Chapter 6 The Establishment of the Army in Lake Town
Paul Graiman spent nearly a week familiarizing himself with and adapting to the daily work and life of a lord. During this period, his body’s original memory was gradually restored. .
The territory he is located in belongs to the Aldo Kingdom, which is the westernmost country on the continent in the known world. There are numerous human countries scattered to the east of the kingdom, among which the Gabela Empire is the most powerful.
There are thousands of miles of mountains to the north and east of the kingdom. Many dwarf clans live on the mountains. To the north of the Rocky Mountains is the vast prairie with countless orc tribes. Further to the north is the inaccessible endless land. ice fields.
The south of the known world is also dotted with large discontinuous rainforests, inhabited by elves known for their beauty and elegance.
What worries him a little is that there is a huge religious organization in this world - the church. It had different official titles in different historical periods, and later people directly called it the church.
Its belief can be found in almost all human countries, and there are even believers among foreign races. The priest who woke up that night was a clergy member of this religion.
Based on his current memory, he doesn't know much about the past history of this religion, and he doesn't know if it has any dark history. But what is certain is that there are many fanatical believers among humans, and I have seen several of them with my limited experience.
The land directly controlled by the Holy See is not much, not much larger than a principality, but its influence can be said to be all-powerful.
“Isn’t this a setting that has been overused? Every time travel world has its shadow.” I can’t complain anymore.
In addition, magic seems to exist in this world, although most people, including nobles, have never seen a person who can use magic in their lives. Many people regard magic as nonsense.
But his butler Philip swore and said frankly that when he was a child, a mage saved his life from a robber. According to Philip, the mage made a gesture with his left hand and muttered something, and then a large fireball ejected from the staff in his right hand, hitting the robber's face with lightning speed.
Well, since there are fantasy races such as dwarves, elves and orcs, the existence of magic is not impossible. But he was more inclined to think that what the butler saw was something like a magic trick.
On the first weekend after I woke up, the long-awaited military parade finally began.
According to his request, the soldiers lined up in three square formations and passed through the small square in turn under the command of the knights.
"This...is my soldier?" the little earl said with a livid face.
The soldiers in the "Phalanx" wear a variety of clothes, with all kinds of clothes. The only thing they wear in common is a piece of cloth armor with the emblem of the Graiman family.
At the beginning, the formation of the platoon was quite neat, but after they started marching, they lost their pace before walking very far. When they walked in front of him, the team had become messy, sparse, and even It can no longer be seen that it is a phalanx.
"Gentlemen, it is necessary to improve the quality of our army!" After summoning the knights, Paul said a sentence with a gloomy face.
"Uh..." The knights looked at each other, and finally Bryce stood up, "Your Majesty, it's like this, our place is relatively remote, there are no other lords coveting it, and the folk customs are simple, so To be honest, I didn’t expect the pirates to attack so far from the coast this time.”
"A bloody lesson! Comrades... ah no, I mean gentlemen." The young lord looked up to the sky and sighed, looking distressed, "The last failure was a bloody lesson!"
< br>The knights were ashamed, and the death of the old earl always left a shadow in their hearts;
Paul took advantage of the situation: "So I decided that I will personally supervise the training of the new recruits recruited this time!" "Yes! Lord Earl!" Although they had great doubts about the little earl's military knowledge, the humiliating performance of the military parade prevented the knights from summoning the courage to raise objections.
Just like this, another week passed. A total of 315 new recruits were recruited in the new round of conscription. He decided to reorganize the army according to the Earth's army before the time travel, so he asked the knights Announced its own reorganization plan.
The army is organized into five levels: regiment, battalion, company, platoon and squad. The most basic squad has 10 people under normal conditions, with a squad leader and deputy squad leader. According to the principle of the three-three system, a platoon has three squads and a platoon. A company has three platoons and a cooking squad, and a company headquarters and a company commander. A battalion has three companies, a battalion headquarters and a battalion commander. A regiment has three battalions. There is a regiment headquarters and a chief and deputy regimental leader.
Corresponding to the organization, he copied the military rank system of his previous life. According to the current organization, there are two levels of soldiers (private, upper class), three levels of non-commissioned officers (corporal, sergeant, staff sergeant), and lieutenant. Three levels (second lieutenant, lieutenant, captain), three levels of field officers (major, lieutenant colonel, colonel), and also stipulates the corresponding relationship between the military ranks and positions at each level.
He also stipulated the order of transfer of command power under special circumstances - such as when a commander is unable to command the team due to injury or sacrifice - priority will be given to transfers based on position, secondly based on military rank, and finally based on The transfer will be carried out based on the length of military service.
Take a company as an example. Once the company commander is injured and unable to command the battle on the battlefield, the deputy company commander will take over the command. If the deputy company commander also has an accident, the platoon commanders will take over the command according to their military rank. Take over the command of the entire company in turn. If the platoon leaders have the same military rank, they will be sorted according to their length of military service, and so on for other organizational units.
Military ranks will make the army more tightly organized, preventing the team from disappearing once a commander fails. Under the military rank system, once such an accident occurs, the new commander will They are automatically generated according to the order and continue to lead the troops in combat, ensuring the sustainability of combat effectiveness.
The knights were a little dizzy with these complicated titles. Some people suggested that the ranks should be set directly into four levels: private, non-commissioned officer, lieutenant, and colonel. There should be no further subdivision within each level. The reason is that the army in the territory now has only a few. Hundreds of people, but was dismissed by the young count.
He explained: "Although our army is still small, we must set up the frame first no matter what, so that it will be easy to expand when we encounter more serious emergencies in the future. "
"What a bunch of short-sighted guys," Paul secretly complained: "I haven't even mentioned the names of division, corps, group army, general, and marshal yet!"
The reason why he has not proposed a larger establishment and a higher military rank now is that on the one hand, the current size of the army is indeed too small, and on the other hand, he does not dare to do so. According to the current largest regiment-level establishment, if it is full, it will have to be There are more than a thousand people, which is a considerable military force for a remote county.
If the idea of a division-level establishment of tens of thousands of people and an even larger military-level establishment is spread by someone who is interested, it might be labeled as a rebellion. You must know that the royal capital There are only more than 10,000 knights in the country.
Moreover, only those nobles who have fought for the country for a long time are qualified to be called generals. There are only 1,800 men in a group. The country knights who usually suppress bandits and fight pirates are called major generals and generals. The title is too unreasonable.
Some people have objections to having a cooking class for each company and think it is unnecessary.
"This will be the guarantee of our combat effectiveness!" When talking about the cooking class, the lord suddenly became excited, stood up and danced to explain its great significance, all of which made the knights confused, but Seeing that the lord took it so seriously, no one objected.
Finally, Paul proposed to make the army permanent, and he would pay a certain allowance as compensation for the loss of labor in the soldiers' families.
The knights didn’t have any objections to this. Anyway, the money spent was from the lord’s palace. On the other hand, Butler Philip, who was standing aside, almost fainted. Recruiting soldiers this time has already cost a lot of money, and the young master will have to increase the expenses, and it will be long-term. It seems that he needs to find time to persuade him.
After the meeting, something that made Butler Phillip even more distressed came. The young master actually asked him to be responsible for custom-making two sets of clothes for each of the big-headed soldiers, and they had to finish it within a month. Although he strongly opposed the young master's "waste" of money, the young master repeatedly emphasized the importance of uniform uniforms to a regular army, so he had no choice but to go ahead.
(End of this chapter)