"Pharmacist, this is the organization of the army. So what is the use of tactics?" After listening to Li Jing's introduction to the organization of the new army, Yang Song asked him to introduce the combat methods of the musket army.

"Yes, king." Li Jing took the order and replied: "The new army is full of muskets and cannons as weapons, so its combat methods are also different. It is very similar to the Shenji Camp under the command of the king."

Yan Ren heard that the Shenji Camp, which he had trained, was actually different from the one in the military books, and couldn't help asking: "As close? General Li, I wonder what the difference between the Shenji Camp and the new army?"

"Mr. Yan, don't worry, Li will explain in detail." Li Jing replied to Yan Ren, and then said: "The biggest difference between the new army of Shenji Camp is still the number of people."

"All colleagues know that the number of an army determines the use of tactics." After seeing that everyone nodded in agreement with his words, Li Jing continued to preach: "Therefore, the difference between the Shenji Battalion and the New Army is that the new army is carried out at least in a regiment of two thousand people."

After hearing Li Jing's words, Liu Ji said with some insight: "So that's it. There are only 1,500 people in Shenji Camp, and 500 people are missing. The methods of combat and the scale of applicable combat are different."

Yang Song also understood that simply put it, the Shenji Battalion has different organizational structures from the new army, and the number of enemies they face is also different. If the Shenji Battalion can face three thousand enemies, then a regiment of the new army can face five thousand enemies.

But don’t underestimate the gap between these two thousand people. Oftentimes, it is this gap that makes the commander make two different decisions.

"Since that's the case, can the entire country's army be reorganized into a new type of army?" Yang Song finally expressed his original intention. When he received the hidden reward from the system, he had this idea.

...

Finally, after discussions by everyone, it was decided to reorganize the entire army again and change the entire army at the same time.

However, it was not achieved overnight. After all, this reorganization is different from before, but the organization is different. This reorganization has even changed all the weapons and equipment, and it must be retrained, and the officers must also re-enter the military academy for training.

Therefore, at the suggestion of Li Jing, it was decided to start the reorganization of the Imperial Guards led by Zhou Wu, or to be organized as a heavy brigade, which can be regarded as a test army.

In addition, Yang Song's direct army, Shenji Camp, was abolished. All Shenji Camp was incorporated into the Imperial Guards. After all, the personnel of Shenji Camp were selected. Even so, according to the organization of the new army, the number of the new Imperial Guards was still insufficient, so they could only be selected from the entire army again.

Because Yan Ren had rich experience in command and training musketeers, he was dispatched to the military academy to serve as an instructor in charge of officer training, and his military rank was promoted from colonel at least.

The "Fire Arms Training Classic" was copied under Yang Song's order. Each middle and senior officer was given a copy, so that he could study hard.

Of course, before the Imperial Guards formed their combat effectiveness, the remaining troops remained unchanged for the time being. In order to enable the Imperial Guards to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, it is a very good method to make the Divine Machinery Camp with experience in using muskets.

In addition, in the new plan of the Xia State army, it was decided to organize the army into two standard brigades, a cavalry brigade, a standard brigade-level city guard, an imperial guard directly under Yang Song and an Jinyiwei directly under regiment level.

Among them, in addition to abolishing the Shenji Camp, the original conscript brigade was also abolished and organized into the Second Brigade, led by Yan Ren, which was also the reason why Yan Ren was transferred out of Yang Song's direct army sequence and promoted to the rank of major general.

As for the replacement of new and old soldiers, a recruit training camp was established, which was responsible for the Military Department's Military Department's Soldier Department. This was because Li Jing suggested that he had a lot of positions before the transaction, and often he could not take care of the conscript brigade.

The recruit training camp is only opened during the recruit recruitment period every year. After the three-month recruit training period, the recruit training camp is closed again.

The trained new recruits are assigned to each army according to their grades. The best one is of course to enter Yang Song’s direct troops, followed by ordinary troops, and the worst one is to enter the city guard sequence.

As for the number of recruits recruits, they are determined based on the number of retired soldiers that year, so there is no definite number.

In Xia's latest plan, the total number of the army reached 58,000, which was 16,000 more than the original 42,000, which was considered to have expanded the original two brigades.

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In June of the 14th year of the Apocalypse, as the last reorganized city guards, the last battalion completed the reorganization. After a year and a half of reorganization, the Xia Kingdom's army has officially entered the musket era!

The size of the 58,000 troops of the army finally gave Xia State a stronger power, and all the troops were equipped with muskets, and their combat effectiveness was completely incomparable.

If the Xia army in the cold weapon era could have one enemy of ten, then the new army today can have one enemy of thirty, or even more. In other words, based on Aubrey's calculation method, the Xia country would have an indigenous army of 1.74 million.

An army of such strength is more than enough to sweep away many forces outside the pass, but it is easy to capture and difficult to rule. After all, the actual number of troops in Xia State is still less than 60,000.

Because the popularity of muskets made the consumption of gunpowder in Xia Kingdom more severe, in order to keep up with the military's consumption, the indigenous labor force on Feilong Island increased to 100,000.

In addition to military, it took less than a year to upgrade the administrative system in this year and a half. The total population of Xia Kingdom had reached 13 million by the end of the 13th year of the Apocalypse. According to Xun Yu's calculations, at this rate, the population of Xia Kingdom would reach the planned 30 million by the seventeenth year of the Apocalypse at the latest.

In terms of railways, in addition to the Tianshan Railway in Xiaguo, the branch road from Ningshan County to Beidaocheng was completed under the construction of 100,000 indigenous young and strong laborers. This branch road is 270 kilometers long and consumes a huge amount of steel.

But everything is worth it, because Ningshan County has a large amount of iron ore. When there was no such branch road before, it was all about horse-drawn carriages to transport the iron ore and steel from Ningshan Town.

Now that the Beining Railway Branch is completed, Ningshan County can be built into the second industrial county, an industrial base focusing on steel products.

The rapid and convenient logistics of coke, coal, iron ore, equipment, personnel... make the north and south of Xia really connect together, regardless of each other.
Chapter completed!