Xiao Lin first drew up a plan, but did not put it into practice for the time being. Now, he has more morale to do. And this matter is also something that many soldiers in the company have been looking forward to for a long time. The company now has more than 13,000 troops, and the battalion-level structure is no longer suitable. If you want to calculate it carefully, there must be one hundred and thirty battalion commanders, which is not only very inconvenient for military command, but also unfair to the old man who followed Xiao Lin and made great achievements.

The original plan was to start preparations for the regimental structure. However, because there are a bit of recruits, the regimental structure is not enough. According to the three-tier system, there must be more than thirty regiment commanders, this number is still too much, and there is no upper level, so it seems a little inconvenient to manage. Moreover, Xiao Lin plans to further expand the number of troops to 20,000 within this year, and the regimental level is no longer enough.

Therefore, Xiao Lin decided to set up a brigade-level system. As the three veteran generals with the greatest credit for the company, they were also the founding army that Xiao Lin personally taught command skills, and this time Apache, James and Babu were entrusted with important tasks. The reorganization of the three-man team will be based on a regiment of veteran guards soldiers, with two regiments of recruits, and a cavalry company, to form a front-line combat battalion with a number of 2,800-3,000 combatants.

The reason why there should be a vacancy of two hundred in numbers was to leave three brigade commanders to recruit and train cavalry. The company has fought several battles in a row, and has also captured a large number of war horses, but in general it is still only 500 horses, and the roots are not enough for 300 people, so they can only give 100 per battalion, and the rest is left to them to organize. As long as he has that ability, and two hundred more horses are captured, he can successfully form a cavalry battalion, and the number of men can also be three thousand.

The machine gun fire of the main regiment composed of the fighters of the original escort battalion will be doubled again, and the light machine guns will be equipped to the squad, a total of thirty units. Heavy machine guns were equipped to the platoon, amounting to ten in total. Mortars are also equipped to platoons, ten in a battalion and thirty in a regiment. The two new regiments, with the same firepower as the previous escort battalion, non-commissioned officers, lieutenants and colonels, will be armed with Type 17 pistols. The entire battalion will be armed with ten light machine guns, three heavy machine guns, and ten Assault mortars.

Because the heavy artillery was not formed, Xiao Lin did not equip the troops with a separate artillery unit. Sholin drew all the fighters with a modicum of cultural knowledge together, and gathered a total of 3,000 men into an artillery brigade, led by Sholin himself. For the time being, there were only fifty Heavy Fist Type 1 guns and 70 Heavy Fist Type 2 guns. The heavy artillery is the inventory that was previously produced and sold to the Charles family and the trader tribe, because the two forces merged into the company, and these cannons were returned to the company, which is equivalent to making a business without capital.

The power of the heavy-handed artillery was good, but it could not form an overwhelming advantage over the British or French artillery units, and Xiao Lin and the decision not to produce it again were a last resort, and only a small production equipment was mothballed. The rest of the equipment was converted into production equipment for the Heavy Fist II artillery, which the company will continue to use for a long time. Even if it is eliminated in the future, it is an excellent and good weapon for any other force, and it will not lose money if it is sold.

The 3,200 Type 54 howitzers that Xiao Lin purchased at this time have not yet been shipped to the localities. Even if it is transported to the ground, it will not be able to form a large number of combat effectiveness until it is disassembled and thoroughly studied by the people of the research team to form a complete production process. The main thing is that there are too few shells, at least twenty cannons can be gathered on one cannon to support a battle. The three punches also thought that Xiao Lin's inadvertent dialing allowed Zhao Menghai to solve the most critical problem and was about to enter the production process.

In peacetime, artillery brigades are trained intensively, and when it comes to battle, they will temporarily join each front-line field brigade or a large unit composed of several brigades in the form of a company, battalion, or regiment, or even an entire brigade. At that time, the main command will be handed over to the commanders of each front-line field brigade or the commander-in-chief designated by Xiao Lin. The deputy commander naturally remained in Xiao Lin's hands, mainly to ensure the strong combat effectiveness of the artillery unit just in case.

The four brigades combined are almost 12,000 people. The rest of the people formed two recruit brigades together, and the equipment of these three brigades was relatively poor. The number of Type 17 pistols, mortars, light machine guns and heavy machine guns was replaced by revolvers, and it was only half that of other recruits. All three regiments were second-line garrisons, and they were also used by Shawlin to house the warrior leaders of the Charles family and the Trader Tribe. Most of these people are not young, and it is difficult for them to pass the company's commander training course and the final assessment, so the front-line field army will never go.

However, you can't just throw them down, because then you can't form a demonstration of buying a horse's bones. They are also quite self-aware and know their abilities, besides, Xiao Lin has also completely redressed them, at least everyone has a Yanhuang Type 1 rifle. It's not comparable to the Hall M1819 rifle they used before, this kind of gun is bought by the patriarch on both sides out of his pocket, and it is considered someone's private property, and Xiao Lin is not easy to collect.

Especially Alger, who was Shawlin's other father-in-law, Shawlin didn't have the cheekiness. Those Hall guns, Shawlin directly paid for them, and turned them to the militia. Shawlin had planned to raise a militia of 5,000 people, and these rifles were just enough for them to use for training and defense. Because the militia received little attention and its composition was relatively complex, Xiao Lin felt that it was impossible to guarantee the absolute loyalty of the militia troops to the company, and Xiao Lin felt that it was not safe to give Yan Huang a rifle.

However, Shawlin's eldest brother, Thoth, was not willing to serve as the commander of a garrison brigade. He is only twenty-seven years old, just in the prime of life, his physical strength and thinking are still rising, and he is also close to his peak, how can he be willing to stay in the rear to retire. Toth made a bet with Sholin that as long as he could complete his military academy training on time and get good results in the final assessment, Sholin would upgrade the equipment of his garrison brigade and upgrade it to a front-line field brigade. Now, together with some old subordinates, he has entered the company's junior military academy to learn the company's combat technology and concepts.

For the time being, the troops were trained under the auspices of officers drawn from the escort unit. This time, the people of the escort team were also promoted, and those who were still young and good at learning and progressing went to the main brigade and were promoted to one level, that is, the squad leader went to be the platoon commander, the platoon commander went to be the company commander, and the company commander went to be the battalion commander or even the regiment commander. And the old, the physical strength is a little unable to keep up, or the one who has been wounded once in a previous battle, will serve in the garrison regiment.

Naturally, the welfare benefits will still be raised, which is also an explanation for these old heroes. After calculation, in fact, the number of troops is not enough, a total of six brigades, nearly 17,000 people, and the company only has 13,000 people. The remaining 4,000 people are all real recruits who have just started recruiting. The previous 10,000 recruits, after a battle, cannot be considered 100% recruits, and after a period of training, they can be used as veterans.

In fact, it stands to reason that there are not enough adult men in Xiao Lin's hands. However, the Charles family once again contributed some people. Coupled with the five hundred adults brought by the God of War, as well as the people who came to defect to the company during this time, a third of the gap has been gathered. For the other two-thirds, Shawlin used someone that no one in the company thought of, and that was the black slave that Shawlin bought.

As a result of Shawlin's efforts, the whites and Indians in the company were able to maintain basic harmony, and there were no racial disputes. However, for these blacks, whether they are whites or Indians, there is a sense of contempt. These blacks, who have been trained by slave traders, are really a bit servile. Every day, I know that I will work hard and complete the physical work assigned by the company, and then I will go to the collective canteen to eat Haisai, and after eating, I will go home and go to bed early.

In the company, all those who want to improve their status and want to get more pay will use their free time every day to hone their abilities and learn new knowledge. Driven by these people, others don't play completely during their breaks, and always have to learn something new. The development of the company does not need people who will rigidly obey orders, but needs to love learning, have their own ideas, and constantly improve their abilities. Moreover, Sholin also constantly promoted the idea of equality and respect for freedom.

Therefore, they look down on these black people who are willing to be slaves and only know how to work, eat, drink, and sleep. Regardless, Shawlin really doesn't have enough adult men in his hands right now. If the two ethnic groups were to be drawn from the civilian population, much of the production would have been impossible. And as Xiao Lin shipped more and more machinery and equipment, the demand for labor was not so big. And now in the company, except for the latest people who have joined the company for a few days, only these blacks are laborers.

Sholin's trade with the slave trader Icjik continued during the war, and the total number of blacks in the company reached more than 4,000. From among them, two thousand of the most obedient blacks were selected and officially entered the barracks, ready to begin the training of recruits. Nor did they have any objection to the director's arrangement. That little bit of tiring training in the army was nothing to these suffering blacks. On the contrary, it is the food that has been raised by more than one grade that makes them care more.

After these blacks are trained, there is no problem in being a garrison, but they will definitely not be able to enter the front-line field troops.