Now that the new army of the Tang Dynasty has expanded, there are not enough high-level generals, and he was originally Zeng Ziwen's henchman, so this time he was also mentioned as an officer.

There are still artillery teams and the grenadier team that Li Xuan has figured out in the past two days, but these two arms are still in the paper plan, why? Because now the Tang Dynasty does not have artillery and grenades.

The above arrangement can be regarded as an arrangement for veterans, but Li Xuan also arranged deputy battalion officers in the three infantry battalions and the baggage battalion, and these four deputy battalion officers are all from the Guards Army, and they are all concurrently served by the first team officers of each battalion.

From this move, we can once again see how urgent Li Xuan's desire to promote those young officers is.

According to Li Xuan's plan, as long as the follow-up arrangements are good, it is logical to gradually let these deputy battalion officers replace Fang Dongquan and these main battalion officers in command.

After arranging all the personnel, Li Xuan issued two other plans non-stop, one was to distribute uniform uniforms to the whole army, and the other was to formally formulate the military rank system.

In the past, although the establishment of the Datang New Army was a little messy, it was still quite established, but the military uniforms and ranks were completely messed up.

Not to mention the military uniforms, everyone wears their own clothes, that is, last year, Li Xuan issued a set of cloth clothes that were not considered military uniforms to the soldiers of the former Guards.

And the military ranks are even more chaotic, the military ranks in the new army of the Tang Dynasty are their respective military titles, but the titles are indiscriminately transitioned, so that there are countless thousands of households, general soldiers, and guerrillas, and many small soldiers have the title of a thousand households, so that everyone doesn't take it seriously.

And now, Li Xuan plans to formulate a standard and strict military rank system.

Because the new army of the Tang Dynasty has broken the military rank system copied from the Ming Dynasty, many people disdain the general soldiers of thousands of households, and for this reason, in the new military rank, Fang Dongquan and they unanimously demanded that thousands of households should not be played, and a set of things should be made, otherwise everyone will not pay attention to it, and the general soldiers of thousands of households awarded in the past are not easy to deal with.

For this reason, Ma Wei and others turned over some books from ancient times, especially the official system of the pre-Qin, Han and Tang dynasties, and initially proposed the military rank system of generals, left and right generals, military academies, and captains.

Then Li Xuan took a look, okay, it's similar to the later generations, it's better to directly use the modern military rank that he is more familiar with! He did not know that the names of later military ranks were actually references to military positions in ancient times.

So this time, he lazily directly copied the military ranks of later generations, and came up with a whole set of military ranks such as general, lieutenant general, major general, colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, lieutenant, second lieutenant, warrant officer, sergeant, sergeant, and corporal.

And in order to show the grandeur of a great country, he also established the rank of general above the general.

However, although the military rank was established, how to distribute it was a problem, and in order to control the problem of the proliferation of military ranks, Li Xuan decided to distribute it leisurely.

First of all, he shamelessly assigned himself the rank of major general, why did he give himself such a low-level military rank as major general, he was just to suppress those people below and not give them the rank of general.

Lao Tzu is only a major general if he is the emperor, you dare to ask for the rank of general? Don't want to die?

Even in order to avoid suspicion, Fang Dongquan and Wang Danxu didn't even dare to ask for colonels and lieutenant colonels, as long as they had a major.

After determining the military ranks of Fang Dongquan and Wang Danxu, it will be much easier for the others to do it, and they will be assigned according to their positions, under normal circumstances, the battalion officer is assigned to a major, the deputy battalion officer is assigned to a captain, the team officer is assigned to a captain, the deputy team officer is assigned to a lieutenant, the platoon commander is assigned to a second lieutenant, and the deputy platoon commander is assigned to a warrant officer.

Soldiers are assigned privates, privates, corporals, sergeants, and sergeants according to their length of service and meritorious service.

However, the matching of positions and military ranks is not specific, and some special circumstances have to be considered, such as Chen Butcher 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 armor sword and shield soldier, and the elite in armor has never been comparable to ordinary soldiers, not to mention that they were originally generals under the command of other generals before, and everyone else can't be majors, the two of them are just lieutenants.

Therefore, Li Xuan is a special critic, and the military rank of Chen Butcher and Cai Erhu is also a major.

In order to match their two major officers and deputy officers, the ranks of the platoon commander and deputy platoon commander and even ordinary soldiers in the sword and shield soldiers are also relatively high, the platoon commander is a lieutenant, the deputy platoon commander is a second lieutenant, more than half of the soldiers are non-commissioned officers, and the remaining half are also senior soldiers, and there are no privates.

This heavy armor sword and shield team, based on the particularity of the troops, so the whole team is equipped with a high level, and in this way, the bandits in the heavy armor sword and shield soldiers can be convinced, they are all elites wearing heavy armor, every time they fight, they are shouldering the heavy responsibility of impacting the enemy array and tearing apart the enemy's defense line, you let them have the same rank as those recruits, they will not be convinced.

After the military rank system was determined, Li Xuan officially announced that all kinds of military generals titles such as generals, general soldiers, and thousands of households that had been awarded in the past would be abolished, and new military ranks would be used from now on, which finally changed the situation that the titles of various thousand households in the Tang New Army were flying all over the sky.

The formulation of military ranks is actually quite simple for the Tang Dynasty, Li Xuan casually flipped through two books and determined it, and most of those soldiers were illiterate, and they didn't know whether the new military rank was good or not, and it didn't conform to the etiquette system.

The next military uniform formulation is more troublesome, not the style of the problem, the style of the problem is simple, directly under the jacket and pants, now they are all worn like this, especially the soldiers in the army, as long as the details are slightly changed, such as the pants to be tighter, the calf to tie the belt, the right side of the jacket for easy wearing, using button design.

If it weren't for the etiquette problem, he was afraid that too many changes would easily cause criticism, so Li Xuan planned to use the button in the middle directly.

In order to be highly recognizable, especially when the smoke screen of the battlefield is filled with smoke after the musketeers shoot, the clothes must be brightly colored, so the design of blue tops and red pants is used to avoid too much variegation.

But the design of the military uniform is simple, but the problem is that the more than 1,000 people need at least 2,000 sets of military uniforms, after all, you can't just issue a set of military uniforms to the soldiers, you have to give the soldiers a change of uniforms!

The cloth needed for more than 2,000 sets of military uniforms is not a small amount, and a lot of cloth was robbed in Zhengtai County, but unfortunately it was thrown away when he escaped.

Recently, in order to fulfill his promise not to spare his life and not loot, Li Xuan has not looted cloth on a large scale, so the cloth needed for this military uniform is really not such a difficult thing to solve, and he sent people out to purchase cloth for several days but did not find enough.

Just when Li Xuan was worried about the military uniform, an old man ran to Liushazhuang with a few entourages, saying that he wanted to see Li Xuan, saying that he could solve the fabric problem for the new army of the Tang Dynasty.