I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 777 - 675: Autonomy and the Knight Order

Although the events in Nuremberg brought many troubles to Chen Xin, after concluding matters there, Chen Xin still gained considerable insights from the incident.

For the current European nations, to ensure their actual territorial control, aside from eradicating armed separatist factions, it is crucial to deploy personnel for administrative governance.

This is not merely about maintaining city security and collecting taxes; all related issues require the attention of the city’s actual controllers.

Precisely because of such circumstances, while the United Security Forces are actively eliminating the major separatist forces within European territories, official bodies still lack the necessary personnel to take over these lands.

Because the official bodies have already deployed all available people, leaving them no extra capacity to take over new cities.

Thus, previously, while the United Security Forces were capable of expelling or eradicating armed separatist forces within European territories, in the end, they could only drive out forces from major areas of the countries.

Other places, due to lack of necessary personnel for management, were abandoned, and once-cleared militants quickly reoccupied those regions, leading to a stalemate with the United Security Forces.

However, the incident in Nuremberg opened a new path for Chen Xin, providing him with many revelations.

Since manpower was tight, insufficient to maintain local security and management, and even the number of stationed troops was severely lacking, the idea was simply to allow cities to govern themselves and form militias to maintain city security.

This approach could significantly alleviate the current situation where European countries suffer from manpower shortages, allowing more cities to exert their full productive capacity.

Knowing that in situations where most of a country’s military might is concentrated on the front lines, they struggle to muster enough military force, the United Security Forces, as a multi-nation hybrid organization, actually reflects this issue in some aspects.

After all, the United Security Forces are composed of only a brigade, which for a single nation may indeed be insufficient, as there are not many people left.

But for a coalition of major European countries, this scale is too small. If possible, they clearly wish to train more forces equipped with the Flame Country’s armaments not only to send to the front lines to resist alien entities but also to maintain their rule.

However, after experiencing the Nuremberg incident, Chen Xin clearly realized that if a city or area is lacking in manpower for management, it can let locals manage themselves; if short of troops, militias can be formed to protect their own homes.

By assigning some staff to guide and assist, such autonomy can save a large amount of manpower, restore control over previously separatist areas, and maintain good production efficiency.

Therefore, after discussions with the European aid fleet and reporting to domestic authorities for approval, Chen Xin planned a "Hands-off Motivate the Masses" initiative among European countries.

Through clearance by the United Security Forces, armed separatist forces from a city or region would be eliminated, then the populace’s self-governance would be bolstered.

Our side only needs to dispatch workgroups to assist early operations, allowing the autonomy committee to function, enabling these previously occupied cities, which neither supplied resources nor manpower, to exert their intended roles again.

As this plan unfolded, a considerable region soon regained control, and because these newly restored areas were originally resource mining areas, the European aid fleet suddenly found its supply of materials and raw resources enriched.

Yet this also exposed a problem: with an expanded area under actual control, management pressure increased, and there was a demand for security maintenance.

Forming militias to maintain security is certainly a method, but militia can only ensure local security. More places still require the United Security Forces to maintain order and public safety.

However, limited by the scale of the United Security Forces, the areas they can maintain and cover are also limited.

After all, they consist of only a brigade, though thirty Land Ships sound many, spread across all Europe, this force is truly insignificant.

Therefore, this necessitates the establishment of a new military force to expand the controlled regions.

What they need isn’t stationed troops within cities, for that role is already filled by militias; this new armed force must play the role of patrol troops.

Having a certain mobile force and armed capability, not passively stationed in one city but like the United Security Forces, capable of patrolling and maintaining order and security across more regions.

Moreover, this new force, ideally like the autonomy committees, should be an autonomous military instead of a puppet force established under the Flame Country’s support.

After all, the Flame Country’s investment in Europe is limited and cannot truly form a controlled military.

This is neither necessary nor beneficial.

Such a demand led Chen Xin to conceive the organizational form as the Knight regiment.

The Knight system is indeed a feature of Europe’s antiquity, and knight regiments as a military organization did maintain security back then.

Although largely applied in warfare as military units, it must be noted that knight regiments were indeed capable of significantly effectively maintaining order and security in vast regions.

Besides, Chen Xin’s idea wasn’t to form traditional feudal knight regiments but rather an organization closer to rangers.

Initially, adhering to a voluntary principle, knight regiments would recruit personnel from autonomous cities within their own regions, gather military resources, and then, with assistance from the aid fleet, establish and train armed forces, relying on their mobility to conduct regular patrols and security maintenance in that area, ensuring order along with militia forces.

If this system could operate, then within the regions controlled by autonomous cities, militias would primarily manage city security, with their functions more akin to the police.

Whereas knight regiments would be responsible for the entire area’s security, eliminating potential armed forces or factors affecting regional order, bearing the duty of collaborating with United Security Forces in combat, with functions more akin to the military. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

After Chen Xin proposed this plan and idea, despite skepticism from the aid fleet, the recently established autonomous cities showed great interest in this plan, and several knight regiments were formed under their support, quickly making an impact.