Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 541: Military Reform and Volunteer Corps

“... Head of Communications, Alfred. Bos Arisanda, Major General of the Kingdom.

Head of the Military Justice Department, Andevich. K. Jevikiv, Major General of the Kingdom.

Head of Surveying and Mapping, Ridgum. Ro Ovilot, Major General of the Kingdom.

Head of Military Intelligence, Fordless. Clydler, Major General of the Kingdom.

As head of training, Pedrake. Shu Babisek, Major General of the Kingdom.

Head of Equipment, Mantewitt. Major General of the Kingdom, Ma Benakro.

Head of Logistics, Siegfried. Mo Vincent, Major General of the Kingdom.

Deputy Superintendent, Bankroton. Chi Arduro, Major General of the Kingdom.

Head of Security, Yorkut. Shaw Hildis, Major General of the Kingdom.

Head of Finance, Senanov. Vi Bakham, Major General of the Kingdom.

Head of Personnel, Bolivia. Ty Mailtock, Major General of the Kingdom.

Head of the Ministry of Military Affairs, Condor Walker. Ser Pickletu, Major General of the Kingdom.

Chief of Staff, Natas. Ba Lavagus, Lieutenant General of the Kingdom,

Senior Military District Staff, Derevík. Ann Viberon, Major General of the Kingdom. Seville. Will Clinton, Major General of the Kingdom. Hibilos. Ta Borriot, Major General of the Kingdom...

Head of the Military District Medical Center, Rumpede. A. Pitok, Major General of the Kingdom, Intermediate Pharmacist. ”

Holy Light 21 August 602, Langhu City, Amphiston, Overseas Autonomous Territory.

The headquarters of the Autonomous Command Region, the first meeting of senior officers of the Region following the military handover between Claude and Marshal Bolognick. At that meeting, Claude undertook a radical reform of the structure of the military sector headquarters, streamlined the integration and dismantling of the subdivisions of the military sector headquarters, reclassified them into twelve departments and a medical centre, and appointed heads of departments.

The most affected of this restructuring was the former Military Regional Logistics Department, which was split between the Equipment Department, the Security Department, the Finance Department and the Personnel Department. The second is the Military Intelligence Department, which is divided into a Survey and Mapping Department. The Ministry of Administration has also been transformed into the Ministry of Training and the Ministry of Military Affairs. Although there are several additional subdivisions, the divisions are unified and their responsibilities are clearly defined. At the same time, some redundant administrative civilian staff have been streamlined, reducing the bureaucracy that has dragged on in the past.

“Lieutenant General McJackie, as the head of the military headquarters, handles the day-to-day business of the headquarters. We will then embark on a pilot restructuring of the two regiments under the military zone to re-examine a realistic force level. In addition, the Ministry of Military Intelligence should intensify its efforts to gather intelligence from the eight West Coast colonies and follow the implementation of wildfire plans..."

For Claude, this restructuring of the military sector headquarters resulted in an increase in the number and succession of heads of department responsible for the general, mostly from the Legion of Thunder. And the eight retired kingdoms Major General and the three kingdoms Lieutenant General are all members of the Rock Corps, subordinate to Marshal Bolonik. This is not the result of Claude's exclusion, but of the use of human differences.

Claude is one of the youngest of the five giants in the Autonomous Leadership Region. The officers he has promoted in the Legion of Thunder are equally young, flexible and good at accepting the evolution of new ideas and new tactics. Senior officers of a much older age and uncertainty have been transferred by Claude to local guard armies, which is one of the reasons why the Legion of Thunder is good at attacking.

And Marshal Bolognick was a decade older than Claude, and his Rock Commander was in defense, so he appointed officers who were old and steady, about his age. Several, even bigger than Marshal Bolognick, are over 55 years old. Now that they have been promoted to general of the kingdom, they have also become barons of the kingdom, acquired a patrimonial family territory, which can be said to have reached the peak of a member of the army of the kingdom, which is why they decided to retire.

Young officers are sharp and dare to take risks. Older officers are steady, confident and have their own strengths, which is also why the two military districts of the autonomous territory have formed their own fighting characteristics. This time, however, the older senior general of the Rock Regiment retired collectively, which helped Claude greatly, freeing the younger successors behind him. Otherwise, Claude would have to be prepared to recruit all these old men into the military headquarters and hang them as offerings in the name of an advisor...

Claude put his mind on the reform of the force establishment once the various departmental structures under the military sector headquarters had been established. Logistical pressures are extremely high owing to the fact that the units of the autonomous territorial military region, both the two main regiments and the local guard units, have been equipped with new rifles and new artillery. Claude was also prepared to undergo major surgery on force strength based on his experience in the Nasseri region and allied forces.

The two main regiments and local guards of the autonomous territories are now following the traditional configuration of the fireline gun units, which are mainly based on the widest possible number of troops, given the traditional habit of relying on full firing and strength. For example, the battle strength of a team of twelve has reached the limit that a sergeant chief can command.

Claude has always felt that the grass-roots battle squad had a very bloated twelve, and with the new firearms, the grass-roots battle squad's firepower had been greatly enhanced, and it was difficult to ensure a flexible and rapid battlefield command response by grouping the squad into twelve. He therefore decided to reconfigure the grass-roots combat unit into eight, with the team leader as sergeant and the deputy team leader as sergeant.

In addition, Claude would like to change all the strength to three or three instead of the current four or four systems, namely, three squadrons for a squadron, three squadrons for a large squadron, three battalions for a battalion, three battalions for a regiment, three regiments for a division and three divisions for an army. However, this was objected to by most of the senior officers of the Military Regional Staff, who feared that the restructuring would deprive the grass-roots forces of sufficient combat power, and Claudes thought twice about it and decided to adopt a four-four system.

A squad of eight, four squadrons are squadrons, the squadron leader is a lieutenant officer, equipped with a military service or can be used as a subpoena, one guard, one correspondent and one medic, for a total of thirty-seven. Squadron Four is a large unit, headed by a lieutenant or captain officer, equipped with one military officer, two guards, one communications officer, one medical officer and six artillery units, equipped with a new infantry light field artillery, for a total of one hundred and sixty.

Four battalions are one battalion, headed by a captain or major officer, staffed by one service officer, one deputy officer, three guards, six staff officers, twelve support personnel, eight logistics service teams, eight communications teams, eight military law teams, eight logistics teams, eight medical teams, eight guard units, thirty artillery squadrons, equipped with four new infantry light field artillery, for a total of seven hundred and forty men.

The fourth battalion is a regiment, headed by a lieutenant colonel or colonel officer, staffed by a deputy officer, a military attaché, 16 staff officers and 32 support staff at the regiment headquarters. An additional communications squadron, a military law squadron, a logistics squadron, a guard squadron, a logistics service squadron, a guard squadron, eight medical squadrons, a direct field battalion of 160, a artillery battalion of 145, equipped with 16 infantry light field artillery for a total of 34,855, plus 15 manoeuvres, for a total of 3,500 troops for a major field corps.

Four regiments are divided into divisions, headed by a colonel officer or a major general officer, staffed by one deputy officer and one service officer. Starting with the division, the command, like the military region, consists of twelve departments, two heads and deputy heads of departments, four civilian officers and twelve support staff, for a total of 216. A guard brigade, a communications brigade, a military justice brigade, a guard brigade, a logistics service brigade, a logistics execution brigade, two logistics heavy transport brigades and a medical squadron of 35.

In addition, the Division Command has an immediate field reinforcement battalion of 800 personnel, a direct artillery battalion of 6,800 personnel, equipped with 64 infantry light field artillery. The total strength of a major field division is more than 17,000, and with the addition of non-combatants such as the hired Mav veterinary chef, the total strength of a division is around 18,000.

Claude was clear to himself that the division size of the two main field corps in the Autonomous Territory now stood at around 35,000 troops, with too many troops and one third of non-combatants, appearing to be very swollen and inflexible in the command structure, while putting enormous pressure on logistical armaments supplies.

Just as in the Battle of the Royal City of Polyvinia, Claude fought an attack by a regiment against a regiment of Allied forces, even with defensive positions and the boost of the city walls, he remained at a significant military disadvantage, causing many unnecessary casualties. That would be impossible. On the other hand, the key thing is to send a division to deal with the enemy. An army appears to kill chickens with a cow knife and easily puts the enemy out of the trap...

The strength of only 5500 troops per regiment and more than 60,000 troops per regiment against the enemy is too large. It is easy to send two regiments up because the commands give the enemy a chance to find them. At that time, Claude was hoping to have a division of 10,000 troops who could arm themselves to command and defend their fingers...

Claude now reduces one division to more than 18,000, almost halving the existing division strength, so that even four divisions of an army, plus two regiments directly under it, would not have a total strength of more than 90,000. Compared to the current four divisions of the Legion of Thunder 150,000 horses, the pressure on military spending and logistical supplies has decreased considerably, while at the same time solving the problem of the placement of the promoted generals in the overseas autonomous military regions.

After completing the restructuring of the army, the troops could not be reduced immediately. Claude used the third division of the Rock Corps, which guards the overseas autonomous territories, and the three immediate regiments belonging to the military region to conduct the restructuring experiment. After releasing the older soldiers and officers, Claude formed the first 18,000 + person-horse division, conducting various exercises and training, experimenting with the effect of the Forces nouvelles on combat forces, various reactions to the chain of command, etc....

Soon after the Japanese were busy, Claude received a message from Colonel Bockard and his brother, Browick, the joint Eagle. After two months of strenuous journeys, their pedestrians finally opened a path into the wilderness and mountains of the hinterland to the colonies of the Morosic kingdom on the west coast, and with that hybrid baron, Tez Singh. Nora Taganem picked up the first meeting.

Supported by Overseas Autonomous Territories, Tez Singh. Nora Taganem was very pleased that he had agreed to the formation of the Parmigal National Independent Liberation Front (PANILF) and that he was ready to assemble the armed forces of PANILF. The only difficulty was that the Pamigals, who had never received much military training, needed more than six months to complete their training and develop their fighting power before launching an armed uprising.

Perhaps for the Overseas Autonomous Territories, such time was a little too long, and tens of thousands of Pamigals gathered to train could easily be traced by the colonial garrisons of the Kingdom of Morosik. My brother Browick made a suggestion that it would be better to recruit volunteers from overseas autonomous leaders to help the Pamigals fight. First, he would build a loud government on a plot of land. He would also buy time for those young and strong military training, which would be the best way to achieve training results.

For Claude, the challenge with the wildfire plan was not how to launch a wave of national liberation and statehood in the colonies of the West Coast countries, but how not to allow the eight colonial Powers in the southern part of the Farea continent to target their overseas autonomous territories. It is not a problem to send officers and volunteers to teach Pamigal military training. The problem is that those who go there cannot fight with weapons such as new rifles and new artillery guns from overseas autonomous territories.

Inconvenient ammunition supplies, on the one hand, and these new types of weapons, on the other hand, are indisputable to the Overseas Autonomous Territories in the event that they fall into the hands of the colonial garrisons of the Kingdom of Morosik. Everyone knows that these new types of weapons are produced by the overseas autonomous territories themselves and never sold abroad. The discovery of these weapons among the rioting Pamigals is easily exposed to this Pamigali riot provoked and supported by the Overseas Autonomous Territories...

So even if the wildfire programme implemented by the autonomous military regions supports the independent liberation movements of the peoples of the colonies of the West Coast, the arms delivered by the autonomous military regions to these peoples can only be firearms, at most some more projectiles can be thrown, and new weapons can never be delivered.

It's just that the Autonomous Territory has run out of firewire guns, and the most advanced Obash Type 3 firewire guns have been packed and shipped back to the Kingdom's homeland to support the Kingdom's three Ace Field Regiments against the Allied Army. Even if the war on the mainland of the kingdom is over now, the Autonomous Regions will not be able to retrieve these firecrackers...

In the end, Claude couldn't help but bring Mr. Viberon to work overtime in his military manufacturing industry, build 100,000 precision-targeted fire rope guns in two months, and wait for the Autonomous Territory.

However, with a flaming rope gun, it was not the end of the problem for Claude, but the beginning of the troubles, because the autonomous leader, accustomed to the use of new rifles, was now reluctant to pick up the flaming rope gun again to fight, and the recruitment of volunteers to help the Pamigals fight had become a challenge.

At a seminar convened by the Military Region headquarters, the Senior Staff General Derivique made a suggestion as to whether those Hicks prisoners in the Autonomous Territories could be recruited to form a volunteer corps to help the Pamigals win the establishment of an independent State for national liberation...

General Derivique had three reasons, namely that the Hicks prisoners, who had served their term of hard labour and were now free, could not return home because the Kingdom of Hicks and the Kingdom of Ovilas had not signed a truce peace agreement and had not ended the state of war. If they were willing to volunteer to help the Pamigals, there was no reason for anyone to stop their will.

Second, these freed Hicks prisoners are used to using firerope guns, so there's no problem getting into battle with the firerope guns for a short period of training.

Thirdly, and most importantly, more than 100,000 Hicks prisoners wanted to naturalize and settle in overseas self-governing territories, during which time the self-governing councils had had a very strong argument to consider the subject. Whereas proponents said that their participation would increase the autonomous territory by 100,000 young people, opponents said that these Hicks prisoners had been enemies of the autonomous territory and that they would now be treated as immigrants to the Kingdom if they wanted to settle naturally, and that it would be too cheap for them to distribute their farmland estate? They are not royal immigrants and have not made any contribution to the autonomous territories...

So what General Derivique means is that if you are willing to join this group of volunteers to help the Pamigals gain access to the Hicks prisoners who founded the independent state of national liberation, you will not only receive a high salary and welfare subsidy for the group of volunteers, but you will also automatically become a member of the Overseas Autonomous Territories after the end of the war, and you will have the same rights to distribute farm estates as the immigrants of the Kingdom.

General Derivique believes that 100,000 Hicks prisoners naturalized and settled in autonomous territories should be able to recruit more than 30,000 volunteers to form a division. He was therefore willing to head this volunteer regiment and lead them to the colony of the Kingdom of Morosik on the west coast, where he struck the first shots of the Pamigal armed uprising...

After brief discussions on General Derivique's proposal, Claude decided to give it a try, while appointing General Derivique as the head of the volunteer corps responsible for forming and rehabilitating the corps and leading the corps to the colony of the Kingdom of Morosik on the West Coast after the production of the fireline gun.

At present, the military expenses of forming this voluntary corps are covered entirely by the Overseas Autonomous Territories, according to Colonel Bockard and the Tetzsinger. Nora Taganem signed an agreement that these expenses would be reimbursed in installments after the Pamigals became independent. After all, with the family of this hybrid baron, he is now unable to afford this huge military expense...

At a time when Claude was busy with military reform, wildfire plans, and volunteer corps for overseas autonomous territories, he received a report from Chief Superintendent Swanson of the Fields Estate. His mother and wife, Kevin, have packed their bags and taken his second son, Barghazi, and his youngest daughter, Amelisa, to leave the Overseas Autonomous Territories to return to White Deer City...