Iron Dynasty

Kill it and hang it outside the gate of Shanhaiguan.

In the government hall, Xiao Ming's icy voice was like the cold wind in winter.

As soon as his words fell, there was a brief silence in the courtroom, the ministers exchanged glances, and then a high Long live sounded.

Xiao Ming looked down at the monarchs and ministers, and after a little thought, he understood why the officials had such a reaction.

Only six years ago, the Great Yu Kingdom was still in the humble position of being a vassal to the Golden Horde. Anything in the Great Yu Kingdom and the Golden Horde was an extremely important national event.

Especially when it comes to capturing the generals of the Golden Horde, they often send back all the generals of the Golden Horde in order to avoid intensifying conflicts.

But now, he treats the barbarians like the Golden Horde dealt with the Da Yu country's captive generals back then. It can be said that he does not give the Golden Horde any face at all.

After all, fighting for death on the battlefield is understandable, and now he is directly killing prisoners.

This is a blatant humiliation for the Golden Horde, and this will inevitably cause their anger.

However, if it was before, there may be objections in this court, but in the two years since he ascended the throne, he has established his absolute authority in the Great Yu Kingdom and the court through continuous victories in external wars.

Because in the hearts of the ministers, he is now the star that guides the way of the Great Yu Kingdom. As long as they diligently implement any orders he issues, they can move towards revival.

It was because of the slight collision between these two mentalities that the ministers gave a deafening shout after hesitating.

With a smile on his face, Xiao Ming looked at the ministers.

As an emperor, he must firmly grasp power in his own hands, and he is from modern times and has a longer-term vision than Da Yu or even the West.

He is very clear that what he does now is in line with the current situation, and what he does is contrary.

After making the decision about the barbarian captives, Xiao Ming asked Qian Dafu to announce his withdrawal from the dynasty, but kept Niu Ben and Luo Quan behind.

After all the ministers dispersed, Xiao Ming said to the two: The two generals were once the ministers of the humerus of the Great Yu Kingdom, and now they are still my right-hand men. I hope that the two generals can help me to solve this serious problem in the north together.

When Niu Ben and Luo Quan heard the words, they bowed at the same time and said, It is our duty to pacify the threat to the north for the Great Yu Kingdom.

Hearing this, Xiao Ming nodded.

In fact, he brought the two over this time for the final step of military reform, and now the British and French are interfering in the internal affairs of the Great Yu Kingdom.

For him, it may not take long for these Western powers to go to war, so the most critical step to victory today is to implement the reform of the modern army.

After thinking about it for a while, he said: Today, I left the two generals for the purpose of military reform. In my opinion, the military system of the Great Yu Kingdom is no longer suitable for the command of the firearms unit, so before the war, I plan to implement a new military system. The military system...

Then, Xiao Ming explained his thoughts to the two in detail.

Combined with the system of the modern army, Xiao Ming plans to set up regiments, corps, divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, and companies in the infantry.

One of the corps consists of two corps, one corps consists of four infantry divisions, two cavalry regiments, and each corps has a commander.

A division has two or three brigades, a brigade has two regiments, each regiment has three battalions, and each battalion has nine companies.

A company of 120 people, and these 120 people are the standard equipment for an array of musketeers. In this way, with coordination from top to bottom, the firearms troop can be easily commanded.

In the past, his old system was enough for domestic use in the Great Yu Kingdom, and it was unnecessary, but now that the Great Yu Kingdom was about to embark on the road of overseas colonization, he did not want to be at a disadvantage in any way.

In addition to the army, the cavalry also adhered to the corps-division-brigade-regiment-company system, and the artillery system also changed accordingly.

This is to equip each different level of the army with a different number of artillery. According to his idea, a battalion is equipped with eight field guns, a regiment is equipped with twenty-four field guns, a division is equipped with seventy-two field guns, and a The army has two hundred and eighty-eight field guns.

When Xiao Ming was explaining, the effect of the technology spar made the two of them understand the system more clearly, and even explained the advantages of this system.

Although Niu Ben and Luo Quan felt strange, they also took it for granted that the military system of the Great Yu Kingdom was prepared for the cold weapon war.

Because both sides need a large number of battle formations.

With the installation of the arsenal musket, such a flexible organization is more suitable for the flexible application of tactics on the battlefield.

Your Majesty, if this is the case, what will be the official positions of Lu Fei, Luo Hong and others? Niu Ben asked.

Xiao Ming took a sip of tea and said slowly: The commander of a legion is a position only established during the war. As for Lu Fei, Ye Qingyun, and Luo Hong are now the same as the commander, and the number of soldiers under his command is roughly the same. As for what is not enough, let’s add it in this conscription.”

Luo Quan said: In this way, their generals will be assigned official positions according to division, regiment, battalion, and company.

Exactly. Xiao Ming said.

Niu Ben and Luo Quan glanced at each other. In fact, after the revolution in the weapons of the Da Yu army, they were already mentally prepared for other changes in the army.

Moreover, they also learned about some of the current Western military organization in the military academy. Xiao Ming's current organization is generally not much different from that of the Western military.

Your Majesty, the final commander returned to the Military Aircraft Department and started to prepare for this. Niu Ben said.

Xiao Ming nodded. At this time, he looked at Luo Quan. Now Luo Quan has just been activated, and his identity is still a little embarrassing.

If you mention him to the Military Aircraft Department this time, I am afraid some people will have an opinion, after all, Luo Quan has not participated in the war in the past few years.

So he said: There is one more thing. In addition to the need for reform in the establishment of the army, there is another official department under the military aircraft called the General Staff Department.

The staff? Niu Ben looked puzzled.

In fact, the prototype of the General Staff appeared in Prussia in the mid-17th century.

At that time, the Swedish Army in Europe was highly respected by various countries, so when Prussia formed its troops, it followed suit and established a quartermaster department, which was the original General Staff Department.

At that time, the main responsibilities of the Military Quartermaster Department were to undertake the tasks of engineer service, choosing the marching road and camp, and constructing positions.

In the era of Frederick the Great, the Quartermaster Department added orders to guide the marching troops, as well as the task of drafting reports and documents for the generals.

During the First Partition of Poland and the Bavarian War of Succession in 1778, the Quartermaster Department accepted the planning and leadership of the reserve force until 1817, when the Prussian Quartermaster Department was officially renamed the General Staff.

Although Xiao Ming is now in the 18th century, Europe at this time was much more cultural and military, so in his opinion it was necessary to set up this staff to coordinate the actions of the army.