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In the fiercely competitive military, a quick step is a quick step. In order to achieve a faster pace than others, naturally many people want to be transferred to various armies in the Northeast.
As for running to fight, there are risks!
Joining the military is inherently risky. If you want to live a peaceful life, why not go to a military school? Wouldn't it be better to go directly to college and then take the imperial examination to become a civil servant?
What's more, the promotion system of the Tang Dynasty military has always given priority to officers with military merit and grassroots command experience. It is basically impossible for an officer who has been working as a staff officer and not on the front line to be promoted.
Hao Bainian's eldest son has to start from the position of deputy captain. During the war, he has to personally lead the soldiers to fight. Do you dare to say that your status is more noble than the prince's son? If you want to be promoted step by step without fighting on the battlefield, you let those who serve in the army
How unbearable is the situation for a large group of rich and powerful children!
When aristocratic children join the army, they have to start at the grassroots level, and most of them start directly from the grassroots ranks of the front-line troops, working their way up from deputy captain, captain, deputy battalion commander, and battalion commander.
There is no way, the promotion system of the Tang Dynasty military is so bad. If officers with professional command system don't lead troops at the grassroots level, they basically can't expect to go very far. And the goals of these powerful children are basically all pursued.
If you want to be a general, you have to be a colonel at the end, and if you want to reach this high position.
If you don’t have a convincing work experience and achievements, how can others convince you?
Just because you are a son of a noble? Are you kidding me? There are more than 800 nobles in the Tang Dynasty. Almost every noble has a son who joins the army, and there are more than one.
Moreover, in addition to the children of aristocrats, many other elite students from gentry families would also choose to apply for military academies to gain a noble status for their family.
As for the children from poor families, those monsters are even more terrifying!
At this stage, there are only a few ordinary people from poor families who can get into the military academy. They are basically monsters who came here with scholarships. When they get to the military academy, they are also the key training targets of the school, and these instructors
They are often the most powerful middle- and senior-level officers in the military. They are appreciated by their teachers, and their future is not that different.
He is a monster with his own abilities, and many big bosses appreciate and promote him, and there are also many big bosses who are eager to send their daughters, granddaughters, etc. to his bed for marriage. Such a child from a poor family is more terrifying than those pure aristocratic children!
If you look down on these poor people, you will accidentally become the villain in the saying "Thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, the young people in Moxi are poor".
And the villain is naturally very unlucky.
Nowadays, the officers of the Tang Dynasty military, especially those junior officers who have graduated from Wu Xuetang and Hai Xuetang in recent years, are actually Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragons. Although most of them are ordinary people, they have extraordinary status and backgrounds.
There are so many people.
In terms of origin, everyone may be different, but in terms of background, no one is worse than anyone else.
In this case, how do the superiors choose when they want to promote people?
There are many children of nobles and gentry. This person's father is an earl, that person's uncle is a marquis, and that person's biological father is a duke. In addition to military generals and nobles, there are also officials and officials. This person's father is a minister.
A senior official in the hall said that my father is the governor, and someone next door said that your father is nothing, and that I am the minister. Then another young man came and said lightly: "My grandfather is the minister of the court..."
Even if you are from a poor family, people will still say: "My teacher is a certain general! My father-in-law is a court elder..."
This is better than nothing!
Therefore, in order to avoid all kinds of favors, when promotion in the military is based on military merit and seniority, nothing else matters. If military merit is not enough, it doesn't matter if Hao Bainian is your father.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that status and background are useless. How do you get this military merit? We have to fight!
How do you get the chance to fight? The Tang Army had a total strength of 500,000 to 600,000, and the number of troops participating in the huge Northeast Campaign was only 100,000. Every carrot is a pit, and it is not easy to get the chance to fight and make contributions. This
At this time, the role of identity and background comes into play.
Anyway, this is not a promotion, it is just a transfer. If you really work hard, you can still do it.
Under this situation, the positions of various armies in the Northeast, especially the positions of chief officers at the battalion and regiment level, have become the favorites of the children of the powerful. Each of them is looking for connections and favors, hoping to be transferred to the Northeast to serve, and then
Join this battle.
For this reason, the officers in the Military and Administrative Department over at the Privy Council are having a lot of headaches. It's hard to offend them all, but the problem is, where do they get so many positions?
What's more, their Military and Political Department does not serve as father and mother for the children of powerful people, so except for a few favors that are really difficult to shirk, such as the appointment of Prince Hao Bainian, they can block others if they can, and then directly follow the training of their Military and Political Department
List arranger.
The Army Military and Administrative Department also has the same staff as the cabinet. They also have a list of key personnel for training. They are observed and selected level by level, and then train talents step by step. The ultimate goal is to train qualified senior officers.
general.
Although many officers were competing for the Northeast Campaign, and a lot of things happened in the process, which made the generals in the Military and Administrative Department of the Army Privy Council very angry, in the end, the personnel were finally arranged.
In addition, in addition to the intense concern within the Army, the Guards and Navy also wanted to intervene in this battle.
The Guards' side is quite simple, and the Army doesn't have much of an opinion, because in order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the Guards, and at the same time to solve the promotion problem of Guards officers, whenever a battle breaks out, the Guards
They will send troops to participate in the battle. In the previous Battle of Hetao, the Guards also sent a mixed brigade with a total strength of about 4,000 people to participate in the battle.
This time, the Guards will be no exception. Infantry, artillery, cavalry, engineers, baggage and other troops will be drawn from the existing First Division of the Guards and Second Division of the Guards to form a general
The 1st Temporary Guards Brigade with a strength of 7,000 men participated in the battle.
After many years of construction, the Guards now has two divisions and one cuirassier regiment. Moreover, these three troops are all troops that maintain full strength all year round. They will not be like other troops, engineers, baggage and other auxiliary troops.
The number of soldiers is insufficient and will only be replenished when the battle comes.
These three units of the Guards have maintained full combat readiness all year round. Although there are only two divisions and one regiment, their total strength has reached 40,000. Looking at the country, they cannot be underestimated.
However, because the Guards are stationed in Gyeonggi all year round, in order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the Guards, Li Xuan has made many reforms to the Guards. For example, strict and frequent training and exercises are conducted all year round, as well as equipment.
The most advanced weapons, such as all the artillery in the Guards, have been fully grenade-based, and the quality of the guns and artillery is the best.
However, the quality of equipment, training and even live-fire exercises are still difficult to solve the shortcomings caused by lack of actual combat experience. In order to ensure the purity and loyalty of the Guards, Li Xuan made all the officers in the Guards come from young military camps.
, soldiers are only recruited in Xingquan Prefecture, the land of Longxing, and there will be no large-scale transfer of army officers from the army.
Therefore, in order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the troops, especially to maintain actual combat experience, it is very necessary for the Guards to take turns on the battlefield.
Over the years, basically every large-scale battle in the Tang Empire would involve Guards. Sometimes there would be only a few hundred thousand people, and sometimes there would be four or five thousand people. When it comes to the Northeast
In a battle like this, the Guards directly dispatched 7,000 troops in one go.
Naturally, the Army has no objection to the Guards' troop dispatch requirements. Anyway, according to tradition, these forces of the Guards will also be under the jurisdiction of the Northeast Expeditionary Command and will be under the command of the Army.
As long as the Guards do not compete with the Army for command, the Army will generally ignore it.
But the Navy also wanted to have a hand in the Northeast Campaign, which made the Army a little unhappy.
The navy proposed that they could send river warships to go north along the Liao River. This was fine. However, the navy also proposed that they would also send marines to accompany the fleet deep into the Liao River in the northeast. This was said to be to cooperate with the army in combat, but the army did not respond to this.
Still feel unhappy.
The Northeast is the territory of the Army. It’s okay for your Navy to send warships to help in the battle, but you actually send the Marines over? You’re kidding. There are hundreds of thousands of our Army’s soldiers in the Northeast. Your Navy’s thousands of Marines are needed to help there. Yes.
Roll as far as you can.
However, the navy did not give up. People saw that the army would not take them to play, and they were unwilling to let the navy's marines enter the Liaohe River to fight. They simply did it themselves.
Within the navy, a battle plan has been secretly formulated to land in Vladivostok and the Heilongjiang estuary, and to go deep along the Heilongjiang River.
Vladivostok, this ranking may be very familiar to later generations, but to contemporary people, it is a strange place. Even the Twin City Guards located in the northwest of Vladivostok, few ordinary people in this era know about it.
However, the Navy is very familiar with the coastal port of Vladivostok. After the empire recovered the Koryo Peninsula, it established a military port in Busan, and then the Navy's warships began to patrol the North Sea.
However, in the North Sea, the Imperial Navy actually has no enemies, so most of the time, the navy's warships are wandering around, exploring the coastal areas of the North Sea.
They all ran along the coastline along the Fuso Coast in the east and the Tohoku Coast in the west. In fact, although it was not publicly announced, the navy's exploration ships had already arrived at Ezo Island (Hokkaido) and Kugu further north.
Island (Sakhalin).
The northeastern coast has also been explored early. The exploration ships of the Tang Dynasty Navy have even passed through the North Sea Strait (Tatar Strait) and entered a colder sea. The empire called this sea area according to the old name of the former Tang Dynasty.
It is called "Shaohai", and it is on the west side of the Beihai Strait, where the entrance of Heilongjiang is found.
However, in these places, with the exception of Ezo Island, where the Fuso people built small villages and other architectural groups with civilized characteristics, most of the other places have only savages and indigenous activities and are classified as civilized deserts.