"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 eldest prince sent the secret order to return the direct jurisdiction of Port Vibato to the Kingdom of Hicks, and to cede the two direct jurisdictions of Cromwell and Beringana.
It was originally believed that Prince Hansback had gone crazy for the throne and made such an irrational decision in order to transport the Thunder Legion and Rock Legion to increase his own strength. Now everyone understands that the cooperation agreement reached between the Great Prince and the Kingdom of Hicks also includes a sneak attack on the kingdom's fearless fleet, and then transporting the Blue Feather Legion and a standing army directly into the hinterland of the kingdom, bypassing the Odin Mountains, and appearing in Ibinis Special 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 army. The big guys in the royal capital only knew how to gather troops in the Odin Mountains, preparing to keep the eldest prince's troops at bay in the newly occupied territory. They were planning to wait for Prince Widrik to ascend the throne to stabilize the situation in the country first, and then slowly mobilize troops to grind down the situation. Dead 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. One-third of the kingdom's territory occupied by Prince Hansback is the kingdom's new occupied territory. Although nearly ten years have passed since the Five-Year Eastern War, the kingdom's economy still has not improved, and the people's livelihood in the newly occupied areas is also in decline. For Prince Hansback, the longer time passes, the worse it will be for him.
Just as General Bolognik and Claude said in private discussions, no one is optimistic about the future of Prince Hansback. Regardless of the supply of troops or the replenishment of weapons and ammunition, the newly occupied territory has no way to compete with the kingdom's mainland under the jurisdiction of Prince Wedelek. A war is all about logistics and economic strength. Claude doubts that after a year and a half, what will the eldest prince be able to do if he spends all the military expenses at hand...
Apart from anything else, Prince Wedelek occupied the royal capital and had a righteous reputation. Most of the powerful men in the kingdom supported his succession. The other is the supply of weapons and ammunition. Prince Wedelek has the support of the five major military industries of the old aristocratic families, while the eldest prince only has an unfinished military-industrial complex in the three southern counties. The two sides are not in the same place at all. On grade.
Therefore, the secret order sent by the eldest prince angered several generals in the war zone. Claude also took this opportunity to break up with Prince Hansbach and sever the relationship between the two parties. What he was afraid of was that after the civil war in the kingdom where the two kings competed for the throne ended, Prince Wedelek, who had secured the throne, would have an affair. In a big settlement, several generals in the war zone will be implicated because of their relationship with Prince Hansback. It's a pity that the flattery is for the blind. The powerful bosses in the royal capital did not take the eldest prince's secret order reported by the war zone to heart. Instead, they rebuked the war zone for issuing a disarmament order.
Well, only now did everyone understand Prince Hansback's plan, but it was already too late to regret it. No wonder the eldest prince was willing to pay the price of three overseas territories to the Hicks Kingdom. Without the assistance of the Sea King Fleet and the Combined Fleet of the Hicks Kingdom, the eldest prince would not have been able to achieve the purpose of a surprise attack and occupy the royal capital.
Now the generals in the war zone are in trouble. Everyone dislikes the great prince Hansback and refuses to obey his orders. To some extent, they betray the great prince's kindness to everyone. But this time, he was slapped in the face by Prince Hansback. The surprise troops raided and captured the royal capital. Prince Wedelek fled in panic. 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 Hicks Kingdom as a reward, we will simply There's no way to stop it..."
"The most important thing is that we have offended Prince Hansback." General Beechklin pointed out the important point: "If the prince ascends the throne and becomes king, we believe that none of us will end up well. The character of the prince I 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, agreeing with General Beachlin'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 saw the Great Prince chatting, laughing and fighting with soldiers and junior officers. However, he was very harsh and mean to senior officers who made mistakes, and he was very gentle with his ridicule. Sometimes he even ignored everyone around and loudly reprimanded and cursed, which made those senior officers very embarrassed.
Claude could only smile bitterly. Prince Hansback's roundabout attack was so amazing. He turned a bad hand into a king. Now no one is sure that the eldest prince has no chance. If he occupies the royal capital, he will be greatly strengthened in terms of resources and soldiers. To put it bluntly, the balance of the civil war in the entire kingdom has tilted towards Prince Hansback. Similarly, the intensity of the civil war in the kingdom will also increase as the prince occupies the royal capital. The entire Kingdom of Orvilas will face There will be a catastrophe of war.
However, Claude did not regret that he refused the eldest prince's secret order. No matter what, he wanted to keep his family name and military honor. Because if Claude accepted the secret order from the eldest prince, even if the eldest prince could successfully ascend the throne, he would still be charged with returning the direct jurisdiction of Port Vibato and ceding the two direct jurisdictions of Cromwell and Beringana. General Bolognik and others will take charge. The reputation of being a traitor will accompany him and his family for a lifetime. Claude will bear the blame for Prince Hansbach only when he is full and full...
"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 started writing: "Our current state of full strength of each legion can be called a four-four-two system, that is, four squadrons form one squadron, and four squadrons form one squadron. A squadron is a first team, 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 small squadrons as one squadron, three squadrons as one large squadron, three large 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, if we reduce some of the troops directly under each unit, and also organize them into three-three units, then one division will only have more than 21,000 people. At present, each of our legions has two divisions. If there is a war in the future, we can expand and form a third division. Then the full strength of the legion will also be about 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 a squadron has 120 soldiers, plus the squadron. Captain, guards, correspondents, medical soldiers, orderlies and other auxiliary personnel, an artillery team, a baggage team, a total of about 150 people.
Three brigades form one battalion, and the strength of a battalion is estimated at 560 men. Three battalions constitute a regiment, with a strength of approximately 2,000 men; three regiments constitute a brigade, with a strength of 6,500 men; and three brigades constitute a division, with a strength of 21,000 men. According to Claude's adaptation of the three-three system, 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 have a full strength of 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 relatively bloated. Now the three-three system that Claude has come up with is a small regiment organization, which is mainly field type, and then a brigade unit is added between the regiment and division units, which makes the generals present feel a little weird and think that this The brigade unit played the role of the previous large group establishment, it was nothing more than a name change.
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 shared the same view. They rejected the brigade organization and believed that there would be one more person on the battlefield. This will create an additional layer of trouble for the unit, and make the communication of military information change hands, which will only cause more inconvenience in the exchange of information and intelligence.
Claude believes that large regiments are outdated. In the past, the mainstream of war in Farea was to line up and shoot, so the more troops gathered, 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 they have the help of throwing 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 small regiment formation 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 establishment, because the additional brigade is very different from the military system of the Kingdom of Ovilas. This is difficult to explain to the Kingdom’s Ministry of Army. It is also the case of tampering with the military system. One count.
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 adapted to the army.
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, four squadrons are one battalion. One battalion has 800 troops, and four battalions have 800 troops. As a regiment, a regiment has about 3,600 troops, and a division has a full strength of 21,000 troops. 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 reorganization plan was finalized, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. However, General Beach Kerin immediately asked whether the nine local garrison regiments to be formed should also be reorganized in this way. As a reserve supplementary force for the two legions, it would be best to maintain the military strength. The system is consistent.
If the local garrison regiments were to be reorganized in this way, then twelve local garrison regiments would 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 Direct Territory, preparing to meet with the governors and admirals of the three direct jurisdictions of Tiersim, Mormali, and Arturas to discuss the issue of military expenditures in the war zone. Before leaving, the task of reorganizing the two legions in the theater and forming twelve local garrison regiments was handed over to Generals Claude and Albert, General Beachlin, and General Skerry.
In mid-June, General Bolognik and Falcon sent a message. It was said that they had not had a very harmonious discussion with the governors and admirals of the three jurisdictions and were preparing to return to the war zone in early July. As a result, in July, General Bolognik suddenly lost news. The theater command sent several Falcon messages one after another, but no reply was delivered back.
On July 23, Mr. Veblen ran into the theater headquarters and brought shocking news to Claude and others. The governors and admirals of the three direct territories of Tiersim, Mormali, and Arturas declared their allegiance to Prince Hansback. They detained General Bolognik, used private armed forces to block the borders of the direct territories, and prepared to use The life of General Bolognik came to threaten the war zone...
How is this possible? Claude's first reaction was that he didn't believe the news from Mr. Veblen at all. Are the governors and admirals of the three direct territories with water in their heads? Why do they threaten the war zone? You must know that the war zone has Of the two legions, no matter which legion goes north, the three direct territories will not be able to survive. Do you really think that the private guards formed by the governors and admirals can withstand the attack of the legions sent by the war zone