Chapter 160 Soldier Rank
The Huaihuang Army's reorganization brought nearly 20,000 troops from a scattered state, which was a great move. For Ling Yun, integrating Huaihuang's troops early would be of great benefit to him strengthening his control of the army and controlling Huaihuang. Especially after the battle in Taoshan, Ling Yun also discovered many weaknesses of Huaihuang's army. For example, there were too few soldiers who could fight. Although he only brought 5,000 troops to fight last time, they were actually all the soldiers who could fight in Huaihuang. That is, they met the Taoshan Army who underestimated the enemy, and they held the secret trump card of the Changbow Camp. By chance, the other party was deceived and did not find the secret of the Huaihuang Army's Changbow Camp at all. Therefore, they crashed into the death zone on the bank of the river, and finally suffered an unimaginable blow and casualties, and were directly defeated.
But although the long archers of Huaihuang Army were powerful at that time, they were considered to be the end of the strong oar. After continuous shooting, the archers used up all their strength, and the bows and arrows were almost exhausted. If the enemy was not so careless, did not rely on that favorable terrain, or even if the enemy was a little more tenacious, they would not be able to fight.
In response to these, Ling Yun reorganized his troops again. The first thing is to expand the longbowman who made great contributions and showed his power. It turned out that there were a total of 1,600 crossbowmen. Ling Yun got about 4,600 longbowmen this time. With more than 2,000 crossbowmen, the crossbowmen reached a huge organization of more than 6,000 people. Next time there will be another battle, the longbowmen will be able to exert greater power and the battle will last longer.
In addition, Ling Yun also expanded the cavalry unit, one cavalry battalion and a direct cavalry reconnaissance regiment, with about two thousand troops.
Another significant change is that Ling Yun separated the warriors and auxiliary soldiers. Although a baggage battalion and an engineering corps were still established in the Huaihuang army this time, they were separated from the warriors and formed separate units. Among the battalion and regiment teams, only pure warriors were left. Although the auxiliary soldiers were established, they were directly under the military headquarters. The new establishment of the engineering corps was also a major change. The engineering corps was responsible for manufacturing various military equipment, and even for opening roads, paving bridges, setting up camps, and solving these tasks for the warriors, so that they could concentrate on fighting. The baggage battalion escorted equipment, food, and even cooking, and treating the wounded. In short, the division of labor was clear and each did its own job.
Of course, this adaptation also brought about a change, that is, the changes in the officials of the new Huaihuang Army's battalion and regiments. Although the highest was originally a battalion, the first battalion had a maximum of one thousand people, but now the first battalion had nearly one thousand cavalry and nearly three thousand infantry. There were originally fifteen battalions, but now the battalion has been greatly reduced. At the same time, the officers of each battalion have more troops.
Many people are staring at these new battalion locations.
There are four camps and one cavalry battalion, and the real main force is only these five battalions. In addition, the logistics battalion belongs to the logistics force, and no one can watch it.
It turned out that the fifteen battalions and lieutenants now had to compete for the positions of these five battalions and generals, and the competition was very fierce. Especially the cavalry battalions, which used to have Eight Cavalry to join the army, but now there is only one cavalry battalion.
The reorganization of the new camp was very quick. Based on the six elite battalions of the Third Battalion of the Private Army and the Third Battalion of the Outer Camp in the original tent, the Nine Battalions of the Outer Town Army and the Longbow Camp were all supplemented.
The new army filled it up quickly like a duck-crapped one, but it was not so easy to really bring them up. First of all, from top to bottom, Ling Yun has scratched his head more recently. The positions of senior battalion-level officers were greatly reduced compared to the original ones, and many officers were demoted. This is a troublesome thing, and no one would be happy if anyone was demoted. However, there were too many monks and less porridge, and two-thirds of the former senior officers were demoted.
Another problem is that there are too few low-level officers. In this way, it is extremely important to maintain combat effectiveness in such expansion, middle- and low-level officers, especially to be led by some low-level officers at the ranks of ranks. In the current new military system, one group of three ranks, one rank has only three people, and three people have one rank commander. In the case of the first and second ranks, there are more than 10,000 combat soldiers in the entire army and nearly 4,000 rank commanders. Ling Yun could not send all the veterans to be rank commanders, so how could the troops still have combat effectiveness? What's more, there are more than 1,000 rank commanders in the entire army.
Ling Yun had to sigh, no wonder he said that soldiers were not easy to practice, but they were indeed difficult to practice.
"Let Shan Xiongxin be the cavalry battalion general, and Qin Shubao be the deputy battalion general." Ling Yun rubbed his head and looked at the list of original battalion owners in front of him. "As for the four battalions, I think they will choose Wang Bodang, Dou Jiande, Gao Jia and Wang Bao." Ling Yun also had good intentions for the four battalion generals. The four different forces, the Gao family and the Tiger Alliance, were considered to be balanced.
"Let Zhang Jin be called the captain of the reconnaissance regiment, Huang Junhan commands the baggage camp, and Su Yong commands the engineering corps."
When selecting the leaders and generals of each battalion, Ling Yun deliberately ignored Yang Guang's subordinates who came from Huainan.
After the list of the battalion officials was announced, it did not cause any noise. It can be said that this list took care of all forces under Ling Yun's army, but suppressed the Yangzhou faction, so everyone agreed to this result. Although Sima Dekan was very dissatisfied, he also knew that Yi Feng had won two major victories in a row, and his strength expanded very quickly. Even if he opposed it loudly, Yi Feng would probably not pay attention to him. After all, he only had more than 300 people in his hands, and now all of them were scattered by Yi Feng.
Among the more than ten thousand army, Yi Feng held a big stick in one hand and sweet dates in the other hand. All kinds of gifts were delivered to him every now and then, so he was so happy that he turned a blind eye. Anyway, he would return to the King of Jin sooner or later, and he didn't really plan to stay in the northern part of the north for a lifetime. Besides, in his opinion, even if the Huaihuang Army won twice, it was just a group fight between the parishes. No matter how many people were placed, it was still nothing compared to the real elite soldiers of the Great Sui Mansion.
Shan Xiongxin, Wang Bodang and other new battalion officials were appointed, and they immediately began to form their own battalion divisions one by one.
But soon, the four infantry generals, Wang Bodang, Gao Jia, Dou Jiande and Wang Bao, started arguing, and then they argued all the way to Ling Yun. The four generals were red in their faces and almost started fighting.
In fact, the reason for their quarrel is very simple, competing for the longbower.
Four new infantry battalions were formed. In addition to the command level and direct troops at all levels, each battalion had fifty teams, including twenty steps of the Longbowman, ten crossbowman, ten spearman, and ten swordsman. The five hundred spearman and five hundred swordsman were easy to find, even five hundred crossbowman was easy to find, but one thousand long archers were not that easy to find. Last battle, everyone saw the power of the Longbowman. The extremely long and range, and extremely fast firing rate could make the enemy shoot directly if they were not close. But they all saw it, especially Wang Bodang, who had been the leader of the Longbowman, who knew very well that the sharp three-pointer of the Longbowman relies on the Longbowman, and seven-pointer relies on the Longbowman.
Huaihuang Army had enough longbows to equip each battalion, but there were not enough excellent longbowmen to all battalions. It turned out that one thousand six hundred longbowmen was divided into one battalion, and each battalion was at least six hundred. If everyone had divided it equally, although it was a little less, it was fair after all. As a result, Wang Bodang used his battalion leader to use this relationship to secretly give his old subordinates a lot of benefits, and then made the longbowmen fight to take the initiative to go to Wang Bodang's battalion. Now the other three battalions were unwilling to do so. Originally, the longbowmen were short, so you still want it.
If we have more points, what should we do? Faced with the other three camp owners, Wang Bodang insisted that everyone would voluntarily choose his camp, but Dou Jiande, Wang Bao and Gao Jia were not so easy to meet, especially Wang Bao, who was the old horse thief who ranked first in the 18 cavalry of Yanyun. Relying on Ling Yun's confidant, he did not give Wang Bo face. Gao Jia was also not polite. Dou Jiande was smarter and kept standing next to pretend to talk about the truth, but in fact he had been flirting with the two of Wang Bao and Gao Jia. Naturally, he couldn't continue to talk about the relationship, and in the end he only came to find arbitration in front of Ling Yun.
Faced with such a problem, he also had a headache. Longbowers are indeed very demanding. Longbowers are easy to control, but longbowers are hard to find.
Not only are the long bowmen above 1.75 meters tall, they also have to grow their hands and have strong strength, at least they have to draw hard bows of more than one stone, and they can only draw bows. You must at least be able to draw more than seven arrows in one minute. Otherwise, the long bow's long range is super fast firing rate, and the conditions are not low.
"Or, go to the 20,000 prisoners of war to choose some suitable ones. There are always so many prisoners of war?" Dou Jiande knew that he could not compete with the other three, so he began to attack the prisoners of war. There was no way. The 1,600 Longbowmen could only be considered semi-skilled Longbowmen. The remaining soldiers were not qualified at all. After selecting them for a long time, there were no more qualified ones. Such soldiers were born inadequate. Even if they were practicing, they would not be able to achieve any results. It would be better to change them earlier.
Ling Yun shook his head: "Those prisoners of war are not available yet!"
This is a red line. The expansion now makes the troops a little scattered and difficult to control. If the bandits and prisoners of war are engraved into the army, it would not be even more troublesome. In the Lingyun Plan, these bandits must first brainwash for three months and teach them various rules of Huaihuang Town. During these three months, they are actually equivalent to a closed-door life in the warehouse, with the purpose of polishing the bit of bandits' aura, polishing their edges and corners, and also finding out their identity and background. After three months, they can't be released. They have to be sent to build walls, cities and houses. This process will take at least half a year. Then they will be sent to open mountains, build roads and mine, at least one year. Then, they will be arranged for other work for them according to their performance, or selected into the army. If they perform poorly, continue to mine. Lingyun is worried about letting them out.
"One thousand six long archers, four battalions are divided equally, each battalion is 400." Ling Yun made an arbitration impartially. "You can recruit and select the remaining long archers, and whoever has the ability will recruit. Of course, I will also create a condition for you. Cavalry has monthly cavalry allowances, and I will also increase the long archers' allowances every month. As long as you are admitted to the Long Bow Team, you will give the military allowances every month. With this condition, you will surely attract excellent archers to be tested. In addition, you can also train yourself. As long as you are in the right physical condition, it doesn't matter if you can't shoot archers for the time being. You can teach it. You must carry forward the spirit of not waiting or relying on it. If you don't have long archers, you can practice a group of long archers yourself."
After resolving this dispute, several battalion leaders raised another question: there were too few soldiers at the bottom.
"This problem has also troubled me for a long time." Ling Yun nodded, and finally he knocked on the table and said, "I have a preliminary idea now, and plan to quickly train a group of troupes to grow."
"How to train this?" Several people were a little puzzled. The sergeant commander has never been considered an officer, but can only be considered a soldier leader. In the army of each dynasty, only those who have become the top of the team can be considered a rank of officers. The rest are all in the class, and they are not even considered in the class. But in fact, the sergeant commander of the army has a huge role in the army, and these are the core foundations of an army. But under normal circumstances, these sergeant commanders basically only promote experienced veterans, but now the Huaihuang Army lacks this kind of veterans the most.
Ling Yun picked up a letter from the table and handed it to several people, "I'll calculate it. Below the team leader, the deputy team leader, and plan to be appointed as the tenth-level soldier."
"Soldier level?"
"It is equivalent to the scattered rank of military officers, but it is only for soldiers with no rank below the team leader to reward the soldiers for fighting bravely."
This military capital is basically equivalent to the military ranks of soldiers and non-commissioned officers in later generations. In fact, this level of ten military capital is basically a kind of soldier level from the Southern Song Dynasty.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, due to the urgent situation, more soldiers were needed. However, after recruiting soldiers in the Song Dynasty, they often had to tattoo their faces or arms, which led to many people not willing to recruit them. In order to solve this situation, a special soldier appeared at that time, which was the utility. These effects were equivalent to voluntary soldiers. They voluntarily joined the army, so the imperial court did not tattoo them on their faces. Moreover, because they were voluntary soldiers and many of them were literati, the status of these people in the army was much higher than that of ordinary soldiers. Whether it was military pay or various rewards, they were higher than ordinary soldiers. These effects had ten levels, so Ling Yun took these levels of utility as the ranks of soldiers and non-commissioned officers of the soldiers of Huaihuang Army.
"One Prisoner, two Prisoner, three Prisoner, four Prisoner, five Prisoner, six Prisoner, seven Prisoner, eight Prisoner, nine Prisoner, ready to call, ten Prisoner! " Dou Jiande held the paper and read carefully. " Is this for the unqualified sergeant? " r1152
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