Chapter 123, Rich Travel
The public trial meeting was brought forward to coincide with the awarding ceremony, which was a good publicity opportunity.
The award ceremony is for the subsequent military restructuring.
During this time, Oceana has been very busy, Lambert has been very busy, and Gu Hang has also been very busy.
Not to mention that although those two people were officials in charge of one aspect of government, the actual highest authority still rested with Gu Hang. As long as the scope is slightly larger, or matters that require cross-department collaboration or requests for help, they will all be processed through Gu Hang. Decisions on major matters also have to go through Gu Hang.
There are already quite a few of these things.
What's more, Gu Hang took charge of military issues personally.
Internal affairs are important, but military affairs are equally important.
Gu Hang decided to implement a military rank system and organize the team according to the empire's regular planetary defense force standards.
Officers are divided into ten levels: general, colonel, and lieutenant. There is currently no fourth-level general officer; there are three-level military officers, with the highest being a colonel; three-level lieutenant officers, with the highest being captain.
Yan Fangxu jumped three ranks in a row and became the highest-ranking military officer under Gu Hang. He will assume the rank of colonel; followed by Thaddeus, who will take charge of the military and administrative department with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
The entire army will also be reorganized into two large organizations.
One is to expand it into a heavy-armored combined brigade with the infantry regiment brought by Gu Hang from Wei Xing City as the core. This brigade will be equipped with five combined battalions, an artillery battalion, an engineer battalion, an air defense battalion, and a logistics battalion, for a total of nine battalions; the brigade headquarters and the brigade directly under it include the staff department, command headquarters, field medical department, political department, Guard company, engineer company, communications company, brigade reconnaissance company, and an Army aviation squadron.
Not to mention other things, the five combined battalions are expanded with the current five infantry battalions as the core. Each battalion will be organized into 1 artillery company, 1 armored company, 2 motorized infantry companies, 2 armored infantry companies, and 1 support company, for a total of seven companies. The battalion headquarters also includes the reconnaissance platoon, communications platoon, and 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 Ramblers, armored command vehicles and armored communication vehicles are needed. In addition, 12 155 howitzers and 12 tanks are needed...
Just five such combined battalions would have a total strength of 4,100 men, not counting heavy equipment, let alone light equipment.
When it comes to the combined brigade stage, the other four battalions, plus the brigade headquarters, will have a scale of more than 7,000 people.
From the current 1,500 people who were still dissatisfied with losing a lot of their numbers due to fighting, to have the number of 7,000 people... Obviously, Gu Hang had to absorb a lot of blood from the former alliance legions.
At the same time, what is more important is the production of weapons and equipment, which must keep up.
The sixty tanks that were left over from the former Alliance Legion were still operational, and they were barely enough. Although they were relatively backward, they had no choice.
As for other equipment production, Gu Hang will fly back to Weixing City soon to find Wu Jiarong to solve the problem.
For other things, it’s easy to say that for the troop transport trucks and fast motorcycles required by the motorized infantry, the ‘Iron Bull’ and ‘Rover’ can be used.
However, the heavy artillery used by the artillery was not enough captured from the Union Army. Gu Hang had to ask Wu Jiarong how the self-developed 155 howitzer was doing.
On the other hand, Gu Hang had to use the few things extracted from this technology.
To mass-produce the 'Walker' series of armored vehicles, Gu Hang planned to first build the production line of the 'Rambler' infantry fighting vehicle. This is in great demand and has a great effect.
In this wasteland world with underdeveloped technology, the power of the 'Rambler' is probably more powerful and more reliable than the locally produced tanks.
As for the "Listener" communication armored vehicle, "Defender" air defense vehicle, and "Navigator" command armored vehicle that are in relatively low demand, just use the finished black box to produce them directly, and there is no rush to launch the production line.
After Gu Hang came up with the idea of this heavy-duty synthetic brigade, both Yan Fangxu and Thaddeus were a little stunned. The number of people is not bad, but the equipment requirements... are too luxurious.
Land... luxury travel?
If such a heavy-duty synthetic brigade was created, wouldn't it be walking sideways in the wasteland?
Even if Yan Fangxu looked at it from the perspective of an imperial officer, such a unit would be considered a relatively luxurious configuration among many ordinary Astra Militarum legions - replacing the tanks with high-level Astra Militarum troops. Tank words.
In fact, the Astra Militarum rarely organizes elite combined brigades in this way. In many cases, the battlefields faced by the Astra Militarum are larger and broader, and it is common for hundreds of thousands or millions of troops to be invested. Larger division structures will be more commonly used. Dozens or even hundreds of divisions form a group army to deal with a certain aspect of war; multiple army groups form an army group to deal with a continental war...
The Astra Militarum is not called the 'Hammer of the Empire' for nothing. It has to be like a hammer, smashing the enemy into pieces with unparalleled power.
But that doesn't mean the Astra Militarum don't need knives if they have hammers. Some elite combined brigade troops will be used as assault knives.
This combined brigade organized by the Governor is a bit interesting.
If this unit is reorganized and all the equipment is in place, and if there is a way to deliver it to the starship Quintet in the sky, it is estimated that the troops on the starship will also have to drink a big pot. If the defense is not enough, it is not impossible to be stabbed in the face of Brigadier General Yelicia.
There are indeed 100,000 people on the starship, but most of them are staff and slave labor. The armed force may only be 20,000 to 30,000 people, and they lack heavy equipment.
In addition to this main force of the combined brigade, what is left to be organized is a conventional infantry division, consisting of three infantry regiments, each with an artillery battalion. It sounds like a division, but including the division headquarters, the total number is only seven or eight thousand people, which is about the same strength as the main combined brigade, but the equipment is much bigger.
Yan Fangxu didn't like this team very much. Even if the training of the troops is good but the equipment is far from good, the Astra Militarum is just an ordinary 'line filler'.
Of course, it's not bad in a wasteland environment.
With these two troops, a total of about 15,000 people will be deployed. This is Gu Hang's current vision.
With a scale of one million people, raising a well-equipped army of more than 10,000 people should not be a big problem for the time being.
And if he wants to raise so many troops, it will certainly be useful.
Internal cultivation of internal strength is very important. The production potential of millions of people must be tapped as much as possible; but external expansion cannot be stopped.
Gu Hang has not forgotten that he only has two years. It has been more than two months now. It is not impossible to rely on one million people to pay taxes and fully explode productivity, but it also locks up all his resources to serve this purpose.
That's definitely not possible.
He had to bring more territory and more people into his order.
The reason for leaving Fuxing City and starting a new one was to have 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 move the entire planet.
In fact, the expansion operations that should be carried out are already being prepared before all the logistical equipment is in place.
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Last month, a total of 16,000 words were updated, and basically all the remaining manuscripts were used up.
In May, the minimum is 4,000 per day, which is 12,000 per month; if there is no manuscript saved, I will try my best to challenge 16,000 and maintain the same update volume as in April.
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