"It turns out that we are all talking to each other..." General Bolognik said with a wry smile.
There is a large map of the kingdom on the table, and the red line outlined on it is the route of Prince Hansback's surprise attack on the royal capital. The generals present all understood why the prince sent the secret order to move Vibato Port
The demesne was returned to the Kingdom of Hicks, and the two demesne of Cromwell and Beringana were ceded.
It was originally thought that the Great Prince Hansback had gone crazy for the throne and made such an irrational decision in order to transport the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion to increase his own strength. Now everyone understands that the Great Prince and the Kingdom of Hicks have reached an agreement
The cooperation agreement also included a sneak attack on the kingdom's fearless fleet, and then transporting the Blue Feather Legion and a standing legion directly into the hinterland of the kingdom, bypassing the Odin Mountains and appearing on the Ibiniste Plain.
This was truly a genius strategic plan. To everyone's surprise, the vast sea turned out to be a smooth road for the eldest prince to advance his troops. The big bosses in the royal capital only knew how to gather troops in the Odin Mountains, preparing to reject the eldest prince's troops.
In the newly occupied territory, they were prepared to wait for Prince Wedelek to ascend the throne to stabilize the domestic situation first, and then slowly mobilize troops to kill the eldest prince.
Because no matter how you look at it, Prince Wedelek, who occupies two-thirds of the local counties in the kingdom, is stronger than Prince Hansback. Prince Hansback occupies one-third of the kingdom's mainland.
The territories are all newly occupied by the Kingdom. Although nearly ten years have passed since the Five-Year Eastern War, the economy of the Kingdom still has not improved, and the people's livelihood in the newly occupied areas is also in decline. For Prince Hansback, the longer the time drags on, the more difficult it is for him.
unfavorable.
Just as General Bolognik and Claude said in private discussions, no one is optimistic about the future of Prince Hansback. Whether it is the supply of troops or the replenishment of weapons and ammunition, the newly occupied territory has no way to compete with Weide.
The kingdom under the jurisdiction of Prince Lek competed with the mainland. The war was about logistics and economic strength. Claude doubted that in a year and a half, if the eldest prince had spent all the military expenses on hand, what would he be able to support...
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Not to mention anything else, Prince Wedelek has occupied the royal capital and has a great reputation. Most of the powerful men in the kingdom support his succession. The other thing is the supply of weapons and ammunition. Prince Wedelek has
It is supported by the five major military-industrial industries of the established aristocratic families, but under the eldest prince there is only an unfinished military-industrial complex in the three southern counties. The two parties are not on the same level at all.
Therefore, the secret order sent by the eldest prince made several generals in the war zone angry. Claude also took this opportunity to break up with the eldest prince Hansback and sever the relationship between the two parties. What he was afraid of was the battle between the two kings.
After the civil war in the kingdom ended, Prince Wedelek, who had secured his throne, was conducting a grand reckoning. Several generals in the war zone would be implicated because of their relationship with Prince Hansback. Unfortunately, Winning Eyes gave
The blind man saw that the powerful bosses in the royal capital did not take the eldest prince's secret order reported by the war zone to heart, but instead reprimanded the war zone for issuing a disarmament order.
Well, now everyone understands Prince Hansback’s plan, but it’s too late to regret it. No wonder the prince is willing to pay the price of three overseas territories to the Hicks Kingdom. If there is no Sea King of the Hicks Kingdom
With the assistance of the fleet and the combined fleet, it was impossible for the eldest prince to achieve the purpose of a surprise attack and occupy the royal capital.
Now the generals in the war zone are in trouble. Everyone does not think highly of Prince Hansback and refuses to obey his orders. To some extent, they have betrayed the kindness of the prince to everyone. But this time it is considered
After being slapped in the face by Prince Hansback, a surprise attack and the capture of the royal capital was carried out. Prince Wedelek fled in panic, and the situation of the entire kingdom's civil war changed.
"You said that we rejected the eldest prince's secret order and did not return the direct jurisdiction of Port Vibato, nor did we cede the two direct jurisdictions of Cromwell and Beringana. Then why does the Kingdom of Hicks still help the eldest prince like this?
?" General Albert was a little confused.
General Skerry shook his head: "Although these three direct territories are under the jurisdiction of our theater, don't forget that their ownership is not ours to decide. We can refuse the prince's secret order now, but if the prince
If the prince defeated Prince Wedelek, ended the civil war in the kingdom, and officially ascended the throne as king, then as our king, if he wants to hand over these three direct territories to the Kingdom of Hicks as a reward, we will simply
There's no way to stop it..."
"The most important thing is that we have offended the eldest prince Hansback." General Bichklin pointed out the important point: "If the eldest prince ascends the throne and becomes king, we believe that none of us will end up well. The character of the eldest prince is my
I know very well that he is very tolerant to soldiers and junior officers, but very harsh to us senior officers, and he will never forgive us for rejecting the secret order he issued."
General Skerry nodded helplessly on the side, agreeing with General Bichlin's view. When he was the personal aide-de-camp of the Great Prince Hansback at the beginning of the five-year war in the Eastern Region, he had seen the First Prince and the soldiers interact with each other.
The junior officers talked and laughed freely and got into a group. But they were very harsh and mean to the senior officers who had made mistakes. They laughed and ridiculed lightly. Sometimes they even ignored everyone around and yelled and cursed, which made those senior officers very upset.
tower.
Claude could only smile bitterly. The roundabout attack by the eldest prince Hansback was really amazing. He turned a bad hand into a king. Now no one is sure that the eldest prince has no chance. He has occupied the royal capital. No matter what
Both resources and soldiers will be greatly strengthened. To put it bluntly, the balance of the civil war in the entire kingdom has tilted towards Prince Hansback. Similarly, the intensity of this civil war in the kingdom will also increase as the prince takes over.
As the royal capital is promoted, the entire Kingdom of Orvilas will face a war catastrophe.
However, Claude did not regret that he refused the eldest prince's secret order. No matter what, he had to keep his family name and military honor. Because if Claude accepted the eldest prince's secret order, even if the eldest prince could successfully ascend the throne
, but the crime of returning the direct jurisdiction of Port Vibato and ceding the two direct jurisdictions of Cromwell and Beringana will still be borne by him, General Bologna and others. The reputation of being a traitor will accompany him and his family for a lifetime, Claude
Only when you are full can you take the blame for Prince Hansback...
"Stop talking, since we have expressed our allegiance to Prince Wedelek, we can only go one way to the end. Although Prince Hansback has occupied the royal capital, there are many people in the kingdom who oppose him.
Prince Wedelek also has the Red Dragon Legion, the Guards Legion and the Griffin Legion under his command. He has three of the kingdom's four field ace legions, and he also occupies the title of Righteousness. As long as he can rise up and shout, all parts of the kingdom will be conquered.
If we gather troops to counterattack, maybe Prince Hansback will be driven out of the royal capital soon." General Bolognik could only comfort everyone in this way.
Claude nodded: "It's useless for us to be anxious here now, unless we receive an order to return home to join the war. Let's settle the matter of disarmament and reorganization today. During this time, I have thought of a plan. If we don't
If we adapt it to a system where one division is full and the other is empty, we might as well adopt a three-by-three system so that the two divisions in each legion maintain the same combat effectiveness."
"How is the three-three system organized?" General Albert asked curiously.
"This is actually very simple." Claude took a piece of white paper from the table and wrote: "Our current state of full strength of each legion can be called a four-four-two system, that is, four squadrons form a squadron, and four squadrons form a squadron.
A squadron is a first group, four brigades are a battalion, four battalions are a regiment, four regiments are a division, and two divisions are a corps. Including the troops directly under each unit, the full strength is more than 63,000 people.
My idea of a three-by-three system is to have three squadrons as one squadron, three squadrons as one squadron, three squadrons as one battalion, three battalions as one regiment, three regiments as one brigade, three brigades as one division, and then three divisions as one.
Legion. In this way, we will reduce some of the troops directly under each unit, and they will also be organized in threes and threes. Then one division will only have more than 21,000 people. At present, we will form two divisions for each legion. If there is a war in the future, we can expand and form additional divisions.
For the third division, the full strength of the legion will also be around 63,000."
General Bolognik took another piece of white paper and calculated on it. There are twelve soldiers in a squad, three squads make up a squadron, plus the squadron leader, etc., there are forty people. Then there are one hundred and twenty soldiers in a squadron, plus the squadron.
The captain, guards, correspondents, medical soldiers, orderlies and other auxiliary personnel, an artillery squad, and a baggage squad, total about 150 people.
Three brigades form a battalion, and the strength of a battalion is estimated to be 560 men. Three battalions form a regiment, and the strength of a regiment is about 2,000 men. Three regiments form a brigade, and the strength of a brigade is 6,500.
Three brigades form one division, with a strength of 21,000. According to Claude's three-three system adaptation, both the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion can maintain two divisions with almost the same combat effectiveness.
What just made several generals hesitate and hesitate was that Claude's three-three system actually adopted a small regiment organization, while the Kingdom of Ovelas basically adopted a large regiment organization, and the strength of a regiment was basically
There are about 5,000 to 6,000 troops. The Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion are both adapted from reinforced divisions. Each regiment has more than 7,000 people. A division plus directly affiliated troops and an additional reinforced battalion.
The full force has reached 32,000 people.
To be honest, the main combat strength of each legion only accounts for two-thirds of the total number, and the rest are directly affiliated troops and auxiliary personnel of each unit, which makes the entire legion look bloated. Now Claude has created
This three-three system is a small regiment organization, which is mainly field type. Then a brigade unit is added between the regiment and division units, which made the generals present feel a little strange. They thought that this brigade unit played the role of the previous one.
The function of the large group establishment is nothing more than changing the name.
Immediately afterwards, the generals began to quarrel. Some people agreed with Claude's small regiment organization, and some people felt that it was not good to change the military structure indiscriminately. However, they all agreed that they rejected the brigade organization and believed that there would be one more unit on the battlefield.
This creates an additional layer of trouble for the unit, causing another layer of hands-off in the communication of military information, which will only cause more inconvenience in the exchange of information.
Claude believes that large regiments are outdated. In the past, the mainstream of war in Farea was to line up and kill, so the more troops the better. The units of a regiment are the main force in launching attacks or defenses, so the scale of the establishment can be easily expanded.
, sometimes I wish I could stuff a division of troops into it.
However, the five-year war in the eastern region and the colonial wars in overseas territories have shown that the queuing-to-shoot method of war is outdated. Flexible raids and precise shooting, as well as relying on solid defensive positions for defense, are the key to war.
Mainstream.
Whether it is the Thunder Division or the Rock Legion, they have long abandoned the combat method of marching in formation and lining up to shoot. They use more precise aiming and shooting to attack and defend during combat. In addition, now with the help of grenades, so
Claude believed that it would be better to return to a small regiment structure, so that commanding operations would be more flexible and convenient.
Although everyone agrees with Claude's explanation and believes that the small regiment organization is indeed beneficial to combat, this is not an endorsement or support for the three-by-three system. Among them, the most objectionable thing is the brigade organization, because with one more brigade, it will
It is very different from the military system of the Kingdom of Overas. It is difficult to explain this to the Kingdom's Ministry of War. It is also a crime to tamper with the military system.
However, the three-three system and small regiment organization proposed by Claude still inspired the generals present. After fierce debate, a consensus was finally reached. General Bolognik, as the acting supreme commander of the theater, made the decision to adopt four-four
The five systems are reorganized into legions.
The so-called four-four-five system means that the organization from squad to regiment level remains unchanged. It is still a four-digit system. Four squads are one squadron, four squadrons are one squadron, and four squadrons are one battalion. One battalion has 800 troops, and four battalions have 800 troops.
It is a regiment, with a strength of about 3,600 men, and a division with a full strength of 21,000 men. It is divided into five regiments, a directly affiliated reinforcement battalion, and other logistical support personnel.
In this way, both the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion can have two division-level establishments with the same combat effectiveness. If there is a war in the future, they can expand another division, and the two legions can still reach full strength. After the adaptation plan was finalized, everyone relaxed
However, General Beachlin immediately asked whether the nine local garrison regiments to be formed should also be reorganized in this way to serve as reserve supplementary forces for the two legions. It would be best to maintain the same military structure.
But if the local garrison regiments are also reorganized in this way, then twelve local garrison regiments will need to be formed instead of nine regiments. General Bolonik finally decided to build the Silver City in Vibato Port and Patrese Port.
Two local garrison regiments are deployed in Monkenard Castle to strengthen the garrison strength of these three strategic locations.
In late May, General Bolognik went to the Tiersim Territory, preparing to meet with the governors and admirals of the three territories of Tiersim, Mormali, and Arturas to discuss the issue of military expenditures in the war zone. Before leaving
The former general assigned the task of reorganizing the two armies in the theater and forming twelve local garrison regiments to Generals Claude and Albert, General Beachlin, and General Skerry.
In mid-June, General Bolonik and Harrier sent a message. It was said that the talks with the governors and admirals of the three jurisdictions were not very harmonious, and they were preparing to return to the war zone in early July. As a result, in July, General Bolonik suddenly
After losing the message, the theater headquarters sent several Falcon messages one after another, but no reply came back.
On July 23rd, Mr. Veblen rushed into the theater headquarters and brought shocking news to Claude and others. Tiersim, Mormali, and Arturas...
The governors and admirals of the demesne declared their allegiance to Prince Hansback. They detained General Bolognik, used private armed forces to block the borders of the demesne, and prepared to threaten the war zone with General Bolognik's life...
How is this possible? Claude's first reaction was that he didn't believe the news from Mr. Veblen. Are the governors and admirals of the three demesne's heads wet? Why do they threaten the war zone? You know
There are two legions in the war zone. No matter which legion goes north, the three direct territories will not be able to take advantage of it. Do you really think that the private guards formed by the governors and admirals can stop the attack of the legions sent by the war zone?