I'm playing whack-a-mole in Siberia

Chapter 97 I want to roll everyone together
  For more than half a year, Georgi's condition not only failed to improve, but became worse and worse.

The winter in St. Petersburg is not very friendly to Georgi's condition. The doctor suggested that Georgi go to a warm area to recuperate, and the Mediterranean coast is the best choice.

Compared to St. Petersburg, the warm sunshine and clear weather in the Mediterranean winter are as precious as gold, and the fresh air is more conducive to Georgi's recovery.

Nicholas was very disappointed and wanted to go with him, but as the crown prince, Nicholas could not leave Russia easily, so the queen went to France with Georgi on the pretext of taking care of Georgi.

"I was thinking that if I could go together, maybe you would have a chance to go to France, and then you would have a chance to meet Princess Yurievskaya." Nikolai said "Princess", Referring to Ekaterina.

"Is Georgi's situation very bad?" George didn't want to talk to Nikolai about Katya. Katya often wrote to George, sometimes one letter a day.

Katya likes to write letters, and there are more than 4000 letters between him and Yaer. Sometimes the postman will deliver several letters at once, all written by Katya.

George's replies to Katya were not that frequent, and George was worried that the content of the letters would be censored, so many words could not be said too straightforwardly, so the contents were mostly trivial matters in life, and more important things, George would write through Mali Oh, or Julian conveyed.

"It's terrible. The doctor said that Georgi's disease may develop into tuberculosis -" Nicholas was very sad. He and Georgi grew up together and had a deep relationship.

George is also sad. Georgi is naughty, but he has never done anything truly harmful. He has not even had time to grow up.

"How could this be?"

Tuberculosis is tuberculosis, which is basically an incurable disease in this era.

"I hope the doctors in France are better than those in St. Petersburg." Nicholas prayed for Georgi sincerely.

"What are the arrangements for the St. Petersburg Military Region?" George distracted Nicholas' attention.

"Duke Volya is going to form a new army. We will serve in the new army. This time we are going to form a legion. I will be the legion commander and you will be the deputy legion commander-" Nicholas's character is still active, His attention was immediately diverted.

Volya is also the son of Ya Er. His full name is Duke Alexei Alexandrovich. He is 32 years old and has just been appointed commander of the St. Petersburg Military District.

In the two years since Ya Er was assassinated, there have been great personnel changes in the Russian Empire. The veterans of Ya Er's period and Ya Er's brothers gradually took a back seat. The young people, led by the new Minister of the Interior Ignaev, and Ya San's brothers They appear in style.

Volya was not the son of Ya Er and Queen Maria, but the illegitimate son of Ya Er.

Volya is different from George. George's identity has been corrected after Yaer and Katya got married.

Volya's identity is very vague. He is not the same person as Alexeyev, who served as the Superintendent of the Far East and the Commander of the Pacific Fleet during the Russo-Japanese War. The two men have different names and different ages.

Alexei's name is Alexey.

Alexeyev is Alexeyev.

Alexeyev once served under Alexey. Once the two were in Marseille, Alexey was summoned by the police for rough behavior.

Alexeiev took all the crimes on himself and paid the fine for Alexei. From then on, he won Alexei's trust and rose to the top.

The position of the commander of the St. Petersburg Military District is very important. Yasan allowed Alexey to serve as the commander of the St. Petersburg Military District, which fully proves that Yasan still attaches great importance to his half-brothers.

"What's the name of the legion?" George was very happy. The Tsar finally became wise for once.

"This is our legion. Of course we have to decide the name." Nicholas enjoyed this feeling of power.

"Then it's up to you to decide." George gave up the naming rights to Nicholas.

"How about calling Gatchi's group?" Nicholas was very interested. George blackface.

Gatchina is the palace of the Tsar, and Nicholas is not yet the Tsar, so he cannot be called that.

"Then let's call it Oak. The Oak Army is not bad either." Nicholas actually didn't care what the name was, he just enjoyed the ease of deciding with one word.

"Cavalry or infantry?" George didn't care. He only cared about the situation of the new army.

If the new army is still everywhere like the Guards, then there is no need to form this new army.

"Haha——" Nicholas smiled so hard that he couldn't see his eyes: "——We have the final say. To be more precise, you have the final say!"

This!
  What a surprise! ! !

"Then we don't need cavalry or infantry. Let's form a dragoon, equipped with artillery and automatic weapons." George had already deduced in his heart countless times that this unit was originally prepared by him for Vladivostok.

Although the cavalry is about to be eliminated, the mobility of the cavalry is what George needs.

The Guards are clearly divided, the cavalry is just cavalry, the infantry is just infantry, and the artillery is established separately, and only cooperates with cavalry or infantry in wartime operations.

This caused many coordination and command problems.

When George was in Rivne, he suggested that the general regiment practice infantry and artillery coordination, but almost everyone opposed it. The reason was that the cavalry and artillery were not familiar with each other and the risk was too high.

Dragoons are mounted infantry and need to work closely with artillery during combat. As long as this problem is solved, the combat effectiveness can be doubled.

"You make a list, and I'll go find Volya." Nicholas entered the state, still in the familiar cooperation mode.

George acted quickly and compiled the list and gave it to Nicholas on the same day.

The general regiment that George was in before did not have a battalion unit, and the regiment headquarters was directly under the cavalry company.

There are three dragoon battalions in the Oak Regiment. Each battalion is subordinate to three companies. It is different from the 200-man company of the Guards Infantry and the 150-man company of the Guards Cavalry. A company of the Oak Regiment has about 120 men. The standard three-three system , the regiment has more than 1800 officers and soldiers.

"This is too much." Nicholas was dumbfounded. The total number of officers and soldiers in the general regiment was only about 1200.

Moreover, Nicholas did not understand why the battalion unit should be added between the regiment and the company.

"Scientific research has proven that it is optimal for one person to manage three people. Beyond this number, efficiency will decrease." George attributed everything to science.

The general regiment's model of six companies under one regiment is unscientific, and it is even more nonsense to have all nobles serve as officers.

George had no objection to the aristocracy joining the army.

The key is to treat everyone equally and roll everyone together, without favoring one over another.

After the Rivne exercise, most of the officers who received medals were members of the nobility, and there were only a pitiful three officers with real civilian backgrounds.

Don't even think about it, soldiers, they are not eligible to receive medals at all.

(End of this chapter)