Chapter 618 finally reached the division and brigade level
After the cavalry had muskets, their tactics could be much more flexible and changeable, of course, now only the Han cavalry units were equipped, and the Mongolian and Jurchen cavalry units were equipped with cavalry guns until the rear-loading guns were studied.
When the Han cavalry changes its equipment and loads its guns, these alien cavalry will be equipped with front-loading muskets, which is also a strategy, only after the army of Qi enters the era of backloading, the dog-legged men of Qi will be equipped with front-loading muskets.
After Zhang San proposed the musket plan, even if the issue of cavalry passed, 200,000 people were not many, and if everything went well, Zhang San would even increase the number of cavalry, but only if everything went well.
The next topic is the establishment of divisions and brigades, and now that the Qi army has swelled to a certain number, the divisions and brigades can finally be put on the agenda, first after fighting against the Liao cavalry, everyone finally determined that the infantry of 30,000 people can resist the cavalry attack.
However, 5,000 is not enough, and with the increase of land wars, a small-scale war of 5,000 people is no longer the mainstream war that Zhang San will face after Zhang San, and it is not convenient to command, for example, there are now more than 200 regiment-level establishments in Qi State, and 120 or 30 infantry regiment-level soldiers.
As the expansion continues, the number of troops will continue to increase, and it is not realistic for the General Staff to command until the regimental level in terms of distance and time, so from now on, the Ryukyus will merge the troops to the division and brigade level.
A division of five to six regiments, generally between 30,000 and 38,000 people, will be specially equipped with a special artillery regiment, and the firepower will also be strengthened, so that an infantry can basically meet the command needs of a general.
The brigade level is two to three regiments, this level and division are juxtaposed, not two brigades are equal to one division, this kind of brigade is some battlefields or defensive points, one regiment is too little, one division is too much, so there is a brigade as a unit.
The brigade commander is one level lower than the division commander, and after such reorganization, the infantry will be much easier to command in the future, and with the progress of one war after another, the officers have now grown up, so in the future, the General Staff only needs to formulate strategic plans and set goals, and as for how to fight, it all depends on the meaning of the division and brigade commander below.
This has reduced the work pressure of the General Staff Headquarters, and has also given the officers and men below more room to play, which is conducive to the growth of generals; after all, Zhang San does not want to rely on all the people of the General Staff Headquarters, and as a result, these people will immediately become green and yellow when they are old.
And the problem of cavalry has been experienced, that is, the six strongholds on the Mongolian steppe have been tested and found that the cavalry division is best with 10,000 people, because 10,000 people is also the smallest combat unit of a cavalry.
For a long time, the regimental establishment of cavalry is not as much as that of infantry regiments, about 2,000 people for a regiment, so 10,000 people is equivalent to five cavalry regiments.
Therefore, 10,000 cavalry divisions are just right, and the six generals under Zhang San are all sent to Mongolia, you have to give people more room for promotion, no, 10,000 cavalry divisions, then one of the six of them has at least two divisions in their hands.
When the time comes, they can be promoted to be army commanders first, so that when other troops are still wandering around as division commanders, they are already army commanders, and when other generals are still lieutenant generals, they are already generals.
In this way, these generals will not feel that they have been assigned, and when the time comes, it is better to give them an explanation, let them know that although they are more difficult, their military merits are also higher.
The navy also has a corresponding reorganization plan, and the previous detachment law can no longer meet the needs of the new situation, so the navy will undergo a major readjustment, first of all, the navy will be readjusted to nine large fleets.
A fleet in the New World to the east, called the Dongyuan Fleet, was in charge of all areas from the Bering Strait to the southernmost part of the New World, with Jinshan City as its home port and Beihai Province as its north of the North Sea Fleet, mainly in charge of the Jurchen rear and the supply lines of Mongolia, with Beihai City as its home port.
The Zhenwa Island Fleet is mainly in charge of three subject countries, with Zhenwa Island as its home port. The Bohai Fleet uses Dengzhou as its home port to defend Liao, the Yellow Sea Fleet uses Qingdao as its home port, the Tamsui Fleet defends the entire East China Sea, Ryukyu Luzon and other places, and the Zhenhai Fleet defends the entire South China Sea and Borneo with Zhenhai City as its home port.
The South Fleet mainly controls the Oceania region, with Xinye City as its home port, and the West Fleet controls the Indian Ocean with Xinyazhou as its home port.
In short, the naval system has surpassed the army, and now the naval captain is equivalent to the treatment of the army battalion commander, the sub-fleet is the regiment commander, the small fleet is the division commander level, and the nine major fleets are equivalent to nine army commanders.
This is also a matter of no choice, after all, the water area is too large, and the navy must have the corresponding military rank, so the navy is ahead of the army, and after this matter is discussed, it will be announced at the time of King Qi's enthronement ceremony.
When the time comes, dozens of lieutenant generals will be promoted at a time, and there will be an increase in the number of troops under their command, this is the so-called promotion, and with the promotion, the next thing is naturally to talk about making a fortune.
Of course, Zhang San will not engage in any means of distributing money, so he needs to give a fief, why do you have to engage in a fief, this is when the credit is too great, if you don't give enough reward, then you can only kill.
Zhang San is still embarrassed to do the matter of killing heroes, and besides, the world is so big, even if Zhang San is ambitious, he will not see the unity of the earth in his lifetime, so since this is the case, he should let it go.
Originally, Zhang San planned to bring these nobles' fiefs to New Guinea, but then he thought about it, would this preventive surveillance be too obvious? And if you've trapped everyone on the island, will the rest of the world be yours?
Obviously not, rather than this, it is better to be fortunate to be generous, it is better to have the princes and kings to guard the Quartet, the world is so big, it is enough to be far away, even if it becomes independent in the future, it is also the country of the Han people.
Therefore, Zhang San decided to put his own feudal kingdom in some sub-strategic places in the world, so that they can play freely, and maybe they will help him unify the world in the future.
Of course, these fiefs must be outside the absolute national defense circle demarcated by Zhang San, and the so-called absolute national defense circle refers to the land that Zhang San must occupy and cannot lose, so as to warn his descendants that whoever loses these places will step down and get out of my power!
In the east, starting from the first island chain, Zhenhai City, Borneo, Luzon, Ryukyu Island and Ryukyu Islands, Zhenwai Island, Beihai Province, Sakhalin Province, such a maritime spinning line, there are also Goryeo and the northern and southern Japanese kingdoms.
However, Zhang San's lifetime will definitely wipe out these three countries, and then this will be Zhang San's native island chain, as for the East China Sea, the South China Sea, the Yellow Sea, or something, it is Zhang San's inland sea!