At the beginning of the Guihua City Textile Fair, the study room of the monarch's mansion in the Tianqi City of Xia Kingdom.

"Your Majesty, this is the plan to expand the military after repeated discussions between the ministers and the military advisors." Li Jing presented a memorial to Yang Song, which was written by Li Jing and signed by Liu Ji.

"You two tell me about the latest military expansion plan." Yang Song opened the clerk and looked at it. Seeing that there was a lot of content inside, he closed the clerk and asked the two to tell him.

"Yes, Master." The two of them clasped their fists to take the order.

After Yang Song raised his hand, the two stood up, and Li Jing took the lead and said, "Your Majesty! This military expansion plan is determined to be carried out in the form of expanding the organization."

Yang Song asked curiously: "Extended staffing? How to expand staffing method?"

"Go back to the emperor. The current military organization is that each brigade has three battalions, and each battalion has three military formations. Further down, each level has three subordinate organizations, which is called the 'three-three system'." Li Jing briefly explained the existing organization.

Liu Ji continued Li Jing's words: "After discussing with General Li, I believe that the existing organization is too small and is not conducive to the performance of the commander-in-chief of the first army. Just like in the last war, General Di Qing could command two brigades to fight alone."

When Yang Song thought of the last battle report, he felt that the two were right. In the last war, with the assistance of Lu Su, Zhang Wei, Yu Shu and others, Di Qing easily commanded two brigades and tens of thousands of militias.

Seeing Yang Song nodded, Li Jing continued to say, "So after discussing with Liu Junshi, I decided to implement the '55 system'. Each brigade has five battalions, each battalion has five brigades, each brigade has five squadrons, and each squadron has five squadrons."

Liu Ji added: "In this new '55th Organization', after repeated consideration by the two of Chen and others, it was decided to cancel the 'smarine formation' level organization between the 'battalion' and 'battalions'."

"If the intermediate organization of the 'Soldiers' is added, according to a team of twelve people, there will be 1,500 people at the level of the military formation, and more than 7,000 people at the level of the battalion. When the organization is in the brigade, it will be as high as more than 40,000 people." Liu Ji explained: "A brigade of 40,000 people is a bit over."

"Well, Bowen, pharmacist, what you are thinking is even reasonable. Our country now has three brigades." Yang Song understood it and thought about it carefully, and then said: "This expansion of the army is not just about expanding the army, but also about reforming the army's organization."

If the intermediate organization of the "Soldier Array" is added, one brigade will have more than 40,000 people. Including the brigades of the city guards and conscripts, the four brigades will not require more than 160,000 people. This is a military-civilian ratio for the Xia Kingdom, which has less than three million, is close to one to twenty. This high proportion is not conducive to the development of the Xia Kingdom.

"Your Majesty!" Liu Ji immediately praised and then said: "Because there are insufficient generals in his country, if the army is expanded according to the existing organization, the new army will be unavailable."

"What Liu Junshi said is very much." Li Jing continued: "I have also thought about promoting outstanding talents in the army, but after my detailed investigation, such as Qi Jun, Yan Ren, Liu Yan and other battalion commanders as battalion commanders, it is the limit."

In addition to the reasons mentioned by Li Jing and Liu Ji, there is actually another reason, that is, the number of troops in Xia State is relatively small. Including the city guards and conscripts, there are only four brigade-level troops. If the number of people in each brigade is too large, it will be detrimental to the monarch Yang Song, the monarch.

Liu Ji smiled at Li Jing and then said, "So I have set up a new organization plan. The number of people in each brigade is set to 7,800, and the total number of people in the four brigades is 31,200. According to this organization, the total number of people in the imperial guards and Jinyiwei of the emperor has reached 34,200."

Yang Song thought about the number of people, which was very suitable for the current Xia Kingdom. This was equivalent to double the number of people. With this force, the military pressure on the outside of the pass would be much smaller.

"What are the specific organization of Di Qing's infantry brigade and Huo Qubing's cavalry brigade?" Yang Song was still very concerned about these two main brigades.

"After the reorganization of the infantry brigade, I call it the 'regular brigade', which means a regular military brigade." Li Jing explained the new army name and then replied: "The conventional brigade is an independent combat unit of the army, with a major general and a staff officer, with five battalions under his jurisdiction, and a brigade headquarters of 300 people, with a total of 7,800 people in the entire brigade."

"The Brigade Department is a brigade of people, divided into five squadrons, one field artillery squadron, one person siege artillery squadron, two personal soldiers squadrons, and one service squadron." Li Jing explained in detail the establishment of the brigade Department: "The service squadron is filled with war drums, horns, gongs, order flags, communications and other personnel."

"One of the two personal soldiers squadrons is a cavalry squadron and the other is an infantry squadron." After Yang Song nodded and understood the establishment of the brigade headquarters, Li Jing continued: "The five battalions are two regular battalions, one remote attack battalion, one cavalry battalion, and one artillery battalion."

"A conventional brigade has a total of 60 field artillery and 30 siege artillery." After Li Jing finished talking about the brigade-level organization, Liu Ji explained in detail: "Compared with the organization of the infantry brigade, the number of artillery has been reduced. Such organization is also changed considering the high cost of artillery and the significantly high artillery configuration of the original infantry brigade. This organization is more in line with the original intention of large-scale organization."

Yang Song agreed from the bottom of his heart about Liu Ji's words. The current conventional infantry brigade is a systematic reward. Although it has the name of "conventional", this "conventional" is obviously unaffordable by the Xia Kingdom. Therefore, Yang Song has always used this so-called "conventional infantry brigade" as an elite army.

"The regular battalion consists of three melee brigades, one long-distance brigade and one light cavalry brigade."

"The Far Attack Battalion consists of three Far Attack Battalions, one melee brigade and one light cavalry brigade."

"The cavalry battalion consists of three light cavalry brigades and two heavy cavalry brigades."

"The artillery battalion consists of a field artillery brigade, a siege artillery brigade, a melee brigade, a long-distance brigade, and a light cavalry brigade."

"The battalion level is the basic combat unit of the army, with a brigade, Sima, and the brigade directly under the brigade, with a total of 1,500 people."

Li Jing's explanation of the battalion-level organization was very detailed. After talking about the battalion-level organization, he thought for a while and said: "For the establishment of the Imperial Guards and the Jinyiwei directly under the emperor, I suggest that it also be expanded to 1,500 people."

Hearing Li Jing's suggestion, Yang Song shook his head and said, "The Jinyiwei is just acting as a military policeman and also guarding the orphans, expanding 1,500 people."

Because Yang Song rarely goes out, even if he goes out, he is only nearby, so he doesn't need many people to protect his safety, and he doesn't need many people to act as a military policeman, so Yang Song decided to expand more than a few hundred people.

"What do you mean by yourselves?" Liu Ji had some understanding of Yang Song's thoughts, but he still wanted to confirm it.

"Yes, that's what you mean." Yang Song nodded to Liu Ji and said bluntly: "The Imperial Guards are not only used to protect Tianqi City, but also used as a strategic reserve team. It's not enough if there are fewer people."

"What the emperor said is even admired!" Li Jing understood what Yang Song meant. When he and Liu Ji formulated this plan, they considered it in a comprehensive way, such as the cost of expanding the army, the difficulty of expanding the organization, and the population ratio, but forgot another responsibility of the Imperial Guard for a while.

Of course, this is related to the nature of the Imperial Guard. This army is directly under Yang Song, the king, so he cannot intervene too much.
Chapter completed!