It is very urgent for today's new army of the Tang Dynasty to form basic tactical units with the ability to independently launch a medium-sized battle of between 1,000 and 3,000 men.
Because what can be foreseen in the future is that it is impossible to say that the tens of thousands of people in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty will always fight together. After occupying Xingquan Mansion, it will be surrounded by enemies on all sides, and in the foreseeable future, there will be a large number of bright enemies.
The army launched an attack on Xingquan Prefecture from multiple aspects, which required the new army of the Tang Dynasty to have multi-line combat capabilities.
At the same time, the size of the new army of the Tang Dynasty will continue to expand to ten thousand people in the next one or two months. Within this time, Li Xuan will not only organize units for basic tactical operations, but also prepare for such
It takes time for basic tactical units to formulate some combat regulations and improve combat theories.
This war does not just require someone to have a gun, it requires military theory as support.
As for how this military theory came about, it naturally required a lot of training, deductions, and demonstrations to disprove it. It is impossible to just think it up out of thin air and then use it.
And this also takes time, so Li Xuan didn't plan to delay it for too long, and soon he and a group of staff from the Operations Department conducted deductions for several days.
During the deduction process, Li Xuan didn't even pay too much attention to the war in Lianhe County. He just read the battle reports every day. Wang Shanxu fought quite well in Lianhe County, defeating several groups of small and medium-sized Ming troops along the way.
, has now advanced to the county seat of Lianhe County, and is preparing to launch a general attack on the county seat.
With the troops under Wang Shanxu's command, it would be no problem to capture the company and the county seat. The reason Wang Shanxu was anxious to attack was to avoid a large number of casualties.
Li Xuan did not interfere with how Wang Shanxu fought in Lianhe County. Anyway, as long as there were no big surprises, the result was destined. As for the process, Li Xuan didn't pay much attention to it now.
In the past few days, his focus has been on the expansion of the army. After formulating solutions to many issues such as recruitment, salaries, artillery, etc. during the expansion, he focused most of his attention on programming basic tactics.
The unit is here.
When forming a basic tactical unit, the size and basic organization of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty must be taken into consideration. The scale is just over 10,000 people, and the basic organization is an infantry battalion.
For this reason, Li Xuan considered using two infantry battalions, three infantry battalions or even four infantry battalions to form an infantry regiment. But should it be organized into a small regiment of two battalions or a medium-sized regiment of three infantry battalions?
Regiment, or simply a large regiment of four infantry battalions?
Also, should auxiliary troops be added, how many should be added, and how to configure them.
These are carefully and repeatedly deduced, and then we can come up with a plan that is most suitable for the New Army of the Tang Dynasty.
Not the best, but the most suitable.
After several days of deductions, Li Xuan also made up his mind. He decided to configure three infantry battalions for each infantry regiment.
However, these three infantry battalions are not limited to regular infantry battalions. They also include garrison battalions. The specific organization is determined according to the specific requirements of the army.
At the same time, considering that the infantry regiment needs to undertake the combat mission of a separate front and is used as a basic combat tactical unit, it must also be equipped with necessary auxiliary units, such as artillery, cavalry and other units.
After several days of deliberation, the Operations Department suggested that the auxiliary units such as the reconnaissance cavalry platoon, artillery platoon, and baggage platoon originally assigned to the infantry battalion be directly assigned to the direct command of the infantry regiment, while the infantry battalion returns to its simple role.
A single-arms unit can be temporarily reinforced for infantry battalion operations if necessary during wartime.
The cavalry, artillery, and baggage troops centralized under the command of the infantry regiment are more conducive to centralized training and command.
But in this way, the configuration of the previous infantry battalion was basically broken, but Li Xuan agreed after thinking for a long time. Anyway, the organization was still being formulated these days, and the army did not implement the new infantry battalion's organization.
, only a few minor changes are needed in the file.
After such adjustments, the complete infantry regiment of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty will consist of three infantry battalions, a cavalry team, a light battalion artillery team, and a baggage team.
Each infantry battalion has five infantry teams. It is stipulated that there must be two musketeers and two pike teams, and the fifth team is used as a supplementary team. It can be said to be a musketeer team or a pike team.
It can be sword and shield, archery team, etc.
There is also a battalion headquarters in the infantry battalion, which contains officers, staff, orderlies, personal soldiers, clerks, military musicians, cooks and other members.
With the battalion headquarters plus five infantry teams, the total strength of an infantry battalion is 542.
If the infantry battalion goes out to fight alone, it will be equipped with auxiliary troops, which will reach more than 700 people by then.
The infantry regiment consists of three battalions and auxiliary troops, with a full strength of 2,000 men.
Two thousand people of various types of arms are basically able to undertake most basic tactical and combat missions. If they want to undertake more important combat missions, they will continue to strengthen a number of troops, infantry battalions or artillery teams, etc., and give up an infantry unit.
The regiment becomes a mixed regiment.
The New Army of the Tang Dynasty is expected to be organized into a total of four infantry regiments.
The total strength of these four infantry regiments is about 8,000, and the rest are the artillery battalion, baggage battalion, cavalry team, sword and shield team, archer team and other troops directly under the Privy Council.
The total military strength is still ten thousand, and there has not been much change.
After this brand-new organization was formulated, Li Xuan did not delay for too long and quickly promulgated it, allowing all units to complete reorganization and expand the army according to the new organization plan.
In addition to military expansion and establishment content, the new army expansion plan further improved the detailed systems of the new army of the Tang Dynasty. Many details were formulated in great detail, such as how to pack the marching baggage. In formal situations, you must hold your head high and wear clean clothes when walking.
Neat military uniforms. Even the names are uniformly regulated, instead of the random names before.
This formally determined the titles of platoons, teams, battalions, regiments, brigades, divisions, and corps at all levels. It was made clear that superior officers should not be addressed as adults, but as officers. In formal occasions and official written documents, the full title should be used.
Name plus job title, such as platoon leader Zhang San, captain Li Si, battalion commander, regiment commander, brigade commander, division commander. Do not use messy characters and titles. In addition, it is also stipulated that non-general officers are not allowed to use the general title privately. Early awards
All kinds of general titles will be abolished.
This change in the army expansion plan not only made the tax collectors complain every day that they could not afford to support tens of thousands of people, but the officers and even ordinary soldiers in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty were very happy. Why?
Because once the army is expanded, they will all be promoted!
The platoon leader will become a captain, the captain will become a battalion commander, someone from the battalion officer will become a regiment commander, and even ordinary soldiers will change from private to first class, first class to corporal, and corporal to sergeant.
The promotions caused by the expansion of the army are universal. Basically, half of the entire army has been promoted. Officers are generally promoted by one rank, and a few outstanding ones are promoted by two ranks in a row, such as from platoon leader to platoon leader.
From the captain, or from the captain to the battalion commander, or from the battalion commander to the regiment commander, these are typical double jumps, because they have all passed by,
But the expansion of the army also caused a big trouble, that is, the new army of the Tang Dynasty did not have enough officers!
Before the expansion of the army, the new army of the Tang Dynasty did not have many officers, but it was barely enough. After all, the expansion of the new army of the Tang Dynasty before was relatively slow and the scale was relatively small. But now that the army has been expanded to ten thousand people, the number of officers required is huge.
Hundreds of people, this suddenly made the people in the Privy Council's Quanxu Department anxious because they were running out of officers and couldn't find anyone to fill the numerous officer positions, especially the two most important positions, platoon leader and deputy platoon leader.
At the grassroots level, the second lieutenant and lieutenant positions are also in greatest demand.
Although the Privy Council is recruiting scholars to serve as officers in the army every day, and the scale of the Royal Academy is getting larger and larger, it is still unable to meet the huge demand for officers in the new army of the Tang Dynasty in a short time.
In this regard, Li Xuan gave instructions to the Quanxu Division to select talents from outstanding non-commissioned officers and appoint them as junior officers. Junior officers do not have to be literate. Besides, even if they are illiterate, they can still be appointed.
After becoming an officer, I studied culture and took the opportunity to organize a literacy class.
Originally, Li Xuan planned to open literacy classes in the army, trying to increase the literacy rate in the army. The improvement was naturally not to make them better able to fight. In fact, it made no difference to ordinary soldiers whether they were illiterate or literate.
Most of them were just cannon fodder who followed orders, but Li Xuan planned a later plan, which was to train a large number of junior officers from within when the size of the army became larger and larger.
The literacy rate these days is too low. It is quite difficult to recruit ready-made scholars to attend martial arts schools and then train them as officers. This is because there are only a few scholars who join the Tang Dynasty, and most of them are rushing to become civil servants.
If you are willing to join the army, it is difficult to recruit scholars to join the army. It is better to train them directly from soldiers.
In addition, these illiterate soldiers can not only become potential officers, but after they retire, they will be able to hold many grassroots government positions in the local area. Officers can serve as officials at all levels, such as county magistrates and town mayors.
Or division chief, section chief, etc. Even if you are an ordinary soldier, as long as you are literate, you can be an ordinary section officer.
And this is the main reason why Li Xuan wants to open large-scale literacy classes in the military.
These retired civil servants from the military will become the most solid core of grassroots rule in the Tang Dynasty.
As long as these retired soldiers are still alive, the foundation of the rule of the Tang Dynasty will be solid, and there is no need to worry about things that cannot be controlled at the grassroots level.
Therefore, literacy classes must be set up, and they start across the entire army. Every soldier needs to participate!