"If you want to report to the other benefits of the army's reorganization, it is that military positions can be formed in large quantities; secondly, it saves a large number of war horses for the country."

Liu Ji's words about saving war horses are actually right, but Yang Song knew that the other party was talking about the military system recorded in the "Fire Tools Training Classic". The key point is Liu Ji's first half of the sentence.

One of the reasons why Xia Kingdom only formed two infantry brigades and one cavalry brigade in the past was that the cost was too high. If it was too much to form, it could not afford it. Even if the whole country could build more brigades, then the Xia Kingdom would not be what it is today.

Now after listening to Li Jing's new military system, although a standard division has a total of 46,500 people, it only has three thousand cavalry, three hundred field artillery and one hundred siege artillery.

Compared with the existing standard brigade, there are 150 field artillery, 30 siege artillery, and 5,250 cavalry. Not to mention cavalry, in fact, in terms of the proportion of people, the number of artillery has been seriously reduced.

In this way, if you want to expand the army with the same number of people, compared with the newly formed several brigades, it would "save" war horses and artillery. However, the "firepower" is a bit insufficient, and there is not enough maneuverability.

But Yang Song turned around and thought, the motor power had a separate cavalry division, which could completely supplement this part of the shortcomings, and there were actually quite a few of the three thousand cavalrymen. As for the decrease in firepower, it depends on who it was targeted.

If the enemy had muskets and cannons like Xia Kingdom, then Yang Song would definitely do it according to the military system recorded in the "Fire Arms Training Code". However, who made the enemy just a group of natives who were still using big swords and spears, with a sufficient number of musketeers and necessary artillery support, and a small number of cavalrymen to support, the strength of a standard division was completely enough to deal with a medium-sized war.

This is the reason why Li Jing just mentioned that the firepower of a single brigade is a bit too strong, because there is no need to equip so many artillery and cavalry!

What the Xia army lacks now is not firepower, but scale. Li Jing's change is based on the advantages and disadvantages of Xia, and it is completely applicable to the current national conditions of Xia.

Yang Song roughly estimated in his mind that without changing the number of existing troops, he could fully expand all existing brigades to divisions.

One cavalry division had 40,500 people, two standard divisions had a total of 93,000 people. Including the city guards that were expanded to the standard division level, not counting the imperial guards and Jinyiwei directly under Yang Song, there were a total of 180,000 people, which was enough for the current use of Xia Kingdom.

If the army was expanded according to the previous changes, the imperial guards directly under Yang Song and the Jinyiwei would be expanded accordingly, and the total number of troops in Xia State would definitely exceed 200,000!

As for the Xia Kingdom's navy, there is actually no direct or not. It has always been under Yang Song's direct command. Moreover, the navy focuses on warships, not in the number of people and not in large numbers, so it is often not within the scope of consideration of Li Jing and others.

"Let's just decide this!" Yang Song made a decision considering this. He breathed a sigh of relief, smiled, and looked at Li Jing and said, "Pharmacist, I must inform me of such things in the future. This time you have made merits and no demerits for this plan."

"Thank you, your wise king, I dare not take credit." Li Jing felt relieved when he heard Yang Song's words.

"King Yingming, General Li is a great achievement." Liu Ji also bowed and agreed with Yang Song's words, as if what he said before did not exist.

Yang Song waved his hand and ignored everything else. Instead, he thought of the Imperial Guards and the Jinyiwei, and then asked Li Jing and Liu Ji, "Pharmacist, Bowen, the army has been reorganized. I wonder what you think of the Imperial Guards?"

"Return to the king, the imperial guards are the king's personal army. I dare not speak nonsense." Liu Ji bowed and paused, then replied: "But every time the army was expanded, the king's personal army would be changed and expanded. Since the king asked questions, I believe the king is also planning to adapt the king's personal army this time."

"Well, it's right." Yang Song nodded and confirmed Liu Ji's words, and then turned to ask: "How should the Imperial Guard be reorganized? In the past, whether it was the Imperial Guard or the Jinyiwei, the expansion was different from the other troops."

Li Jing knew what Yang Song meant. After hearing Yang Song's confirmation, he clasped his fists and replied: "Report to the King, the King once told me that the Imperial Guards are the strategic mobile army of their country. Therefore, I suggest that certain changes be made in the establishment of the standard division so that they can exert the power of 'strategic maneuver'."

When Liu Ji heard Li Jing's words, he nodded and added: "Not only that, since the Imperial Guard is the personal army of the king, its organization must also play its role as a garrison in the capital, a key pass and a escort king."

"Very good, how should the specific organization of the Imperial Guard be carried out?" After hearing the two of them, Yang Song agreed and asked about their specific details.

...

Midway through, Yang Song decided to reorganize the Jinyiwei, and called Zhou Wu, who was in charge of commanding the Imperial Guards, and Wang Wei, who was in charge of commanding the Jinyiwei. After discussing together, the specific organization of the Imperial Guards and the Jinyiwei was determined.

Just as Liu Ji and Li Jing said, the positioning of the army directly under Yang Song is very different, and the final organization is very different from the standard division.

First, the Imperial Guards made some changes according to the scale of the Standard Division, reducing the five standard regiments of the Standard Division to three, but correspondingly, two new cavalry regiments were added to strengthen their mobile power, and finally, one artillery battalion of the Standard Division was transformed into two.

The total force of the Imperial Guard was 45,300, with 390 field artillery and 130 siege artillery, and a total of 16,500 cavalrymen.

The total number of people is 1,200 less than that of the standardist, but the firepower is stronger and the maneuver power is even more powerful.

The Jinyiwei is still in the size of a regiment. It is adapted according to the organization of the Imperial Guard and its own positioning. Its total troop strength has been expanded to 8,500, which is one hundred more than a standard regiment.

The Jinyi Guard has three infantry battalions and two cavalry battalions, plus two artillery companies, with sixty field artillery guns, twenty siege artillery guns, and three thousand cavalry soldiers.

As for the one hundred people who were extra, the Jinyiwei was only in the size of a regiment, but they were a separate unit and had their headquarters - the Jinyiwei Command. The Jinyiwei Command, of course, was different from the standard regiment headquarters according to their responsibilities.

The headquarters of the Imperial Guard was established like a standard division, with 1,500 people. The reason why there is no change is that the functions of the standard division division are already perfect enough, so there is no need to be formed separately. After all, a division is incomparable to a regiment.

When everything was settled, Yang Song calculated again. Not counting the navy, including his direct imperial guards and Jinyiwei, the total strength of the Xia army had reached 230,800 people!

"Is this number just right?" Yang Song was secretly satisfied. As before, as soon as the war started, the enemy troops were only tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, but his side was only tens of thousands, which was not the style he knew.

The 230,000 army, all equipped with thermal weapons, looked around the Xia Kingdom again and was invincible!

Of course, this is all about waiting for the entire army to be reorganized.
Chapter completed!