Time flies, ten years in the blink of an eye; After Li Liangzuo agreed to the policy of disarmament of the ministers, the entire Western Xia court immediately began to implement it, and it took more than a year to complete the disarmament, Li Liangzuo used the end elimination system to eliminate all the soldiers who could not meet the new requirements, of course, the eliminated soldiers did not mean that they completely left the army, after these people returned to their hometowns, they were all incorporated into the local government soldiers, serving as their reserve soldiers.
The Xia army was reduced from more than 800,000 troops to 530,000, which was already the limit of Li Liangzuo's disarmament, after all, the land area of Western Xia was now placed here, and if the standing army was too small, it would not be able to deal with emergencies at all; The basic establishment of the Xia Army remained unchanged, except that the division-level establishment was abolished in the border army, while the division-level establishment was still retained in the Central Army, and the army-level establishment was increased.
After the disarmament, the standing army of the Xia army was still divided into two parts: the Central Army and the Border Army.
After the disarmament, Li Liangzuo made adjustments to both the Central Army and the Border Army; The Central Army was renamed the Imperial Forest Corps, with six corps, each with 50,000 troops, totaling more than 300,000 people, and these six corps had a personal guard army, two heavy armored cavalry corps and three light cavalry corps; Among them, the pro-guard army was Li Liangzuo's garrison, which was responsible for protecting the security of the imperial palace and the entire Xingqing Mansion.
The border guards are divided into five corps, and the strength of each corps is different according to the different places where they are stationed; Among them, the Steppe Army is the largest legion, with a strength of 100,000 troops; It is divided into ten battalions, including two heavy cavalry battalions and eight light cavalry battalions, of which two heavy cavalry battalions are stationed in Zhenzhou, the core area of the central grassland, and Hedongcheng, the core area of the eastern grassland; The remaining eight light cavalry battalions were stationed in various places to maneuver back and forth.
The Anthy Corps was the second largest, with a strength of 50,000 men divided into five battalions; Among them was a battalion of heavy cavalry and four battalions of light cavalry; The heavy cavalry battalion was stationed in Gaochang, and the four light cavalry battalions were stationed in Yanqi, Yangji Bali, Zhangbali and Beiting; There are also movements between battalions, and there are mobile units for patrolling; The main enemy of the Anxi Legion was the army of the Black Han Dynasty. followed by the Hehuang Legion and the Datong Legion; The strength of these two armies was 30,000 men; Among them, the Datong Legion is a newly formed legion formed by the original Hehuang Legion, although the two legions have the same strength, but the combat effectiveness of the Datong Legion is higher than that of the Hehuang Legion; Because the Datong Legion is equipped with a heavy cavalry battalion, and this cavalry battalion is mainly stationed in Datong Province; The remaining two light cavalry battalions were stationed in scattered areas, mainly in the Song-Xia and Song-Liao border areas.
The Hehuang Legion also had 30,000 men, divided into three battalions; Three were stationed in Lanzhou, Ninghe and Xigecheng, and two battalions were stationed in Lanzhou and Ninghe to guard against the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty.
The original Hetao Legion was one of the most powerful legions in the Great Xia Kingdom, and now there were only 20,000 people left in the Hetao Legion, divided into two battalions, and its forces were scattered and stationed in Heqing Army, Jinsu Army, Yongbyon Prefecture and Wuzhou; Mainly stationed in the border area of the Xia and Song dynasties, in fact, the Hetao Army has been somewhat unworthy of the name, with the transfer of the border of the Great Xia Kingdom, the Hetao area that originally belonged to the frontier has now become the hinterland of the Western Xia, and has become an extremely important granary of the Great Xia Kingdom in the northern region.
The five frontier army corps were mainly stationed in the border areas, while the Imperial Forest Corps, led by Li Liangzuo himself, was stationed in the core area of the Great Xia Kingdom; Among them, Li Liangzuo's personal guard army was stationed in Xingqing Prefecture, a heavy armored cavalry army was stationed in Xiping Prefecture, a heavy armored cavalry army was stationed in Xuanhua Prefecture, and three of the other four light cavalry corps were stationed in Liangzhou, Dingzhou, and Suzhou; The remaining light cavalry corps was mainly scattered and stationed on the southern border of the Xia and Song dynasties, as well as Weizhou, Youzhou, Yinzhou, Yanzhou, Hongzhou and other places.
The heavy cavalry army does not mean that all of them are heavy cavalry, but they are divided into a certain proportion; Sixty-five percent of one of the heavy armored cavalry corps were heavy cavalry, which means that there were more than 30,000 heavy cavalry; and a battalion of heavy cavalry accounted for eighty percent of the heavy cavalry, that is, there were about 8,000 heavy cavalry; According to this ratio, the heavy armored cavalry of the Great Xia Kingdom is about 100,000, accounting for one-fifth of the Xia army, which is already the limit that the Great Xia Kingdom can bear.
In addition to the military changes, there were also changes in the issue of the commander of the border army, Li Yanzong was transferred to the Anxi Army by Li Langzuo, Li Chahan was transferred to the Grassland Army, and Li Xiaoren was transferred to the Hehuang Army; These three people were all members of the Li clan of the Great Xia Kingdom, and two of them had increased their troops, and only Li Xiaoren's had reduced their troops; In addition, Li Liangzuo of the Hetao Army was handed over to Liang Gewei, and the Datong Army was handed over to the Xili Qianbu; As for the veteran general Ji Lasiyi, the former commander of the Hetao Army, he was transferred back to the imperial court by Li Liangzuo and appointed as a military envoy.
After this disarmament and reorganization, the combat effectiveness of the Xia army has not decreased but improved, and all the elites of the Xia army have been concentrated in the Imperial Forest Legion by Li Liangzuo, and the entire Royal Forest Legion is composed of professional soldiers, which are preparing to fight in addition to fighting in the Great Xia Kingdom; The remaining five frontier regiments are semi-professional soldiers, who usually train to garrison the border and stay in the fields during the busy agricultural season; Each legion had a special farm, which greatly reduced the military burden on the imperial court.
The reorganization has reduced military expenditures, and the military personnel transfer has allowed Li Liangzuo to completely control all the troops and eliminate all hidden dangers, the biggest hidden danger for Li Liangzuo is actually the Hetao Legion led by Ji Spicy Siyi, and now this hidden danger has been completely eliminated, and now the commander of the border army is either the Great Xia royal family or the student taught by Li Liangzuo, and it can be said that Li Liangzuo is very loyal.
Ten years of development has significantly enhanced the national strength of the entire Great Xia Kingdom, and now the population of the Great Xia Kingdom has reached more than 10 million, in the agricultural era the population is an important manifestation of the comprehensive strength of a country, population means labor, productivity and soldiers; With a sufficient population, Li Liangzuo also had enough food to feed them; Nowadays, the main grain-producing areas of the entire Great Xia Kingdom are divided into the Ningxia Plain, the Hetao Plain, the Hehuang Valley, the Datong Basin, the oasis of Xizhou and the river valley of Hexi.
Although the Western Xia attached great importance to farmland and water conservancy projects, the grain output of the Great Xia Kingdom still could not meet the needs of the domestic population, and grain was still an important problem hindering the development of the Great Xia Kingdom.
In order to prevent the problem of food shortage in the Great Xia Kingdom after the bad relationship between the Xia and Song Dynasty, a large part of the Western Xia finance has been used for grain reserves in the past ten years, in the mountains of Helan Mountain, Li Liangzuo ordered to dig a lot of caves to store grain and grass, and at the same time built a lot of granaries around Xingqing Mansion; If it weren't for the fact that the Great Xia Kingdom could dump Qingbai salt into the Great Song Dynasty, the purchase of grain alone would have gnawed half of the Great Xia State's treasury.
Grain storage is not just as simple as buying grain, but also building granaries, transportation, moisture-proofing, etc., which is a lot of money; However, the grain reserves of the Great Xia Kingdom in recent years are still very objective, and the total amount of grain stored in various parts of the government has reached 30 million stones, with a total value of more than 15 million yuan, and in order to reserve these grains, the Great Xia Kingdom has to spend at least four times the price.
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