Section 146 Military Reform and Magic Research Institute (I)
Solomon really does not plan to use the House of Commons for the time being, and the House of Commons, which has not even received the right to make proposals, shows that the current strength is still very weak, and it is not suitable to confront the old forces that are weak but still strong, and when the House of Commons can achieve equal power will represent the maturity of the new forces.
Moreover, the uproar in the House of Commons some time ago also shows that it is still in the chaos of the nascent period, and the parliamentarians with the same or similar interests have not yet stood together, so they will give the House of Lords a chance to divide, but this is not entirely a bad thing, after such a trouble, the vast majority of parliamentarians should be enlightened.
If the newly-born bourgeoisie wants to seek greater political power and make a more powerful voice, there must always be a process, and it is fundamental to develop and strengthen itself.
So, the new legion where he was still the commander of the legion, he didn't intend to be just a puppet and hand it over to Freas.
The reason why this legion, the royal family and Freyas wanted him to have his name on it, was because of the number of the legion that had been added during the First Yugudral's War.
The current Council of Lords certainly did not want the kingdom to add more new legions, so this legion could have been abolished, but the royal family and Freyas had the intention to use this legion to build a real new legion and take control.
The method of control, as I have said before, is a new legion, unlike the previous name for Solomon to recruit mercenaries to fight. According to common sense, the recruitment of ordinary soldiers is not much of a problem, but it is very problematic when it comes to officers.
The current Kaos countries are practicing a corps system, with squads as the basic unit, and generally six squads form a squadron. Six squadrons formed a brigade. The three brigades formed a corps. The number of squads also depends on the size of the squad, the squad of the mercenary regiment can be as low as a squad of fifty or sixty people, while the squad of the regular army of the kingdom is generally eighty to one hundred and twenty people, the most common is one hundred, and the main legion of the kingdom, sometimes the squad may be as many as one hundred and fifty people, such as the melee legion of the royal family is as high as two or three hundred people per squad, and one legion can top the normal number of two to three legions.
The reason why this is so simple is simple. Before, the army of Asturias was not under unified command, and some legions were in the hands of the dukes, and the number of legions they controlled was small, but if they wanted to get more soldiers, they had to break the normal structure of the squad and stuff more people inside.
In military operations in this era, corps-level operations are, of course, necessary to emphasize strategy, and it is also possible to use strategic superiority to gain the initiative; however, when two armies are facing each other and fight with squadron and squad-level units, it is very important to look at the character of the squadron leader or squad leader who is the leader.
Often the squadron leader or squad leader can lead by example. This squadron or squad will be demoralized, which is the so-called difference between being on me and being on me.
If the squadron leader or squad leader is strong again. No one can stop it, but if you directly fight with the opponent's captain, and if you succeed in a quick decapitation, the fighting spirit on the other side will drop even if it doesn't collapse.
Therefore, squadron leaders and squad leaders are also very important when building a new corps, no matter how powerful the corps commander is, it is impossible to command every soldier on the battlefield, and it is always up to these grassroots non-commissioned officers to drive and realize the will of the corps.
Solomon wants to build a new legion, and he will remain the commander of the legion, and he may be able to find a few candidates for the captain, but at least six squadron leaders and thirty-six squad leaders, the royal family and Freyas believe that he will not be able to come up with.
When the time comes, as long as Freyas draws thirty-six non-commissioned officers from the Guards Legion, the lowest level of the legion will be in the hands of the royal family.
This is a conspiracy, even if you can guess it, you can't break it, who told you that you can't take it out.
However, to Freas's surprise, Solomon did not ask for reinforcement from the Guards, but instead made an unprecedented change.
He did not recruit troops immediately, but first came up with a set of drill manuals for military training.
Of course, the kingdoms of Keos also have methods for training their armies, but in this fantasy world, more attention is paid to individual martial arts, even if a certain general has a unique way of training soldiers, he also has a strong personal style, limited to the army under his direct command, and inheriting this method is only to teach his children and grandchildren, and will not be written as a formal training book like Solomon.
And this code of conduct is not quite the same as the training methods of many so-called famous generals, and the most obvious difference is that it is too detailed.
First of all, it attaches importance to the implementation of regulations, requiring the army to carry out systematic training, down to the point where a turning order is made, and the standard action of a soldier is to move which foot to move first; in the past, even famous generals realized that in group battles, if the weak can be more disciplined, they are often more able to concentrate their strength, and emphasize the training for orders and prohibitions, but it is by no means meticulous to the point of this code.
This manual breaks down the steps of loading and firing into different sequential fixed movements, and gives each action a name and starting word, so that soldiers can more easily make a salvo of fire when shooting.
There is also a drill for the queue, the column becomes a horizontal team, and the horizontal team becomes a column, and the queue drill is based on the standard movements of the soldiers in front, one link after another.
At the same time that Solomon took out the drill code, he also directly appointed a dozen people recruited by Uncle Guò Tiffany to become the captain and squadron leader of the army, Mr. Smith had been acting as a broker for the wandering samurai, introducing these hard-working samurai to merchants who needed to be guarded, and earning commissions from them, he even once formed a mercenary team, took a group of people to Yugudral's adventure, and ran the business by himself, but the business was not so easy to do, and he didn't make any money in the early stage, and then it was up to Solomon to catch Mrs. Doris's line, and then add him to it, he made a small fortune。
This time, Solomon Tong Guò took in more than a dozen undesirable samurai, among them were down-and-out knights, wandering warriors, former captains of mercenary regiments, second sons of nobles without inheritance, etc., and by the way, one of them was the second son of the Spencer family, Henley.
Previously, with the support of the resources provided by the Spencer family, Henley formed a private army and went to the battlefield of Farushion to make a fortune. Externally, there was the suppression of Asturias by Titania. Internally, the Spencer family, from which he was born, was also not very harmonious with the Bourbons. His semi-commercial, semi-mercenary operations were also affected and he went to Yugular to develop. It was smooth sailing in Yugudral, who led his small private army to fight with the kingdom's army, and even followed him into the capital of Grumbel.
When there is a shortage of soldiers, it is the time when the mercenaries get rich, take advantage of the chaos to grab some things, and overthrow the two noble ladies, which everyone understands.
But the inverted frieze happened. King Corter and Manfroy connected to Purgatory, summoned the demon god Agareth and a large number of Infernal monsters, and turned heaven into hell in an instant.
Angli's private army died there in large numbers, as well as several of his companions who had followed him with various ideals, and to make matters worse, although Agareth was expelled, many of the remaining monsters were still in the Yugudal plane, and the monsters could attack all plane creatures except himself, so the wilderness of Yugular became more than ten times more dangerous than before, and without a strong escort, it was difficult to carry out commercial activities there.
And Henry's private army died in large numbers. He had no troops, and his savings were used to pay for his dead men. Of course, he could have given less or less, but he had feelings for this private army that had been built up single-handedly, and he even felt guilty that he had brought them into danger.
In this way, most of his savings were gone, and he had to be reduced to a mercenary squad, ready to take on some small tasks to do, and he didn't expect much from the Spencer family, because the family could not support him again and again.
It was in this context that he was introduced to Solomon by Smith.
Solomon was barely satisfied with these people, and his request for Smith to help him find someone was not to ask how brave the other party was or what background he had, on the contrary, the more background he had, the better he was down, as long as he was innocent.
Because he originally needed people to re-accept this set of military training methods he made up, which he took the time to recall some poor knowledge before his crossing and his personal understanding and application, it may not be good enough, but at least it followed the trajectory of the impact of the industrial revolution on the military system, that is, to pay attention to standardization, which is one of the key points of industrial production, and it is also one of the key points of military transformation under industrialization, which is in the same line.
Under this new concept, even if Freyas wishes, accept the non-commissioned officers of the Guards he wants to transfer as the backbone, he will have to spend time to wash the other party's brain, so that the other party can break the shackles of the old thinking, not to mention that the other party has other purposes, but just wants to accept this number and the soldiers under the number;
So the more depressed it is, the better, because it is more necessary to listen to him, the boss, and there is no other black hand that wants to reach out.
Solomon trained Henry and them first, and Chebman and Leonis were also added by him, no way, he did lack people on his hands, which accounted for Freas They were not mistaken.
In addition to explaining to them the content and meaning of the drill code first, Solomon also let them intuitively see the effect after a certain amount of practice, that is, the fire force composed of the elite dwarves of the Stone Fist Kingdom of the Black Rock Plane is now in the Faddell plane.
This army is not very numerous, and it is only half of the Fadl plane, and when the army was established, Solomon had already sketched a simple training method for Tieye to use for training, and then trained this half-hanging firearm army.
But it is such a low-level dwarf army, some of them are beginning to be unable to distinguish between left and right, and they have to tie a turban on their left arm to show the difference, the only advantage is to be obedient, willing to repeat the actions in the drill code over and over again, and then react according to the password, and after using the dwarf war of the Black Rock Plane as a practice opponent, it not only helped the Stone Fist Kingdom become the largest dwarf kingdom in the Black Rock Plane, but also performed more eye-catching than the ordinary kingdom soldiers when participating in the war in the Fadel Plane.
Solomon took them to Fadell and got a first-hand look at what the Black Rock Dwarven Firecrackers looked like during training.
Angli and the others saw with their own eyes that the Black Rock Dwarves were training some of the movements in the drill code, but the training requirements were much lower than the drill code, and the Black Rock Dwarves' fire gun team could not meet the requirements of the army that Solomon wanted to establish, but the path he took was set by him, which was originally his actual product.
Of course, a 100 percent score in an army is an all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor, but it is impossible to achieve it when the army has just begun to be built, and as long as it can successfully introduce standardization and train it in the army at the beginning, it can pass.
After letting Henry understand what kind of army they wanted and what kind of soldiers they would lead in the future, Solomon began to come up with a new army structure and start recruiting.
The new army structure is essentially that Solomon moved the modern three-three system that he knew before the crossing as the initial structure of the army, discarded the original structure of the legion of squads, squadrons, and brigades, set up a finer structure, and divided into smaller combat units, three squads for a platoon, three platoons for a company, three companies for a battalion, a squad of about 40 people, a battalion of about 1,200 people (the extra scattered population is as a herald and the battalion commander's personal guard), and then three battalions and a regiment, and three regiments form a division.
However, recruitment and training had only begun, and Solomon had only appointed three battalion commanders, namely Chebman, Henley, and Leonis, and the others as company commanders, and they had to train the first soldiers to be recruited according to the requirements of the drill code, and at the same time select the better trained people to serve as vacant squad leaders, platoon leaders, and company commanders, so that they could be promoted to regimental commanders.
Thus began the recruitment and training of new troops, but the change was confined to this Solomonic legion.
Other armies in Asturias have also begun to accept firearms, but only in cooperation with the old troops, and for the time being, it is not possible to fully equip firearms, mainly because of the production of firearms and the limitation of military spending. Solomon does not have these two obstacles, because first of all, he has a great influence on the production of firecrackers, although the domestic production of firecrackers is not monopolized by him, and there are many workshops, but because they were collected and sold to the Fadel natives, these workshops will definitely be given priority to him, and the problem of production is also being solved; secondly, although the military budget is not enough to fully equip it, if Solomon is willing to pay for it out of his own pocket, it will be a different matter.
When other legions introduced firearms, they had to consider the combination of the old troops, so a battle formation similar to the Spanish phalanx was formed, with traditional light and heavy infantry combined with a small number of firearms.
Even if it's just that, the legionnaires who began to introduce firecrackers also felt the benefits, the advantage is that this new weapon can replace the archers to fight, not that the firecrackers surpass the powerful marksmen, this is a fantasy world, high-level shooters like Leonis, only with the current firecrackers, how can they not surpass her, but not all of them are Leonis, and a firecracker with a certain amount of training, its lethality is at least not inferior to the shooter with a primary rank, but the time required between the two is several times different, the firecracker only needs a few months, and the shooter with a rank generally takes more than two years。 (To be continued......)