Chapter 94： About the army (1/2)

Regarding the "army" that has been seen in the world so far, Gao Wen’s evaluation has only two words: Qi Wei.

At least in Ansu.

The serious deterioration of civilization, low productivity, the separation of aristocracy, and the absolute dominance of high-end military occupations have led to the malformation of the military system of the Ansu Kingdom. The country is nominally a unified whole, but in reality Each sub-sealed aristocrat is equivalent to occupying an independent kingdom, and the so-called king is only the most glamorous of all the lords (and not necessarily the most authoritative one). There are no professional soldiers in this kingdom. Some are the leaders of the nobles and the royal family directly under the city of St. Sunil, and there are no top-down ruling authorities at all levels, similar to classical Europe on Earth. The situation that my vassal vassal is not my vassal is particularly serious here. Even the many families in the south who claim to be directly aristocrats of the king are only attached to the royal family in the form of covenants. They only monitor the king in the form of a covenant. A small number of obligations to provide intelligence and to send troops in wartime, but will not obey the other assignments of the king.

The soldiers under their hands are naturally only their own.

Even a few soldiers under the hands of a Viscount are the Viscounts themselves.

So if a big aristocrat needs a war, how can he pull up a big army?

Simple, if his prestige is enough, and he has found a good reason for the war, and promised enough benefits for the post-war partition, then the big and small lords under his name are obliged to lead their own private soldiers. Helping the war, these private soldiers are each formed into a team, led by powerful martial arts workers sent by their own lords or lords (usually the latter, many of the Ansu nobles of this era have fallen to not riding horses, but only with money The degree of hiring a strong person to sit in the family is). When the war is broken, these "mixed army" with all kinds of flags and tactics are all in full swing, depending on the strength of the enemy and the benefits of their own, they choose not to work and lay on the ground. In the dead position, when the game is finished, the leader will run to find the big lord or the king to calculate the benefits of the division.

The result of this is obvious: the entire kingdom does not have a professional army, and there is no unified command system and soldier training rules. The nobles themselves use their various methods to piece together their own private soldiers. The weapons are not unified and the military system is not uniform. The logistics are not uniform, and even the troops trained by the nobles and noble sons are not necessarily unified if the relationship between the two is not so good.

In addition to the variety of soldiers, this chaotic military system has led to a series of other serious consequences: the military's combat formation is extremely slow, the training efficiency is low, the soldiers are unselected, the deserter rate is high, and once led, The strong man is killed, the entire team of soldiers is equal to all because they are neither disciplined nor knowledgeable, what they learn is only to follow the lead knight charge.

In this respect, the Cecil family is slightly stronger than other aristocrats. As the "Southern guardian family" that defended the monsters in the frontiers, the Cecil family even fell, and it still retains the habits passed down from generation to generation: more scientific Militia system.

In addition to the official soldiers (also known as family warriors), another source of Cecil’s soldiers is the trained militia. The family knights train those recruited from the free people in accordance with the standards of the lower soldiers. Training at leisure, busy farming, to supplement the shortage of formal soldiers, but also used this way to reserve a large number of reserve soldiers for the territory, because there are many people who have received basic combat training, and in case of emergency, they should be supplemented. Formal soldiers will be much easier than other aristocrats.

Rebecca’s expansion of the recruitment of militia and militia from the free people to the serfs is the result of further development of this system.

But Gao Wen decided to take it all further.

Considering the future planning, he needs a professional, professional, and stable army, so he simply canceled the system of separation of militia and family warriors, and instead unified all soldiers into "combat troops." He demanded that all soldiers must be systematically trained in a new, unified manner and announced that they would be paid uniformly.

Previously, the private soldiers of the nobility said that they had no salary. Usually, the private soldiers of the nobles must bring their own weapons or purchase weapons from the lords at their own expense. Even in the case of the levy, they must even bring their own food. In this case, The reason why the soldiers are still willing to fight for the nobility is because of the existence of “private plunder”: soldiers can plunder on the battlefield and after breaking the enemy pool, and keep half of their belongings for their own use. This is their When the soldiers paid.

The situation of Cecil’s collar is not the same as that of other places. The lords of Cecil have provided weapons and equipment for the soldiers on a rental basis, and distributed food as a subsidy for delaying farm work during training and service, but otherwise If you don’t pay any salary, then the food is only enough to make ends meet.

Of course, Gao Wen decided to pay salaries to professional soldiers, and at the same time announced that Cecil soldiers would permanently ban any private looting.

And if the soldiers want to get a promotion or an extra reward, it's also very simple: Gao Wen also promised to develop a detailed reference based on the merits and contributions of various contributions, compared to the unprecedented disorder and brutality of the past. Behavior, the wealth that can be obtained by bravely killing the enemy or earnestly executing the order in the future will be more.