Chapter 184: Eight Stars Holding the Sun Flag

The next day, Goxinga convened a meeting of all officers again, and officially announced the reorganization of the organization. The whole army is divided into three regiments, nine battalions, plus directly subordinate troops, with a total of more than 8,200 people. The original soldiers of the troops, plus the people brought back by Mu Shun, recorded more than 7,000 people, and the difference will be selected and supplemented from the refugees who fled from Henan and Shandong, and is expected to be completed within 10 days.

The selection of the battalion commander of the main force was also as expected by the generals, that is, the original nine company commanders were promoted. In terms of the head of the regiment, Guo Xing'a announced the appointment of Bi Yuntao, Tan Shaoguang, and Mu Shun, although the generals had their own conjectures, but they were not surprised by this result. Tan Shaoguang seemed to have the intention of refusing, but after struggling for a while, he still responded. Bo Ritu and Ji Ying were a little disappointed, but the blisters on their feet were ground by themselves, and the two had nothing to say about this result.

"My lord, my subordinates have objections!" After Guoxing's resolution was announced, everyone was ready to close the stall, but Mu Shun raised objections, and everyone was quite surprised.

"Is there something wrong with the arrangement?" Guo Xinga pretended to be puzzled.

"The subordinates feel that they are not qualified for the position of the commander of the light cavalry, and recommend Bo Zhitu to take the position of the head of the light cavalry!" Mu Shun said a little crookedly. As soon as Mu Shun's words fell, the eyes of Bo Ritu and Ji Ying lit up, and at the same time, their mouths were also wide open, Mu Shun gave up his important position and recommended Bo Ritu, which was too unexpected.

"Our cavalry has always been led by you, although Bo Ritu is not bad, but after all, he has been in the position of staff officer for a long time, and his actual combat experience is not as good as yours!" Guo Xing'a wants Mu Shun to do all the favors.

"My subordinates are not familiar with cavalry affairs, and in the past, they relied on the lord's face-to-face instructions, not because they had any talents. Moreover, the light cavalry regiment established this time is different from the heavy cavalry of our department in terms of requirements, tactics and weaponry, and its subordinates consider themselves to be inadequate. Although Bo Ritu only had one actual battle in Fengning, he commanded properly and won the hearts of the army, so his subordinates thought that Bo Ritu was more suitable. Mu Shun thought about this reason for a night.

"Makes sense! In this case, the commander of this hussar regiment will be Bozhtu! You will draw out the original main cavalry force and set up a heavy cavalry battalion directly under you, and you will be a regimental battalion commander! "It's just a matter of going through the motions, Guo Xing'a doesn't want to engage in a debate, and once others get involved, Bo Ritu's popularity is not as good as Mu Shun's.

"Master Mu has a lot of experience in the past, so let's let him come! Xia Guan ...... "Bo Ritu hurriedly came out and excused himself.

"Needless to say, it's decided!" Gohinga interrupted Bozhtu.

Under the dictatorship of Goshinga, a new structure of the army was released. Bi Yuntao, commander of the infantry regiment, and Actun, chief of staff, have under the jurisdiction of the first infantry battalion of Actun, the second infantry battalion of Tong Jia, and the third infantry battalion of Nash. Tan Shaoguang, the commander of the cavalry regiment, and Chengtai, the chief of staff, have jurisdiction over the first cavalry battalion of Chengtai, the second cavalry battalion of Cao Meng, and the third cavalry battalion of Fukang. The commander of the light cavalry regiment, Bo Ritu, and the chief of staff, Ji Ying, were under the command of the first light cavalry battalion of Shirab, the second light cavalry battalion of Hatu, and the third light cavalry battalion of Tian Kuan. The directly subordinate troops are Mu Shun's heavy cavalry battalion, Changlu's reconnaissance battalion, Xi Shou's compendium engineer baggage battalion, Kong Zhen's artillery company, Wu Xiuming's medical squadron, and the staff headquarters composed of Saishan'a, Xiande, Pi Runmin, and Zou Degui.

When the matter was settled, the troops directly under it began to draw manpower from the old team, and the elite soldiers and strong generals could be said to be swept away, leaving only a few senior officers for a few regiment commanders. Fortunately, there is no shortage of flesh with bones, and although each regiment has a gap of almost more than 400 people, it is enough to have officers and only need to replenish new recruits. With the grain approved by Guoxing'a, the victims shouted in the pile, and a team could be pulled up.

After arranging the army, Guo Xing'a inspected the arsenal again, comforting everyone and urging the progress of weapon modification and production. Under the governance of Rong Hong, Zheng Qifeng, and Feng Sheng'a, the arsenal has achieved good results in both industrial production and garrison training, but Guo Xing'a is not particularly happy, because he finds that he has set himself up with various oolongs.

When communicating with Yung Hong, Guo Xinga found that he had been mistaken about the calendar, and his August was actually the month of June for the British. It has always been the subordinates who told Guo Xing'a that today is the month and day of the tenth year of Xianfeng, and Guo Xing'a knows that the tenth year of Xianfeng is 1860, so he takes it for granted that today is the day of the month of 1860. Although the year is correct, the month and day are ridiculously wrong, and Goxinga has always used a lunar calendar. Therefore, the use of the lunar calendar of Guoxing'a has passed until the tenth day of the eighth month of the tenth year of Xianfeng, but the use of the Western calendar of Rong Hong has only passed until June 29, 1860.

After figuring out the problem of the calendar, Goxinga's time suddenly became more relaxed, and he had an extra month and a half to prepare. There was nothing he had to bother with in the army and the arsenal, but Goxinga was not idle, he set his sights on the flag and clothing.

The first is the flag, although Goxinga mainly uses the blue dragon flag with red edges, but in fact he still has many flags. The complexity of the ancient Chinese army flags made Guo Xing'a want to vomit blood very much, and he knew half of the flags, trumpet flags, character flags, team flags, etc., and Guo Xing'a knew half of them after learning for more than a year. Moreover, many military flags are useless, but very easy to expose the target. In ancient times, the army had to plant more banners and beat the enemy's morale by increasing its momentum, but Guo Xinga hated to turn all the troops into stealth.

Moreover, there are all kinds of complex embroidery on these messy flags, and the cost of production is relatively high, so Guo Xing Ake has no time to find a group of old ladies to help embroider. The flags used before were all the original ones of the leader, but now the team has expanded twenty or thirty times, and the flags are obviously not enough. Moreover, Guo Xing'a also felt that the dragon flag was not good-looking, so he wanted to design his own flag, and of course he also wanted to distinguish his troops from the army of the Qing Dynasty.

Guo Xinga doesn't know art design, of course he can't draw a good-looking flag, but Guo Xinga can copy it! Guoxinga, who has a strong patriotic sentiment, of course, has to choose among the flags of China, but the ancient flags are all animal or mythical animal patterns, and it is too troublesome to make, so the selection of Guoxinga is placed on the various flags that appeared in China after the fall of the Qing Dynasty.

The five-color flag is too ugly, and the eighteen-star flag doesn't feel big, so Guoxing's choice focuses on the blue sky and white sun flag and the five-star red flag. The blue sky and white sun flag are better in terms of meaning and aesthetics, but after all, Guoxinga grew under the five-star red flag, and it was a bit too much to copy it as it was, so Guoxinga chose to integrate the two flags. The flag uses a red background to retain the basic pattern of the blue sky and white sun, and then adds eight small gold stars around it.

Of course, the implication is still the same, may the morning sun shine on my land for a long time, and do not forget the blood of the martyrs all over the land, so as to create a bright and sunny sky for China. The eight small stars represent the 8,000 people in the hands of Guoxing'a, and the second, they represent the eight main ethnic groups that Guoxing'a can think of, including Han, Manchu, Mongolian, Hui, Tibetan, Zhuang, Miao, and Tu. It symbolizes the joint efforts of the army and the people of all nationalities around the goal of a bright blue sky and a bright blue sky.

Compared with Wenlong's painting style, the sun and stars are much easier to get, and the cost of production is greatly reduced. Moreover, the flag of the unit is simple and easy to identify, and it is much easier for a combat unit to conceal and march under one flag. In addition to the communication of flags, all the originally complicated herald flags were cancelled and replaced by flags and trumpets.

At the same time as changing the flag, it is necessary to change the clothes, and of course a large number of recruits must be given clothes, and Guoxing Ake pays great attention to the unity of the troops. However, the original Qing army service was too low, and Guo Xing'a, who was accustomed to seeing the heroic and extraordinary People's Liberation Army, couldn't accept it, and it was not convenient to act. Although I have dealt with it once before by tightening the waist, it is not thorough, and problems such as the three-meter-long waistband have not been solved.

All of them are Western-style military uniforms, firstly, everyone can't accept it, and secondly, they can't find anyone who can do it. So Guo Xing'a started his own fashion designer, and started the magic reform on the basis of his original service. The first thing to change is the belt, which is absolutely not allowed with a three-meter-long strip of cloth, and is changed to a canvas belt and a leather belt. Both of these are very easy to do, because the Qing Dynasty originally had similar things, but they were both used to tie horses, and they can be used if you change them.

If you change the belt, you naturally have to change the pants, Guo Xing'a has always felt that the ancient pants are like a pocket, and the trouser legs and waistbands are fat. Therefore, everything must be changed to be smaller and shorter, first, to save the fabric, and second, there will be no more strange things hidden in the crotch. But the attempt was not successful, and it became a four-way dislike after changing it, so it was better not to change it. Guo Xing'a, who was in the mood for a while, directly changed to the style of trousers, anyway, the difference between Chinese and Western pants is not big. There is no zipper, Guo Xing'a directly uses buttons instead, and the cotton pants made by Guo Xing'a's grandmother when he was a child in his previous life are all this routine.

On the clothes, Guo Xing'a directly removed the horse coat and horseshoe sleeves, both of which have no practical significance, and they are cumbersome to wear. It's not the northeast, so it's not that cold at all, so you don't need horseshoes to protect your hands from the cold, and cavalry doesn't need horseback coats to protect against the cold wind.

Guo Xing'a is really not a dry tailor's material, and he has studied the rest of the caftans for a long time, but he has not found anything to change. If you also change into a Western-style shirt like pants, the generals will definitely disagree, Guoxinga always wears Western-style military uniforms, they are not pleasing to the eye, and it is bound to be difficult for them to wear them.

The only thing Guo Xing'a could do was to do his best to reduce his waist, make his clothes thinner and straighter, and hide the buttons inside the placket to avoid scraping weapons and chores. Then there is the addition of epaulettes, the red buttons that distinguish the official status in the past are a little out of place, and it is always impossible to let cadres above the battalion level have a row of big red buckles on their chests, so Guo Xinga began to promote the epaulettes of military ranks, which will also be implemented sooner or later in the future.

At present, it is a preliminary trial, so Guoxinga has not comprehensively promoted military ranks, but can distinguish identities. In order to save costs, soldiers do not have epaulettes, squad leaders have no patterned epaulettes, platoon commanders have one star, company commanders have two stars, battalion commanders have three stars, and regiment commanders have one bar and one star. Guo Xing'a made himself an epaulette, with a gold star inlaid on a gold background, and passed the addiction of a self-proclaimed major general.

After the finished product was made, Goxinga was quite satisfied, and it looked very similar to the clothes of the Matrix Riño, except that the leather shoes were replaced by leather boots, and there was an extra tasseled hat on his head. Of course, the grassroots soldiers are not so handsome, their upper body is okay, but the lower body is the same as Tu Balu, from leather boots to leggings and cloth shoes.

Although everyone's sense of tradition is still very strong, everyone can see that the clothes look good and wear spirit. The generals who changed into new clothes were very happy, and Guo Xing'a also took off the Western-style military uniform that didn't fit well and put on the one he designed.

Guo Xing'a happily squandered his free time, but a gust of wind and rain blew the war clouds to the northern land of the Qing Dynasty.