Chapter 726 Wang Jun Reform
The instructors of Alda, led by Claude, were very enthusiastic about their work under the generous treatment of King Rodney XVIII.
They went deep into the military camp and lived and ate with the officers and soldiers recruited by the king for half a year, carefully summarizing and analyzing the current problems of the kingdom's army and appropriate solutions.
The instructors soon realized that the experience in the Northwest Bay could not be completely copied here.
It must be admitted that what Paul Graman did to his army was definitely a "elite" route in this era.
Strict organization, sufficient training, coupled with sufficient material supply, and a lot of education.
The last point is particularly important. After the initial start-up stage, Paul's cultural requirements for soldiers were not just satisfied with not being blind.
He strengthened the army's investment in education. In addition to continuing to strengthen reading and writing, soldiers also had to learn mathematics and other knowledge, which was incredible to others.
Especially those branches with strong professionalism, such as artillery, surveying soldiers, meteorological soldiers, engineers, and many civilian positions, what they need to master is quite profound in the eyes of ordinary people, and it is only those scholars with money and leisure to study.
Paul even let the officers and soldiers read poetry and watch dramas to cultivate their sentiments.
Many people are puzzled as to why the Marquis invested so much in a group of "consumables" who may lose their lives at any time on the battlefield.
This is indeed difficult to understand, even including Paul himself. He only knows vaguely based on the stereotyped cognition of his previous life that enriching the soldiers' minds, improving the soldiers' culture, and broadening the soldiers' horizons will definitely promote the improvement of combat effectiveness.
But what specific promotion method Paul can think of is nothing more than learning new things faster and implementing orders faster.
Is there a situation of over-investment? Maybe investing only 50 will have the same effect on improving the combat effectiveness of the army as investing 100?
Who cares, anyway, several wars have been won, so let's continue like this.
Perhaps Paul was not aware that there was a kind of "obsessive-compulsive disorder" in the deeper level of his heart. For the things he loved and thought were important, he hoped to give them perfection to the best of his ability, and perfection in all aspects.
People have thousands of faces and thousands of changes in their hearts. As individuals, soldiers may be good and bad, but under the unified discipline and the same cultural education, the army as a whole should have noble character, selfless spirit, and loyal heart. The army is not only a guardian, but also an artist, an explorer, and a model for the nation. When they retire from the army and return to the local area, they can use the various knowledge they have learned to benefit the society.
An absolutely perfect situation must not exist, but it does not prevent him from working towards perfection, and it is impossible to complete things at once, but even if it is a little progress at a time.
As for whether a group of revolutionaries will be nurtured, Paul feels that there is no process of internal contradictions under his rule that has intensified to the point of being irreconcilable.
If there really is such a day, it is deserved. You can't refuse to do something right because of fear. Besides, if there really is such a day, whether it is a last-minute effort or a last-ditch effort, it would be worse than taking the initiative to make changes now.
It is conceivable that under Paul's tireless "cultivation", there is a huge difference between the current Alda army and other armies in the world.
However, this is also because of the long-term comfortable environment of the Northwest Bay, at least before the eradication of the Kent family and the invasion of the orcs. Paul can play "cultivation" leisurely and slowly under such conditions. The most important thing is that although the Alda army is a standing army, it has not been large in scale for a long time, and the burden it causes can still be borne.
But it is different on the Crystal Glory side.
What kind of army does King Rodney XVIII need? The most important thing is that it can fight like the Alda army, but it is more important to be able to form an army quickly and on a large scale, and to be able to quickly replenish and restore to a level that does not affect the battle after suffering major losses.
Obviously, just copying the set of the Northwest Bay, the king's treasury can't support it anyway, even with the assistance of military notes.
The instructors had to make a lot of choices about what they were familiar with, and refer to the prototype that Paul Graman had hand-made in the laboratory to design a mass-produced model that was easier to produce and more versatile.
For example, the cultural requirements for soldiers were greatly reduced, and only the most basic literacy was required. Some knowledge was only required to be mastered by elites with professional needs.
But some things that should be there were definitely indispensable. They divided the king's army, just like in the Northwest Bay, into first-level troops, second-level troops, and reserve troops.
The first-level troops were completely aligned with the Arda army in terms of training intensity, the second-level troops would reduce the training intensity depending on the situation, and the reserve troops would not be off-duty. There were also differences in equipment and supplies for the armies of each level.
The royal family's direct territories were also divided into military service areas, and the king's edict allowed the officials of the royal territories to count the population within their jurisdiction and establish files for people of all ages, especially men.
It sounds simple, but it is a huge project for the current royal government and cannot be completed overnight. But it is worth it. If the army can be replenished in time when it suffers heavy losses, the phenomenon that one battle determines the outcome of the entire war will no longer occur.
No mistakes, one post, one content, one 6, one book, one bar!
During the day-to-day training process, the Alda instructors summarized their experience and compiled a booklet with guiding significance to record the precautions that infantry should pay attention to in daily training.
At the beginning, it was just a thin book, but as the king's army improved, the content inside was gradually refined, and because of the deepening connection with the Northwest Bay, many new equipment including gunpowder weapons appeared in the king's army, so more and more new content was added, and finally it became a thick book covering all kinds of content including formation, training, combat, daily behavior, etc. - "Infantry Regulations".
Compared with Paul Graman's army building, Rodney XVIII's army building was backward in level, or a low-profile version of the Alda army, but its method was more suitable for a country with a vast territory and a large population to quickly and massively build a powerful army. Later historians generally regarded it as the beginning of the large-scale modernization of human armed forces.
That "Infantry Regulations", together with the "Military Discipline Regulations", "Military Service Law", "War Mobilization Act", and "Wartime Economic Control Act" that appeared later, together depicted the basic structure of a huge war machine.
This efficient war machine has caused many countries to scramble to imitate. They all used Aldo's "Infantry Regulations" and other series of documents as a blueprint, and used them to form their own new armed forces with a little modification. This set of things has also proved its high versatility time and time again. No matter how good the imitators are compared with the Austrian army as the object of imitation, they are all crushed when facing their own traditional army.