Half a year seems like a long time, but Liu Hou plans not to start a big war in half a year, and I believe the impact will not be great. The relocation of the capital of Wei to Chang'an is equivalent to giving up the vast land in the Central Plains, and half a year is not much time to digest such a huge territory.

And to digest these territories, although it is necessary to dispatch troops, but there are certainly no major battles, it is estimated that they are all small fights, mainly based on military deterrence, with the strength of the current troops is enough to deal with it.

It is worth mentioning that a new group of brigade commanders were promoted this time, one of whom was named Ma Bing, speaking of which Ma Bing is also a second-generation official, and his father is Ma Liang, a heavy minister of the Shu Han Dynasty. In the original history, Liu Bei was defeated in the Battle of Yiling, and Ma Liang also died in this battle.

But in this time and space, Liu Hou saved Guan Gong, and Liu Bei did not launch the Battle of Yiling to avenge his brother, so Ma Liang did not die, and still assisted Zhuge Liang in Chengdu to deal with the government. The Ma family has been very strict since childhood, and Ma Bing is also a relatively good reputation among the second generation of officials in Shu Han.

The original 1st and 2nd Brigades were the elite of the original 1st Division, and they were also the troops in the entire Hong Army system that were second only to Liu Hou's personal guards in terms of combat effectiveness.

This is because Liu Hou intends to stay in Xuchang for a while, Xuchang is a very large city that needs enough troops to defend it, and one division is not much.

Mi Zhao and his classmate Kong Ci served as brigade commanders of the 1st and 2nd Brigades respectively. The commander of the Third Brigade was Guo Changsheng, the captain of the special forces who made great contributions in the process of kidnapping Sima Yi's family.

This time, not only a group of brigade commanders were promoted, but also a group of regiment commanders and other officers at all levels, among whom a man named Wu Daniu was also promoted to the Yulin Army as a regiment commander. This Wu Da Niu originally surrendered to Huang Xu during the Battle of White Emperor City, helped Huang Xu deceive and open the city gate and persuaded Xu Sima to surrender, and his people were brave and strategic.

Because of his outstanding performance, he entered Liu Hou's eyes, and later the army was reorganized, and he was assigned to the original First Brigade. This Wu Da Niu is very studious, and after joining the Hong Army, he worked very hard to learn the various rules of the Hong Army, and soon became a qualified Hong Army officer.

In the later battles, he made many meritorious achievements and was promoted, and this time he was finally promoted to the position of regiment commander, which was not easy for his background. However, this also depends on the relatively fair promotion path of the Hong Army.

Although Liu Hou also appointed many children of noble relatives, such as Zhang Bao, Guan Xing, Zhao Tong, Huang Xu, Mi Zhao and others, all of whom were the children of important ministers in the court, he did not arbitrarily appoint the second generation of these officials.

First, these people are required to have the ability. He will definitely not let people who have no ability to hold important positions, for fear of making mistakes; In fact, there is a reason why he appointed so many children of noble relatives, these second-generation officials have good family conditions since they were young, and the education they received is also the best in this era.

In all probability, they are more knowledgeable, have more skills, or rather, are more talented, more capable, and have much greater development potential than ordinary people. This also makes them objectively more suitable for being generals than ordinary people.

Second, he did not directly let these people take important positions as soon as he came up, but started from a lower position, let them train at the grassroots level for a period of time, accumulate experience, and by the way, observe their conduct and ability.

He will only promote them at the right time, of course, these people must be promoted faster than ordinary people, no way, this is still an era of fighting fathers in the final analysis, other people's fathers help themselves with their lives, and their sons have to take care of themselves, don't they?

In addition to the relatively more convenient promotion channels for the second generation of these officials, for ordinary soldiers, the promotion channels are also smooth and fair. Combat merit is the most direct unit of measurement for promotion, as long as you accumulate enough combat merit, you can basically get promoted, and there is no such thing as being suppressed by superiors in the Hong army.

Of course, this is also because the Shu army is now developing at a high speed, and the size of the army is expanding ~ expanding at a very high rate, and there are many officers at all levels needed.

Because Liu Hou stipulated that officers at all levels must be literate and have relevant diplomas, and officers at different levels must pass the corresponding military strategy examination before they can serve, there are very few officers who can meet the requirements, so that officers are in short supply in the army.

Most of the troops did not have a deputy post because there were not enough officers, and some units could not find suitable candidates for the main post, so they had to lower their requirements and promote some people who met some of the conditions (such as having made sufficient military merits) to temporarily replace the post.

However, these temporary deputies are not formally appointed, and the word "deputy" should be added before the title, such as acting company commander, acting regiment commander, etc.

In this war era, it is not difficult to reap the merits of war, and it is not a problem to train hard, and military literacy is not a problem, so what are their so-called qualifications?

It turns out that most officer promotions are planted on diplomas and exams. Although the Dahan Longteng Academy is expanding its enrollment almost every year, the supply of officers who are graduating from the academy is still in short supply. Chengdu is far away from the Central Plains, and because of the needs of the war, the soldiers cannot leave, so most of the grassroots generals have no opportunity to go to the academy to study.

But Liu Hou provided them with a convenient learning path. There is a branch of the military academy with the army, and when there is no war, the soldiers can go to study at night after training during the day.

In the evening school they can learn the same military knowledge as the academy, and after passing the exam, they can get a diploma. There is another way for soldiers to learn, and that is to join the army at all levels. Those who joined the army not only did ideological work for the soldiers, carried out ideological and moral education, but also taught cultural knowledge.

Those who are illiterate can first ask their own troops to join the army for literacy and then go to night school. As a result, everyone in the unit felt that they had a head start, and they all burst out with unprecedented enthusiasm for learning.

Even if it is not for promotion, it is still good to learn literacy and learn some cultural knowledge, you must know that in this era, only high-ranking officials and nobles have the conditions to study, and ordinary people can read and write. I didn't expect to be able to read and write as a soldier, who would let go of such a good opportunity.

Of course, in the process of reading and writing, the soldiers were unconsciously instilled with the idea of loyalty and patriotism, because the tutorials were carefully selected, and in addition to military knowledge, the most taught was the idea of loyalty and patriotism.

However, the soldiers are not averse to this, except for this saint tomorrow, who else will give them literacy and literacy? Who else treats soldiers so well? If such an emperor does not support it, who else can he support.

Wu Daniu and Guo Changsheng are typical people who have been promoted to high positions step by step from the grassroots class through their own struggle.