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#202 - Behind every outrageous military discipline is an outrageous story

Having successively distributed tasks to Witte, Paslick, and others, Horn was finally able to sit down and take a proper rest.

In truth, he should have only been the one controlling the overall direction, while some specific matters should have been better handled by these native Empire inhabitants who were more familiar with the situation.

But unfortunately, this world simply didn't have the concept or means of scientific management, let alone a sense of confidentiality and planned projects.

The Taisei Hokan (restoration of imperial rule) incident of that year was born because of this, and Horn had no choice but to teach these ministers the management methods that were regarded as common sense in his hometown, step by step.

Sitting inside the Papal Palace in the side hall of the Mechanical Palace, the cold rain once again splattered against the eaves, and the chill was even more severe than yesterday.

Although it was only evening, the sky outside had already dimmed. Horn picked up the difficult-to-use quill, dipped it in ink, and quickly wrote on a piece of white paper.

According to Witte, cities like Elmin were mostly territories of the Elven Legion, especially since this Autumn Dusk Island was likely located at a crucial point in the Thousand River Valley waterway transportation.

In this way, there was a high probability that there were military camps on the island. Based on the popular Eight Winds theory of ancient Elves, Witte pointed out a possible direction for a military camp.

By the time Horn returned to his study, the Child Army had delivered the location and a simple map of the military camp into his hands.

At this point, after a series of preparations, Horn was finally able to do the most important thing at the moment, which was military affairs.

Turning this rabble into a regular army was not as simple as the "synthetic human" reform that Horn had implemented before.

What he wanted was real combat power.

Flicking the slime core powder onto the fluorite lamp, a gentle and clear orange-yellow light lit up, illuminating the desk in front of Horn.

A few drops of light rain fell onto the desk with the wind, and Horn moved the walnut desk back a little.

He picked up his pen again and began to write on the paper.

Although he intended to imitate the Maurice phalanx to build the army, he did not intend to completely copy it. Specific situations should be considered specifically. In this world, Prince Maurice's specific tactical settings must have deviations.

For example, the Maurice phalanx was a 50x5 spear line formation with four 10x6 musket line formations, plus some miscellaneous people, forming a basic combat unit of 500 people.

Theoretically speaking, a camp of 500 people like this was the smallest dispatch unit, and "phalanx" was only an administrative organization, and they would not really form a large phalanx.

Horn picked up a ruler, drew a rough formation on the white paper, and then began to modify it according to local conditions.

Based on the information collected from old generals such as Jeschka and Hakuto, and Horn's own personal experience, he felt that it might be necessary to change it to a 50x8 spear line formation and two 10x5 clockwork gun line formations.

The reason for this improvement was that the knights of this world had a stronger impact force, and the spear phalanx needed a thicker formation to resist the impact.

Clockwork guns were easier to operate than muskets, so the movements were smaller, and there was no need to worry about gunpowder misfires caused by sparks.

Therefore, the two clockwork gun line formations could be arranged in a tighter formation and then fire continuously and densely.

However, this had to be based on shortening the clockwork gun; otherwise, with the current version of the Cannity clockwork gun, it would be very troublesome to fire it alone.

With a loader, a holy gunner could probably fire once every half a minute to a minute, but once they left the wagon fort, where would loaders come from in the field battlefield formation?

So, he still had to wait for Heimertin's side to respond.

Based on this tactic, Horn could basically determine the basic organization of the Salvation Warband.

The warband had 4,500 people, the legion had 500 people, the division was reduced to 50 people, the brigade was 10 people, and the company was 1 person.

This also included the three cavalry divisions of 150 people directly under the warband, the four wagon divisions of 200 people, one cook division of 50 people, and one medical division of 50 people, plus non-combat personnel such as accountants, quartermasters, barbers, military law officers, and accompanying chaplains, etc.

Putting the piece of paper in his hand aside, Horn did not decide immediately. He needed to find Jeschka and Hakuto for confirmation to prevent problems.

With the organization settled, the second step was discipline, in other words, the issue of military law and military merit.

Regarding how to record merit, Horn didn't want to engage in counting heads. Counting heads in the Ming army seemed efficient and ruthless, but in reality, it ruined military discipline.

In the later period of the Ming army, everyone rushed to grab heads in battle, and everyone held up their heads to report their merits.

When friendly forces saw this, they thought, 'Oh, the flanks are empty, and the other soldiers have run away,' so they simply ran away together, followed by a baffling defeat.

Therefore, Horn decided that the spear phalanx would be recorded as collective merit by brigade, and the more forward the rank after victory, the greater the merit. The clockwork gun phalanx needed to rotate firing, so the merit was recorded by division, and the more rounds fired, the greater the merit.

In addition to this, Horn also noticed that the peasant army often committed the problem of looting property and spoils of war when fighting mercenaries before.

Even during the bloody battle of Jeanneburg, in such a serious occasion, when everyone was fighting and everyone was united against the enemy, there were still people stopping to touch the knight's corpse to see what equipment could be looted.

Some old Gulag camp soldiers occasionally committed this problem.

Therefore, Horn specially set up two quartermasters, one military law officer, and one accountant in each legion to collect and count the spoils, supervise each other, and distribute them uniformly according to merit after the war.

Finally, there was the issue of soldiers looting, which was mainly committed by the Black Hat Army.

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Because the Guards Legion undertook part of the responsibility of guarding the Pope, most of them were selected from honest young farmers with property, who were relatively simple and would not do such things.

Many members of the Black Hat Legion were vagrants, beggars, and even hooligans and bandits. Horn repeatedly ordered that they at most ensure that they did not kill people during looting.

There was no way to solve this. With the subsequent expansion of the army, it was inevitable to absorb these low-quality talents.

The salary provided by Horn was not enough to offset their looting income, and the transformation of individuals could not be completed in just three months.

Therefore, Horn could only ask them to extort instead of rob, while eliminating a group of hopeless people, and even use some severe punishments to deal with individual troublemakers.

He had to suppress this problem in the short term, with the main goal of defeating the knights. This could not be rushed.

To be honest, this problem that Horn was troubled by was not a problem for most of the Empire's generals.

For example, Prince Condé even used the income from looting as salary, and some knights even thought that soldiers who did not rob were sissies.

Thinking about the issue of military law and military merit in his mind, Horn quickly filled a piece of paper. The military discipline on it included:

"What is the punishment for forgetting to bring weapons to the battlefield?" "What is the punishment for loudly revealing military secrets?" "What is the punishment for falsely claiming sick leave and not going to the battlefield?" "What is the punishment for making loud noises in the team or even randomly moving around to chat with people, causing the formation to be disorganized?"

Don't look at these seemingly absurd and ridiculous rules, but each one is Horn's personal experience, and each one is blood and tears recorded in his diary.

As for the subsequent drill and training issues, he would have to discuss them with old soldiers like Jeschka tomorrow.

With these problems settled, Horn stretched himself. He then realized that it was almost midnight.

Standing by the window, the rain outside had stopped, and there was a rattling sound of gears turning from the main hall. He guessed that Hilov was awake.

He called the Child Army to get some hot soup, mixed it with the cold food, and ate it up in a few mouthfuls. Horn burped, then lay down on the bed.

He had to get up early tomorrow to go to the military camp.