The Storm Mage Regiment and the Cradle Project are the two cores of Gu Hang's follow-up talent training.

The former is a path to cultivate extraordinary talents and build a psychic order with psionic people as the core; The latter is the most indispensable talent construction in the all-round development of the alliance itself.

In these two things, Gu Hang is very willing to invest a large amount of gift points.

So far, in terms of construction and talent, his total investment in gift points has reached more than 17,000.

There are more than 30,000 on hand.

Next, it's time for military construction.

In terms of military equipment, it is not necessary to solve the problem with gift points, but to rely on the productivity of the alliance itself; However, in terms of personnel, it still needs to be supplemented by the training function provided on the [Badge] panel.

The first is to replenish the existing troops.

The Battle of Blackbird, which combined in two phases, brought more than seventy-five thousand men to the Alliance; The battle of the Raging Bear Legion on the Koroga 3 has accumulated losses of 10,000 people so far.

Under the glorious victory, the alliance army also paid a lot of corpses.

This amount of loss is actually not small at all.

Before the victory of the Battle of Blackbird, the alliance did not activate the mobilization order, and the total manpower pool was less than 500,000, and it was almost full. The number of active duty soldiers of the alliance has exceeded half a million. By the middle and late stages of the Blackbird Campaign, the alliance had activated the second-level mobilization order, transferred production capacity to the military industry, and expanded the scope of conscription, so that it withstood the pressure.

Now, the mobilization order was canceled after the end of the war. However, after the victory, it also gained control over the entire continent in the west, and after the Western Desert Province and the three western provinces, a total of four major provinces, and 18 million people joined the alliance, the tension of the alliance's available manpower was well alleviated.

Gu Hang has no intention of expanding the army on a particularly large scale for the time being, he has only built six new armored synthesis divisions numbered 60 to 65, and the structure is on par with the current Wind Extinguishing Brigade.

At the same time, all other existing composite brigades have also been transformed in accordance with this standard.

As for the 1st Wind Extinguishing Brigade, which had always been used as an improved model for the Union army, it was further strengthened and reorganized.

First of all, all the composite battalions have increased their strength, and all motorized infantry companies have been removed, but they have been completely changed into 4 armored infantry companies and 2 tank companies, and the functional units such as engineers, logistics, communications, reconnaissance, and air defense are also included.

The strength of such a battalion has increased by half from the original strength of more than 800 men to 1,200 people.

In terms of numbers, it is almost larger than an ordinary regiment, and the density of technical equipment is many, many times that of a conventional regiment.

For the whole brigade, such a main composite battalion has changed from 5 to 8; The original tank battalion has also been increased from 1 to 2. The artillery support companies of the battalions, as well as the artillery battalions directly under the brigades, were transformed from towed guns into self-propelled guns that were much more mobile. The brigade headquarters also has various functional units of the brigade headquarters.

The strength of the brigade has increased from 9,100 to 12,000; The number of tanks has increased from 80 to 204, directly to 2.5 times, and the number of armored vehicles has increased from more than 200 to 900. Under the brigade headquarters, three aviation formations under the brigade are also directly deployed, with a total of thirty wind falcons.

For all the soldiers, Gu Hang will train them from the T5 level to the T4 level; The equipment of the front-line combat infantry will be fully converted from the live ammunition rifle of the G series to the laser rifle of the LR series or the electromagnetic rifle of the HS series.

Such a luxurious and strengthened version of the composite brigade, as a demonstration army, will have a long construction period, and I am afraid that it will not be able to complete the modification in a while.

You can see it from the price. The cost of the Wind Extinguishing Brigade will soar from the original 90 points of bounty plus less than 600,000 tax coins to 1,320 points of bounty plus 1.8 million tax coins.

With the improvement of the quality of soldiers and the great increase in the density of technical equipment, there is no doubt that the combat effectiveness of the Extinguishing Wind Brigade will be greatly enhanced. Although the number of people is only about 3,000 more, the combat effectiveness should have increased many times.

However, Gu Hang is actually not sure how the improved combat effectiveness is compared with the increased cost.

The cost of construction has tripled, which is easy to say, and a significant increase in the number of equipment is a direct linear increase in combat capability. It is the more than 1,000 gifts that are spent to improve the quality of soldiers, whether it can increase the combat effectiveness tenfold.

Gu Hang had some doubts about this.

But then again, how do you know if you don't try?

Anyway, it's just a brigade, and the demonstration unit of the Wind Extinguishing Brigade should be adapted to this experimental nature.

The rest of the thing may be that the Wind Extinguishing Brigade needs to go to a certain battlefield to test whether the improvement of combat effectiveness is as exaggerated as the cost increase through actual combat.

However, now on the Raging Owl Star, there is no need for them to fight. There is no difference between a cheapest garrison division and the most expensive elite reloaded composite brigade for regular homegrown ammunition work.

But the Alliance now has two battlefields that need manpower.

They are Koroga 3 and Black Arrow.

Gu Hang thought about it for a while, and when he turned around, he could throw the entire Wind Extinguishing Brigade to the Black Arrow Star.

Recently, there has been a war there.

Looking back on the specific situation, Gu Hang's attention was still on his army construction.

It is necessary to complete the construction of six new brigades, plus the transformation of the other nine composite brigades, and the major reinforcement of the wind extinguishing brigade, a total of more than 60,000 new soldiers will be added; The military expenditure for additional equipment will increase the military budget by almost 6 million tax dollars.

The gap in equipment is another thing, and with the current productivity of the alliance, the pressure is still quite high. But in the future, as the alliance develops, this pressure should be able to be quickly relieved. At the same time, large military orders will also stimulate the development of the alliance industry.

And the gap in personnel, the new troops, and the loss of soldiers in the previous units must also be filled, Gu Hang has a total of almost 140,000 new recruits to enter the army.

The previous alliance would definitely not be able to withstand such recruitment, and they were all on the verge of approaching the upper limit of the available manpower of the second-level mobilization order.

But right now, it's not too much pressure.

Western desert, the three western provinces, the population of immigrants to the Union...... After the total population of the alliance soared from 25 million to 45 million, these new manpower members of the alliance could be used.

After the mobilization order is lifted, the estimated available manpower is also 800,000.

Now the alliance army, including the Angry Bear Legion, has only used up 600,000 people in total.

And for those who are new to the Alliance, becoming a soldier is not a bad choice. As soon as I entered, the treatment of a private was equivalent to E6, and if I stayed for a while, my training performance was better, or my military experience was longer, not to mention being promoted to an officer or non-commissioned officer, at least there was no bottleneck in reaching the rank of private.

The treatment of a senior soldier is equivalent to the E9 rank, and it is also at this level to transfer directly after being discharged from the army.

As for the wounded, the sacrificed...... This is the inevitable fate of being a soldier. However, the alliance's pension policy has always been relatively generous, at least alleviating many people's worries.

And these 140,000 people will enter the new barracks established by the Alliance Military and Political Department around the world for initial training.

Then, Gu Hang will 'practice' in it.

The training cost of 140,000 people, even if all of them are only trained to the T5 level, and a little gift to train a hundred people, it will cost 1,400 points.

Coupled with the cost of about 1,300 for the Wind Extinguishing Brigade, this is a total of 2,07 costs.

As the size of the army became larger and the quality of the troops became more demanding, the cost of training, which was not worth mentioning at all, began to gradually become weighty.

However, in general, it is still not a big deal.

The real big head is in the cultivation of space marines.

So far, the number of immortal birds has remained at about thirty.

Captain Martins was already very satisfied with this.

In the first time he was wandering, he had never dared to imagine that in less than three years, their number would skyrocket from seven to thirty-six.

As for Gu Hang, not continuing to increase the number of Space Marines is not because he doesn't want to, but because it's too expensive.

Gu Hang had calculated that the average price he had to spend on cultivating a new blood for an immortal bird before was about six hundred to seven hundred gifts per person—counting the selection and cultivation of personnel in the early stage, as well as the exchange of seeds.

This is a relatively expensive price, and fighting a war with a Space Marine is undoubtedly quite a luxury.

In addition to the cost of gift points, power armor, as well as other types of equipment exclusive to Space Marines, are also a huge expense.

Previously, the reason why the number of Space Marines was not further increased was also limited by the lack of power armor.

At present, the power armor used by the immortal birds, except for their first seven units, the rest were all ordered by Gu Hang from the Gu family firm.

50,000 tax coins per unit, excluding any other equipment.

And if you count other equipment, not to mention the cheaper blaster guns and chainsaw swords, mobile backpacks, plasma guns or hot melt guns, power swords, missile stations, and even Terminator armors and dreadnought mechas...... These are all expensive one by one.

Buying is not going to work.

Not to mention those other equipment, if there are twenty more power armors, the price will fly to one million tax coins. At that time, it was Gu Hang, who wanted to tie these group of interstellar soldiers to his battlefield, gritted his teeth and promised the immortal birds, and encountered the attack of the green-skinned pirates, and his cousin gave this money directly, and when the gift was given, it could be regarded as resistant.

I bought it later, the price was too expensive.

And it's hard to buy it.

Not only is the Space Marine Power Armor expensive, but it also has low production capacity. Generally, only some mechanical casting worlds have this kind of production technology. However, the key demand is relatively small.

A standard Space Marine warband is only a thousand people at full strength. Counting some margins that may be prepared, the total demand is 1,500 or 2,000 sets.

And this kind of power armor can only be worn by Space Marines.

The regular power armor that mortals can use is not the same thing as this.

Under such a scarce demand, many casting worlds have the ability to produce and will not produce too much. Buy a small amount, people are too lazy to build it for you, you can only see if there is a margin; Buy a large amount, people are willing to start production, but the price is unaffordable.

In the final analysis, in the power armor, it is not at all true that it is better to buy than to build.

The production of power armor and other exclusive equipment for Space Marines still needs to be solved by self-production.

It's nothing more than a matter of spending more boon points.

In fact, this retrospective voyage has also made up its mind to extract some space marine-related technology. After completing the [Checkmate of the Undead Bird] event line, he can already select and draw out Space Marine-related technologies when extracting technology, which greatly reduces the element of chance.

The matter of the science and technology lottery, put aside for the time being, Gu Hang planned another gift point, which was about fifteen thousand points. It is expected to be able to raise twenty new bloods of the undead birds.

They themselves also need at least half a year to two years to grow, and during this time, the alliance's self-produced power armor should be able to come out.

Even if you can't build it, or it's not cost-effective to build it, you can pull out the technology to take the black box and pull it out.

And this fifteen-thousand-point gift is spent, in addition to the twenty new blood of the immortal birds, there are also some ancillary benefits.

That's a whole bunch of elite soldiers of the T2, T3, and T4 levels.

T4 soldiers will be placed in various units. In the process of cultivating Space Marines, these can be called the first batch of eliminated and the weakest potential of the young men, and in the regular army, they are also excellent soldiers. They will be welcomed by the troops.

As for the soldiers of the T3 and T2 classes, they were all included in the 10th Brigade.

This special operations brigade also has a scale of more than 4,000 people, all of whom are eliminated in the process of training space marines. Equipped with the Alliance's own exoskeleton armor, they can also use the Blaster and Chainsaw Sword on their own. The combat effectiveness is far worse than that of a serious space marine, and if it really happens, I'm afraid it won't be for people to open a peerless family and kill it casually.

But if they run into other normal armies with the same light infantry, they can kill indiscriminately.

The point is that the numbers vary widely.

After all, there are only dozens of Space Marines, and not all missions can find them.

And the special operations brigade, which has a size of several thousand people, is different.

In fact, the 10th Brigade had already performed very well in the previous Blackbird Campaign. They have been able to tackle key targets many times, and they are often able to live up to their mission, achieve their goals, and avoid heavy casualties among conventional troops; There are also some special airborne operations, infiltration operations behind enemy lines, data transmission command nodes of the enemy, decapitation tactics, and destruction of the enemy's logistics supply centers......

At that time, there were only 2,000 people in the special operations brigade, and the role of fighting was more effective than that of several more divisions.

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