Chapter 437 Don't want to be promoted, what do you want?
The navy of the Tang Dynasty was just an empty show, so let’s not mention it, but the army of the Tang Dynasty was real!
According to Li Xuan's decree, it was the establishment of the "Datang Army".
The highest and only commander-in-chief of the Tang Army was the emperor himself!
The emperor had all rights over the Army of the Tang Dynasty, including personnel transfer, troop mobilization, combat command, etc., all known and unknown matters.
At the same time, all the units under the original New Army of the Tang Dynasty were renamed the Army of the Tang Dynasty, and the corresponding numbers will also be changed. The numbers of all troops will be added with the prefix of the Army of the Tang Dynasty!
For example, the First Brigade of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty was renamed the First Infantry Brigade of the Army of the Tang Dynasty!
At the same time, the names of several garrison regiments will also be changed. For example, the Sixth Infantry Regiment of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty will be renamed the First Guard Regiment of the Tang Army!
Judging from the numbers, it can be seen that the army system of the Tang Dynasty will form two systems: the regular army and the garrison army.
After the designation change, the Datang Army will have a number of regular army units, including the First Infantry Brigade of the Datang Army, which has the First Infantry Regiment and the Second Infantry Regiment; the Second Infantry Brigade of the Datang Army, which has the Third Infantry Brigade.
Corps, the 4th Infantry Regiment; the 5th Infantry Regiment, the 1st Artillery Battalion, the 1st Cavalry Battalion and other regular army units under the direct jurisdiction of the Privy Council.
In addition, the Tang Army will also have a large number of garrison troops under its jurisdiction!
The previous 6th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Regiment, and 8th Infantry Regiment were reorganized into the 1st Garrison Regiment, 2nd Garrison Regiment, and 3rd Garrison Regiment respectively.
At the same time, the Fourth Guard Regiment, the Fifth Guard Regiment, the Sixth Guard Regiment, and the Seventh Guard Regiment were newly established, a total of four brand-new defense regiments!
Naturally, these seven garrison regiments cannot all be directly commanded by the Privy Council, so they cannot be commanded at all!
These seven garrison regiments will follow the example of the regular army and set up three garrison brigades and a temporarily independent garrison regiment. The main task of these three garrison brigades and one garrison regiment is to cooperate with the regular army in combat!
Secondly, in some less important places, you can also undertake some secondary combat tasks!
Of course, it would be unreliable to let them engage in a large-scale decisive battle with the Ming army alone!
Judging from the numbers, the Tang Army will have a total of five brigades, two independent infantry regiments, one baggage regiment and other directly affiliated battalions, teams and other units. If calculated based on the full establishment, the total strength is
A very scary number, which will reach nearly 40,000 people.
According to standards, an infantry battalion has five teams, with a total strength of about 550 people, and each infantry regiment has five battalions. If auxiliary forces are included, the total strength of an infantry regiment is nearly 3,000.
people.
Among them, the five infantry regiments of the regular army alone will have 15,000. In addition, the regular army also has the first baggage regiment, the first artillery battalion, the first cavalry battalion, the first military police battalion and other units. Therefore, if the full establishment is
If calculated, the total strength of the regular army will reach 17,000.
But in fact, the current regular army of the Datang Army is only more than 12,000, which is far from reaching full strength.
On the contrary, the personnel establishment in the garrison is relatively full!
Because the garrison troops are organized based on the existing prisoners, and a regiment will be expanded when there are 3,000 men. Therefore, most of the current seven garrison regiments are fully equipped, and only the seventh garrison regiment is insufficient in number.
However, even if it is not fully staffed, the existing Tang Army has 12,000 regular troops and 20,000 garrison troops, and the total number of troops has reached more than 30,000.
With such a huge force, the amount of food consumed every day is not a small amount!
And the key thing is that among these 30,000 people, there are not many who can actually fight. Needless to say the garrison, except for the first garrison battalion and the second garrison battalion, which have been in existence for a long time, their combat strength is pretty good.
Most of the others are just scum and are no stronger than ordinary Ming army guards!
In the regular army, it was also because of the recruitment of new soldiers and the large number of surrendered troops from the Ming Army that among the 12,000 people, there were only a few thousand veterans who could actually fight, and most of these soldiers were concentrated in the 1st Infantry Regiment and the 1st Infantry Regiment.
The second infantry regiment, the third infantry regiment, and the fourth infantry regiment are the main battalions of the four main forces.
Including three main battalions of the 1st Infantry Regiment, three main battalions of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, three main battalions of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, and one main battalion of the 4th Infantry Regiment.
If you calculate it this way, you will find that the main forces that can be fought in the Tang Dynasty Army are actually the same ones, with a total of only ten main battalions!
The remaining troops are either new troops or surrendered troops, and their combat effectiveness is worrying!
But no matter what, the size of the Tang Army expanded again, and the expansion was extremely fast. After only two battles, the strength of the army doubled, which was much faster than recruiting soldiers to expand the army!
Li Xuan issued the decree to establish the Army of the Tang Dynasty, which established the two systems of the regular army and the garrison army. At the same time, after establishing four new garrison regiments and establishing three garrison brigades based on the garrison regiments, the Army of the Tang Dynasty
All departments are busy again, especially the Privy Council, which is extremely busy!
As the commanding body of the Tang Navy and Army, the Privy Council has departments such as the Operations Department, Training Department, Ordnance Department, etc. that are responsible for the entire army. Whenever such a major incident occurs, they are extremely busy.
Li Xuan casually said that he wanted to build four new garrison regiments and form three garrison brigades.
But even if the soldiers in these troops have already surrendered from the Ming army, and their weapons and equipment also include captured weapons and equipment, these troops still need officers, and even if they are garrison troops, they still need two hundred regular soldiers in each infantry regiment.
Pressure the battle!
Where did these officers and regular soldiers come from?
This is a big problem!
In order to meet the large demand for officers due to the expansion of the Tang Dynasty Army, the Quanxu Department of the Privy Council has rapidly promoted a large number of officers!
Some illiterate ordinary soldiers who were rarely promoted and used in the past are now being promoted and used!
Especially some senior non-commissioned officers, most of them were not promoted before. Even if they were promoted, they were allowed to enter the martial arts school to study. After the study, they would be awarded the official rank of second lieutenant and serve as officers.
But it is naturally too late now. Many of the senior non-commissioned officers with meritorious service were promoted to officers by the direct line of fire. However, most of these officers promoted by the line of fire were awarded the rank of warrant officer and served as platoon leaders.
At the same time, in order to alleviate the shortage of officers, the Datang Army no longer required officers to hold the positions of platoon leader and deputy platoon leader, and began to let non-commissioned officers serve as deputy platoon leaders. Some units will also have senior non-commissioned officers.
Serve as platoon leader.
As for the lack of officers in the garrison, senior non-commissioned officers have been used to serve as platoon leaders before. Now there are a few special cases where senior non-commissioned officers are used as deputy captains. However, this is only a special case. As for Quan Xusi,
Even if they are beaten to death, they will not admit it. These senior non-commissioned officers who serve as deputy captains in the garrison are often candidates who are about to be promoted to full officers. It will not take long for them to become warrant officers.
In order to allow these non-commissioned officers to serve as officers, the Tang Army also specially established a new non-commissioned officer rank "sergeant major", whose status is higher than that of sergeant, sergeant and corporal.
This has also created a phenomenon, that is, in a team, only the captain and deputy captain are the most powerful officers. Among the six platoon leaders, some are officers, but some are senior sergeants. As for the deputy platoon leaders, they have all become
Become a sergeant major or staff sergeant.
In fact, such a ratio of officers and soldiers is more suitable. In the past, the Tang Army had a team with thirteen officers, large and small, which was too many. Nowadays, a team is equipped with two lieutenants as standard, and occasionally one more.
Two platoon commander officers are more suitable.
In the modern army, the proportion of junior officers in the army needs to be controlled within 10%, and even more extreme, it is more appropriate to control it at around 5%.
Reducing the number of officers in grass-roots units and replacing them with senior non-commissioned officers has also greatly alleviated the shortage of officers in the Tang Army, because officers who formerly served as deputy platoon leaders and platoon leaders can be promoted to serve as deputy platoon leaders.
Captain, captain.
At the same time, it can also give those senior non-commissioned officers who have made meritorious service in combat but cannot be promoted to officers due to various reasons a path to promotion!
After all, even if they are soldiers, they still need promotion and wealth!
From the lowest private to first class, then to corporal, sergeant, staff sergeant, and then to sergeant major, this forms a relatively stable and common promotion channel, allowing ordinary soldiers to have a head start.
If they work hard enough and study seriously enough in the literacy classes in the army, after reaching a certain cultural level, they can go to the martial arts school to study and then become officers in the Tang Army.
After the problems of grassroots officers were solved through clever methods, the new positions of mid-level and senior officers in the garrison were not so easy to solve.
The new commanders, deputy commanders, and regimental chiefs of staff of the four new garrison regiments; the brigade commanders, deputy brigade commanders, and brigade chiefs of staff of the three new garrison brigades are all mid- to senior-level officer positions.
Even because the nature of these garrison troops is different from that of the main force, the military rank will be one level lower. The leader of the garrison regiment is generally assigned the rank of lieutenant colonel, the deputy regiment commander is with the rank of major, and the regimental chief of staff is with the rank of captain.
The brigade commander of the garrison brigade has the rank of colonel, the deputy brigade commander has the rank of lieutenant colonel, and the brigade chief of staff has the rank of major.
However, even so, these school officers are still senior officers in the Datang Army. There are not many school officers in the Datang Army, and they are a serious scarce resource.
In addition, many people who were originally school officers were simply unwilling to serve in the garrison. Even the major battalion commander of the main battalion was unwilling to serve as a lieutenant colonel in the garrison!
The officials at Quanxusi were very angry: Damn, I don’t even want to give you a promotion. What do you want to do?