The best thing in the military level is naturally the military rank.

Especially on the battlefield, after the inherent organization is broken up, the best way to help the soldiers find their backbone is to confirm their military rank.

Those with low ranks only need to obey the command of high ranks, and the team will quickly gather and restore a certain combat effectiveness.

Bai Xiaoqi reminded Zuo Menggeng that he decided to implement a military rank system in the back camp.

"Military rank?"

"What is a military rank?"

Zuo Menggeng explained: "Although military rank is a new name, its purpose has been in ancient times. For example, marshals and generals are actually military ranks. For example, Huo Qubing's General of the Cavalry, you can also consider it a military rank. What we need to do is to display the rank in a way so that the entire battalion can quickly confirm the opponent's rank, which is conducive to the establishment of the army's command system."

It is necessary to digest it slowly, and it is necessary to understand it.

Ancient armies also had methods to distinguish levels.

The armor of the marshal and general is different from others, and is particularly obvious on the battlefield, and of course it is easy to become a target for concentrated fire.

Even at the bottom, the military uniforms of the team and the small flag were slightly different from those of ordinary soldiers.

When we arrive at the back camp, the military uniforms from top to bottom are consistent, and there is a clear sign to distinguish the levels.

Of course, this sign cannot be too obvious.

Otherwise, when the enemy arrives on the battlefield, you will see that you are a general from a distance, and you will definitely attack this.

During this period, Zuo Menggeng had already thought it properly.

In front of everyone, he drew a simple military uniform style on the blackboard and pointed to the left chest of the military uniform.

"We can sew different numbers and colors of cloth strips here to distinguish military ranks."

He drew a slender strip of cloth on his left chest, which was about a little longer than his index finger.

"A new recruit who has just joined the army is a corporal. The rank is marked with a bar, colorless."

Colorless means white.

Because the military uniforms in the back camp are blue, it is more obvious to use white rank bars.

"Soldiers who have served for a certain period of time, or soldiers who have made meritorious service, will be promoted to sergeant. The rank is marked as a bar, two colors."

It was a very simple way, as soon as he said it, many people understood it on the spot.

If the two soldiers who broke up on the battlefield meet together, just look at the rank on your chest, you corporal, my sergeant, listen to me.

It's simple and clear, and it's easy for soldiers to remember.

"A sergeant is a three-color squad, and he can be the backbone of the team or the deputy team leader."

A small team in the back battalion was equivalent to a platoon in later generations, so the deputy team was rank of sergeant, so they barely made up for it.

"Two bars are tied with each other, and Wuse is the second lieutenant, and can serve as the chief of the team."

The rank of the squad leader is obviously different from other officers of the same level, which helps maintain the authority of the squad leader and better command the squad.

"If you are a lieutenant with two bars and two colors, you can serve as a squadron chief and deputy chief officer."

A squadron has one hundred people, which is equivalent to a company level, and the lieutenant happens to be an officer of this level.

"The two bars and three colors are captains, and they can serve as the chief of the squadron and deputy officer of the brigade team."

The ranks of squadrons and squads are not concerned about them. After all, everyone is a brigade-level officer, and they are more concerned about what ranks they can get.

"San Bars are the major, and can serve as a brigade's top officer."

"Ah? I'm a major."

Zuo Hua screamed, quite disappointed.

Zuo Menggeng smiled angrily.

"Do you want to be a general in a brigade of more than 300 people?"

Zuo Hua was scolded and lowered his head, which made everyone laugh.

However, everyone has also felt that this military rank will obviously have great room for improvement in the future.

After all, the back battalion is just an extremely small military unit and will definitely expand in the future.

"The three bars and two colors are lieutenant colonels, and they can serve as the chief of the brigade, battalion-level adjutant, and battalion-level general."

Zuo Yong asked, "Qianzu, then you are a lieutenant colonel, right?"

Zuo Menggeng shook his head.

"I'm not."

Everyone was confused.

He is obviously Mr. Qian, so why is he not the rank of lieutenant colonel?

Zuo Menggeng ignored everyone's doubts and continued to popularize the next military ranks.

The three bars and three colors are colonels, corresponding to Dusi, and the specific organization is unknown.

Zuo Menggeng didn't say that because the Ming army was above the camp, there was no specific organization. The number of military commanders at all levels varies, and there was no unified standard.

He made up his mind that once the battalion expands in the future, he will no longer inherit the Ming army's organizational habits.

The four bars are general-level officers, and they are also divided into three types: colorless, two-color, and three-color, corresponding to major general, lieutenant general and general.

Finally, Zuo Menggeng said: "The four bars are at the level of generals and above, and there is no distinction between colors. There is only one type, five bars and five colors, representing the Grand Marshal, and I personally take it."

Everyone was stunned and then burst into laughter.

But no one raised any objections to this setting.

Although Zuo Menggeng is just a Qianzheng now, he is everyone's leader. It is meaningless to discuss whether to get promoted or not.

On the contrary, it is better to get to the top in one step.

However, this also tells everyone that in the future, the highest level of the army will be the general.

But if you think about it carefully, the general is also very majestic.

Zuo Menggeng took a comprehensive consideration to mark the rank on his chest rather than on his shoulders.

First of all, he has the same rank and qualifications as general.

There is no need to get a qualification in this era. You can't expect the soldiers of this era to recognize them at a glance. On the contrary, it is not as simple and direct as a military rank, and it is easy to remember soldiers.

The second is to save costs.

Sewing eaves is not a big deal, but sewing eaves for every military expenditure is a huge expense.

And the epaulette will not be too reliable in any case and will easily fall off.

Later troops only added epaulettes to their regular clothes and dresses, and never saw this thing on field military uniforms.

Instead, the military rank is marked with a collar seal.

Since the qualifications and military rank were combined, Zuo Menggeng simply placed the display position of the military rank on his left chest.

When making military uniforms, just use some needles and thread to sew them on them. The location is very obvious and easy to identify.

This is only possible after the military uniforms of the back camp have been removed from the armor and rivets. Traditional Ming army uniforms with helmets and armor will cover up the rank.

The military rank system was unanimously recognized by everyone and was quickly promoted throughout the army.

Wang Xiuqin's military uniform factory quickly added military ranks to the new military uniforms, while the military uniforms that have been issued were added.

Through military ranks, the soldiers quickly clarified the relationship between superiors and subordinates, and the training progress was greatly accelerated.

After solving a problem, Zuo Menggeng hid in the laboratory again and focused on solving potassium chlorate.

The overall development of the fire hat gun has come to an end, and the firing medicine has dragged the back.

The progress was very fast when mercury lysate was used to configure mercury lysate through laboratory methods. After ten days, Zuo Menggeng finally produced potassium chlorate.

After the fusion of mercury lysate and potassium chlorate is the mercury lysate explosive with stable medicinal properties.

The material of the fire hat is the simplest to get out mercury lysate.

If you pay attention to it, you can use copper. If you don’t care so much, you can use paper to make it.

After thinking about it, Zuo Menggeng chose Tie.

If paper is easily damaged, it will cause great waste.

Copper is too expensive and rare.

Iron is much simpler, Zuozhuang is already smelting iron.

The blacksmiths have the ability to make iron sheets as thin as cicada wings, and making fire hats is no problem.

The next thing to do is to carefully record the production process of mercury lysate.

Zuo Menggeng divided it into dozens of links and then taught it to Zuo Dai.

This is an absolute killer weapon, and can only be controlled by trustworthy people.

After Zuo Dai received the order, he immediately began to prepare a mercury lysate factory.
To be continued...