Zhou Shixiang did not return to Nandu, but recuperated in Zhenjiang.
In order to stabilize the army's morale, he was forced to mount the horse, which led to the aggravation of the leg injury and the displacement of the leg bone, so after crossing the river, under the persuasion of Langzhong, Zhou Shixiang had to temporarily recuperate in Zhenjiang, so as not to fall off his right leg due to bumps and be disabled for life.
He did not live in Zhenjiang City, but chose to recuperate in Ganlu Temple on the Gushan Mountain in Beigu, Zhenjiang.
Before leaving Yangzhou, Zhou Shixiang issued an order appointing Ge Yi as the Jianghuai Economic Envoy, and at the same time formed the Jiangbei Army.
The Jiangbei Army is another fixed corps of the Taiping Army after the Annan Expeditionary Army, and the legion has three infantry towns and one cavalry town.
An artillery battalion was set up in the original three brigades of the infantry town, with 10,020 soldiers in each town.
The three towns were reorganized and expanded from the original first town, the third town C brigade, and the thirteenth town.
Among them, there are 3,500 veteran officers and soldiers in the first town, and more than 6,000 soldiers have been reinforced; There are more than 900 veteran officers and soldiers of the C Brigade of the Third Town, and more than 1,000 officers and soldiers are transferred from the Second Town, and more than 6,000 new soldiers are recruited; The thirteenth town made up more than 4,000 troops.
A total of 17,000 troops were added to the three towns.
The supplementary troops were all Qing troops who had been captured and surrendered in previous battles since the crossing of the river, mainly the Green Battalion and the Han Army.
As for the disposition of the surrender of the army, Zhou Shixiang relied on the previous requirements, and strictly ordered the generals not to lead the troops, and the soldiers did not return to the generals, that is, the original Qing army officers at all levels were all escorted to Nanjing and Zhenjiang, and could not directly lead their own soldiers to serve in the Taiping army.
The soldiers were scattered and supplemented into the towns, and the security forces of each town were first organized to carry out ideological reform, and then they were trained in the camp for 15 days, and then distributed to the guards and brigades by the towns.
The middle and high-ranking generals of the Qing army who were sent to Nanjing and Zhenjiang were enrolled in military reform classes and used according to their ability and performance.
For the Qing generals who committed the crime of slaughtering the city, and they were not forced to surrender anyway, Zhou Shixiang's opinion to the following is that all the canonical punishments should be clear, and leniency should not be connived at.
For the Qing generals who took the initiative to do the opposite, Zhou Shixiang gave the opinion that those who were willing to unload their armor should be given financial subsidies and allowed to return to their hometowns.
Those who are still willing to serve in the army will be demoted according to their original ranks.
The criteria for demotion are determined by the amount of merit made anyway.
For example, Lu Rulong, a general of Huai'an, is now arranged as the third town of the Jiangbei Army because of his meritorious service anyway, and the two white flag generals such as Wuerte, Gongjianse, and Yue Deji will be given the official positions below the general army in the north, and after the army goes north to recover these places in the future, they will be actually received.
It is only because of the situation that it has to be corrected, and those who have not made an inch of merit after that, such as the general of the green battalion of the Han army in Yangzhou City, will be used at their discretion.
The first town that has been replenished has been renamed the first town of the Jiangbei Army, stationed in Yangzhou, and the town will be taken over by Qi Hao, the former fifteenth town general; The C Brigade of the Third Town was renamed the Second Town of the Jiangbei Army, and the town was promoted by Zhu Qinglai, the former deputy general of the First Town; The thirteenth town was originally composed of the children of wolf soldiers recruited from Guangxi, and is now renamed the third town of the Jiangbei Army.
The cavalry town is composed of hundreds of old cavalrymen of the Mongolian army and the Taiping army who were captured and surrendered, a total of more than 4,000 people, called the second cavalry town, and the town will be taken over by Shao Chengguo of the new three towns.
After the Jiangbei Army was formed and supplemented, it marched to Gaoyou and Baoying in the north, and the troops went straight into Huai'an Mansion, and then garrisoned in the Xuzhou area, if possible, the Jiangbei Army will seize Xuzhou, the thoroughfare of the five provinces, and at the same time use troops in Jiangnan and Anhui, and establish a solid defense line and advance fulcrum in the Huaiyang land, which is said to defend the river must defend Huai.
After the surrender of troops was added to the towns, a new level system of surrender was also established.
That is, based on the time of their surrender, each batch of soldiers will be demoted and graded, and then promoted based on battlefield performance and combat achievements.
For towns that have supplemented and surrendered too many troops, with the exception of the security army, they have generally followed the principle of "first lowering troops and then lowering troops"; through this means of "first lowering troops and then surrendering", a hierarchical system has been formed among the surrendered troops, so as to weaken the possible resistance of the surrendered troops, and also facilitate the management and training of the surrendered troops.
Some people jokingly say that this method is very similar to the Manchurian Eight Banners system, except that Manchuria pressed Mongolia, and the Mongolian army pressed the Han army, and the Taiping officers and soldiers pressed the troops first, and then the troops were pressed and then the troops were lowered.
In essence, the name is different, the soup is not changed, the treatment is rough but the effect is good.
Facts have proved that a large number of Qing soldiers who were captured and surrendered early became extremely loyal to the Taiping army once they obtained the right to govern them by the Taiping army, and they were willing to "show" their existence in front of those who had just been taken into the camp.
However, once some "soldiers who surrendered later" showed some hostility towards the Taiping army or the "soldiers who surrendered first", they often did not need to be brought forward by the officers and envoys of the Anjun army, and these "soldiers who surrendered later" would be taught a lesson by "surrendering troops first", and they would be punished with corporal punishment at least and beaten to death at worst.
Because the system of the Anjun envoys was only in the beginning, it was not mature, and there was a lack of sufficient talents, and Zhou Shixiang did not have enough time to perfect this matter, so the Taiping Army was actually moving towards the side he did not want to see, that is, the militarization of hierarchies, rather than the integration of officers and soldiers that he had envisioned earlier.
The most serious consequence of the militaristic hierarchy was the mass of lynchings in the military, which, in later words, was extremely devoid of human rights.
This is mainly reflected in the newly recruited soldiers, who are not much different from the previous Qing army under the rule of the officers and the first soldiers.
Because of the constant fighting and casualties, Zhou Shixiang killed two-thirds of the Anjun envoys who came out of the training course for Anjun envoys in Guangdong in the early days, and many of the current Anjun envoys were promoted by officers, and apart from knowing that there was a handbook for the Anjun army, they did not know anything about what the Anjun envoys were and what their tasks were.
Whenever they fought, most of these Anjun envoys drew their swords and shouted for a charge as before, not knowing what they were going to do.
What made Zhou Shixiang even more troublesome was that these new Anjun envoys were almost 100% illiterate, so it was simply wishful thinking to expect these illiterate Anjun envoys to transform the Taiping Army into a people's army of "officers and soldiers as one".
Zhou Shixiang is also very helpless about this situation, as the snowball of the Taiping Army rolls bigger and bigger, he finds that he will lead a typical ancient army in the future, and if he wants to change this fact, he still has a lot to do, which can be described as a long way to go.
Even in his lifetime, he may not be able to successfully transform the Taiping army, because apart from him, everyone under him, whether it is a high-ranking general or an ordinary soldier, they are the original natives of this era.
He can promote his political ideas through his strength, lead his subordinates to revenge, and go to the Zhongxing Han family, but he cannot completely transform his subordinates into people hundreds of years later through his strength. oshow7 t1706231537: