Chapter 195: Reorganizing the Army

A row of soldiers in gray-black uniforms stood on the grass. This is the most common military posture training. Physical training, military posture training, and military quality training are the main training items for soldiers in the territory.

Military posture training can strengthen the patience of soldiers, ensure that soldiers make corresponding postures the moment they hear the command, and train the army to obey the command. Physical training focuses on enhancing the physical fitness of soldiers, and military quality training includes digging trenches, shooting training and many other contents.

In winter, the weather is no longer so hot, and the soldiers' daily training is much more comfortable.

At this time, the flood had just passed, but the pressure on the drainage system caused by the flood really made the people in the territory busy enough. It will take another week to readjust the drainage system to deal with the aftermath. Taking advantage of this window period, Ji Lin decided to inspect the army that has resumed training now.

"Line up!"

The officers looked at the recruits in front of them. Under the orders of the officers, the recruits stood neatly and in an orderly manner.

They did not lose their original military quality and muscle memory because of assisting in flood control.

Chang Heng and Ji Lin stood on a temporary wooden platform, overlooking the three hundred musketeers in gray-black uniforms. Both the uniforms for the soldiers and officers were custom-made by Ji Lin with rough samples and ideas from a tailor shop in the Holy City.

Because they were considered consumables, they naturally could not be made of the same soft fabric as the uniforms for the students of the academy. They were all made of materials that were wear-resistant and breathable, but slightly sacrificed for comfort. Ji Lin didn't need to care about these problems. He was the boss of the client as long as he paid the money. The other party would naturally help him with the selection of materials and design.

He just had to confirm that the design was good-looking, then nod and pay.

The pure design fee cost him 100 gold, and the production fee cost him an additional 200 gold, a total of 300 gold in expenses, and everyone could get two sets of military uniforms.

The other party took the money, handed the sample template and design drawings to Ji Lin, and started working.

Small money, paid.

Ji Lin's pockets were bulging with a group of students' tuition fees just paid in his hand.

The current officers' uniforms in the territory refer to the template of the German military uniforms in World War II, and the picture comes from the pen drawing of the forum brother. Unfortunately, everyone is busy with military equipment now, and few people like Ji Lin can afford to spend extra money to customize special military uniforms.

The design of the German military uniforms in World War II focused on the shaping of body lines, and added a straight, cold, and wise visual effect on this basis. The military uniforms without much decoration look simple and capable from the outside, and at the same time set off the figure of the soldiers, creating a classic in the history of military uniforms.

Ji Lin looked at the officers standing upright under the stage, and his cold and blood-hardened temperament made him quite satisfied.

The current standing army of the territory is these 300 musketeers, and Ji Lin's idea of ​​building the army directly copied the modern squad, platoon and company composition. (There is an explanation in the next chapter about why the modern model is used. It is too troublesome to add it in this chapter, and there is a corresponding explanation)

This leads to a big problem, a serious lack of officers.

Ten people in a squad, a total of 30 squads of combat teams, and three squads in a platoon.

There are ten platoons in total, but no company-level troops. The territory currently cannot spare officers to form a company-level command. They cannot even gather squad leaders according to the number of officers they originally had.

After the shooter troops were disbanded and reorganized, each squad had one officer and two veterans leading seven new recruits to fight. Thirty squad leaders were needed, and the original twenty-five corporals were not enough, with five missing.

Changheng could only conduct a selection to select five officers.

There were not enough platoon leaders, so he could only select one of the squad leaders in every three squads to serve as a platoon leader.

There was no way for the company level, as it was impossible for an officer to serve as both a squad leader, a platoon leader, and a company commander. In order to maintain the current army, Changheng did not leave himself any assistants to assist in the work.

Changheng sighed, which was rare. The management of the territory was short of people, and his army was also short of people.

Go to the territory to ask for people. These two hundred militiamen who were converted to musket shooters were the maximum manpower that Ji Lin could provide him after weighing the expenses.

Three hundred part-time professional soldiers, any more would affect the normal economic operation of the territory. As for the educated talents who can serve as officers, they were all snatched away by Chongshan in advance and pulled into the manufacturing industry of the territory to serve as the leaders of various key production groups.

Even though 25 officers who were barely qualified were promoted and trained before, the number of officers is still stretched when they are organized now.

He currently has at least ten platoon leaders, three company commanders, and three deputy company commanders, a total of sixteen senior officers.

Lack of people, too much lack of people.

It is impossible to draw squad leaders, there are only thirty squad leaders in total, and if sixteen are drawn, there will be no one to serve as grassroots officers.

Ji Lin's answer is: make do with it first, just enough platoon leaders, and then send him after the talents are trained.

He pursues that each combat group can fight independently, rather than the more popular team of a hundred people in this era, with soldiers lined up in formation.

"The first row is assembled."

"The second row is assembled."

"The third row..."

Ji Lin watched the officers of the infantry row walk to the front and salute the two men. Suddenly, he felt as if he had returned to the battlefield of his previous life.

"Report, the ten infantry rows of the Territory Guard, a total of three hundred musketeers, all troops have been assembled, please issue instructions."

Chang Heng straightened his back and shouted to Ji Lin in a loud voice. When Ji Lin was present, Ji Lin was the highest commander of the Territory Guard.

Then he moved his lips slightly and whispered in a voice that only Ji Lin could hear.

"During the period of the flood, the original plan was to let them get familiar with actual combat and find their own hunting spiders, but it was delayed. So today we were originally scheduled to go to the hunting spider nest to bring out some scout hunting spiders for them to adapt."

Each musketeer must have at least one hunting spider as an assistant.

If learning how to shoot with the musket in their hands is their first lesson, then how to get along and communicate with the best scouts in the territory is the second lesson for these musketeers.

The best scout in the territory, the hunting spider.

Strictly speaking, most of these militiamen are in contact with hunting spiders for the first time, and most of the people in the territory are keeping a distance from this half-human-high spider.

Except for those who are arranged to breed in the hunting spider nest, they understand that as long as they are fed on time, there will be no problem.

Even if they are not poisonous and have no ability to kick hair, they are just a relatively large jumping spider.

After being fed, they like to run to the grass to bask in the sun. The spiders that have grown larger are still spiders, and they still have not changed their nature as cold-blooded animals.

Run to the grass to bask in the sun to get extra heat.

The only pasture in the territory has been expanded again and again, just to give these big spiders space to bask in the sun when they rest.

Ji Lin nodded slightly, turned around and gave orders to these soldiers who truly belonged to him.

"Everyone, run to the pasture in the northwest!"