Chapter 773, Army Construction

Chapter 773, Army Construction

Salihovic's multiple countermeasure plans can be used.

The information about Yang Shiwei's corruption and insider trading was the result of their investigations over the past several years and was part of their combined punch.

On this basis, the memorandum signed by Yang Shiwei as the representative of the empire that the young man obtained was an unexpected surprise, and would play a role in the subsequent countermeasures.

Gu Hang's order was clearly given to the Alliance Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

This part of the work will be led by Salihovic.

But the execution is certainly not limited to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The alliance, a machine that was ready to go, started to rumble.

From the administrative department to the economic department, to the military department, to the legal department, to the intelligence department, all departments that need to take action must take action.

However, from execution to fermentation, to detonation, and then to the final result feedback, it takes time to settle. Since the specific executor has been determined, Gu Hang did not personally monitor this matter and just waited for the report.

At the moment, the first thing he has to deal with personally is another alliance government work report conference.

This meeting is held almost every year, and Gu Hang will of course attend it.

In some years the conferences are of average importance, while in other years they are very important.

The first one is about fifteen years ago, when Gu Hang returned from Holy Terra with the signed "Alliance Plan".

The report from that meeting basically determined the future development direction of the alliance.

And now, it is also a very important time node.

On the one hand, successive development plans have been successfully implemented. With the war expenses owed by the central empire to the alliance being fully offset, the most important development period of the alliance has ended. It is time to look back at the overall development status of the past fifteen years.

On the other hand, the Alliance has also observed the changes in the entire empire's political arena. The Alliance's external political environment is deteriorating. At this point in time, it is like reaching a crossroads. Even the Alliance needs a key overall meeting to unify ideas, determine the route, and figure out what to do in the future.

The first half of the meeting was still dominated by government reports.

The intelligence on the alliance that the Empire currently holds is indeed 'correct'.

The alliance's annual GDP has indeed reached 50 trillion.

It was precisely because of this data that they came up with that document full of errors and omissions, and proposed a tax of 5 trillion per year to the alliance.

However, the reason why the word "correct" is put in quotation marks is that the figure of 50 trillion is only one of several figures estimated by the intelligence department of Holy Terra, and it is the highest one.

The mainstream recognized number is between 30 trillion and 35 trillion.

This is already a very high number, almost three times that of a universe of the same size.

The Empire still maintains some inertia brought by common sense.

They could not think of any way to enable a huge economy with a population of 12 trillion to maintain super-fast growth for 15 years and increase its gross domestic product fivefold.

That's something that challenges common sense.

In fact, 30 trillion is already a challenge.

They have always believed that the strength of the alliance lies mainly in their efficient political system, which brings about excellent efficiency in tax collection.

It was on this basis that the imperial central government worked out the number that Yang Shiwei later mentioned that he really wanted to implement, which was 2.5 trillion tax coins.

In the eyes of the imperial central government, this is already a 5000 billion yuan value given to the alliance, and it is not exactly levied at the 10% imperial tax rate. Combined with the alliance's excellent tax collection efficiency and institutional advantages, the alliance should still have a lot of income. This has fully taken into account the alliance's strong strength and the respect for Gu Hang, the high lord. Gu Hang and his alliance should be grateful for this.

This is the difference in cognition between the two sides.

Putting aside the Empire, the Alliance's actual general public budget revenue and state-owned enterprise operating income combined can actually reach about 10 trillion yuan per year.

As the imperial central government considered, the alliance system was quite efficient in collecting the surplus value of labor.

And this is not the beginning.

The trade with the North, South, and Lingze Star was profitable for all the participating chambers of commerce. The tax revenue had been included in the tax revenue, but the various chambers of commerce under the alliance also made a lot of money.

Especially on Lingze Star.

All of this money earned, after paying taxes, must be handed over to the league. This part alone is about one trillion per year.

Of the total fiscal revenue of 11 trillion, except for the part paid as imperial tax, the rest will not be kept by the alliance and will be invested in alliance construction, with economic construction as the main focus.

Now, the rapid, crazy, and completely economy-oriented construction cycle is about to come to an end.

This does not mean that economic development will be ignored. On the contrary, economic development will still be the government's most important task.

However, at this point in time, with the situation very likely to shift in the future, the league will have to spend a lot more money in other areas.

Even the necessary extreme preparations should be made.

When it comes to extreme situations, the Alliance has something like wartime laws.

In the past fifteen years, the wartime decree seemed to have become a somewhat unfamiliar memory for the new generation of the alliance. However, in the more than fifty years of the alliance's history, the wartime decree was in effect for more than half of the time.

The people of the current alliance have always maintained a relatively high standard of living. Of course, the specific living standard depends on the development of each star region. Among them, the Dragon Eagle Star Region is definitely the one with the highest living standard, and the average annual consumption per capita can even reach nearly 7 tax coins. Even though many of them are in public services, the overall level is here, and life is quite comfortable.

If the alliance activates wartime laws, restrictions are placed on all types of consumer goods, and all types of civilian factories begin to transform into military factories or other factories that meet the needs of the alliance, the alliance will be able to squeeze out an additional 10 trillion dollars in fiscal revenue for the war.

Of course, this trick is not needed for the time being. It just adjusts the direction of current fiscal expenditure.

And a very important part of it is military construction.

Over the past fifteen years, although the Alliance has been reducing its military forces and cutting military expenditures, its military construction has not stood still.

The limited resources are used where they are needed most: Upgrading existing equipment and forming more combat-capable model and experimental units.

The accumulated experience will be very effective. When the alliance needs to expand its military power, it only needs to invest money and resources, and all the military progress of the past fifteen years can be realized quickly.

This is true whether it is the army or the navy.

As for the army, the changes are relatively few, mainly the establishment of several different levels of divisions, army groups, and army groups.

They will be divided into four levels: ABCD.

The D level is the planetary defense force standard. However, each planet's defense force needs to have a certain proportion of C and B level divisions and armies, which depends on the planet's economic situation and is jointly determined by the Alliance Government and the Alliance Military.

Class C is a division-level unit built according to the Alliance standards during the Ironclad War. Class C Army is an army composed entirely of Class C divisions. Generally, it consists of a total of 26 divisions, including 20 large infantry divisions, 5 armored combined brigades, and 1 skeleton division.

The cost of building a large infantry division is about 135 million tax coins; the cost of building an armored combined brigade is 500 million tax coins; and the cost of building a skeleton division is 1000 million tax coins.

The main unit of the C-type large infantry division is the front-line combat infantry, but it is not equipped with all motorized equipment. Tactical maneuvers basically rely on running on two legs. For strategic maneuvers of hundreds or thousands of kilometers within the planet, other vehicles are required. Basically, they rely on armored tracked trains belonging to the army group or army group.

In addition to the 12 front-line combat infantry regiments, the division is generally equipped with 8 artillery battalions as key firepower; there are also 8 battalions for logistics, engineering, and communications; in addition, there is also an air defense regiment and an aviation squadron.

Including the division headquarters, the total number is 4.4.

Such a large infantry division actually has the same combat capability as a standard Astra Militarum division. In fact, it is even more capable than the average Astra Militarum.

The so-called ability to fight does not only refer to stronger firepower and additional air defense and aviation teams, but also refers to the quality of the troops.

Class C divisions can ensure more than 60% coverage of T5 soldiers.

The armored combined brigade of category C has much fewer people, about 1.4 people. But it has about 1000 armored vehicles, ranging from infantry fighting vehicles to armored personnel carriers to air defense vehicles to wheeled assault guns to communication command vehicles... and more importantly, its combat power comes from 320 Lion tanks and 40 Lion King tanks.

Not to mention the support companies, logistics units, and engineering units of each combined battalion and tank battalion, the combined brigade also has an aviation squadron and an air defense battalion.

These five armored combined brigades are the main offensive force of a Class C army.

The other Skeleton Division has 6 people, and its equipment is basically equal to the combination of a large infantry division and an armored brigade. It can be mainly used for independent combat, and the number of weapons such as explosive machine guns, plasma guns, and melt-thrower has increased significantly. It also has a special brigade under its jurisdiction, which is mainly responsible for the most difficult and arduous tasks, even airborne and special operations.

All these add up to 6200 million, plus the army headquarters directly under the group army, several aviation brigades, military strategic firepower and the like, the total cost will be up to 7500 million.

Type C Army Group is composed of 20 such armies, with million people, as well as more strategic firepower, strategic mobile facilities, engineering teams, and multiple strategic air corps.

The Alliance's requirement for division-level units is to be responsible for targets in a single combat area independently or in collaboration. Generally, the combat width will not be less than 40 kilometers, and is usually around 70 to 100 kilometers.

This is the case when the intensity is normal. If necessary, a large number of troops must be stacked to form more batches of battles, or more troops must be piled up for frontal battles, and this number will change.

It depends on the tactical requirements.

When fighting against an enemy with heavy firepower, you definitely can't just stack them randomly, that would be a death sentence, such as when fighting against human traitors. But when fighting against an enemy like a swarm, you have to stack them densely, especially with dense firepower, otherwise you can't stop the endless swarm from charging head-on. The green-skinned orcs are probably in the middle of this.

The requirement for the army group is to lead the battle in an area divided by a planet; the army group can basically be independently responsible for the entire combat needs of a planet.

Of course, all of this depends on the intensity of the war.

When it comes to apocalyptic-level battles, the attrition rate of the army, not to mention the division, is calculated on a daily basis. An army group may be destroyed in ten days or half a month, and the key battlefield may be concentrated in a width of several hundred kilometers.

All of them need to be analyzed based on specific circumstances.

But if we have to talk about normal conditions and ideal conditions, that’s how they are classified.

A Class C Army Group is basically comparable to a normal Astra Militarum Army Corps of an Empire, and is often much stronger.

As for Class B divisions, the large infantry divisions will have more exoskeleton armor, plasma cannons and melta cannons will begin to be equipped, the number of sentry mechas will also increase, and the level of fighters in the divisional aviation squadron will also be higher. For example, more Qilin fighters will be replaced by Feng Falcons, and the overall mobility and endurance capabilities will be greatly increased.

The number of people will still be around 4.4, but the total cost will soar to 450 million, which is almost three times that of a Class C division.

Class B armored divisions, on the basis of Class C, will increase the number of Lion tanks to 120, and will also be equipped with 30 Holy Sword tanks - heavy tanks that are larger and more powerful than Lion tanks. The total cost will increase to 1500 million.

For the B-type army, the number of B-type divisions will be required to account for more than 50% of the C-type army. The B-type army group also requires the number of B-type army to account for more than 50%.

The Combat Power Alliance compares these Class B divisions, army groups, and army groups to those well-known Star Army Corps.

It can basically beat normal Astra Militarum troops.

Even many wealthy Space Marine chapters have their own auxiliary troops at a similar level.

When it comes to the A-class division, it's really top-notch. All infantry members have exoskeletons, and a large proportion of them even have feedback power armor; there are also many Dragon Elephant fighters on the fighter planes, and the combat effectiveness is outstanding.

Moreover, in terms of manpower, there are quite a few soldiers at T4 and T3 levels.

As for the armored division, there are more Holy Sword tanks and they are also equipped with Titans.

A Class A army group requires more than 8 Class A divisions, and the rest must be Class B divisions.

The same applies to Type A Army Group.

The Alliance's standard when creating Class A land forces is to build the most powerful mortal forces in the Empire, surpassing most of the Astra Militarum - including those well-known Astra Militarum regiments.

(End of this chapter)