Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 316

316. Chapter 315, Military Construction

Storm Mage Corps, Cradle Plan, these are the two cores of Gu Hang’s subsequent talent training.

The former is a path to cultivate extraordinary talents and build a psychic order with psychics as the core; while the latter is the most indispensable talent construction in the all-round development of the alliance itself.

Gu Hang is willing to invest a large amount of grace points in these two things.

So far, his total grace point investment in the two items of construction and talent has reached more than 17,000.

There are more than 30,000 on hand.

Next, it is time for military construction.

In terms of military equipment, there is no need to solve it with grace points, but rely on the alliance’s own productivity; however, in terms of personnel, the training function provided on the [Soldier Card] panel is still needed to supplement it.

The first is to supplement the existing troops.

The Blackbird Campaign, the two stages accumulated, brought more than 75,000 personnel losses to the alliance; the Angry Bear Legion’s battle on Koroja 3 has accumulated 10,000 losses so far.

Under the glorious victory, the alliance army also paid a lot of corpses.

This loss is actually not small at all.

Before the victory of the Blackbird Campaign, the total manpower pool of the Alliance was less than 500,000 without the mobilization order, and it was almost full. The number of active soldiers in the Alliance has exceeded 500,000. In the middle and late stages of the Blackbird Campaign, the Alliance activated the second-level mobilization order, shifted production capacity to military industry, and expanded the scope of conscription to withstand the pressure.

Now, the mobilization order has been cancelled after the war. However, after the victory, it also gained control over the entire western part of the continent. After the four major provinces of Ximo Province and the three western provinces, with a total population of 18 million, joined the Alliance, the tension in the Alliance’s available manpower was well alleviated.

Gu Hang has no intention of expanding the army on a large scale for the time being. He only established six armored combined divisions numbered 60 to 65, with the organizational structure aligned with the current Xifeng Brigade.

At the same time, all other existing combined brigades have also been transformed according to this standard.

As for the 1st Xifeng Brigade, which has always been used as a demonstration of improvement for the Alliance Army, it has been further strengthened and reorganized.

First of all, all the combined battalions have increased their strength and removed all the motorized infantry companies. Instead, they have been completely changed to 4 armored infantry companies plus 2 tank companies, including engineers, logistics, communications, reconnaissance, air defense and other functional units.

The strength of such a battalion has increased by half from the original more than 800 people to 1,200 people.

In terms of number, it is almost more than an ordinary regiment, and the density of technical equipment is many times that of a regular regiment.

For the entire brigade, such main combined battalions have increased from 5 to 8; the original tank battalion has also increased from 1 to 2. The artillery support companies of each battalion and the artillery battalions directly under the brigade have changed from the original towed artillery to self-propelled artillery with much higher mobility. The brigade headquarters also has various functional units of the brigade.

The total strength of the brigade has increased from 9,100 to 12,000; the number of tanks has increased from 80 to 204, a direct increase of 2.5 times; the number of armored vehicles has increased from more than 200 to 900. In addition to the largest number of infantry fighting vehicles, there are also more air defense models and communication command models under the “Walker” series. The brigade headquarters is also directly equipped with three aviation formations of the brigade, with a total of 30 wind falcons.

All soldiers, Gu Hang will collectively train them from the T5 level to the T4 level; the equipment of the front-line combat infantry will be fully replaced from the G series of live ammunition rifles to the LR series of laser rifles or the HS series of electromagnetic rifles.

Such a luxurious and enhanced synthetic brigade, as a demonstration army, will take a long time to build, and it is probably not possible to complete the modification in a short time.

It can be seen from the price. The cost of the Wind-extinguishing Brigade will soar from the original 90 points of grace plus less than 600,000 tax coins to 1,320 points of grace plus 1.8 million tax coins.

With the improvement of soldiers’ quality and the greatly increased density of technical equipment, there is no doubt that the combat effectiveness of the Wind Extinguishing Brigade will be greatly increased. Although the number of people has only increased by about 3,000, the combat effectiveness should have increased many times.

However, Gu Hang is not sure about the cost-effectiveness of the increased combat effectiveness compared with the increased cost.

The construction cost has tripled, which is easy to say. The substantial increase in the number of equipment directly enhances the combat capability linearly. That is, the extra one thousand points of grace used to improve the quality of soldiers can increase the combat effectiveness tenfold.

Gu Hang has some doubts about this.

But then again, how can we know if we don’t try? Anyway,

it’s just a brigade, and the Wind Extinguishing Brigade, a demonstration unit, should be adapted in this experimental nature.

The rest of the things may require the Wind Extinguishing Brigade to go to a certain battlefield and test through actual combat whether the combat effectiveness improvement is as exaggerated as the cost increase.

However, there is no battle on the Angry Owl Star that requires them to take action. For conventional domestic suppression work, there is no difference between the cheapest garrison division and the most expensive elite heavy-armored combined brigade.

But the alliance now has two battlefields that need manpower.

They are Koroja 3 and Black Arrow Star.

Gu Hang thought about it and decided to send the entire Wind-extinguishing Brigade to Black Arrow Star.

There is a war there recently.

The specific situation will be discussed later. Gu Hang’s attention is still on his army construction.

To complete the construction of six new brigades, plus the transformation of the other nine combined brigades, plus the major reinforcement of the Wind-extinguishing Brigade, a total of more than 60,000 new soldiers will be added; the military expenses for additional equipment will increase the military budget by more than 6 million tax coins. The

equipment gap is another matter. With the current productivity of the alliance, the pressure is still quite large. But with the development of the alliance in the future, this pressure should be able to be quickly alleviated. At the same time, large military orders will also stimulate the development of the alliance industry.

As for the personnel gap, the new troops and the soldiers lost by the previous troops must also be filled. Gu Hang has to recruit a total of nearly 140,000 new people into the army.

The previous alliance certainly couldn’t afford to recruit so many people, and was almost on the verge of the upper limit of the available manpower of the second-level mobilization order.

But now, the pressure is not too great.

The population of the Western Desert, the three western provinces, and the immigrants to the alliance… After the total population of the alliance soared from 25 million to 45 million, these new people who joined the alliance can all be used.

After the mobilization order is lifted, the estimated available manpower is also 800,000 or more.

Now the alliance army, including the Angry Bear Legion, has only used a total of 600,000 people.

For those who have just joined the alliance, being a soldier may not be a bad choice. When you first enter, the treatment of a private is equivalent to that of an E6. After staying for a while, with better training performance, or with a longer military service, there is no bottleneck for you to be promoted to an officer or a non-commissioned officer, at least to a private first class.

The treatment of a private first class is equivalent to that of an E9 rank, and it is also the same level if you transfer directly to civilian work after retiring.

As for injuries and sacrifices… this is the inevitable fate of being a soldier. However, the pension policy of the alliance has always been relatively generous, at least alleviating the worries of many people.

And these 140,000 people will enter the new recruits camps established by the Alliance Military and Political Department around the world for preliminary training.

Then, Gu Hang would “do something” in it.

The training cost of 140,000 people, even if all of them were only trained to the T5 level, would cost 1,400 points to train 100 people with one point of grace.

Add to that the cost of the Wind-Quening Brigade, which is about 1,300 points, and the total cost is 2,700 points.

When the army becomes larger and the quality of the troops is higher, the training cost that was considered completely insignificant in the past has gradually become significant.

However, in general, it is still not a big deal.

The real big deal is the training of space warriors.

So far, the number of Phoenixes has remained at about 30 people.

Captain Martins is very satisfied with this.

When he was wandering, he never dared to think that in the best result he expected, in less than three years, their number would soar from seven to thirty-six.

As for Gu Hang, he did not continue to increase the number of space warriors, not because he did not want to, but mainly because it was too expensive.

Gu Hang calculated that the average cost of training a new blood for the Phoenix was about 600 to 700 grace points per person – including the initial personnel selection and training, as well as the exchange of seeds.

This is a relatively expensive price. Using Space Marines to fight is undoubtedly a very luxurious behavior.

In addition to the consumption of grace points, power armor and other types of equipment exclusive to Space Marines are also a huge expense.

The reason why the number of Space Marines was not further increased before was also limited by the lack of power armor.

At present, except for their earliest seven power armors, the rest of the power armors used by the Phoenix were ordered by Gu Hang from Gu’s Trading Company.

Fifty thousand tax coins per unit, not including any other equipment.

And if other equipment is included, not to mention the cheaper bolt guns and chainsaw swords, mobile backpacks, plasma guns or melta guns, power swords, missile platforms, and even Terminator armors, dreadnought mechas… These are all sky-high.

Buying them is not feasible.

Not to mention those other equipment, the price of another twenty power armors will fly to one million tax coins. At that time, it was Gu Hang who wanted to tie these Space Marines to his battlefield. He gritted his teeth and promised the Phoenix, and then encountered the attack of the green-skinned pirates. His cousin gave the money directly as a gift, which was considered to be able to withstand the attack.

If you buy it later, the price is too expensive.

And it is difficult to buy it.

Space Marine power armor is not only expensive, but also has low production capacity. Generally, only some forge worlds of the Mechanicus have this production technology. But the key demand is relatively small.

A standard Space Marine regiment has a full complement of only 1,000 people. Counting some surplus that may be prepared, the total demand is only 1,500 or 2,000 sets.

And this kind of power armor can only be worn by Space Marines.

Conventional power armor that mortals can use is not the same as this.

Under such a rare demand, many forge worlds have the ability to produce, but they will not produce too much. If you buy a small amount, people are too lazy to make it for you, and can only see if there is a surplus; if you buy a large amount, people are willing to start production, but the price is unaffordable.

After all, in the case of power armor, it is not true that it is better to buy than to make.

The production of power armor and other space marines’ exclusive equipment still needs to be solved by self-production.

It’s nothing more than spending more grace points.

In fact, this time Gu Hang has made up his mind to extract some space marine-related technologies. After completing the event line of [Phoenix is about to die], he can already choose to extract space marine-related technologies when extracting technologies, which greatly reduces the element of luck. Let’s put

the matter of technology lottery aside for the time being. Gu Hang has planned another grace point, about 15,000 points. It is expected that 20 new phoenix blood can be cultivated.

They themselves need at least half a year to two years of growth time, and during this period, the power armor produced by the alliance should be able to come out.

Even if it can’t be built, or it’s not cost-effective to build, it’s okay to extract technology and take the black box out.

And after spending these 15,000 grace points, in addition to 20 new phoenix blood, there are some additional benefits.

That is a lot of T2, T3, and T4 elite soldiers.

T4 soldiers will be placed in various units. These young men with the weakest potential who were eliminated in the process of training Space Marines are excellent soldiers in regular units. All units will welcome their arrival.

As for T3 and T2 soldiers, they are all assigned to the 10th Brigade.

This special operations brigade has a size of more than 4,000 people, all of whom are eliminated in the process of training Space Marines. Wearing the exoskeleton armor produced by the Alliance, they can also use bolters and chainswords individually. Their combat effectiveness is far inferior to that of regular Space Marines. If they really meet them, they will probably be killed by the invincibles.

But if they meet other normal troops with the same light infantry, they can also kill them.

The key is that the number is very different.

After all, there are only a few dozen Space Marines, and they can’t be found for every mission.

The special operations brigade with thousands of people is different.

In fact, the 10th Brigade has already performed very well in the previous Blackbird Campaign. They were responsible for attacking key targets many times, and they were often able to fulfill their mission and achieve their goals, avoiding heavy casualties among conventional troops. They also carried out special airborne operations, infiltrated operations behind enemy lines, carried out decapitation tactics on enemy data transmission command nodes, and destroyed enemy logistics supply centers…

At that time, there were only 2,000 special operations brigades, but their effectiveness was more effective than that of several more divisions.

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