Another benefit of taking in Guan Hai's army was that there was no longer any danger of bandits in the north of Qingzhou. The nearby salt pans could already be taken back. With this, our army had an additional income of nearly ten million yuan. Moreover, from now on, other than Jinan Prefecture and the larger Yellow Turban force, Xu He, who had tens of thousands of people, there were no other large hostile forces in Qingzhou.
The 70,000 Guan Hai troops were indeed one of the elites of the Yellow Turban army. The number of soldiers who met our army's strong standards far exceeded that of Zhang Baiqi's troops. It seemed that Guan Hai was very good at selecting soldiers. During the reorganization process, he selected 18 battalions of city defense soldiers according to the standards and reorganized nearly 22 battalions of garrison troops.(Because there are 30,000 old, weak, women, and children among them, I have granted special permission to not hand over military rations to these troops. They will be moved to Donglai Prefecture and will be directly converted into free farmers after two to three years of stability.) Our army has also selected nearly 60,000 strong men from these tens of thousands of people whose skills are comparable to our five elite battalions. Half of them are from Guan Hai's personal guard camp.
Seeing that these iron-footed Yellow Turban elites who had almost traveled all over the mountains and rivers of Qing, Yan, Yu, Xu, and all of them were good mountain fighters, I changed my previous practice of separating them into groups and decided to super-organize these 6000 people into two battalions of the 6th Division. I also once again held a junior officer selection competition in these two battalions.
When had the Yellow Turban Army ever seen such a fresh promotion method? In addition, in order to clean up the hearts of the Yellow Turban soldiers, I deliberately divided the competition into sections and allowed the people and other units of my army to watch and supervise. Although no top-notch experts were discovered in this competition, their overall level was higher than the first martial arts competition. Some of these Guan Hai elites were Wanderers. Although they were still some distance away from Zhao Yun, Dian Wei, Taishi Ci, Xu Sheng, and the others, the vice-captains who won the competition were Li Tie, the former deputy general of Guan Hai, and Guo Yi, the vice-captain of the Guards Camp. Their martial arts skills were not inferior to Jiang Guang and Gao Qi.
The entire competition took 10 days. In a short period of time, the new talent contest became a lively drama in Beihai City. The relationship between the army and the people also had a wonderful change. Although our army had always strictly stipulated that we would not disturb the people, our relationship with the people had always been respectful. Through this martial arts competition, we successfully brought the relationship between the army and the people closer. Its influence far exceeded my first talent selection competition, so much so that there was a debate in history about which day the talent selection competition would begin.
"This competition has also successfully resolved the enmity between my Beihai Army and the Guanhai Tribe. In the previous bloody battles between the two armies, the Yellow Turban soldiers of the Guanhai Tribe suffered a lot of casualties. Among them, there were many brothers and friends who died in the Beihai Army and formed a blood feud. Now that most of them are in the same army, it is inevitable that they will be a little strange and awkward when they meet. Now, with the help of this competition and the personal experience of Lieutenant Xu Sheng, who won the first competition, which I specially organized, Knowing that a person's future in our army was closely related to their own hard work, this deeply rooted promotion system attracted the hearts of most of the Yellow Turban soldiers. In this way, whether it was their future or the huge gap between them and the government army, these Yellow Turban officers and soldiers had a strange sense of belonging to their own people in a short period of time.
With the convenience and efficiency of our army's new army system, coupled with the fierce generals selected by the martial arts competition, these Yellow Turban elites, who were already strong in individual combat ability, were quickly integrated into powerful combat strength. This kind of political education method that was common in the later generations was something that people nowadays could not think of. Therefore, when Guo Jia looked at me with a respectful gaze, I couldn't help but feel a little proud.
This kind of program that could be popular among hundreds of millions of knowledgeable people in the future, how could the ancient people who lacked entertainment resist it? As for the accompanying folk gambling, I couldn't help but smile after listening to it. The ancient people who had eaten their fill weren't wooden blocks that lacked entertainment cells. The direct impact of this competition was that many celebrities and commoners requested to come at least once a year. As a result, there was an additional entertainment program called the Drill Ground Competition in the areas controlled by our army. Later, it evolved into an officer selection system called the Military Examination. Later on, with the addition of the competition between scholars, it became the most important selection method in this era besides the recommendation system, and gradually became the dominant one. A selection system that broke the monopoly of the aristocratic families in the officialdom was born in this way. Historians of later generations could not understand whether I, another sage of Confucius since Confucius, was intentional or accidental. It became one of the many mysteries about me in history.
After Guan Hai is taken care of, our North Sea no longer poses a direct threat to us. Now, our Qingzhou army has about 50 battalions, with more than 100,000 soldiers. Among them, there are more than 20,000 elites. Such a powerful lineup is enough to make any faction that wants to touch Qingzhou think twice. The strength displayed by the elite troops made Guo Jia, Zhao Yun, Taishi Ci, and the other generals feel very gratified. At the same time, they also had the idea of reforming the army for the third time. After all, the city defense army had done nothing except for Taishi Ci's troops, which strengthened my confidence in using the elites to win the decisive battle in the future. After all, once the army moved, there would be countless problems with food and rations. If they could fight with elite soldiers, they would be more flexible in terms of tactics, and the pressure on our logistics would be greatly reduced. The current transportation method required a third of the troops to transport grain over a hundred miles, and the supply of grain would consume a third more. This was because it was difficult for the transport team to travel more than thirty miles a day. Not only was it slow, but it was also unsafe. With their current combat strength, if they were to send elites to fight, they would not need to replenish their supplies within 300 miles. They would only need to rely on their own rations for 10 to 15 days.
After some discussion, everyone felt that they needed to expand their elite troops. Moreover, our army now had the conditions to expand our elite forces. Whether it was the Guan Hai Army or the newly added city defense army of the Qingzhou prefectures, they all had outstanding and capable soldiers. After estimating the future battle situation and the current conditions, this expansion would mainly expand the infantry main force, especially the independent Tiger Infantry Camp, as well as Vermillion Bird Camp which had performed outstandingly in the sneak attack.
The Tiger Infantry Battalion was expanded to four battalions of the normal five divisions with 2500 men each, a total of 10,000 men. He was appointed to lead the army.
The Dragon Xiang Battalion was expanded to 2 battalions of 5 divisions and 1 battalion, with a total of 5000 people. Since Gao Qi has gone to the plains, Zhao Yun will be leading the army. Zhao Yun, who is proficient in cavalry tactics, has a deep foundation in countering cavalry. Moreover, as Zhao Yun, whose battle records are as famous as Taishi Ci's, his martial arts and strategies are exceptionally outstanding. I'm now more inclined to let him take charge of an area alone, so that he has the chance to achieve the fame of Wei Qing and Huo Qubing in the past.
Vermillion Bird Camp was expanded to four battalions of the normal five divisions with 2500 people each, a total of ten thousand people. Among them, there was one unit of archers and three units of strong archers. As Zhao Qing was defending the south, he could not be called back, so Taishi Ci led the army instead. With Taishi Ci's reputation as a godly archer and his outstanding performance in the battle of Dangli, he had the support of an idol in Vermillion Bird Camp, and there were no problems with his training. If the terrain was suitable, the strength of these ten thousand Vermillion Bird Camp soldiers under Taishi Ci's command would be unimaginable.
Black Tortoise Camp was expanded to 2 battalions of 5 divisions and 1 battalion, a total of 5000 people. Although Xu Sheng didn't lead the army in this battle, with Xu Sheng's valiant and intrepid style, he was the best choice to lead these strong and strong soldiers. This type of heavy armored infantry was an important fighting force to break through the stalemate.
The Tiger Leopard Battalion was expanded into two battalions of five divisions and one battalion, with a total of 5000 people. The 2500 men of the 1st Battalion had already chosen good horses to become the main force, while the 2nd Battalion was temporarily using the captured Yellow Turbans and other horses as training reserves. After the night raid, Zhao Yun's superb cavalry tactics had gained a high reputation among the cavalry. Jiang Guang was leading the cavalry and Zhao Yun was in charge. With Zhao Yun's cavalry, the Tiger Leopard Battalion is the number one trump card of our army in the wilderness, whether it's a sneak attack or a frontal attack.
As for the 6000 soldiers from the 6th Division 1st Battalion, they will be called the Wind Wolf Battalion. I will be leading them personally, and my personal guard General Dian Wei will be in charge of training with Guan Hai and Zhang Baiqi. Guan and Zhang have just surrendered to me, so I'm not at ease leaving such an elite troop to them. This ambitious man had once commanded hundreds of thousands of soldiers, unlike Zhao Yun and Yujin, who were not in the military. It was hard to say that they would not have second thoughts. Guan Hai estimated that the strength of these two reorganized battalions was much higher than his original 20,000 soldiers. It was our army's strong integration ability and unique general school selection system that made the entire Wind Wolf Battalion glow with a completely different spirit from before. Although Guan Hai and Zhang Baiqi had surrendered to our army due to pressure, they had other thoughts in their hearts. Now that they saw our army's appearance and the selection process, they gradually began to integrate into our army.
After the reorganization, the North Sea elite army reached 45,000 men. As for the city defense forces of the Qing and Yan provinces, I also request that the 1st and 2nd battalions be formed and trained according to the elite battalion model, becoming the main battalions of the city defense forces. They maintained their tactical standards of being able to cooperate with elite troops in field operations and sneak attacks outside the city. After all, defense did not mean that they would die to the death. For a large city, it was unimaginable that they could only take a beating without a force that could counterattack. The other city defense camps mainly trained their stone throwing, archery, and other city defense skills according to the requirements of the city defense. This caused the combat strength of our army to gradually show a hierarchical distribution, gradually forming two types of military strength: local defense and field operations.
Naturally, only I, the imposter Kong Rong, who had more than a thousand years of experience, could think of such a strategy and resolutely implement it. On the one hand, with the current ability to control the income of the military rations of the provinces and counties, the rations that Qingzhou could provide were very limited. There were still so many refugees who needed to be settled first, and the food supply had always been tight. On the other hand, when the army moved in this era, the burden of logistics and supplies was unimaginable, often becoming a major weakness of the army.
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