Chapter 55 Military Reform (IV)

The massive military reform began to be implemented in Shu. According to Xue Bing's plan, Jingzhou will not implement the plan for the time being. The main reason is that Jingzhou is attacked on both sides. If military reform is carried out at this time, it will have no combat effectiveness in the short term and is easily attacked by the Eastern Wu or Wei.

Jiang Wan's sergeant management department has been established. This name was given by Xue Bing. It has two departments under its jurisdiction, one is the Data Statistics Department and the other is the Sergeant Medical Department.

According to Jiang Wan's proposal, in addition to the burden of checking the physical condition of the soldiers in the army, the sergeant medical department also needs to cultivate some medical soldiers who know how to deal with urgent wounds. These medical soldiers will be directly involved in the first and second-class corps, belong to the logistics force, and do not go directly to the battlefield.

Because Jiang Wan once mentioned: "The general's elite military policy is indeed unprecedented. However, after a war, most soldiers will suffer casualties. Secondly, the main thing is how to deal with the injured? If the general's intention is to eliminate it as soon as possible, and then new soldiers will be added. However, if this is the case, wouldn't these elite soldiers trained be wiped out in one battle? After several wars, how many of the original elite soldiers on the front line remain?"

Xue Bing was shocked when she heard this. Then she realized that the war at this time was still mainly close-knit fight. Most soldiers were inevitably injured during the battle. If they were all eliminated, there would probably be few soldiers left. Then she said: "What kind of support can Gong Yan do?"

Jiang Wan said: "In fact, most of these wounded soldiers retain their combat power, mainly because they are not treated after being injured, resulting in death. If you prepare more doctors in the army and provide simple treatment during wartime, most of the wounded soldiers can be retained."

Afterwards, the two discussed a series of discussions on the formation of the military medical unit, but they were still unable to do so. Finally, Xue Bing suggested that each corps be equipped with a medical soldier who knows how to treat simple wounds. In addition to fighting, the soldier's main task was to immediately catch up and bandage him when he found that his colleagues were injured. Of course, it would be fine if the two armies were close contact. When the battle ended, the medical soldiers would stay in their original place to treat their colleagues, and the pursuit would be completed by the uninjured. In this way, at least some soldiers who were bleeding due to too big wounds could have some hope of survival.

However, although this proposal is simple, the treatment of wounds is not so simple. The equipment of medical soldiers in the army in a short period of time is only marked on the schedule. Xue Bing even went to Xichuan Academy once and asked the military academy department to teach battlefield medical courses. However, there were too few professional talents in this area. The only old doctors in Liu Bei's army were all drawn by Jiang Wan to conduct a physical examination for the entire army. In the end, he had to write a letter and surrender to Guanyu, Jingzhou, and ask him to recruit a large number of doctors in Jingzhou, and then escort them to Sichuan.

Let me give up the medical soldiers for the time being. At this time, another incident came, which stumped Xue Bing. At this time, most generals had personal soldiers, from generals to small town leaders, all of them were called personal guards. How should these soldiers deal with it? All of these commanders protected their personal soldiers, and some even refused to hand over personal guard information to avoid removing their personal soldiers from the army.

Xue Bing was so busy with this matter that he had to ask for help from Liu Bei. In the end, Liu Bei personally ordered: "If anyone does not follow, the military law will be dealt with!" He also took the lead in handing over the list of personal soldiers around him, and asked Jiang Wan to screen and remove them.

After hundreds of Liu Bei's thousands of personal guards were also removed from Liu Bei's troops and was relegated to the second-line troops, the generals finally knew the lord's determination to reform the military system this time, so they obediently handed over the list. And the few who did not follow were severely punished by Xue Bing for disobeying the military order.

The census has been underway for several months, and the first batch of differentiation lists have been submitted. Xue Bing looked at the long pile of digital records and felt a splitting headache when he looked at it. However, he was responsible for this matter, and it would be impossible not to read it.

When Liu Bei entered Sichuan, he led 50,000 troops, and later increased slightly when he was stationed in Jiameng Pass. He also collected 20,000 troops from Peicheng. When Ma Chao came to surrender, he still brought more than 30,000 troops. After pacifying Xichuan, there were nearly 200,000 troops surrendered in the whole province. During this period, Zhuge Liang and Zhang Fei brought more than 10,000 troops respectively. In other words, after pacifying Xichuan, Liu Bei's military strength had reached a peak. It was not yet considered the troops of Jingzhou. If the troops in Jingzhou were included, the total force would probably be as high as 400,000.

However, not all of these military forces can be mobilized. The garrison of all parties alone will take up more than half of the 400,000 soldiers, and only about 150,000 can be mobilized. The troops that can be mobilized in Xichuan Prefecture will definitely not exceed 100,000.

After this army-wide census, as many as 100,000 were removed from the army because of age alone. In other words, the military strength in Shu was suddenly reduced by one third. Among them, 70,000 were because they were too old, while the other 30,000 were because they were too young.

Xue Bing looked at the exaggerated number and waved his pen in his hand, saying: Those who were too old were withdrawing from their military status. Then he stopped and looked at those who were 30,000 years old, and said: He asked him to learn the skills of battlefield treatment with the wards of each army for later use. Xue Bing decided to directly train these young people into battlefield medical soldiers. He wanted to send these people to Xichuan Academy, but he did not expect that the number of people was so large, so he had to give up this idea and instead train a group of medical soldiers who could be used immediately. After all, these young soldiers already had experience in joining the army, and were young and had strong acceptance ability. I believe that when learning the skills of treatment, they could be faster.

After dealing with these, Xue Bing's original plan of third-level differentiation has begun to take shape. According to preliminary screening, 70,000 veterans have retreated and converted to third-class troops to be responsible for local public security. The remaining 200,000 troops will be divided into detailed differentiation to completely distinguish the local garrison troops and the standing main combat troops. At present, among the 200,000 troops, 140,000 of them meet Xue Bing's age and physical health standards. Xue Bing's next step is to ask these 140,000 soldiers to train according to the training schedule he discussed with Zhuge Liang, Jiang Wan and others. Anyone who cannot persist in completing the work will be directly transferred to the second-class garrison troops.

This training plan is really a very terrifying training plan. In addition to the battle formation training formulated by Zhuge Liang and others in accordance with the requirements of the battlefield at this time, Xue Bing also added weight-bearing cross-country running, obstacle running, cold weapon training, physical fitness training, and even the entire army exercises were included in it based on the military videos or novels he had watched before. Zhuge Liang was already chilling all over just by looking at the dense training programs. After listening to Xue Bingyan, anyone who could not hold on to the first-class troops would start to kick out the first-class troops' remarks, he said in his heart: "I'm afraid that ordinary generals may not be able to bear such training."

According to Xue Bingyan, the first-class troops are not treated the same. In addition to these normal training, special training plans must be formulated based on special training. For example, those who have the three stone bows are slightly weaker in other aspects and will stay in the first-class army and then focus on bow and arrow training.

Zhuge Liang heard this and said to Xue Bing: "Is Zihan going to form a special bow and archery force?"

Xue Bing said: "However! There are many mountains in the river, and it is extremely good for bows and arrows. If there is a strong bow and arrow unit, it will be very good for the war!"

Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "What Zi Han thinks is the same as mine. I have recently made a new type of crossbow. One crossbow can hold ten arrows. If it is assembled in the army, it will definitely greatly improve combat power."

Xue Bing was overjoyed when he heard this: "The military advisor has created such a powerful weapon? If it can be used in large quantities in the army, it will be a great help from our army."

Zhuge Liang said: "This thing has not been completely prepared yet. After it is ready, I will ask Zihan to observe its power."

Just as Xue Bing and Zhuge Liang were still discussing what else could improve the combat effectiveness of the army, a detailed training report had been submitted to Xue Bing.

The front-line troops were 140,000. After three months of preliminary training, 50,000 of them were unbearable and they withdrew from the front-line troops. There are now 90,000 people on the front-line troops. According to Xue Bing's speculation, these 90,000 people will be left behind one after another in the future. It is expected that 70,000 to 80,000 will be left in the end, which is already the ideal situation.

Disarmament continues and hierarchies continue. Every day, soldiers are dismissed from first-level troops to second-level troops. After so many months, a considerable number of soldiers have called this kind of elimination a relegation. The soldiers’ ideas are very simple, first-level, second-level, and you can know the importance of the two troops from the name alone. What is more direct is the difference in food and pay. The food and pay of the first-level troops is higher than that of the soldiers in the second-level troops. As a result, countless veterans who were dissatisfied to the second-level troops developed a lot of dissatisfaction, and when this dissatisfaction accumulates to a certain level, it finally broke out.

On this day, Xue Bing finished handling the matter and was teasing the two treasures with Sun Shangxiang. Now everything is on the right track. He only needs to explain many things, and he will do it properly immediately. The sergeant medical department and sergeant data statistics are underway, disarmament is underway, and hierarchical training is underway. In his opinion, as long as everything goes on according to this trajectory, after a year or two, Liu Bei's army will regain combat power, and it is much stronger than before.

While talking and laughing, Zhang Yi hurriedly ran over and said to Xue Bing: "General, urgent military information! The soldiers of Ba County mutiny occurred! Many soldiers who were demoted to the second-level troops were dissatisfied with the reduction of their food and salary, and gathered together. The deputy general Fan Tong took the lead and seized Ba County. He claimed that he wanted to invite Liu Zhang to return to Shu. The prefect General Lei Tong led dozens of cavalry to break out. The lord was anxious to recruit everyone to discuss matters!"
Chapter completed!