Otherworldly Castle Era

"The King of Enlightenment, if you want to talk about the other benefits after the army is reorganized, it is of course that a large number of military positions can be formed; secondly, a large number of horses have been saved for the country."

Liu Ji's words about saving war horses are actually right or wrong, but Yang Song knows that this is relative to the military system recorded in the "Firearms Training". The focus is still on the first half of Liu Ji's sentence.

In the past, one of the reasons why Xia Guo only formed two infantry brigades and one cavalry brigade was that the cost was too high, and the formation of too many brigades could not be afforded. Even if the whole country can build a few more brigades, the current Xia Guo It is not what it is now.

Now after listening to Li Jing’s new military system, although a standard division has a total number of 46,500 people, it only has 3,000 cavalry, 300 field artillery, and 100 siege artillery.

Compared with the existing standard brigade, there are 150 field artillery, 30 siege artillery, and 5,250 cavalry. Not to mention the cavalry, in fact, the number of artillery has been seriously reduced in terms of the proportion of the number of people.

In this way, if you want to expand to the same number of troops, compared to a few new brigades, it will "save" war horses and artillery. It's just that the "firepower" is somewhat insufficient, and the other is that it doesn't have enough maneuvering power.

But Yang Song turned his head and thought, isn't there a separate cavalry division for mobility, it can completely supplement this part, and the three thousand cavalry is actually quite a lot. As for the drop in firepower, it also depends on whom it is aimed at.

If the enemy has guns and artillery like Xia Guo, then Yang Song will definitely follow the military system recorded in the "Firearms Training Code", but whoever makes the enemy is just a group of indigenous people who are still using broadswords and spears, they have enough With the number of musketeers plus the necessary artillery support, and a small number of cavalry to support, the strength of a standard division is completely enough to deal with a medium-scale war.

This is the reason why the firepower of a single brigade that Li Jing just said is a little too strong, because there is really no need to be equipped with so many artillery and cavalry!

What Xia's army lacks now is not firepower, but scale. Li Jing's change is aimed at Xia's strengths and weaknesses, and it is fully applicable to the current national conditions of Xia.

Yang Song roughly estimated in his mind that he was able to expand all the existing brigades to divisions without changing the number of existing troops.

A cavalry division of 40,500 people, two standard divisions totaling 93,000 people, and a city guard expanded to the standard division level, not counting the Imperial Guards and Jin Yiwei directly under Yang Song. A total of 180,000 people, enough for Xia Guo's current use.

If according to the previous changes and expansion of the army, the Imperial Guard and Jin Yiwei directly under Yang Song will also be expanded accordingly, then the total number of Xia Guo's army will properly exceed 200,000!

As for Xia's navy, there is no saying that it is not directly under the direct command at all, and it has always been under Yang Song's direct command. Moreover, the navy focuses on warships, and the number of people is not large, so it is often not within the consideration of Li Jing and others.

"That's the decision!" Yang Song took this into consideration and made a decision. He heaved a sigh of relief, smiled, and looked at Li Jing and said, "Pharmacist, you have to inform the widow about such things in advance. This time you offer this strategy without any merit."

"Xie Dawang, Da Wang Yingming, the minister dare not ask for credit." Li Jing heard Yang Song's words, and his heart was somewhat relaxed.

"Great Wang Yingming, General Li is a great accomplishment." Liu Ji also agreed with Yang Song's words, as if what he said before did not exist.

Yang Song waved his hand to ignore the other things, but he thought about the Janitor and Jin Yiwei, and then asked Li Jing and Liu Ji: "Yaoshi, Bowen, the army has been reorganized. I wonder what do you think of the Janitor? "

"Back to the king, the imperial guard is the king's prince's army, and the ministers dare not say anything." Liu Ji bowed his hand, paused and then replied: "but every time the army is expanded in the past, the king's prince army will also be reorganized and expanded. Now that I have asked the question, I think the king is also preparing to reorganize the king's army this time."

"Well, that's right." After Yang Song nodded and confirmed Liu Ji's words, he turned to ask: "Then how should the Imperial Guard be reorganized? In the past, whether it was the Imperial Guard or the Jinyiwei, it was reorganized and expanded with the rest of the army. There is a difference."

Li Jing knew what Yang Song meant, and after hearing Yang Song’s confirmation, he clasped his fist and replied: "King Qi, the king once indicated that the Imperial Guard is the country’s strategic mobile army, so the minister suggested that the standard division should be established. Make certain changes on the upper level to enable it to exert the power of'strategic maneuver'."

When Liu Ji heard Li Jing's words, he nodded and added: "More than that, since the Imperial Guard is the king's army, its establishment must also perform the functions of garrisoning the capital, key areas, and guarding the king."

"Very well, how about the specific establishment of the Imperial Guard?" Yang Song heard what the two said, and after agreeing, he asked for the specific details.

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In the middle of the journey, Yang Song decided to also reorganize the Jin Yiwei. He called Zhou Wu who was in charge of the Jin Yiwei and Wang Wei who was in charge of the Jin Yiwei. After discussing together, they determined the specific organization of the Jin Yiwei and the Jin Yiwei.

Just as Liu Ji and Li Jing said, the positioning of the army directly under Yang Song is very different, and the final establishment is very different from the standard division.

The first is the Janissaries. It has been modified according to the size of the standard division, reducing the standard division’s five standard regiments to three, but correspondingly, two new cavalry regiments have been added to strengthen its mobile power. One artillery battalion of the Standard Division became two.

The total strength of the Imperial Guard was 45,300, with 390 field artillery, 130 siege artillery, and 16,500 cavalry.

The total number is less than 1,200 people than the standard division, but the firepower is stronger, and the mobility is more than that.

The Jinyiwei is still the size of a regiment. It has also been adapted according to its own positioning with reference to the establishment of the Imperial Guard. Its total force has been expanded to 8,500, which is 100 more than a standard regiment.

Jinyiwei has three infantry battalions and two cavalry battalions, plus two artillery companies, with 60 field artillery, 20 siege artillery ~www.novelmtl.com~ and 3000 cavalry.

As for the extra one hundred people, although Jinyiwei has only one regiment, it is a separate unit. It must have its own headquarters—Jinyiwei Command. The Jinyiwei Command is of course similar to the standard regiment based on its responsibilities. Department is different.

The headquarters of the Imperial Guard was set up in the same way as the standard division. There are 1,500 people. The reason why there is no change is that the functions of the division division of the standard division are sufficiently complete. Form. After all, compared with a regiment, a division is incomparable.

When all the discussions were settled, Yang Song calculated it again. Excluding the navy, including the Imperial Guards and Jin Yiwei directly under him, the total strength of Xia's army has reached 230,800!

"Does this number seem like a word?" Yang Song was secretly satisfied. Just like before, when the war started, the enemy troops were hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands, and his side turned out to be tens of thousands. This was not like the style he knew.

Two hundred and thirty thousand troops, and all two hundred and thirty thousand troops equipped with thermal weapons, once again looked around Xia, and they were invincible!

Of course, this will all have to wait until the reorganization of the entire army is completed.