Chapter 493: Rearrangement of the military system

Lorist decided to reform the military system of the family armed forces again. The www.biquge.info learned the lessons of the Hansk governor's family strife, and this military reform involves two main aspects: first, the complete separation of the military and the government, and the complete separation of the administrative system from the family armed forces.

At present, the only forces of the Norton family that can really achieve the separation of military and political affairs are the three major armies and the North Sea Fleet, and no one can command without Lorlist's order. The rest of the Guards Regiment, the Garrison Battalion, and the Garrison could be commanded by anyone, and even the Speer Chief, who was in charge of the family's finances, could dispatch one or two Guards battalions at any time to transfer the regiments under his command.

This is also one of the reasons why the 1st Guards Regiment is easily controlled by the Hansk Governor and his accomplices, after all, the soldiers of the Guards Regiment are all young and strong prisoners who are recruited from the family, and they belong to the family's strategy of turning the enemy into their own use, and they are also responsible for the maintenance of stability in the garrison and responsible for logistics support, and they are somewhat entangled with the local administrative departments in command and management.

As long as you say hello to the upper echelons of the legion, it is a matter of course to send a few guard battalions to obey the orders of the family's civilian officials, and it is all for the family's business anyway. Just like when the governor of Hansk asked to suppress the rebellion of the mountain barbarian captives, the director of Speer asked to send the guard battalion to escort the family's belongings, and Shi Fatzi sent the Knights of the Angry Bear to garrison Makinohara Province, and so on.

Lorist plans to set up a military aircraft department that specializes in handling the affairs of the family's armed forces, whether it is the replacement of armaments and weapons, or the supply of logistics, as well as the recruitment of family soldiers, or the payment of salaries and benefits, as well as the distribution and dispatch of troops in the field, all of which are responsible for this department. As for the deployment of troops and operational staff in wartime, this is not to mention.

It's just that Lorist hasn't figured out what to name this department, and it feels awkward to call the Military Aircraft Department, the Military Affairs Department, the General Staff Department, and the Ministry of National Defense. Lorist thought about it for a long time and couldn't come up with a good name, so he had to put it aside first. It's a big deal, and then let's think about what to call it.

As for the prefect in charge of all the affairs of the family's armed forces, Lorist has two candidates in mind, one is Bodefinger and the other is Malek. In a sense, to be the head of this department is to become the boss of almost all the knights in the family, and to be the veritable first knight of the Norton family. It's a bit of a glorious location.

Like Shi Fatzi, although he is known as the chief knight of the Norton family, everyone knows that this chief knight does not take the cultivation of force and fighting spirit as the standard. On the contrary, Shi Fatzi won this honor with his outstanding administrative and overall management skills. Among all the golden knights of the Norton family, Shi Fatzi ranked last in the force value with his golden one-star fighting spirit rank and inferior swordsmanship, even if he had a great swordsman's grandfather, it was in vain.

If you judge the level of force by the value of force, Tiger Ross is definitely the first among the family knights, just like Lorist gave him the name of Tiger, and there is no one else who is best at attacking except him. Whether it is a personal duel or the Flying Tiger Legion he leads, the only battle plan against the enemy is to attack, and keep attacking until the enemy is defeated. Now that Tiger Ross's Fighting Qi cultivation is already at the peak of the Golden Three Stars, as long as he can find an opportunity, it is not an accident to be promoted to the Great Sword Master.

But Lorist was worried that Tiger Rose's personality was not very likable, and he was arrogant, except for Lorist and a few friends in the family, he didn't take other family knights in his eyes, even Shi Fatzi didn't take his eyes. In addition, good wine and lust are also a major disadvantage of Tiger Ross, and at the same time, the last time he did not listen to the order and led his troops to fight the business alliance without permission is also the main reason why Tiger Rose cannot get closer to his position in the family.

Lorist worries that it will be difficult to convince the public by appointing Tiger Ross in charge of all affairs of the family's armed forces, and that it will be difficult for Tiger Rose to get used to sitting in the new department of the family to handle the trivial and complicated daily administrative affairs. So Lorist quickly ruled out the Tigers as a candidate.

In addition to the attacking Tiger Ross, the only one who can sit in charge is the defensive Boderfinger, who is the only family knight in the family who can be compared to Tiger Rose, and he is also the opponent that Tiger Rose openly declares that he does not want to fight. For no other reason, Bodfinger's swordsmanship is really specialized in defense, although he can't defeat Tiger Rose, but he can drag Tiger Rose helplessly with his defense, and finally has to give up the duel.

What kind of legion commander can leave what kind of style to the legion he leads, compared to the Flying Tiger Legion, which is good at capturing fighters and plundering like fire, attacking wave after wave until it crushes the enemy, the Rock Legion is also known for its good defense. Especially in the face of the crazy attack of the 300,000 merchant alliance army the year before last, the Rock Legion did not move, and held the camp for more than a month, resulting in heavy losses to the merchant alliance armed forces and returning in vain, winning time for the army of the defeated Andinac Kingdom to rearm and make a comeback. The Rock Legion is also famous for this battle.

It seemed normal to have Bodfinger as the new head of the department that oversaw all things the family armament, and it would convince the vast majority of the family knights. But in Lorlist's mind, he thought the best fit was Malek. Compared with the arrogant Tiger Ross, Bodfinger's personality is a little too modest, and Lorist's biggest concern is that Bodfinger is easy to talk about people and be a good man when dealing with certain military affairs.

If it was Malek, Lorist wouldn't have that to worry about. Known as the Iron Mask, Malek is actually the most feared golden knight in the Norton family's armed forces, as a law enforcement officer, Malek has always been known for his ruthlessness and meticulousness in the enforcement of military law, and even Tiger Rose could not escape punishment in his hands if he violated military law.

Moreover, Malek is extremely decisive, resolute and loyal. Lorist believed in him more than Tiger Rose and Bodfinger, but Malek didn't have a good reputation among the knights of the family, and no one liked a guy who wouldn't be accommodating. Except for a few close friends, Marek and most of the family knights are general acquaintances.

Putting Malek on the throne would cause even more of a stir in the family, and in order to protect Malek, Lorist felt that he could not insist on pushing Malek to this position. After much thought, Lorist decided to make Bodfinger the nominal head of the military and political department, and the commander of the Rock Legion, but in reality the main day-to-day affairs of the department were all handled by Malek, which was a brilliant idea.

The creation of a new department to implement the separation of military and political affairs is one aspect, and the other is that Lorist is preparing to reduce the family armament, which is a change he has to make. In the past few years, the family armed forces have been fighting outside, and the number of family armed forces has swelled rapidly unconsciously. Although most of the increase in the number of soldiers was conscripted from captives who had served several years of hard labor, and did not affect the development and operation of the family domain, two-thirds of the annual income of the family treasury had become the expenses of the family army, which was a very large number.

This time the family civil strife unleashed by the head of Hansk reminded Lorist. For example, the five legions of the Guards have nearly 200,000 people, and they are actually responsible for local garrisons, escorting logistics and heavy materials, and maintaining order in the newly occupied territories, so is it necessary for them to be treated as generously as the three field legions of the family? Although the Norton family used the generous treatment of family soldiers to absorb these prisoners who were once enemies of the family and transformed the camp, this time the family rebellion The First Guards Legion was easily controlled by the Hansk Governor and his accomplices, which finally made Lorist sober up, and not many people would cherish what was too easy to get.

Since those guys who were drafted into the Guards regarded becoming armed soldiers of the Norton family as a profession to support their families, and whoever gave the money was at their disposal, then there was no need for the Norton family to spend so much money to support these unreliable guys. Nearly 200,000 conscripted prisoners of the five Guards Legions, staying comfortably in the rear but enjoying the treatment of the three major field legionaries of the family, this thing is indeed a bit ridiculous.

Lorist took a piece of paper on his desk and wrote the names of the Rock Legion, the Flying Tiger Legion, the Chaseur Legion, and the Guards Legion, followed by the North Sea Fleet, the Knights of the Furious Bear, the Guards Battalion, and the Artillery Battalion. These are the main forces of the family armed forces in Lorist's heart. Lorist was going to combine the five Guards Corps into one and also become a field legion, and the rest would be reduced to a local garrison.

The Rock Legion has 48,000 men, the Flying Tiger Legion has 48,000 men, the Chaser Legion has 48,000 men, the Guards Legion has 48,000 men, the North Sea Fleet has 12,000 men, the Knights of the Furious Bear Clan has 15,000 men, the Guards Battalion has 3,000 men, and the artillery battalion has 3,000 men, so that the main force of the family armed forces is only 220,000, almost reduced to more than half of the current size, which will be good news for the family finances.

Lorist had previously set the strength of the three major armies of the family at 60,000 men. This cannot but be said that Lorist has a slight obsessive-compulsive disorder and a penchant for whole numbers. But it took several foreign conquests in quick succession that Lorist realized that in this era of communication, it was not unreasonable for the countries of the Gelinthia continent to set the maximum size of the legion at less than 50,000 men.

The legion establishment of the countries of the Gelinthia continent is basically 10,000 to 12,000 people as a corps, and two to four corps form a corps, which is actually the maximum number of troops that a corps commander can command. Lorist formed a legion with 60,000 people, but in the actual process of conquest, both the Rock Legion and the Flying Tiger Legion would put 15,000 people in one corps behind, and the only ones who really fought were 45,000 in three corps, which was actually a waste of combat power.

Despite the fact that there are only more than 10,000 people, the actual arrangement of troops has added a lot of difficulties to the command system, and the delay in communication is only one of the aspects, and the most troublesome thing is that the arrival of orders cannot keep up with the changes in the battlefield situation, and the fighters are missed. Like Bodfinger and Tiger Ross, they complained to Lorist several times that sometimes having too many soldiers was not a good thing.

Lorist decided to cut down one battalion from five battalions to one battalion, so that the regiment would have four battalions less than 12,000 men, and a regiment of 48,000 men would be no different from other kingdom legions. It just so happened that the losses of the family armed conquest of the business alliance this time were a bit large, and in addition to the soldiers who died and retired some of the disabled, maybe they also needed to replenish some soldiers from the Guards Legion.

After deciding on the establishment of these main forces of the family forces, Lorist began to consider the candidates for the heads of these forces. The Rock Corps was very simple, the corps commander Bodfinger, the new chief of the military and political command department to be formed, nominally, and also the commander of the first corps of the corps. Deputy Legion Commander Malek, as the actual head of that department, is leaving the position of Legion Commander, so the Rock Legion will need to add a Golden Knight to it.

Lorist thought for a while and did not hesitate to set the commander of the Second Corps of the Rock Corps as Bérunek, firstly, to satisfy Berunek's desire to go to the battlefield, and secondly, to be demoted from corps commander to corps commander, which can be regarded as a punishment for him. The commanders of the 3rd and 4th Corps of the Rock Legion were all old cadets of the Dawn Academy who followed Lorist to the north, one was Wilson and the other was Cyberbola. However, Wilson had just taken a leave of absence to be promoted to the Gold Rank, so the Rock Legion had one less captain.

Lorist thought about it and transferred the commander of the Third Guards Legion deployed in Demke Province, the former golden gladiator Jeders, anyway, the Guards Legion will be combined and reduced, and the commander of Jeders will not be able to be the commander for long, as for the captain from the commander of the Legion to the commander of the Rock Legion, the compensation given by Lorist is that Jeders will also be canonized as a baron of the realm on the New Year's celebration.

Most of the positions of the Flying Tiger Legion have not changed, Tiger Ross is still the commander of the legion and the commander of the first corps, and the commander of the second corps is also the golden gladiator Mason who was rescued from the slave kingdom back then. The commander of the third corps was Doreus, and the fourth corps commander was also a veteran student of the Dawn Academy, Ait Modraco.

There will be a big change in the Chasseur Legion, Lorist is going to transfer the commander of the Fourth Guards Legion, the golden mercenary Farea, to the commander of the Chavet Legion, and the former corps commander Golden Marksman Josk will be demoted to the corps commander. Who told this guy to act recklessly, and without listening to orders, he went directly to the front with the legion. He is not like Tiger Ross, the Flying Tiger Legion is escorting immigrants to Winston Province, and it is understandable that they will return to the front line. And Jost, this guy directly abandoned Makinohara Province, and was only demoted by one level, which is already considered Lorist to protect him.

The first commander of the Huntsman Regiment was Captain Farea part-time, the second Commander was Yuri, the third Commander was Jost, and the Fourth Commander was Vasimma. However, Vasima also handed over the leave slip, preparing to hit the threshold of promotion again and become a golden knight. Lorist decided that the vacancy in this position would leave it up to the Hunters to nominate one themselves, and he would not interfere.

The Guards Corps will also become the main corps, and the rest will be reduced to local garrisons. So Lorlist, the candidate for the commander of the legion, decided to let El take the role. The Rock Legion is good at defending, the Flying Tiger Legion is famous for attacking, the Hunting Cavalry Legion is a light cavalry arm, and raiding and sweeping is a good game. As for the Guards Corps, Lorist hopes to become an armed force that is both offensive and defensive.

El is the commander of the Legion and the Commander of the First Corps, the Commander of the Second Corps is the former bandit Ovikis, and the Commander of the Third Corps, Lorist, is preparing to transfer back the Golden Knight Pachko who guards the island of Hilowas. The commander of the Fourth Corps was selected separately. In this way, each of the four major field legions has three golden knights in charge, and they are not weaker than others in terms of high-end combat power.

The North Sea Fleet is still commanded by Sambarwood, and the Knights of the Bear are also led by Telman. However, the Knights of the Furious Bear will be placed under the direct jurisdiction of the newly established department, and will also be responsible for the military police to uphold military law.

The guard battalion is still led by Reddy, and the deputy commander Parker took a leave of absence to be promoted to the gold rank the year before last, and fortunately avoided the turmoil of the family's internal strife, and it is said that he has been successfully promoted and will return at the end of the year. The artillery battalion was led by Schward, and the deputy commander Jim said that he would also be promoted to the gold rank after his injury, and the last time he was attacked by the great swordsman, he had a deep understanding that this promotion would not fail again.

After deciding on the main plan for the reform of the family's armed military system, Lorist breathed a sigh of relief, and was thinking about where there were still omissions, when Genorio knocked on the door and walked in to report: "Your Highness, Baron Christon asks to see you." ”

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