Chapter 52: Recruit Detachments and Cantonment Sites
The city of Sophia also has a church of the Holy Wisdom, which is also the origin of its name, but when Emperor Gawain entered the city, he immediately announced that the castle would be renamed back to its original name, the city of Saldicca, to show the revival of the Roman Empire. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
In front of the altar inlaid with frescoes, gold and silver ornaments in the church, the emperor accepted the congratulations of many generals, and Gawain also highly praised the three generals Merlot, Branas and Birrell: "Vesart (Melot) was able to hold on in a roundabout battle this time, Andronicus (Branas) was able to send a surprise attack team in Kastoria, and Birrell was able to hold on to Adrianople, the center of the battle regardless of any situation, and they are all respectable generals." I had lamented the growth of the Chancellor, the Postmaster, and the Governor of the Great Sith (i.e., Giovanni, Ander Odart, and Wright), and now the generals under my command have become more tactically savvy. โ
The Emperor then said that Branas and Merlot would be given the honor of "Conqueror of the Savoyards" and that Biller would be honored as the "Defender of Macedonia", and that all three generals would enjoy a grand triumphal ceremony after entering the imperial capital, and that their names would be engraved on the pillars of the newly built "Triumphal Arch of the Grand Palace".
General Bramsson, who was marked by gold coins, was envious, and he took the initiative to be the vanguard and seize the opportunity of successive victories to march to the battlefield of Durazo and fight the so-called Eastern Crusade group in the West.
The emperor was a little hesitant about this subordinate plan, he paced back and forth around the marble floor of the altar a few times, and asked the generals, "I have been away from the imperial capital for nearly a year, and I have been fighting endlessly, and the triumphal ceremony of several generals is also being planned, do you want to rest the ranks in the winter of this year, and wait for the next year to march to Dulazo?" โ
But the generals' medals and scepters flickered and waved, and they stared at the map tables lined up in front of them, and they pleaded in unison with a loud plea that His Majesty should not "give up halfway while hunting the enemy", and the sound shook the entire altar.
Bramson pointed to the location of the "Za'tar" and then the "Durazo", and raised his eyes to the emperor, "Be sure to take these two coastal points by land before winter comes, for the enemy's fleet is not suitable for sailing and replenishing during this season." โ
The emperor then recognized the high morale of his subordinates, and he joked that he would not be able to return to the palace to reunite with his wife and children this autumn, and that he would recruit them to complain.
The Emperor then swiftly announced the full disposition: the Bulgarian Brigade, the Midgard Brigade, and the Alemanni Brigade, all of which were stationed near the city of Tervono, were to be trained in spear, firearms, and artillery tactics for three months, and then, after the beginning of the following year, under the command of Giovanni, they swept north of Mosa to the boundary of the Donuvius River;
Bramsson, with Lambson as commander-in-chief, commanded the two brigades of Philomelon and Hierapolis, along the valley north of Saldica, to seize the northern area from Niลก to Za'tar in a roundabout way;
General Akro Borites tempered the two brigades of Nika and Opshkin, went to the Kastoria and Thessaly regions, and advanced towards Epirus;
His Majesty the Emperor and I personally led the Three-Wing Brigade and all the cavalry and artillery auxiliaries to the westward along the Egnandia Highway, seized the isolated Fort of Margolon and annihilated Vladimir's army, and then went to "see what the figure of Durazo and my enemy looked like."
As for Berdin, Gawain's strategy is to let him run, and we can follow up, and wherever we go, we will make claims for us.
After the deployment was secured, everyone's emotions were high. In addition, the number of Serbian soldiers captured in the previous battles of Ohrid, Lesvono, and Boyana reached 8,000, and Gawain demanded that all of them be sent to the city of Trvono, and 800 men were selected as prisoners for the triumphal ceremony, and the rest were given to Giovanni and Androdat for execution.
But Anderodat's letter arrived, complaining that he had worked hard to draw up the great tax book, and that he had no room to help your majesty dispose of this group of prisoners, so the postmaster suggested that he should follow the example of the previous dynasty: to divide the Serbs and place them in the Governorate of the Lesser Siss or Samosata, or as miners of the county, or as frontier soldiers of the Governor; Then we can draw more men from the counties and governors of the east, make up for the losses of your Majesty's previous brigades, and be trained in the city of Tervono, with a view to serving on the battlefield in the coming year.
Gawain felt that the post minister's words were reasonable, so he issued a new golden edict in the Saldica barracks, which required that each field brigade in the future should add a new "recruit detachment", which would not go to the battlefield on weekdays, but would be trained in the cantonment area to replenish the attrition casualties of the front-line brigades and regiments in battle at any time.
This policy was first implemented in the Triflank Brigade, but Gawain also specially ordered that the recruit detachment of the Red Hand Brigade be stationed in Gallipoli, and the Defender Brigade would be Wiese, and the Gimagis Brigade would not have to return to Tripoli or Syria, and the garrison would be placed in Tsarsidon across the channel.
In the future, a fixed law will be formed, that is, the elite field brigades will guard around the imperial capital but do not enter the imperial capital, and the cantonment will be the place of food, training and supply. Of the first twelve brigades, apart from these three wings, the rest of Gawain's proposed cantonments were Fort Philip (Nika), Prusa (Firomeroon), Smyrna (Opshkin), Tervono (Midgard), Meisembria (Bulgaria), Macedonian Pera (Hierapolis), and Amphipolis (Alemanni).
In this way, with the exception of the two brigades of Bellerophon and Yefandouni, which continued to defend the eastern territory according to tradition, the remaining ten brigades were all gathered near both sides of the Huangdu Strait, which was the best embodiment of Gawain's policy of "placing the heavy on the heavy and controlling the light": once external or internal strife broke out, the ten brigades could quickly assemble and attack the east (Anatolia, Syria) or the west (the Balkans, Dalmatia), and could quickly suppress the situation.
Of course, in order for this group of brigades to be able to maneuver at the first time, there must be wide and flat roads.
The first to inquire about this matter was Her Majesty Baselisa, who was now the head of the Department of Agriculture, and she made a bold statement at the picture table (Anna was always fond of fantasies until she confirmed the facts) that she would build a road of 30,000 guruli for the whole empire, and then drew straight lines everywhere with a ruler, with the result that some lines were drawn into Lake Skadar, and some lines were drawn into the ravines of Cappadocia......
So after being ridiculed by her husband's letters, Anna was ashamed, and no longer took charge of the matter, but went to the selection of such personnel for the empire's grand plan.