Regarding the "army" he has seen in this world so far, Gawain only has two words to comment on: weird.
At least this is the case in Ansu.
The combined effect of various factors such as the serious regression of civilization, low productivity, the separation of nobles, and the absolute dominance of high-end military professions have led to the deformation of the Ansu royal family system. The name of this country It is a unified whole, but in fact each feudal noble is equivalent to occupying an independent kingdom, and the so-called king is just the most glamorous one among all lords (and not necessarily the most authoritative one). There are no unified professional soldiers in this kingdom. There are only the leaders of various nobles and the knights directly affiliated with the royal family in Saint-Sunil City. Moreover, the nobles at all levels do not have top-down ruling authority, similar to classical Europe on earth. The situation of "my vassal's vassal is not my vassal" is particularly serious here. Even the many families in the south who claim to be directly subordinate to the king are only attached to the royal family in the form of covenants. They only have the responsibility to monitor the southern border and They have a few obligations to provide intelligence and send troops in wartime, but they will not obey the king's other orders.
The soldiers they have are naturally their own.
Even the few soldiers under a viscount belong to the viscount himself.
So if a big noble needs to fight a war, how can he raise a large army?
Simple, if he has enough prestige, finds a good reason for the war, and promises enough benefits for the post-war carve-up, then the lords under his name are obliged to receive it. They brought their own private soldiers to help in the battle. These private soldiers formed their own teams and were led by their own lord or a powerful force professional sent by the lord (usually the latter. Many Anzu nobles in this era had fallen to the point where they could not ride a horse. To fight a war, you can only use money to hire strong men to sit in the family). When fighting, these "mixed armies" with various flags, numbers, and tactics will swarm forward, choosing according to the strength of the enemy and the extent of their own benefits. They did not work hard and lay on the ground pretending to be dead. After the fight was over, the leader ran to find the big lord or the king to calculate the benefits of division.
The result of this is obvious: the entire kingdom does not have a professional army, nor a unified command system and soldier training rules. Each nobleman uses various methods to piece together his own private soldiers and weapons. There is no unity, the military system is not unified, the logistics is not unified, and even the army trained by the noble father and the noble son may not be unified - if the relationship between the two is not so good.
In addition to the diversity of soldiers, this chaotic military system has also led to a series of other serious consequences: the formation of military combat effectiveness is extremely slow, training efficiency is low, soldier selection is unorganized, and the desertion rate is high It's scary, and once the strong man leading the team is killed, the entire team of soldiers is completely destroyed - because they have neither discipline nor knowledge, and all they have learned is to follow the leader.It's just a knight charging.
The Cecil family is slightly better than other nobles in this regard. As the "Guardian Family of the South" that resisted monster attacks on the border, even if the Cecil family has declined, it still retains the traditions of its ancestors. Habits handed down: a more scientific militia system.
In addition to formal soldiers (that is, family warriors), another major source of Cecil's soldiers is the trained militia. The family knights train these free soldiers to a standard lower than that of formal soldiers. People recruited from among the people train soldiers in their free time and work in farming when they are busy to supplement the shortage of formal soldiers. At the same time, they also reserve a large number of reserve soldiers for the territory in this way, because there are many people who have received basic combat training. In an emergency, it would be much easier to replenish regular soldiers than other nobles.
Rebecca expanded the scope of militia recruitment and regularization from freedmen to serfs, which was the result of further development of this system.
But Gawain decided to take it a step further.
Considering future plans, he needed a professional, specialized army with a stable supply of soldiers, so he simply abolished the system of separating militiamen and family soldiers, and instead unified all soldiers Established as a "combat corps", he required all soldiers to undergo systematic training in a new, unified way, and announced that they would be uniformly paid.
Previously, the private soldiers of the nobles were not paid. Usually, the private soldiers of the nobles had to provide their own weapons or purchase weapons from the lord at their own expense. They even had to provide their own food when going on an expedition. , in this case, the reason why the soldiers were still willing to fight for the nobles was because of the existence of "private looting": soldiers could plunder on the battlefield and after conquering the enemy's city, and keep half of the property. Doing what they want is what they get as soldiers.
The situation in the Cecil Territory is different from other places. The Cecil Lords of all generations have provided weapons and equipment to soldiers on a lease basis, and distributed food as a subsidy for the delay in farm work during training and service. , but apart from that, no salary is paid, and the food is only enough to make ends meet.
Of course, Gawain decided to pay salaries to professional soldiers, and at the same time announced that Cecil's soldiers would permanently prohibit any privateering.
And if the soldiers want to get promotion or additional rewards, it is also very simple: Gawain also promised to work out a detailed reference for promotion based on military merit and various contributions, which is better than the previous ones. The disorderly and brutal plundering behavior will lead to more wealth in the future if you bravely kill the enemy or follow the orders conscientiously.
This is not a problem, because the Cecil family has always fought against monsters. At most, they fought foreign barbarians in the early years. Their soldiers have no habit of privateering at all, and they have always maintained them. What is loyal to the Cecil family is the food subsidies and various benevolent policies for families who join the military. At this time, Gawain only turned the "prohibition of privateering" into a clear law., everyone felt nothing, and even welcomed it: after all, Gawain promised that in the future, even serfs who join the army can be promoted based on their military merits. This was a privilege that only family warriors had in the past.
But the next thing made them feel a little bit: as a retention and extension of the original militia system, Gawain stipulated that all adult men in the territory were obliged to receive basic military training during their leisure time. From the original conscription, it has become universal and compulsory.
This does not mean that everyone has to go to the battlefield to fight, but it is to ensure that the people in the territory have basic military literacy and can be easily transformed into professional soldiers.
If this point were brought up at any other time, it would probably cause some dissatisfaction, but at this moment, less than a day had passed since the monster attack, and Gawain Cecil's prestige was unprecedentedly high. , coupled with the fact that he personally defended the camp, this system was announced.
And everyone also thought very openly: anyway, serving the lord normally is a contribution, and participating in training at this time is also a contribution. If you think about it this way, there is actually no change, as long as you can have a full stomach.
Besides, if you really have the chance to be selected as a formal soldier, putting on armor and holding a sword is equivalent to becoming a "half-decent person". This is for most poor people who have been impoverished all their lives. On the contrary, it is a rare way out. In the face of this way out, it is completely worthwhile to just use the leisure time for training.
The changes in the military system cannot be completed in a day, and the details involved are far from being explained in a few words. Considering the acceptance ability of the audience and the complexity of various details, Gao Wen did not He explained all his thoughts on the stage. He just briefly talked about the integration of all soldiers into "combat regiments" and basic military training before leaving the stage. As for the real details... he would have to talk to the two knights and Hetty conferred.
And what he announced today is just a foundation. To put it bluntly, considering the current situation of the territory, these things he said are even a bit too advanced - there are only eight full-scale plans in the pioneer land. There were more than a hundred people, of whom only a hundred were trained as soldiers. These one hundred people were actually the entire "army" led by Cecil. Its scale was completely different from the future envisioned by Gawain.
And despite the fact that there are only a hundred, the military-civilian ratio has actually reached a crazy level - one-eighth of the population has been converted into professional soldiers. Looking at the ratio alone, it is almost written on their faces. In Gawain's impression, the military-civilian ratio of a kingdom in a peaceful world is usually between forty to one and seventy to one, or even lower, and even in times of war, this ratio will not be More than one tenth - unless there is a life-and-death war or a nomadic tribe like the northern barbarians where all the people are soldiers.
And one-eighth of the people in his territory are soldiers!
If these are all retired soldiers, it means that the camp is almostAll material output will be used to support one-eighth of the unemployed combat population, and all development will be stagnant as a result, and social stability will also decline. Therefore, all soldiers in the territory are now unemployed. They usually train and guard, and when they have time, they participate in camp construction and land reclamation work to ensure sufficient labor.
This made them similar to a construction corps, and to Gawain's luck, the soldiers had no complaints about it.
Part of the reason for this is that more than half of the soldiers are militiamen, who themselves are not part of the class, and the remaining part are veterans with high loyalty, and the Cecil family has always been strict in running the army. The strategy also ensured that the warriors under the family's name would not turn into lazy old soldiers, which was why the situation was like this.
Even so, this ratio of one-eighth soldiers is not a long-term solution. Gawain’s next plan is to find ways to introduce more people to make up for the camp’s biggest shortcomings.
If you don’t replenish the population, it’s all fantasy. To plan a professional and professional modern army for a camp with only 800 people and a team of 100 soldiers, Gao Wen himself I don’t think I would have had such a dream even if I was hit on the head by the coffin lid when I was unsteady when the coffin was unveiled.
It’s just that he must set these frameworks in advance, even if what is set now is only a framework-because once the foreign population influxes in, it will be too late to do many things. Supported by a mature and stable framework, all the efforts he made here will be diluted by the mixed new population.
After the gathering dispersed, Gawain immediately summoned the camp management staff, including the two knights, and this time he also summoned the camp manager who had been accustomed to the position of "agricultural director" for more than ten years. Norris, the farmer who was born in the early days, and Hammer, the blacksmith who had begun to take charge of the iron factory.
(Oh my god, transitional chapters are so difficult)