The navy of the Tang Dynasty is just an empty shelf, don't mention it, but the Tang Army is real!

According to Li Xuan's decree, it was the holy decree of the establishment of the 'Tang Army'.

The supreme and only commander of the Tang Army is the emperor himself!

The emperor has all rights over the Tang Army, including personnel transfers, troop transfers, operational command, and so on, all known and unknown.

At the same time, many of the troops under the original Datang New Army have been renamed the Datang Army, and the corresponding numbers will also be changed, and the numbers of all troops will be added with a prefix of the Datang Army!

For example, the First Brigade of the Datang New Army was renamed the First Infantry Brigade of the Datang Army!

At the same time, the numbers of several garrison regiments will also be changed, such as the Sixth Infantry Regiment of the Datang New Army, which will be renamed the First Garrison Regiment of the Datang Army!

Judging from the number, it can also be seen that the army system of the Tang Dynasty will form two systems: the regular army and the garrison army.

After the number change, the Datang Army will have a number of regular army units, including the First Infantry Brigade of the Datang Army, with the First Infantry Corps and the Second Infantry Regiment; The Second Infantry Brigade of the Datang Army consists of the Third Infantry Regiment and the Fourth 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 Datang Army will also have a large number of garrison troops under its jurisdiction!

The former 6th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Regiment, and 8th Infantry Regiment were reorganized into the 1st Garrison Regiment, the 2nd Garrison Regiment, and the 3rd Garrison Regiment respectively.

At the same time, the 4th Garrison Regiment, the 5th Garrison Regiment, the 6th Garrison Regiment, and the 7th Garrison Regiment were newly established, a total of four new garrison regiments!

Naturally, these seven garrison regiments cannot all be commanded directly under the Privy Council, so they cannot be commanded at all!

These seven garrison regiments will follow the example of the regular army troops, and set up three garrison brigades and a temporarily independent garrison regiment, and the main task of these three garrison brigades and one garrison regiment is to cooperate with the regular army!

Secondly, in some less important places, it is also possible to undertake some secondary combat missions!

Of course, it would be unreliable to let them have a large-scale decisive battle with the Ming army alone!

In this way, judging from the number, the Datang Army will have a total of five brigades, two independent infantry regiments, a baggage regiment and other directly subordinate battalions, teams and other troops, if calculated according to the full strength, the total strength figure is a very terrifying number, will reach nearly 40,000.

By standard, an infantry battalion has five squads with a total strength of about 550 men, while each infantry regiment has five battalions, and with the addition of auxiliary forces, the total strength of an infantry regiment is nearly 3,000.

Among them, the five infantry regiments of the regular army alone will have 15,000, and the regular army also has the first baggage regiment, the first artillery battalion, the first cavalry battalion, the first gendarmerie battalion and other units, so if calculated according to the full strength, the total strength of the regular army will reach 17,000 men.

However, in fact, the current regular army of the Tang Army is only more than 12,000 people, which is far from reaching the full strength.

However, the garrison is relatively full!

Because the garrison is organized according to the existing prisoners, and a regiment will be expanded with 3,000 men, most of the current seven garrison regiments are full, and only the seventh garrison regiment is insufficient in number.

However, even if it is not satisfied, the existing regular army of the Tang Army has 12,000 regular troops, 20,000 garrison troops, and the total number of troops has reached more than 30,000.

With such a large number of troops, 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 actually not many who can fight, needless to say those garrison troops, except for the first garrison battalion and the second garrison battalion that have been in the army for a long time, their combat strength is not bad, most of the others are scum, and they will not be stronger than ordinary Ming army guards!

In the regular army, it is also because of the replenishment of recruits and the surrender of the Ming army, resulting in 12,000 people, there are only a few thousand veterans who can really fight, and most of these soldiers are concentrated in the main battalions of the four main forces: the first step corps, the second infantry regiment, the third infantry regiment, and the fourth infantry regiment.

It includes three main battalions of the 1st Infantry Corps, 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 in this way, then you will find that the main forces that can be fought in the Datang Army are actually still those, and there are only ten main battalions in total!

The rest are either recruit troops or descendant troops, and their combat effectiveness is worrying!

But in any case, the size of the Datang Army has swelled again, and the speed of expansion is extremely fast, and after only two battles, the strength has doubled, which is much faster than recruiting soldiers to expand the army!

Li Xuan issued the formation of the Tang Army, which was the establishment of the two systems of the regular army and the garrison army, and at the same time, after the establishment of four new garrison regiments, and the establishment of three garrison brigades based on the garrison regiment, the various departments of the Tang Army were busy again, especially the Privy Council, which was extremely busy!

As the command organ of the Tang Navy and Army, the Privy Council is responsible for the whole army with departments such as the Operations Department, the Training Department, and the Ordnance Department.

As soon as Li Xuan casually opened his mouth, he wanted to prepare for the establishment of four new garrison regiments and the formation of three garrison brigades.

But even if the soldiers in these troops have already surrendered to the Ming army, and the weapons and equipment have captured weapons and equipment, these troops still need officers, and even if they are garrison troops, they need to be equipped with two hundred regular soldiers in each infantry regiment to suppress the formation!

Where did these officers, as well as the regular army soldiers, come from?

That's a big problem!

In order to meet the large demand for officers in the expansion of the Tang Army, the Privy Council has already promoted a large number of officers quickly!

Some ordinary soldiers who were not able to read and write were rarely promoted in the past are now also promoted!

In particular, some senior non-commissioned officers, most of them were not promoted before, and even if they were promoted, they were allowed to enter the martial arts academy to study, and after the completion of their studies, they would be awarded the official rank of second lieutenant and serve as officers.

But now it is naturally too late, and many of the senior non-commissioned officers with meritorious contributions have been promoted to officers by the direct line of fire, but most of the officers who have been promoted by the line of fire have been awarded the rank of warrant officer and served as platoon commanders.

At the same time, in order to alleviate the shortage of officers, the Datang Army no longer forcibly required officers to hold the positions of platoon commander and deputy platoon commander, and began to let non-commissioned officers serve as deputy platoon commanders, and some units will also have senior non-commissioned officers to serve as platoon commanders.

As for the lack of officers in the garrison troops, senior non-commissioned officers have been used to serve as platoon commanders, and now there are a few special cases of letting senior non-commissioned officers serve as deputy captains, but this is only a special case, and the Quanxu Division is not recognized by the killing, and 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, and it will not be long before they become warrant officers.

In order to allow these non-commissioned officers to serve as officers, the Datang Army also specially established a new non-commissioned officer rank', 'Sergeant Major', whose status is higher than that of sergeants, sergeants, and corporals.

This has also caused a phenomenon, that is, in a team, only the chief and deputy captains are iron-clad officers, and if there are six platoon commanders, some of them are officers, but some of them are senior sergeant majors, and as for the deputy platoon commanders, they have all become sergeant majors or sergeants.

In fact, such a ratio of officers and soldiers is more suitable, in the past, the Tang Army, a team, there were thirteen large and small officers, too many, now a team is equipped with two lieutenants, and occasionally one or two platoon commander officers, then it is more suitable.

In the modern military, the proportion of grass-roots officers in the army needs to be controlled within 10 percent, or even about 5 percent at the extreme.

Reducing the number of officers in the grassroots units and replacing them with senior non-commissioned officers has also greatly alleviated the shortage of officers in the Datang Army, because the officers who originally served as deputy platoon commanders and platoon commanders can be promoted to deputy captains and captains.

At the same time, it can also give those senior non-commissioned officers who have made meritorious contributions in combat, but cannot be promoted to officers for various reasons, a way to rise!

After all, even if they are soldiers, they need to be promoted and make a fortune!

From the lowest private to the first private, then to the corporal, sergeant, sergeant, and then to the sergeant major, this forms a relatively stable and usual promotion channel, so that those ordinary big-headed soldiers also have a head.

If they work hard enough and study hard enough in the literacy class in the army, when they have a certain level of education, they can go to the martial arts school to study, and then become the officer class in the Tang Army.

After the problems of the junior officers were solved by cunning, the middle and senior officer positions in the new garrison units were not so easy to solve.

the 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 middle and high-ranking officers.

Even because of the different nature of these garrison units and the main forces, the rank will be one level lower, the commander of the garrison regiment is generally with the rank of lieutenant colonel, the deputy regiment commander is the rank of major, and the chief of staff of the regiment is the rank of captain.

The brigade commander of the garrison brigade is assigned to the rank of colonel, the deputy brigade commander is the rank of lieutenant colonel, and the brigade chief of staff is the rank of major.

However, even so, these officers are also high-ranking officers in the Datang Army, and there are not many officers in the Datang Army, which is a scarce resource.

In addition, many people who were originally school officers were not willing to serve in the garrison at all, even if they were the major battalion commanders of the main battalion, they were not willing to go to the garrison to serve as a lieutenant colonel regiment commander!

The officials on the side of the Quanxu Division were annoyed: Damn, I don't want to give you a promotion, what do you want to do?