Chapter 117: Gold, Silver, Copper, and Iron
In the campus of Beicheng University, tens of thousands of soldiers looked at Chen Kefu, Li Benlei and Li General, the three highest generals in the army, wearing epaulettes on their shoulders, and the bright two embellishments on the armor made countless soldiers under them fascinated.
When will they be able to hang such epaulettes, even if they don't dare to expect to hang up the all-gold four-star general rank, but occasionally dream, it is good to be able to hang the rank of sterling silver general in the dream.
Li Benlei and Li Jie, who were officially awarded military ranks, stood behind Chen Kefu with different thoughts, and the two sergeants in charge of the honor guard walked down with empty trays. Six honor guard sergeants who were also holding tǐng tǐng with tǐng walked up, and the big man in charge of singing and drinking in the military band said loudly, "Please give the rank of major general to the division commanders!" ”
As the first batch of major generals to be awarded military ranks, only six division commanders received this honor this time, and now that the Liaodong Army has been newly built, in addition to the six division commanders, some other high-level positions such as the headquarters should have not been awarded. At present, there are only six division commanders who can get the rank of major general, and now Liu Tiezhu, commander of the Fifth Division, and Hu Hai, commander of the Third Division, both have their own tasks and cannot attend today's award ceremony.
With a long tone, Mao Yi, the commander of the First Division, Lu Shishen, the commander of the Second Division, Zhang He, the commander of the Fourth Division, and Chen Gui, the commander of the Sixth Division, all wore their most powerful armor and solemnly walked onto the parade platform.
"Salute!" ”
The four of them clenched their right hands into fists and slammed them heavily on their left side.
Chen Kefu also saluted back to the four of them, his eyes were full of joy and movement, these are his own henchmen, and he believes that after this reorganization, Mao Yi's prestige in the army will definitely rise a lot in the future.
The honor guards stood behind Chen Kefu with the tray, Li Benlei and Li Jie lifted the red silk on the tray, and each of them picked up an epaulette and held it in front of Chen Kefu, which was worn by Chen Kefu in the left and right gang of the division commanders who had won the rank of major general.
For general-level generals, all military ranks this time are personally awarded by him, so as to demonstrate his supreme authority as the commander of the whole army in front of the whole army, and let everyone know that he is the master of the entire Liaodong Army. As soon as this army is formed, he will firmly implant this idea in the hearts of all soldiers.
The rank of major general is the rank of a division-level officer, while the division commander, division chief of staff, brigade commander and other officers can only be awarded the rank of brigadier general in accordance with the military rank regulations drawn up by Chen Kefu. Moreover, Chen Kefu also linked the military rank to the military rank, basically the high-level military rank is one post and one rank, and only officers with this rank are appointed to positions at this level. If a faint division commander wants to be a division commander, unless he is promoted to the rank of major general first, otherwise, he is not qualified to be a division commander. In the same way, it is impossible for a general with the rank of major general to hold the post of commander of a faint division. In this way, the order of posts and officers at all levels has been very clear, and the interests of veteran officers in the army have also been well protected.
"I respectfully ask the general to confer the rank of brigadier general!" Salute! ”
There are many more officers with the rank of brigadier general, and all officers of the division commander and officers at the brigade level are awarded the rank of brigadier general. There are six divisions and two brigades of the Liaodong Army, each division has a division commander and a chief of staff. There are a total of 12 high-ranking officers who have been awarded the rank of brigadier general, and the brigade commanders of the two brigades are Chen Kefu and Li Benlei. These people can be said to include the original military Zhengwupin and Congwupin, and this time after the new vacancy in Yingyang Mansion, Chen Kefu basically changed these people to Zhengwupin official positions, except for Li Jie's people.
As soon as the military band played music, except for the four officers who were unable to attend the meeting, the eight newly released brigadier generals happily stepped forward one by one.
The twelve people who won the rank of brigadier general this time are: Chen Feng and Shen Guang of the first division, Chen Qing of the second division,
Chen Lin, Chen Huo and Liu Wei of the Third Division, Zhang Biao and Wang Bin of the Fourth Division, Chen Fu and He Dayong of the Fifth Division, Chen Shan and Cui Shi of the Sixth Division. Except for Chen Huo, Liu Wei, Chen Fu, and He Dayong, the other eight people also took vigorous steps onto the parade platform.
Today's award ceremony is so grand that these senior generals in the army also feel very honored. When you are a general, you don't want to get this kind of opportunity to get honors before tens of thousands.
The rank of brigadier general of sterling silver was worn by Chen Kefu on their shoulders one by one, and everyone felt that they liked these two small silver medals, and turned their heads from time to time, for fear that others would not know that they had obtained the rank of brigadier general.
For these eight people, after the military rank system came out, the brigadier general meant a general, and the brigadier general and below could no longer be called a general, but only a school officer, which made them somewhat proud, and among the nearly 100,000 troops, they were the only ten or so people who could be called generals. ,
Since Chen Ke's recovery, there have been only 19 generals in the whole army, one general, two lieutenant generals, four major generals, and 12 brigadier generals, and they are one of them.
"I respectfully ask the general to confer the rank of colonel-level officer!" n”
The regiment commander, the brigade commander, the brigade chief of staff and other officers are all with the rank of colonel, and the first division of the Liaodong Army is surrounded by it. There are 24 regiments in the six divisions, two brigades and four regiments in the headquarters, and a light cavalry regiment, and yesterday there was a new headquarters reconnaissance regiment, and there are a total of 30 regiments in the whole army, but the posts of deputy brigade commander and brigade chief of staff are vacant, and only 30 regiment commanders have received the rank of colonel this time.
The rank of the colonel-level officers is different from the rank of general, the rank of the colonel-level officer is a brass medal, and the stars and bars on the rank mark are sterling silver. Just from the appearance, you can discard it at a glance to be a school official, and the rank is clear.
The rank of colonel officer was also awarded by Chen Kefu himself, relatively speaking, a regiment can lead 2,000 men, which is more than the soldiers led by the Ying Yanglang generals in the past. Although these people no longer belong to the general sequence in the new military rank system, they are still in fact high-ranking generals in the army. Even today's Liaodong Army is basically based on battalions and regiments, and these battalion commanders are the real commanders.
Li Shimin and Li Xuanba, the two brothers, are both the commanders of the heavy infantry brigade of the Liaodong Army, if it weren't for Chen Kefu's feeling that Li Shimin was too young and his brother-in-law, and he hadn't made meritorious contributions, he would have directly asked him to be the commander of the heavy infantry brigade, but now it's okay, let him be the regiment commander first. After all, the heavy infantry brigade did not let people be appointed as the brigade commander, but let Li Benlei take charge of it.
Helping Li Shimin wear a good rank, Chen Kefu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Boy, do a good job, it's not embarrassing to me, otherwise, even if you are my brother-in-law, I will personally pick your title again." ”
Li Shimin shrank his shoulders slightly, and said unconvinced, "Brother-in-law, don't worry, I will definitely bring you an elite soldier like the heavy cavalry of the broken barracks, you just wait and see." ”
Chen Kefu smiled, "Okay, if you really have that ability, I will personally change you to the rank of silver one-star brigadier general." ”
After conferring the titles of Toad Jun and Colonel, Chen Kefu was also a little tired. There were a lot of officers who received the rank of lieutenant colonel next, one hundred and twenty battalion commanders, and those sixty officers of the regimental rank. Even the main officers of the four divisions of Chen Kefu's newly built headquarters have the rank of lieutenant colonel. For these people, Chen Kefu directly asked Li Benlei and Li Jie, four division commanders, and eight brigadier generals to be responsible for conferring titles.
The unconscious regiment commanders, regimental chiefs of staff, and battalion commanders who came to the stage in batches were a little disappointed when they saw that the general no longer personally conferred the title. After all, on such an important occasion, what an honorable thing it would be to be awarded the title by the general in person.
In the team of the first division in the school field, Cui Erzhu, the platoon commander of the third company and the second platoon of the first regiment and one battalion, looked at the batches of officers who went up and down on the stage like a marquee, his eyes were full of envy, and he said to Zhang Youcai, the deputy platoon commander on the side, "When Lao Tzu becomes the battalion commander, he will definitely be able to be so beautiful." I still thought that everyone's military ranks today were awarded by the generals themselves, why did they change to other generals now? When we go up at that moment, won't the general help us confer titles? ”
Zhang Youcai, the platoon commander, scolded, "There are already hundreds of officers with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and there are majors, captains, and lieutenants below, the number is estimated to be thousands, and it is estimated that when you and I are second lieutenants and warrant officers, it is estimated that they may not come to power."
Otherwise, I won't be able to stand still. ”
In fact, it is similar to what Cui Erzhu said, the officers at the lieutenant colonel level have already gone through 100, and the officers at the major level are even more than hundreds, which is still the result of the absence of the two divisions. After awarding the ranks of all the colonel-level officers, the dozen or so generals were also tired enough, from the initial "excited" to the end a little helpless.
After the conferment of the colonel-level military ranks, Chen Kefu had no choice but to stop the idea of letting the generals confer the titles of lieutenant-level officers, and simply asked the colonel to confer the title of captain, the rank of lieutenant-colonel-level lieutenant, and the rank of lieutenant and warrant officer to the major to confer the title of second lieutenant and warrant officer.
There are too many officers at the rank of lieutenant, and it is impossible for all the ranks to be inlaid with gold and silver, and the epaulettes of all rank officers of the rank are made of brass.
After half a day of hard work to confer titles, Chen Kefu asked all the captain-level officers to help the non-commissioned officers confer titles, and the non-commissioned officers helped the privates and senior soldiers to confer the titles.
The rank of lieutenant is made of brass, and the non-commissioned officer is just an iron epaulette with brass embedded in it as a sign of the non-commissioned officer, as for the soldier's epaulettes, it is directly made of iron sheets, which is a huge quantity, and the use of iron is economical and affordable.
In addition to the general's gold epaulettes, the generals used silver, the colonels used silver stars and silver bars with copper bases, the lieutenants were all made of brass, the non-commissioned officers were bronze stars with iron bases, and the soldiers' epaulettes were all iron. At a glance, everyone in the whole army has two markings on their shoulders, gold, silver, yellow, and black are clearly distinguished.
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