Chapter 4 The Completion of the Reorganization of the Army (Ask for Collection)
With the return of Jiang Jiajun to the capital and the regularization, the configuration of soldiers and generals at all levels, and weapons have changed to a greater or lesser extent these days.
First of all, after adjustments at all levels and the clan soldiers drawn out of the Jiang family, the Jiang family's army has reached more than 18,000 people. There are also slight differences in the number of people in each battalion, with some barracks having 1,000 people per battalion and others 1,000 men per battalion.
Each battalion has a captain, in the camp of 1,000 people, it is divided into three songs, each song is set up with two tun commanders, each tun has three teams to set up a team rate, and one team has three she's chiefs, among which the smallest unit of Wu under the cancelled shi, the captain retains to assist the chief to lead the troops.
In addition, in the adjustment, Jiang Qi pioneered the establishment of deputy positions under the generals of all strata to prevent the phenomenon of the generals and the army dying in battle in wartime. And Jiang Qi's double match has laid the convenience for the rapid expansion of the army, which is also a pioneering move of Jiang Jiajun.
In addition, in terms of the number of people at each level, the Jiang family army is very different from the rest of the Han army, and the number of people from every hour is no longer the previous ten, but twelve.
The reason for the addition of two people was mainly for the implementation of the newly refined Mitsubishi tactics. The Mitsubishi battle formation, as the name suggests, is a three-person formation that cooperates with each other, which is mainly suitable for the mutual cooperation between soldiers during the melee.
And when he went out to fight in Taipingdao, it has been verified that the battle array is indeed in a skirmish, and it can exert a very powerful lethality.
On top of the tithe, the three tithes form a team, and each team sets up a team leader and deputy team leader, plus two heralds and a trumpeter, a total of forty-three people.
The three teams were integrated into a tun, with a chief and deputy commander, plus five heralds, a trumpeter, a clerk, a personal soldier, a fire head soldier, and a medical soldier, totaling 168 people.
The main purpose of equipping each soldier is to allow each soldier to eat as quickly as possible, and as for the medical staff, it is also to allow the soldiers to get the fastest treatment. In addition, the newly added documents are mainly convenient for soldiers to write letters to their families, as well as other copying things. In addition, the adapted tun has also become the main combat entity on the battlefield.
In terms of the configuration of the song, it is basically the same as that of the tun, in addition to the two main and deputy soldiers in each song, plus five heralds, one trumpeter, one clerk, and one personal soldier, and the fire head soldiers and medical guards are canceled, a total of 355 people.
In addition to the full-time lieutenant and adjutant general Sima, there is also a team of 43 personal soldiers, three to five military personnel, a fire leader, a herald, a drummer, a flag team, a law enforcement team, a medical team of 50 people, a team of 43 scouts, and more than 10 people in the main book, Cangcao, Bingcao, and Junzheng.
Therefore, although it is known as a battalion of 1,000 people, the actual number is about 1,200 people, and under normal circumstances, Jiang Qi also asked the government treasury to supply the military salary and materials in the 1,300-person battalion.
As for the 1,500 battalion, the staffing from top to bottom is basically the same as that of the 1,000-man battalion. And the extra few hundred people, mainly because these battalions are the main battalions of the Jiang family's army, in order to maintain combat effectiveness, an additional reserve army was added, the number is not large, and there are only 355 people.
Although this extra battalion is a reserve battalion, the quality of the required soldiers has not been reduced in the slightest, and of course all the treatment and training methods are exactly the same.
Today, among the nearly 20,000 horses in the Jiang family's army, there are about 8,000 people in the five battalions of cavalry. The cavalry included Jiang Qi's Qilin Guard, Guan Yu's Yue Cavalry, Zhang Fei's Leopard Cavalry, Zhao Yun's Cloud Cavalry, and the newly formed Yan Liang's **. In addition to the Qilinwei, the remaining four battalions were 1,500 people.
In the cavalry configuration, Jiang Qi made adjustments to the soldiers' weapons, armor and horses, among which all the fast horses produced by Xiliang and Dawan were all allocated to the soldiers of the three battalions of Qilin Guard, Leopard Cavalry and Cloud Cavalry.
The soldiers of these three battalions, except for the Qilin Guard soldiers who wore the full body armor of the Praetorian Cavalry, the armor of the soldiers of the second battalion of the Leopard Cavalry and the Cloud Cavalry were all reduced to the maximum, not only did the horses remove all the armor, but the soldiers also wore only half of the leather armor.
In addition to their own weight, the soldiers of the two battalions of Leopard and Yun also have more than 10 catties of weapons on their bodies, which is more than half less than the original, and if you count the weight of the harness, a set of equipment is at least 40 catties less.
This is undoubtedly the greatest advantage for the cavalry who wins with speed, of course, how it actually is, this will have to be tested on the battlefield.
As for weapons, all the soldiers, including the Kirin Guard, carried only a sword for melee combat, a light round shield, and a short sword for personal combat, in addition to carrying a set of bows and thirty arrows.
In addition to the speed and agility of the cavalry charge, the lethality of the strength is naturally not to be underestimated, which is most obvious when charging in the group. Therefore, when the weight of leopard riding and cloud riding is reduced, the more you ride, the more you will naturally strengthen the weight.
After the second battalion transferred out the fast-moving Xiliang and Dawan horses, they made up for the war horses produced by Bingzhou and Xianbei with excellent endurance. Although the war horses produced in these two places are much shorter, their weight, endurance, breeding, and docility are superior to those of Xiliang and Dawan war horses. Because of this, in the selection of war horses, many of the cavalry of the Han Dynasty are willing to use the war horses of these two places.
Of course, because the horses are easy to raise, the number of horses in the Han military camp is the largest, so even if Jiang Qi wants to match three thousand soldiers with one person and two horses, it is not a difficult task.
However, in the end, considering the problem of food and grass, Jiang Qi only equipped the soldiers of the two battalions with one person to ride alone, and added 500 spare war horses to carry heavy armor.
As for why the two battalions use war horses to carry armor alone, it is because the armor used by Yue Cai and ** is all newly created iron armor, not only the soldiers are covered with iron armor from top to bottom, but even the war horses are covered with thick leather armor, and the important parts of the horse's head and horse neck are added with iron armor. Not only that, but in wartime, the riders had to be connected by iron chains, and only the iron links were connected with hemp rope to facilitate cutting.
Although the training of the Yue and Tiger Riders has not yet been completed, its performance in the charge has already shown its due power.
As for the armament, the two cavalry only carried swords, shields, and talisman swords because of their armor and knights. Despite the reduction of weapons, the shock of the torrent of steel is far greater than the impact of all weapons.
In terms of infantry, Jiang's army was divided into ordinary infantry, baggage soldiers, medical soldiers, sword guards and charioteers who basically withdrew from the stage of history.
Of these infantry, the largest number of them were, naturally, ordinary soldiers, totaling about eight and a half thousand men in six battalions. Among these six battalions, only the two battalions led by Tong Fei and Xu Huang maintained a configuration of 1,500 people.
In addition to Tong Fei and Xu Huang, the commanders of the other four battalions were Tai Shici, Gao Lan, Liao Hua and Du Yuan.
Compared to the configuration of cavalry weapons, infantry is slightly more complicated. Now the infantry was reorganized and their weapons were adjusted according to each other, and six of the twelve soldiers were of the same weapons, and all carried a spear eight feet long, a sword of the head of the sword, a short sword of the body, a bow, a quiver, and thirty bows and arrows.
The other two replaced their bows with crossbows, which were adjusted after taking into account the range and accuracy, and the last four soldiers remained, one holding a half-man-high shield, a sword, and a short sword. The other three carried a light round shield, as well as a sword and a short sword.
This kind of equipment is mainly because in the infantry drill code just determined, the infantry charge formation is based on each tithe, and the charge formation is composed of twelve people, first the giant shield soldier is the head, and the left and right two round shield soldiers are guarded. Behind the shield, four soldiers with spears stretched out their spears from behind the shields to ensure the lethality of the formation. At the end of the formation, there was one last round shield soldier for security, and two guerrilla soldiers in the middle, as well as two crossbow-wielding soldiers using long-range tools to kill the enemy.
This formation of the Jiang Jiajun makes full use of the cooperation between various weapons, which can be described as invincible, but this formation requires the soldiers to cooperate with each other, and without two or three months of cooperation, it can hardly exert its power.
Of course, although Jiang Qi has drastically transformed the configuration in the army, the Jiang family army has not changed at all, and the half-body armor of the Han army system is not special, the only special thing may be that Jiang Qi has strict requirements for the military appearance of soldiers, and has pulled military appearance and military affairs into military law.
Of course, Jiang Qi originally had some ideas about the armor, and he planned to build the second battalion of the backer and the broken formation into a vanguard army wearing hard armor and holding heavy weapons to open the way.
But later, he was angry that such heavy infantry had too high requirements for soldiers and took too long, so he had to put it on hold for the time being. However, Jiang Qi thought that the weapons and armor that should be used by the heavy infantry, and he used his authority to let the craftsman battalion rush to produce hundreds of sets for unforeseen use.
In addition to ordinary infantry, there are of course other special types of troops in the Jiang family's army, the most eye-catching of which is, of course, the most mysterious sword guard in the barracks.
Although the soldiers of the Jiang Family's army have stayed in the barracks for nearly four months at the shortest, they really know that the Sword Battalion is indeed a handful.
Except for the senior generals, most of the rest of the soldiers only know that the Sword Battalion is a special team that directly obeys the orders of their lord Jiang Qi, this team has a small number of people, but all of them are superb in martial arts, and all the guards of the Sword Battalion are usually mixed with the Qilin Guard to hold positions, but no one knows who it is.
Of course, the sword guards of the sword battalion have also been replenished this time, and the soldiers selected from each battalion have increased the number of sword guards to one hundred and fifty, but these new soldiers have just completed the assessment, and they are not qualified sword guards before they come down from the battlefield.
In addition, in addition to Li Jianwei, the most cared for in this reorganization is Langzhong, who was recruited from the people, and a medical battalion of 300 people composed of former medical workers.
In order to ensure the safety of the medical battalion, the battalion was also equipped with a 200-man guard, and nearly 100 medical vehicles converted from combat vehicles were also deployed. These vehicles were used to carry the sick and wounded, as well as medicinal herbs.
For the treatment of wounded soldiers in wartime, many generals left them to fend for themselves, and the better generals visited the wounded soldiers at most.
But in the Jiang family's army, this situation is diametrically opposite, Jiang Qi attaches more importance to this medical care, even than the ace sword guard in his hand. Not only was a strong medical battalion formed, but a team of medical guards was added to each cantonment. Jiang Qi even wanted to make every soldier who could rescue the battlefield in the near future, and all soldiers should be able to bandage and stop bleeding.
And the reason why Jiang Qi attaches so much importance to ambulance is because in his eyes, the soldiers who have been injured and escaped death are the real mainstay of an army.
A veteran who has experienced life and death plays a role in the team definitely more than the role of a captain or even a team leader. And Jiang Qi's great confidence was mainly based on the judgment of the two teams formed after seeing it, which were formed by the Jizhou battalion composed of wounded soldiers and new soldiers.
Jiang Qi knew that although the combat effectiveness of the two new armies was not as good as that of the strong forces led by Guan Yu and Xu Huang, their combat effectiveness was definitely the elite in the Han army. And the army that can be formed so quickly is that nearly thirty percent of the veterans of the two battalions have returned from injuries.
In addition to the medical battalion and the baggage camp, there is no separate baggage soldier in the Han army now, and the general escort granaries are randomly transferred. This creates a lot of unnecessary trouble.
Today, the heavy battalion of the Jiang family army is mainly composed of the Jiang family's children and some veterans, and the number is configured according to the thousand-person battalion. However, in terms of mules, horses, and wagons, the configuration of the baggage battalion is the most equipped of all the battalions.
According to the plan, the formation of the baggage battalion is mainly to play the role of guard, as for the escort of more than 1,000 people can be escorted, under normal circumstances, the escort of grain and grass is completed by the people. Today's baggage battalion is headed by Jiang Bo, who has just returned to Beijing, as the captain, and Jiang Chu as the Sima.
In addition, in addition to the baggage and medical battalions in the Jiang family's army, there are also two special teams, one is the knife battalion that has just been converted from hundreds of chariots, and the other is the bow and crossbow battalion established after loading bed crossbows on chariots, and the soldiers of these two battalions are organized according to the thousand-man battalion.
After the reconstruction of the sword cart battalion, the chariot was mainly pulled by two war horses, and the horses were covered with light armor, and the carriage was decorated with sharp weapons such as knives and gee that could be exchanged at any time, including the wheels. The battalion was equipped with nearly 600 chariots, each for the use of two soldiers, one of whom drove and the other was protected by bows, crossbows, knives and axes.
As for the number of chariot modifications this time, there are not too many places to be changed, and it is not cumbersome, and in the end, Jiang Qi's money power and craftsmen in the craftsman camp worked hard, but all of them were delivered in only half a month, and the various structures of the chariot and the installation of weapons were much more perfect than expected.
When he saw the neat rows of modified chariots lined up in the school field, Jiang Qi even moved the left and right craftsmen who led the team, and received the idea of forming a craftsman battalion under his subordinates.
However, looking at Zhang Ping and Li Wei, who were still acquaintances, Jiang Qi quickly rejected this idea, and these two were sent by He Jin to make armor for themselves. And now that they are all promoted again, it is not difficult to see from these two points that both of them are He Jin's people, if they dig He Jin into the corner of the wall by themselves now, it is not appropriate.
Therefore, Jiang Qi had no choice but to put this idea on hold for the time being, of course, if the time was ripe, Jiang Qi would soon restart the plan.
Among the two chariot battalions, compared with the knife chariot battalion, the number of chariots in the bow and crossbow battalion is slightly less, only four hundred. And not only were there few chariots, but the whole battalion was pulled by a single war horse.
Of course, the reason why the number and equipment of the bow and crossbow battalion are less than that of the knife cart battalion is mainly because the two battalions have completely opposite tactics, the knife cart battalion is mainly used to charge the battle, while the bow and crossbow battalion only uses chariots to carry bed crossbows.
In this way, he used the chariot alone to ride the bed crossbow, mainly because Jiang Qi used the bed crossbow with amazing arm strength to attack the city. Moreover, Jiang Qi has basically transformed the bed crossbow from a tool for defending the city to an offensive tool.
However, because the weight of the bed crossbow and the arrows used are the size of children's arms, it is too troublesome to carry and carry by a person. Therefore, after Jiang Qi looted five hundred bed crossbows, he thought of using modified chariots. By turning the bed crossbow into a chariot, it can be used flexibly and can also be fired while moving.
Such a change in the bed crossbow not only solved the problem of inconvenience for him to carry, but also solved the problem of requiring many soldiers to carry arrows, and of course, the most important thing is that this sublimates the function of the bed crossbow again.
In the end, after much consideration, the bow battalion was equipped with 400 chariots, each manned by three soldiers, each with a bed crossbow with a range of more than 500 paces, and a spare set of bed crossbow parts and fifty arrows. With so much equipment, it is simply impossible to replace it with the previous three soldiers.
On that day, the 2,000 chariots that Jiang Qi obtained from the arsenal, after being equipped with sword carts and bow and crossbow battalions, except for the 20% chariots that were left for spare and those that were broken and could not be used normally, were all changed into chariots like the sword chariot battalions and distributed to the infantry battalions, and each battalion was allocated at least 100 vehicles.
At first, the generals of the battalions did not quite understand why it was troublesome to equip the chariots at the right end, not to mention the strict requirements for the use of chariots on the ground.
However, when they saw Jiang Qi asking Xu Huang to command the soldiers of the headquarters to break the camp, and after following the soldiers of the knife cart battalion who only charged with a hundred knife carts, they rushed into an 'enemy camp' composed of scarecrows, their eyes widened.
At the same time, the generals also understood what it meant to be a coordinated operation in Jiang Qi's mouth, even Zhang Fei, who had always been brave, saw this scene and his eyes widened, and even looked at the mutilated body of the scarecrow, as if he saw the body of his own soldiers.
Not only Zhang Fei, but all the generals who saw the scene had the same idea in their hearts, and they were all speculating in their hearts whether the camp of those scarecrows just now would be able to retreat from their own battalion. But soon I got the answer in my heart, not to mention retreating, but it was a blessing not to be wiped out.
Although the tactic used was simple, it was only a hundred chariots to break through the formation, and then let the infantry behind them expand the victory. But it's such a simple tactic, if you really face such a tactic, even if you are twice or even triple the enemy, you will lose not so quickly at most.
Since this time, from the generals to the soldiers, there is no doubt about any of Jiang Qi's actions to change the routine, and they are all meticulous and serious. In the eyes of the Jiang family's soldiers, Jiang Qi has reached the point of omnipotence and unpredictability.
Subsequently, these two special chariot soldiers determined the candidates for the captain Sima, Wen Chou and Sima Jiang Xing, the captains of the knife and car battalion, and Jiang Feng and Sima Zhao Feng, the captains of the bow and crossbow battalion.
In addition to the fact that there were not many adjustments to the captains of the battalions, there was a slight change in the selection of deputy general Sima, and several of them were promoted. Among them was Yan Zheng, the general of Taiping Dao who surrendered, who became Tong Fei's Sima, and Pei Yuanshao who became Xu Huang's Sima.
Of course, there are also those who grew up in the army, such as Li Ji, who came out of the soldiers of the Yue Cavalry Battalion, became Yan Liang's Sima, and Jiang Yiming, who came out of the Sword Guard, became Liaohua's Sima, and so on.
As a result of this reorganization, nearly 20,000 soldiers and soldiers were divided into five cavalry battalions, six infantry battalions, two chariot battalions, one baggage battalion, and one medical battalion.
Although the number is not large, after this reorganization, it provides a model for the future expansion of the Jiang family's army, and at the same time, it also lays a firm foundation for the Jiang family's army that will be powerful in the near future.
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