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Chapter 195 Military Expansion Plan
After transferring three regiments and welcoming two new regiments, the military strength on Rostov II increased instead of decreased.

After all, the Rostov Corps was just an ordinary infantry regiment, while the two new regiments were a mechanized infantry regiment and an armored regiment.

On the front battlefield, these two regiments have the strength to defeat three infantry regiments on their own.

Especially since they came from two quite famous meritorious units of the Star Army.

Although the Astra Militarum did have a huge base number, and the Ministry of Militia could even throw in billions of Astra Militarum troops in a crucial battle and watch them all die, there were not many troops in the Astra Militarum that could have their own unique numbers.

The armies that have left a resounding name in the Star Army are all those with outstanding achievements, a long history, or quite legendary combat experience.

Take the two regiments transferred to Rostov II this time as an example. They are both famous regiments with a long history dating back to the Great Crusade, and have produced some very famous figures.

Among them, the Armageddon Iron Legion comes from Armageddon, an important Imperial world in the Solar Segmentum, which is itself one of the main production bases of the Imperial Chimera armored vehicles.

This also makes the Armageddon Iron Legion very adept at using Chimera armored vehicles, and it is one of the few mechanized legions in the Empire.

The history of this planet dates back to the Great Crusade. It was once the capital of the Orc Empire, and the Emperor almost died on this planet.

After the Ork Empire was destroyed by the Imperial army during the Great Crusade, this planet became an important industrial world for the Empire, producing a large number of industrial products and mobile vehicles such as the Chimera and Leman Russ.

At the same time, this planet also recruits a large number of people to serve in the Astra Militarum every year. During the Second Battle of Armageddon, the number of Astra Militarum recruited on this planet even exceeded the total number of any two planets in the Solar Segmentum.

Of course, when talking about this Astra Militarum Corps, we have to mention their famous legendary Chief Political Commissar, the lifelong enemy of the God-Chosen Geshigol Mag Uruk Saraka, the savior of Armageddon, the one who turned the tide of the Second Battle of Armageddon, the insurmountable wall of Hades's Hive, the one who stared the orcs to death, and one of the three God-Chosen Political Commissars of the Empire, Commissar Sebastian Yarrick.

Even though Commissar Yarrick has passed away on the Golden Throne in GW's latest bullshit, the old Commissar still serves the Emperor.

(The invincible old gunhole tore an orc boss apart with his human body)

It is conceivable what kind of elite force the Armageddon Iron Legion is, having experienced the Second Battle of Armageddon and trained by Political Commissar Yarrick.

Another force, the Tallarn Desert Raiders, is not as famous as the Armageddon Iron Legion, but their history can also be traced back to the Great Crusade ten thousand years ago.

At that time, Tallarn was still a beautiful emerald green agricultural world, but the flames of the Great Rebellion swept here. The virus bombs dropped by the Iron Warriors on this planet completely destroyed the ecology of the entire planet and turned it into a desert.

But the Tallarn people did not surrender. They still put up a stubborn resistance when the Iron Warriors landed on the planet.

Until the Empire's loyal legions arrived to reinforce, and the largest armored battle in the Empire's history broke out on this planet.

In the Battle of Tallarn, which lasted for more than several months, the loyalists and the rebels deployed more than 10 million armored vehicles on the planet and collided with each other. In the end, more than one-tenth of the armored vehicles fell on the planet and were buried by the yellow sand.

Ultimately, the Iron Warriors evacuated the world, which had become too costly for them, leaving the wreckage of their broken vehicles scattered across the desolate desert of Tallarn.

The Tallarn people were eventually given the opportunity to rebuild, and they continued to stand firm in the face of many enemies of the Empire for thousands of years. Even today, the Tallarn Desert Raiders are still famous for their armored warfare.

It would be a waste if these two troops were just treated as general garrisons.

Chen Xi planned to use these two forces as a model to form Rostov's own mechanized and armored forces.

He had already discussed this matter with the two colonels of the regiment. The two did not object to Chen Xi's plan, and they also accepted the idea of ​​transferring some officers to assist the Rostov Star Army in training new recruits.

In fact, at this time, the five new defense corps had completed the recruitment of new soldiers.

Three of the five regiments will be trained as mechanized regiments, while the remaining two will be armored regiments.

The population on Rostov II certainly supports Chen Xi's military expansion on this scale, but the problem has never been population.

The population of Rostov II is indeed not large, and more than one billion people are insignificant for an imperial world, but recruiting hundreds of thousands of Astra Militarum troops is not a big deal for a population of more than one billion.

What really restricts the expansion of Rostov II's military power is the military equipment itself and the planet's economy.

Before Chen Xi arrived, the output of Rostov II was not enough to support large-scale military expansion. After all, the economy really couldn't bear it.

But now, not only has Rostov's economy improved significantly, but it can also produce its own military equipment and supplies, which undoubtedly provides a basis for large-scale military expansion.

If it weren't for the fact that the factories in Rostov are currently unable to provide military equipment in large quantities, and the various problems that would arise from large-scale conscription, Chen Xi could have mobilized a million troops right now.

However, even without considering a large-scale military expansion, Chen Xi planned to expand the number of defense forces on Rostov to at least 20 regiments, while maintaining the number of Astra Militarum troops at at least 10 regiments.

There are a total of thirty regiments with a total strength of nearly 200,000 people, which is enough to defend a planet that is not an important world.

Especially since there are thousands of Battle Sisters and hundreds of Astartes on the planet, as well as several cruisers in orbit.

This level of defense is certainly not as good as those of the famous worlds in the empire, let alone the fortress world, but the wars that may occur here in Chen Xi are not that frequent, and maintaining a large army is not a necessity.

In fact, even based on the current size of Rostov's army, the annual military expenditure alone has already put considerable pressure on the economy.

Before other planets in the sub-star zone are developed and can provide income for Chen Xi, he will probably not expand the army on a large scale unless there is a large-scale war. He will only increase the size of the army in proportion to the economic growth rate.

After all, Chen Xi has not forgotten how bad the empire will become after the Great Rift opens.

(End of this chapter)