And the chief of the training department is the original commander of the third detachment Hu Cheng, Hu Cheng is older, he has been working steadily over the years, and he is also desperate for Xiaotian, but after all, the momentum is insufficient, and his health is not very good, this adjustment to Yu Xiaotian made him retire from the front line and let him be in charge of the work of the training department.

Hu Cheng has no opinion on this arrangement, he also knows that his ability and momentum are not as strong as Liu Yidao and the one-eyed dragon, rather than mixing in the fleet, it is more appropriate to do some things in the back, and the training office is in charge of the three fleets, including the fishery and merchant fleet, the replenishment of recruits, the allocation of materials, the construction and maintenance of ships, the power is really not small, even the commander of the three major fleets, seeing him did not dare to be unkind to him, on the whole, his status has not declined.

Of course, Hu Cheng, as the director of the new training department, was also awarded the rank of major by Yu Xiaotian, and was on the same level as the chief officer of the three fleets, so Hu Cheng had nothing to be dissatisfied with.

As for the navy as a whole, this is the arrangement for the time being, and after some discussion, everyone said that there was no problem and they were willing to obey Yu Xiaotian's arrangement.

The next thing is the problem of the soldiers, the war battalion has been developed in the past few years, it already has a scale of 2,000 people, and now it has been promoted to the army, and in terms of rank, it has been on par with the navy, and it is no longer the previous war battalion, which is looked down upon by the navy.

So this time, Yu Xiaotian reorganized the war barracks into the army, and the chief officers of the army, such as Li Dazui and Meng Fei, all grinned happily, and had a great posture of raising their eyebrows.

In the past, the barracks were organized according to the five-five system, with five people as a team, 10 people as a squad, five squads as a detachment, five squadrons as a squadron, and five squadrons as a brigade.

In this way, a brigade has 2,500 soldiers, in addition to logistical personnel, heralds, standard-bearers, drummers, and trumpeters, but at present their total strength cannot reach so many people, and for the time being there are less than three brigades.

Two squadrons were stationed at Keelung Fort, one battalion was stationed in Tamsui City, one battalion was stationed at Nanri Island, and there were several shore artillery detachments with divisions in various places, with a total strength of nearly 3,000 men, which was not as large as the naval strength for the time being.

But now that the battalions have become independent armies and have been changed into armies, they will still have greater development in the future.

Li Dazui, as the current supreme commander of the army, is considered the commander of the army and was awarded the rank of major, while Meng Fei is the deputy commander and was also awarded the rank of major, but Meng Fei is currently the commander of the army recruit battalion, basically on par with Li Dazui's status, slightly lower than Li Dazui.

In addition, the army also has two brigade captains, Liu Tong is also an adjutant of the recruit battalion, they are awarded the rank of captain, and the rest of the squadron leaders, according to their qualifications and combat merits, are awarded the rank of captain and lieutenant respectively, with the rank of lieutenant as the mainstay, as for the detachment leader, they are uniformly awarded the rank of second lieutenant, which belongs to the lowest level of officers.

However, the squad leader does not belong to the officer sequence, and still belongs to the soldier sequence, but it will be distinguished by non-commissioned officers, and the military rank and the position they undertake are two different things, and it is also likely that there will be a squad leader with the rank of second lieutenant, or a detachment leader with the rank of lieutenant.

With regard to the Army, Yu Xiaotian decided to adopt the organizational method of squads, platoons, companies, and battalions, changing the previous name of squads, detachments, squadrons, and formally adopting a new establishment.

The original squad was renamed the squad and the detachment, and the platoon was renamed, the squadron was renamed the company, and the brigade was later renamed the battalion.

The original captains of various regiments should also be renamed squad leaders, platoon commanders, company commanders, and battalion commanders, and the largest establishment for the time being is a regimental-level unit; if the Seawolf continues to expand the army in the future, the army will increase the number of divisions above the regimental level as the number of troops increases, and there will be no brigade-level establishment for the time being.

This way of construction is similar to the organizational structure of the Spanish infantry, the number of a company exceeds 250 people, far more than the number of companies in the later Celestial Empire, but in the current situation of weapons and equipment, it is mainly the stage of front-loading flintlock pistols, and the output of firepower must rely on the number to meet the minimum needs.

Therefore, the adoption of the five-five system of the establishment method, it is obviously more suitable for the needs of this era, a company as a basic combat unit, can have a certain combat effectiveness, if large-scale operations, can be concentrated a battalion to carry out operations, the formation of an independent combat unit with quite strong combat effectiveness, just can form an infantry phalanx, with the cooperation of pikemen and musketeers, plus the pikemen's left-stabbing tactics, and strict organizational discipline, In this era, at least in the Ming Dynasty, there is basically no army that can compete with it.

Therefore, the battalion is currently the basic combat unit of the Seawolf Army, and the current strength of a battalion has basically reached the scale of 1,300 people, even close to the strength of a regiment in later generations.

But such a structure in Xiaotian's point of view, should be more reasonable, but also more able to play combat effectiveness, not to mention that now the sea wolf's wolf tooth rifle is in full production, including the Nanri Island gun, has also installed three newly made rifling machine tools, the recent production of rifles, basically this new type of rifled rifle, Minne bullets have also begun to be put into production in large quantities, in the future, after a large number of troops begin to be equipped, the combat effectiveness of the Sea Wolf Army, will jump to the strongest infantry in the world in this era.

Because it is just a small change, a few rifling lines have been added to the chamber, but the musketeers of the sea wolf can directly and effectively output fire to a distance of 300 meters, and even when shooting from a concentrated gun, they can reach a distance of up to 400 meters.

And the enemy they have to face, at this distance, does not even have the ability to fight back at all, if it is an army with weak combat effectiveness or poor discipline, a few rows of guns will be fired over, it is estimated that it will be directly disbanded on the spot, and there is no close combat at all.

Even if the Seawolf Army soldiers with wolf tooth rifles are now dragged to the European battlefield to directly fight the European musketeers, Yu Xiaotian believes that his soldiers can still beat the strongest Swedish army in Europe to the ground, and Comrade Gustav will still be killed by him.

So on the surface, the army strength of the Sea Wolf is not very large, but if these 3,000 people are gathered together and combined with some artillery, Yu Xiaotian feels that it should be quite easy to sweep through Fujian with them.

And now the official army actually wants to recover Nanri Island and drive him Yu Xiaotian out of Nanri Island, which is basically to send him prisoners, free labor and war materials, so that he will not let go of this opportunity to make a big profit, this is the reason why he decided not to preemptively strike this time, and after waiting for the officials and soldiers to come to the door, they will fight them all over the ground like they did last time to deal with Chu Cailao.

However, compared to when Chu Cai came to beat him, his current strength is not what it used to be.

The army has no opinion on Xiaotian's adaptation, he is the boss, what he says is what it is, anyway, the soup is not changed, the establishment is just a change of name, but there is no major adjustment in the structure.

After talking about the rank of the officer, the next step is the rank of the soldier, Yu Xiaotian once again stole the experience of later generations and divided the soldiers into six levels, including four levels for non-commissioned officers and two levels for ordinary soldiers.

Non-commissioned officers are divided into corporals, sergeants, sergeants, and non-commissioned officers, and soldiers are divided into private and private.

Among the non-commissioned officers, the corporal sergeant is a junior non-commissioned officer, and it is mainly awarded to personnel such as squad leader and deputy squad leader, including the gun commander, the gun commander and the captain of the crew among the sailors, and the sergeant chief is also awarded the rank of junior non-commissioned officer.

The sergeant is a mid-level non-commissioned officer, mainly awarded to the squad leader and gun commander with meritorious or senior seniority, long service time and rich combat experience, and among the sailors, important positions such as helmsman, or the ship's gun chief are awarded the rank of sergeant.

Senior non-commissioned officers, that is, non-commissioned officers, are considered to be the head and tail of the soldiers, and have not yet entered the officer sequence, but they have a very high status among the soldiers, and are specially awarded to soldiers who have served for a long time, have military merits, have rich combat experience, and have certain command ability, but have not yet been promoted to officers.

As a senior sergeant, when necessary, such as the chief and deputy platoon commanders and even the chief and deputy company commanders have been killed and injured on the battlefield, without officers, they can directly shoulder the task of commanding operations, and in peacetime they work as auxiliary platoon commanders or ship commanders to help them manage their subordinates, like the first mate in the navy, who are temporarily given the position of non-commissioned officer major, and the salary level is basically the same as that of second lieutenant officers, and with the increase of service years, their military pay will continue to increase. It may even exceed the level of a lieutenant's salary.

However, Yu Xiaotian did not continue to divide the first, second and third level non-commissioned officer chiefs among the non-commissioned officers, and he did not need to set up this kind of non-commissioned officer chief at present, if the current non-commissioned officer chief needed to continue to be promoted, he would be directly promoted to a lieutenant officer and enter the officer sequence.

The ordinary soldier only has two grades, the private and the private, the private is actually the former cadet sailor or cadet soldier, belongs to the new recruit who has just been assigned to the army from the recruit battalion, the combat experience is basically zero, but just received a certain degree of military training, still need to be in the army, continue to learn more professional skills, half a year later or after passing the assessment, then transferred to the top class, even if it is a formal soldier.

In this way, the former trainee members are now all called privates, omitting the title of trainees, but in actual operation, these privates will still be habitually called trainees, which are considered soldiers, but not qualified soldiers.

In this way, all members of the navy and army of the sea wolf as a whole have a clearer rank, and in the future, there will be no confusion about who is the official, according to the habits that the sea wolf has developed in recent years, the members with low ranks, regardless of your position, when you see members with high ranks, they will honestly salute and never commit crimes.

(Today, I would like to thank the two brothers who continue to live and wander Jiangnan for their rewards!) ）