For most armed forces in the empire, perhaps this step-like distribution of troops seems a bit redundant, and it seems more reasonable to recruit a regiment and give another regiment number.
But Soshiyan knew very well that peace at present is unstable and no enemy would cooperate with him obediently. The idea of trying to "farm" in an absolute peace is very dangerous. With the skill level of fear of the deceased, Olps can be brought back into the war at any time. Therefore, the most priority he had to consider was the wartime situation, otherwise he would definitely suffer a great loss.
Even though he knew that Menak might be held back by his opponent, Soshiyan did not know how long the battle between the two sides would be, and he did not dare to gamble. Therefore, the prerequisite for expanding the army was to ensure that he could devote himself to the cruel war of attrition at any time during the process.
The second stage of military reform was conscription. At present, the armed forces of Orps are actually quite chaotic. The Orps Guards are just a banner, but the troops that the governor can control are not all. Each galaxy has its own local garrison, the planetary governors have their own private troops, and in addition, the Ministry of Military Affairs has some garrisons - Orps' main tithe is human tithe, which is accepted by the Ministry of Military Affairs.
Of course, it is not clear whether Orps will still impose tithes. The Ministry of Military Affairs has not given a specific statement, but some institutions and garrisons have evacuated, so Soshiyang speculated that there should not be any more in a short period of time.
In this case, the Orps Expeditionary Force Command ordered the reorganization of the armed forces in the entire star area, dismissed and reorganized personnel, and incorporated the strong and outstanding people into the Orps Death Army. The previous Governor of the Star Zone will return the troops to the forcibly transferring various galaxies to the safety of the troops transferred from various galaxies to safely carry out the garrison and continue to perform the garrison duties. This strategy of retraction and release was immediately supported by various galaxies. The previous Governor mobilized troops and caused a vacuum of local armed forces, which caused different degrees of order to decline in various places. As for the transfer of a small number of elite soldiers, it was within the acceptance range. After all, maintaining order depends more on the number of people rather than quality. No elite soldiers and generals can be used to suppress the mob. Just transfer it.
In addition, they recruit aristocratic private soldiers. Compared with the garrison, the average quality and training level of aristocratic private soldiers are higher. Most of them are from middle nests or even upper nests, and many of them have served in the army for generations. Although they are aristocratic dog-legged in daily life, they have relatively rich combat experience, and their number is very large due to the strength of the noble power of Olps.
The reason for the expansion of Olps' aristocratic power is that the current governor's family, Langn family. After the orthodox Olps family initially recognized by the empire, the Langn family, which had a little in-law relationship with the Orpps family, was usurped to power in a sense. Due to the improper position and the lack of overwhelming strength, this family had to use all means to win over the ruling families in the star region and give up a lot of power. This defeated many challengers in the bloody and cruel rebellion era. However, the sequelae is that the nobles of each planet in the star region have become extremely powerful and difficult to control. It is difficult for the Langn family to control the place except Amara, which is why they would rather defend here than transfer.
But Soshiyan didn't plan to be abusive to them. In fact, there are more places to use them in the future, so I just scratched it a little first.
He ordered in the name of the Expeditionary Army General Command that all nobles, according to their respective territorial areas, could only have a maximum of 100-2,000 private soldiers. Once this number exceeded, they would be regarded as colluding with the enemy and directly confiscated their homes!
In addition to obtaining new recruits from the guards and private nobles, the rest is recruiting from the people. This matter is simple, but it is actually a bit difficult to implement, because the Astral Knights have no foundation here, and such large-scale activities can only rely on local power, which makes it difficult to ensure efficiency and quality. Even the aristocrats with grudges may stuff a bunch of crooked melons into it.
In order to ensure that the conscription plan can be completed in quality and quantity, Soshyan made a decision, that is, to dismantle the company in his hands, deploy it to various galaxies of the Orps on the scale of a small team, and gather forces from the forging of the world, establish a small group of monastery fortresses in the capital of each galaxy, and use close-range armed deterrence to ensure the local execution, and at the same time, select suitable boys from various places to participate in the selection of recruits. This also has the advantage of "transfer of power" and let the local people realize that the supreme power has been transferred from the Governor of the Star Zone to Astart, and everything they have to do in the future is decided by the Knights of the Star Zone.
The third stage of military reform is equipment and logistics.
Since the main opponents of Orps are the fearless, they need to maintain a very large scale, and the protective gear is more about survival systems rather than defense, so they are not suitable for the systems of Vatish and Pushtiban. Instead, they must be similar to the Kadian Blitzer. Fully closed combat uniforms will become standard protective gears. However, these are not the key points, the focus is on heavy weapons and vehicles. The fear lion tanks have been proven to be enough to fight against space necromancers, especially when they reach a certain scale, the space necromancers often don't invest in many troops at one time. Faced with the surging armor torrent, they do not have a wide enough battlefield to block the front, so that the armored troops can use their maneuverability to quickly double-team opponents from both sides, and use casualties to exchange for victory.
Therefore, the Orps Death Army will become a highly mechanized and reinstalled force, which makes them require an extremely large number of tanks, armored vehicles and self-propelled artillery.
These cannot be provided by long-distance transportation, and can only be produced locally. Production must be upgraded to hundreds of fields such as industry, mining, chemical industry and even agriculture. At the same time, establishing new military factories requires a large number of workers, and workers need to pay to support their families, and these expenses must be borne by someone.
For this reason, Soshyan established the Weapons and Equipment Department of the Orps Expeditionary Force.
At first glance, this department sounds like a logistics department, but in fact its power is far more than that. This department includes many personnel such as Astart, mortal bureaucrats and mechanical priests. It will not only take over all military industrial facilities and production units in Orps, but also a hub between the Expeditionary Force headquarters and various galaxies, planets, and even specific production units. The formulation and implementation of all military industry-related plans in the star area must be organized and coordinated by the department. Not only that, it even intervenes in non-military fields related to military production, such as energy, mining, agriculture, etc.
In other words, through this department, the Expeditionary Force actually controlled the entire lifeline of the Orps economy and could effectively adjust and modify it.
At the same time, it also brought the entire Olps into a wartime economy.
Soshiyan proposed: Military work is the first priority in everything and military work is the most important thing in everything. It is by no means a slogan.