Zhang Xinda's supplies were delivered quickly, and as soon as Li Yongji received the supplies, especially the three new arms that would save his life, he immediately arranged a new plan for the reorganization of the whole army.

In the new reorganization plan, a new type of grass-roots four-four system is adopted, that is, according to a group of four people, four groups of 16 people in a squad, and four squads of 64 people in a platoon.

To the platoon, the soldiers are pure musket infantry, that is, each person is armed with a Sharps rifle, two Colt Navy**, and other standard infantry equipment.

At the company level, there are new changes, a company includes 3 ordinary infantry platoons, a 16-person fire support squad, a 10-person cooking squad, 4 to 8 signal corps, a total of about 220 people, these 220 people are the standard establishment.

Among them, the fire support squad of 16 people is equipped with a total of 4 grenadiers, and the grenadiers are carried by a single person, that is, 4 people are the shooters, and the other 12 are ammunition operators.

Among the members of the fire team, the shooter carried 6 additional high-explosive grenades in addition to the grenadier canister, and the ammunition man carried 12 high-explosive grenades with him, and each person also had two Colt Navy revolvers as self-defense weapons, and were no longer equipped with rifles.

It can be seen from this that this kind of expansion is tantamount to delegating the functions of the original pure infantry company to the platoon level, that is, the platoon level has become the most basic pure establishment, and at the company level, it is already a preliminary mixed unit that has joined fire support.

That is to say, the new 64-man pure infantry platoon is equal to the original 90-man infantry company, the number of which is reduced, and it is easier to arrange training and study.

This is just like the squad collectives of later generations, where a platoon is a squad collective, and study and training are arranged in a unified manner, with basic training as the mainstay, and when it reaches the company level, because it is the most basic mixed unit, it will have to begin further tactical study.

Li Yongji immediately realized the advantages of this kind of expansion of the basic establishment, which could reduce the number of officers at the grassroots level, which was quite advantageous when the overall quality of officers and men was poor, and in addition, the number of grassroots units was larger, and it was more difficult for them to collapse, and the strength of the company was strengthened, and the command was more flexible.

Three infantry companies, plus a logistics platoon, a guard platoon, a communications squad, an artillery platoon, plus orderlies, hygienists, division commanders, etc., form a basic mixed battalion, the number of which is usually about 900 to 1,200 people.

Such a standard infantry battalion would usually have 870 Sharps rifles, 1,800 Colt Navy revolvers, 6 81mm mortars, 500 vehicles of all kinds, mainly ground carts and four-wheeled carriages, and 800 to 1,500 horses.

The infantry battalion strengthened the artillery, but there was no cavalry battalion, and this was due to the fact that the entire main infantry battalion was mounted infantry and did not need cavalry.

Because the so-called cavalry of the Jingwu Army is also a group of mounted infantry, the real cavalry is not so easy to train, so far, the entire Jingwu Army has no troops that can be called cavalry, even if it is Wang Sanwu, who has the best riding skills, it is only better to ride a horse, and it is far from the real cavalry, so this aspect has to find professional people to train in the future.

Li Yongji had already thought about it, and when the reorganization was over, he would invite a few foreigners who really understood cavalry tactics to help him train a real cavalry.

This is the basic framework of the standard battalion, and when necessary, one or two infantry companies can be expanded to form a truly large battalion, which increases the flexibility of the battalion level, that is, at the battalion level, the unit can truly operate independently.

Three infantry battalions, an artillery company equipped with 18 81-mm mortars, a guard company, a sanitary company, a logistics baggage company, plus other auxiliary arms such as signal corps, form an infantry regiment, the number of a regiment is usually about 3,000 people, and the standard infantry regiment is 3,000 people.

Three infantry regiments, plus a separate artillery battalion equipped with Napoleonic guns, plus a reinforced guard battalion armed with 300 56 submachine guns and 100 grenadiers, plus 16 81-mm mortars, plus a baggage battalion, an engineer battalion, a headquarters, etc., formed a division, and the number of a division was about 12,000 men.

At present, the establishment of the entire elite army is a mixed division, and the standard establishment of the whole army is 12,300 people.

Wait a minute, isn't there only 6,000 recruits in total? In addition to the original more than 3,000 people, it is less than 10,000, where are the 12,300 people?

This has to be explained in detail, in fact, the 6,000 recruits recruited by Li Yongji, plus the more than 3,000 veterans who have undergone a certain amount of training before, are all pure soldiers, but in fact, roles such as baggage soldiers, engineers, and horsemen are all composed of recruited people.

That is to say, the 9,000 young people recruited before were pure combat soldiers, and the others were carpenters, masons and other logistics support personnel, these people usually have certain skills, but they are older, and they were not included in the establishment of the Jingwu Army before, but after this reorganization, these people were also included in the establishment of the Jingwu Army, and enjoyed the treatment of ordinary soldiers of the Jingwu Army.

This organization seems complicated, but in fact it is also simple, it is nothing more than two kinds of soldiers, soldiers and auxiliaries.

Subdividing it further, the soldiers are divided into infantry and artillery, and there is a temporary lack of cavalry, but the soldiers will ride horses, all of them are mounted infantry and mounted artillery, and the soldiers are unified under the management of the training department.

The auxiliary troops are a little more complicated, and they are divided into horsemen who specialize in taking care of horses, baggage soldiers who transport ammunition and materials, cooking soldiers, that is, firehead soldiers, and medical soldiers who are responsible for taking care of the wounded.

Above the training department and the logistics support department, there is also a staff department, which is responsible for drawing up the battle plan. In peacetime, the General Staff Department is responsible for coordinating training and study, and in wartime, a general headquarters will be set up to assist the commander-in-chief, that is, Li Yongji, to coordinate operations, and the current chief of the General Staff is Zhang Wei.

It can be seen from this that although the establishment of the elite army is complex, in the final analysis, it is just to pay more attention to details and pay more attention to logistical support, and it is only senior officers who have to spend their brains, as for low-level officers, they only need to listen to orders and lead troops into battle, plus the firepower is strong, so the overall combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of a rough army.

Moreover, in terms of command, thanks to the application of a large number of walkie-talkies and FM relay communication stations, the elite armed forces have been able to directly command down to the platoon level. That is to say, a platoon will have a walkie-talkie, a company will have a relay communication radio, and battalions, regiments, and divisions will also have communication radios. In this way, a clearer command is achieved, such as an arm and a finger.

Not to mention anything else, this communication system alone can increase the overall combat effectiveness by more than 50 percent.

After the large-scale reorganization of the elite armed forces, all the more than 3,000 veterans who had been promoted on the spot were promoted to grass-roots officers at all levels, and then they were trained in the form of training the old with the new and training as a whole. That is, the more than 6,000 recruits will be integrated into the training system of the entire elite army as a whole, and these 6,000 recruits will no longer be trained separately.

Doing so will definitely reduce the coordination and organization of the elite army as a whole, but the advantage is that allowing veterans to lead new recruits can make recruits familiar with basic training items and tactical items more quickly, which is much faster than letting recruits retrain individually.

Because if the recruits were to be trained individually, due to the lack of sufficient teachers, Li Yongji could not ignore the veterans and only manage the recruits, so he could only mix them all.

After the reorganization, in order to familiarize the recruits with the environment and master the basic combat skills, the study of cultural courses was deliberately reduced, and basic training items such as drills, physical fitness and shooting were strengthened.

That's right, it's a horse march, Li Yongji doesn't ask these infantry to become cavalry, as long as he can learn to ride a horse and can make a tactical rapid march, he will be satisfied.

However, the number of horses is still insufficient, after all, although Zhang Xinda said that he had ordered 20,000 horses and several thousand, it was only a reservation, and the delivery he said was only a preliminary delivery with the original horse owner, and the process itself was more complicated. And when Zhang Xinda gets the horses and sends them to Li Yongji, it will take even more time.

Due to the limitation of the tonnage of transmission, although Zhang Xinda bought more than 25,000 horses at a high price early in the morning, most of them still stayed in various pastures in modern times, and after that, Li Yongji first ensured the transmission of weapons and ammunition and other materials, and then began to transmit according to the transmission volume of 200 horses per day, more than 25,000 horses, if they were delivered every day, it would take 125 days and more than four months to complete.

The reason why only 200 horses are transmitted every day is because Zhang Xinda also has to ensure the tonnage of other materials, and cannot transport all the horses, and 200 horses already account for nearly 90 tons of tonnage, which is already nearly ninety percent of Zhang Xinda's current transmission tonnage!

In addition, it is impossible to give Li Yongji more than 25,000 horses at once, and if this is the case, Li Yongji will not be able to bear it, because he does not have enough stables to house the horses, and there are not enough grooms to take care of them.

When Zhang Xinda delivered the new horses, Li Yongji already had nearly 3,000 mules and horses of various kinds, of which 1,200 were Yili horses, accounting for nearly half, and the others were all kinds of local mules and horses.

Different horses actually have slight differences in habits, diet, etc., and Li Yongji can only come little by little, and it is impossible to get a large number of horses to come at once, so he can't bear it at all.

Of course, even if Zhang Xinda's more than 20,000 horses can't be transported all at once, but the Jingwu Army has more than 12,000 people, plus more than 3,000 horses that are increasing every day, such a large group, not to mention anything else, just eating, drinking, and Lazar every day, the grain and grass materials consumed are not the same as in the past, especially those horses, in order to ensure that they don't lose fat, they eat grain, in terms of number, more than 3,000 horses, eat more than more than 10,000 people.

Zhang Xinda no longer provided food because he wanted to ensure military supplies, such as weapons, ammunition and horses, so the food was provided by Changfuji, that is, the Li family's original grain store.

At present, the shopkeeper of Changfu Ji has been fully responsible for Li Yongchang, that is, Li Yongji's eldest brother, after injecting a large amount of funds and collecting the grain shop of the Wang family, Changfu Ji already has eight branches, but the main business at present is to purchase grain and grass, and then provide grain and grass materials to the camp of the Jingwu Army, and by the way, also help search for qualified horsemen and send them to the horse farm of the Jingwu Army to take care of the horses, in other words, Changfu Ji is already a business name dedicated to serving the Jingwu Army.

In short, due to the fact that the Jingwu Army had exterminated the Wang family before, it was already well-known in the vicinity, and then a large number of troops were recruited, coupled with the sound of ping-pong guns all day long, the Yangxinju camp was already a little small, and it was difficult to achieve complete closure like before.

Since it can't be completely closed, the group of the Jingwu Army has also entered the eyes of people with a heart, at least the government has begun to pay attention to this group, but because the Jingwu Army still implements closed training, and outsiders are strictly prohibited from snooping, so the government doesn't know much about the Jingwu Army, and only knows that there are about nearly 10,000 people.

In this way, when Li Yongji reorganized his troops and set off a new round of large-scale military training, by the end of February, the Taiping Army had already completed its coordination and began to take the initiative to attack, and the battlefield shape of the entire southern Jiangsu began to undergo fundamental changes.