Chapter XXXI Military System
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Busy, the kingdom of Gilneis, from top to bottom, has already started to get busy.
Among them, Rex has more things to do, and since he has to do something to do with Dalong County, he naturally has to start preparing.
Daron County is located in the southernmost part of the Eastern Plaguelands, and if you want to reach it, you must pass through the Western Plaguelands.
The territory of the Western Plague Land is not as good as that of the Eastern Plague Land, and the Western Plague Land is still the hardest hit area, because he is too close to the main city of Lordaeron, and there is no good place in the West Plague Land, and all the land is necrotic.
Therefore, the kingdom of Gilneth wants to send troops, that is, from the main city of Lordaeron all the way to Talon County.
There will be no place for supplies, and all supplies need to be carried by themselves, which involves another problem, that is, the distance between the main city of Lordaeron and Talon County is too far, and the battle line is too long.
The long battle line naturally gave rise to another problem, that is, the problem of supply.
How many wars throughout the ages have been defeated not because the soldiers were not elite enough, but because the battle line was too long and the supplies were cut off, which caused the collapse of the army, and there are countless examples of such occurrences.
This time, it is natural to worry about this.
A large amount of grain has been hoarded at the beginning, and now it has just been harvested, so there is no need to worry about the problem of food, but the actions of the army in the main city of Lordaeron have not been able to hide from others, nor can they be concealed.
The military zone, although well defended, is not able to be watched by anyone, but elsewhere. I want to put an end to it. That's impossible.
Especially the Kingdom of Gilneys. You are the most powerful kingdom of mankind, and many people are monitoring every move of the Kingdom of Gilneis, and as soon as the news of the movement of the Kingdom of Gilneth for food comes out, the spies of other kingdoms already know that the Kingdom of Gilness is about to move troops.
The main city of Lordaeron. Military District, Garrison of the Knights of the Round Table.
It was a military tent, a standard military tent, with a blanket made of taboo sheepskin spread out on the ground, and a large chair lined up in the center, with seats arranged on the left and right of the chairs.
Rex was now sitting in the center chair, flanked by people on either side.
The Knights of the Round Table, now under the vigorous development of Rex, have become behemoths, and may not be comparable to the Knights of the Silver Hand in their heyday. After all, they have only been on a scale after decades of vigorous development. But now it has surpassed the Knights of the Silver Hand after being hit hard.
This is inevitable, the Knights of the Silver Hand, in the end, is a force supported and developed by the Kingdom of Lordaeron, and it is not a descendant of the Kingdom of Gilneth at all, so that the Knights of the Silver Hand can maintain its current scale is already very good, if the Knights of the Silver Hand want to continue to develop, this is not realistic at all.
"Your Highness? This dispatch will surely wipe out the ogres in the Alterac Mountains," a man in his forties said confidently.
As he spoke, the teeth that were leaking everywhere burst out, and the long beard on his jaw began to shake.
"Who said we're going to send troops to the Alterac Mountains?" Rex looked at the deputy head with an unhappy expression.
The military system of the Kingdom of Gilneth has undergone several reforms and has now become a norm.
Ten people are a small team, with a squad leader, fifty people are a squadron, a squadron leader, one hundred people are a brigade, a large captain, and five hundred people are guards, and a guard captain is set up.
Above the guards is the legions, and each legion has ten guards, a total of 5,000 people, and there are chief and deputy commanders.
The Knights of the Round Table now have a total of twelve legions underneath.
There are about 60,000 people in total, and such a number already accounts for one-third of the army of the Kingdom of Gilneis, no, it should be said that it is half now.
The Kingdom of Gilneth has cut off a lot of troops in the recent period, and with the situation of the Kingdom of Gilneys, it simply cannot support so many troops.
More than 200,000 troops were able to drag down the Kingdom of Gilness, and in the end, with the acquiescence of Rex, King Jean made a large-scale cut, cutting a total of almost seventy or eighty thousand, and even the Knights of the Round Table did not escape this fate, and the Knights of the Round Table, which should have been sixteen legions, became twelve.
This is also the result of Rex's intention, the Knights of the Round Table have twelve Knights of the Round Table, which happens to be the Twelve Legions.
A massive disarmament operation, however, has been going on for some time.
Eliminate the weak ones, choose the strong ones to fill the army, and after cutting, the tens of thousands of troops, but they can't let them return to their hometowns directly, it can be said that the Kingdom of Gilneth has experienced many wars in the recent period, has been expanding the army, receiving the inheritance of the Lordaeron Kingdom, which has accumulated about 200,000 family funds.
This time, a third of them were cut off in one fell swoop, and none of them were recruits who had not been on the battlefield, they were all elites, and their general strength was more than the second order.
Having been on the battlefield and seen blood, if such a unit returns to its hometown, there will naturally be chaos.
If you can't get the kingdom of Gilneth that has calmed down, there will be immediate turmoil, and these soldiers, the most likely will be recruited by those lords, so that their strength will increase greatly, so the final arrangement is to transform them from the central armed forces to the local armed forces.
For example, the old land of Gilneis, where the defense is relatively empty, has always been surrounded by the sea on three sides, there is a bite reef of the storage zĂ i, do not worry about the sea power, other directions are in the hinterland of the current kingdom of Gilneys, so there is not much power to guard.
Some of the people who were directly laid off this time were arranged in the old land of Gilneth and became a security team to maintain law and order.
Cities large and small will be arranged, but most of them will remain.
In the end, most of the remaining ones, Rex also gathered them together, intending to implement a policy of the last ancient generation, Tuntian.
This is a great policy, this is Rex's opinion.
There are many advantages to tuntian, not only can you get food, but you can also prevent these soldiers from being abolished.
In Rex's view, this policy is to transform them into half-peasants and half-soldiers, soldiers in wartime and farmers in idle time.
Rex also chose a place with great pride, just north of Hillsbrad, near the Alterac Mountains.
The Hills Bled Hills is a place of essence, with fertile land and smoke everywhere.
In the past, this place was not in the Lordaeron Continent, naturally it was not a good ranking, but when the East and West Plague Land turned to death, the hills of Hillsbrad jumped up and became the top spear, and it became a grain powerhouse, the granary of the Kingdom of Gilneis.
There is a lot of wasteland here, especially near the Alterac Mountains, because of the chaos in the Alterac Mountains, some thieves and ogres will come out from time to time to rob them, causing the place to be ruined.
Rex arranged them here, and he was also able to count them in one fell swoop, not only to prevent the ogres of the Alterac Mountains from starting to cause chaos in the Hillsbrad Hills, but also to use them as a bridgehead, and when the time was ripe, the Alterac Mountains were leveled in one fell swoop, completely pacified, and became the heart of the Kingdom of Gilneis.
The Alterac Mountains are too close to the main city of Lordaeron, even if they are separated by mountains and there is no way to figure it out, but who can rest assured that the most important thing in this world is portals and all kinds of magic.
In fact, according to Rex's idea, so many armies are not planned to be dismantled, and the future world of Azeroth is not peaceful, there is no war, on the contrary, the future world of Azeroth, the war is more widespread and spreads throughout the world.
Everywhere there is a war that needs an army, but the situation in the world of Azeroth made Rex recognize the reality and reluctantly accept this.
The army system of the world of Azeroth, the army is not directly fed by the royal center.
Every war in this world, the military system is very imperfect, and if you want to fight, it is generally the royal family that announces the order and begins to gather many noble lords, and these noble lords respond to the call of the royal family, and begin to send troops one by one, and finally unify them, this is the army.
This is commonly said to be that the royal family has a responsibility to protect other nobles, but other nobles also have a responsibility to travel to respond to the royal family's call.
You protect him, he helps you fight, it's that simple.
In the past, the Kingdom of Gilneth had more than a million people, and the military armed forces that really belonged to the royal family only had five major legions, with a total of no more than 30,000 people.
But the kingdom of Gilneth was able to pull out an army of more than 100,000, and this is the power of the other nobles.
There are disadvantages and advantages to having the nobles send troops, and the advantage is that the power of the kingdom is not used to feed these armies at all.
You can save a lot of gold coins and use them in other places, but the disadvantage is obvious, the armies of these nobles are uneven, the strength is good, and the strength is good, and they also have armor, but some of the poor strength, the army is said to be an army, it is better to say that it is some farmers, in normal times, they are mainly engaged in agriculture, and when the war comes, they are all forcibly assembled.
The weapons in his hands, not to mention the miscellaneous ones, did not have a complete armor on his body.
I want to say here that the armor is all brought by themselves.
The army that has gathered in chaos is just a rabble, and it is a difficult thing to unify the order.
This kind of situation is naturally not what Lexa wants, so Rex has always been the main army under the direct command of the establishment of the kingdom, and after so many years, it has also achieved initial results. (To be continued......)