#201 - Ming 1: Overflowing Martial Accomplishment
The History of China
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The New Orders of the N. N. Army
For the first time, stipulated a given troop strength at five thousand soldiers each. Each guard corp was thereafter subdivided into five batalions. Field units smaller than five thousand were thereafter redesignated as independent batalians. Post from gard commanders on down were made explicitely hereditarywith successions subject to the approval of the prince. So both of these are striking examples of instances where the naisent ming state is taking ideas wholesale from the mongo military command structure that worked well and applying them to their own chinese style military this is no small deal.
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