Chapter 1651 The Great Recruitment
". The completion of the entire conscription plan will be divided into three phases. The first phase will recruit 300 million recruits, the second phase 400 million recruits, and the third phase 500 million recruits, depending on the situation Increase or decrease.”
Although Junot read out the conscription amounts as briefly as possible, Soshyan did not look at the amounts at all, but directly projected the data on the star map, in which Sa The planet Gansu has to provide 100 million people, and the largest Vaughn hive has to provide 20 million young men who meet the standards. Based on the standard legion size of the Astra Militarum, which is 160,000, that is 125 regiments, and the hive Both currently have an estimated population of 8.9 billion.
These numbers make many nobles look pale. Even if they drain the planetary garrison, it may not be enough.
Although conscription will not affect their status, such a large-scale conscription is undoubtedly an extremely difficult task. The conscription alone requires a large amount of manpower and material resources, not to mention There are two opinions on whether recruiting so many young people will cause commotion among the people.
After the Ministry of Internal Affairs finished speaking, the Ministry of Military Affairs spoke up.
“We plan to establish five large-scale training camps in the five worlds of Holy Point II, Sagan V, Bell, Palerophon Autumn, and Siniax, and concentrate all recruits in At the same time, Terra has agreed to put all the fresh graduates of the Zhongsi Academy on the Viyani, Kirab and Galen-5 into the expeditionary force in the next five years. They will serve as political commissars and low-level Officers and recruits train together, which can speed up the training process of the troops and ensure that they have a certain combat capability when they leave the new camp. "
Soshyan nodded. Of course, these bureaucrats hate it when they hate it. But occasionally he can show some skills. For example, one thing he missed was that the newly appointed political commissar officers trained with the new recruits. This is very important to enhance the cohesion of the unit. Instead of waiting for the soldiers to be trained and then letting them off the unit to adapt, it is better to adapt in advance. It also allows the political commissars to better understand the soldiers they will be responsible for next.
However, the requirements of the Ministry of Military Affairs did not end there.
"Sir, in addition we need a considerable number of military priests, medical nuns and military technical priests. The total number is about two million, as well as various working servitors and driving servitors. It is a conservative estimate. Twenty million is needed, and the specific list of requirements will depend on the specific recruitment situation.”
After listening to the needs of the Ministry of Military Affairs, Soshyan looked at Saint Dalton.
"Archbishop St. Dolton, can we be satisfied here?"
"No problem, all loyal servants and believers of the God Emperor will rush to the battlefield to burn heretics with all their strength!"< br>
At this time, Soshyan looked at the representatives of the forging world.
“Can the Adeptus Mechanicus provide a sufficient number of technical priests?”
After the representatives of the Mechanicum secretly muttered a binary code for a while, one of them replied in a dry synthetic voice:
"No problem, Lord Commander Soshyan, Supreme Lord."
"Well, thank you for your support."
Then Soshyan looked at Saint Dalton again.
“Patriarch, can you provide any advice for conscription?”
The Patriarch immediately replied impassionedly:
"Lord Soshyan, this is a sacred and great war, and all believers of the God Emperor should set an example! I will order all churches to call on young people to Male believers join this holy war and call on believers to donate and contribute to this war!”
Before Soshyan could speak, Royce suddenly answered.
“This is very important. The current warehouse of the Ministry of Military Affairs is completely insufficient to support such a huge recruitment plan. If there are donations from the church, the situation will be much better.”
When he said this, Soshyan knew there must be something in his words, so he asked: "How many soldiers can the current Ministry of Military Affairs warehouse arm?"
"Your Majesty, if we include all the warehouses in the Maelstrom, the number is about 30 million. However, if there are more than 50 million troops, then the military food reserves can only last for four months."
Obviously, the other party was complaining to Soshyan, but Soshyan did not accept this trick and asked:
"It has been almost two years since the transfer order was issued. Why is the military affairs in the Maelstrom District It’s useless to prepare at all? Didn’t Terra have any supplies allocated?”
Royce took a breath, then rubbed his hands, looking a little embarrassed, and then whispered:
"Sir, it's not that we are unprepared, but we do not have the authority to seize any supplies and equipment, and Terra has not given us any official documents."
Junot Rigo seemed to know what Soshiyan would say next, He immediately said:
"We have not received any official documents. We do not have the authority to open the Ministry of Internal Affairs' warehouses ourselves, and matters related to weapons and equipment need to be issued to the local forging world from Mars. They then produced the materials and put them into the inventory of the Ministry of Military Affairs, which has nothing to do with the Ministry of Internal Affairs.”
“Mars issued the production quota, but did not tell us that it needed to be handed over to the Ministry of Military Affairs. We need to hand it over directly to the expeditionary force."
Well, Soshyan heard that it was because he came late. Their subtext was that if he had come earlier, these things would not have happened.
In fact, he was indeed delayed for some time on the road due to various things, but it was not much late. To put it bluntly, this was a bureaucrat's instinct to defend himself.
So he glanced at everyone seriously, and then said:
"Now I don't have time to argue with you about this matter, I decided to leave it to you."
As he spoke, his fingers passed over Royce, Junot, Saint Dalton and the representatives of the three forging worlds one by one.
"Establish a recruitment and training coordination office that reports directly to me. At the same time, the logistics of the mortal troops is also responsible for the joint working group of the expeditionary force composed of the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the logistics agencies under my jurisdiction. It is also directly responsible for Report to me.”
Then Soshyan raised his palm and opened it.
"Five months, five standard Terra months later I need to see the first batch of 300 million recruits appear in the training camp and be able to go into combat after six standard months of basic training, also That is to say, all the work must be completed within one year. In addition, how many retired soldiers are there in the Maelstrom area? "
"Probably. Excluding local troops, the Astra Militarum currently has about 100 million, of which Most of them probably have no actual combat experience and have only fought against greenskins or pirates a few times.” (Warhammer refutes the rumor. The Astra Militarum is not bound to die as everyone heard. In fact, there are many non-hot war zones in the Empire where Star Militarum will be stationed. Army, some people may have never fired a gun until they are old)
"Recall them all."
Soshyan paused, and then said something that surprised everyone.
"And it is a paid recall, based on the average price of mercenaries in the current market, and I personally promise that they will have an extra severance package after the war is over, but they need to use the dog tags from their past service as proof, and they must also go through the church Those who abuse illegal drugs and alcohol, as well as those who have shaken beliefs will not be recruited."
(End of this chapter)