Chapter 384: Restructuring and Expansion of the Great Qin Army
The changes in the situation of the Great Liang Empire were seen by Yun Yi, although there was a big gap in strength between the Bright Sect and the Great Liang Empire, but the Great Liang Empire still had foreign enemies, and it was impossible to do all its best to encircle and suppress the Bright Sect, and with the style of the Bright Sect, it was impossible to be easily encircled and suppressed by the Great Liang Empire, and even after the outbreak of the war, the Bright Church developed more rapidly.
The war on the side of the Great Liang Empire is about to start, and the Great Qin Empire has reached the ninth year of the founding of the country, the impact of the years of war in the Guannai has almost dissipated, and the national strength of the Great Qin Empire is increasing day by day, according to Yunyi's plan, when the Great Qin Empire is established ten years later, it will begin to fight against the outside world, this is Yunyi's plan, and it is also the consensus of the upper echelons of the Great Qin Empire.
No matter which country has great strength, it will not only maintain the current situation, but constantly expand the territory of the country, and the Great Qin Empire is no exception.
Yunyi planned to start an army to fight abroad ten years later, and now it is the ninth year of Kaiyuan, and some preparations should also begin, the most important of which is the restructuring and expansion of the army.
The regular army of the Great Qin Empire had three establishments, infantry divisions, cavalry divisions, and artillery divisions, with an infantry division of about 13,500 men, a cavalry division of about 5,000 men, and an artillery division of about 7,500 men.
At the time of the founding of the Great Qin Empire, Yunyi planned to form 17 infantry divisions, 3 artillery divisions, and 3 cavalry divisions, totaling 270,000 people.
That is, the Qin Empire has a capital city (core area), twelve states, and two major Tianguan, the capital is garrisoned by an infantry division, a cavalry division, and an artillery division, and each of the twelve states is stationed with an infantry division, and the two Tianguan are stationed with two infantry divisions and an artillery division respectively, and two other cavalry divisions, one stationed in Linzhou and one stationed in Hengzhou.
At the end of the fifth year of Kaiyuan, the Great Qin Empire. The army is finally full, but the expansion of the Great Qin Empire does not end there, almost every year, the Great Qin Empire will add a division, as of the ninth year of Kaiyuan, the Great Qin Empire. The army added two infantry divisions, one cavalry division, and one artillery division, making the Great Qin Empire. The total strength of the army reached 310,000.
With only 310,000 troops, it can be said that the Great Qin Empire is the country with the smallest number of troops among all the countries in the land of Shenzhou (excluding the 100 northern countries), even the weakest An and Chu countries, the standing army is more than 350,000, you know, whether it is An or Chu, the total population of the country is only about 10 million, and now the total population of the Great Qin Empire has exceeded 45 million, and it has become the most populous country in the land of Shenzhou again.
310,000 troops is a very small number for a country with a population of 45 million, and the defense is acceptable, but the offense is insufficient.
So Yun Yi decided to go against the Great Qin Empire. The army was expanded, and before the expansion, Yun Yi wanted to attack the Great Qin Empire. The army was restructured.
Great Qin Empire. The restructuring of the army is not to change the establishment of the army, but to change the existing Great Qin Empire. The army was divided into two parts, forming an army and a navy.
Needless to say, the establishment of a navy was imperative, and in the future, steamships must be open to the private sector, and in order to prevent forces with ulterior motives from forming a fleet to do things that violate the laws of the empire, it is necessary to prevent the navy from doing things.
The navy should have special warships, but also have an army belonging to the navy, the navy was initially built, and it did not need to be too large-scale, Yun Yi decided to assign two infantry divisions (mainly stationed on overseas islands) and an artillery division (battleships to fire) to the navy, and the commander of the navy was temporarily served by the right general Yun Qing, because the initial navy was relatively small, so the naval rank was lower than that of the army, and the Great Qin Empire was still dominated by the army.
In addition to the navy, the Great Qin Empire actually has an air force that is not counting the air force, airships, airplanes and other things cannot be manufactured with the industrial strength of the Great Qin Empire, but hot air balloons can still be manufactured, on the battlefield, as long as people take hot air balloons to the sky, and then use telescopes, they can see a long distance and clearly observe the location of the enemy army.
It's just that now the Air Force is inferior to the Navy, and it is far from the time to become an army, unless airships and airplanes are born.
After the army assigned two artillery divisions and one artillery division to the soon-to-be-established navy, there were seventeen infantry divisions, three artillery divisions, and four cavalry divisions left.
Yun Yi plans to form five new infantry divisions, one cavalry division, and one artillery division every year in the future, totaling nearly 80,000 people.
The addition of seven divisions and 80,000 soldiers and horses every year is not much for the Great Qin Empire, which has a huge militia force in addition to the regular army, with a total number of about 1.5 million.
The militia is also the reserve army of the Great Qin Empire, all men who have reached a certain age (mainly peasants) have to set aside two months of military training every year, during the military training period, the Great Qin Empire gives a monthly salary of 20 silver, food and shelter, and the militia dies or is disabled due to injuries during the military training, and is compensated according to the regular soldiers of the Great Qin Empire.
Yunyi will be the Great Qin Empire. After the general restructuring and expansion plan of the army was laid out, the military department Shangshu Shi Mincai, the general Wang Shuo, the hussar general Lin Zhe, the chariot cavalry general Yun Hao, the Wei general Yun Kui, the former general Yun Zhuo, the later general Chang Jichun, the left general Yun Jing, the right general Yun Qing and other high-level military officials were convened for discussion.
After Yun Yi took out the simple plan he had written, all the generals were sure of one thing, in the near future, the Great Qin Empire would go to war with foreign countries, which made it difficult for the generals to calm down for a long time.
As a soldier, he is naturally oriented to the matter of war, year after year, the Great Qin Empire does not have any war, which makes the generals feel bored, and the generals know that there is no way to do it, after all, the previous war in the Guannei has caused all aspects of the Guannai to suffer heavy losses, and after the establishment of the Great Qin Empire, it takes a long time to recuperate, but today the emperor has come up with a plan for army restructuring and expansion, and the generals know that it will not be long before the war comes, and under the strong army, the territory of the Great Qin Empire will expand rapidly.
Yun Yi discussed with the generals, and finally handed over the army restructuring and expansion plan to the generals to complete.
Three days later, the army restructuring and expansion plan was perfected, and it was handed over to Yun Yi for final review. The army was restructured and expanded, and the plan was led by the Ministry of War, with other departments of the Great Qin Empire assisting in handling it.
On one side, the Great Qin Empire. The restructuring of the army is in progress, on the other side, notices were posted outside the recruitment points in various regions of the Great Qin Empire, and the people who saw the notices quickly spread the news, and many adult men who wanted to join the army gathered outside the recruitment points, wanting to join the army and become a member of the soldiers of the Great Qin Empire.