Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 123

Chapter 123: Rich Brigade

the public trial of the local tyrant brigade was brought forward to cooperate with the award ceremony, which is a good opportunity for publicity.

The award ceremony is for the next military reform.

During this period of time, Ossena was very busy, Lambert was very busy, and Gu Hang was also very busy.

Not to mention that although the two people were officials in charge of one aspect, the actual highest power was still in Gu Hang. As long as the scope involved was slightly larger, or it required cross-departmental coordination and request for help, it had to be circulated through Gu Hang. The decision-making of major matters also had to go through Gu Hang.

These things are already quite a lot.

What’s more, Gu Hang personally took charge of military issues.

Internal affairs are important, and military affairs are equally important.

Gu Hang decided to implement a military rank system and organize the team according to the standards of the Empire’s regular planetary defense forces.

Officers will be divided into three grades and ten levels: general, colonel, and lieutenant. There is currently no fourth-level general officer; three-level colonel officers, the highest is colonel; three-level lieutenant officers, the highest is captain.

Yan Fangxu jumped three levels and became the highest-ranking officer under Gu Hang. He will be a colonel. The second is Thadius, who will be in charge of the military and political department with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

The entire army will also be reorganized into two large organizations.

First, it will be expanded into a heavy-armored composite brigade with the infantry regiment that Gu Hang brought from Weixing City as the core. This brigade will be equipped with five composite battalions, one artillery battalion, one engineer battalion, one air defense battalion, and one logistics battalion, a total of nine battalions; the brigade headquarters and the brigade directly include the staff, command, battlefield medical department, political department, guard company, engineer company, communication company, brigade reconnaissance company, and a land aviation squadron.

I won’t talk about the others. The five composite battalions are expanded with the current five infantry battalions as the core. Each battalion will be organized into 1 artillery company, 1 armored company, 2 motorized infantry companies, 2 armored infantry companies, and 1 support company, a total of seven companies. The battalion headquarters also includes a reconnaissance platoon, a communications platoon, and a guard team.

Such a main force combined battalion has a total strength of more than 800 people. 40 Iron Bull trucks, 30 Ranger motorcycles, 24 Walker infantry fighting vehicles, armored command vehicles, armored communication vehicles are needed, and 12 155 howitzers and 12 tanks are also needed…

Just five such combined battalions have a total strength of more than 4,100 people, not counting all heavy equipment, let alone light equipment.

When it comes to the stage of combined brigades, the other four battalions, plus the brigade headquarters, will have a scale of more than 7,000 people.

From the current 1,500 people who have lost a lot of personnel due to fighting, to such a 7,000 people… Obviously, Gu Hang will absorb a lot of blood from the former Alliance Legion.

At the same time, more importantly, the production of weapons and equipment must keep up.

The tanks are the 60 tanks left over from the former Alliance Legion that can still be used. Although they are relatively backward, there is no choice.

As for the production of other equipment, Gu Hang will soon fly back to Weixing City to find Wu Jiarong to solve the problem.

Other things are easy to say. The troop transport trucks and fast motorcycles needed by motorized infantry can be made of “Iron Bull” and “Hunter”.

However, the heavy artillery used by the artillery, which was captured from the Alliance Legion, is not enough. Gu Hang has to ask Wu Jiarong about the current situation of the self-developed 155 howitzer.

On the other hand, Gu Hang has to use the few things extracted from this technology.

For the mass production of the “Walker” series of armored vehicles, Gu Hang plans to first build a production line for the “Wanderer” infantry fighting vehicle. This is in great demand and has a great role.

In this wasteland world with underdeveloped technology, the power of the “Wanderer” is probably more powerful and more reliable than the domestically produced tanks.

As for the “Listener” communication armored vehicle, “Defender” anti-aircraft vehicle, and “Navigator” command armored vehicle, which are in relatively small demand, they can be directly produced using the finished black box, and there is no rush to pull the production line.

After Gu Hang put forward the idea of a heavy combined brigade, both Yan Fangxu and Thadius were a little stunned.

The number of people is not so bad, but the equipment requirement is… too damn luxurious.

A… luxurious brigade?

If such a heavy composite brigade is really created, wouldn’t it be able to walk sideways in the wasteland?

Even if Yan Fangxu looked at it from the perspective of an imperial officer, such a unit would be considered a relatively luxurious configuration among many ordinary Astra Militarum Corps – if the tanks were replaced with high-level tanks of the Astra Militarum Corps.

In fact, the Astra Militarum Corps would not organize elite composite brigades in this way. In many cases, the battlefields that the Astra Militarum Corps has to face are larger and wider, and it is common to need to invest hundreds of thousands or millions of troops. A larger division structure will be more commonly used. Dozens or even hundreds of divisions form an army group to deal with a certain aspect of the war; multiple army groups form an army group to deal with a continental war…

The Astra Militarum Corps is called the “Hammer of the Empire”, and it is not nonsense. It must be like a hammer, smashing the enemy with unparalleled power.

But this does not mean that the Astra Militarum Corps has a hammer and does not need a knife. Some elite combined brigade troops will be used as assault spearheads.

The combined brigade organized by the Governor General is a bit interesting.

If this unit is reorganized and equipped, and if there is a way to send it to the Quintet starship in the sky, it is estimated that the troops on the starship will also have to drink a pot of big pot. If the defense is not enough, it is not impossible to be stabbed in the face of Brigadier General Ye Lishia in one breath.

There are 100,000 people on the starship, but most of them are staff and slaves. The armed force may be only 20,000 to 30,000, and lacks heavy equipment.

In addition to this main combined brigade, the remaining one to be organized is a regular infantry division, consisting of three infantry regiments, each with an artillery battalion. It is said to be a division, but with the division headquarters, there are only 7,000 to 8,000 people in total, which is about the same as the strength of the main combined brigade, and the equipment is much worse.

Yan Fangxu doesn’t think much of this unit. Even if the training of the troops is good, the equipment is far worse. It is just an ordinary “filling division” in the Star Army.

Of course, it’s not bad in a wasteland environment.

With these two troops, a total of about 15,000 people are deployed. This is Gu Hang’s current idea.

With a scale of one million people, it should not be a big problem to support a well-equipped army of more than 10,000 people for the time being.

And he has to support so many troops, which is of course useful.

It is very important to cultivate internal strength. The production potential of one million people should be tapped as much as possible; but the expansion outward cannot be stopped.

Gu Hang did not forget that he only had two years. Now more than two months have passed. It is not impossible to rely on one million people to pay taxes in full under the condition of full burst of productivity, but it will also lock all his resources to serve this.

That is definitely not possible.

He has to incorporate more territory and more people into his order.

Leaving Fuxing City and starting a new business is for a seed; now, this seed has taken root and sprouted in Fuxing City. This city will also become a fulcrum, and he will use it to pry the entire planet.

Even before all the logistical equipment is in place, the expansion action should be prepared and started.

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Last month, I updated 160,000 words in total. The wave of posting

basically used up all my stockpiled manuscripts. In May, I will guarantee 4,000 words per day, which is 120,000 words per month. If I don’t have any manuscripts in stock, I will try my best to challenge 160,000 words and maintain the same update volume as in April.

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