At the end of April, a military meeting was held for three consecutive days in the Zhongnanhai Hall of the Yingzhou Governor's Mansion. The topic was very simple, namely, military expansion. For military generals, what could be more exciting than military expansion?
The expansion of the Yingzhou Army is the most urgent matter at present. The urgency lies in the fact that with the cancellation of the Lulong Army's northbound camp and the border troops moving south, there are almost no soldiers on the border wall, and the entire border defense line must rely on Yingzhou.
The army is here to maintain it. This important task falls on the generals of the Yingzhou army, and it is an urgent matter.
After careful planning, the Third Division of the Headquarters submitted an army expansion plan to Li Chengzhong. The main idea was to build a military force capable of defending Lulong Prefecture. This military force must be able to deter all ethnic groups outside the customs in the near future.
In the future, they must be able to independently undertake the task of dealing with military threats to southern military towns. In the short term, the main combat targets are the Khitans, specifically Abaoji and others. In the long term, the goal is to deal with the Xuanwu Army.
Wei Bojun, Chengde Army and Yiwu Army attacked Lulong Army. Because according to the predictions of Yingzhou Dudufu and Yingzhou Governor Shifu, the Lulong Army units stationed in Fanyang are no longer enough to defend Lulong. In the future, this task is likely to be carried out by Yingzhou
The army completed it independently.
According to this leading idea, military-level combat units must be established under the Yingzhou Dudufu to meet the combat needs of different battlefields. In other words, the past "Yingzhou Army" is no longer a unified designation for the armies under the Yingzhou Dudufu, but
It can only be one of them. In the near future, this army will be mainly composed of two military levels: Yingzhou Army and Huaiyue Allied Army. In the long term, Youzhou Army, Cangzhou Army and other armies will also be established, all under the command of the Dudu Mansion.
Control. The "Third Division of Yingzhou Army Headquarters" will also become history. In the new establishment, it should be called the "Third Division of Yingzhou Dudufu". Even in the mouths of some ambitious officers, the "Third Division of Lulong Jiedu Prefecture" was established.
The theory of "Si" has also begun to show its signs.
The military-level combat units proposed in the plan include regular main forces on the left and right sides.
The new Yingzhou Army has two wings, each with five battalions, each battalion with five capitals, and two teams in each capital. In addition to the left and right wings, there are also old camps directly under the jurisdiction of the military headquarters. The entire army has a total of more than 6,400 officers and soldiers.
There are more than 2,680 people in each compartment, and 530 people in each battalion. Including the old camp, there are 24 spearmen, 12 sword and shield soldiers, 12 crossbowmen and 12 military commanders.
cavalry.
The battalion is the basic combat force and can perform individual combat missions. When encountering a large-scale battle, it can be completed independently by the camp-level organization. When a major battle occurs, the army-level organization needs to be used. If it is a strategic
In the event of a decisive battle, the Dudu Mansion will need to mobilize various armies and set up temporary camps or headquarters to respond.
According to the new military rank system of the Yingzhou Army last winter, the corps leader corresponds to the ninth-rank Peirong Colonel, the team leader corresponds to the Peirong Colonel or the ninth-grade Renyong Colonel, and the team deputy corresponds to the Renyong Colonel or the eighth-grade Yuqi.
The captain of the school corresponds to the captain of the imperial guard. There is an additional position of joining the army at the Du level, assisting the captain, and playing the role of enlightenment and warlord. Both the captain and the captain of the army are the eight-level xuanjie captain.
Regarding the new army establishment, the Third Division of the Headquarters concluded after analyzing previous battles that Yidu-level units were unable to meet separate battlefield tasks. From the Yuguan Defense Battle to the Bailangshan Military Village Defense Battle, and later
In the battle at the northern foot of Bailang Mountain, the early Yingzhou Army, the former Pingzhou Army Front Camp, was always in the embarrassment of insufficient personnel.
The embarrassing position of being passively beaten. In the current organization, a battalion contains five commanders, namely two commanders of spearmen, one commander of sword and shield soldiers, two commanders of archers and crossbowmen, and one commander of cavalry. This makes the battalion-level combat unit equipped with various capabilities.
With a complete set of arms, they can basically perform individual battlefield tasks.
It should be noted that the new establishment system is divided into two types, namely independent establishment and combined establishment. The above-mentioned battalion-level and five-duty establishments are independent establishments. When fighting in battalion units, independent establishments are adopted. When encountering large-scale battles,
, then a synthetic organization is adopted. The so-called synthetic organization. The so-called synthetic organization means that the battalion level is divided into five battalions to form a new five battalions. The spearmen of each battalion are combined into a unified spearman battalion, and the sword and shield are combined into a sword and shield battalion.
All are combined into an archery battalion, and all cavalry are combined into a cavalry battalion. In this way, it can be ensured that the first-level combat unit has a large-scale combined unit of arms to meet the needs of the frontal battlefield.
The application of the two organizational systems is very demanding for battalion-level commanders. They not only need to have independent command capabilities under independent organizational conditions, but also need to master the tactical coordination capabilities under combined organizational conditions. When fighting alone,
The battalion commander needs to command the unified coordination and dispatch of the five arms. In a large-scale duel on the frontal battlefield, he is responsible for commanding the same arm of the five capitals and completing combat tasks according to the orders of the commander.
Therefore, starting from this level, the army has established a battalion-level headquarters. The headquarters includes the battalion commander, battalion instructor, deputy commander, battalion lieutenant, army officer, recorder, two escorts, and two experience. Among them, the battalion commander and battalion commander
The instructor is the captain of the seventh rank Zhiguo, the deputy commander and battalion commander are the captains of the seventh rank Yihui, the battalion commander is responsible for combat decision-making, the battalion instructor is responsible for education, military law and merit examination, the deputy commander is the reserve officer of the battalion commander, in peacetime
He is mainly responsible for training, and takes over the battalion commander's position when he loses his command ability during wartime. The battalion commander is responsible for the staff. This kind of headquarters organization corresponds to the three divisions of the headquarters, and is essentially more similar to the command system in the army before Li Chengzhong's time travel.
——It can effectively prevent the emergence of Shantouism in the military, and at the same time, the responsibilities will be more clear and detailed.
It is a leap from an officer at the capital level to an officer at the battalion level. The requirements for chief officers are relatively high. In the army, the two levels of officers can also be regarded as a watershed. In terms of specific promotions, the new organizational system requirements all start with the command.
Promotion must go through the following process: return to Bailangshan Military Academy to participate in senior officer training, and then be transferred to the battalion headquarters to serve as a member of the army. During non-war times, this position should not be less than half a year, and then be promoted from joining the army to seven
A battalion lieutenant or deputy commander gradually moves to a command or education position according to his characteristics and talents. Also starting from the battalion level, officers are divided into a two-level system: command and staff officers - military chief officers, education officers -
—Chief Political Worker.
It should be noted that since last fall, Bailangshan Military Academy has officially set up junior officer training classes and senior officer training classes. The training of officers at Fandutou and below is the responsibility of the junior class, and the training of above-level officers is the responsibility of senior officers.
Class completed.
There are currently five battalions of the Yingzhou Army. In this expansion, the original five battalions will be mainly supplemented by some new recruits, and the left wing of the Yingzhou Army will be established as the fist force of the Yingzhou Army to maintain the combat effectiveness of the Yingzhou Army.
.Deploy some veterans and officers from the left wing to establish a backbone team of officers from the right wing. The right wing is the focus of military expansion, including a total of 750 people from the Liucheng Reserve Battalion, Yanjun Reserve Battalion and Jinxian Reserve Battalion.
, and at the same time, the 1,500 recruits trained by the Training Department this winter will be placed in the right compartment, and the shortfall will be supplemented from the next batch of recruits.
In addition to the left and right wings, there is an old camp directly under the headquarters of the Yingzhou Army. It is composed of the five capitals of the original middle camp of the Yingzhou Army, including the guard capital on the left, the guard on the right capital, the garrison capital, the scout capital, and the crossbow capital. Each capital has a double establishment.
, that is, four teams of 200 people and a whole battalion of 1,000 people, as a strategic reserve controlled by the military command headquarters. During the specific establishment, the original Yingzhou Army Central Battalion was transferred, and based on this battalion, new recruits of the same size were expanded to form one veteran and one leader.
New equipment.
Li Chengzhong personally served as the commander of the capital of Yingzhou Army and the envoy of education and education, and Zhang Xingzhong served as the envoy of the capital Yuhou. The commander of the left wing was Meng Xuxing, the commander of the right wing was awarded to Jiao Chengqiao, and Zhou Xiaolang was the commander of the old camp of Jinyingzhou Army.
Wei Keming and Wang Yibu were transferred back from the Huaiyue Allied Forces and served as the Dujiaohua and Duyuhou of the left chamber respectively. The first infantry battalion Jiedao Li Dingnan was promoted to the Dujiaohua of the right chamber, and Liu Jinhou served as the Duyuhou of the right chamber; the former Department of Education
Xiao Zheyuan, the superintendent of the merit examination department, was transferred to the post of Laoying Jiaohua, and Qin Yueshan, the former superintendent of the combat department of the Yuhou Division, was transferred to the post of Laoying Yuhou.
The Waiyue Allied Forces did not have an old battalion, and only the Yuhou Joint Headquarters was responsible for the command. There were no left and right wings, and the main battalion was organized into ten capitals - that is, the basic combat strength was a thousand people. The temporary cavalry battalion was commanded by Jieli, and the cavalry was temporarily organized.
The commander of the second battalion was Gao Mingxun, the temporary commander of the first infantry battalion was Wu Yingli, the temporary commander of the second infantry battalion was Yang Yuequan, and the temporary commander of the third infantry battalion was King Kong. The whole army totaled 5,000 people.
Another thing that attracts attention in the expansion of the army is that the original Yingzhou Army Zhongying Battalion Logistics Command was abolished and a new logistics battalion was built, with a total of ten battalions, each with a hundred people. The new logistics battalion was directly under the management of the Logistics Division of the Yuhou Division of the headquarters, and was used in wartime.
Each logistics unit is the core. A certain number of civilians are recruited to form an independent logistics force, which is assigned to the combat troops by Yu Housi. The significance of this reform is to relieve the logistics burden of each combat unit and at the same time, separate the logistics units from the organization and
Operate independently in terms of command, forming a large-scale and professional logistics supply chain to shoulder more arduous logistics support tasks. To this end, Cui He was specially transferred from the Huaiyue Yuhou Joint Headquarters and returned to the Yuhou Division Logistics Department
, assisted Zhao Hongde in managing the logistics camp. The joint headquarters candidate position vacated after his transfer was filled by Jie Li.
In the new large-scale expansion of the army, all the training departments have joined the army, which makes Zhou Kan's task very heavy. The old battalion of the Yingzhou Army has a shortage of 500 people, the left wing has a vacancy of 500 people, the right wing has a vacancy of 500 people, and the reserve battalions in the five counties have a vacancy of one.
There are 1,250 people, and the logistics battalion is short of 1,000 people. He needs to recruit and train 3,750 new people. At the same time, he is also responsible for selecting and recruiting a large number of grassroots backbone soldiers and sending them to White Wolf.
Mountain Military Academy to train qualified grass-roots officers. In addition, the Combat Training Department must formulate a training program and focus on rigorous training for those with no combat experience.
The most troublesome problem for Zhou Kan is that the new Huaiyue Alliance Army still has 4,000 people from Bohai Kingdom and Xiongjin Prefecture. The combat literacy of this group of soldiers is quite poor, which is different from the original training of the Khitan troops. This is a
An arduous task! Fortunately, since the Battle of Yuguan when the Yingzhou Army was first founded, it has gone through the Battle of Bailangshan Military Village, the Battle of the Northern Foot of Bailangshan, the Encirclement and Suppression Battle of the Xiaoling River Basin, the Battle of Lumingwa, and the Battle of Xijing.
In dozens of battles, including battles, there were hundreds of veterans who were unable to return to the battlefield due to injuries. At first, Li Chengzhong did not send these wounded soldiers back to their hometowns, but instead raised them with honor.
In this training for new recruits, these veterans played a major role. They had both combat experience and training experience, which solved the problem of instructor quotas for this major training.
This kind of military expansion is the largest since Li Chengzhong took charge of Yingzhou. It involves recruitment issues, recruit training issues, troop logistics adjustment issues, new military pay issues, re-appointment and training issues of officers at all levels, etc. It is cumbersome and complicated.
Detailed. Of course, such a large-scale military expansion is also a major test for civilian officers and staff officers at all levels in the third division of the Governor's Office. Once the military expansion is successfully completed, it will serve as an extremely important reference for future military expansion.
Since the end of April, the Training Department has begun to recruit new soldiers in the five counties under the jurisdiction of Yingzhou. Because the Yingzhou Army provides high wages and benefits, and this army has won consecutive victories in previous battles, it is very attractive.
In early May, more than 3,700 recruits were recruited and headed to the recruit training camp outside the south gate of Liucheng to begin training. It is expected that by August, the three-month recruit training will be completed, and by the end of August, Yingzhou
The Xinying Prefecture Army and the Huaiyue Allied Army under the jurisdiction of the Dudu Mansion will be ready for the first time.
Because of more than a year of military training experience, the training methods planned by the Combat Training Department have been increasingly improved. The new training outline clearly stipulates that the first two weeks are military discipline and military law training, followed by one month of queue training, and then one and a half months
Comprehensive training of combat skills and battle formations, which runs through cultural learning, physical training, honor development and group collaboration and other contents.
When Li Chengzhong inspected the training of new recruits in early May, thousands of new recruits were studying the "Regulations on Soldiers of the Yingzhou Army". They were either listening to lectures in class, reciting them collectively in the school grounds, or facing the wall individually and surrounding each other.
Mumbling memories under the tree made Li Chengzhong feel a little dazed. The scene made him feel like he was in a training ground for army recruits before time travel.
After the expansion of the army, the total strength of Li Chengzhong's Yingzhou Army, Huaiyue Allied Forces and reserve battalions will exceed 13,000. If such a number of people was a huge burden for Yingzhou before last winter, then it is no longer a burden now.
That’s a problem. Nowadays, the number of people in Yingzhou reaches 400,000. According to the usual ratio of 1 in 30, this number is just right. If we also count out the Huaiyue Allied Forces, whose military expenses are borne by Khitan, Bohai and Xiongjin Prefecture, Li Chengzhong still has
He has the remaining energy to continue to form new battalion leaders. Of course, for now, the Training Department is not busy at all, and new recruitment is not yet planned. When Yingzhou is really in danger, Li Chengzhong can temporarily pull out 6,000 people
, or even 10,000 people, these people can be used as civilians, and even given simple weapons to strengthen the military power.
Bailangshan Military Academy also urgently expanded its enrollment and transferred more than 200 combat cadres to begin three months of junior officer training. In this sixth junior officer training class of Bailangshan Military Academy, a large number of outstanding grassroots officers emerged.
In the future Yingzhou Army's war, he showed extremely strong combat effectiveness, and "Bailangshan Military Academy Sixth Period Student" became an extremely glorious title.