Chapter 5: Huxin Town built an army

It took Paul Grayman nearly a week to get familiar with and adapt to the daily work and life of a lord. During this period, his body's original memory was gradually restored.

His territory belongs to the Kingdom of Aldo, which is the westernmost country in the known world. To the east of the kingdom, there are many human countries. Among them, the Gabela Empire is the most powerful. There are many dwarf clans living on the mountains. To the north of the Rocky Mountains is a vast prairie, where countless orc tribes are distributed. The rainforest, inhabited by elves known for their beauty and grace.

What worried him a little was that there was a huge religious organization in this world—the church, which had different official titles in different historical periods, and later people called it the church directly. Its beliefs are spread across almost all human nations, and believers are even distributed among alien races. The priest who woke up that night was a priest of this religion. Based on his current memory, he doesn't know much about the past history of this religion, and he doesn't know if there is any dark history. But what is certain is that there are not many fanatical believers among humans, and I have seen several with my inexperienced experience. The land directly controlled by the Holy See is not much, not much bigger than a principality, but its influence can be called calling the wind and rain.

"Isn't this a setting that has been used badly? Every crossing world has its shadow." I was already powerless to complain.

In addition, there seems to be magic in this world, although most people, including nobles, have never seen a person who can use magic in their entire lives, and many people regard magic as nonsense. But his butler Philip swore frankly that he was saved from robbers by a mage when he was a child. According to Philip, the mage made a gesture with his left hand and muttered something, and then a big fireball shot out from the staff in his right hand, and smeared the face of the opposite robber with lightning speed.

Well, since there are fantasy races like dwarves, elves, and orcs, the existence of magic is not out of the question. But he was more inclined to think that what the butler saw was something like a magic trick.

On the first weekend after I woke up, the long-awaited military parade finally started.

According to his request, the soldiers lined up in three squares and passed through the small square one by one under the command of the knights.

"This...is my soldier?" The little earl said with a livid face.

The soldiers in the "Phalanx" wore miscellaneous clothes of all kinds. The only thing they wore in common was a piece of cloth armor with the family crest of the Greimans tattooed on it. At the beginning, the formation of the platoon was fairly neat, but after starting to march, the pace became chaotic. When he walked in front of him, the formation had become messy and sparse, and it was impossible to even see the formation. It's been a long time.

"Gentlemen, it is necessary to raise our requirements for the quality of our army!" After summoning the knights, the little earl said with a gloomy face.

"Uh..." The knights were embarrassed for a while, you looked at me, I looked at you, and finally Bryce stood up, "Ahem...Master Earl, it is like this, our place is relatively remote, and there is no coveting of other nobles , and the folk customs are simple and honest, so they are usually relatively lax in terms of armaments. To be honest, I didn’t expect the pirates to attack so far from the coast this time.”

"A **** lesson! Comrades...ah no, I mean gentlemen." The young lord looked up to the sky and sighed, with a heartbroken look, "The last failure is a **** lesson!"

The knights were even more ashamed. The death of the old earl always left a shadow in their hearts;

"So I decided that the recruits recruited this time will be personally supervised and trained by the lord!" Paul took advantage of the situation.

"Yes! Lord Earl!" Although he had great doubts about how much the little lord knew about military affairs, the embarrassing performance of the military parade made the knights unable to muster up the courage to raise objections.

In this way, another week passed, and a new round of conscription recruited a total of 315 new recruits. He decided to reorganize the army in the same way as the Earth Army before the crossing, so he announced his reorganization plan to the knights.

The army is organized into five levels: regiment, battalion, company, platoon, and squad. The most basic class has 10 people in general. The department and the chief and deputy platoon commanders, one company has three platoons and one cooking squad, the company headquarters and the chief and deputy company commanders, one battalion has three companies under its jurisdiction, the battalion headquarters and the chief and deputy battalion commanders, and one regiment has three battalions under its jurisdiction. Set up the regiment and the deputy head.

Corresponding to the organization, he imitated the military rank system of his previous life. According to the current organization, there are two levels of soldiers (Private, Private), three levels of non-commissioned officers (Corporal, Sergeant, Sergeant), and three levels of lieutenants (Second Lieutenant, Lieutenant) , Captain), three ranks of school officer (major, lieutenant colonel, colonel), at the same time stipulates the corresponding relationship between military ranks and positions at all levels.

He also stipulated that under special circumstances—for example, when the commander is unable to command the team due to injury or sacrifice—the order of transfer of command power should be transferred according to the position first, then according to the rank, and finally according to the length of service. As an example, once the company commander is injured or injured and unable to command the battle on the battlefield, the deputy company commander will take over the command. If the deputy company commander also has an accident, the platoon leaders will take over the command of the entire company in order according to their rank. The ranks of the platoon leaders are all the same, so they are sorted according to their military age, and so on for other establishments.

The knights were a little dizzy from these complicated titles. Some people suggested that the ranks of generals should be directly set to four levels: private, non-commissioned officer, lieutenant, and field officer, and each level should not be subdivided. There were hundreds of people, but was dismissed by the little count. He explained: "Although our army is still small, we must first set up a shelf anyway, so that in the future when we encounter more serious emergencies, we can expand." It’s very convenient to get up.”

"What a bunch of short-sighted guys," Paul said to himself, "I haven't mentioned the names of division, army, group army, general, and marshal yet!"

The reason why a larger organization and a higher rank is not proposed now is that on the one hand, the current army size is too small, and on the other hand, he does not dare to do so. According to the current largest regiment-level organization, if it is full, it will have to There are more than a thousand people. For an earldom in a remote area, this is a considerable military force. If we propose a division-level organization of tens of thousands of people and a larger-scale military-level organization, it will be accepted by those who are interested If it gets out, maybe it’s a big hat that intends to rebel. You must know that a knight order in the capital has only more than 10,000 people, but you, a country lord, are clamoring all over the world that you want to support an army of 10,000 people. What do you want? In the same way, only those nobles and nobles in the capital who have fought for the country for a long time are eligible to be called generals. There are only 1,800 people in a gang, and the country knights who usually suppress bandits and pirates are each other's major generals. , Admiral's address to each other, how can we not justify it.

There are also people who have objections to the fact that each company is assigned a cooking class, thinking that it is unnecessary.

"This will be the guarantee of our combat power!" Speaking of the cooking class, UU reading www.uukanshu.com saw the lord suddenly became excited, stood up and danced, explaining its great significance, full of words that made the knights puzzled, But seeing that the lord attaches so much importance to it, no one objected.

In the end, Paul proposed to make the army regular, and he would pay a certain allowance as compensation for the loss of labor force of the soldiers' families.

The knights had no objection to this point, since they spent the money of the Lord's Mansion anyway. On the other hand, Steward Philip, who was standing aside, almost fainted. This time recruiting soldiers has already cost a lot of money, and the young master will increase the expenses, and it will be long-term. It seems that he has to find a time to persuade him.

After the meeting, the thing that made butler Philip even more distressed came. The young master actually asked him to be responsible for customizing two sets of clothes for each of the big soldiers, and it had to be done within a month. Although he tried his best to oppose the young master's "waste" of money, the young master repeatedly emphasized the importance of a uniform uniform for a regular army, so he had no choice but to do it.

This adaptation was repeatedly mentioned by historians and military strategists of later generations. It changed the old practice of simply dividing the army according to hundreds, thousands, and ten thousand troops. A series of organization concepts such as , company, etc., together with the larger organization such as divisions and corps newly established by Paul in the subsequent military expansions, supplemented by the military rank system, constituted a complete military system. In particular, the introduction of the military rank system has made the army more tightly organized, so that the original commanders in the old-era army would not disperse once they die. In this new system, once such an accident occurs, the new The commanders will be automatically generated in order and continue to lead the troops to fight, ensuring the sustainability of combat effectiveness. Therefore, military historians unanimously regard this event as the beginning of the modernization of the army.