Chapter 524: Mobilization System
"In this Fuzhou Campaign, among the units of the 1st Mixed Brigade, the cavalry infantry battalion suffered the greatest losses, and nearly half of the casualties in the cavalry infantry battalion were among the 1st Company of his fist troops.
And the soldiers of this company are basically from two towns near the port of Uiju. The damage was severe, which means that these two towns have been hit hard, and many people have lost their pillars in their homes.
The casualties are concentrated in these two townships, and the damage to the morale of the people in these two townships is very huge, and the most direct and rapid impact is that the older children in the two township schools have dropped out of school and gone home to work.
Because in the past, our main opponents were the Japanese Kingdom, the Korean Kingdom, the Waijia Sukh Saha, and a small number of Zhen Tartars, and our army never suffered too many casualties against these opponents, so we never expected the current situation.
According to the calculations of the civil affairs department, if there is no administrative intervention to favor the policies of these two townships and towns, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the two townships to recover.
The Ministry of War has submitted a proposal to revise the conscription system to a certain extent, and the folder marked Item 9 on your desk is the relevant materials submitted by the Ministry of War. ”
In the large conference room on the second floor of the palace, Chen Xin and the cabinet members are holding a regular meeting every ten years.
The members attending the meeting, mainly cabinet members, also had a large number of civilian personnel to record the speeches of the people at the meeting and provide assistance for the follow-up work.
In the next small conference room, there are also some relevant experts and sponsors of the bill from a department, or the person in charge of the relevant projects of the kingdom, who are waiting for the cabinet meeting to talk about the relevant topics, providing data and theoretical support to the top leadership groups of the kingdom in the large conference room.
The large conference room was filled with smoke.
Chen Xin didn't smoke much, except for a few times when he suffered a lot of catastrophes during the Xuanjun period, he used smoking to relieve the pressure, and he never touched this thing again.
The other cabinet members in the conference room were pressed by so many government affairs every day, and they couldn't stand it without smoke, so they all became old smoking guns. More than a dozen members of the cabinet smoked cigarettes while listening to the reports of the heads of various cabinet departments, making the entire large conference room smoky.
Chen Xin cleaned up, and the secretary immediately walked to the window, opened a few windows in the corner, and ventilated the room.
When several cabinet bigwigs saw the secretary's movements, they couldn't help but stop smoking with some embarrassment and quietly snuffed out the cigarette butts.
Chen Xin waved his hand, "Leave me alone, you smoke yours, I know that you deal with a lot of things every day and have a lot of pressure, so you don't need to accommodate me as an idler." ”
Everyone laughed when they heard Chen Xin's joke, if anyone in the kingdom dared to say that Chen Xin was an idler, then he was definitely a fool. Although Chen Xin set up the Cabinet, the Privy Council, the General Staff, the National Security Council and other institutions, and pushed the affairs of the kingdom to these departments to deal with, he personally completely controlled the personnel power of these departments, no matter how high that person's status and power, as long as Chen Xin said a word, anyone could lose that huge power.
Everyone made a little joke with Chen Xin, but they still snuffed out the fire in their hands. This was followed by the ninth item on the agenda of today's Cabinet meeting.
After the Battle of Fuzhou, the loss of the 1st Mixed Brigade on the front line was really the heaviest loss in the kingdom after many years of fighting.
And the most headache for this sudden big loss is the few towns and towns that were conscripted, and one town lost dozens of strong laborers, which was really a big injury to the vitality of the beaten, which caused a very bad demonstration effect on other towns and villages in the kingdom.
Sure enough, just as everyone was looking at issue paper No. 9, the spokesman of the Ministry of War continued to speak.
"After hearing the general situation of the two townships that had suffered heavy losses, the people of several nearby townships began to worry about their relatives who served in the Golden State garrison.
According to the feedback from the reserve officers and militia leaders in various localities, as well as the township chiefs and town mayors of various townships and towns, there were long queues at the places where letters were written on behalf of the people in various cities, all of whom said something to the soldiers on the front line to be careful about saving their lives.
We were a little hesitant about whether this kind of letter should be delivered to the soldiers, so as not to cause too much impact, we asked the postal department to withhold the letter for the time being. How to deal with it in the future, we still need to listen to everyone's opinions. ”
Chen Xin nodded slightly, when he first designed the conscription system he was using now, it happened that the kingdom was in an extremely dangerous situation, and there was a danger of being overthrown by the enemy at any time.
At that time, the economic conditions of the entire kingdom were not very good, and it could not afford to raise too many professional troops, and a large number of militia and reserves were needed as a supplementary part of the battle. Therefore, what is most needed is a high-intensity mobilization system.
As for the reserve and militia, Chen Xin has a natural imitation of the opposite, that is, the motherland where he was before crossing over.
China's reserve force and militia system is organized by villages, townships, and various organs, companies, units, and counties.
This kind of mobilization structure has enabled the motherland to quickly mobilize a large number of fighting forces, and the various units have become extremely cohesive because they have lived and trained together for a long time.
After learning this mobilization system, the kingdom found that this system was more suitable for the current situation of intensive queue combat, so that it could mobilize a large number of teams with group attack capabilities at any time.
In fact, this mobilization system, at this time in Europe, has also begun to show its signs, that is, the famous Swiss mercenaries.
After seeing the power of the phalanx of Swiss mountain people in their villages and communities, other countries began to imitate and improve on it.
As a result, the more powerful Old Spanish phalanx, the New Spanish phalanx, and the Gustavus military reform phalanx system were born, and these famous legion systems in history were born out of the Swiss mercenary system.
It can be said that it was the Swiss pikemen phalanx that revived the fighting style of the Roman legions, Macedonian and other styles of infantry as the main force in Europe.
The organizational structure of Houjin is also similar to this system.
The most basic compilation of the Houjin Niulu is a kind of unit that is clustered together with the organizational structure of the military and the people, and this kind of collective with the village as the link naturally has a certain cohesion.
As for the Ming army, although it seems to be a professional soldier system from the system, the serious defects of the relevant system, coupled with the corruption of the Ming Dynasty and the local government group, make their so-called profession not return, and it is not as good as the village settlement army of the Houjin Tartars.