In the face of the indisputable facts, there is nothing to say about a group of Sylvanian vampires. The traditional undead troops using cold weapons were sent out to the battle sequence. All the skeleton troops were abolished. The Black Knights, the Tomb Guards and the Blood Holy Grail Knights needed to be modified. They should be transformed into the Black New Army unit that "meets modern combat needs."

Based on the existing Black New Army troops, the Empire will continue to deepen the reform of firepower and mobility. The ordinary Black New Army, which was originally based on light artillery and rapid-fire rifles, will be adapted into a powerful force equipped with more large-caliber artillery, automated weapons and attack weapons according to the modern military system.

According to my plan, a standard, completely modified Black New Army unit should be the organization standard of twelve combatants in each squad, including eight privateers, Storm Assault Gun (automatic rifle) players, two light machine gunners, one bazookaman and one ammunition player. Each platoon includes three such squads, thirty-six people. Each company will be equipped with three platoons plus one firepower group, one hundred and twenty people. The firepower group includes two heavy machine guns and a sixty-mm mortar. There are twelve firepower team members in this squad. In addition to the nine operators, there are three reserve members.

Such a standard company of 120 people can be regarded as the basic combat unit of the Black New Army. It will replace the standard spear formation of the traditional army of the Emperor**, or in other words, there is a certain inheritance relationship between the two.

Of course, the Black New Army Corps, which uses straggler formations to fight and focus on firepower, cannot be compared with the undead company that gathers together and uses dense phalanxes to advance with cold weapons and super spears. This is beyond doubt.

Above the company is a battalion, with three companies with 360 people and one battalion. Then there is a regiment, with three battalions with a standard regiment of 1,080 people, which is quite similar to the regiments of traditional troops.

In addition to the three standard battalions, each regiment will usually be equipped with a logistics baggage company, including twenty upgraded versions of the black caravan, black armored truck, and one hundred and twenty worker ants. A combat engineer company, including one hundred worker ants. Twenty equipped with engineer shovels, self-defense pistols, flamethrowers, anti-infantry mines and blasting fierce combat engineers. A firepower enhancement company, including twenty seventy seventy-five-mm rapid-fire cannons, ten one hundred and five-mm infantry cannons. There are also one hundred and twenty artillery soldiers who operate these thirty artillery.

The three companies combined with a total of 360 people can also be considered as a battalion. Therefore, the actual number of combatants of each Black New Army Standard Corps is 1,440 people. Generally speaking, such a regiment is enough to operate in small-scale battles and wars and fight on its own. Therefore, each Black New Army will be equipped with two vampire commanders, one chief and one deputy, to command the army.

If a standard company is a basic tactical unit, then such a standard regiment with heavy firepower, logistics supplies, and engineer armed forces can be called a basic combat unit.

Then the three regiments had 4,320 men in a brigade. In addition to these three regiments, there were also direct guard companies, communication companies and reconnaissance companies. They were organized into a battalion. One firepower reinforcement battalion had 105 mm infantry cannons and twenty-five howitzers. At the same time, there were fifteen ghost scorpion mantles, a ground aviation battalion, including 360 ghost warriors, and twenty mechanical doves equipped with three twenty-millimeter aerial cannons. These troops were also as large as one regiment when combined. Therefore, the number of people in each brigade was usually 5,760.

There is also one chief and deputy commander. In addition to two commanders, each brigade usually has eight to ten staff officers. In addition to making pre-war predictions, formulating combat plans and post-war statistics summary, these officers usually go to the front line when fighting and serve as grassroots commanders in the most difficult places in the war. They may also replace the commanders of each regiment who have lost their command ability due to their exhaustion of magic, injuries, and death in battle.

Next is the division called the basic strategic unit. In addition to deploying three brigades, each division will also add a direct artillery regiment of divisions. It is equipped with 155 mm heavy infantry cannons, 75 howitzers each, and a logistics baggage and engineering regiment. It is equipped with 200 black armored trucks and 800 combat engineers. It is an enhanced assault battalion equipped with 200 ghost scorpion mantis. The total number of such a division will exceed 20,000.

I have done statistics with my officers. If there is no war similar to the Doomsday Lord level breaks out. Then even if there is a full-scale conflict with other countries in the material world, you can win if you invest in one division. And if you invest in two divisions, you will be crushing and victorious. This cannot be changed no matter what. Unless a country in the old world suddenly explodes like an empire. In a short period of time, from the over-the-top feudal society to the era of industrial civilization, and organize more than 50,000 professional troops equipped with modern weapons. Of course, this kind of thing is impossible to think about.

The goal of the empire's military reform today is to remove all the cold weapon troops under its command of more than 12 million under its command from the classical era, which could not keep up with the trend. Then form 60 divisions with the above standards. According to the standard of 20,000 per division, 60 divisions would be 1.2 million. In other words, the Imperial Team will reduce its strength to one-tenth of its heyday. This is really an incredible thing for some people whose ideas are still in the Middle Ages.

In fact, in addition to such basic infantry reform, I originally expected a motorization or even a mechanized reform. In fact, based on the current technological power, the empire is indeed capable of creating a purely mechanized army. An army composed entirely of ghosts, scorpion mantles, armored personnel carriers, and super powerful.

Among them, the improved version of the Ghost Scorpion Mantle has more heavy armor and stronger off-road capabilities. It can be used in a 155 mm caliber heavy artillery. It has been designed and produced a prototype. It is equipped with light armored armored trucks with a load capacity of more than five tons and can transport a platoon and a full set of equipment. More excellent infantry fighting vehicles are also being designed...

It’s just a pity. With the current production capacity and financial situation of the empire, it is impossible to support a mechanized reform while supporting the modernization reform of firepower. So this reform plan is only placed in my desk drawer, and it seems that it has ended in failure...

"However, in fact, although our troops have been reduced so much, the actual combat effectiveness of our army may increase by more than ten times in turn."

At the end of the Citizens' Assembly, I said this, and the proposal was finally passed. I was relieved. But next time, when discussing this matter with my officers and generals, I found that such a drastic military reform was not an easy task.

"Our officer reserves are insufficient. At this time when people are needed everywhere, there are not so many tribe members to collect the number of officers and generals needed for military reform." My aide said to me:

"According to your vision, the reform of the Emperor's ** affairs requires the establishment of a total of 60 divisions and 180 brigades, which requires 480 vampire officers. This does not mean that each brigade is equipped with at least eight staff officers. Then more than 1,400 vampire legions are required. If we include those special troops, such as the artillery regiment directly under the division and the commanders required by the combat engineers, then these 60 divisions need at least 2,000 qualified officers and generals to ensure their combat effectiveness. At present, the number of vampire clan members in the empire is still not more than 5,000. In other words, we have to devote more than 40% of the tribes to the army... This is completely..."

"Indeed." After hearing his words, I nodded and agreed with him. Although before that, at the most tense time of the Pan-Continental war, at least 3,000 tribes from the empire were thrown into the army. But now it is a time of peace, and forty percent of the ruling class will be placed in the army. Unless they are madmen, or militant psychopaths, people with normal intelligence will not do such things.

"Then, let's make a compromise." I said: "Change the army into two modes: reserve and active. The army in reserve does not need a deputy commander or a staff officer. Only the most basic brigade commander and division commander are retained. When war needs it, the appropriate candidates are grouped again."

"This is a good idea." The generals of vampire officers and generals nodded: "If this is the case, only 240 officers are needed for sixty divisions and one hundred and eighty brigades. But how many active divisions and reserve divisions should be retained?"

"In the north, in order to suppress Skiff and defend against the barbarians of the Northland, I think there should be at least two active troops." I said: "In the Batonia area, there must be an active division. In the southeastern wilderness of the empire, two active divisions are needed to suppress Greenskin. At the same time, the empire also needs at least two active divisions. As a mobile force, a elite army is needed to be stationed in the capital of the empire."

"In this case, there will be at least eight active divisions?" an officer asked.

"Well, eight active divisions and fifty-two reserve divisions. This requires 256 active officers and 208 reserve officers. A total of more than 400 are total. One-tenth of the population is still a little large as an officer. But there is nothing we can do about it."
Chapter completed!