Chapter 123: Rich Brigade
The public trial was brought forward to coincide with the awarding ceremony, which is a good opportunity for publicity.
The awarding ceremony is for the subsequent military reform.
During this period of time, Ossena was very busy, Lambert was very busy, and Gu Hang was also very busy.
Not to mention that although the two were officials in charge of one aspect, the actual highest power was still in Gu Hang. As long as the scope was slightly larger, or if cross-departmental coordination or requests for help were required, they would all be circulated through Gu Hang. Decisions on major matters also had to go through Gu Hang.
There are already quite a few of these things.
What's more, Gu Hang was personally in charge of military issues.
Domestic affairs are important, and military and political affairs are equally important.
Gu Hang decided to implement a military rank system and organize the team according to the standards of the Empire's regular planetary defense forces.
Officers will be divided into three grades, namely general, colonel and lieutenant, with ten ranks. There are four ranks for generals, which is not available at present; three ranks for colonels, with the highest being colonel; and three ranks for lieutenants, with the highest being captain.
Yan Fangxu jumped three levels and became the highest-ranking military officer under Gu Hang. He will hold the rank of colonel. The second is Thadius, who will hold the rank of lieutenant colonel and be in charge of the military and political department.
The entire army will also be reorganized into two large organizations.
First, the infantry regiment that Gu Hang brought from Weixing City was expanded into a heavy-armored combined brigade. This brigade will be equipped with five combined battalions, one artillery battalion, one engineer battalion, one air defense battalion, and one logistics battalion, a total of nine battalions; the brigade headquarters and the brigade directly include the staff, command, battlefield medical department, political department, guard company, engineer company, communication company, brigade reconnaissance company, and an aviation squadron.
I won't mention the others, but the five combined battalions are based on the five infantry battalions. Each battalion will have an artillery company, an armored company, two motorized infantry companies, two armored infantry companies, and a support company, for a total of seven companies. The battalion headquarters also includes a reconnaissance platoon, a communications platoon, and a guard team.
Such a main force combined battalion has a total strength of more than 800 people. 40 Iron Bull trucks, 30 Ranger motorcycles, 24 Walker infantry fighting vehicles, armored command vehicles, armored communication vehicles, 12 155 howitzers, and 12 tanks...
The total strength of just five such combined battalions would be over 4,100 people, not counting all the heavy equipment, let alone the light equipment.
By the time it reaches the combined brigade stage, the other four battalions, plus the brigade headquarters, will have a size of more than 7,000 people.
From the current situation where there are 1,500 people and many of them have been lost due to fighting and are not fully staffed, to expand the number of people to 7,000... it is obvious that Gu Hang has to absorb a lot of blood from the former alliance legion.
At the same time, what is more important is to keep up with the production of weapons and equipment.
The tanks used were the sixty still functioning ones left over from the former Alliance Legion. They were barely enough, and although they were rather outdated, they were the only choice.
As for the production of other equipment, Gu Hang would soon fly back to Weixing City to find Wu Jiarong to solve the problem.
Everything else is easy enough. The transport trucks and fast motorcycles needed for motorized infantry can be made with "Iron Ox" and "Hunter".
However, the heavy artillery used by the artillery was not enough because of the heavy artillery captured from the Alliance Legion. Gu Hang had to ask Wu Jiarong about the current situation of the self-developed 155 howitzer.
On the other hand, Gu Hang had to use some of the things extracted from this technology.
To mass produce the Walker series of armored vehicles, Gu Hang plans to first build a production line for the Walker infantry fighting vehicle. This is in great demand and has a great impact.
In this technologically underdeveloped wasteland world, the power of the "Wanderer" is probably more powerful and more reliable than the domestically produced tanks.
As for the 'Listener' communications armored vehicles, 'Defender' air defense vehicles, and 'Navigator' command armored vehicles, which have relatively low demand, they can be produced directly using the finished black boxes without rushing to build production lines.
After Gu Hang put forward the idea of a heavy combined brigade, both Yan Fangxu and Thadius were a little stunned.
The number of people is okay, but the equipment requirements... are too damn luxurious.
Land... luxury travel?
If such a heavy combined brigade is really created, wouldn't it be able to walk across the wasteland with ease?
In fact, if Yan Fangxu looked at it from the perspective of an imperial officer, such a force would be considered a relatively luxurious configuration among many ordinary Astra Militarum legions - if the tanks were replaced with high-level tanks of the Astra Militarum.
In fact, the Astra Militarum would not organize an elite combined brigade like this. Often, the Astra Militarum would face a larger and wider battlefield, requiring hundreds of thousands or even millions of troops. A larger division structure would be more commonly used. Dozens or even hundreds of divisions would form an army group to deal with a war in a certain area; multiple army groups would form an army group to deal with a war on a continent...
The Astra Militarum is called the 'Hammer of the Empire' for a reason. It is like a hammer, with unrivalled power, smashing the enemy to pieces.
But this does not mean that the Astra Militarum has a hammer and does not need a knife. Some elite combined brigade troops will use it as an assault knife.
This combined brigade organized by the Governor is quite interesting.
If this unit is reorganized and fully equipped, and if there is a way to send it to the Quintet starship in the sky, the troops on the starship will probably be in big trouble. If they are not well prepared, it is not impossible for them to be stabbed in the face of Brigadier General Ye Lishia.
It is true that there are 100,000 people on the starship, but most of them are staff members and slave laborers. The armed forces may be only 20,000 to 30,000, and they lack heavy equipment.
In addition to this main combined brigade, the remaining one to be organized is a regular infantry division, consisting of three infantry regiments, each with an artillery battalion. It is called a division, but including the division headquarters, there are only 7,000 to 8,000 people, which is about the same as the main combined brigade, but the equipment is much worse.
Yan Fangxu didn't think much of this unit. Even though the unit's training was good, its equipment was far inferior, and it was just an ordinary "filler" in the Star Army.
Of course, in a wasteland environment, it’s not bad.
With these two troops, the total team will be about 15,000 people. This is Gu Hang’s current plan.
With a population of one million, it should not be a big problem to maintain a well-equipped army of more than 10,000 people for the time being.
And since he has to support so many troops, that is certainly useful.
It is very important to cultivate inner strength, and the production potential of millions of people should be tapped as much as possible; but outward expansion cannot be stopped.
Gu Hang did not forget that he only had two years. Now more than two months had passed, and relying on one million people to pay taxes was not impossible under the condition of full productivity, but it would also lock up all his resources to serve this purpose.
That definitely won't work.
He had to incorporate more territories and more people into his order.
Leaving Fuxing City and starting a new business was all for the sake of a seed; now, this seed has taken root and sprouted in Fuxing City. This city will also become a fulcrum, and he will use it to pry the entire planet.
In fact, the necessary expansion operations had to be prepared and started before all logistical equipment was available.
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I updated a total of 160,000 words last month, and the wave of updates basically used up all my remaining manuscripts.
In May, the minimum daily output is 4,000, which is 120,000 per month. Without any manuscripts saved, I will try my best to challenge 160,000 and maintain the same update volume as in April.
(End of this chapter)
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