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But whether it's the Guards or the Navy, their total strength is nothing compared to the army's 1.4 million people.

But even with a huge army of 1.7 million in total, the Tang Empire still felt that the army was insufficient and it was difficult to control the huge mainland and overseas territories.

Otherwise, I wouldn't think about expanding the army to more than 2 million.

According to the estimates of the Datang Army, in order to maintain the stability of the local area and ensure that no accidents occur.

The army must have enough troops stationed in the homeland, and it must be a regular elite force.

Why?

Because for a traditional imperial dynasty like the Tang Dynasty, especially for the huge empire that has an absolute advantage in the world, its enemies are not natives or Tartars, but can only be enemy within.

Why did the Tang Empire have such an institution as Hantong, and why did the Guards have such a completely independent army that only obeyed the orders of the Son of Heaven.

It is because of the particularity of the Tang Empire itself.

No one can guarantee that there will be no civil strife in Datang!

Therefore, whether it is the army or the navy, most of their attention is actually on preventing unrest in the homeland.

Of the 1.4 million regular army troops, about 400,000 are elite front-line combat readiness troops, and of these 400,000 combat readiness troops, more than 300,000 are stationed in the mainland, and they are concentrated in the eastern and central provinces.

The other 100,000 elite combat readiness troops belong to rotating units. In order to maintain the combat effectiveness and war experience of these combat readiness units, the Army will send them to West Asia, other overseas territories, and Tatars and other indigenous people in rotation.

Sending them overseas to fight the natives is not the purpose, but training the troops is the purpose.

The other one million people belonged to the regular regular army, and most of the troops belonged to the dissatisfied troops.

In the combat readiness unit, an infantry division is often full of 18,000 troops, and a very small number of combat readiness infantry divisions even maintain a strength of more than 20,000 people all year round.

For example, the famous, stationed in Zhengzhou, the core railway hub of the Central Plains, the 3rd Infantry Division of the Imperial Army Ace Force, has maintained a scale of more than 20,000 people all year round, ranging from combat soldiers to auxiliary soldiers, and even civilian personnel. Maintain combat readiness all year round.

However, ordinary infantry divisions, often with a scale of just over 10,000 people, basically only maintain officers, front-line combat soldiers and technical backbones.

For example, combat infantry, artillerymen in artillery, cavalry, but other auxiliary arms such as clerks, baggage soldiers, ammunition transport soldiers, grooms, etc., basically only retain technical backbones, and ordinary auxiliary soldiers will not be retained.

This kind of conventional troops, which only have front-line combatants, can usually be called in an emergency, but in order to exert all their combat capabilities, especially their mobility, their continuous combat capabilities need to be mobilized to replenish their auxiliary troops.

And once it is fully replenished, it can instantly become the main force with more than 18,000 people!

Most of these nearly one million ordinary regular troops are actually stationed in mainland mainland areas.

Relatively speaking, in fact, the Tang Empire's troops stationed overseas are not many, and North America is considered a large number, with tens of thousands of people.

Next is the Nanyang region, where 50,000 or 60,000 people are stationed separately.

Then there are tens of thousands of people in India,

There are not many regions such as West Asia and North Africa, adding up to more than 10,000 people.

There are not many in Africa, and the total number is only more than 10,000.

Then there are more than 10,000 people in Europe.

South America is less, only less than 10,000 people.

The regular army deployed by the Datang Empire in overseas areas is actually seriously insufficient. For example, in India, there are tens of millions of local indigenous people, and it is difficult to control the local area only by relying on tens of thousands of people.

Not to mention North America, the task of maintaining stability with a population of several million is also very heavy, and tens of thousands of people are actually not enough.

The military has always wanted to keep enough troops in the country and have a certain amount of spare capacity to garrison more troops in overseas areas, especially North America, an overseas territory that the empire focuses on developing. The empire attaches great importance to it, and To maintain the stability of such a huge place, it also needs enough troops.

After all, even if the Tang army was able to fight again, it would be unsustainable if the numbers did not increase.

This is an important reason why the military has been striving for continuous military expansion.

However, the expansion of the army is also a matter of the future.

Now, the Empire has only so many troops stationed in North America, and many tasks need to rely on local militia forces.

But in the view of some high-level officials in Jinling, the local militia is also a destabilizing factor, and it is a more dangerous destabilizing factor than the natives.

Because the militia troops are stationed in the local area for a long time and are composed of local immigrants, over time, the centripetal force of these immigrants to the empire will inevitably weaken, and the militia troops composed of local immigrants will also have a weakening of the centripetal force of the empire. .

This is also the reason why Chen Guangqing has repeatedly investigated the militia forces in North America and sent back secret investigation reports.

It's not his own concern, but the concern of the higher-ups, who asked him to investigate.

Of course, ordinary people, even militia units, belong to ordinary people, and they will not be disgusted with the mainland for no reason.

Fighting against Jinling and rebelling must be led by local dignitaries. Otherwise, a group of ordinary people would not have gathered to resist at all, and there was no need to resist.

Today's North American immigrants live a leisurely life. After arriving in North America, these immigrants generally can obtain a certain amount of land. A family ranges from tens of acres to hundreds of acres of land, which is enough for them to become a family. little landowner.

The main group of immigrants is farmers, who can basically maintain stability if they have land.

Among the unstable factors are the groups of businessmen and powerful people who immigrated to North America for industry and commerce.

Because they didn't come to North America to make a fortune~www.wuxiaspot.com~ but they couldn't set up factories there to make more profits.

This is why for so many years, there has been a voice in North America for localization.

Because only when they are localized, can they build factories and make more profits.

This is the fundamental contradiction between the business class and even the elites who immigrated to North America and the native side.

But even they have leaders.

Who is their leader?

Chen Guangqing could also guess with his toes. On the surface, it might be some officials, such as the former American affairs supervisor and other officials, as well as a few nobles and businessmen.

However, behind them must be the three kings of North America!

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