Chapter 144, Garbage Town Adaptation
Ruggie Likosi received the order to retreat and rest.
Two days have passed since he was rescued by the alliance army and took his brothers to fight alongside them.
These two days have been equally difficult. Those greenskins knew that the six to seven kilometer front in Area 5 was difficult to fight, so they turned around and tried to break through from other places. And his beast-slaying group also withstood the pressure of green-skin attacks from the surrounding directions.
If it weren't for the alliance's artillery support and the rapid maneuvering assistance of the armored vehicles sent by Battalion Commander Purbeuf, even if they could withstand it, the casualties would be huge.
But life is difficult, but it is better than before.
At least, this battle is worth fighting. It was true that the brothers suffered heavy casualties, but seeing the greenskins rushing over from the opposite side dying under gunfire and bullets one by one, he felt that the sacrifice was not without value.
It was precisely because of this that he was actually a little unhappy when he received the order to let his team go back to rest.
In his opinion, no one could fight better than them except those of the Union troops. If these five or six thousand of them retreat in an organized manner, the front may not be able to withstand it.
However, what happened next silenced him.
The ones coming up are still Alliance troops.
The team number was the 3rd Regiment of the 2nd Infantry Division, which took over his defensive line.
Although the number of the 3rd regiment was less than half of theirs, with only 2,000 people to support them, and there were no armored vehicles or tanks, they brought 30 heavy artillery pieces.
Okay then, you are indeed better.
Moreover, he wanted to fight, but his subordinates were a little mentally unable to withstand it.
He could only lead the team to withdraw in frustration.
Before leaving, he went to see Perbov once, mainly to thank him.
Not only a life-saving grace, but also a life-saving grace for his team.
If Purbeuf's troops had not arrived in time, he would have died, and the beast-slaying group, which had been demoralized immediately, would have dispersed.
Purbov accepted Likosi's thanks calmly.
Afterwards, the two of them communicated about the current situation of the battle and made some exchanges about the situation of the beast-slaying group being transferred back.
"You have to be prepared, the Governor may want to recruit you."
"Integration?" Li Kexi frowned and instinctively resisted this matter, "Why should we integrate? Now... isn't it good? We also fully obey the orders of the headquarters established by the Governor in Junk Town. ”
"Not only that, we will also become a serious alliance army in the future."
"I don't really want that... In the past, many agents, even Mr. Swann, wanted us to obey orders completely, but we refused. This is not in line with the original intention of our regiment."
Perbov shook his head and said: "Whether to accept the incorporation is your own decision, but I highly recommend you accept it..."
Having said this, Perbov raised two fingers and said: "I will only tell you two reasons. You can think about it yourself:"
"First, in the future, Garbage Town will not be like in the past. There will be room for adventure groups to survive, and everything will definitely be regularized. You have to think about the future for your brothers below. Are you all planning to do it just for revenge? Are they all going to die here? Even after the revenge is over and all the greenskins are killed, is it best to accept reorganization, get military rations, and receive allowances, and just train well and follow orders, and nothing else is required? I’m worried that I will receive a generous pension when I die, and I will make arrangements to change my career when I retire, and everything will be covered for the rest of my life.”
"Secondly, even if we only think about the immediate situation and how to fight the greenskins, it is better to accept the reorganization. You are the most powerful adventurers against the greenskins, but in a real encounter, three or five people will die before one can be replaced. ;After accepting the reorganization, you will receive direct weapon and equipment support, which will be more helpful for you to kill those greenskins.”
After saying this, Perbov put down his two fingers and said nothing else.
Li Kexi, who was somewhat resistant at first, could not refute Purbov's two reasons.
……
After bidding farewell to Purbov, Li Koxi led his team and retreated to the rear. After walking for about half a day, we arrived at the joint military camp.
This is a newly built rear military camp, which now houses nearly 40,000 people.
The current distribution of the 100,000 adventurers in Garbage Town is roughly as follows: 10,000 people are imprisoned in the prisoner-of-war camp in the west area of Garbage Town. guy.
There are 40,000 people in the joint military camp. They are basically adventurers who fought on the front line a few days ago and were defeated. After withdrawing, they were reorganized, distributed ammunition, and rested on the spot.
Fifty thousand men were in forward positions, maintaining the line.
After the troops in the joint military camp rested for two days, the headquarters began to transfer troops.
It is quite difficult to expect these adventurers of varying quality to endure the casualties on the front lines all the time. Rotating the troops may be more reliable than filling all these 100,000 people into the battle line.
Of course, the most important thing to maintain their morale is money.
They are adventurers and mercenaries who fight for money. Gu Hang also gave them alliance coins without any doubt, and promised that these alliance coins could be spent in the garbage town during the war. He did get a lot of supplies from the garbage town for supply. Moreover, it was further promised that if the organization is restructured after the war, those who remain in the alliance and become members of the alliance can exchange the alliance coins currently issued for work points at that time.
It seems like a big expense, but in fact the cost is not as big as imagined.
They are just alliance coins, and many of them are empty promises.
What is the use of issuing alliance coins? If the adventurer spends it immediately, it is spending money. Gu Hang saves money from various places in the garbage town; if he saves it and does not spend it, it is paying for it in the future.
If you really want to be a little more disgusting, if you join the alliance system in the future and exchange for work points, it will be okay; if you want to leave, you have to redeem alliance coins, and the price of things is not up to you.
Of course, Gu Hang would not do this up to a certain level, as it would damage his credibility.
Gu Hang still hopes that these people can stay in the future.
Even if we stop serving as soldiers and become workers, we still have a population of 100,000.
Among these people, the one that Gu Hang values the most is naturally the Beast Slaughter Group.
After they retreated to rest, Gu Hang summoned the leader of the beast-slaying group, Luji Li Kexi.
Regarding Gu Hang's proposal for inclusion, Li Kexi finally chose to accept it. On the way back, he had a good chat with his brothers. He asked many people for their opinions, ranging from captains to mid-level commanders to lower-level soldiers.
The words they say are different, but the meaning is the same: willing to accept inclusion.
What else is there to say?
Since the Beast Slayer Group was formed, they have been fighting for half a year now. Constant deaths, constant sacrifices, and extremely difficult living conditions...
Hatred is the driving force that supports them, but another point cannot be ignored. They were originally a group of adventurers, and they didn't know what to do except this.
Revenge is motivation, and if you can only rely on this to survive, it may not be a bigger motivation.
What's wrong with compilation?
Life can be better, the future is guaranteed, and there is no need to delay playing green skins.
As for the so-called maintaining independence... that was indeed one of the purposes of the Beast Slaughter Group when it was first established. They only accepted sponsorship and did not accept orders, but that was so that they could concentrate on fighting greenskins and avoid being assigned by the agents in Garbage Town. Go do private work.
Now, everything in Garbage Town has changed. The situation is completely different. There is no need to stick to that set of things.
Since the brothers all think so, and Li Koxi himself was almost convinced in the previous conversation with Purbov, now that he accepts the governor's personal solicitation, he has no resistance.
However, he made an additional request at the end.
"I hope to retain the name of our 'Beast Slaughter Group' as a separate designation. I heard from Perbov that the alliance's 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 suppressed his smile and said seriously: "If you want to keep the name 'Beast Slaughter Group' as the designation of your unit, then you have to take it." Behave accordingly. Go kill those green-skinned orcs. If you kill enough, the title of 'Slaughter of Beasts' will be worthy of the name, and I will give you this number."
Li Kexi took a deep breath and said firmly: "Then it's a deal."
……
The adventure group called the Beast Slaughter Group completed its reorganization within the next few days.
Five thousand sets of G9 individual weapons were all equipped for them, and they also received a new designation: the 3rd Independent Regiment.
Gu Hang spent fifty points of gifts on them.
After they completed training and became T5-level troops, their accumulated combat experience was also activated, and they became infantry with the characteristics of "slaying beasts".
The reborn 3rd Independent Regiment subsequently returned to the battlefield.
Although, they only brought a lot of individual weapons, no regimental artillery, not even many mortars, at best they only had a lot of rocket launchers. But at least the G9 rifles were much better than their original equipment, and the training conducted under the eyes of the Governor in those few days made them feel that there had been a huge change.
These changes have been directly reflected on the battlefield.
With the support of artillery fire concentrated in the rear, it would not be a problem for the independent regiment to withstand a defense line of more than ten kilometers by itself, with at most the help of some "militia regiments".
Those so-called militia groups are the original adventure groups.
In the past few days, it was not just the 3rd Independent Regiment that was reorganized. The other troops all took advantage of their rotation in the joint military camp to accept the adaptation.
They also asked about their wishes.
Those who wanted to stay as soldiers were reorganized into garrison divisions. Although Gu Hang didn't have enough individual equipment for them at the moment, he didn't plan to train them all to the T5 level in one go - without enough equipment, the training would not be effective enough, so it would be a waste of effort.
But it still needs to be adapted, otherwise the command will be too confusing.
In the end, after seeing how the Alliance troops were treated, the number of people willing to accept changes reached over 70,000.
You can see by comparison that Alliance soldiers, even if they just start as privates, are treated better than they were before when they were just picking up trash.
Of these 70,000 people, except for the Beast Slaughter Group, which was reorganized into an independent regiment of 6,000 people, the other 63,000 people were reorganized into six garrison divisions, assigned numbers 4 to 9.
There are no changes in the weapons and equipment, except for the promise of treatment and the change of the command level.
As commanders at the division and regiment levels, some officers were transferred from the Second Division and the Purbeuf Battalion to serve as commanders, or leaders of some large adventure groups or highly respected adventurers were promoted.
In addition, there is no way to decentralize political commissars to companies. The scale of reorganization is too large. At present, the only way to do this is to stuff political commissars into the division and regiment levels, allowing them to develop a soldier committee organization loyal to the empire and loyal to the governor from within. , to train instructors at the company and battalion levels.
There were more than 20,000 people who were not willing to change their profession to soldiers in the future, but preferred to become ordinary civilians, or to leave the alliance system. Gu Hang did not let them go, but temporarily became private soldiers. The treatment hired them to fight.
And they were organized into ten militia groups, with no numbers, only serial numbers. The internal structure and command level were also based on the structure of each adventure group.
When the garrison divisions rotate back to the front line for combat, they will also be assigned some main tasks, while the militia groups basically do hard work, build fortifications and the like.
It's unnecessary to send people away as cannon fodder. Gu Hang doesn't do this kind of thing.
Not to that extent.
Six garrison divisions have been reorganized. If all equipment and soldier training are completed, Gu Hang will have 9 division and brigade-level units, which is basically enough military strength.
With an army of nearly 100,000 people, the key is relatively high-standard equipment configuration. Subsequent military expansion should not be too worrying about insufficient troops.
After all, in addition to fighting, the army also needs to be stationed on the spot. In a newly recovered area, whether it is to retain or migrate the population, it is necessary to retain troops for suppression in order to implement the policy.
Of course, that is the subsequent usage. At the moment, the priority is to fight the green-skinned orcs.
Gu Hang planned to stay here for two months and fight a defensive battle for two months.
In two months, the reorganization of the nine division and brigade-level units, the training work that consumes gift points, and the production and distribution of all light and heavy equipment should be completed.
At that time, it will be time to counterattack.
(End of chapter)