Chapter 637: Initiating a Global Army Reform
The other part is the liquidation of illegal armed forces, which have nothing to say, directly carry out armed clearance, and after captivating, these people are thrown into prisoner of war camps one by one, so that they can build roads and mine.
The rectification and eradication of local organized and illegal armed forces is one of the important tasks of the Daheng Imperial Army this year.
In fact, this work has been going on continuously, during the War of Unification, in fact, the empire has already cleaned up the local armed forces and illegal armed forces in the southern states such as Nanhai Prefecture and Dongding Prefecture, and now it is mainly the local and illegal armed forces in the central and northern states.
After the complete reunification, in order to ensure the restoration of people's livelihood and the development of industry and commerce, the comprehensive rectification and eradication of all kinds of chaotic armed forces has entered a higher height, which is enough for Lin Ziran to pay attention to personally.
In addition to this matter, there is another major military affairs that Lin Ziran personally pays attention to and even directly intervenes in, that is, the next step of the reorganization of the Imperial Army.
The purpose of this reorganization is not only to reorganize the surrendered troops, but also to carry out the next step of improvement of the troops in accordance with the experience of the unification war period and the problems that have been exposed, so as to improve the organization and establishment of the troops and enhance the combat effectiveness of the troops!
In addition, another important role is to take this opportunity to adjust the positions of various senior generals!
The performance of the Daheng Imperial Army during the War of Unification is undoubtedly outstanding!
Not only during the Civil War, but it also led to a new round of army reform around the world.
And the last time there was a global army reform was after the Heng Olympic War.
Unfortunately, in the past 50 years, the two large-scale innovations of the armies of the Blue Star countries have been led by the Daheng Imperial Army, and the armies of other countries have followed.
More than 50 years ago, the Daheng Imperial Army took the lead in equipping fire-cap shot-smoothbore guns, and used 115 mm caliber bronze smoothbore field guns on a large scale in field troops, that is, nine-pound field guns.
As a result, infantry artillery coordination tactics have become an essential skill for armies around the world.
However, what is more important is not these, what is more important is that the army of the Daheng Empire used the field mobility advantage and strength advantage of many excellent horses to choose to leave a part of the troops to contain the many strong fortress defenses of the Olisa Empire, and the main force was to bypass the defense line and break into the hinterland of the Olissa Empire.
This strategy has made the war mode of the armies of the Blue Star countries change from a fortress offensive and defensive battle that has lasted for hundreds of years to a mobile combat mode.
This time, in the unification war, the Daheng Imperial Army was the first to be equipped with rear-loading rifled guns on a large scale, and based on these new weapons, new infantry tactics and infantry artillery coordination tactics were formulated.
After the combination of the two, the line infantry line shooting mode was completely abandoned, and the mode of war was greatly changed, making the scope of the deployment of the troops larger, and at the same time putting forward higher requirements for the civil engineering and fortification capabilities of the troops, and also raising higher requirements for logistics and transportation.
More importantly, higher requirements have been put forward for national strength.
Last year, military observers from many countries had witnessed the Battle of Jingshi and were shocked by the powerful attack capability displayed by the Daheng Imperial Army at that time.
At the same time, it is also a headache for the huge attrition of this new type of troops.
Any country, even those great powers, would have a headache when they knew the amount of ammunition consumed by the Imperial Army in many battles of unification wars such as the Battle of Beijing.
In the past, it was already very expensive to fight wars, but I didn't expect those madmen of Daheng people to raise the cost of war to a higher height.
This is not a simple improvement, but an increase of several times.
In the past, a smoothbore field gun to support infantry operations was only a few hundred Hengyuan per gun, and the shell was just an iron lump, which was very cheap.
But now, after those damn Daheng people came up with a rear-loading rifled gun, the price of a 75-mm field gun reached several thousand Heng Yuan, and the price of artillery shells also cost tens of Heng Yuan.
The price of artillery has directly increased more than ten times, and the price of artillery shells has also increased many times, not to mention, and this new artillery has a faster rate of fire and faster consumption, and naturally consumes more running shells during combat.
The sharp increase in the price of weapons and ammunition has put enormous financial pressure on all countries.
You can't do this thing, because the country next door will do it, and if you don't follow up in time, the country will die in minutes.
But this is too expensive, and the cost of equipment alone is a huge amount.
The Daheng Unification War set off a global army revolution, but this was for outsiders, and for the Imperial Army itself, after the unification war, they also recognized more problems and planned to reorganize.
For example, the establishment of corps-level units is too large, which leads to trouble in the command of troops, and it is difficult for army commanders to command various units in a timely and effective manner.
The current army of the Daheng Empire has three infantry divisions, one cavalry division, one heavy artillery regiment, and one garrison regiment under one army, with a total strength of more than 60,000 troops and more than 200 artillery pieces.
This scale is too large, and during the War of Unification, the army top brass was actually aware of this problem, and during the Battle of Jingshi and the subsequent Battle of Pingnanzhou, relative changes were already made.
At that time, Liang Chenglei used the cavalry divisions of the various armies under his command in a centralized manner, and used the temporary cavalry corps for independent operations, making each army a simple infantry army.
At the same time, the artillery regiments attached to the corps were compressed, leaving only one 150-mm howitzer battalion for each army, and the remaining two artillery battalions were concentrated in the corps artillery group for command.
In short, to reduce the size of the army.
However, the problem is not only in the army, but also in division-level troops, brigades, regiments, battalions, and even company-level units.
For example, the problem of insufficient firepower of the infantry company.
At present, an infantry company of the Imperial Army has only about 150 people, and although it is equipped with rear-loading rifled rifles, many generals of the army believe that the strength of the first-line infantry company is still too weak.
In the later stages of the Unification War, that is, in the Jingzhou Campaign and subsequent battles, front-line officers often delegated the heavy machine guns and 60-millimeter fire mortar guns belonging to the battalions to the infantry companies responsible for the main offensive tasks, so as to directly strengthen the infantry company's firepower.
As a result, many infantry companies in actual combat had an actual strength of more than 200 men, with heavy machine guns and rapid-fire mortar firepower.
After the reunification is now over, the army strongly recommends that heavy machine guns and 60-mm rapid-fire mortars be attached to the company.
At the same time, the army also hopes to set up heavy machine guns and rapid-fire mortar firepower directly under the battalion headquarters and regimental headquarters respectively.
At the same time, the army is counting on further strengthening the size of the artillery.
If you really want to do it according to the requirements of the army, the imperial finances will go bankrupt in minutes!
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