158 The garrison
Of course, Richard will not ban the three field teams with such high military merits. The victory of this battle is the main attack on the front battlefield. With a little publicity, the battle to defeat Yuchi Yingzhe can be promoted as a glorious battle of three field teams!
The huge casualties they have paid can support this title.
Although most of the components of Yuchi Yingzhe's main infantry are not much stronger than those of local garrison troops, fortunately they are veterans who have undergone bloody battles and military formation training. After entering the field team, they can quickly form combat effectiveness after a period of time.
This time, the casualty rate of Yuchi Yingzhe's army has not exceeded 30%, and most of them have been surrendered...
Of course, the few who escaped were the ones, and most of them became Richard's prisoners.
In order to better control these prisoners, all the warriors and officers with great personal prestige were pulled out to kill the chicken in public to warn the monkeys.
The tenacious resistance of the final vanguard elite corps must be severely punished so that Richard's enemies can know the outcome of the stubborn resistance.
The identities of these surrendered warrior officers are just enough.
In order to ensure control, Richard, the surrendered soldiers on the battlefield, naturally would not appoint surrendered officers on a large scale. These officers did not surrender voluntarily, but had to surrender after being defeated. Of course, Richard did not need to treat them preferentially!
Otherwise, the enemy officers on the battlefield would think that they would surrender and be appointed after defeating the war. Wouldn't they all have to fight against Richard for a round?
This kind of trend naturally cannot be triggered!
Recruiting ordinary surrendered soldiers can show Richard's kindness. After all, these soldiers cannot decide whether to fight, so they can only passively accept orders to go to the battlefield to be cannon fodder...
The incorporation of surrendered soldiers can show Richard's kindness, allowing the enemy soldiers you encounter in the future to surrender without psychological burden in the unfavorable situation.
This is completely different from the incorporation of surrendered officers.
Richard would preferential treatment for military officers who surrendered without resistance, but he was very strict with military officers who surrendered after resistance!
All the warriors and officers who resisted to the end were executed. The officers who were not warriors in the ordinary army did not end up being good, and were all demoted to ordinary official slaves!
As long as Richard does not fall, they will never make a comeback in their lives...
On the contrary, as long as the soldiers at the bottom are willing to continue to serve Richard, they will not only not be demoted to slaves, but will instead be treated as a field team's military meritorious service!
Richard's approach was not unique in the Western Regions, because the Han soldiers in the Western Regions were scarce, and the surrendered Han soldiers were generally recruited, unless they were those diehard and stubborn.
Most of the surrendered soldiers who were recruited by Richard were not the direct descendants of Yuchi Yingzhe, but soldiers who were originally affiliated with the governors of various large and small areas and the defeated Anxi Protectorate.
These soldiers at the bottom of the army fought not because of loyalty, but just to make a living. As long as Richard gave him enough treatment, they were willing to fight to the death!
The lower the people, the simpler the thinking, and it will be easier to win over.
On the contrary, because those officers have certain assets and their families are controlled by Yuchi Yingzhe, they are often more likely to rebel after being incorporated.
Of course, the officers and generals who voluntarily lead troops to surrender without fighting in a battle are another matter. Surrendering before the battle is a traitor in the eyes of any commander. This kind of loyalty of generals and officers after surrender is guaranteed. After all, their reputation in the original owner has been completely destroyed...
However, for this reason, generals with a little bit of integrity will not surrender before the battle, and they will betray the original owner unless the enemy's forces cannot resist.
After all the military officers in the surrendered soldiers were removed, they were disrupted and their establishment was added to the three field groups according to the previous methods.
Because of this battle, a large number of lower-class soldiers and military officers accumulated enough military merits and were promoted.
In this way, even the lack of military officers was solved.
A complete system of military merit promotion and continuous victory are enough to ensure that Richard's power will not be in the dilemma of lack of military officers and generals.
This is also the reason why there were many generals who could fight in ancient times, but there were extremely scarce civil servants who could govern the local government who were proficient in administration.
Even if a grassroots uprising leader can accumulate enough victory, he can hone a group of elite soldiers and generals with sufficient experience in leading troops.
The battlefield is the best military classroom!
The birth of military officers and generals who were promoted with a large number of military merits and the inclusion of a large number of surrendered troops has quickly restored the number of people to full force!
Even the troops of the three field teams have been expanded to 3,000 people!
The troops of the three field teams alone exceeded the 10,000 people!
However, more than half of them were filled with surrendered soldiers, and their combat effectiveness did not increase much compared to the original one...
The loss rate of iron armor during the battle is extremely high, so even if the spoils are added, Richard only maintained the equipment rate of iron armor for all members of the first field team.
In order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the main force of the first field group as much as possible, all the surrendered soldiers included were the most elite vanguards under Yuchi Yingzhe, while other surrendered soldiers were included in the second and third field group.
Therefore, the gap in combat power of the three expanded field teams is as big as before the battle.
The second and third field teams are slightly higher than the local garrison troops, and because the iron armor is allocated to the first field team as much as possible, the armor rate is still less than 10%...
However, because the base of the troops of the three field teams has increased, the number of iron armor under Richard has actually increased a lot.
However, under the premise that the base number increases, the armor rate has not increased.
The large number of elite iron-armored soldiers contributed by Yuchi Yingzhe made the First Field Team, which suffered great losses, barely maintain the average combat effectiveness level equivalent to that of the Tang Dynasty field troops.
Just carry out a period of rectification and can be brought to the battlefield.
The expansion of three field groups and the emergence of a large number of new garrison field groups made the organization of Richard, which originally had only one field group, no longer applicable.
While the three field groups were reorganized, Richard transformed the three field groups into the first field legion in an institutional way.
Other field teams that serve as garrison troops in the local area are uniformly organized into garrison troops.
In this way, the garrison army and the First Field Army will be separated. The garrison army and the police station are different. They are only under the central cabinet controlled by Richard, and maintain the central government's military control over the local area.
At the same time, Richard began to build a headquarters specializing in the management of the garrison and field corps. Of course, the Army, like the cabinet, was directly responsible to Richard.
Minister of War Han Li was removed from the cabinet and entered the Army as deputy minister. Long Liguo, the veteran, also entered the Army as deputy minister. The Minister of the Army was naturally appointed by Richard!
Chapter completed!