeat. They will definitely try every means to oppose Liu Bei. Even though they know they are losing, they will definitely take the final military step.
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Therefore, Liu Bei decided to arrange reliable and trustworthy generals and deploy the army to the place in advance to form a strong military deterrent to the world in case of emergency.
If there is any local situation that requires fighting, Liu Bei can easily mobilize troops. It is faster to mobilize troops and horses from one region to another than to mobilize them all from Luoyang.
Unless the local garrison cannot solve the problem, Luoyang will need to send mobile troops to assist.
However, judging from the current training model of the army, Liu Bei does not think that the ragtag group temporarily pulled up by local opposition elements can compete with the regular army. If they can defeat them, Liu Bei will collapse.
Based on the current situation, Liu Bei held a discussion meeting of all military officers and cadres at the General's Office and officially announced that he would divide the territory of the Han Empire into garrison military districts and thoroughly solve the garrison issues of each unit in the future.
After all, hundreds of thousands of troops are always kept in the Luoyang area, which puts great pressure on the economy and agricultural production of this area. Distributing the pressure will not only deter Xiaoxiao, but also help the balanced development of various regions.
At the specific meeting, Liu Bei consulted the opinions of senior counselors and generals and decided to divide the Han Dynasty into six garrison military districts.
The Northwest Military Region takes Liangzhou and the Western Regions as its main combat garrison areas.
The Northeast Military Region takes Bingzhou, Youzhou and Prairie as its main combat garrison areas.
The Central Plains Military Region has Jizhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, and Xuzhou as its main combat and garrison areas.
The Xishu Military Region with Yizhou as its main garrison and combat area.
The Jiangnan Military Region takes Jingzhou, Yangzhou, and Jiaozhi as its main combat and garrison areas.
There is also the Central Military Region with Sili area and Yuzhou as its main combat and garrison areas.
Regarding the specific distribution of troops, Liu Bei also referred to everyone's opinions, and after discussing for a while, he came to a conclusion.
The Northwest Military Region has three armies, the Northeast Military Region has three armies, the Central Plains Military Region has four armies, the Southwest Military Region has three armies, the Jiangnan Military Region has three armies, and the last eight armies are all located in the Central Military Region.