At the beginning of the downsizing of the army, the Qin army, which was originally a regular army of 50,000, had to be reduced to 30,000, that is, to three divisions.

The 20,000 people who have been downsized can choose to be demobilized, and a local official position, such as a police position, can be assigned to him. You can also choose to change jobs and change from the army to the armed police force. Yes, this unit was also formed by Zhang Hongbin and shouldered the task of internal guard duty. It was merged with the original local militia organization and a new formation was created. The streamlined non-commissioned officers can be capable of serving as officers, and those who are incapable can start from small soldiers.

To put it bluntly, it is the armed police on the inside, and the regular army on the outside.

At the same time, a new round of conscription began, and as a reserve, young people of sufficient age in the Qin State had to participate. Yes, this is the so-called compulsory military service system, and the compulsory military service system will not change unless the population of China becomes the billions of people in the future.

All people must join the army when they reach the legal age, and after three years, some of them declare as volunteers and become regular soldiers, and the rest are discharged. These young veterans have already undergone basic military training, and as long as they are given a fire hammer at a critical moment, they are a combat force. In fact, in Zhang Hongbin's time, military training at the university was a simplified version of this behavior.

At that time, the population of China had exceeded one billion, and tens of thousands or even millions of people could enlist in the army under normal conscription. If all the people of appropriate age are enlisted, it will be tens of millions of people, and when the time comes, logistics and supplies will be very expensive. Therefore, changing the compulsory military service system to a conscription system is also based on the actual situation in China.

Regarding the shrinkage of his subordinates, the officers have some opinions.

However, after the fact that the combat effectiveness has increased by more than three times and is more suitable for thermal weapons warfare has been confirmed, everyone has no opinion.

Even Wang Er, a heartless person, laughed publicly: "After Lao Tzu, 3,000 people directly killed him among the hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, so wouldn't he be able to go down in history?" ”

Also, the victory of 3,000 people over hundreds of thousands of enemy troops is so magnificent that it is simply impossible not to write it down in history.

Inspired by Wang Er, many people are also gearing up, waiting for a legendary battle in which less wins more and the weak defeat the strong. However, at least for a short period of time, Daqin will not fight externally, and Shanxi's digestion is the current No. 1 focus.

With the reform of the military system, Daqin also announced the reform of the military rank system, and formulated four types of medals.

Fourth-class medals, medals named after major battles, awarded to troops that achieved heavy victories, were available to almost everyone involved.

The Order of the Soldier of the Third Class, if you conquer a strategic place and have obvious strategic significance to the military of Great Qin, you can get a Soldier Medal of Edge.

The Order of the Patriotic of the Second Class, the Great Patriotic Campaign, and the Great Foreign Expansion Campaign were rewarded with heavy victories.

The Order of the Cloud Dragon, 1st class, was awarded to the victors in battles that were vital to the expansion of the country and the interests of the country.

After confirming this matter, Zhang Hongbin held a public meeting and said that a medal ceremony would be held in the near future to award medals to the meritorious officers of Daqin!

For this news, Daqin's soldiers were naturally boiling. Many people are looking forward to that day, and even many senior military officers will privately discuss what kind of rank they will receive and what kind of medals they will receive.

The medal is not only a commemorative value, in addition to the medal, the higher the other three ranks, the greater the power they can enjoy. Holders of the first-class medal can enjoy the right to tax exemption for 50 years of the property under their command, and the direct generation of heirs can get the right to recommend and promote if they join the army or politics, and the military family allowance can be increased, etc.

Therefore, a lot of people were staring at that first-class Cloud Dragon Medal.

It took a month to publicize the ceremony, and it took 45 days to prepare for the ceremony, which means that it took 15 days to prepare after the publicity was over. All the rank markings and medals were prepared overtime, and according to the list, they were finally completed the night before the award ceremony.

Finally, everyone waited for the day when the award ceremony was held.

Not only the people of Great Qin, but even the spies of the Houjin, Daming, and Liukou also participated in this meeting. After all, this meeting is open to the public, and as long as you make sure you don't have any weapons on board, you can enter. They don't need to bring weapons either, they didn't come to assassinate Zhang Hongbin, but to learn from them.

"Someone asked, what kind of country is my Great Qin? I can clearly tell everyone that I Daqin founded the country with military industry! We have the most powerful troops in the world, from the earliest Salvation Army to the Central Army of Qin in our Great Qin; We also have the most advanced industrial technology in the world, and of course the best craftsmen. It is precisely because of this that our Great Qin has been able to grow from scratch, from a weak local force, to a force that even the Ming Dynasty cannot ignore! Zhang Hongbin didn't say anything else, but once again emphasized the foundation of the founding of Great Qin.

For Confucianism, this is not good news, but no one can stop the enthusiasm of the people at this moment, and no one can ignore the Great Qin army and craftsmen. Besides, Great Qin has never been recognized by Confucianism, just like Great Qin in the Warring States Period, he was not liked by Confucianism, and he himself was not happy with Confucianism.

I am afraid that those families and Confucian children in the south of the Yangtze River have already publicized that the Qin State is the incarnation of the violent Qin back then.

Excluding the Confucian guys who can only talk about it, the people who participated in this meeting were very excited, and their enthusiasm was completely mobilized by Zhang Hongbin.

"Nowadays, firearms and various firearms have begun to become the mainstream of warfare. This also means that in the future mode of warfare, hot weapons will replace cold weapons, which has become the mainstream mode of the times. Therefore, the military system of the past can no longer meet the needs of the new era.

Under the constant discussion of our military attache in Daqin, the military system was officially reorganized. The details have been published in the "Weekly", so I will not talk nonsense.

What I want to say is that since the military system has changed, it is only natural that a new system will emerge. The new system was called the rank system, and its role was to indicate the social status and military rank of the military personnel. And today, I will award military ranks to officers above the rank of general, and at the same time, I will award medals to the soldiers who have paid for Daqin. Of course, time is limited, and only officers who have been awarded the first and second class medals will be awarded, and the rest will be issued to officers in charge at all levels.

Okay, you can't wait, right? I announce, the Honour Ceremony, begins! Zhang Hongbin didn't talk nonsense and directly announced the start of the ceremony.

The master of ceremonies of the ceremony was presided over by He Ling, who made him the speaker? As he read out the names of the officers one by one according to the list, Li Dingguo and the others came to the first award platform in turn. Under the watchful eye, Zhang Hongbin personally pinned their military ranks and medals.

In He Ling's mouth, every soldier who won the medal would have a brief explanation, telling the people what they had paid for Great Qin, what they sacrificed for it, and how heroic they were.

At that moment, they were the most shining stars of Daqin, and they were the heroes that the people of Daqin yearned for the most.

Maybe it's a little embarrassing, but every general silently smiled and received their glory. Then he saluted Zhang Hongbin with a new military salute, turned around and gave a military salute to the surrounding people, and finally silently walked down the medal platform.

From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the award ceremony is over, but it is conceivable that all the participants will not forget this day.