A rumor storm forced Ashoka to the edge of the cliff.

Under this public opinion atmosphere, King Ashoka not only could not withdraw his troops from Tubo, but also had to find a way to defend Tubo, and at least he had to reach some agreement with Daxia to explain to the people of his country.

Otherwise, the storm will never be able to subside.

The initiator of this rumor was the Mauryan King and Gupta King. They were already planning secretly and once the battle in Tubo ended, they would attack the Ashoka Dynasty together.

In this way, how could the Ashoka Dynasty easily withdraw its troops from Tubo?

Only when the Ashoka Dynasty lost its troops and generals in Tubo and suffered great energy could they have a chance to win.

During the process, the secret spies stationed in Tianzhu from the Black Snake Guard Asia Division also contributed to the fire. With the joint efforts of the three forces, the rumors quickly fermented in the shortest time.

After thinking about it over and over again, King Ashoka gritted his teeth and decided to increase his troops to Tubo by 500,000. At the same time, he ordered the troops stationed in Luoshe City to be sure to stay until reinforcements arrive.

It is naturally the best to be able to defend some cities. Even if it cannot be defended, Ashoka hopes to successfully withdraw most of the troops back to the country through the support of these 500,000 troops.

As long as the army is present, Ashoka will be fearless.

At the same time, in order to minimize the expectations of the people, Ashoka ordered the 500,000 troops who set out to fight disguise themselves and mixed with the team transporting food and grass, and quietly entered Tubo.

King Ashoka was worried that once the people knew that the dynasty would not be able to retain a Tubo, which would really damage the prestige of the dynasty, so he marched in a low-key manner.

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October 5th, the capital.

King Ashoka first implemented cruel military control in Tubo, treating the Tubo people like cattle and sheep, and exploiting them wantonly; as the country fell into a public opinion storm, and it was difficult to get rid of the tiger, indicating that undercurrents within India were surging.

Ouyang Shuo could only sigh that God really helped Daxia.

With these two points, the "meat grinder plan" formulated by Jia Xu can basically be realized, and even because of the "active" cooperation between the Mauryan Dynasty and the Gupta Dynasty, it may even achieve miraculous results.

There are good news on the front line, and the court has made progress on the disarmament plan.

The Military Affairs Office, the Privy Council and the Zizheng Pavilion jointly formulated the largest disarmament plan in the history of the Great Xia, and it is also the most thorough military reform plan, and has basically taken shape.

It will be opened only after Ouyang Shuo’s review is approved.

The biggest feature of this disarmament is that it does not reduce the first-level legion organization, but instead cuts the legion from 70,000 to 50,000, reducing the number of employees by 20,000.

This is very awesome.

Including the Imperial Guards, the Daxia Army had a total of 19 armies, each army had five corpses, and the Yingzhou Corps and the South American Corps had a total of 99 legions.

Each legion’s reduction of 20,000 troops means that 1.98 million troops will be removed at one time, with the disarmament rate as high as 28.6%, more than one quarter.

This means that one out of every four soldiers will retire.

After the disarmament, the Great Xia army would be reduced from 6.93 million at its peak to 4.95 million.

Of course, disarmament is not simply a reduction in personnel. To achieve the transformation of the legion from 70,000 to 50,000, the reform of the entire military organization structure and a complete reshaping.

Before the disarmament, the Daxia Army used ten people as fire, ten fires as teams, five teams as camps, and five battalions as brigades; the Fifth Brigade was a division, equipped with a thousand-man directly under brigade; the Fifth Division was a legion, equipped with a direct brigade.

After the disarmament, the Daxia army still used ten people as fire, and set fire chiefs. The difference is that it changed from one team of ten fires to one team of five fires, with a total of fifty people, and set up a team chief.

This kind of compilation is based on scientific basis.

As a grassroots officer in the army, the team commander has a one-time jurisdiction over ten fires, which is a bit over the limit, and it is easy to cause an imbalance in jurisdiction between the team commander and the battalion commander, forming a pattern of light head and heavy feet.

In addition, it is to scientifically subdivided the functions of the team level, and according to tasks, equipment and composition, it is divided into infantry teams (lancers, swords and shields, and heavy swordsmen), cavalry teams, musketeers, artillery teams, fighter fleets, engineers, reconnaissance teams, repair teams, baggage teams, kitchen teams and medical teams.

In short, it is at the team level, which basically covers all combat and auxiliary troops of the Daxia Army, and its level of completeness is almost the same as that of modern army.

There are two benefits to this arrangement.

First, it provides greater possibilities for joint combat between multiple arms.

For example, after the military reform, the Daxia Army was at the battalion level and could realize joint combat between three different types of troops, including spearmen, cavalry and musketeers, making the combat mode more flexible and efficient.

Each type of military has its advantages and disadvantages. Joint combat is to learn from strengths and weaknesses. The more you sink this joint combat model, the more you can improve the combat effectiveness of the army.

In the past, the entire division and even the entire legion were organized as a single army. Today, when new soldiers are constantly emerging, they are obviously less and less adaptable to the needs of war and are destined to be eliminated.

Of course, this cannot be achieved overnight.

How to unite, match, command, and solve practical problems such as logistics support must be explored continuously after this round of military reform by Zhu Group Army in training and actual combat.

Once the operation is mature, the Daxia Army will reach a new level.

Second, the logistical support has been reduced, greatly improving the military's endurance and flexibility.

Before the military reform, the first-level division, the direct brigade of the 1st-level division and the direct brigade of the corps were actually auxiliary troops such as engineers, baggage soldiers and medical soldiers provided by Bai Qi.

When the division goes down, there is no separate auxiliary troops.

Before this, the Daxia Army was used to large corps combat, and there was no big problem. However, as the war situation evolved, the territory and battlefield expanded, the brigades and even the battalion level required to have certain independent combat capabilities.

In this way, auxiliary troops must be equipped in place.

The reshaping of the army during the Baiqi period was in the first year of Gaia, and six years have passed since then. Over the past six years, the Great Xia army has undergone earth-shaking changes, and it is long time to renew.

With the current foundation of Daxia, it also has the ability to equip various auxiliary troops one by one. While improving the flexibility of the army, it also greatly improves the survival rate of the army and reduces the mortality rate.

The team's first-level upward organization has undergone a complete reshaping.

One battalion, six to ten teams, with 300-500 people. In addition to the combat team, a battalion needs to be equipped with at least one baggage team, and according to the actual situation, it is equipped with auxiliary troops such as fire-level cooking, medical care, and reconnaissance.

The battalion organization is also the basic tactical team of the Daxia Army.

Similarly, according to mission, equipment and composition can be divided into infantry battalions (Long-spike barracks, Sword and Shield barracks and Sword barracks), cavalry battalions, musketeers barracks, artillery battalions, engineer battalions, reconnaissance battalions and baggage battalions.

It can be clearly seen that except for the fighter fleet that does not form a battalion, repair, cooking and medical care among auxiliary troops will not be based on battalion units, but will basically be directly equipped to the brigade level by team units.

One brigade, three to five battalions, several direct teams, a total of 2,000 people. Several direct teams refer to six auxiliary troops, namely the engineering team, reconnaissance team, repair team, baggage team, cooking team and medical team.

According to actual conditions, they are generally not fully equipped.

The brigade is a high-level tactical team of the Daxia Army, with a brigade headquarters and equipped with combat staff. According to tasks, equipment and composition, it is divided into infantry brigade (Lavender Brigade, Sword and Shield Brigade and Sword Brigade), cavalry brigade, musketeer Brigade, special combat brigade, engineer brigade and baggage brigade.

With the current industrialization level of Daxia, it is not possible to be equipped with artillery brigades. In addition, reconnaissance basically stops at the battalion level and will not rise to the brigade level, which is too exaggerated.

One division, four brigades, several independent battalions and several direct teams, a total of 10,000 people.

By the same token, independent battalions will perform combat service, technical service and logistics support tasks, including the three major battalions of engineers, reconnaissance battalions and baggage battalions, which will basically be fully equipped.

The direct team is naturally the repair team, the cooking team and the medical team.

The division organization is already the basic tactical force of the Daxia Army. It can fight independently and guard a defense zone independently. According to tasks, equipment and composition, it is divided into the sword and shield division, cavalry division and musketeer division.

It is not difficult to see that at the division level, both spearmen and heavy sword soldiers will withdraw from the stage of history. In front of musketeers, such an established infantry division is a living target and is destined to be eliminated. Only sword and shield soldiers wearing heavy armor can still fight against musketeers on the premise that the individual abilities of soldiers are greatly improved.

The division headquarters is set up, and the number and military flag are awarded by the Army Command, and some have their own unique logos.

The division headquarters has certain military management powers, and is responsible for military training and administrative management, including the selection and appointment of grassroots officers and soldiers, and has a great say in the selection and appointment of grassroots officers and soldiers.

Therefore, the division commander has been given the title of general.

One legion, four divisions, several independent brigades, and several independent battalions, totaling 50,000 people. The first-level independent brigade includes auxiliary troops such as the engineering brigade and the logistics brigade, as well as combat troops such as the spear brigade, the sword brigade, the heavy sword brigade, the cavalry brigade, the musketeer brigade and the special combat brigade.

How to configure the specific configuration is also flexibly adjusted according to the situation. The overall goal is to achieve coordinated combat between multiple arms and improve the overall combat effectiveness of the army.

The organization of the legion is the basic tactical corps of the Daxia Army. It has a military headquarters and can lead the defense of a province. Unless during wartime, the five blind legions under the army will not be stationed together, and they will all be stationed separately.

Generally speaking, legions are gangs of various arms.

Although the first generation of fighter jets has entered the production stage, with the current capacity of installation, it is not the time to set up an air force outside the army. As for the navy, it only cooperates in wartime and will not conduct mixed land and sea assembly.

Before the military reform, when Daxia entered a certain battle, he often drew several legions from different armies and reorganized them to fight together because of the tactical attributes of the legions, which could be completely independent.

The legion is the basis for forming the strategic combat army and the basic unit for calculating the balance of strategic combat forces. Its quantity and quality are the main indicators for measuring the combat strength of the army.

In short, looking at the scale of a battle, it depends on how many legions of wars Daxia has invested.

Further up is the army, which is also the highest-level unit of the army. The five legions remain unchanged, with headquarters command organs, and are the combat units responsible for one battle direction, namely the basic combat unit.

Not only that, the army with relatively fixed defense zones also has a headquarters hospital and a logistics support center to provide medical and logistics support services to the entire army.

The above is the core content of this time known as "the largest disarmament plan in the history of Daxia". Rather than saying it is a complete military restructuring through disarmament.

Ouyang Shuo had long said that laying down troops is not the ultimate goal, but the ultimate goal is to improve the military's combat capabilities. Du Ruhui, Zhang Liang and others obviously understood Ouyang Shuo's intentions.

In addition to the adjustment of military organization, the Plan has made very detailed plans on how to disarmament, which soldiers are laid off, which branches of troops are mainly laid off, and how to resettle the troops.

Among the Daxia army, the Imperial Guards, the Yulin Army and the City Guards belong to the direct army and stand at the highest level; down there are seven field troops, Longxiong, Tiger Ben, Leopard Tao, Eagle Yang, Flying Bear, Greedy Wolf and Fengxiang.

Further down are the North African Army, West African Army, East African Army, Hanoi Army, Heluo Army, Southern Frontier Army, Xiangjiang Army, Hedong Army, Northern Frontier Army, Yingzhou Corps, and South American Corps, these border guards.

When the border guards go down, they are the security divisions of various provinces. When the security divisions go down, they are the reserves. From top to bottom, there are a total of five levels, forming a complete system of the Daxia Army.

The further down, the combat power of the army shows a decreasing trend.

Therefore, in this round of disarmament, it is impossible to arrange all the 100,000 troops that were dismantled by the Imperial Guards to retire, which would be too wasteful.

In principle, the troops laid off from the previous level will be given priority to the next level. In this way, they will eventually be allocated to the first level of the reserve, forming a huge reserve system.

Of course, this is not absolute.

Military Minister Du Ruhui drew a red line. During this round of disarmament, all three types of personnel, "the only son in the family, who have served in the military for more than five years, and have secret illnesses, will be forced to retire unless the situation is special.

Even if he was born in the Imperial Guard, he is no exception.

"If you have a wife and children at home, if you have a bad record in the army, if you are injured in battle, these three types of personnel will be given priority for dismissal.
To be continued...