The Storm Mage Corps and the Cradle Plan, these were the two central cores of Gu Hang’s subsequent efforts in talent training.
The former focused on cultivating extraordinary functional talents with Spiritual Energy practitioners at its core, constructing the path of the Psychic Cultivator’s Association; while the latter was an indispensable part of talent building throughout the full-spectrum development of the Alliance itself.
In these two areas, Gu Hang was very willing to invest a substantial amount of grace points.
So far, his total investment of grace points in architecture and talent has reached more than seventeen thousand.
He still had over thirty thousand at his disposal.
Next, it was time for military construction.
Regarding military equipment, this did not require grace points but relied on the Alliance’s own productivity; however, personnel needed the training function provided by the [Soldier Card] panel for supplementation.
First, it was about replenishing the existing troops.
The Blackbird Campaign, with both stages combined, resulted in a personnel loss of over seventy-five thousand for the Alliance Army; the Rage Bear Legion’s battles on Korolya III had also accumulated losses of ten thousand to date.
Under the banner of glorious victory, the Alliance Army also paid the price with heaps of corpses.
This number of losses was actually not small at all.
Before the victory of the Blackbird Campaign, the Alliance’s total manpower pool without initiating a conscription order was just under five hundred thousand, almost fully utilized. The active military personnel of the Alliance had exceeded five hundred thousand. During the mid-to-late Blackbird Campaign, the Alliance initiated a second-level conscription order, shifted production capacity to military industries, and expanded the scope of conscription to withstand the pressure. Stay connected with My Virtual Library Empire
Now, the conscription order was canceled after the war ended. However, after the victory, the Alliance gained control over the entire western part of the continent; with the West Desert Province and three other provinces, adding a population of eighteen million to the Alliance, the strain on available manpower significantly eased.
Gu Hang had no intention of massively expanding the army for the time being; he simply established six armored composite divisions numbered 60 to 65, organized and structured to match the current Wind-Extinguishing Brigades.
At the same time, all the other existing Composite Camps were also restructured to this standard.
Regarding the 1st Extinguishing Wind Brigade, which was always used as the model of innovation for the Alliance Army, it was further strengthened and reorganized.
Firstly, all the Composite Camps increased their personnel and removed all motorized infantry companies, switching entirely to 4 armored infantry companies plus 2 tank companies, and likewise included engineer, logistics, communications, reconnaissance, anti-air, and other functional troops within.
Such a company’s strength grew from the original eight hundred and some to twelve hundred, increasing by half and becoming nearly the size of an average battalion, with the density of technical equipment many, many times that of a conventional battalion.
For the entire brigade, the main Composite Camps increased from 5 to 8; the original tank battalion also increased from 1 to 2. Artillery support companies for each battalion, along with the brigade’s own artillery battalion, shifted from towed artillery to much more mobile self-propelled artillery. The brigade headquarters also included various functional troops.
The brigade’s total strength increased from nine thousand one hundred to twelve thousand; the number of tanks grew from eighty to two hundred four, a 2.5-fold increase, while the number of armored vehicles soared from two hundred to nine hundred. In addition to the numerically dominant infantry fighting vehicles, there were also more of the ‘Walker’ series including anti-aircraft and command vehicles. Directly under the brigade headquarters, there were three aviation formations, totaling thirty Wind Falcons.
All soldiers were collectively trained from T5 level to T4 level by Gu Hang; the equipment of the front-line combat infantry would be completely switched from the G series of projectile rifles to the LR series of laser rifles or HS series of electromagnetic rifles.
As a luxurious enhanced Composite Brigade, serving as a demonstration army, its construction period would be long, probably not a task that could be completed quickly.
From the price alone, one could see. The Wind-Extinguishing Brigade’s cost would skyrocket from the original 90 grace points plus less than six hundred thousand in tax currency to 1320 grace points plus one million eight hundred thousand in tax currency.
The improvement in soldier quality and the significant increase in technical equipment density undoubtedly meant that the Wind-Extinguishing Brigade’s combat strength would surge greatly. Although the number of people only increased by about three thousand, the combat strength likely increased many times over.
However, Gu Hang was also not sure if the improved combat strength compared to the increased costs would mean that the cost-effectiveness had actually improved.
The construction cost had tripled, which was easy to explain, as the significant increase in equipment quantity directly bolstered combat capability. It was the extra thousand-plus grace points spent on improving troop quality that he wondered if they could truly enhance the combat power tenfold.
Gu Hang was somewhat skeptical of this.
But on the other hand, how could he know without trying?
After all, it was only one brigade. The 1st Extinguishing Wind Brigade, as a demonstration unit, was meant to undergo such experimental restructuring.
The remaining issue would likely be for the Wind-Extinguishing Brigade to head to a certain battlefield and put their enhanced combat strength to the test, to see if it matched the exaggerated cost increase.
But now on Rage Owl Star, there were no battles requiring their intervention. For regular domestic suppression tasks, there was little difference between the cheapest garrison division and the most expensive Elite Armored Combined Brigade.