Late Tang

After the school in Shamen Town officially opened, the weather got better. It was sunny for several days without rain or snow.The families of the craftsmen have also arrived on the island one after another, and they have been settled properly.

Among the [-] newly arrived craftsmen's families, many of them were originally farming in Wang Jin's farm.Now that they have arrived on Salmon Island, they naturally have no land to grow.But they don't have to worry about their livelihood, Li Jing is now in a time when he lacks a lot of labor.

Li Jing restarted the city building plan of Shamen Town, and Li Jing directly recruited a large number of young and strong craftsmen's families into the city building site.With a large number of laborers joining the construction site, Li Jing can recall all the soldiers in Shamen Town from the construction site.

After the last battle, Shamen Town lost 60 soldiers, including [-] soldiers, [-] family members, and [-] auxiliary soldiers. In addition, the logistics soldiers suffered the most casualties, with a loss of [-].In addition, there were another [-] seriously wounded. Although they were rescued, less than ten of them were able to return to the army in the end.The remaining [-] wounded were all disabled, missing arms and legs. Although their lives were saved, they had to withdraw from the army.

This number of losses is a huge trauma to the new army of the Shamen Township Army.Li Jing has also been summing up lessons and experiences these days, and finally decided with everyone that based on the current situation, it is necessary to expand the army again, especially after they have a complete ordnance workshop in front of them. After they have no worries about equipment, they should immediately Recruit recruits now.

As for the remaining [-] or so people, Li Jing and the others also had a new plan.Considering the situation of the four battles, Li Jing decided to strengthen the equipment of the logistics and auxiliary soldiers and increase their importance.If the auxiliary soldiers and logistics soldiers had even had a piece of leather armor on their bodies last time, or if they were equipped with an extra horizontal knife, their casualties would not have been so heavy.

The Zhanbing was directly changed from the original six teams in three capitals to the Zhanbing Battalion. Li Jing personally served as the ten generals of the battalion, with five capitals on the left and right, a total of twenty teams in ten capitals.Of the original six teams of Zhanbing, only four teams remained after the battle. Li Jing directly merged the auxiliary team and the family team into it.In the future, the family team will no longer be listed separately, but will be assigned to the generals at all levels according to the scale of the first ten generals and the ten generals of the battalion.There are five capitals on the left and five capitals on the left and right of the new war barracks, a total of ten capitals and twenty teams.There are ten people in each group, plus two heads and deputy heads.There are 50 people in each team, plus ten people including team leader and team deputy, Yu Hou and holding the flag, deputy holding the flag, left and right flags, messengers, trumpeters, and drummers.There are 60 people in the capital, plus the generals, the deputy generals, and the ten servants of each of the three men of Yuhou, as well as the command team holding the flag, there are a total of 140 people in the capital.The ten capitals of the Zhanbing Battalion have 200 troops, plus the battalion command capital including Li Jing's 2000 members, a total of 200 troops.

However, apart from the 1000 logistics soldiers and the reconnaissance team in Shamen Town, there are less than [-] soldiers, servants, and auxiliary soldiers.

Li Jing temporarily recruited more than a thousand people from the families of the craftsmen in Shamen Town and the families of the original soldiers, and finally pulled up a military battalion of 200 people.

In the new battle barracks, Li Jing also ran ten generals himself, with two left and right chambers, each leading five capitals, Lin Wei concurrently served as the deputy ten generals of the left chamber, and Wang Zhong served as the deputy ten generals of the right chamber.The top ten generals below are mostly promoted by team-level officers who have performed outstandingly in this battle.Among them, Liu Shouqian, Zhang Chengzong, Li Shugen, and Wang Shi, four of Li Jing's chief and deputy servants, have been promoted by two ranks, and each of them will be the general.The other six chiefs were basically brave, loyal and reliable officers who were promoted.

Following the formation of the battle barracks, Li Jing set up a new auxiliary barracks on the basis of only 400 logistics troops left.Because of the outstanding performance of the logistics spearmen on the battlefield last time, Li Jing did not intend to merge this reserve team with outstanding military exploits but heavy casualties.On the contrary, Li Jing was inspired by the indomitable and rolling forward momentum when the logistics soldiers formed the spear phalanx last time, which reminded him of the ancient European Mediterranean and the Macedonian emperor Alexander the Great. Legendary battle formation, Macedonian infantry phalanx.

Since the Battle of Isas in 333 BC and the Battle of Gaugamela in 332 BC, the reputation of the Macedonian phalanx has spread throughout the ancient Mediterranean region. Macedonian enemies will tremble when they mention the Macedonian phalanx, because Alexander The Great made the Phalanx a kind of legend: he was invincible.

The performance of the spearmen last time gave Li Jing the idea of ​​forming a phalanx like this.Especially compared with the battle barracks, the equipment of the soldiers in the battle barracks is more complicated, the tacit understanding required for training and cooperation is higher, and the requirements for arming are also high, and the equipment is expensive.However, the equipment of the Macedonian phalanx is much cheaper than that of the battle barracks, and their equipment is uniform, and the training is much simpler.In the upcoming battles in the troubled times of the late Tang Dynasty, it is definitely more cost-effective to use this cheaper and faster-trained phalanx to deal with the troops who are quickly armed in various feudal towns.

The military organization of the Macedonian phalanx is very similar to that of the modern army.Usually 64 armored soldiers form a platoon, 1 (people form a company, 256 people form a battalion, 1024 people form a regiment, and 4096 people form a division (primary phalanx). And when the Macedonian phalanx is full, it is still A self-contained multi-arms combat force, in addition to heavy infantry, it also includes 48 light shield soldiers, 1024 auxiliary soldiers and a cavalry regiment of 1024, totaling 8192 people. Each joint phalanx consists of four primary The phalanx is equivalent to a small army or field army in modern times, about 32,000 people. This is the formation of a typical expeditionary force in Alexandria.

Of course, Li Jing is not capable of making such a huge phalanx now. His plan is to temporarily build a spear phalanx with 1024 people.A squadron consists of 64 people, a brigade consists of 1 people, a capital consists of 256 people, and a battalion consists of 1024 people.

The phalanx soldiers of the new auxiliary battalion will each be equipped with a lance that is one foot and eight feet long. The lance is a simplified version of the horse lance, which is longer than the horse lance, but not as fine and valuable as the horse lance.The rifle pole is not a composite pole of the horse pole, but a hardwood pole.A three-foot-long lance is installed in the front, and another lance is equipped at the end for counterweight.With this kind of configuration, if the spear lever is broken when facing the enemy, you can still turn the broken spear in your hand upside down and continue to fight the enemy.

In addition to the one-foot-eight-foot rifle, the new auxiliary soldiers will also be equipped with a two-foot-diameter cowhide round wooden shield.Equipped with this kind of round shield, the soldiers in the phalanx can cover each other during the battle and form a complete shield to resist the enemy's bows and arrows.The shield was hung from the neck with a leather cord during combat, which enabled infantrymen to control the huge rifle with two hands, and their bodies could be close to each other.Usually in a phalanx, each fighter will have a three-foot square space to deploy his weapon.

Each basic phalanx will have 16 people in depth, 16 people in each column, and a standard phalanx has a total of 256 people.An auxiliary barracks has four capitals under its jurisdiction. During battle, four standard square formations can be formed.In addition, eight people can be used as the depth, and a small square formation can be a squadron of 64 people.

In addition to rifles and round shields, soldiers in the infantry phalanx of the auxiliary battalion will only be equipped with an iron helmet and a set of battle robes. They will not even be equipped with leather armor to achieve greater mobility.

Such an infantry formation composed of pure light infantry has increased the length of weapons and offensive capabilities compared with the original logistical spearmen. At the same time, although it is also not equipped with armor, the round shield that can be equipped has enhanced defensive capabilities.Such a pure light infantry, Li Jing does not expect them to defeat the enemy alone, but intends to use them as the stabilizers of the front and the crushers on the battlefield.The most important thing is the battalion of the Zhanbing Battalion to charge and destroy the enemy. Raiders, Jumping Soldiers, Modao Soldiers, Crossbowmen, and Cavalry break through the enemy's formation, and then the auxiliary infantry formations come to the field to crush them, and finally the cavalry deal the heaviest blow. , and then the infantry phalanx completely swept the battlefield.

In general, the Zhanbing Battalion will be a fancy-dressed force, responsible for breaking through the formation.The auxiliary barracks will be a completely pure team, they are the reserve team on the battlefield, and the cleaners of the battlefield, as a solid support for the battle barracks, providing the most powerful support on the battlefield.

There are 200 teams in ten capitals and 24 teams in the hatchback of the War Barracks, with [-] people.The auxiliary barracks consisted of eight brigades, sixteen squadrons, and [-] soldiers.In the new auxiliary battalion, Lin Wu will serve as the ten generals of the battalion, and the four generals and deputy will also be held by those with excellent selection ability in the army.

In addition to these two newly expanded battalions, there will be several special teams under the Salmon Town Army.That is, the reconnaissance team, the medical team, and the stretcher team. After discussion, the reconnaissance team was upgraded to the reconnaissance capital. After expansion, it had two teams with 200 people. Li Wei was the head of the capital, and Xuan Cheng was the deputy head.The original medical team and the stretcher team merged into the medical capital.In addition, the original logistics force has been reorganized into an auxiliary barracks, so a logistics capital and a baggage capital of 200 people each are specially built to be responsible for the logistics service and supply of the Shamen Town Army.

Because Shamen Town had newly captured a batch of heavy crossbows, and the new workshop also had the ability to produce heavy crossbows, Li Jing specially set up an engineering capital. They were responsible for building roads and bridges when marching, and building tents when camping.During the battle, they were also responsible for digging ditches, filling moats, making and repairing siege equipment, and operating large equipment such as heavy crossbows and catapults.

The reconnaissance capital, the medical capital, the logistics capital, the logistics capital, and the engineering and military capital are all newly built with 200 people each, and 1000 people are directly under the general's mansion of Shamen Town, under the direct control of Li Jing.

After the newly expanded Second Battalion and Five Capitals, there are a total of 220 people, and the number has suddenly increased to twice the number before the war.However, there are only [-] veterans in the battle barracks, and only [-] veterans in the auxiliary barracks. Although new recruits are recruited, they still need time to train and endure if they want to form combat effectiveness.

In this expansion, in addition to these soldiers and horses, Li Jing and others also planned to set up a new sailor battalion, planning to build a small fleet in the future according to the standard of three ordered warships.The new sailor battalion plans to recruit 500 sailors and [-] sailors.However, the battleship is still being manufactured, and the recruitment of crew and sailors is no better than that of land soldiers. For the time being, it can only be put on paper and recruited slowly.

However, Li Jing did not give them the slightest chance to neglect the newly expanded [-]-odd troops.All the people were transferred from construction sites and workshops, and have since become professional soldiers.Last time he suffered a big loss, now Li Jing is racing against the clock, training the new army hard, and will never give others a chance.

(To be continued)