Xiao Yungui's gaze turned from Zhou Xiuying and Mu Yinghong, the two female generals, who sat beside them on the leaders of the Little Knife Society who were rescued from Xiamen. Pan Qiliang, Chen Alin, Huang Wei, Huang Demei and others are all the heads of the Little Knife Society, and Liu Lichuan has left the army because he served in the Ningbo Military and Political Department, so he did not come to study in the martial arts school.

Regarding this rotation and reorganization of the West Palace, Xiao Yungui started early in the morning, and after fighting all the way from Changsha to Sufu Province, the soldiers and horses of the West Hall expanded uncontrollably, and the composition became more and more complicated.

From the beginning of the Guangxi wolf soldiers to the Xianghu soldiers, from the Huguang soldiers to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang soldiers, the current Xidian soldiers and horses have quietly changed, Guangxi veterans have almost all been promoted, and the grassroots soldiers below have become soldiers in Hunan, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other places.

The composition of the soldiers is also more complicated, there are homeless people, peasants, gang people, rebel army, and Qing army surrender.

I have been fighting before, and the newly recruited soldiers or newly attached soldiers, the West Hall is reorganized according to the establishment of the Taiping Army, instilling the military regulations of the Taiping Army, and then pulling them out to fight.

In this case, the army that pulls up is okay when fighting a tailwind battle, and once it encounters a tough opponent, it is impossible to say what will go wrong. In addition to the Qing army is constantly learning to fight after the war, the large expansion of the Taiping army in the West Temple is also a reason for the decline in the combat effectiveness of the army.

Therefore, Xiao Yungui had already made up his mind to reorganize all the armies of the West Hall when he conquered Shanghai.

The term reorganization is commonly used in the military, and generally refers to the fact that the unit has suffered heavy casualties and needs to go down to replenish the troops, reorganize and train to restore the unit. But in general. Because after the reorganization of the troops, there are more new recruits, and the recruits have not seen blood, and the combat effectiveness of this unit will plummet.

But there are exceptions, such as Taizu's reorganization of Sanwan in history, when there were 1,000 people left in this army, and the troop structure was chaotic, the ideology was confused, and the military spirit was shaken, so Taizu carried out the reorganization of Sanwan, reduced the number of troops, and reduced the troops to regimental levels. Then a party branch was established in the army, and the process of building the army under the party's command gun began.

The reorganization of the West Hall this time is different, and the soldiers and horses of the West Hall are not reorganized because of attrition. Xiao Yungui's reason for reorganization is 16 words, to remove the chaff and retain the essence, reorganize the organization, eliminate gangs, and learn new tactics.

The first point is to go to the turnip and keep the essence is the key, and the soldiers and horses in the west hall are mixed at this time. The composition of the troops is complex, and the ratio of recruits and veterans is unreasonable. A mix of weak and strong soldiers. The old and weak soldiers need to be eliminated, and the thinking of the soldiers needs to be rectified.

The second point is to reorganize the establishment, since Xiao Yungui began to lead the Taiping Army to fight everywhere, he has always felt that the establishment of the Taiping Army is becoming more and more unsuitable for the current war needs. Take the first army as an example, with its organization and establishment, five people are in force, and the commander of the army is in charge of charging, breaking the enemy, winning, and winning four soldiers; Five for two. The two Sima Guan are strong, brave, majestic, resolute, and mighty, with 25 people; Four taels are pawns, and the chief of the pawns is in charge of the east, west, south, and north four Sima, 104 people; Five pawns are brigades. Brigade commander Guan 1, 2, 3, 4, Wu 5 soldiers, 525 people; The five brigades are divisions, and the division commanders are in charge of the front battalion, rear battalion, right battalion, left battalion, and middle battalion, with 2,625 people (it should be 2,630 people), and the five divisions are the army, and the army commander is in charge of the front battalion, rear battalion, left battalion, right battalion, and middle battalion, with 13,125 people (it should be 13,155 people). Above the military commander, there are the superintendent of the army, the general system, the general, the commander, the inspector, the prime minister, and even the military commander moderation.

This establishment is formulated in accordance with the military establishment of the "Zhou Li", but the era in which the "Zhou Li" is located is the era of cold weapons thousands of years ago, and now whether it is the Taiping Army or the Qing Army, it is already an army with a mixture of hot and cold weapons, and this establishment has obviously not kept up with the pace of changes of the times.

The era of cold weapons requires the army to give full play to its manpower advantage as much as possible, which means that the width of your formation should be as wide as possible than that of the enemy, suppressing the enemy's two flanks, and it is easier to achieve victory by hand-to-hand combat against the enemy's Chinese army from three directions. Of course, there are also adventurers who like to go straight to the Chinese army, and the Mongolian army often likes to cut through the enemy's Chinese army, but not any cold-weapon army has the strong combat effectiveness of the Mongolian cavalry.

At the same time, in the era of the existence of "Zhou Li", the land of China was still slavery, and the army would be supplemented by a large number of cannon fodder slave soldiers to take the lead and consume the opponent's physical strength, while the regular army was acting in the back. The military establishment of the "Zhou Li" is the establishment used by the regular army, and the regular army only begins to go out after the slave soldiers and the enemy are consumed.

Moreover, the types of weapons in the era of cold weapons are also a reason for how to compile, in ancient times, long soldiers were guarded, short soldiers were guarded, and arrows and shields were stationed in battle. Therefore, the military establishment in the era of cold weapons is more suitable for cold weapons to give full play to manpower.

However, the Taiping Army is currently using a mixture of hot and cold weapons, and the scale of operations is getting larger and larger, and the Zhou Li military system used by the Taiping Army is no longer suitable for this kind of combat needs. There are more than 10,000 people in a corps of the Taiping Army, and more than 2,600 people in a division under its command, and when fighting, it is more important for a tactical party to use a tactical unit, while the strength of an army of the Taiping Army is suddenly reduced to more than 2,000 people at the next level. The reason for this problem existed in the subsequent levels of establishment was that the Taiping Army was established in 55 years, with five pawns as brigades, five brigades as divisions, and five divisions as armies.

In Xiao Yungui's view, since the Taiping Army is in the process of transitioning to a hot-weapon army, this reorganization needs to be changed together with the establishment of the army, and changed to a three-three system that is more suitable for the needs of hot-weapon warfare.

The "three-three system" of the military system originated from the conclusion drawn by the British general Sir Hamilton based on the history of military organization. He believed that the grass-roots army should be managed by between three and six people, three of whom would keep one officer quite busy, and six of whom might have to work ten hours a day. "The closer we get to the supreme commander of the whole organization, the more we should work in groups of three," he argued, "and the closer we get to the grassroots (infantry) of the whole organization, the more we should work in groups of six." His theory had a great influence, and the British military system was organized according to the "three-three system." Subsequently, the Soviet Union and other countries adopted this system.

The three-three system was widely used in the early days of the rise of the thermal weapons army, and another important problem was the problem of battlefield communications. Cold weapons are to listen to the sound of drums, watch the flag as an army, and listen to the trumpet cannon as an order, and some simple commands can be ordered by the soldiers. The hot weapon army is different, just like a simple queue of shots requires the soldiers of the entire front to move in unison and carry forward their firepower. Therefore, in a hot weapon war, one officer commands several soldiers so that he will not make mistakes in his busyness? Sir Hamilton has found the answer.

Of course, the three-three system is no longer applicable in modern times, because the means of communication in modern warfare have changed, and the communication equipment of each individual soldier is very good, and one officer can command more soldiers, so the establishment of the modern army tends to be more flexible.

Third, the elimination of gangs is a very important reason for Xiao Yungui's reorganization, on the surface, it is to eliminate the gangs in the army, but in fact, Xiao Yungui wants to break the status quo of the soldiers in the Taiping Army. Just like Li Xiucheng's department, Lin Qirong's department, Lin Fengxiang's department, etc., their subordinates will become more and more cronies of the generals of various departments, and Xiao Yungui does not want to see the situation that he cannot command the army in the future. Therefore, he must break this situation and firmly hold the army in his own hands.

Although Li Xiucheng, Lin Qirong, and Lin Fengxiang are all loyal to themselves, aren't the loyal kings in history often disobedient to the generals of Tianjing? Xiao Yungui needs to break up the original pattern by reorganizing the troops, and the generals of the Taiping Army in the West Hall will be rotated in the future.

At the same time, there are indeed many gangs in the army now, what heaven and earth society, what knife society, what Xiamen Volunteer Army, what Qingpu Volunteer Army, soldiers like to gang up according to the original gangs. Xiao Yungui can't tolerate these old gangs shili infiltrating his army, and reorganization is the most haode method.

Then there are several changes in the military system, one of which is the change of the warden system, in the future, the military warden will be officially renamed as instructors, in addition to teaching soldiers to read, their most important role is to grasp the soldiers' minds, often brainwash the soldiers. The instructors will be trained separately by the Political Department of the Martial Arts Academy, and the director of the Political Department is Wang Minyun, which is also an important move by Xiao Yungui, who does not want the army to command the government, but the government to command the army.

The second is the reform of the staff officer system and the logistics system; in the past, generals had to plan for war and manage logistics as soon as they grabbed their eyebrows and mustaches, and they were not only very tired, but also made mistakes if they were not careful. The introduction of the staff officer system and the logistics system has solved this problem very well, and the operational staff officer should be responsible for formulating the march, mapping, stationing, tactics, etc., and provide them to the generals' reference, greatly reducing the burden on the generals, and at the same time, the large number of people will also avoid the mistakes of a single person who is not thoughtful. The logistics system means that the supply and demand of the army are completely not controlled by the generals of the first army, but are completely controlled by the logistics department, and the generals no longer have to worry about ordnance money and food, and the logistics department will arrange everything.

In this way, the role of a general in an army will be further weakened, and it will also ensure that if an accident occurs to a general of an army, the whole army will not be chaotic, and the staff and adjutant will continue to operate and lead the troops well. At the same time, this also made Xiao Yungui's idea of holding on to the army more solid.

Zuihou's new tactics are to retrain officers at all levels and grassroots soldiers through reorganization, so as to become familiar with and master the combat methods of all-hot weapons.

This reorganization of Xiao Yungui and the top and bottom of the Xiwang Mansion, and the generals at all levels in the army have been jihua for a long time, although there are solutions to all possible situations, but after all, the army is the lifeblood of Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er, so the reform of the army is not like the reform of the New Deal, Xiao Yungui must personally sit in charge. (To be continued......)