Like Qi Shoulin, who served as the commander of the main infantry battalion just after graduation, and then was transferred to the staff department of the combat department, which was most desired by mid-level officers, as a senior combat staff officer for the transition, and was directly transferred to the main infantry regiment as the regiment commander after the transition, I dare not say that this is the only one, but after a year, there are really few.

Every step here seems to be just a promotion, but you have to look at the positions of others, the several positions held successively are all the most important and promising positions in the Tang Army, especially the senior operational staff officer of the General Staff Department of the War Department, for colonel-level officers, this should be the most important step in their lives.

Because in recent years, as the Privy Council has become more and more important, the War Department under the Privy Council has also become more and more important.

At the same time, because the Datang Army is becoming more and more regularized, especially after the flintlock pistols are installed, in the main force of the Datang Army, the spearmen have been gradually withdrawn, and the cold weapon troops in the follow-up infantry should only be left with the assault battalion.

The Tang Army, which is equipped with guns and artillery on a large scale, is already moving towards modernization and regularization, and its requirements for officers are getting higher and higher.

It is already very difficult for officers who have not undergone systematic study and training to undertake their increasingly complex command tasks!

This is also why the Tang Army is now more inclined to promote those officers who have undergone systematic study and training, and it is also why it is more and more willing to promote middle- and low-level officers who have served as operational staff officers of the War Department.

This is because the operational staff officers in the War Department, regardless of whether they are senior operational staff officers or intermediate combat staff officers, are basically systematically trained to be staff officers and lead the army in combat, and they are a group of people with the highest overall quality in the Tang Army.

As a result, the position of the operational staff officer in the war department is becoming more and more important, and a large group of middle and low-level officers want to get in, because being able to enter means that your ability has been recognized, and you basically don't have to worry about subsequent promotions.

However, for Qi Shoulin, this position is actually just a logical promotion to his rank, and Qi Shoulin's positioning and training direction have never been just a staff officer, or even just the commander of an infantry regiment or a deputy division commander.

Such a person was directly trained on the spot by the commander of the main infantry division and even the future army commander!

Treating this kind of golden-precious position as a transitional position, only a young man like Qi Shoulin can get this kind of treatment, and the others, regardless of whether they are the children of powerful people in the DPRK, such as Hao Bonian's own brother.

Or is it the emperor's relatives and relatives, such as the sons and nephews of the Empress Dowager Bai's mother's family!

None of them have this treatment!

And Qi Shoulin, who has received this kind of preferential treatment and regarded the senior operational staff officers of the War Department as a transitional position, will inevitably be questioned by many people, why are everyone just ordinary scholars back then, and they were all admitted to the martial arts academy, why was you Qi Shoulin able to enter the imperial academy later?

Why did everyone graduate from the Imperial Academy, and why were you able to sit in the position of the commander of the main infantry regiment in less than seven months after you graduated?

There are many more officers who have served in the army for many years and are still struggling at the rank of captain and major, and they are not convinced when they see Qi Shoulin, who has been in the army for a short time than them, but the speed of climbing up is much faster than them.

We also fought for Your Majesty, and also participated in countless battles for the rise of the Tang Dynasty, and even many people were injured and bled out, we are all fighting to the death, why can you climb so fast, but Lao Tzu has to work hard to qualify?

There are a lot of people who are not convinced by Qi Shoulin!

And today, Qi Shoulin will take his 7th Infantry Regiment and 3rd Assault Battalion to announce to those who question his rapid promotion, envy, jealousy and hatred: Lao Tzu climbed so fast, not because Lao Tzu was lucky, but because Lao Tzu was more awesome than you!

Not to mention after graduation, before entering the Imperial Academy, he created a record of leading an infantry team to annihilate more than 1,500 Ming troops, and was awarded the Red Dragon Sword Medal.

After entering the Imperial Academy, all courses are the best, and complete the theoretical study in advance, during the internship in the Fifth Mixed Regiment of the Second Army as the deputy commander of the Third Infantry Battalion, when the boss battalion commander was injured and could not continue to command the operation, he took over the command of the Third Infantry Battalion During the period, in just half a month, he led the troops to fight four battles, a total of more than 3,000 enemies were destroyed, more than 4,000 people were captured, and three county towns were conquered.

After the Jiangnan Campaign, he had basically become the actual battalion commander of the Third Infantry Battalion, and the boss was delayed for more than two months, and when he returned to the Imperial Academy after his internship, a new battalion commander was sent over.

Otherwise, why did he win the first place in the fourth phase? Why is it trained as the commander of the main infantry division in the future, and why is it trained as the commander of the future army?

After graduating, he served as the battalion commander of the main infantry battalion, and then after the transition to serving as a senior operational staff officer in the Privy Council, the Privy Council Quanxu Division was ready to arrange a new position for him, the position was very certain, it must be the position of the commander of the main infantry regiment, but it caused controversy to serve in that unit, because the commanders of almost all the troops wanted to put him in their own troops.

That general doesn't want such a little demon under his hands!

You must know that the commander of a main infantry regiment with outstanding ability can change the situation of the battle, and a main infantry regiment has more than 3,000 troops, even in a decisive battle of 20,000 or 30,000 people, it can play a huge role.

Lieutenant General Wang Chaohong, commander of the Second Army, wrote a letter to the Son of Heaven in person, saying that his troops still lacked a regiment commander who could fight tough battles, and hoped that a regiment commander who could fight tough battles could be sent over.

Although due to various unspoken rules, it is impossible for Wang Chaohong to personally say the name Qi Shoulin, but everyone knows who he is talking about: it is him Qi Shoulin.

In the end, Wang Chaohong got his wish to Qi Shoulin to come over, and served as the commander of the Seventh Infantry Regiment in the Third Infantry Division under his command, after a short run-in, Wang Chaohong personally folded for Qi Shoulin, saying that Qi Shoulin took office as the commander of the Seventh Infantry Regiment, loyal to the king, hard-working, and outstanding.

Because, for him, he was officially awarded the rank of colonel!

Although it is said that after serving as the commander of the main infantry regiment with the rank of lieutenant colonel, most of the cases will be successfully promoted to colonel within half a month or a month, but like Qi Shoulin, there are really few people who can let a army commander and lieutenant general personally play.

This kind of thing is not so easy, because you have to avoid suspicion.

Wang Chaohong is not stupid, if Qi Shoulin's ability is slightly worse, he will not take the slightest risk to recommend, otherwise, it is easy to be told nonsense, one is not good, Qi Shoulin is his younger brother who has been lost for many years, this kind of statement may come out.

For all of the above, Qi Shoulin knows very well that few people who can climb so fast are stupid.

He also knew that he was carrying the expectations of many people, and if he succeeded, those who recommended him, especially the bigwigs in the army, would laugh happily.

But if he fails, then I'm afraid it will be these people who are the most angry, because it will make the big men in the army feel that they have lost their eyes and become angry.

As for those who are envious, jealous and hateful, they will laugh happily one by one, glad that there is one less competitor.

After Qi Shoulin took out the command knife that everyone envied, his face was expressionless, and then he waved the knife and pointed forward obliquely: "Order, the whole army is assaulted!" ”

He had thoroughly studied all kinds of assault tactics in the past few days, and before the battle, he had personally explained them to the officers at all levels below, and now, it was necessary to check whether his tactics were feasible and successful.

In the next moment, the soldiers of the Seventh Infantry Regiment behind him rushed to the Susong City Wall in front like a tide, and the center point of the attack was the ruins of the city wall that was only a few tens of meters!

However, it is not the same as the large-scale siege of the Tang Army in the past, when the Tang Army attacked the city on a large scale in the past, it was still the era of arquebuses, except for the assault battalion, most of the troops, such as the main force such as the Seventh Infantry Regiment, were still arquebusiers and spearmen with each other, and some spearmen would temporarily abandon the spear and fight directly with waist knives and shields.

But now Qi Shoulin's 7th Infantry Regiment is all flintlock musketeers, not a single spearman, not a single sword and shield bearer, all are musketeers!

They charged, but they maintained the most basic formation in the charge!

Attacking the city with simple musketeers, to be honest, this kind of thing has never appeared in the Tang Army!

Because although the Tang Army began to be equipped with flintlock pistols last year, it knew that in the summer of this year, it was only equipped with a few divisions, and it participated in the first large-scale battle, which was in the Northern Expedition, but after the flintlock pistol troops actually participated in the war, they fought relatively large-scale battles, which were all fought with the Tatar cavalry.

Or more precisely, to resist the charge of the Tatar cavalry!

In the Battle of Liangshanji, the Fifth Infantry Division resisted the charge of tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry!

In the Battle of Anping, the Guards lined up to meet the Tatar cavalry!

It's all like this!

However, with musketeers fully equipped with flintlock muskets, to fight large-scale frontal field decisive battles and siege battles, to be honest, the Tang Army has not done such a thing.

Those with hundreds of people and a thousand people have done it, but this kind of small and medium-sized battle does not mean that the pure flintlock pistol troops are suitable for frontal decisive battles and sieges, because in small and medium-sized battles, the influence of the outside world is too great, and it is possible that the commander's flash of inspiration will cause a major impact.

And today's Susong Offensive is the time to test whether the pure musket troops equipped with flintlock muskets can undertake the battle!