Chapter 121: Reorganization

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Regardless of whether or not to capture Tus City in the future, it would not be wrong to continue to strengthen the military strength of his subordinates, so after returning to Canalan, Pan Xiaogu immediately devoted himself to the work of reorganizing the Five Rivers Army - this work was supposed to start more than half a month ago, but it was delayed by the matter of the fish people.

Pan Xiaogu was not a soldier before the crossing, but only mastered some half-understood military knowledge through books, the Internet and games, so when he first built the army, he mainly relied on the help of the Anxi Tang Army to establish the organizational structure of the Five Rivers Army by stealing the Tang Army.

However, at that time, Cheng Yun and others were ordered to keep a hand, and the organizational structure of the new army was quite incomplete when it was established, with only one level of 100 people (capital), and only one captain (capital head) of 100 officers, and all of them were served by the Tang Army of Zhichong Prefecture itself, although Pan Xiaogu added a squad (10 people), platoon (team, 25 people) and battalion (command, 500 people) to the establishment according to his own military knowledge, improved the troop establishment system, and trained an army of 3,000 people. He led this army to defeat many enemies and achieved the prestige of the Five Rivers Army.

However, this is, after all, an imperfect military organizational system, and with the expansion of the scale of the Five Rivers Army, the composition of its members has become more and more complex, and the original organizational structure is no longer sufficient, and it is necessary to readjust and improve the organizational structure of the troops in the light of the combat experience accumulated before. Only by summing up experience at all times and improving its own shortcomings can the Five Rivers Army continue to grow and develop.

At present, the strength of the Five Rivers Army in Persia totals more than 3,200 people in the first batch of expeditionary forces, and more than 1,200 people in the new army led by the first month, and these more than 4,500 people are from the system territory and belong to the backbone of the Five Rivers Army.

In addition, the Five Rivers Army also controlled more than 37,000 troops, which were mainly composed of Persians, Turks and steppe Hu, and the composition was complex. However, later, Pan Xiaogu used a series of means to divide and win over some of the Hu people from the bottom to sincerely join the service, and his combat effectiveness was improved.

In addition, the Five Rivers Army also controlled a group of nearly 50,000 captive troops, most of whom were captured in previous battles and forcibly recruited from occupied cities.

Finally, there are the high-end forces of the Five Rivers Army, with a total of more than 300 strong men, including more than 200 inheritors of the system territory, five guards from the Tang Army, and finally nearly 100 strong prisoners of the Persian Hu people who have surrendered and have not yet surrendered.

It can be said that this is already a big force, even if Pan Xiaogu now runs out and claims to be an army of 100,000, no one can find anything wrong, but unfortunately this 100,000 army is simply a group of rabble, and the truly trustworthy combat power is only less than 10,000 people.

In order to improve combat effectiveness, a major reorganization is imminent!

According to Pan Xiaogu's original reorganization plan, the troops in his hands were divided into three parts: soldiers, auxiliaries and militia, but this trip back unexpectedly got the lord template, with an elite troop establishment, after coming back, he made some adjustments to the reorganization plan, and added an elite army to the original plan.

Among them, the soldiers and auxiliaries are combat troops, and the soldiers are no longer simply formed by the people of the system, but are composed of descendants from the territory of the system and the Hu soldiers who have been screened, have outstanding strength and are sincerely served. The auxiliary soldiers were composed of other soldiers and prisoners who performed well, with the Hu soldiers who served as junior officers, and the veterans of the territorial lineage as middle and senior officers.

The rest were all organized into militia units, commanded by the Hu people, and used as heavy troops and local garrison troops, of course, when these people were used as garrison troops, they were all stationed in different places of origin and ethnic groups, and they would be rotated every once in a while.

The basic establishment of the unit has also been adjusted according to the battlefield experience, with 10 people as a squad and a total of 12 chief and deputy squad leaders, and the infantry is divided into a killer squad for hand-to-hand combat and a shooter squad with a bow and crossbow, and the cavalry has only one kind of hussar squad, with a sentinel and a full range of mounted archery and impact.

In the infantry army, two killer squads and one archer squad form a platoon, with a chief and deputy platoon commander, a flag bearer (pennant) and a herald, a total of 40 people; Three platoons form a company, with a chief and deputy company commander, a flag bearer (square company flag) and two drum and bugle players, a total of 125 people; Three infantry companies plus an independent hussar platoon, an independent all-heavy crossbow shooter platoon, a replatoon, a guard squad, a drum and bugle squad, a flag bearer squad, an ambulance squad, and an elite squad (3~5 people) composed of high-end armed forces form a battalion, with a chief and deputy battalion commander and a staff officer, with a total strength of about 500~550 people.

Each battalion will also be equipped with one or two auxiliary battalions, and the auxiliary battalion is similar to the battalion, except that the weapons are not as sophisticated as the battalion, and there is a supervising team with the elite squad as the core at the battalion level.

After the reorganization, the whole army will establish 16 combat battalions, including 10 mixed infantry battalions and 6 hussar battalions, with a strength of about 9,000 troops. 28 auxiliary battalions, 18 mixed battalions, and 10 cavalry battalions, with a total strength of nearly 20,000 troops; There are 30 militia battalions, all of which are infantry units, with a strength of about 20,000, and the total strength of the whole army has been reduced to about 50,000.

In addition, Pan Xiaogu was also organized into four elite companies, two infantry companies and two cavalry companies, and these four elite companies constituted his guard battalion. The soldiers of the Guards Battalion are all from the territorial descendants, and they are all elites selected from the army.

According to the requirements of the template, the elite army is a little different from other troops, in which each Guards infantry company is composed of four pure killer platoons, each excluding ordinary soldiers, but also five inheritors, the whole company is composed of more than 20 inheritors, with a total strength of about 190 people; The Guards Cavalry Company has two cavalry platoons, organized into more than 10 inheritors, with more than 90 troops, and the total strength of the Guards Battalion is nearly 600 people.

Because the condition of 10% of the inheritor ratio is met, the four guard companies all get a bonus of special attributes, the guards infantry get a gain that increases strength and endurance by 100%, the guards cavalry gets a gain that increases speed and endurance by 100%, plus the guards battalion soldiers are originally elite, and the panel combat effectiveness is not ordinarily high.

After the reorganization, Pan Xiaogu found that the equipment of the whole army was extremely lacking at present, and in addition to the guard battalion and the combat barracks, most of the remaining auxiliary battalions and all the militia units could not even make up the equipment, and could only use repaired damaged old weapons to make up the number, and the situation was not very good.

Of course, the Five Rivers Army is not without advantages, after this round of streamlining, the whole army has basically completed the riding, the whole army has a total of more than 70,000 military horses, as well as more than 10,000 other types of pack animals, the soldiers and auxiliary soldiers can basically achieve one person and two horses, and the mobility ability is relatively strong.

The whole reorganization work lasted for nearly two months before it could be completed, at this time the weather had begun to warm up, and the river had begun to thaw, just when Pan Xiaogu was busy training the troops all day long, and wanted to restore the combat effectiveness of the troops as soon as possible, a Persian envoy from the city of Tus came to his camp.