"The standard corps are divided into cavalry regiments, infantry regiments, and artillery regiments."

After Richard entered his decision, the total war system immediately began to rectify the organization.

This standard corps Richard can change the template at any time according to his own will. Each standard corps will have a complete command system for middle and senior officers, rather than only company-level basic officers as mentioned in the introduction.

Of course, these middle and senior officers did not increase their original number of soldiers, but instead changed the original number of soldiers to the officers.

The equipment and clothing introductions of each military service are calculated according to the soldier's standards. The weapons equipped by grassroots officers may not be much different from those equipped by soldiers, but the weapons of middle and senior military officers will basically turn into rotary muskets or flintlock guns.

The rotary wheel fired musket and flintlock pistol are of little use on the battlefield because of their close range, but they are good at using self-defense and melee combat. There are not many middle and senior officers, and most of the time, they do not need to go to the front line to fight in person, so they are only equipped with these two weapons, and of course, there are also officer sabers for self-defense.

If it really reaches the point where middle and senior officers need to go to the battlefield, it means that this unit is not far away from being destroyed. Some of the weapons left by the dead soldiers on the battlefield will not delay the middle and senior officers from turning into an ordinary soldier to go to the battlefield for their last attempt.

Richard has always believed that modern army is the simplest unit in the history of the earth, because the division of troops basically only needs to be divided into three categories - infantry, cavalry, artillery...

I won’t talk about the complex system of the modern army. Even the older feudal cold weapon army has far more tactical arms than three types. The ones responsible for hand-to-hand combat are divided into long spear troops, melee hand-to-hand combat troops, heavy armored infantry units that specialize in breaking formations, etc.

Because of this, the generals of the ancient cold weapons era spared no effort to train various all-round troops to deal with the ever-changing battlefield situations.

In modern times, infantry almost all have bayonets and muskets, and even light infantry can match this way. At most, elite light infantry who use early rifled rifles can give up bayonets voluntarily.

Cavalry can basically be divided into two categories: horse infantry (draft cavalry) and charge cavalry. Cavalry such as cavalry shooting harassment have been eliminated.

Facing infantry units equipped with muskets and cannons, traditional cavalry and shooting are like giving away heads, and the Baliqiao Battle is a typical case!

The popularity of muskets and artillery has forced cavalry to two extremes. Either charge directly and fight with one head, or dismount and shoot with the infantry. In other ways of fighting, unless more advanced muskets are used, they will be massacred by infantry muskets and artillery.

Because cavalry use muskets, the barrel of the gun must be shorter than that of infantry use muskets. Shorter barrel means poor range and accuracy, so shooting immediately is basically a situation where the infantry is beaten...

Even professional dragoons will not shoot at the infantry immediately, and even if they dismount, they rarely shoot at the professional musketeers cluster. Instead, they use their maneuverability to find the flanks and weaknesses of the musketeers cluster and then dismount to shoot.

To put it bluntly, it is to find a battlefield where more fight less to form a local firepower advantage!

Otherwise, if the number of people is equal, the cavalry and infantry will be seeking death.

However, the cavalry, infantry, and artillery regiment mentioned by Richard are not the concept of the middle-level troops in Richard's previous life, but a standard large-scale corps combat unit, equivalent to the division-level combat unit in Richard's previous life.

Because there is no standard division of military advisors and brigades and battalions in this era, the concept of corps often refers to cluster combat units that can support a single front.

Therefore, the number of troops in the corps is not fixed.

At the same time, the infantry regiment does not mean all infantry, but the main force is infantry, and it will also be equipped with auxiliary cavalry and a small number of artillery to support the firepower output.

By the same token, the cavalry regiment is not all cavalry units, but the cavalry regiment pays the most attention to is the mobility, so naturally it will not be equipped with infantry units. In order to make up for the insufficient firepower of the cavalry regiment, it will be equipped with a large number of cavalry artillery.

The artillery regiment is a large force that is concentrated in artillery. It is natural that it is impossible to lack guarded infantry units and auxiliary cavalry units.

It can be said that any unit in this era cannot do without cavalry units, because cavalry can efficiently convey various orders and perform tactical tasks such as scout reconnaissance and pursuit of defeated soldiers on marches and battlefields.

This is also the reason why the light cavalry is still joined by Richard in the standard corps organization even though they are not very combative.

Soon Richard received the initial template for the Standard Corps given by the Total War System.

Richard first pulled out the templates of the Standard Infantry Regiment, or the Standard Infantry Legion, to view them.

Then he proposed his own specific modification requirements: "Elevate the Guards to 100 companies, transfer grenadiers to 10 companies, and transfer hunters to 10 companies..."

After a series of modifications by Richard, the name of the Standard Corps was also renamed the Standard Corps by Richard according to his own habits.

The Standard Legion will be Richard's main force to expand externally. The scale of a Standard Legion is enough to undertake the combat mission of a front line.

[Infantry Standard Corps: 100 Guards have a total of 8,000 people, 10 Grenadiers have a total of 1,200 people, 10 hunters have a total of 800 people, 10 light cavalry have a total of 600 people, 20 6-inch howitzers have a total of 120 gunners, 20 Parker cannons have a total of 10,840 people, and the exchange price is 53,000 lucky coins.]

Richard suddenly fell off after seeing the summary exchange price. He suddenly realized that 100,000 lucky coins did not seem to be much...

"This artillery is really too expensive. Parker cannons are a defensive weapon. I won't join the field troops for the time being. Then, the Parker cannons may be more powerful as a 'machine gun group'."

Richard knew that Parker cannons were not Maxim after all. If they wanted to form a firepower net, they had to increase the number. If the quantity was reduced, they might as well remove it from the infantry standard legion and form a Parker cannon regiment alone.

After the Parker cannon was removed, the price of the infantry standard legion suddenly dropped to 33,000 lucky coins, which Richard could barely accept...

"Well, in the future, the standard infantry army will be the main force in foreign warfare. The light cavalry acts as scouts and command cavalry, and chases the remaining enemies after the war. There are not many 600 people, but it should be enough. After all, they will not suffer too much from fighting without taking on combat tasks.

The Guards are the main offensive forces, hunters are used to harass the enemy, grenadiers are used as special attack troops, and howitzers provide the necessary firepower advantages. As long as the enemy does not have a large number of artillery, this infantry standard legion can be invincible!"
Chapter completed!