Xiao Yungui's eyes turned from Zhou Xiuying and Mu Yinghong to the two female generals. They sat beside them the leaders of the Xiaodao Club who were rescued from Xiamen. Pan Qiliang, Chen Alin, Huang Wei, Huang Demei and others were all the leaders of the Xiaodao Club. Liu Lichuan had already left the army because he served in the Ningbo Military and Political Department, so he did not come to the martial arts school to study.

Xiao Yungui started planning this rotation of the West Palace in the morning. After fighting from Changsha to Suzhou Province, the West Palace's troops expanded unrestrictedly, and the components became more and more complex.

From the beginning of the Guangxi wolf soldiers to the Xianghu soldiers, from the Huguang soldiers to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang soldiers, the main body of the West Hall soldiers has quietly changed. Almost all the veterans of Guangxi have been promoted, and the grassroots soldiers below have become soldiers from Hunan, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other places.

The components of soldiers are also relatively complex, including refugees, peasants, gangs, rebels, and Qing army surrenders.

We have been fighting before, and the newly recruited soldiers or newly encamped troops, the West Palace has been reorganized according to the Taiping Army organization, instilling the Taiping Army's military rules, and then we will go out to fight.

In this case, the army that was pulled up was OK when fighting a battle with the wind. Once it encountered a tough opponent, it was hard to say what would go wrong. In the Battle of Suzhou and Hangzhou, the Battle of Shanghai, why did Xiao Yungui need to run back and forth with his own personal guards? In addition to the Qing army constantly learning to fight after the war, the large-scale expansion of the Taiping Army in the West Palace caused a decline in combat effectiveness.

Therefore, when Xiao Yungui conquered Shanghai, he had already made up his mind to reorganize all the troops in the West Palace.

The term reorganization is commonly used in the army. It generally means that this unit is beaten to death and is seriously injured and needs to be replenished, rectified, and trained to restore the unit. But generally speaking, because after the reorganization of the unit, there are many new recruits and the new recruits have never seen blood, the combat effectiveness of this unit will plummet.

But there are exceptions, such as the Sanwan reorganization carried out by Taizu in history. At that time, the troops were defeated with a thousand people. The army was in chaos, the ideological confusion, and the army was shaken. Therefore, Taizu carried out the Sanwan reorganization, reduced the troops' organization, and reduced the troops to regiment-level organization. Then he established a party branch in the army, and began the process of building a military commanding gun.

The reorganization of the West Palace this time is different. The soldiers and horses of the West Palace are not reorganized because of the reduction of personnel. Xiao Yungui’s reason for reorganization is sixteen words: removing the drought and replacing the essence, reorganizing the organization, eliminating gangs, and learning new tactics.

The first point is to remove the drought and preserve the essence. At this time, the troops in the West Hall are numerous. The troops are complex, and the proportion of new soldiers and veterans is unreasonable. Weak soldiers and strong soldiers are mixed. Old and weak soldiers need to be eliminated, and soldiers’ thoughts need to be rectified.

The second point is to reorganize the organization. Since Xiao Yungui began to lead the Taiping Army to fight everywhere, he always felt that the organization of the Taiping Army was becoming increasingly unsuitable for the current war needs. Taking the first army as an example, the organization was fully organized, with five people as a corps. The corps commander was charged, defeating the enemy, winning, and winning four soldiers; the five soldiers were two. The two Sima Guan was strong, brave, powerful, and powerful, and powerful. The five soldiers were 25 people; the four soldiers were soldiers, and the soldiers were 104 people; the four soldiers were soldiers, and the four soldiers were quadrilled, the four soldiers were quadrilled, the south, and the north were quadrilled, and the four soldiers were quadrilled, and the four soldiers were quadrilled, and the four soldiers were quadrilled, and the four soldiers were quadrilled, and the four soldiers were quadrilled, and the four soldiers were quadrilled, and the four soldiers were 104 people;

The five soldiers were brigades. The brigade commander was in charge of Yi, Er, San, Si, Wu, Wu, 525 soldiers, 525 soldiers; the 5th Brigade was the division, and the brigade commander was in charge of the front camp, Houying, Right, Zuoying, and Central Camp, 2625 soldiers (actually 2630 people), and the 5th Division was in charge of the front camp, Houying, Zuoying, Right, and Central Camp, 13125 soldiers (actually 13155 people). Above the military commander, there are military supervisors, generals, commanders, inspectors, prime ministers, and even military commanders.

This organization was formulated according to the military organization of the "Li of Zhou", while the era in which the "Li of Zhou" was in was the era of cold weapons thousands of years ago. Now, whether it is the Taiping Army or the Qing Army, it is already an army that uses hot and cold weapons mixed with cold weapons. This organization obviously cannot keep up with the pace of changes in the times.

In the era of cold weapons, the army needs to exert its manpower advantage as much as possible, which means that your formation width should be as large as possible than the enemy. Suppress the enemy's wings, and it is easier to win the enemy's central army through hand-to-hand strikes from three directions. Of course, there are adventurers who like to directly attack the central army. Xiang, the Mongolian army in the past often liked to drill through the enemy's central army, but not any cold weapons army has the strong combat power of Mongolian cavalry.

At the same time, when the Zhou Li existed, the land of China was still slavery. The army would be accompanied by a large number of cannon fodder slave soldiers to take the lead and consume the opponent's physical strength. The regular army was acting later. The army organization in the Zhou Li was organized by the regular army. When the slave soldiers and the enemy were consumed, the regular army began to be dispatched.

Moreover, the types of weapons in the Cold Weapon Age were also a reason for how to organize them. In ancient times, it was emphasized that long troops were guarding, short troops were defending, and arrows, oars and shields were stationed. Therefore, the army organization in the Cold Weapon Age was more suitable for cold weapons to exert manpower.

However, the Taiping Army is now mixed with hot and cold weapons, and the scale of the combat is getting bigger and bigger. The Zhouli military system used by the Taiping Army is no longer suitable for this kind of combat needs. The Taiping Army has more than 10,000 troops and more than 2,600 divisions. When fighting, it is better to use a tactical unit in a tactical direction. The Taiping Army's army's troops suddenly dropped to more than 2,000 to the next level, which is obviously not enough when fighting a large corps, and it seems too many in small-scale combat. There are such problems in the subsequent levels of organization, because the Taiping Army is organized by the 55th organization, the five soldiers are brigades, the fifth brigade is the division, and the fifth division is the army.

In Xiao Yungui's view, since the Taiping Army is transitioning to the hot weapons army, this reorganization needs to be changed together with the military organization to change it into a three-three system that is more suitable for the combat needs of hot weapons.

The "three-three system" of military system was originally derived from the conclusion drawn by British General Sir Hamilton based on the history of military organizations. He believed that the management of grassroots troops should be between three and six people, and three would make an officer very busy, and six people might have to work ten hours a day. He discussed: "The closer we are to the supreme commander of the entire organization, the more we should work in three groups. The closer we are to the grassroots (battleline infantry) of the entire organization, the more we should work in six groups." His theory has a great influence, and the British military system is based on the "three-three system". Subsequently, the Soviet Union and other countries adopted this organization.

The three-three system was widely used at the beginning of the rise of the army of hot weapons. Another important issue was the battlefield communication. Cold weapons were to advance by listening to drums, watch the flags and hear the cannons as orders. Simple commands for soldiers can obey orders based on these. But the army of hot weapons was different. Just like a simple queue to kill soldiers, the soldiers on the entire front needed to unify their actions and promote firepower. Therefore, in the war of hot weapons, an officer would not make mistakes in the busy war? Sir Hamilton has found the answer.

Of course, the three-three system is no longer applicable in modern times, because the communication methods of modern warfare have changed, and each individual soldier has good communication equipment, and an officer can command more soldiers, so the organization of modern troops is more flexible.

The third reason for eliminating gangs is Xiao Yungui's reorganization. On the contrary, it is to eliminate the gangs in the army. In fact, Xiao Yungui wants to break the current situation where soldiers are the generals in the Taiping Army. Just like Li Xiucheng's army, Lin Qirong's army, Lin Fengxiang's army, etc., their subordinates have become more and more confidants of the generals of various departments. Xiao Yungui does not want to see the situation where he cannot command the army in the future. Therefore, he must break this situation and firmly grasp the army in his own hands.

Although Li Xiucheng, Lin Qirong, and Lin Fengxiang are all loyal to him, didn’t the Zhongwang of history often not listen to the generals of Tianjing? Xiao Yungui needed to reorganize the troops to break up the original pattern, and the generals of the Taiping Army in the West Palace will be rotated in the future.

At the same time, there are indeed many gangs in the army now, such as Tiandihui, Xiaodaohui, Xiamen rebels, Qingpu rebels, and soldiers like to form gangs according to the original gangs. Xiao Yungui could not tolerate these old gang forces infiltrating their own army, and reorganization was the best way.

Then there are several changes in the military system. One is the change in the tutor system. In the future, the military tutor will be officially renamed as the instructor. In addition to teaching soldiers to read, their most important role is to master the soldiers' thoughts and often brainwash the soldiers. The instructor will be trained separately by the Political Department of the Martial Arts School. The director of the Political Department is Wang Kaiyun, which is also an important measure of Xiao Yungui. He does not want the army to command the government, but the government to command the army.

The second is the reform of the staff system and logistics system. In the past, generals had to plan for war and manage logistics. They were not only very tiring, but also made mistakes if they were not careful. The introduction of the staff system and logistics system solved this problem well. The combat staff must be responsible for formulating plans for marching, drawing, garrisoning, tactics, etc. to provide reference for generals, greatly reducing the burden on generals. At the same time, there are many people, and they will avoid making mistakes by single people who are not thinking well. The logistics system is that the supply and demand of the army is completely in control, and is completely under the control of the Logistics Department. The generals do not have to worry about military equipment, money and food anymore. The Logistics Department will arrange everything.

This will further weaken the role of a general in an army, and ensure that when an accident occurs in a general in the army, the entire army will not be confused. The General Staff and the Adjutant will continue to operate and lead the troops well. At the same time, this will also make Xiao Yungui's idea of ​​holding on to the army more reliable.

The final learning of new tactics is to reorganize officers and grassroots soldiers at all levels to retrain, so as to familiarize themselves with and master the combat methods of fully hot weapons.

This time, the reorganization of Xiao Yungui and Xiwang Mansions was planned for a long time. Although there are solutions to various possible situations, the army is the lifeblood of Xiao Yungui and Hong Yuner saving lives. Therefore, the reform of the army is not like the reform of the new policy. Xiao Yungui must take charge personally. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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