Chapter 843: Issues with the Organization of Yuzhou Combat Battalion (Part 2)

After a while, Xun You suddenly stood up and said, "My lord, I have a plan, I wonder if it is feasible!"

"Please tell me, Gongda!"

"The previous strategy of our Andong Army was to defend the territory, so the number of cavalry equipped in each city was at least three to five hundred. After this, we will change from defense to offense, and each county's war barracks will be equipped with a school of cavalry. Why not directly reduce the cavalry at the county's pass and add these cavalry to the Yuzhou army?"

"Yes, this method is feasible." As soon as Xun You finished speaking, Xu Rong said;

Lou Gui also nodded and said: "According to the previous distribution of troops, there are about 50,000 cavalrymen in the guards of various city passes. If about 30,000 cavalrymen are drawn from them, it will not have much impact on the defense of the city."

Huangfu Chaobo listened and thought that it was true. There was no need to allocate too many cavalrymen in the county. Anyway, they were only used to transmit emergency information. The number of cavalrymen was too small to form a combat force. Instead of doing this, it would be better to draw them out and put them into the Yuzhou Army. The role they played would be even greater.

Thinking of this, Huangfu Chaobo looked at Xun You: "According to Gongda's opinion, how many cavalrymen should be maintained in each city?"

Xun You replied: "One hundred cavalrymen in an ordinary county, five hundred in a county city, and one thousand in a state city. The other passes correspond to county cities, county cities, and state cities according to small, medium, and large levels."

As soon as Xun You finished speaking, Xu Shu immediately calculated the approximate number. After all, he was a military officer, so he had a detailed number of troops under the entire Andong Army. Although he could not remember the specific number, he still knew the approximate number. "If we follow Gongda's idea, we can draw out four to five cavalry schools. In this way, the cavalry of each unit of Yuzhou Army will be enough."

The result of the discussion made Kong Rong breathe a sigh of relief. After all, Yuzhou was under his jurisdiction. If the troops and horses were really different from those of the Andong Army, it would be difficult for him to explain to his subordinates. Although the middle and low-level generals and ordinary soldiers would not know about it in the past few years, the truth would eventually come out, which would make it more difficult for the Yuzhou Army to integrate into the Andong Army.

The cavalry issue was resolved, which made everyone feel relieved. Then the next step was to select the main generals of the war camps in each county. Huangfu Chaobo himself was also hesitant about this. After all, there were only a few generals under his command who could stand alone. There was only one person for each position, but Yuzhou did not have any generals to fill in, so he could only draw directly from the various units of the Andong Army.

Three counties means three battalions of soldiers, which means three main generals are needed. According to the practice of the Andong Army, one battalion of soldiers needs to be equipped with one to two deputy generals. In this way, at least six generals need to be transferred. Yuzhou can only show off one seedling, the Yellow Turban general He Man. In the Andong Army, the Yellow Turban generals have at most one deputy general. It is basically impossible to lead an army alone because their abilities are really limited.

Huangfu Chaobo has to consider the main generals, but there are only three people who are truly the main generals of an army: Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun and Xu Rong. The rest of the people have not yet reached that level. For example, Zhang He, although his command value is over 90, his qualifications and military merits in the Andong Army are still too low. If he is promoted, many people will definitely be dissatisfied, which will be bad.

But for Huang Zhong and the other three, Zhao Yun must defend against Yuan Shao in Hebei, Xu Rong defends against Cao Cao's army in Qingzhou, and Huang Zhong guards Luoyang and defends against Cao Cao. Thinking of this, Huangfu Chaobo suddenly thought that since Huang Zhong was defending against Cao Cao, he could be transferred to Yuzhou. As for Luoyang, it was difficult to directly threaten Luoyang from the surrounding areas.

In Chenliu and Puyang, there was Zhang He, who was also used to defend against Cao Cao's army. The two could complement each other.

Thinking of this, Huangfu Chaobo said: "Brother, I want to let you handle the reorganization of the Yuzhou Army!"

Huang Zhong was stunned, and quickly reacted. He had spent most of his time guarding Luoyang for Huangfu Chaobo over the years.

He rarely had the opportunity to lead troops to fight. He didn't expect to get this opportunity today. He was very happy and said: "I will obey your orders!"

Huangfu Chaobo was still very confident in Huang Zhong, so he didn't say much, but turned to others and said: "The candidate for the chief general has been decided. Everyone, nominate the candidates for the chief generals of the other two camps and the deputy generals of each camp, and we will discuss it carefully."

Then Zhao Yun and others recommended the brothers Wang Ran and Wang Yong. Both of them were qualified to serve as the chief generals of a camp in terms of qualifications and abilities. However, Huangfu Chaobo considered that if the two went to Yuzhou at the same time, the soldiers under their command might be more than the soldiers of the chief general Huang Zhong, which would cause unnecessary trouble. Although the two would not be so, Xu Shu and others felt that this must be considered.

After careful consideration, Huangfu Chaobo decided to transfer Huangfu Li, the commander of Xiongquying in Hongnong, to Yuzhou to serve as the commander of the newly formed Zhenwuying, while Wang Yong was appointed as the commander of Xiongquying, and Wang Ran was appointed as the commander of the newly formed Fenwuying.

As Huang Zhong went to Yuzhou to re-establish Jianwuying, the commander of Huben Army was left vacant, and Huangfu Chaobo appointed Huang Wudie as the new commander of Hubenying. Of course, Huang Zhong was still the commander of Huben Army, but nominally the Huben Army only had three camps: Hubenying, Xiongquying and Shenwuying. In fact, Jianwuying, Fenwuying and Zhenwuying in Yuzhou had to be added, making it a six-camp army.

The post of Luoyang Commander left vacant by Huang Wudie was taken over by Mi Fang. As for the post of Eight Pass Commander, Huangfu Chaobo appointed Zhou Shi, one of the five young generals of Changsha. Among them, Zhou Yi was already the Lieutenant General of the Navy, and Zhao Rui was the Lieutenant General of the Yulin Army. Only Zhou Shi, Wu Bin and Zheng Feng were still at the level of Commander.

In this way, the chief generals of the three battalions of the Yuzhou Army were determined.

As for the organization of the army, Huang Zhong's Jianwu Battalion will be a large camp with six schools of infantry and two schools of cavalry, and the other two battalions will be standard camps with four infantry and one cavalry.

The next step is to determine the candidates for the deputy generals of each battalion. Among the generals nominated by everyone, Huangfu Chaobo selected Guo Da, Li Le and Li Li. In addition, Zhou Wen's Leting City now has a general, so it is just right to transfer Zhang Zan and Han Xian back. Han Xian was also transferred to the Yuzhou Army by Huangfu Chaobo.

After the generals and soldiers were determined, there was another problem that had to be solved. According to the practice of the Andong Army, each army would be equipped with a military advisor. After repeated consideration, Huangfu Chaobo gave the choice of military advisor to Dong Zhao.

At this point, the problem of the Yuzhou Army's skeleton was finally solved, which made Huangfu Chaobo breathe a sigh of relief. The next step was to rely on generals such as Huang Zhong.