Chapter 104: The Formation of the Guards Division (Part II)
The position of the director of the military law division of the division is a newly designated official position of Wei Gonggong, which is similar to the commander of the Ming army system and guard system, and is the deputy of the chief officer, who is in charge of military discipline. There are also similar official positions of the town magistrates of hundreds of households and thousands of households.
Wu Fuming is different from Cao Wenyao, he is good at not leading troops, but managing soldiers. However, Cao Wenyao can govern and fight, which has something to do with Cao Naishan's Shanxi Jiangmen's background.
In all dynasties, except for the founding period, the army was a halfway monk, starting from a pawn and fighting all the way to become a famous general, and in the future, most of the children of the Jiangmen family dominated the army. Many methods of training and managing troops and marching and arranging formations are secrets that are not passed on. Of course, the hereditary system of military lords is also the main reason for this phenomenon. For example, Qi Jiguang, a famous general of the Jiajing Dynasty who resisted the Japanese Dynasty, inherited his ancestor's position at the age of 16 and served as the commander of Dengzhou Wei, which was roughly equivalent to the colonel of later generations.
Wu Fuming was recruited into Yansui Town in Jiubian by a young man, and when he was transferred to Wuxiang Right Guard, he was just a general flag officer, and there was still a big gap between him and Cao Wenyao and other generals. However, the Cao family in Datong, Shanxi Province was brilliant at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the world's first good general Cao Wenzhao was Cao Wenyao's eldest brother, and the first fierce general Cao Bianjiao was Cao Wenyao's son, which is really not comparable to Wu Fuming.
Gonggong Wei appointed Cao Wenyao as the commander of the Guards Division, in addition to valuing Cao Wenyao's ability and loyalty, he also hoped to pull Cao Wenyao under his command through this move.
In view of Wu Fuming's good management of soldiers, Wei Gonggong hereby arranged.
The issue of military discipline is an issue to which his old man attaches great importance, and without military discipline, there will be no strong army. The father-in-law hopes that Wu Fuming can serve as the chief of military justice and make his own contribution to the strength of the imperial army.
After reading out the list of appointments and dismissals of middle and senior officers, Jiang Xifeng announced the plan for the ranks of divisional and regimental officers drawn up by the General Staff Department in accordance with the principle of "matching ranks" with Gong Gong Wei.
The specific plan is that Gonggong Wei did not move the captains or generals of later generations, but directly applied the current Ming army rank system.
That is, the division commander is the commander of the command, the brigade commander is the commander of the same command, the captain of the brigade is the rank of 1000 households, the squadron leader is the rank of 100 households, and the squad leader is the rank of general flag. In addition, adjutant officers and auxiliary officers such as staff officers, military discipline, logistics, and heralds are commanders, deputy thousand households, test hundred households, small flags, etc.
The series of military positions made by the Wei Institute are, to put it bluntly, actually the military ranks of the Ming army. This military system was determined at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and although the guard system is corrupted, the Beijing camp includes the nine sides and local garrisons, and the generals still bear the military lords of the guard system. For example, the general army of Liaodong is only a position, and its actual military rank is either a commander or a commander. If the military achievements are prominent, this actual military rank may become a hereditary military knight.
To put it bluntly, the division commander replaces the chief officer, and the brigade commander replaces the commander of the command... But don't underestimate this substitution, it is actually a major reform of the current chaotic military system of the Ming Dynasty.
In the era without the Duke of Wei, the military discipline of the Ming Dynasty became more and more chaotic because of the simultaneous existence of the Wei system and the nine-sided recruitment system, which finally led to mutual dissatisfaction between the generals, and the ones who did not seal regarded themselves as the bosses, which virtually accelerated the warlordization of the generals who supported the army, not only suppressed the peasant uprising ineffectively, but also divided the resistance to the Qing Dynasty, and finally made China fall into the hands of foreign Tatars.
The division and regiment system can solve this problem very well, so that the military merit principle of matching the rank is formally fixed, and the implementation of the whole army in the future can solve the problems left over from history and better integrate the military resources of the Ming Dynasty.
The emergence of the division and regiment system also means that the former official positions of general soldiers, deputy generals, garrisons, and capital divisions will be eliminated from the imperial army, but it does not mean that these generals have been deprived of their official positions, but they are not applicable at present.
This is also the weakness of the Duke of Wei at the moment to rectify the shortcomings left by the Ming military system, so he can only adopt the means of saving the country in the curve, and implement it within the imperial army.
This temporary word, at least before the apocalypse, I am afraid it will not be removed.
When the admirals present heard this, they found that it had little to do with them. The appointed army generals were overjoyed, especially the group of people who surrendered in the anti-encirclement and suppression campaign against the reactionary lords of the southern capital, and they were even more happy to grin, and at the same time, they also completely put a worried heart back into their stomachs.
Li Shau-kee, who was appointed commander of the artillery wing, and Xu Biao, Xu Guang, Wu Sansi, and others, commanders of the infantry brigade, had been "idle" since they arrived in the SAR with Gonggong Wei, and they could not be promoted in the imperial army, and they did not dare to return to the southern capital. But now, the first-class division formed by Gonggong Wei has a place for them, and a group of people are happy.
Jiang Xifeng read out the candidates for officers above the captain level, and there was also a list of officers below the squadron leader, but there was certainly no need to read it out at this meeting of middle and senior generals.
The army generals who successfully advanced to the first-class division immediately became concerned about their soldiers. To know whether you can soar in the future, you not only rely on your own martial arts and luck, but also on the combat effectiveness of your subordinates. And now in the imperial army, which soldiers can fight and which soldiers can't, the army generals have more or less points in their hearts.
It's a pity that Gonggong Wei didn't let them choose their own subordinates in the army, but had already arranged it.
At present, the regular soldiers of the Ming Imperial Army include three battalions of the infantry of the original Wuxiang Right Guard Banner Battalion and a battalion of motorized troops drawn out by the Navy, totaling more than 4,500 people. There are more than 800 people in the father-in-law's guard battalion, with a total strength of nearly 5,400 people.
In addition to these regular soldiers, more than 400 officers and men of the Ningbo Dinghai Guard were captured, more than 2,400 officers and men of the three major battalions of the Southern Capital, more than 1,200 soldiers of the noble family who were sent to the Special Administrative Region to serve "hard labor" (the ransom was not paid), more than 1,100 prisoners of Li Qigongzi of Jinzhou, more than 4,000 young and strong men of all ethnic groups who returned from Kuandian, and more than 600 young and strong Koreans brought back from North Korea, totaling about 10,000 people.
In addition, after the father-in-law went south, he successively recruited some soldiers from the local area, the number was not too much, less than 500, and there were more than 1,000 guards of Nantong Langshan Fort, more than 1,200 soldiers outside the pass given to him by Yang Hao, more than 100 Liaodong soldiers brought by Wang Weidong, and Li Qigongzi brought more than 1,000 Liaodong miners for him, with a total of about 4,000 people.
These are the army, and the navy is still more than 4,000 people from the original Wusongshui battalion, and the scale of the force is not too large to replenish the army.
In other words, the full strength of the Guards Division set by the father-in-law is 28,000 people, and the Taiwan Garrison Division is 18,000 people, but the full number of prisoners and young and strong people under the father-in-law is only less than 21,000.
The 21,000 men had to be deducted from 3,000 for the Taiwan Garrison Division to set up a shelf, so the Guards Division could only be reorganized from the remaining 18,000 people, and the shortage of soldiers was as high as 10,000.
He has ordered people to go to the Liyang Iron Mine, and ordered Song Sibao to send 2,000 miners to the Special Economic Zone to solve the urgent need first, and the remaining 8,000 people can only slowly try to see if they can recruit troops in Taiwan to supplement the Guards Division. Phi Dao and the North Korean side will definitely not be able to draw troops, and the source of troops in those two territories is not much, and if the remaining troops are insufficient, it will be difficult to shock the Seoul side.
At present, there are 20,000 soldiers, and the father-in-law ordered that all of them be incorporated into the Guards Division according to the principle of veterans leading new soldiers, but each wing is empty of a brigade.
After the meeting, Cao Wenyao, the new commander of the Guards Division, began the organization of the unit together with the General Staff Division, and Gonggong Wei also took the time to inspect the reorganization process.
Which four?
That is, there is land, there is a house, there is food, there is a woman.
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