Chapter 105: Expanding the Army

There is no love for no reason in the world, nor will there be hatred for no reason.

If Chen Kefu wants to realize his ambition, he has to start to let the people in front of him stand on the same side as him little by little. But although these generals are following him now, it is just because he is a general of the Sui Dynasty.

It is not a simple matter for him to make the obedience of these people in front of him transform into personal loyalty to him. Mao Yi, Lu Shishen and others followed him because they were originally in the relationship between king and subject, but now they are even closer to relatives.

For most people, interests are the bond that truly connects different people. If Chen Kefu wants those people to follow him and be loyal to him in the future, he has to bring benefits.

Now, these hundreds of official positions are the best benefits. Although an official position cannot make people really loyal to him at once, it can allow him to gain the support of these people step by step.

Although the generals and schoolmen in the hall were excited, everyone knew how precious these hundreds of official positions were. This was definitely the right of General Chen Kefu. If they asked for it without tact, they would just touch things they shouldn't have touched. Although General Hu Hai and other generals are now in the fifth rank of official positions, they do not have their share in the vacancies in the Yingyang Mansion, as a general who leads troops, who will have fewer confidants. If they have the chance, who is unwilling to fight for their subordinates.

"General, it's not easy to add ten Yingyang Mansions. Now that we are in Liaodong, we need to add more than 10,000 new soldiers. Although there are no shortages, we lack skilled officers and generals. Where can we draw these more than 700 large and small military positions? Moreover, if the Yingyang Mansion has combat effectiveness in a short period of time, it is not enough to just transfer hundreds of officers. At least, the leader of the group must be a sophisticated veteran who has been caught in the war."

"We have to draw at least more than 1,000 elite veterans from these ten Yingyang Mansions to serve as gang commanders. General, we have already drawn hundreds of lower-level officers to the new army last time. If we have drawn more than 1,000 elite soldiers and nearly 1,000 officers of all levels now, I am afraid that my combat effectiveness in the military camp will immediately decrease by one level. General, this must be considered." Sima Zhao Cheng in the army stood up and said, although he was a civil servant, he was like slashing the city at night, and his body was still stained with large blood stains.

Chen Kefu sat there and was silent. This matter really made him feel a little embarrassed. With Yang Guang's previous orders right now, it was indeed a good opportunity to expand his troops. Moreover, if an army wants to form an army and have combat effectiveness, it is not something that can be solved overnight. The sooner the new army is formed, the better, but this is equivalent to cutting down the only army of Pojunying. This is undoubtedly not a good decision for them who will soon have several major battles.

When fighting, it is not necessary to win if there are too many people doing math problems, but sometimes, the number of people is also an advantage that cannot be ignored. If he wants to accomplish something, he must not rely solely on ten thousand to break into the military camp.

Time, what he needs most now is time, but he doesn’t have time.

"Everyone, since we have captured Liaodong City, we should know that it is impossible for us to withdraw early. Regardless of success or failure, we have to defend the arrival of reinforcements, and even wait until the army will conquer Liao again next year. Therefore, expanding troops is imminent. In the past, we have never dared to break up the troops of the Pojun Camp because it is our only regular army. However, if this continues, the Pojun Camp will inevitably be constantly damaged in the battle. By then, the Pojun Camp's strength will be reduced, but the new army cannot be raised? What should we do?"

"Since Your Majesty retreated, I have tossed and turned every day, unable to sleep at night, and always been thinking about our situation. At this time, we are undoubtedly at the tip of the waves. If you are not careful, you will be submerged under the waves. Now, we have no way out. We have no way out. We have no way out. We have no hope, and we will go back and forth. I have already thought about it. This expansion is imperative. Not only that, we must completely separate the Pojun camp. Except for retaining three thousand heavy cavalry, all the remaining seven thousand soldiers will be dispersed. As backbone, we will form new troops separately. Your Majesty's order is to add ten new Yingyang Mansions and have the right to train the people and brave people at any time."

"In the current situation, a regular army of 22,000 people is definitely not enough. But if there were no veterans from the Pojun Camp as the backbone, we would not be able to gather combat power even if we added a new military force. Therefore, our general's plan was to form a Northeast army with six divisions under its jurisdiction. Each division took 1,000 troops from the first regiment of the second battalion of the Pojun Camp as the backbone, and reorganized 10,000 people from the sixth division of the original Civil Army, and used officers at all levels of the Pojun Camp as officers at all levels of each division." As he said that, Chen Kefu took out a manual, which he spent several days imitating the establishment of the army divisions in later generations.

In the current situation, what he needs is the army. If he keeps holding a broken military camp, then the other newly built Sixth Division is a group of mobs. It is okay to clean the battlefield or something. It is probably impossible to really want them to go to the battlefield. Although it is very risky to reorganize the army now, it is completely worth taking risks compared to the benefits he can get in the future.

According to his plan, the division was used as a cluster, but the regiment battalion was the basic command unit, which was similar to the current Yingyang Mansion.

The division has a division headquarters, with the division commander as the main officer, and the division headquarters also has a deputy division commander, chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, combat staff, etc.

According to his plan, each division has four infantry regiments, one cavalry battalion, one cavalry reconnaissance battalion, one engineering battalion, one communication battalion, one baggage battalion, and one military medical battalion. Each division has an infantry number of 6,000 cavalry, 3,000 cavalry, and 2,000 auxiliary soldiers including logistics communications baggage medical care, totaling 11,000.

Each infantry regiment has three infantry battalions and one cavalry battalion. Each infantry battalion has four infantry companies, and each infantry company is composed of three infantry platoons. Each infantry platoon is composed of three infantry squads, with dozens of people in each squad. Each infantry is equipped with a set of Mingguang armor, a spear, a horizontal knife, a bow and arrow, and a shield.

There were 10 infantry squads, 120 in the first company, 500 in the first battalion, 2,000 in the first regiment, and 11,000 in the first division.

Each squad has a squad leader, a platoon leader and a deputy platoon leader. The company has a company headquarters, with company commander, deputy company commander, department commander, and kitchen squad. The battalion department has battalion commander, deputy battalion commander, battalion staff and battalion personnel. The regiment headquarters also has a regiment headquarters, with regiment commander, deputy regiment commander, regiment chief of staff, regiment deputy chief of staff, regiment chief of staff and subordinate personnel. In order to assist the chief officer in commanding operations and training, staff at all levels are responsible for the military responsibilities of the six chiefs of cadres of the former departments.

The engineer battalion is responsible for setting up camps, digging trenches, and operating large-scale equipment, including operating various catapults, ladders, flying towers, cloud vehicles, rushing vehicles, fighting chariots and large crossbows.

There have always been many kinds of equipment in the Great Sui army, especially the army has a lot of crossbows, equipped with arm-slit crossbows, horned crossbows, wooden single crossbows, large wooden single crossbows, bamboo pole crossbows, Fuyuan crossbows, and winch crossbows. Among them, Fuyuan crossbows can reach a range of 300 steps, about 450 meters. The range of arm-slit crossbows is also 220 steps, horned crossbows, and single crossbows are about 160 steps. The largest winch crossbows requires dozens of people, and even horses must be used to pull, and its range can reach a terrifying 600 steps. The largest winch crossbow left by the Sui army base camp this time must be pulled by hundreds of people. The range of this crossbows has reached nearly 700 steps, exceeding one thousand meters. This is definitely the strongest long-range weapon in this era.

The Sui army was very well-equipped. It can be said that each infantry was equipped with long-range weapons, and different weapons could be selected at any time according to wartime needs. This is also the reason why the Sui army's military troops were stronger than the troops of other ethnic groups. For example, the soldiers of Goguryeo were basically composed of small groups composed of spear teams, bow arch teams, shield teams, and other weapons used.

After reading Chen Kefu's plan, everyone was stunned and no one spoke for a long time.

"Everyone, you have any opinions to put forward. Let's discuss and improve them together."

Li Jie smiled and stood up and said, "General, according to what the last general sees, this plan has nowhere to be available. According to the military practice, if one recruit is added to a group of ten people, the combat effectiveness of the army will not decrease much. If two recruits are added to a group of people, the combat effectiveness will be reduced by at least 10%. In this proportion, when there are three recruits in a group of people, the combat effectiveness will be reduced by at least about half. If a group of soldiers has more than half of the recruits, the army will completely lose its strong combat effectiveness in the past, and there is no big difference between those newly recruited troops."

"As far as I see now, General, you actually want to add nine new recruits to a group of soldiers, which means you only retain one veteran. Sir, do you think the combat effectiveness of this army is still there? Our Pojun Camp has always been a first-class strong soldier among the Sui army. It is no problem to fight against 10,000 to 40,000 Goguryeo people with 10,000. But now, the general has dispersed all the troops at once. So can Pojun Camp still have some combat effectiveness?"

Chen Kefu smiled, "As General Li Jie said, our army is not a problem with one-on-three. Although this general will break up most of the Pojun camp to form a new army, he still has 4,000 troops left. Among them, there are three thousand heavy cavalrymen, which can be decided at the critical moment. Now we will fight two ambush battles. As long as there is nothing unexpected happening, it can be said that they are very relaxed. My purpose is to seize this opportunity and reorganize the army so that the reorganized army can also go to the battlefield. On the one hand, there will be no danger, and on the other hand, they can see blood on the battlefield and train with battle instead of training. Otherwise, training step by step will be just a group of new recruits even next year."
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