A campaign general generally leads three to five divisions, while a marshal can command a large war with more than three generals and more than ten divisions.

At the same time, Chen Xian also announced that based on the experience of the previous two wars, he would carry out further reforms in the infantry, and would completely abolish the existence of pikemen phalanxes among the infantry, and all the staff would be equipped with flintlock muskets.

After all the flintlock pistols are replaced, the combat mode will also change, from the Morris phalanx to the linear tactical era.

Naturally, the composition of the army also had to change with the mode of operation, because the linear tactics were based on three-row rotational firing, and the army was changed from the four-four system to the three-three system.

Chen Xian stipulated that the smallest unit in the army was a platoon, with a platoon of 50 men, three platoons forming a company, and three companies forming a battalion.

A battalion of infantry can either spread out in a long linear array or move in formation, with three companies interspersed with each other to form a phalanx of nine rows in front and back to counter cavalry charges.

So a battalion is a full-fledged combat unit.

After the reorganization, there were only 450 men left in a battalion, and three battalions in a regiment, plus an artillery company, a reconnaissance and cavalry company, a logistics company, and some officers and other miscellaneous personnel, nearly 2,000 people.

Three regiments in one brigade, 6,000 people, three brigades in one division, almost 20,000 people.

After the reorganization, the number of divisions was basically the same as that of the previous brigades.

This change also involved cavalry, and the cavalry also changed from the 44 system to the 33 system, and a cavalry company consisted of 100 people and 120 war horses, and 100 horses.

A cavalry battalion consisted of three cavalry companies, and so on, a cavalry division had about eight thousand to nine thousand people.

After the test of previous wars, Chen Xian and his cavalry generals agreed that although the cuirassiers were more cost-effective, easier to train, and enough to deal with light cavalry, this kind of cavalry still had disadvantages in the face of the enemy's lancers, and for the current Chen army, cost performance was no longer the first consideration, so everyone agreed that the lancers should still be retained.

Therefore, Chen Xian retained one-third of the lancers in the formation of the commando cavalry.

At the same time, Chen Xian also announced the military rank system, in which platoon-level officers were awarded the rank of second lieutenant, company rank was awarded the rank of lieutenant, battalion rank was captain, regimental rank was major, brigade rank was lieutenant colonel, and division rank was colonel.

Above the colonel, there are colonels and brigadier generals.

All officers will be promoted every three years, but the position will be adjusted according to the actual situation, that is to say, some veteran platoon commanders may be promoted to captain, but the position is still the platoon commander, the increase in rank will bring about the improvement of salary, job field, retirement treatment and other aspects, which is a kind of preferential treatment for officers, after all, there are only so many in the army, not everyone can be promoted.

Colonels and brigadier generals are for veteran division commanders, and if a division commander is promoted to brigadier general and serves another three years, then he will either retire or be promoted to the rank of major general and enter the general department of the general staff.

It can be said that this post reform has greatly improved the remuneration of the armed forces, and it can almost increase the remuneration of officers on active duty by more than one-third.

After the meeting, Chen Xian immediately announced that he would be awarded the rank of lieutenant general to Li Shi, and Bing would confer on him the title of viscount, and grant him land in three small towns, totaling more than 100,000 mu of land.

Li Shiqiang accepted Chen Xian's award with a smile.

In addition to Li Shi, Yang Miaozhen and Zhang Bai were also awarded the rank of lieutenant general and the title of viscount.

Yang Xiaoyi and Liang Wei were awarded the rank of major general, of which Yang Xiaoyi was awarded the title of viscount because of his military merits, and Liang Wei was awarded the title of baron.

The five generals, except for Yang Miaozhen, the other four were all forced to smile.

Yang Miaozhen, as a woman who leads tens of thousands of troops, has been criticized by the mainstream of this era, so naturally no scholars will go to her.

If the element of ambition is removed, Chen Xian's reward is not unrich.

As she grew older, Yang Miaozhen's mentality had gradually calmed down, and she began to get tired of the war, so she was quite satisfied with this reward.

With the conveyance of the contents of the meeting, the whole army can be described as jubilant.

Next, Chen Xian transferred the troops from all over the country to Weizhou in turn, and began to reorganize and expand, as before, Chen Xian recruited new soldiers from all over the country and gathered in Weizhou together.

After the final reorganization, the entire army increased from less than 20 brigades to more than 30 divisions, and the number of troops also increased from the original 300,000 to more than 500,000.

After this reorganization and expansion, almost everyone in Chen Xianjun was promoted and was jubilant, and in this jubilation, the four lost generals naturally no one cared about.

After this expansion, Chen Xian deployed a total of seven infantry divisions at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain and along the southern route of Taihang Mountain in the Central Plains and the southern part of Yanshan, and placed two horse infantry divisions and one cavalry division in the eastern part of Tianjin and the Daimyo Mansion as mobile forces.

In the Liaohe Plain, Chen Xian built a 100-mile-wide belt of fortresses along the northern border of present-day Liaoning Province and stationed four infantry divisions along this line, as well as two infantry divisions along the Daling River.

In addition, Chen Xian also stationed two horse infantry divisions and one cavalry division in Guangning, Liaozhong, Shenzhou and other places.

Goryeo still had four infantry divisions, two of which were stationed in the northern Fortress district bordering the northern Jin kingdom of Wanyan Pyongtao, the other two in Yangju in the central part and one in Jinju in the south.

The defense of Goryeo mainly relied on the navy, and Chen Heon's Goryeo fleet was divided into three parts, one stationed on the Taedong River, one on the Han River, and one stationed at the port of Busan, which later became available.

In addition to these border guards, Chen Xian also drew elites from various departments to form ten divisions of the Praetorian Guard, which were stationed outside Mizhou and Suzhou.

As a result of this military reform, Chen Xian successfully took over the rights of the military region, promoted a large number of freshmen and officers, and established a Praetorian Guard directly under him.

Chen Xian spent more than half a year to complete the reform of the army and completely solve the problems of the army.

Just when Chen Xian was about to solve the problem of the civil service system in one go, a news that Chen Xian had been waiting for came from the north, so that Chen Xian had to suspend the internal rectification.

Genghis Khan has returned from his western expedition!

Returning with Genghis Khan, there were also his 200,000 (well-documented) hundred-battle iron horsemen.

Although Chen Xian knew that in history, after Genghis Khan returned to the east, the first thing to deal with was the Western Xia Kingdom, which was located at the back of the Mongol Empire.

But today's history has long been changed beyond recognition by Chen Xian, and no one knows whether the Mongols will choose to destroy Western Xia first after the rise of Chen Xian's East China Sea Kingdom.

So after receiving the news, Chen Xian immediately cheered up.

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