"Chapter 12: Naming the Reinforcements"
Your actions may not be meaningful, but you have to do them, not to change the world, but to make you the one who will not be changed by the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi (the founding father of modern India, India's greatest political leader, founder of Gandhiism)
The composition of the Pro-Guards at the decisive battle of the D'Orville Gorge was as follows: Luculus had four infantry wings with a full strength of 3,000 men, and Wink had three companies of archers and two companies of crossbowmen, all of whom were also full of 3,000 men.
Goto Kiji had 50 teams of iron gunners and 50 teams of Notai sword warriors, each of which consisted of 120 soldiers, and Agis had 50 teams of Roman heavy infantry and a number of special temples, the former of which had a fixed strength of 161 soldiers.
After the end of the battle of the D'Orville Gorge, the pro-guard guards added the pro-guard Eight Banners, with a full formation of 4,000 elite eight-banner cavalry; so far, the pro-guard actually has five combat units, with a total strength of more than 50,000, and its combat effectiveness is even stronger than that of the Yulin Legion!
The troops of the pro-guard guards, which are strong and strong, are far less than the troops that others imagined that they can stay on the land of the Hunhe and Dong'e tribes; the Eight Banners of the Pro-Guard Guards, led by Urgudai, are the Eight Banners troops composed of the cavalry of the original New Eight Banners, and they will have no effect in staying.
Could it be that Bai Feng could still count on Urgudai and the Eight Banners cavalry under his command to spy on the Eight Banners of the Heavenly Dragon, which were also the Jurchens of Jianzhou? Aside from the Eight Banners of the Guards, the total strength of the other four armies was only 47,000, barely equivalent to the total strength of the Eight Banners of the Heavenly Dragon.
Although Alexander and Antigonus were loyal generals to Bai Feng, their time as the owners of the Two Red Banners was too short, and the cavalry under the Two Red Banners were all genuine Jurchens, so Bai Feng's trust in the Two Red Banners was very limited.
On the premise that the strength of the two armies is almost the same, the superiority of the army of the pro-guard system and the superiority of the cavalry units of the Tianlong Eight Banners almost cancel each other out; taking into account the home advantage of the Tianlong Eight Banners, it is obvious that the Tianlong Eight Banners have the upper hand between the two armies.
Moreover, with the departure of the Baifeng army and the passage of time, the home advantage of the Tianlong Eight Banners will become more and more important; on the contrary, the external environment in which the pro-soldier guards stay in the army will become worse and worse, and there is even the possibility of being completely suppressed by the Tianlong Eight Banners.
Needless to say, the best way is to increase the strength of the troops stationed in the army, so that even if the Tianlong Eight Banners have the support of the Hunhe River and the Dong'e Army, they will not dare to argue with the troops stationed there!
At this time, the army that followed Bai Feng, in addition to the personal guards, only had the Iron Blood Legion, the Cavalry Legion, and the Death Battalion; among these three troops, the Iron Blood Legion and the Cavalry Legion were all regular legions in the battle sequence of the Imperial Military Department, and it was impossible for them to stay.
The newly expanded 20,000-strong Death Battalion, as a pure infantry unit that had not yet shed its cannon fodder status, their combat strength in the face of cavalry was quite limited, and if they were left as a garrison army, they might not be impossible to become a burden on the pro-guard guards.
After careful consideration for a long time, Bai Feng, who had no better way, decided to transfer troops from Rome City to strengthen the strength of the army left by the personal guards;
Luquis's Fifth Legion, Hartmann's Fourth Legion, and Ba'ans's Third Legion, all of the three Roman legions of Roman heavy infantry were all transferred by Bai Feng, and with the two teams of Roman heavy infantry now recruited, fifty teams of Roman heavy infantry were added to the command of Agis.
The recruitment of troops in the shogunate hall system was much easier and faster than that of the Roman city system, and the fifty teams of iron cannon spearmen under the command of Goto Kiji were not increased, and the fifty teams of Notai sword samurai were increased to one hundred, and the melee strength was more than doubled.
At the same time as transferring the army of the Roman system and the army of the shogunate system, Bai Feng also drew 3,000 elite soldiers from the Predator Legion of Ranocchia to form the fifth infantry wing directly under the pro-guard guard, and assigned this wing to Luculus.
After this transfer and expansion, the number of troops under Aggis rose to 16,100, the number of troops under Goto Kiji to 18,000, and the number of troops under Luculus to 15,000, with only Wink's troops remaining the same.
At this time, the total number of troops to be left in the Hunhe and Dong'e divisions has reached 64,000, and all of them are elite divisions; in the next few years, no matter how the Tianlong Eight Banners develop, it will be difficult for them to have the strength to threaten the troops to be stationed.
After dealing with the matter of staying in the army, the night before Bai Feng led the army back to Mulhouse Province, he first warmly encouraged Dolgon and other banner owners, and then summoned hundreds of banner leaders and assistant leaders one after another, and used various means to entrap them.
Kochili and Kardasu, who had been arranged by Bai Feng to go to the two blue flags, were already the most important and powerful deputy commanders of the two blue flags, and after the two red flags were returned to Alexander and Antico, Kerde and Murcha were placed in the two white flags.
Murcha, whose own strength is roughly equivalent to that of Kochili and Kardasu, easily became the powerful deputy commander in the white flag, and Kold, who was under the key care of Bai Feng and had the strongest strength under his command, directly became the commander of the main white flag second only to the flag owner Solgo!
With the hundreds of real power leaders and assistant leaders led by these four people, it was not easy for Dolgon and the other bannermen to completely master their own banners, and after preparing with both hands, Bai Feng could finally not worry about the Tianlong Eight Banners betraying him, because they didn't have that ability.
After all the interviews were over, it was already midnight, and just as Bai Feng was about to rest, Lukurus, Goto Kiji, Agis, and Wink came to see each other, all four of whom were Bai Feng's confidants, so Bai Feng naturally had no reason not to see them.
"General, tomorrow you will return to the province of Mulhouse with your army, and it is unknown when you will return. After entering the military tent, the four people who had a tacit understanding were represented by Luculus and said: "Before you leave, I ask you to give us the official number of the army!"
"Official number?" Luculus's words surprised Bai Feng a little, because he had never considered the issue of the official number of the combat units under the command of the Pro-Guard, and now that Luculus had already brought it up, Bai Feng could only think about it temporarily.
"In this way, in the future, the Aggis Department and the Goto Keiji Department will be officially called the Roman Battalion and the Shogunate Battalion respectively. "After solving the relatively simple problem of the number of the Aggis Department and the Goto Keiji Department, the problem of the number of the Wenk Department and the Luculus Department is more difficult.
One is a pure far superior unit, and the other is a pure infantry unit, what kind of number is more suitable for these two troops? Bai Feng, who was frowning, suddenly looked up and saw several sets of cotton armor placed on both sides of the military tent, and his eyes lit up and he instantly thought of the best number.
Bai Feng, who thought of the answer because of the Eight Banners, said in a brisk tone: "Wenke, the troops under your command are all far beyond the troops, and in the future, the Shenji Battalion will be the official number;
"General Xie gives you a name!" Luculus and the other four, who chanted in unison, accepted their new names with satisfaction.