After the school in Shamen Town officially opened, the weather was rarely better, and it was sunny for several days, with no rain or snow. The families of the craftsmen have also arrived on the island one after another, and they have been properly settled.

Many of the 4,000 new artisans' families had originally farmed in Wang Jin's farms. Now that they are on Salmon Island, they naturally have no fields to plant. But they don't have to worry about their livelihoods, and Li Jing is now short of a lot of labor.

Li Jing restarted the construction plan of Shamen Town, and Li Jing directly recruited a large number of young craftsmen and their families into the city construction site. With a large number of laborers joining the construction site, Li Jing was able to recall all the soldiers of Shamen Town from the construction site.

After the last battle, Shamen Town lost 600 soldiers, including 12 soldiers, 60 family members, 60 auxiliary soldiers, and the logistics troops suffered the largest casualties, with a loss of 300. In addition, 60 seriously wounded were rescued, but less than 10 were able to return to the army. The remaining fifty wounded were disabled, missing arms and legs, and although their lives were saved, they had to quit the army.

This loss figure was a huge trauma for the new army of the Shamen Town Army. Li Jing has also been summing up lessons and experiences these days, and finally unanimously decided with everyone that based on the current situation, it is necessary to expand the troops and horses again, especially after they have a complete ordnance workshop in front of them, they should immediately recruit new soldiers after they have no worries about equipment.

As for the remaining 1,400 people, Li Jing and they also have a new plan. Taking into account the situation of the four battles, Li Jing decided to strengthen the equipment of logistics troops and auxiliary troops and increase their importance. If the auxiliaries and logisticiaries had even one piece of leather armor on their bodies last time, or they were equipped with an extra horizontal knife. Their casualties would not have been so heavy.

The soldiers went directly from the original Sandu Six Teams. Converted to a barracks. Li Jing personally served as the ten generals of the battalion, and there were five cities on the left and right, with a total of ten capitals and 20 teams. After the battle, there were only four teams left in the original six teams of soldiers, and Li Jing directly merged the auxiliary team and the Jiading team into it. In the future, the Jiading team will no longer be listed separately, but will be assigned to generals at all levels according to the scale of the first 10 people in the capital and 50 people in the battalion. The new battalion has five on the left and right, with a total of 10 and 20 teams. There are ten people in each group, plus two leaders and deputy leaders. Each team has 60 people, plus the team leader and team deputy, Yu Hou and the flag, deputy flag, left and right flags, heralds, trumpeters, drummers and other 10 people. All were one hundred and forty. Together with the general's head, the deputy general's head, and the family of ten people each of the three generals and the marquis of Yu, as well as the command team such as the flag bearer, there are a total of 200 people. There are ten battalions of soldiers, 2,000 men and horses, plus Li Jing's 100 family commanders, a total of 2,200 men and horses.

However, at present, in addition to the 400 logistics troops and the reconnaissance team in Shamen Town, there are less than 1,000 soldiers, family members, and auxiliary soldiers.

Li Jing temporarily recruited more than 1,000 people from the families of the craftsmen in Shamen Town and the families of the original soldiers, and finally pulled up the 2,200-strong combat battalion.

New barracks. Li Jing concurrently operates ten generals, with two compartments on the left and right. Each led five capitals, Lin Wei concurrently served as the deputy ten generals in the left compartment, and Wang Zhong served as the deputy ten generals in the right compartment. The top ten generals below were also promoted by the team-level officers who performed well in this battle. Among them, Liu Shouqian, Zhang Chengzong, Li Shugen, and Wang Shi, the four heads of Li Jing's main and deputy families, have all been promoted by two levels, and each of them will be the head. The other six leaders were basically promoted by officers who were brave in battle and loyal and reliable.

Following the formation of the combat battalion, Li Jing set up a new auxiliary battalion on the basis of the logistics corps with only 400 people left. Because of the several brilliant performances of the logistics spearmen on the battlefield last time, Li Jing did not intend to merge this reserve team with remarkable achievements but also heavy casualties. On the contrary, Li Jing was inspired by the indomitable and pressing forward momentum of the last time the logistics troops formed a spear phalanx, which reminded him of the legendary battle formation of the Macedonian Emperor Alexander the Great when he once crossed the Mediterranean in ancient Europe, the Macedonian infantry phalanx.

Since the Battle of Isas in 333 BC and the Battle of Gogamila in 332 BC, the prestige of the Macedonian phalanx spread throughout the ancient Mediterranean, and Macedonian's enemies shuddered at the mention of the Macedonian phalanx, because Alexander the Great made the phalanx a legend: he was invincible.

The performance of the spearmen last time gave Li Jing the idea of forming such a phalanx as well. Especially compared with the battalion, the equipment of the soldiers in the battalion is more complex, the tacit understanding of training and coordination is higher, and the armament requirements are also high, and the equipment is expensive. However, the equipment of the Macedonian phalanx was much cheaper than that of the war battalion, and their equipment system was unified, and their training was much simpler. In the upcoming battle in the chaotic times at the end of the Tang Dynasty, it is definitely more cost-effective to use this kind of cheaper and faster training phalanx to deal with the men and horses that are quickly armed by the various feudal towns.

The Macedonian phalanx is a military formation that is very similar to that of a modern army. Usually 64 armor men form a platoon, 128 men form a company, 256 men form a battalion, 1024 men form a regiment, and 4096 men form a division (junior phalanx). Moreover, the Macedonian phalanx is still a self-contained multi-arm combat unit, in addition to heavy infantry, it also includes 2,048 light shields, 1,024 auxiliaries and a 1,024-man cavalry regiment, a total of 8,192 people. Each combined phalanx consisted of four primary phalanxes, equivalent to a small corps or field army in modern times, with about 32,000 men. This was the typical formation of Alexander's expeditionary force.

Of course, Li Jing didn't have the ability to make such a large phalanx now, and his plan was to temporarily build a spear square camp of 1,024 people. 64 men for a squadron, 128 for a battalion, 256 for a city, 1024 for a battalion.

The new auxiliary battalion phalanx will each be equipped with a foot lance eight feet long, which is a simplified version of the horse lance, which is longer than the horse lance, but not as sophisticated and valuable as the horse lance. The walking lance bar is not a composite rod of the horse lance, but a hardwood shaft. A three-foot long lance is installed in the front, and another lance is equipped at the end to counterweight. In this kind of preparation, if the rifle rod is broken when facing the enemy, you can also turn the broken lance in your hand upside down and continue to fight the enemy.

In addition to the eight-foot rifles, the new auxiliaries will also be equipped with a two-foot diameter covered wooden shield. Equipped with this round shield, the soldiers in the phalanx can cover each other's warriors when fighting, forming a complete shield array against the enemy's bow and arrow. During combat, the shield was hung around the neck with a leather cord, which allowed the infantry to control the huge lance with two hands, and to keep each other's bodies close together. Usually in phalanx ranks, each warrior will have three feet square to wield their weapons.

Each basic phalanx will have sixteen people in depth, sixteen people in each column, and a standard phalanx will be 256 people in each one. An auxiliary battalion has four capitals under its jurisdiction, and when fighting, it can be arranged into four standard phalanxes. In addition, it is also possible to have eight people in depth, and a small phalanx for a squadron of sixty-four people.

In addition to the rifles and round shields, the soldiers of the infantry phalanx of the auxiliary battalion will be equipped with only an iron helmet, a set of battle robes, and they will not even be equipped with leather armor to achieve greater mobility.

Such an infantry formation composed of pure light infantry has increased the length of weapons and increased offensive capability compared with the original logistics spearmen, and although it is also not equipped with armor, it can be equipped with round shields to enhance the defensive ability. With such a pure light infantry, Li Jing did not expect them to defeat the enemy alone, but intended to use them as the stabilizer of the front and the crushing of the battlefield. The key is still the rush of the war battalion to break through the enemy's formation, the odd soldiers, the jumping soldiers, the Mo sword soldiers, the crossbowmen, and the cavalry break through the enemy's formation, and then the auxiliary infantry formation is crushed on the field, and the cavalry gives the heaviest blow after the most canon, and then the infantry phalanx completely sweeps the battlefield.

In general, the battalion will be a fancy army, responsible for breaking through the formation. And the auxiliary battalion will be a complete pure team, they are the reserve on the battlefield, and the cleaner of the battlefield, as the strong support of the battalion, to provide the most powerful support on the battlefield.

The barracks are divided into 20 teams with 2,200 people. And the auxiliary battalion has eight brigades in four cities, sixteen squadrons, and one thousand and twenty-four people. The new auxiliary battalion will be headed by Lin Wu as the ten generals of the battalion, and the four generals and deputy positions will also be filled by those who have selected outstanding abilities in the army.

In addition to the two newly expanded battalions, there will be several special units under the Shamen Town Army. That is, the reconnaissance team, the medical team, the stretcher team three teams, after discussion, the reconnaissance team was upgraded to the reconnaissance capital, after the expansion of the jurisdiction of two teams, the number is also 200 people, Li Wei as the head of the general, Xuan Cheng as the deputy head of the general. The former medical team was merged with the stretcher team to form the medical capital. In addition, the original logistics army has been reorganized into an auxiliary battalion, so a logistics capital and a baggage capital of 200 people each have been specially built to be responsible for the logistics service and baggage supply of the Shamen Town Army.

Because a new batch of heavy crossbows was captured in Shamen Town, and the new workshop also had the ability to produce heavy crossbows, Li Jing specially set up a sapper capital, who was responsible for opening roads and building bridges during the march and setting up tents when camping. During the battle, they were also responsible for digging ditches, filling moats, making and repairing siege equipment, and operating large equipment such as heavy crossbows and catapults.

There are 200 people in the reconnaissance capital, the medical capital, the logistics capital, the baggage capital, and the engineering capital, and the 1,000 people are directly under the general mansion of Shamen Town, which is directly under the control of Li Jing.

The newly expanded two battalions and five capitals totaled 4,224 people, and the number suddenly swelled to twice as many as before the war. However, there are only 1,000 veterans in the combat battalion and 400 veterans in the auxiliary battalion.

In addition to these soldiers and horses, Li Jing and others also plan to set up a new sailor battalion, and plan to build a small fleet in the future according to the standard of three ordered warships. The new sailor battalion plans to recruit 500 sailors and 1,500 sailors. However, now the battleship is still being manufactured, and the recruitment of crew and sailors is no better than that of land soldiers, so for the time being, it can only be put on paper and recruited slowly.

However, with the newly expanded more than 4,000 people, Li Jing did not give them the slightest chance to slack off. All of them were drawn from the construction site and the workshop, and from then on they became professional soldiers. suffered a big loss last time, and now Li Jing is racing against time, training the new army hard, and will never give others a chance again. (To be continued.) )