Chapter 202 Behind every outrageous military discipline is an outrageous story
After distributing the tasks to Witt, Pasrick and others, Horn was finally able to sit down and have a good rest.

To be honest, he should have just been the one in control of the general direction. Some specific matters should have been handled more easily by the local natives of the empire who were more familiar with the situation.

But unfortunately, this world has no concept or means of scientific management, let alone confidentiality awareness and planning.

The Restoration of Imperial Government event was born out of this reason. Horn had to teach these ministers the management methods that were regarded as common sense in his hometown.

Sitting in the Pope's Palace in the side hall of the Mechanical Palace, the cold rain once again crackled on the eaves, and the coldness was a little bit worse than yesterday.

It was only evening, but the sky outside had already darkened. Horn picked up the difficult-to-write quill pen, dipped it in ink, and wrote quickly on a piece of white paper.

According to Witt, most of the Elmin cities like this one are territories of the El Legion, especially this Autumn Dusk Island, which was probably located at a key location in the Thousand River Valley water transportation.

In this case, there is a high probability that there is a military camp on the island. Based on Guel's popular theory of the Eight Winds, Witt pointed out the possible direction of the military camp.

When Horn returned to the study, the child soldier handed him the location of the military camp and a simple map.

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

To turn this group of rabble into a regular army is not as simple as the "synthetic" reform that Horn implemented in the past.

What he wants is real fighting power.

Throwing the slime core powder onto the fluorescent lamp, a gentle and clear orange-yellow light lit up, illuminating the table in front of Horn.

A few drops of light rain fell on the table with the wind, and Horn moved the walnut desk back.

He picked up the pen again and started writing on the paper.

Although Horn wanted to build the army based on the Maurice Phalanx, he did not intend to copy it completely. The specific situation had to be considered specifically. In this world, there would inevitably be deviations in Prince Maurice's specific tactical settings.

例如莫里斯方阵是50X5的长矛横阵配上4個10X6的火枪横阵，加上一些杂七杂八的人，形成一个最基本的作战单位500人。

Theoretically, a battalion of 500 people is the smallest dispatching unit. The "phalanx" is just an administrative organization and they will not actually form a large phalanx.

Horn picked up a ruler, drew a rough formation on a piece of white paper, and then began to make modifications based on local conditions.

根据从杰什卡、哈库托等老将收集到的信息和霍恩自己的亲身体验，他觉得可能要将其改成50X8的长枪横阵和2个10X5的发条铳横阵。

The reason for this improvement is that the knights in this world have stronger impact force, and the spear phalanx requires a thicker formation to resist the impact.

Unlike a musket, a clockwork gun is easier to operate so the movements are smaller, and there is no need to worry about accidental explosions of gunpowder caused by sparks.

Therefore, the two clockwork gun arrays could be arranged in a tighter formation and then fire continuously and intensively.

However, this has to be based on shortening the clockwork gun. Otherwise, with the current version of the Canned clockwork gun, it would be very troublesome for a single person to fire.

With a loader, the Holy Gunner can probably fire one shot every half a minute to one minute. But once he leaves the bunker, there will be no loaders in the field battlefield formation.

So we still have to wait for what Haimodin has to say.

Then, based on this tactic, Horn was able to basically determine the basic organization of the Salvation Corps.

The regiment had 4500 men, the legion had 500 men, the division was reduced to 50 men, the brigade to 10 men, and the company to 1 man.

其中还包括特殊的战团直属的3个骑兵师150人，4个车师200人，1个炊事师50人，和1个医疗师50人，外加非战斗人员的会计、勤务兵、理发师、军法官、随军牧师等等。

Putting the paper aside, Horn did not make a decision immediately. He needed to find Jeshka and Hakuto to confirm in case there was any problem. After sorting out the organization, the second step was discipline, in other words, the issue of military law and military merit.

As for how to award merits, Horn did not want to do the "merit based on number of heads" approach, as the Ming army did. It seemed efficient and cruel, but in fact it completely destroyed military discipline.

In the later period, when the Ming army went into battle, everyone swarmed to grab heads, and then swarmed back to report their achievements with heads in their hands.

When the friendly forces saw that their flank was empty and the other soldiers had run away, they simply followed them and suffered an inexplicable defeat.

Therefore, Horn decided to record the collective merits of the spear phalanx as a brigade. After victory, the front row had greater merits. The clockwork gun phalanx needed to fire in rotation, so it was recorded as a division. The more rounds of firing, the greater the merit.

In addition, Horn also noticed that when they fought against mercenaries before, the peasant army often made the mistake of looting property and spoils.

Even during the bloody battle at Jeanne d'Arc, in such a serious occasion when everyone was fighting and everyone was united in their hatred of the enemy, there were people who actually stopped to touch the knight's corpse to see what equipment could be dropped.

Some old Gulag soldiers suffer from this problem from time to time.

Therefore, Horn specially set up two orderlies, a military judge, and an accountant in each legion to collect and count the spoils, supervise each other, and distribute them uniformly according to the merits after the war.

Finally, there is the issue of soldier looting, a problem that is mainly committed by the Black Hats.

Since the Guards Corps was responsible for part of the duty of protecting the Pope, most of their members were honest young farmers with property, who were relatively simple and honest, and this kind of thing would rarely happen.

Many members of the Black Hat Corps were homeless beggars or even gangsters. Horn repeatedly stressed that the most they could do was to promise not to kill anyone during the looting.

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

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

So Horn could only ask them to extort instead of robbing, eliminate a group of hopeless ones, and even use some harsh punishments to deal with individual troublemakers.

Let's put this issue aside for the short term and make defeating the Cavaliers the main goal. This matter cannot be rushed.

To be honest, the problem that Horn was worried about was not a problem at all for most of the empire's generals.

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

Thinking about the military law and military merit in his mind, Horn quickly filled a piece of paper with military disciplines including:

"What is the penalty for forgetting to bring weapons to the battlefield?" "What is the penalty for speaking out military secrets loudly?" "What is the penalty for lying about sick leave and not going to the battlefield?" "What is the penalty for making loud noises in the team or even randomly wandering around to chat with others and causing the team to be in disarray?"

Although these rules seem outrageous and ridiculous, behind each one is Horn’s personal experience, and each one is the blood and tears recorded in his diary.

As for the subsequent drill manuals and training issues, we will have to discuss them with veterans like Jeshka tomorrow.

After dealing with these problems, Horn stretched and realized that it was almost midnight.

Standing at the window, the rain outside had stopped. There was a creaking sound of gears turning coming from the main hall. He guessed that Shilov had woken up.

He called the boy soldiers to make some hot soup and mixed the cold food together to soak it. Horn finished the meal in a few bites, burped, and lay down on the bed.

I have to get up early tomorrow and go to the military camp.

(End of this chapter)