"Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Adjustment of the Army, Part I"
A person's interest in the outside world is something that needs to be cultivated and practiced.
– Alfred Adler (Austrian psychologist)
It took about five days for the 30,000 Nice city defense troops to travel from Nice County to Kogolin, and the 50,000 Imperial reinforcements were transferred directly from the 150,000 Imperial reinforcements stationed in Kogorin County to Bai Feng, which was barely a kind of compensation from the Duke of Gna to Bai Feng.
Among the four armies that withdrew from Sunset Fortress, Bai Feng's army was undoubtedly the most intact in terms of strength, the most dazzling and the most outstanding in feats, but when it came time to allocate additional troops, the other three armies with heavier losses were more replenished.
This relatively unfair arrangement was actually the most rational way of distribution: the Fourth Route Army, which suffered fewer losses, received fewer replenishments, and the other Third Route Armies, which suffered greater losses, received more reinforcements.
However, it is one thing to be fair or unfair, and it is another thing to be unfair or unfair; for the officers and men of the Fourth Route Army, they have made the greatest contributions, but they have not received the praise and treatment they deserve, and this in itself is unfair and unreasonable.
Therefore, while the other three armies were waiting for reinforcements, the Fourth Route Army gave priority to 50,000 imperial reinforcements, and as the supreme commander, Duke Gna, he gave Bai Feng not only priority replenishment, but also the power to increase the establishment of the army under his command.
This meant that the commanders of the other three armies had to follow the original establishment of these legions when replenishing reinforcements to the legions under their command, while Bai Feng could make appropriate adjustments to the legions under his command according to his own wishes.
The Fourth Route Army, which is fully staffed with 145,000 soldiers, will have a total strength of more than 200,000 troops after receiving 80,000 additional troops; with the current number of corps of the Fourth Route Army, in order to obtain a rational establishment of such a large number of soldiers, it is necessary to build new regiments or expand the number of regiments.
The new legion needs to be approved by the emperor's ** department, otherwise it is a private legion; the crime of a private legion can be big or small, if no one cares, it is not the same thing at all, if someone uses the topic to play, it is enough to make the executor fall into a situation from which he will never recover.
Bai Feng's idea was to expand the establishment of the 39th Army Corps and the 40th Army Corps to 20,000, and reduce the establishment of the Reserve Corps to 20,000, and then apply to the Imperial Department for the number of the three new legions, and the official number of the reserve legion.
Duke Gna came forward to apply, and the number of the four legions was not a difficult thing for the emperor's ** department; the empire in the two-front war, the destruction and new construction of the legion was the most common thing, and no one would care about the number of the four legions.
Whether it was the troubled Charlemagne or the anxious Minister of War, the Duke of Cullen, they focused on the exact number of the front-line armies, rather than the number of the front-line army, which had long since become less important.
In the past, when judging the strength of the garrison, the imperial army only needed to know how many corps there were to know the total strength of the army; now almost all the corps have been disabled to varying degrees, and the number of numbers can no longer represent the number of troops, and its importance has been greatly weakened.
After Duke Gna personally promised to do this, Bai Feng directly began to build three new legions in his Fourth Route Army: Asassis of the Seventh Wing, Athos of the Assault Wing, and Upadama of the Reserve Force, and Bai Feng was appointed as the commander of these three legions.
At the same time, the lieutenant generals of the reserve corps, Bonella and Carol, were transferred by Bai Feng, not only them, but also some core generals of the Seventh Wing, the Assault Wing, and the Reserve Force, all of whom were drawn out of their original troops by Bai Feng.
Once Bai Feng successfully obtained the number of the four legions of the Emperor's ** Department, the number of standing legions under the Fourth Route Army will reach six; among them, three legions will be led by three of the five iron-blooded tiger generals, and three legions will be headed by self-growing system generals.
In this way, the strength of the city defense army in the Fourth Route Army and the strength of Bai Feng's lineage will reach a delicate balance; even if Bai Feng knows that the Marquis of Longdstead will not compete with him for power, the encirclement of the generals of the city defense army is still what Bai Feng must do.
Of the 225,000 soldiers of the Fourth Route Army, these six standing legions accounted for 120,000, and the remaining 125,000 soldiers were occupied by battle clusters, 50,000 by the Agni Legion, and another 25,000 were arranged by Bai Feng himself.
For the sake of the purity of the battle cluster, Ranocchia's Predator Guard was drawn from the battle cluster by Bai Feng and existed as an independent combat unit, and in order not to reduce the size of the battle cluster, the seventh wing and reserve force were further expanded.
The Seventh Wing, which originally had only 12,000 men, was directly expanded to a full strength of 18,000 men, and the reserve force was expanded to a full strength of 16,000 men.
The last remaining 15,000 soldiers were temporarily left by Bai Feng in the personal guards, because the army outside the northern part of the empire was very lacking in cavalry strength, so Bai Feng planned to take the opportunity to rest and recuperate to form a cavalry unit in his Fourth Route Army.
Forming a cavalry is not a matter of a day or two, just the problem of the war horses required is enough to give Bai Feng a headache; after sending the seeds of the cavalry into the personal guards, Bai Feng gathered all the generals under his command at the rank of wing commander and above into his military tent.
The captains of the various units of the battle cluster are basically equivalent to the wing commanders of the standing corps, and they are also the targets of Bai Feng's convocation; this is a military meeting that will decide the future of the Fourth Route Army, and it is also an important meeting for Bai Feng to further control the more than 200,000 troops!
After the generals led by the iron-blooded five tiger generals and the six generals of the system all walked into the military tent, the huge military tent seemed a little crowded, but fortunately, Bai Feng's prestige was high enough, and the military tent was quiet enough, so that his not high-pitched voice could reach the ears of every general.
"After the three new legions, the number of legions of our Fourth Route Army will reach eight, in addition to the Fire Legion and the Battle Cluster, as well as the Iron Guard, I intend to set up a new division level under the other six legions, what do you six legion commanders think?"
"Obey the general's orders!" the six generals, led by D'Ambrosio and Asassis, immediately lined up and said in unison.
"Okay!" Bai Feng, who bowed his head slightly, ordered in a condensed voice: "Bonella and Huade, the two of you will serve as the division commander of the 39th Army Corps, and the commander of the 1st Division, Bonella, will also serve as the deputy general of the 39th Army Corps!"
"Swear allegiance to the general!" the two of them responded with excitement and high spirits. This military meeting, which only Bai Feng's descendants and the generals of the city defense army could attend, made their words unscrupulous, and Bai Feng did not say anything to stop them.
"Carol, Sandy, the two of you are the division commanders of the 40th Legion, the adjutant general of the legion, Carol!"
"Swear allegiance to the general!" With Bonella and Ward's statements in front, Carol and Sandy naturally will not be willing to fall behind.
"Darren and Tracy, the two of you will each serve as the division commanders of the reserve corps, and the deputy general of the legion, Darren!"
"Swear allegiance to the general!"
"Lennon and McGovern, the two of you will serve as the division commander of the First Reserve Corps, and the deputy general of the corps, Lennon!"
"Swear allegiance to the general!"
"Remy and Nishizawa, the two of you will serve as the division commander of the Second Reserve Corps, and the deputy general of the legion, Remy!"
"Swear allegiance to the general!"
"Antonelli and Morris, the two of you will each serve as the division commander of the Third Reserve Corps, and the corps deputy general Antonelli!"
"Swear allegiance to the general!"
The appointment of the commanders of the twelve divisions made the atmosphere in the military tent extremely warm, and for these commoners and generals of low noble origin, this leap in the promotion of officers to knighthood was enough to make them pay their most precious loyalty!