Chapter 144, Garbage Town Remake
Ruggie Likosi received the order to retreat and rest.
Two days have passed since he was rescued by the Alliance army and fought alongside them with his brothers.
The past two days were not easy either. The greenskins knew that the six or seven kilometer front in the fifth area was difficult to fight, so they turned around and tried to break through from other places. And his beast-killing group also endured the pressure of the greenskins' assault in the surrounding directions.
If it weren't for the artillery support of the Alliance and the rapid mobility of armored vehicles sent by Battalion Commander Perbov, even if they could hold out, the casualties would be heavy.
But even though life is hard, it is better than before.
At least, this battle was worth fighting. It was true that his brothers suffered heavy casualties, but when he saw the greenskins rushing over from the opposite side dying one by one under artillery fire and bullets, he felt that the sacrifice was not without value.
It was also because of this that he was a little reluctant when he received the order for his team to go back and rest.
In his opinion, apart from the allied troops, no one was better at fighting than them. If these five or six thousand men retreated in an organized manner, the battle line might not be able to hold out.
However, what happened next silenced him.
The troops coming up were still from the Alliance.
A team from the 3rd Regiment of the 2nd Infantry Division took over his line of defense.
Although the 3rd Regiment had less than half the number of their troops, at most two thousand people, and did not have any armored vehicles, tanks or the like, they brought thirty heavy artillery pieces.
Well, you guys are better.
Moreover, he wanted to fight, but his subordinates were a little mentally exhausted.
He could only lead the team to retreat in disappointment.
Before leaving, he went to see Perbov, mainly to express his gratitude.
It wasn't just a life-saving grace, it was also a life-saving grace for his team.
If Perbov's troops had not arrived in time, he would have died, and the Beast Slayer Regiment, whose morale had been crushed, would probably have dispersed.
Perbov accepted Li Koshi's thanks calmly.
Afterwards, the two of them exchanged views on the current state of the battle and discussed the situation regarding the Beast Slaughtering Corps being transferred back.
"You have to be prepared. The Governor may want to recruit you."
"Recruit?" Li Kexi frowned, instinctively resisting this matter. "Why do we need to recruit? Isn't the current situation...good enough? We also completely obey the orders of the headquarters established by the Governor in Garbage Town."
"Not only that, you will become a proper alliance army in the future."
"I don't really want that... In the past, many agents, even Mr. Swan, wanted us to obey orders completely, but we rejected them all. This is not in line with the original intention of our group."
Perbov shook his head and said, "Whether you accept the recruitment is your own decision, but I strongly suggest that you accept it..."
At this point, Perbov raised two fingers and said, "I will only tell you two reasons, please think carefully:"
"First, Garbage Town will no longer have room for adventure groups like it did in the past. Everything will be formalized. You have to think about the future for your brothers. Do you all plan to die here for revenge? Even after the revenge is over and all those greenskins are killed, will all of you die? Accepting reorganization is the best. You will eat military rations and receive allowances. You only need to train well and follow orders. You don't have to worry about anything else. If you die, you will receive a generous pension. When you retire in the future, you will be arranged to transfer to civilian jobs. The rest of your life will be settled."
"Secondly, even if we only consider the present and how to fight the greenskins, it is better to accept reorganization. You are the best adventurers at fighting greenskins, but if you really encounter them, three or five people will die before one can be replaced. After accepting reorganization, you will get direct support with weapons and equipment, which will be more helpful for you to kill those greenskins."
After saying this, Perbov put down his two fingers and really didn't say anything else.
Li Koshi, who was originally somewhat resistant, was unable to refute Pobov's two reasons.
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After bidding farewell to Perbov, Li Kexi led his team to retreat to the rear. After walking for about half a day, they arrived at the joint military camp.
This is the newly established rear military camp, which now houses nearly 40,000 people.
The current personnel distribution of the 100,000 adventurers in Junk Town is roughly as follows: 10,000 are detained in the prisoner-of-war camp in the western part of Junk Town, where they are fine as long as they are not starving to death; and these are the guys who are going to escape with Nasser and Mark Ferry.
There were 40,000 people in the joint military camp, basically adventurers who had fought in the front lines and were defeated in the past few days. After being withdrawn, they were reorganized, supplied with ammunition, and rested on the spot.
Fifty thousand men were in the front lines, holding the battle line.
After the troops in the joint military camp rested for two days, the command began to replace the troops.
It is difficult to expect these adventurers of varying quality to continue to fight on the front lines despite casualties. Rotating the troops may be more reliable than throwing all 100,000 people into the battle line.
Of course, the most important thing to maintain their morale is money.
They were adventurers and mercenaries, fighting for money. Gu Hang gave them Alliance Coins without a doubt, and promised that these Alliance Coins could be spent in Garbage Town during the war. He did get a lot of supplies from Garbage Town for supply. Moreover, he further promised that after the war, when the system was reformed, those who continued to stay in the Alliance and became members of the Alliance could exchange the Alliance Coins they had distributed for work points.
It seems like a huge expense, but in fact the cost is not as high as imagined.
It’s just Alliance Coin, many of them are just empty promises.
What is the use of issuing Alliance Coins? Adventurers spend them immediately, which means they are spending the savings that Gu Hang pulled out from various places in Garbage Town; if they don’t spend them, they will be redeemed in the future.
If you really want to do something disgusting, it would be fine if you join the alliance system in the future and exchange it for work points; if you want to leave and pay with alliance currency, you will not have the final say on the price of things.
Of course, Gu Hang would not do this unless it reaches a certain level, as it would be too damaging to his reputation.
Gu Hang still hopes that these people can stay in the future.
Even if they don't serve in the army and become workers, that's still a population of 100,000.
Among these people, the one that Gu Hang cares most about is naturally the Beast Slaughtering Group.
After they retreated to rest, Gu Hang summoned the leader of the Beast Slaughtering Corps, Lugi Likoshi.
Li Kexi finally chose to accept Gu Hang's proposal of recruiting him.
On the way back, he had a good chat with his brothers, asking for opinions from captains, mid-level commanders, and lower-level soldiers.
The words they said were different, but the meaning was almost the same: willing to be recruited.
What else is there to say?
Since the Beast Slaughter Group was formed, they have been fighting for half a year. People keep dying and sacrificing, and the living conditions are extremely difficult...
Hatred was their motivation, but another point could not be ignored. They were originally a group of adventurers, and they didn't know what else to do except this.
Revenge is a motivation, and if you can only rely on it to survive, it may be a greater motivation.
What's wrong with recruiting?
Life can be better, the future is secure, and it doesn't delay the fight against the green skins.
As for the so-called maintaining independence... that was indeed one of the purposes when the Beast Slayer Group was first established. They only accept sponsorships and not orders, but that was so that they could concentrate on fighting the greenskins and avoid being assigned to do private work by those agents in Garbage Town.
Now, Garbage Town has changed and the situation is completely different. There is no need to stick to that set of things.
Since his brothers all thought so, and Li Koshi himself was almost convinced in his previous conversation with Perbov, he had no resistance to accepting the Governor's personal recruitment.
However, he did make one additional request at the end.
"I hope to keep our name 'Beast Slayer Group' as a separate unit. I heard from Perbov that the Alliance Army allows this."
"Hahaha!" Gu Hang laughed and said, "Of course I can agree to your request, but not now."
Then, seeing the puzzled look on Li Kexi's face, Gu Hang also stopped smiling and said seriously: "If you want to keep the name 'Beast Slayer' as the designation of your unit, then you must show corresponding performance. Go and kill those green-skinned orcs. Kill enough of them, and the title of 'Beast Slayer' will be worthy of its name, and I will give you this designation."
Li Kexi took a deep breath and said firmly, "Then it's a deal."
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The adventure group named Beast Slayer Group completed the reorganization in the following few days.
Five thousand sets of G9 individual weapons were equipped to them, and they also received a new designation: the 3rd Independent Regiment.
Gu Hang spent fifty points of grace on them.
After they completed their training and became T5 troops, they also activated their accumulated combat experience and became infantrymen with the 'beast-killing' attribute.
The reborn 3rd Independent Regiment subsequently returned to the battlefield.
Although they only brought a lot of individual weapons, no regimental artillery, not even a lot of mortars, at best a lot of rocket launchers, but at least the G9 rifles were much better than their original equipment, and the training they conducted under the Governor's nose in those few days made them feel that they had undergone a particularly big change.
These changes have had direct consequences on the battlefield.
With the support of concentrated artillery fire in the rear, the independent regiment would have no problem holding the defense line of more than ten kilometers on its own, with the help of some "militia regiments" at most.
Those so-called militia groups are the original other adventure groups.
In the past few days, it was not only the 3rd Independent Regiment that was reorganized. Other troops also took the opportunity to be reorganized while they were resting in the joint military camp.
They were also asked about their wishes.
Those who wanted to stay and serve in the army were reorganized into the garrison division. Although Gu Hang did not have enough individual equipment for them at the moment, he did not intend to train them all to the T5 level at once - without enough equipment, the combat effectiveness would not be enough after training, so it would be a waste of effort.
But adaptation still needs to be made, otherwise the command will be too confusing.
In the end, after seeing the treatment of the Allied troops, the number of people willing to accept the change reached over 70,000.
A comparison will show that the Alliance soldiers, even if they only start as privates, are treated better than when they were picking up garbage before.
Of these 70,000 people, except for the Beast Slaughter Regiment which was reorganized into an independent regiment of 6,000 people, the other 63,000 people were reorganized into six garrison divisions and given numbers from 4 to 9.
There were no major changes to the weapons and equipment, only promises of remuneration and changes to the command hierarchy.
The commanders at the division and regiment levels were officers drawn from the Second Division and the Perbov Battalion, or leaders of some large adventure groups or respected adventurers were promoted.
In addition, the political commissars cannot be delegated to the company level as the scale of the reorganization is too large. Currently, we can only insert political commissars into the division and regiment levels, allowing them to develop soldier committee organizations that are loyal to the empire and the governor from within, and train instructors at the company and battalion levels.
There were more than 20,000 others who were unwilling to be transferred to become soldiers, but preferred to become ordinary civilians, or to leave the alliance system. Gu Hang did not let them go, but temporarily hired them to fight with the treatment of privates.
They were organized into ten militia regiments, with no numbers but only serial numbers. The internal structure and command hierarchy were also based on the structure of each adventure group.
When the garrison divisions are rotated back to the front lines to fight, they will be assigned some main tasks, while the militia regiments will basically do some hard labor, such as building fortifications.
There is no need to send people away as cannon fodder. Gu Hang would not do such a thing.
It hasn’t reached that level yet.
Six garrison divisions were reorganized. If all the equipment configuration and soldier training were completed, Gu Hang would have nine division-brigade level units, which would basically be enough in terms of military strength.
The key to an army of nearly 100,000 people is the relatively high-standard equipment configuration. Subsequent military expansion should not require too much worry about insufficient troops.
After all, in addition to fighting, the army also needs to be stationed on the spot. In the newly recovered areas, whether they want to stay or migrate the population, they need to retain troops to suppress the rebellion in order to implement the policy.
Of course, that will be used later. For now, the battle against the green-skinned orcs is the priority.
Gu Hang planned to stay here for two months and fight a defensive battle for two months.
With two months, the reorganization of the nine division-brigade units, the training that consumes grace points, and the production and distribution of all light and heavy equipment should be completed.
Then, it will be time to counterattack.
(End of this chapter)
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