Chapter 107: Abuse of power for personal gain
After the reorganization, the whole army had a total of 24 light infantry regiments and two heavy infantry regiments. There were 42 light cavalry battalions and 6 heavy cavalry battalions, with a total of more than 70,000 troops.
This number sounds absolutely shocking, but in fact, if the reorganized army does not have a few months of training, then in the near future, the combat effectiveness will not increase by half a point, but will be greatly reduced. After the reorganization, only the more than 4,000 cavalry in the headquarters still maintained their combat effectiveness.
For the officers who broke the barracks, the new army after the reorganization brought more soldiers and horses than in the past, and even several times more, but the grade of the posts they held was lower than in the past.
All the officers of the fifth rank are in the position of the fifth grade, and those of them who are from the fifth rank basically have to serve as the head of the sixth grade. This is the same grade as the school captain in the past, but the number has increased many times, in the past, a school captain with a regiment of 200 people, now changed to a regiment commander, or with a group of people, but the number of people has reached 2,000 at once, which is almost equivalent to the soldiers and horses of two eagle generals.
It was not until dawn that the generals gave the names of the officers at all levels of each division, more than 20 regiments, more than 100 battalions, more than 500 companies, and more than 1,000 platoons. With the addition of those who are being assigned posts, and the chief of staff of Zhengge, as well as the staff officers of various ministries, this official position has suddenly reached five or six thousand official and military positions.
The current officers in the broken barracks, plus the more than 700 positions vacated by the ten Yingyang Mansions, and those who have been temporarily appointed and promoted, those officers who have official positions in the broken barracks, from Chen Kefu's general Zheng Sanpin to the lowest level of officers in the ninth rank, the total number is only about 1,000, "which is only less than a quarter of the officer positions in the new army."
There was no choice, so everyone had to give all the remaining 4,000 or so positions to the cavalry who broke the barracks, but fortunately, there were more than 2,000 positions of chief and deputy platoon commanders in the new army. Directly promoted the big soldiers in the past to a level and transferred to the bottom as platoon commanders.
For the rest, many of the company-level cadres were also directly promoted by the big soldiers, anyway, the number of people in the entire broken barracks was less than 10,000, but almost half of them served as officers at this time, although some of them only served as platoon commanders from Jiupin. Basically, except for the heavy cavalry brigade and the light cavalry battalion directly under the headquarters, all the soldiers of the broken battalion held military positions.
But in this way, most of the 4,000 soldiers in the broken military camp directly under the most elite headquarters had no chance to be promoted. After all, it is impossible to have a unit full of officers. In the end, in desperation, Chen Kefu thought of another way, and finally made most of the generals accept it. As for the officers at all levels who were temporarily appointed during the last training, a new selection was also carried out, and those with good potential and prestige were also allocated to some low-level positions, such as the platoon commander.
Although he was demoted from lieutenant to platoon commander at once, many of the civil and strong officers who were holding a meeting in the hall became happy. For no other reason, the former lieutenant was appointed entirely verbally, and no one took it seriously, "not even themselves." And although the position of deputy platoon commander is low, Chen Kefu personally filled in the official position of the officer, which is a genuine official position, with this thing, they are the official position of the Great Sui Dynasty. It is equivalent to the rank of a county lieutenant, how can this not make them happy.
The entire army suddenly changed from 10,000 to more than 70,000, and most of them did not know each other before, so it was inconvenient to command.
In the past, the government soldiers had no salary, and basically brought their own weapons and armor, and only paid some subsidies when they were on duty and on duty. Now that Chen Kefu is building a new army, naturally he can't do that, everyone follows him, there must be benefits, and in the end, Chen Kefu set a salary for the whole army that is not much different from that of the forbidden army.
However, in the current reorganization, it is not easy to pay the army's food and salary, and it is impossible for all the soldiers to be paid the same salary at once. After all, apart from those thousands of officers, most of the real ones were ordinary soldiers. Moreover, the thousands of elites directly under the headquarters have no official positions.
This would have been unfair to the soldiers, "and it would have been inappropriate to let them be treated the same as the soldiers of the New Army."
"Ladies and gentlemen, we have solved the problem of the establishment of the army and the officers, and now we will talk about the problem of the soldiers. Since I have now conscripted all these 70,000 people as soldiers, then these people are no longer Minzhuang, and they will all be the regular army of the Great Sui in the future. have to pay them Dai Lu food and salary" This treatment between soldiers is also a problem. It is unfair that officers can be distinguished according to the size of their ranks, while soldiers cannot all be treated the same. This is not easy to manage, and it cannot make the soldiers have a good sense of honor and meritorious service. β,
"Therefore, General Ben decided that all officers and men of the army should wear military ranks."
Shen Guang said with some incomprehension, "General, don't everyone have official titles?" Isn't this a bit repetitive? β
"Of course it won't be repeated, the rank is only for officers. Moreover, we have suddenly increased the number of tens of thousands of horses all at once, and basically no one among the officers knows their subordinates, and there is no familiarity between the various units, even between the superiors and the subordinates, which is very bad. In case on the battlefield, this will have a bad effect on the command. Therefore, I intend to make up the ranks from the general to the soldiers, and then have the craftsmen make two pieces of iron, pin them to their shoulders, and mark the ranks of each officer and soldier on the iron plates, so that it will be clear. β
Many officers were puzzled by this, and they didn't quite understand which one the general was going to shake.
Chen Kefu's is very simple, the current rank and position of the officers in the army are basically not worthy, high and low, and he has no right to promote those middle-level officers, after thinking for a long time, he simply remembered to implement military ranks, so that he can bypass the officers' existing official positions in the Great Sui.
Early the next morning, the rain finally stopped, and a red sun jumped out of the east, and the golden morning sun dyed everyone's body with a layer of gold.
The city of Liaodong was still noisy at this time, and the soldiers who were busy all night, and when it was dawn, none of them were sleepy.
In the open space of the barracks in the north of the city, there are mountains piled up in the open air. All kinds of war mouths are piled up into mountains, including mountains of gold, mountains of silver, cloth and satin, and mulberry linen and homespun cloth. Even all kinds of men and women's clothes, hats, beast skins. There were also piles of grain, rice, wheat, and rice that had already been scooped up as white as pearls, and flour as snow. Even the dried meat and bacon that had been copied from each house were taken and placed in the open space. There are also all kinds of cattle, sheep and horses, pigs, dogs, chickens and ducks also occupy half of the camp.
At the other end of the barracks, there are all the women under the age of thirty who meet the various beheading and confiscation regulations issued by Chen Kefu, as well as children who are no taller than horizontal knives. The number of people is amazing, and the number of black crows is overwhelming.
This made Chen Kefu and the others discuss for a night, and the officers and generals who came out of Gang were startled, which said that it was good that the family was contaminated with the blood of the Sui army, and the Goguryeo clan and those noble families were the objects of punishment, but at this time, Chen Kefu looked at it at a glance. Obviously, there are a large number of fΓΉ women, who are people of the Hu tribe such as Khitan, Turkic, and shoeju, and it is impossible for all Goguryeo people to like to marry foreign women, or are the families of these foreign women all stained with the blood of the Sui army soldiers?
Summoned Luo Lin to ask him to go over and interrogate him, and after a while, Luo Lin ran back and said, "General Hui, those soldiers and people killed people all night, raided their homes all night, and they have already killed red eyes." If it weren't for the general's law enforcement team patrolling the city, I'm afraid that these people would have been in chaos a long time ago. Even so, these people began to mess around later. When they saw someone with a better house, they rushed in, and then they interrogated whether they had participated in the defense of the city, as long as they had been to the city, or even helped the Goguryeo defenders, they were all killed and raided. These guys are all counting on taking more loot so that the general can give them a little more reward today, and they say that half of it will be given to them by then. β
Looking at the mountains of loot piled up in front of him, the piles of crying women and children.
Chen Kefu sighed, thinking of the millions of soldiers and civilians who died in Liaodong yesterday, as well as the Great Sui who was in flames because of Liaodong. I also thought about killing some people to deter the Liao people so as to facilitate future rule. But now, it has deviated from his thoughts. This is not to kill some people, looking at the large number of women and children in the camp, and then thinking about the fact that most of them are only one or two families left, there are five or six thousand people in front of them, and it is estimated that the number of people killed after the city is broken will definitely not be less than this number.
Fortunately, those people were still a little afraid of the deterrence of breaking the barracks, and they didn't dare to do anything to burn, kill, loot, and loot.
waved his hand, and said in a somewhat low voice, "Pass my order, all the Minzhuang sergeants return to the camp, subject to Mao, after the Mao hour, those who have not returned to the camp will be tied up and thrown to the camp gate to kneel." β
"What about those fΓΉ women? A large number of them do not meet the conditions you said yesterday, General? Rollin asked. ,
Chen Kefu said indifferently, "What do you want to do?" Although the Minzhuang soldiers were a little chaotic, these were not our people in front of them. These people are not like me and you have the same blood as you, these are all foreigners. Since ancient times, there has been no justice in inter-ethnic strife,
It has always been the winner who wins. Well, if it is us who are defeated, do you think those foreigners will be very kind to our brothers and sisters? β
, "Kill it, kill it, anyway, we all have a blood feud between us, I haven't forgotten that the Goguryeo people used the bones of hundreds of thousands of Central Plains boys to pile up the Jingguan under the city of Pyongyang." There is no right or wrong in this, weaken the strength of the other race, and then assimilate him, and then we can do mercy to them. But definitely not now, now be merciful to them, or cruel to ourselves. Perhaps because of your momentary kindness today, tomorrow there will be a Goguryeo warrior who will grow up and kill our brothers and comrades with swords. Rollin, you have to remember that there is a difference between treating a foreigner and treating a fellow. Do you understand? β
Rollin gritted his teeth and nodded, he remembered his father, who might have become one of the hundreds of thousands of bones under Pyongyang at this time.
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