Eventually, the bakufu rikugun became the largest western-style military organization in Japan, centering on 8 regiments of infantry and 3 battalion of learning infantry (some sais that it should be 9 regiments as the sixteenth regiment was established in the territory of Harima of Hitotsubashi Tokugawa family).
最終時点で、幕府陸軍は歩兵隊8個連隊（一橋徳川家の播磨領で第16連隊が編成されて、計9個連隊であるとも言われる。）と伝習歩兵隊3個大隊を中核に、日本最大の西洋式軍事組織となっていた。