Chapter 241 Appointment with Careful Thoughts (asking for a monthly ticket)
Fang Dongquan and the others' worries were not unreasonable, because Li Xuan had really considered letting those half-grown officers directly serve as battalion officers.
But after serious consideration, he gave up the idea!
This is not to say that those half-grown officers who came from the Guards do not have this ability. No matter how bad they are, they still have a year of study, can recognize some words, and have been taught by Li Xuan himself.
What did Li Xuan teach? It was basically based on the modern shootings in his memory.
Therefore, they may not be truly qualified officers, but they are definitely much stronger than bandit leaders like Fang Dongquan.
Even Wang Shanxu cannot compare with those young officers who are only in their teens in terms of professionalism.
But many times, it doesn't mean that you can ascend to a high position if you are capable, even if Li Xuan wants them to ascend to a high position.
Here we must also consider the prestige and influence of the officers themselves, as well as the internal unity of the Tang Dynasty.
Even if Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren and Chen Tufu were just bandit leaders, they were still the founding heroes. When Li Xuan fled to the mountains last year, Fang Dongquan and the others supported Li Xuan's ascension to the throne. Later, Huang Xueren, Cai Erhu and others
Although they surrendered, they did not surrender alone but with hundreds of people.
They themselves had relatively great influence within the Tang Dynasty.
So even if Li Xuan was reluctant in his heart, he would put Fang Dongquan and the others aside at this critical period.
This chills the hearts of the heroes!
Now the Tang dynasty only has a few thousand people, and the army doesn't even have a thousand people, so they are starting to play the game of suppressing the heroes. Others don't have to worry that they will end up like this.
Therefore, for the position of battalion officer, Li Xuan still does not intend to promote those young officers, but plans to continue to use veterans.
In addition, there is another important reason why he has not appointed battalion officers for each battalion, that is, he has no intention of throwing out all three battalion officers. As the main force, the First Infantry Battalion, he is prepared to personally command it.
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As an emperor, and an emperor who started as a rebel, it is not enough if he does not have some direct troops on hand, but it is okay for him as an emperor to personally serve as the commander-in-chief of the entire army, but if he wants to personally serve as the battalion officer of an infantry battalion, then there are some problems.
Too much.
That's why Li Xuan delayed for a while and thought of a way to solve the matter.
However, this matter did not drag on for too long. After six days at Liusha Village, more than 400 new soldiers were recruited, and the Second Infantry Battalion and the Third Infantry Battalion were formally established one after another. Li Xuan finally began to appoint the leaders of each unit.
Official.
The battalion officer of the 1st Infantry Battalion surprised many people. It was not Wang Shanxu, who had the greatest hope, nor the veteran Fang Dongquan, but Huang Xueren.
Although Huang Xueren is considered a veteran, people thought that he would serve as the battalion officer of one of the battalions, but they did not expect that he would serve as the battalion officer of the first battalion. After all, there are currently three infantry battalions in the Datang New Army, and only the first infantry battalion is
Officially formed into an army, the Second Infantry Battalion is still short of more than a hundred soldiers. Currently, there are less than 300 soldiers, and most of them are new recruits. As for the Third Infantry Battalion, there are even fewer soldiers. Currently, there are less than 100 soldiers.
When they arrived, they were all new recruits.
It can be seen from this that among the three infantry battalions, the second infantry battalion and the third infantry battalion are actually superficial. Only the first infantry battalion has combat effectiveness and is currently the absolute main force in the new army of the Tang Dynasty.
For such an infantry battalion, its battalion officers are naturally extremely important.
Li Xuan naturally had his own reasons for choosing Huang Xueren as the battalion officer of the First Infantry Battalion. On the one hand, Huang Xueren's prestige and qualifications were in the first echelon, and he was qualified to serve as the battalion officer. Secondly, he was a person
He was weaker than Fang Dongquan and Wang Shanxu, and the weakness of the battalion officer allowed Li Xuan to better directly command the 1st Infantry Battalion.
The battalion officer of the 2nd Infantry Battalion is Fang Dongquan, and the battalion officer of the 3rd Infantry Battalion is Wang Shanxu. These two people are expected to serve as battalion officers.
In addition to these three infantry battalions, there are also various troops directly under the Privy Council, such as the baggage battalion. Although this baggage battalion is an auxiliary force, its scale is not small at all. It has three teams with a total strength of 300 people, mainly former former soldiers.
The old bandits in Huangzhushan and the Ming army prisoners who surrendered.
The importance of the baggage camp is no less than that of the infantry battalion. The entire army must rely on the baggage camp for the food and ammunition it needs. For this reason, Li Xuan arranged for his uncle Bai Yunqi to serve as the battalion officer of the baggage camp.
Although Bai Yunqi is not good at fighting, he is still very good at persuading prisoners of the Ming army. Many soldiers in the supply camp are soldiers who were captured by the Ming army. At the same time, Bai Yunqi has managed the supply affairs many times. Now he is officially appointed as the leader of the supply camp.
Battalion officer is a more suitable arrangement for him.
The heavy armored sword and shield corps's team leader is still Tufu Chen, but although the officer is still the team officer, the scale of the sword and shield corps has expanded from more than 30 people to more than 80 people, which is far from the full establishment of 100 people.
Far.
Cai Erhu, the second fierce general in the Tang Dynasty who dared to charge and kill, was assigned to Chen Tiantian as his deputy and served as the deputy officer of the Sword and Shield Soldiers.
The captain of the cavalry is still Cao Mingda. Although this person made some mistakes some time ago, which made Li Xuan a little dissatisfied with him, he later worked hard and to be honest, Li Xuan can't find him now.
There are two cavalry officers who can replace him, so although I don't like them very much, I have to continue to use them.
The size of the cavalry also expanded from the previous dozen to more than thirty. During this period, the new army of the Tang Dynasty collected a group of horses from the countryside from the Ming army. The number was not large, and there were even more rideable ones.
Except for a few of these horses used as mounts for senior officers, the rest were given to the cavalry.
Next up is the archer team. The original 30-odd people plus the recently added 20-odd people barely managed to make up about 60 people. It is still far from the full strength of a team, but it doesn't matter.
The solution is that archers are a scarce unit and not easy to find. Among the ordinary recruits, there are not many ready-made archers at all, so they can only be found from prisoners of the Ming army.
The officer of the archer team was a surrendered general of the Ming army named Ouyang Shi. He surrendered with Zeng Ziwen when he was in Luohu Valley. He was originally a member of the Ming army and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty.
After the dynasty, because of his good archery skills, he was naturally placed in the hands of archers. At first, he was granted the title of Thousand Households in name only, but his actual position was that of a corps commander.
For such a former Ming Dynasty general to be promoted as a team officer, there is naturally a lot of secrets behind this!