After the reorganization of the Huizhou army, the Taiping Army had seven town soldiers outside the cavalry brigade, water camp and artillery camp, including the old four towns and the new three towns.
The seven towns are Ge Yi's first town, Tie Yi's second town, Bald Jianghe's third town, Shao Jiugong's fourth town, Zhao Ziqiang's fifth town, Suna's sixth town, and Hu Qili's seventh town.
Among them, there are 8,250 soldiers in the first to third towns, 7,575 soldiers in the fourth to seventh towns, and more than 55,000 soldiers in the seven towns, plus more than 2,000 soldiers in the cavalry brigade, 5,000 soldiers in the water battalion, 5,000 soldiers in the artillery battalion, and 800 soldiers in the iron guard, the strength of the entire Taiping army has more than doubled from 20,000 before the Eastern Expedition, and the actual number of soldiers is more than 70,000, and there is an equal number of security forces.
In other words, after the first battle of the Eastern Crusade, Zhou Shixiang was able to actually mobilize and command troops and horses that surpassed Li Dingguo, the king of Jin in Yunnan, and became the second heavy army group of the Southern Ming Dynasty after Jinxia Zheng Chenggong.
In terms of the territory he owns, Zhou Shixiang has stabilized Zheng Chenggong, and actually owns the land of Guangzhou, Chaozhou, and Huizhou.
In terms of the selection of town generals, Ge Yi, Jiang He, and Shao Chengguo are old brothers from Daqiao Mountain, Tie Yi is from the rescued miners, Qi Hao is from the Great Western Army, and the rest are all generals.
According to the time of surrender to the Taiping Army, Shao Jiugong was the earliest, followed by Zhao Ziqiang, Suna, and Hu Qili.
At the level of the town generals, the generals accounted for half, and the brigade school and battalion captain level were more, Zhou Shixiang let the military marshal's office do statistics, and the total number of soldiers in the army was more than 30,000 people, accounting for fifty percent of the total number of Taiping troops, and the remaining fifty percent was the young and strong people who went all the way to Luoding, and the most children of Xiangshan in the middle.
Nearly 20,000 people from all over the country who were conscripted by the Qing army joined the Taiping army.
Among the officers, about 60 percent were from the rank of general.
Among them, half of them were from the Green Battalion, the remaining from the Han army accounted for 30%, and the remaining two were from Manchu and Mongolia.
There are only five of the dozens of people who started the incident in Daqiao Mountain, except for three town generals, and the other two are brigade schools.
Although they are all in high positions, in terms of the death rate alone, the death rate of those people in Daqiao Mountain can reach ninety.
Because there are only a few people left, most of the officers in the Taiping Army who are not from the generals are from Luoding and Xiangshan, and they are all at the level of battalion captains, guard captains, and lieutenant envoys in the An Army, which can be regarded as the backbone of the Taiping Army.
In terms of population, there are more than 500,000 in Guangzhou, nearly 800,000 in Huizhou, nearly 180,000 in Chaozhou, more than 130,000, more than 40,000 forcibly relocated to Huizhou and Guangzhou, and more than 1.4 million people in the land of Sanfu.
The population of 1.4 million was placed in the developed coastal areas or the populous provinces such as Henan and Sichuan, but it was only the population of a city, and now, it is half of the population of Guangdong Province.
Zhaoqing, Gaozhou, Lianzhou, Qiongzhou, and Leizhou, which were occupied by other armies of the Southern Ming Dynasty, were originally poor and remote areas, and the population could reach one million.
The populations of Shaozhou and Nanxiong, which were still occupied by the Qing army, were between 400,000 and 500,000.
The population of the entire Guangdong, Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong made the most optimistic estimates, should be around 3 million.
Before the Qing army entered Guangdong, the population of Guangdong was 12.56 million according to the statistics of the Yellow Book of Chongzhen's 12th year.
In 20 years, Guangdong's total population has fallen by three-quarters, and in addition to the normal deaths, about 5 million people were slaughtered by the Qing army, and 1.4 million people were killed in the cities of Chaozhou and Guangzhou alone.
In some areas, such as Luoding Zhili Prefecture, only a few thousand people were killed.
To put it bluntly, some contemporary historians have estimated that the population of the late Ming Dynasty was tens of millions, but the Qing Dynasty died more than 400 million, and the conclusion shows that "I Daqing" made a great contribution to the prosperity of the Chinese population, but they do not know that his tens of millions of people were killed by the Qing army, and the hundreds of millions of lives that died in vain were selectively ignored by them.
In addition, the increase in the population of the Han people is that the Han people attach great importance to the reproduction of their descendants, and the Qing court also needs a large number of Han people to produce for them out of the needs of rule, plus there are potato crops that can fill the stomach, and the population of the Han people has reached 400 million in more than 200 years.
But without these 200 years of foreign rule, I am afraid that the number of Han people would have exceeded one billion.
The tens of millions of people who survived can still reproduce to 400 million, and how many more than 100 million people who died in vain can reproduce The population figures in this passage are not just plain mouths, and the Qing court's own historical records of the massacres can roughly estimate that more than 100 million Han Chinese died in large-scale massacres, not counting the rural people.
Of course, there were many people who died at the hands of the Ming army and the peasant army, but in any case, there were not as many people who died at the hands of the Qing army.
After all, after the Qing army entered the customs, it was an organized massacre of the Han people, the reason was that they had no food and grass to supply the Han people who were starving to death, and they had to quickly suppress the resistance of the Han people, so for the sake of stability and the rapid occupation of China, they could only resort to the simple and crude but very effective "harmonious" method of slaughter.
These two paragraphs are not charged, and they are purely written at this time.
Even in Xiangshan, except for a few exterminations carried out by Tie Yi, the Taiping army did not carry out targeted elimination of landlords in the townships, because there was a large amount of ownerless wasteland available for cultivation, which made the land contradiction less prominent.
A group of generals and staff officers of the military department and Franco Jiren summed up in detail the gains and losses of several battles of the Eastern Expedition, and after inspecting each town separately, they reported a result, that is, if the advantages of the Mongolian cavalry could be brought into play, then in the absence of geographical advantages, the Taiping army could still have a field duel with the Qing army of the same size, and the hope of winning accounted for sixty percent.
This estimate is based on the premise that the Taiping Army has completely integrated and surrendered troops, and has been rested, replenished with ordnance and food, and has been run in place at all levels of command, and its morale is high.
Therefore, after reading this report, Zhou Shixiang just laughed it off, and did not immediately go west to Guangxi according to the optimistic estimation of those guys in this report.
After settling the military and political affairs of Chaozhou and Huizhou, Zhou Shixiang was to return to Guangzhou to begin to integrate the Ming army entrenched in Zhaoqing, Gaozhou, Lianzhou, and Leizhou.
Whether it is tough or cooperative, the Ming army with these complex factions must be unified under the Taiping army system, and Zhou Shixiang must also establish a grain and grass transportation line from Guangzhou through Zhaoqing to Luoding to Gaozhou.
With Gaozhou as a base for westward expansion, they entered Wuzhou, Guangxi, and then decided whether to seize Guilin and Liuzhou to open up a communication channel with Kunming, or enter Guizhou to fight the back route of the Qing army, forcing them to retreat.
The more than 4,000 people eliminated by the Huizhou soldiers were not dismissed on the spot, because many of them were bandits, these people had blood on their hands, and they had tasted the sweetness of looting, and it was difficult for them to put down their knives to become honest farmers or continue their former career as fishermen.
If they are dismissed like this, most of these thousands of people will return to their old jobs and cause trouble in Huizhou.
Therefore, Zhou Shixiang ordered these people to be sent to Guangzhou in several batches, one to be placed in Xiangshan, one in the South China Sea, and the rest in Zengcheng.
The counties of Guangzhou have long since implemented the establishment of villages and townships, and there are security teams in villages and villages, security squadrons in townships and townships, and security brigades in counties, plus the strength of the garrison, and these Huizhou soldiers who have been scattered and sent to dozens of villages and tuntian are closely monitored, even if they have the intention to cause chaos, and in the face of the Taiping army, which has woven a powerful net from top to bottom, they are afraid that they will be immediately suppressed at the slightest sign of it.
Hundreds of old and weak people were dismissed on the spot because there was no threat, and Zhou Shixiang ordered the officials of Huizhou counties to bring them back to their hometowns to settle down, so as not to wander outside.
Those who can move will be given some fields to support themselves, and those who can't be moved will be helped by the government to arrange some men who can make ends meet.
After the war, people decided that Chaozhou should be stable, Huizhou should also be stable, and Guangzhou should urgently prepare for war while being stable. oshow7 t1706231537: