546.Chapter 546: The Aftermath Is Not Settled
This "turmoil" greatly unleashed the hostility in the hearts of the Visigoths. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info disappointed a lot of guys who were expecting to see Visigoths collapse. In addition to this, the Visigoths also showed their fragile nature in the face of the powerful army that suppressed them. At least for now, it seems that the Visigoths have become calm......
It's just that, at the same time, William understood through the information sent by the Cheka members that all this was just a brief calm before the storm. The kingdom, which seems to be peaceful on the surface, is surging beneath the water's surface.
Dukes and princes who wanted to overthrow Louis XVI so that they could become kings, capitalists who wanted to wield power, speculators who wanted to fish in troubled waters, and a large number of ordinary people who were as dissatisfied with Louis XVI as they were.
Today's Visigothic kingdom is like a pressure cooker about to burst. And the tactics of Louis XVI were to add an iron shell called the army to this pot...... On the surface, the Visigothic unrest has subsided. But in reality, anyone can imagine what it will be like in the end.
"It doesn't have anything to do with me, though. After reading this, William threw the information aside. He had heard that the Bretons were very interested in the chaos. Perhaps the de Normandy family wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to intervene in the Visigoths and bring the country under their control.
To this, William can only say, I wish them good luck. In any case, the Visigoths were a formidable power, and the Bretons were powerful. Anyway, even if he died, William wouldn't feel distressed. It's best if they can lose both, and it's best if one dies.
I casually watched the current state of the human world. William then made this judgment. Nowadays, with the exception of the increasingly turbulent Visigoths, who are likely to have something big happening, the entire human world is dead. Or peace and stability.
In this case, it was just right for him to do something.
After nearly a year of revision, the empire has basically recovered. Everything is fine except that the population is always undernumbered.
The eight railways of three horizontal and five vertical railways have already built the most critical one, and one-third of the horizontal railways have also been built. With the help of rail transport, the pace of action to move the capital to Moscow was much faster. A central city of an empire with 300,000 people, a million people in the short term, and eventually 800 to 10 million people, as William expected, was being built continuously, continuously.
At the same time, the plan to expand the army by 100,000 was also going smoothly. On the basis of a great deal of propaganda of nationalism, statism and National socialism, the conscription of the Reich was done very well. At the same time, the system of national mobilization that William expected was also being built in an orderly manner.
Of course, the progress of this construction is fast and slow in various regions. In the core areas ruled by the Hereford family, Russia and Wende, progress was relatively fast, but not in Bolotsk, where the people were more cowardly and the atmosphere was weaker, and in the newly conquered Ruthenia region. The inhabitants of the former used various methods to escape military service. In the latter, even the basic construction and resumption of production have not been fully completed. So it's useless for the time being.
However, even so, William was still confident that after the initial mobilization of the war, he would draw at least half a million troops. At the same time, he also believed that after conducting a census throughout the empire and popularizing compulsory military service, he would eventually be able to explode an army of millions.
In this day and age, an army of one million will be an unrivaled force of terror. No country can defeat a country with an army of one million in a land war.
"Next, it's time to split the legion. William thought to himself that it was true that a full and full army would increase their combat effectiveness, but not when it came to war mobilization. Because those war mobilizations can only bring a large number of soldiers to the empire, but not a large number of officers. In this way, what William got was a group of mud-legged soldiers with rifles.
It's not an army.
And if William had formed more half-full, or even only an empty shelf, it would have been pleasant to have mobilized them. As long as he fills all these mobilized soldiers into his legion, he will build a large number of qualified legions with sufficient combat effectiveness in a short time.
After all, it is simple to train a group of soldiers. All they need to do is give them a burning stick and they will be trained intensively for a few months. But not the officers. Officers need a lot of theoretical and practical training. So, William's tactics now are like this. It combines the two systems of professional soldiers and compulsory soldiers.
Retain a relatively small number of professional troops. At the same time, all technical arms, officers, and key non-commissioned officers of the army will become professional soldiers, and they will be paid high allowances and benefits.
These officers, the technical arms - artillery and cavalry, engineers, key non-commissioned officers, and a small number of rotating ordinary soldiers formed a 10,000-strong B-class regiment. These ten legions will be fully mobilized in six months to a year to fill more than 200,000 troops, expanding these legions to 25,000 troops each, a total of 250,000 elite troops.
In addition, William also planned to form twenty pocket-sized reserve regiments of 3,000 men composed of a small number of officers, a small number of technical troops, and a small number of backbone non-commissioned officers. In addition to the shortage of troops, non-commissioned officers and officers, these regiments also had insufficient technical weapons, that is, cavalry, and artillery. After the start of the war, these twenty reserve corps will be expanded to 30,000 troops per corps in a short time. Expand the army of more than half a million.
The 100,000 Praetorian Guards, consisting of six standing Praetorian Guard regiments and two Praetorian Cavalry Divisions, and ten B-class regiments, would be sufficient to expand to 250,000 regular troops, and if necessary, to be mobilized to more than 600,000 reserve regiments...... Plus fifteen Cossack brigades that have been formed and are being prepared for construction.
William's empire ostensibly numbered only two hundred thousand troops. But once mobilized, it can have an army of more than one million combat strength, weapons and equipment, training and morale.
This is what William expected to be completely completed in ten years, the final mobilization system of the Empire, and the military strength table of the Empire's army. Such an army as the Development Division, and then bulldozing the entire human world, was William's goal.
And in the service of this goal, a census was carried out - a table of all the population of the empire, a mobilization plan, as well as the laying of railways, the formation of military stations, the stockpiling of weapons and equipment...... All this work was enough to keep William busy.
It was very fortunate that William had a certain foundation in the establishment and planning of the General Staff and the General Logistics Department. The addition of a large number of new-style staff officers who knew mathematics and tactics reduced William's workload a lot.
At the same time, the addition of several differential machines that can provide strong support for compiling various tables and performing calculations also makes the Empire's military mobilization system more efficient.
William believes that as long as the pace continues. Eventually, then, he would have earned the reputation of one of the most powerful army nations in the world.
By the way, in fact, William thinks that the current world's first army is actually his. Although the vast majority of people believe that the Bretons who won the sectarian war had the most powerful army in the world.
This is the Empire's latest military planning and mobilization system. Relying on a set of modern military system, relying on modern industrial and railway systems. This whole set of military mobilization plans is enough to mobilize in the shortest possible time and eliminate any guy who looks unhappy with William......
It's just a pity that compared to the Imperial Army, which has the world's largest actual combat effectiveness and is likely to become stronger in the future, the Imperial Navy still looks very immature at present.
At present, the Imperial Navy, which is on the surface, actually only has a part of the sea control in the Polotsk Sea. The Imperial Navy, with twenty wooden-hulled battleships and fifty frigates, was less than one-tenth of the number and combat effectiveness of the Britons.
As the vast majority of professionals believe, the Empire's army is very good, equipped and treated. The Imperial Navy, on the other hand, was nothing more than an offshore defense fleet. Such a small and inexperienced navy. Any detachment of the Britons will solve the problem.
Even they were not as powerful as the navy of any of the small states of the Lombards. The Asturian Navy, which has long been in decline, can also find enough pleasure and superiority in the face of the Imperial Navy. And the lack of a naval force capable of posing a sufficient threat is also the reason why the Britons, mainly the Bretons who are currently in a non-mainstream state, believe that the Empire does not have much malice towards Briton and does not pose much threat.
In order to counter the increasingly powerful Breton Continental faction. Many of them expected an alliance with the Herefords, the Russian-Gothic Empire, to be at least secretly allied.
They expected to incite the mighty Russian-Gothic Empire to attack the Continental-controlled territory of Briton on the mainland.
The scale of such an offensive is not expected to be too large. As long as you can beat Britton painfully.
In this way, the decision-makers of Breton will realize that they do not have any advantage on the continent of the human world. Any expansion, any war, will be accompanied by huge risks, and even the possibility of making ends meet.
In this way, they will change their attitude. From expanding the land to the human world, to exploring and colonizing other regions. In this way, the Ocean faction will gain a greater voice and sufficient resources and power.
Of course, if they knew what evil plans and experiments were going on behind the scenes of the Hereford family, they would definitely react immediately - the Empire was by no means the object of contact for them.
-- After enough differential machine calculations and analysis of various problems of the first generation of ironclads, the second generation of ironclad ships of the empire has been designed and manufactured.