Chapter 202: Behind every outrageous military discipline is an outrageous story
After assigning tasks to Witte, Paslik and others, Horn could finally sit down and take a good rest.
To be honest, he should have only been the controller of the general direction. Some specific matters should have been handled more easily by the natives of the empire who were more familiar with the situation.
But it is a pity that this world has no concepts and methods of scientific management at all, let alone confidentiality awareness and planning plans.
This was how the incident of returning the great government came to be. Horn had to teach these ministers step by step the management methods that were regarded as common sense in his hometown.
Sitting in the Papal Palace in the side hall of the Mechanical Palace, cold rain pattered on the eaves again, and the chill was a bit worse than yesterday.
It was only evening, but the sky outside was already darkening. Horn picked up the difficult-to-write quill, dipped it in ink, and wrote quickly on a piece of white paper.
According to Witte, most of the Elmin cities like this are the territories of the El Legion. In particular, this Qiumu Island was probably located at a key part of the waterway transportation in the Thousand River Valley.
In this way, there is a high probability that there is a military camp on the island. Based on the eight winds prevailing in Guel, Witte pointed out the possible direction of a military camp.
When Horn returned to the study, the Boy's Army handed him the location of the general camp and a simple map.
At this time, after a series of preparations, Horn was finally able to do the most important thing at the moment, which was the military.
To turn this ragtag group into a regular army is not as simple as the "synthetic human" reform implemented by Horn.
What he wants is real fighting power.
Throwing the slime core powder onto the glowstone lamp, a gentle and clear orange light lit up, illuminating the tabletop in front of Horn.
A few drops of clear rain fell on the table with the wind, and Horn moved the walnut desk back.
He picked up the pen again and started writing on the paper.
Although the army is to be built after the Morris Square, Horn does not intend to copy it completely. The specific situation must be considered in detail. In this world, Prince Morris's specific tactical settings must be biased.
For example, the Morris Square is a 50X5 spear horizontal formation coupled with 4 10X6 musket horizontal formations, plus some miscellaneous people, forming a basic combat unit of 500 people.
Theoretically, a battalion of 500 people is the smallest dispatching unit. The "phalanx" is just an administrative establishment, and they will not really form a large phalanx.
Horn picked up a ruler, drew a rough formation on the white paper, and then began to modify it according to local conditions.
Based on the information collected from veterans such as Jeshka and Hakuto and Horn's own personal experience, he felt that it might be necessary to change it to a 50X8 spear array and two 10X5 clockwork gun arrays.
The reason for this improvement is that the knights in this world have stronger impact, and the spear phalanx needs a thicker formation to resist the impact.
The clockwork gun is different from the musket. It is easier to operate, so the movement is smaller, and there is no need to worry about the accidental explosion of gunpowder caused by sparks.
So the two clockwork gun horizontal arrays can be arranged in a closer formation, and then fired continuously and intensively.
However, this must be based on shortening the wind-up gun. Otherwise, with the current version of Cannedy's wind-up gun, it will be very troublesome for one person to fire it.
In the presence of a loader, the Holy Gunman can probably fire one round every half minute to a minute, but once he leaves the vehicle fort, where will the loader come from in the field formation?
So we still have to wait for Haimoting’s explanation.
Based on this tactic, Horn can basically determine the basic organization of the Salvation Group.
The battle group has 4,500 people, the legion has 500 people, the division has been reduced to 50 people, the brigade has 10 people, and the company has 1 person.
It also includes 3 cavalry divisions with 150 people, 4 chariot divisions with 200 people, 1 cooking division with 50 people, and 1 medical division with 50 people directly under the special regiment, plus non-combatant accountants. , orderly, barber, military judge, chaplain, etc.
Putting the paper in his hand aside, Horn did not decide immediately. He needed to find Jeshka and Hakuto for confirmation in case there was a problem. Once the organization is established, the second step is discipline, in other words, the issue of military law and merit.
As for how to record merit, Horne did not want to use head-counting. For example, the Ming army used head-counting, which seemed efficient and cold, but in fact it completely destroyed military discipline.
When the Ming army went into battle in the later period, everyone rushed to grab the heads, and came back holding the heads to report their merits.
When the friendly troops saw that the flank was empty and the other soldiers had run away, they might as well just run with them, and then there was an inexplicable defeat.
Therefore, Horn decided that the spear phalanx would be recorded as a brigade, and the front row after the victory would receive greater credit. However, the clockwork gun phalanx needed to be fired in turns, so the merit would be recorded according to the division. The more rounds fired, the greater the credit.
In addition, Horn also noticed that when they fought with mercenaries before, the problem that the peasant army often made was to rob property and loot.
Even during the bloody battle at Fort Joan of Arc, in such a serious occasion, when everyone was fighting and everyone shared the same hatred, there were actually people who stopped to touch the knight's body to see what would explode. equipment.
Some old Gulag soldiers make this mistake from time to time.
Therefore, Horn specially set up two orderlies, a military judge, and an accountant in each legion to collect and count the spoils, supervise each other, and distribute them uniformly according to merit after the war.
Finally, there is the problem of soldiers looting. This problem is mainly committed by the black hat army.
Since the Guards Corps assumes part of the responsibility of protecting the Pope, most of them choose honest young farmers with property. They are relatively simple and simple, and this kind of thing basically does not happen.
Many of the Black Hat Legion are homeless, beggars and even gangsters. Horn has given repeated orders, but at most they can only promise not to kill anyone during the robbery.
There is no way around this. With the subsequent expansion of the army, it is inevitable to absorb these low-quality talents.
The salary provided by Horn is not enough to cover the income they robbed, and personal transformation cannot be completed in just three months.
So Horn could only ask them to extort rather than rob, and at the same time eliminate a group of hopeless ones, and even use some severe punishments to deal with individual thorns.
Let’s suppress this problem in the short term. The main goal is to defeat the Cavaliers. This matter cannot be rushed.
To be honest, this problem that Horn is troubled by is not a problem at all for most of the empire's generals.
For example, Prince Condai even treated the income from robbery as salary. Some knights even thought that soldiers who did not rob were sissies.
Thinking about the issue of military discipline and merit in his mind, Horn quickly filled a piece of paper with military discipline including:
"What's the punishment for forgetting to bring weapons when going to the battlefield?" "What's the punishment for telling military secrets out loud?" "What's the punishment for lying about asking for sick leave and not going to the battlefield?" "What's the punishment for making loud noises in the team or even randomly wandering around to chat with someone, causing the formation to become scattered? Punishment? "
Although these rules may seem outrageous and ridiculous, behind each one is Horn's personal experience, and each one is the blood and tears recorded in his diary.
As for the subsequent drill and training issues, we have to discuss them with veterans like Jeshka tomorrow.
After solving these problems, Horn stretched himself, and then he realized that it was almost midnight.
Standing at the window, the rain outside the window had stopped. There was a clicking sound of gears turning from the main hall. He guessed that Shilov had woken up.
He called the Boy Army to make some hot soup, mixed the cold food together and soaked it. Horn finished the meal in a few mouthfuls, burped, and lay down on the bed.
I have to get up early to go to the military camp tomorrow.
(End of this chapter)