Chapter 336: Reorganization and Reorganization of the Army
During this time, Li Guo's ambition was doubled by numerous innovations, and his strong ideological work made Li Guo even more powerful.
Li Guo's political work had already started as early as when he was in Xikou, and it was in charge of Sun Dengkelai.
Sun Dengke is now also in charge of propaganda work, and his first priority is to extremely publicize that Li Guo is a white tiger descending to earth and is here to sweep up injustice. made all Li Guo's subordinates feel that without Li Guo, there would be no qiē, after all, it seems that Li Guo is the mandate of heaven.
But this alone is not enough, like the grievance meeting initiated in Xikou, it has not been abandoned, and most of the soldiers under Li Guo are from bitter backgrounds, and the effect of this grievance meeting is also good.
However, with the increase in Li Guo's strength now, at least, Li Guo's soldiers can eat well, and as a real elite soldier, they can also have salaries, which is very good. But the grievance meeting will be held, and the general's meeting will also be held.
What is the General Commander's Club? In fact, to put it simply, it is a dream meeting. It is emphasized that the soldiers who kill the enemy bravely will have a good end in the future, not only have the opportunity to be a colonel, but also maybe a general, worship the marshal, and maybe the marquis!
But that's not enough. As the army grew, Li Guo was determined to restructure the army so that he could better control it.
Therefore, Li Guo brought in Sun Dengke, who was in charge of propaganda, for the purpose of establishing a political training base and cultivating political workers.
Political work refers to political and ideological work, and political workers will be put into various departments of the army, and they will become an independent system. These people will be in the same rank of leaders or generals, but they will be under the jurisdiction of Li Guo's political work department.
Their most important function is to propagate Li Guo to pacify the world. Let everyone enjoy a happy life and the dream of building a great empire!
These people will be responsible for the lives of the soldiers. Control the minds of the soldiers, and they must be loyal to Li Guo. They want to brainwash the soldiers all the time!
Li Guo found that in this era, the generals who held the military power had too much power, so Li Guo wanted to disperse the power. With the rapid development of firearms, Li Guo felt that it was time to do so.
After comparison, Li Guo found that the military structures of ancient times and modern times were very different. In ancient times, the army was the leader of the general, and the general was in control of the army. This is also in all dynasties, when the emperor is quite jealous of those generals who hold military power.
And the command of the modern army has been relatively decentralized. The first commander of the army is the commander, and the second in command is the commissar, but the positions of the two are the same. Just one is in charge of the military, and the other is in charge of political work. Moreover, this concept of military administration has been arranged to the company as a unit, and there are instructors in the company, so it is easy for people with dissenting intentions to be discovered, and it is easy to detect any abnormal movements in the troops.
Now there is no problem with Li Guo's army, and all the generals of the army are brothers in life and death who follow Li Guo.
But what about the expansion of the army? What if it goes overseas? What if it hits Europe? Until then. Is Li Guo still able to control zhì?
Besides, when Li Guo's son Li Taiping ascends to the throne in the future, will he be able to control it? Like Genghis Khan, after his death. The real Mongol Khanate only refers to China and Mongolia in the original time and space, and the expeditionary territories of Genghis Khan's other sons were not inherited in the end. This is a very strict question.
Therefore, the restructuring of the armed forces brooks no delay. Other changes will have to wait.
So, for more than a year. In addition to R&D technology, Li Guo built or reorganized two schools.
The first is the political work school, the principal is naturally Li Guo, and the political workers are all students of Li Guo. Of course, the specific things are still operated by Vice Principal Sun Dengke.
Because of the urgency to employ personnel, the political work school immediately transferred 3,000 people from the army to serve as students. Every day, in addition to normal military training, these people had to listen to the lectures of Sun Dengke and others, and Li Guo also gave speeches at school from time to time. It is all about lofty ideals, for the sake of all the descendants of China, for the people of the world, and to struggle!
Regardless of whether you understand it or not, anyway, these people will line up after class and shout slogans, long live the tiger master, save all mankind! Anyway, they were completely brainwashed.
In addition, the original military academies have also become independent, and all military teaching materials have undergone great changes. The original Qi Jiguang's tactics taught by Qi Laohan were not eliminated, but were used as a reserved subject. And the most advanced firearms tactics were incorporated into the lecture hall.
Li Guo, who was the president of a military academy, transferred Liu Tichun as the first vice president to be responsible for explaining the new tactics. Liu Tichun is a person whom Li Guo trusts very much, and he knows Li Guo's firearms development and Li Guo's ideas very well, so he is the most suitable to come.
The newly manufactured Tiger Gun and Tiger Cannon are subjects that the trainees must be able to operate proficiently. This is also true for the students of the School of Political Engineering.
A year later, the cadets of the Political Engineering College and the Military Academy graduated, and the restructuring of the army officially began.
The formation of corps, divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, companies, platoons, and squads was proposed for the first time and began to be realized.
This was due to the invention of the Tiger Gun and the Tiger Cannon, and Li Guo invested huge material and financial resources in these two weapons, and the number of people who made guns and cannons exceeded 50,000. Within a year, 10,000 guns, 100 cannons, and a large amount of ammunition were built.
Hundreds of blasting bomb trebuchets were also built.
Li Guo threw all this equipment into his own army, and he now reorganized two armies, but both were infantry.
Each corps is 20,000 men, with a 5,600-man direct subordinate team, and the rest is divided into three independent divisions.
An independent division is 4,800 men, under the command of 1,200 people directly under the team, the rest is divided into 3 regiments.
One regiment is 1,200 people, under the jurisdiction of 300 directly subordinate teams, the rest is divided into 3 battalions.
A battalion of 300 people, without a direct team, is directly divided into 3 companies, and the battalion commander is also the company commander of the first company.
Each company has 100 people and is divided into 5 squads, and the company commander is also the squad leader of the first squad.
There are 20 students per class.
Tiger guns were equipped with 1,000 guns for the corps and three divisions, 4,000 for one corps and 8,000 for two corps. The rest of the soldiers were a mix of flintlock pistols, arquebuses, and cold weapons, and then reconfigured when they could.
100 Tiger guns were allocated to the Naval Division, and only 100 to the Army. Therefore, each army had only 50 Tiger guns, which were allocated to the units directly under the army.
Because the explosive bomb trebuchet is a detachable assembly with the same specifications, it is simple and convenient, and each company has a special squad to carry 10 trebuchets.
From the unit directly under the army to each squad, they are equipped with rubber wheels according to their own needs, carrying cannons, ammunition or equipment.
Li Guo also formed a fast column, cavalry! A total of 10,000 people, each with two horses. Of the 10,000 Tiger guns, 2,000 remaining, were distributed to the fast columns. The rest of the 8,000 cavalry had 2,000 people who used three-eyed muskets, which were also easy to fire because of the invention of matches. The rest were two thousand sabers, two thousand archers, and two thousand macemen.
This is Li Guo's most elite army now. (To be continued......)