Qiming 1158

Chapter 1497 Frontier Guards

When Su Haisheng heard this series of conditions, the Gul Dynasty negotiator was stunned.

They felt that the latter two were okay, but the first two couldn't stand it, so they asked Su Haisheng not to speak so loudly, but a little less.

Su Haisheng frowned.

"Too much? Or I'll take the army to your capital to continue negotiations? Not much then, right?"

Su Haisheng was very unhappy with this opponent who took the initiative to come to fight, and he didn't have a good face for them. Except for being tough, he was tougher, and he didn't give any good color.

So the Gul Dynasty envoys were forced to return to the capital with the news to discuss whether they should agree or not.

The final result is that there are more people who support than those who do not support, and the power is stronger. The people who do not support are mainly Gia Sudin and some officials and dignitaries whose roots are on the northern border.

They are very opposed to this way of negotiating because it will greatly harm their own interests.

But their voices were too small, and Gyasuddin himself had just suffered a big defeat, his power status was shaken, and his words were not so good, so it was useless.

In the end, the capitulation faction represented by Merzug, the representative of the local power faction who had always been dissatisfied with Gyasudin, suppressed the voice of the resistance faction and decided to negotiate with the Ming Kingdom.

Then Merzug, as a representative, went to negotiate with the Ming army in person. At the negotiating table, his only appeal was that after the war of the Gur Dynasty, the losses were heavy and the finances were poor. Good for internal explanation.

Su Haisheng was quite happy when he saw Merzug's low eyebrows and pleasing to the eyes, thinking that it might be useful to sell him face in the future, so he decided to agree to his request and reduce the amount of indemnity requested by the Ming Kingdom by [-]%.

Merzouga was overjoyed, expressed his deep gratitude to Su Haisheng, and then presented Su Haisheng with a number of valuable personal gifts, expressing his willingness to have a good relationship with Daming's military chief in this area.

Su Haisheng suddenly felt that this person was a little different, and asked him about his position within the Gul Dynasty and his own identity.

When he learned that Merzoug's responsibilities within the Gul Dynasty were equivalent to a member of the former Song Prime Minister's team and he also had the status of a local powerhouse, he realized that the reason why Merzoug was so pleasing to him was probably not the same. So simple.

He further thought that the Gul Dynasty had just suffered a military defeat, its leaders had suffered a fiasco, and its prestige and strength had been greatly reduced.

And the representative of the powerful faction in this place wanted to establish a relationship with him, and the intention could not be more obvious.

When a country is facing a crisis, some people see danger, so they are worried, while others see opportunity, so they are ambitious and in high spirits.

This Merzouga clearly belongs to the latter.

The decline of central power means the rise of local forces, which means that their representatives of local forces have a chance.

For this kind of person, national interests are nothing, his own interests are the most important, and it is difficult to say how many national feelings such people have in their hearts.

In other words, they generally do not have the strong family and national feelings of the Ming people. They are all hermit crabs, and the national government is just a temporary residence that can be changed at any time.

If it would be better for them to end the Gul dynasty, they would not hesitate to speed up the process.

At present, Merzug has an interest in Su Haisheng, perhaps hoping to suppress the central forces of the Gur Dynasty through Su Haisheng, so that they can obtain more benefits.

Su Haisheng does have this ability.

According to what Su Haisheng knew so far, he learned that Su Yonglin was planning to establish a border defense force in the face of the new military situation in Daming.

At the same time, Su Yonglin is also planning to appoint him as the commander of the Second Corps to be stationed in the Western Regions and serve as the head coach of the Daming Frontier Defense Forces in the Western Regions.

Because after practical consideration, Daming decided not to set up a main battle corps in the Western Regions, but to use the troops of the Second Corps and the Sixth Corps to station in the Western Regions in turn to maintain a military presence in the Western Regions.

So at present, on the bright side, there is no direct military leader in the Western Regions.

However, this area cannot be without the arrangement of the army, nor without the top military chief. The army is scattered, and a unified command is needed to rule the army.

So after thinking about it and ruling out the possibility of establishing the Western Regions Corps, Su Yonglin decided to make some changes without increasing the number of troops, and use the combat power of the existing elite corps to do something.

The Ming Dynasty now has a regular standing army of 80 soldiers, three naval divisions of Beihai, Donghai and Nanhai with a size of 9, and a Huben Imperial Guard with a size of 5. The active standing army has reached 94.

With a huge organization and strong combat power, it has basically met the needs of defense and frontier expansion.

Not to mention the villager self-defense squads, township squadrons, and county brigades scattered in every administrative village of a militia nature across the country, as well as a series of retired soldiers who retired during the Revolutionary War on their own initiative or in accordance with policies.

If we really want to mobilize the whole country, the number of troops that the Ming Dynasty can pull up can create a record-breaking number of troops.

Under such circumstances, it is not necessary to continue to expand the army. It will only use all the expenses used to develop the economy and science and technology to support the army, which is not conducive to the development of the economy and science and technology.

Therefore, Su Yonglin intends to introduce a standardized military service system and retirement system in the years to come, to fix the total number of troops within a certain range, and at the same time to constantly replace new blood.

He intends to make iron-clad battalions and flowing soldiers, focusing on enhancing the training of the army and maintaining its combat effectiveness.

On this basis, Su Yonglin and Xin Qiji, Ma Weiying and other military leaders brainstormed together, and finally came up with a border defense system.

This border guard is not an army number, but a mechanism.

That is, on the basis of not disrupting the scale of the existing main battle corps, establish a border defense framework and build a command system for this framework, and any army can be filled in the framework to accept the command of this command system.

The troops invested in the border guard still maintain their original designation and organization, but in terms of military operations, they follow the command of the border guard commander, not the commander of the corps to which the organization belongs.

For example, in order to cope with the changing military situation in the Western Regions and Central Asia, Su Yonglin planned to set up the Western Region Frontier Defense Force, and put 6 Western Region Garrison troops into the framework of the Western Region Frontier Defense Force.

The first batch of Western Region garrisons were the Fourth Army of the Second Corps and the No.16 Army of the Sixth Corps. The Fourth Army naturally accepted Su Haisheng's command, but the No.16 Army was not originally under Su Haisheng's command.

However, under the mechanism of the Border Defense Army, Su Haisheng did not command the No. 16 Army as the commander of the Second Corps, but commanded the No. 16 Army as the commander of the Western Region Frontier Army.

Not only the No.16 Army, but any army of the eight main battle army regiments or even the Huben Imperial Guards that is put into the framework of the Western Region Frontier Defense Forces will obey the command of the commander of the Frontier Defense Forces.

This idea is also due to Su Yonglin's consideration of the vast territory of Daming, and many things are sudden, and border areas often have to take action before they can ask for instructions, otherwise they will encounter very serious strategic problems.

However, Su Yonglin had no intention of increasing the army, so he decided to use the existing foundation to develop a new mechanism to deal with the current situation.

(End of this chapter)