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The Jawa Dwipa Military Reorganization and its Affiliated Territories
The south side is the meeting place of the Bengawan Solo and Kebonagung Rivers, so abundant water sources, fertile land, and reclaimed agricultural land are much better than Java Dwipa. The region has reclaimed 20,000 hectares of arable land.
Everything thrives. Batih Ageng will be the future production base of grain, only the second from Kebonagung.
At the same time, in order to form the unique advantage of Batih Ageng so as not to be defeated by Pantura and Kebonagung, Zudan Arif thought hard and decided to expand and develop the forging and textile industries. These industries would be used to trade with nomadic tribes, therefore early preparations were needed. From this, one could see the deep thinking and careful planning of Zudan Arif.
It can be said that whether it can convince nomadic tribes or not. In turn will affect the status of Batih Ageng. If they opened a trade route, then Batih Ageng would become a trading city. If they could not, Batih Ageng would only become a military fortress. Therefore, ahead of the visit of Heru Cokro, Zudan Arif put great hope.
Since the river protection project of the region, Zudan Arif has sent people to get in touch with nomadic tribes and experienced some progress. However, what strategy to take against them was something that his master had to decide for himself.
Unfortunately, Zudan Arif did not know that the real reason for Heru Cokro's visit was the barong on the plains. It had been two months since the Armament Division was formed. The first set of 50 Krewaja armor has been completed. However, since they did not have a suitable warhorse, they were unable to equip a cavalry unit with it.
In the meeting hall of Batih Ageng, Heru Cokro only invited various generals for military affairs meetings.
"Director Said, please tell me about the progress on the barong." Heru Cokro asked.
The trip to Batih Ageng was originally arranged by Raden Said. With his personality, if there was no progress, he would not have invited Heru Cokro here.
Raden Said nodded. “Baginda, Military Intelligence Division has gained important information. 5 days ago, nomadic tribes in the west of the region got about 100 horses barong and ready to expand the scale of their farms.”
Heru Cokro calmed himself down and said calmly, "You mean?"
“I mean simple. We must not miss this opportunity. Why don't we wipe out this little tribe? If we can, blame the medium-sized tribe to the east of the city, so it will further worsen the relationship between them and the Pangkah.” Tribe Raden Said said calmly, it is nothing that his plan will inevitably cause bloodshed.
"How many people does the small tribe have, and how many soldiers?" Heru Cokro asked carefully.
This intelligence result was clearly answered by the Military Intelligence Division. As the person in charge of gathering information about nomadic tribes, the leader of the second team of Latif's Military Intelligence Division stood up. “Baginda, we have found that their tribe area is less than 500 square kilometers and only has a population of 800 people, including 300 soldiers.”
Heru Cokro turned to Wirama and asked, "Do you have any confidence?"
Wirama naturally knew what Heru Cokro meant. “To annihilate their main force is not difficult. The hard part is how not to leave the victim. These travelers all know how to ride horses and can easily slip away.”
For barong, Heru Cokro is ready to slaughter.
“How is the view of the Military Affairs Bureau?” Heru Cokro looked at Raden Said.
Heru Cokro nodded. “This is a good plan. However, fighting 300 nomadic cavalry is already blackmailing our troops. How do we have extra power?”
“Paduka is right, with the only unit here, it is difficult to complete the mission. The only way is to multiply the number of militants.” Said Raden.
Heru Cokro is a little dizzy. “Without upgrading to the hamlet, not suitable for expanding our troops. In addition, do not forget that the barbarian tribe has a thousand elite soldiers that we will receive.”
Raden Said seemed to have an idea and said confidently, "Your Majesty, we have a military reorganization plan, please look!"
"Speak!"
“My idea is like this. 1000 barbarians from our main camp will take 500 people and make a second heavy armored infantry battalion. For the rest, 300 will go to Kebonagung, adding 2 companies of Kebonagung protectors.The last 200 people will be sent here and get 100 more soldiers to form the protective company of Batih Ageng region. This attack, we can use one of Kebonagung cavalry companies and 2 companies from the main camp to join.”
Heru Cokro was very happy. If it had been like this, other than the cavalry units and infantry units, it basically did not exceed 10% of the military for the population he had set.
“Good, let's do it like that. Everyone get ready quickly.” Heru Cokro announced a personnel change. “Bureau of Military Affairs, spread my orders. Andika will be Lieutenant Pamong Kebonagung, Humam will be Lieutenant Pamong Batih Ageng, and Dudung will be the lieutenant of the second infantry battalion.”
"Yes!" Raden Said.
Andika, the sergeant who competes with Dudung ends up becoming a lieutenant, goes up to the same place as Dudung. Humam was very lucky, only sent here for 1 month and was already a lieutenant, promoted faster than his senior.
As for the second infantry battalion, the reason why Heru Cokro promoted the second company captain Dudung and not the first company captain, he clearly had his own considerations.
One of them is the promotion of Dudung will help improve the sense of belonging to mountain barbarians and show them that Jawa Dwipa will use anyone who is able to. Second, Heru Cokro has other plans for Mahesa Boma.
After the military reorganization, the meeting held in Batih Ageng ended.
After the meeting, Heru Cokro did not return to Java Dwipa, but officially began a tour around Batih Ageng under the guidance of Zudan Arif.
Walking the great streets of Batih Ageng, Heru Cokro began to calculate the cost to expand the military. The first is a one-time payment to the mountain barbarians.3 packs of soldiers costing 1700 gold, plus a one-time maintenance package of 500 thousand units of food, the, that was 500 gold and a class change fee of 500 gold for 1000 infantrymen and 150 gold for 100 cavalry, the total cost of which was spent up to 2850 gold.
The next day, Heru Cokro went to the office of the head of the region to get a report from Zudan Arif about cooperation with nomadic tribes.