The two hundred and fortieth chapters formulate military ranks and uniforms
Now that the new army of the Tang Dynasty has expanded, there are not enough high-level generals. Moreover, he was Zeng Ziwen's confidant, so he also mentioned being a team officer this time.
The remaining units include the artillery team and the grenadier team that Li Xuan has thought about in the past two days, but these two units are still in paper plans. Why? Because the Tang Dynasty does not yet have artillery and grenades.
The above arrangement can be regarded as an arrangement for veteran generals, but Li Xuan also arranged deputy battalion officers in the three infantry battalions and the baggage battalion, and these four deputy battalion officers were all Guards officers, and
Still, the first team officer of each battalion serves as a part-time officer.
From this move, we can once again see how eager Li Xuan is to promote those young officers.
According to Li Xuan's plan, as long as the follow-up arrangements are good, it is natural for these deputy battalion officers to gradually replace the command of the main battalion officers such as Fang Dongquan.
After arranging all personnel, Li Xuan issued two other plans non-stop. One was to distribute uniforms to the entire army, and the other was to formally formulate a military rank system.
In the past, although the organization of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty was a bit chaotic, it was still organized, but the uniforms and ranks were completely messed up.
Not to mention military uniforms, everyone wears their own clothes. That is to say, last year, Li Xuan issued a set of civilian clothes that were not considered military uniforms to the soldiers of the former Guards.
The military ranks are even more confusing. The military ranks in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty are also their respective military titles. However, the titles are passed on indiscriminately, so that there are countless Qianhu, general soldiers, and guerrillas. Many small soldiers have the title of Qianhu.
, so that no one took it seriously afterwards.
Now, Li Xuan plans to formulate a standard and strict military rank system.
Since the new army of the Tang Dynasty had ruined the military rank system copied from the Ming Dynasty, many people looked down upon Qianhu General Soldiers and the like. For this reason, Fang Dongquan and the others unanimously requested that Qianhu, etc. be the new military rank.
Just stop playing and get a different one, otherwise no one will pay attention to it, and it will not be easy to deal with the Thousand Household General Soldiers awarded in the past.
To this end, Ma Wei and others read many books from ancient times, especially the official system of the pre-Qin, Han and Tang dynasties, and initially proposed a military rank system such as general, left-right general, military academy, and captain.
Then Li Xuan took a look and thought, well, it's similar to those of later generations, so why not just use the modern military ranks that he is more familiar with! He didn't know that the names of later military ranks actually refer to military positions in ancient times.
So this time he lazily copied the military ranks of later generations and came up with a whole set of military ranks: general, lieutenant general, major general, colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, lieutenant, second lieutenant, and warrant officer, sergeant, sergeant, and corporal.
And in order to show his grandeur as a great nation, he also established the military rank of general above general.
However, although military ranks have been established, how to distribute them is a problem. In order to control the proliferation of military ranks, Li Xuan decided to distribute them leisurely.
First of all, he shamelessly assigned himself the rank of major general. Why did he assign himself such a low-level military rank of major general? It was just to suppress those below him and not grant them the rank of general.
Even though I am the emperor, I am only a major general. How dare you ask for the rank of general? At your own risk?
Even in order to avoid suspicion, Fang Dongquan and Wang Shanxu did not even dare to ask for a colonel or lieutenant colonel, and only wanted a major.
After confirming the military ranks of Fang Dongquan and Wang Shanxu, it will be much easier to handle the other personnel. They will be assigned according to their positions. Under normal circumstances, the battalion officer will be assigned to major, the deputy battalion officer will be assigned to captain, the team officer will be assigned to captain, the deputy team officer will be assigned to lieutenant, and the platoon leader will be assigned
Second lieutenant, deputy platoon leader and warrant officer.
Soldiers are assigned the rank of private, private, corporal, sergeant, or staff sergeant based on service time and meritorious service.
However, the matching of positions and military ranks is not specific. At the same time, some special circumstances must be considered. For example, Chen Tufu and Cai Erhu, one of them is a team officer and the other is a deputy team officer, but the team they lead is a heavy armored sword and shield soldier.
Ah, armored elites have never been comparable to ordinary soldiers. What's more, they were originally subordinate to the generals with other generals. They can't be majors because the others are just lieutenants.
Therefore, Li Xuan specially approved Chen Tufu and Cai Erhu with the rank of major.
In order to match their two major team officers, deputy team officers, the platoon leader and deputy platoon leader in the Sword and Shield Soldiers and even ordinary soldiers have relatively high military ranks. The platoon leader is a lieutenant, the deputy platoon leader is a second lieutenant, and more than half of the soldiers are
The remaining half of the non-commissioned officers are also privates, and there are no privates.
This heavy armored sword and shield troop, based on the special nature of the unit, is equipped with a higher level of equipment. Only in this way can the gangsters in the heavy armored sword and shield troop be convinced. Each of them is wearing a heavy armor.
The elite soldiers of A are responsible for attacking the enemy's array and tearing apart the enemy's defense lines every time they fight. If you let them have the same military rank as those new recruits, they will not be convinced.
After the military rank system was finalized, Li Xuan officially announced that all the military titles previously awarded to generals, generals, qianhu, etc. would be abolished and new military ranks would be used from now on. This finally changed the various qianhu titles of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.
The title of Commander-in-Chief is flying all over the place.
The establishment of military ranks was actually quite simple for the Tang Dynasty. Li Xuan casually flipped through two books and determined it. Most of the soldiers were illiterate and had no idea whether the new military ranks sounded good or not, and whether the talismans conformed to the etiquette system.
The subsequent formulation of military uniforms is more troublesome. It is not a question of style. The question of style is simple. Just put the top on and bottom on the trousers. This is how they are worn now, especially the soldiers in the army. As long as the details are slightly changed, such as trousers.
It should be tighter, with straps on the calves, and a button design on the right side of the top for ease of wearing.
If it weren't for etiquette issues and fear of causing criticism if too many changes were made, Li Xuan would have just used the buttons in the middle.
In order to be highly identifiable, especially when the battlefield is filled with smoke after the musketeers opened fire, the clothes must be brightly colored, so the design of a blue top and red trousers was adopted to avoid too much noise.
But the design of military uniforms is simple, but the problem is that these more than a thousand people need at least two thousand sets of military uniforms. After all, you can't just issue one set of military uniforms to the soldiers, you have to give the soldiers a change of uniforms!
The amount of fabric required for more than two thousand sets of military uniforms is not a small amount. I originally grabbed a lot of cloth in Zhengtai County, but unfortunately I threw it away when I ran away.
In recent times, in order to fulfill his promise of not sparing lives and not looting, Li Xuan has not looted cloth on a large scale. Therefore, the cloth needed for the military uniforms is really not that easy to solve. He has sent people out to purchase cloth for several days in a row without even trying.
Find enough surprises.
Just when Li Xuan was worried about the military uniforms, an old man came to Liusha Village with a few followers and asked to see Li Xuan, saying that he could solve the cloth problem for the new army of the Tang Dynasty.