After handling the work at hand, Zhu Cixuan picked up the draft of the army and started reading it.

It is impossible to expect the military headquarters to perform its own military reform. If these people don’t draw lines for them, they can all fly to the sky.

The army organization is not as large as possible. The most important reason why the Ming Dynasty chose the master-level organization method of 30,000 people was that the enemy at that time was Jiannu.

The troops of a division of the Ming Dynasty were able to block the attack of Jiannu and could perform tasks as an independent combat unit.

Moreover, the tactic of queuing and shooting forced the army to form a square formation. The quadratic army's four-fourth organization is the best formation group, because one square formation has four directions.

Therefore, the division-level organization of the Ming Dynasty was based on four units, running through the whole process, and then the artillery regiment, cavalry regiment, and logistics regiment were added. Finally, the division-level division-level reached a scale of 35,000 people.

However, the enemy of the Ming Dynasty has changed. The European army now generally adopts the corps system. One corps only has about 6,000 people. Several corpses are combined to arrange an officer to command it. This scale is only 10,000 to 20,000 to 20,000 or 30,000.

If more than 100,000 troops are concentrated, it will be a major battle that has been recorded in history.

Moreover, after the Junggar Khanate was eliminated, the Ming Dynasty's enemies from the grassland were gone, and in addition to the Cossacks, it was a bit threat to the Ming Dynasty.

However, the Cossack cavalry has a smaller organization, usually between 6,000 and 8,000 people, which is a large organization. It may be able to deal with the Ming army in one regiment.

If it faces the Ming cavalry division, a cavalry division of the Ming Dynasty will be equivalent to more than half of the Cossack cavalry.

If the enemy changes, the Ming army organization will naturally change. Otherwise, if someone goes to fight for 6,000 people, you will spend 35,000 people, and if someone goes to the station, you will also spend 35,000 people, you will also spend 10,000 people. This is a huge waste.

As the territory of the Ming Dynasty continued to expand, the transfer of large-scale commanders became very inconvenient, and there were also great troubles when assembled.

For example, when a division stationed in Xuzhou is stationed separately, it needs to be stationed in more than a dozen cities to defend the surrounding area of ​​Xuzhou. It is the south to Hongze Lake, the east to Laiwu, the north to the Yellow River, and the west to Shenqiu and other places.

This can maximize the distribution of logistics pressure and maximize the scope of a division's garrison.

However, such garrisoning is actually not effective, and the troops are still too concentrated. With Xuzhou as the center, the fewer the troops are as far away.

Once war begins, these troops will gather again, it will take ten days and half a month, which is equivalent to delaying the speed of the entire army's movement.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty needed to reduce the division level, with the infantry divisions preferably not more than 15,000 people, and the cavalry divisions preferably not more than 10,000 people.

It is indeed a bit unsuitable for a new weapon with a five-man combat team. Three people and one combat team, and three combat teams of a squad alternately cover, so that the maximum utilization of troops can be achieved.

A squad should have a chief and deputy squad leader. In addition to avoiding command failures due to the death of the squad leader during combat, it also facilitates the expansion of the army. A deputy squad leader can be used as a squad leader immediately after training for a period of time, so that the army will expand very quickly.

The second is that a squad must have a sniper and a grenade launcher. When there are no grenades, this kind of grenade launcher is a relatively easy-to-use support weapon.

Such a class can not only have certain ability to attack and have certain counterattack methods when defending. A grenade launcher requires two people to operate. Finally, it is a part-time health officer for the communications troop.

Only fifteen people in such a class can be used to make reasonable arrangements.

As for the platoon level, one platoon leader manages three to five platoons without any pressure at all, but the specific amount depends on what the platoon level is mainly used for.

The smallest combat unit of the Ming Dynasty was the company. A company had to deal with a small battlefield. This might be the capture or defense of a highland, the clearance or defense of a village, or the defensive offensive task of an intersection and bridge.

Therefore, leveling requires your own heavy firepower. A mortar squad is just right, and you need your own suppression firepower. It is not impossible to have a heavy machine gun. Then add the company commander, deputy company commander, communications soldier, medical soldier, imperial guard, and deputy staff officer.

Then, according to actual needs, there must be a cook for every 25 people in the Ming Dynasty, so the cooking class must be arranged at the company level.

According to the support force, it is not enough to support four or five platoons with a mortar squad and a heavy machine gun.

Therefore, the platoon-level organization is composed of three squads, one company and three combat platoons. The total number of people in such a company can be controlled at about 200 people.

The battalion level is another transition, so the battalion does not need heavy firepower support, and does not need to be equipped with machine gun platoons or other items. One battalion and three companies are already arranged at the company level, so the battalion level only needs to arrange a small cooking squad, followed by logistics support, communications soldiers and other things.

The total number of people should be around 650.

Why is the battalion level a transition? Because on a large battlefield, a problem that a company cannot solve cannot be solved perfectly by sending a battalion.

It’s not that it cannot be solved, but that it cannot be solved perfectly. If two hundred people cannot win, then there will be at least three or four hundred people on the other side. There will be six or seven hundred in one camp, and it will feel that it will be neither up nor down.

Zhu Ciyang felt that if one company could not solve it, it would be a regiment. If it weren’t for the lack of communication capabilities in this era, Zhu Ciyang would even want to cut off the command system one or two levels, and one regiment would directly manage eight or nine companies, or a division would directly manage eight or nine battalions, which would be more convenient.

In short, you cannot fill every level, as this will only make the structure of the army bloated.

The regiment level is an independent combat unit below the division, with four battalions of a regiment and some auxiliary units, and it is enough. As for machine gun companies, there is no need. The regiment level is a command unit, and it is not allowed to let the regiment commander go to the battlefield in person.

The role of the regiment leader is to coordinate the first battalion so that they can play their greatest role. It is also a fool to set up a medical platoon at the regiment level. It is impossible to treat major diseases and there is no need for minor diseases. Besides, the medical resources of the Ming Dynasty are not that rich, so how could so many doctors squander the army so much!

The number of people in such a group is about 3,000.

Finally, the division level is the division level. The division level must be equipped with three such regiments, including one artillery regiment, one cavalry battalion, one communication guard battalion, as well as the medical battalion, the engineering battalion, and the corresponding logistics organization, and the number of personnel of a division is controlled below 15,000.

The Cavalry Division has also been changed to a division of between 8,000 and 10,000. Only by reducing the number of people and increasing the number of troops can we better control so many grasslands.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty above the division must have an army level, a group army level, and a front army level. At that time, the real heavy firepower can be arranged in these units.
Chapter completed!