Chapter 2836

Chapter 2836

Chapter 2836
Compared with the super-standard infrastructure such as ports and main roads seen before, the place used by the local government for official receptions is very simple. It is a manor next to Jinzhou Daying.

The manor is a traditional Chinese-style building, the area is not too large, and there are four courtyards in front and back.The interior is not like the Jiangnan courtyard, which is decorated with many ingenious scenes. It is all a simple and clear patio and corridor structure, with almost no redundant decorations.From the mottled traces of the interior and furniture, it is not difficult to see that the manor has been around for some years.

"This used to be the official residence of Jinzhou Daying. Qian Tiandun and Wang Tom lived in this yard. I came to Jinzhou to host negotiations 20 years ago, and I met here with the envoys of Ming and North Korea. You learn from history textbooks The previous Three Kingdoms Treaty was signed in this courtyard."

Bai Kesi is no stranger to this manor. Even after many years, he still has not forgotten the experience of the year. After entering the gate, he talked about the past history of this place to a few younger generations.

Chen Yixin said: "Except for the replacement of some new living facilities, there have been no major changes during this period, basically retaining the appearance of 20 years ago. I usually work here in Jinzhou, and I live here most of the time."

Bai Kesi nodded and said, "In a few years, this place will be able to hang signs such as former residences of celebrities and historical sites outside, collect entrance fees, and sell souvenirs."

After finishing speaking, they looked at each other with Chen Yixin, and they laughed knowingly.Several young people looked at each other in blank dismay, not quite understanding what allusion their parents were talking about.

That night, the Jinzhou government office held a grand banquet for the arrival of Bai Kesi and others.

On the next day, Bai Kesi and his party went to the first inspection destination, the Jinzhou Camp adjacent to the station.

The predecessor of the Jinzhou Camp was the Jinzhou Guard during the Ming Dynasty. However, in the tug-of-war between the Ming army and the later Jin army for Jinzhou, the fortress and fortifications of the guard were severely damaged, and then the Jin army defeated the Ming army and occupied it. Before Jinzhou had time to organize renovations, it was expelled from the place by the Haihan army that broke into Liaodong.

At that time, the confrontation between the Haihan army and the Houjin army pushed to the north of the Jinzhou Isthmus. Haihan poured almost all the resources in this area into the isthmus defense line, and also set up the base camp more than ten miles away from the isthmus defense line. The location of Jinzhou Guard is also called Nanguanling Daying because of the place name.

However, the Haihan army was not interested in restoring the fortifications of the Ming Dynasty. They only rebuilt the original site to a certain extent, retained some living facilities, demolished the fortifications that were in the way, filled them in, and built them on the original site. A Haihan-style military base was built.

For a long period of time afterwards, Jinzhou Daying was the main station of the Haihan Army in Liaodong, and at its peak there were more than 20 military personnel stationed here.Today, the area controlled by Haihan in Liaodong is dozens of times larger than that of 2000 years ago, and the deployment of troops is also more scattered. There are not so many troops in the Jinzhou Camp, including the troops stationed on the isthmus line of defense. It is only maintained at the level of [-] people all the year round.

However, although the number of troops stationed has decreased, the status of Jinzhou Camp has not changed. It is still the command center and main arsenal of the Liaodong Garrison.The weapons and ammunition used by the garrison in the entire Liaodong area are uniformly allocated and delivered by the Jinzhou Camp, and all troop mobilization and training plans are also issued by the Sea and Land Joint Command located in the Jinzhou Camp.

At this time, Beks and his party were sitting in the combat command room of the Joint Command, listening to the reports of the officers.

A huge map of Liaodong hangs on the wall, clearly marking the areas currently under Haihan's direct control.It can be seen from the map that the current Haihan ruled area is actually only a small area of ​​Liaodong, and most of the areas on the map are still controlled by various tribes outside the customs headed by the Manchu Qing.The territories controlled by the Jurchen ministries in the farther north actually extended to unknown places thousands of miles away.

But this does not mean that the area controlled by Haihan is small. It is not difficult to find out that the location of the Jinzhou camp is thousands of miles away from the northern border as long as it is converted to the scale of the map.

At present, the Haihan Army's army stationed in the Liaodong area actually has only one regular army division, which is the Sixth Division of the Army.There are six infantry regiments under its jurisdiction, stationed in Jinzhouwei, Fuzhouwei, Gaizhouwei, Guangningwei, Dongningwei, Shenyang Zhongwei and other places under the jurisdiction of the original Ming Dynasty.

In addition to these six infantry regiments, there are cavalry battalions, artillery battalions, engineering battalions, special warfare battalions directly under the division headquarters, as well as other administrative and logistics units such as medical, logistics, and communications. There are [-] military personnel in total. More than a thousand people.

Just looking at the data on paper, it seems that there are quite a lot of troops, but considering the area of ​​Haihan's jurisdiction in Liaodong, this amount of troops can actually only achieve basic control of key areas.To put it bluntly, it was just enough to protect itself, and it was obviously not enough to rely on the existing troops to expand the territory.

Even in many relatively remote areas, the defense force is mainly maintained by local armed forces such as militias.For example, the multiple settlements of Tunpu originally planned to be under the jurisdiction of Liaoyouwei, because they were far away from the main garrison points, the Haihan Army stationed in each Tunbao could only maintain a squad-level organization, and had to organize and train militia personnel as a Replenishment of troops.

However, to maintain the current scale of the standing armed forces, the required military expenditure is not a small amount, and it is far from enough to rely solely on the allocation of the Executive Committee and the Ministry of National Defense.Many troops are still using weapons and equipment produced in the 30s, and the progress of refitting is far behind their counterparts in the south.

When Beks heard these problems, he did not immediately express his opinion. It is normal for the local garrison to complain to the Executive Committee about the lack of military expenditure. military spending.

But the reality is that the army is selling miserably while generating income through various "side jobs".The military has unique conditions. As long as you use a little tricks, many commercial resources will be indirectly controlled by the military. It is not difficult to make money from it.What's more, the financial situation in the northern region has always been good, and Liaodong has been vigorously developing the mining industry in recent years. Chen Yixin should not be short of military expenses.

The most important point is that Bai Kesi is also the director of the ordnance department. He knows how much of the weapons and equipment produced by Haihan every year has flowed into the hands of the northern region.The Sixth Division Lu wants to sell miserably in front of him, claiming that he has no money to update his equipment, but it is not so easy to succeed.

(End of this chapter)