Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 688 Military System Reform
In the evening, Chongzhen returned to the residence of Chaori Temple from Changping City.

For the past half month, Chongzhen has been living in the military barracks at the Temple of Chaori, and has never planned to move back to the Forbidden City, not even going back to have a look.

Chongzhen no longer intends to move back to the Forbidden City to live.

The Forbidden City is magnificent and has superb architectural craftsmanship. It can be said to be a master of classical architectural art, but such buildings are obviously more suitable for viewing than for living.

In terms of living experience, the Forbidden City is actually very bad.

The first one is the heavy Yin Qi. From the fourth year of Yongle to the present, countless people have died here in vain, resulting in a large amount of evil spirits accumulating. How can one live long in such an environment for a long time?

The second is that it is too open, and it takes half a day to go out.

As a time traveler, Chongzhen still prefers fireworks.

But where to live in the future, Chongzhen has not yet considered.

So for the time being, they can only live in the barracks of Chaori Temple.

As soon as Chongzhen returned to the barracks, Jiang Tianyi submitted the new army's reform plan.

Until now, the new Ming army has not yet been formalized, and the Shizi Battalion is only a temporary group. There has never been a clear conclusion whether it belongs to the sequence of generals or the rank of civilian officials.

But this situation obviously cannot continue.

With the fall of Jiannu, there must be a clear statement.

Jiang Tianyi's new army reform plan is based on this idea.

But the first version of Jiang Tianyi's plan made Chongzhen very dissatisfied.

The main reason is that it is too different from the military system envisioned by Chongzhen.

"Jiang Tianyi, I said, you remember." Chongzhen returned the reform plan to Jiang Tianyi.

Jiang Tianyi hurriedly took out the Langhao brush that he carried with him, and got ready to record.

After pondering for a moment, Chongzhen said: "From now on, the army of the Ming Dynasty will be divided into three major arms: the army, the navy, and the air force. The Emperor of Ming will be the generalissimo of the army, navy, and air force."

"Abolish the old military positions such as admiral, chief soldier, deputy general, garrison, thousand general, general general, and post commander."

"Newly establish commanders, division commanders, brigade commanders, regimental commanders, battalion commanders, company commanders, platoon leaders, and squad leaders."

“什改为班，步兵班定员15人，装备15支步枪加1支短铳；辎重班定员15人，装备15支步枪、1支短铳加若干头骡马或若干辆马车。”

"The team is changed to a platoon. One infantry platoon has three infantry squads under its jurisdiction. The principal and deputy platoon leader plus the trumpeter messenger. Each infantry platoon or supply platoon has a capacity of 1 people and is equipped with 3 rifles and 50 short guns."

"The infantry platoon has 30 people, equipped with four 4-inch tiger squat guns and 2.5 short guns."

“炮兵排定员20人，装备1门2.5寸山地炮或者1门4寸野战炮、20支短铳外加若干头骡马又或者若干辆马车。”

"The sentry was changed to a company. An infantry company has three infantry platoons and one infantry platoon under its jurisdiction, with a capacity of 1 people."

"One artillery company has 1 artillery platoons with a fixed number of 3 people, equipped with 70 mountain artillery or field artillery."

"The general is changed to a battalion. One infantry battalion has three infantry companies with a fixed number of 1 people. One artillery battalion has three artillery companies with a fixed number of 3 people. They are equipped with 580 mountain or field guns."

"The battalion was changed to a regiment. An infantry regiment has 1 infantry battalions with a fixed number of 3 people, and an artillery regiment has 1750 artillery battalions with a fixed number of 1 people, equipped with 3 mountain or field guns."

“旅仍为旅，1个混成旅下辖2个步兵团、1个辎重团加1个炮兵团，定员为6000人，装备有4520支步枪、2275支短铳、72门2.5寸虎蹲炮、27门2.5寸山地炮或者4寸野战炮外加若干头骡马或者若干辆的马车。”

"The mixed brigade is the smallest independent combat unit."

"According to the type of artillery, it is divided into mountain mixed brigade and field mixed brigade."

"The town was changed to a division, and one division has three mixed brigade-Canadian medical teams and other teams directly under the division headquarters, with a capacity of about 1 people."

"A group army is established above the division, and a group army has several divisions under its jurisdiction, with a fixed number ranging from 1 to 2. The specific scale depends on the needs of the campaign."

"Military chiefs are not permanent."

"Only in wartime will officers and soldiers go out together."

"At ordinary times, the soldiers return to the town, and the officials return to the government."

Separation of officers and soldiers is the principle. If generals and soldiers are allowed to stay together for a long time, generals can use methods such as showing favor to win over or intimidating to make low-level soldiers form a strong personal relationship with them. There is one step left, and there have been countless bloody lessons in history on this point.

As a traverser, Chongzhen will naturally not repeat the same mistakes, so the officers and soldiers must be separated.

As for the fact that the separation of officers and soldiers may cause the generals to not know the soldiers, and the soldiers not to know the generals, it may indeed weaken the army's combat effectiveness, but for the current Ming Dynasty, this is actually not a problem.

Because after entering the age of firearms, the logic of the battlefield has been completely different.

As long as the discipline of the army is guaranteed, even if the general does not know the soldiers, the combat effectiveness will not be bad.

Speaking of this meal, Chongzhen said again: "When there is no combat mission, soldiers need to return to the town platform to wait for recruitment, and officers need to return to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to wait for selection. A town or several towns select a sufficient number of soldiers, and then select corresponding officers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, form an army together and go out."

"Also, the selection of officers can no longer be as random as it is now, but requires certain rules."

"A military rank system can be introduced in the future, and the military ranks can be divided into non-commissioned officers, lieutenant officers, school officers, general officers, and marshals."

"Except for Marshal, which is not graded, the other four military ranks are divided into upper, middle and lower ranks. From low to high, they are corporal, sergeant, sergeant, second lieutenant, lieutenant, captain, major, lieutenant colonel, colonel, major general, lieutenant general and Admiral, there are five ranks and thirteen ranks."

"The rule is that Nanjing Guozi graduates are corporals, non-commissioned officers are not allowed to be squad leaders, non-lieutenants are not allowed to be platoon leaders and company commanders, non-college officers are not allowed to be battalion and regimental commanders, and non-commissioned officers are not allowed to be brigade commanders and division commanders. Non-marshals are not allowed to be commanders."

"Finally, according to the military merits of the commanding soldiers in the Shiziying and the first batch of Guozisheng in the war against slaves, the corresponding military ranks can be assessed one by one for future selection. Officials are the main ones, and the proportion of generals does not exceed [-]%, while the first batch of Guozisheng in Nanjing Guozijian mainly consists of non-commissioned officers, and the proportion of lieutenants does not exceed [-]%.”

Jiang Tian recorded them one by one, and finally asked: "I have something unclear, please let me know."

Meeting Chongzhen's inquiring eyes, Jiang Tianyi then asked: "If the soldiers belong to the towns and the officials belong to the government, how can we ensure the training of the soldiers in each town? And how to maintain the weapons and equipment of each town?"

Compared with cold weapons such as swords, spears and bows, the maintenance of firearms is more frequent and more important.

Generally speaking, it is enough to maintain cold weapons such as knives, spears, bows and arrows once every ten days and half a month, but firearms need to be cleaned and tested every day, so there is no need to slack off for a while.

That's why Jiang Tianyi deliberately raised this question.

However, Chongzhen couldn't be bothered by this matter, and he had already made corresponding arrangements.

"The Ministry of Internal Affairs regularly dispatches a group of lieutenants to serve as instructors in each town and take charge of training in each town."

"As for the maintenance of weapons and equipment, separate arsenals can be set up in the villages belonging to each town to store weapons and equipment. During daily training, let the town soldiers do a good job of maintaining weapons and equipment."

Regularly dispatch low-level officers to the towns to take charge of the training tasks of the town soldiers, so there is no need to worry about the risk of warlord separatism. Firstly, low-level officers do not have that appeal. He establishes a personal attachment with the soldiers.

The reform of the military system was thus settled.

……

When Jiang Tianyi returned to the General Staff Section, several scholars including Zheng Sen were having a heated discussion with a dozen or so students from the state.

"What are you guys discussing, so lively?" Jiang Tian asked with a smile, "I'll listen to it too."

"Hey, what else can we discuss? Isn't it about military merit?" Zheng Sen said, "Before launching the Northern Expedition, the Holy Majesty clearly said that when the Northern Expedition is successful and the Jiannu are wiped out, a new military merit system will be formally established. Do you know what kind of military merit system this new military merit system is? When will it come out?"

Remuneration for meritorious service after the war was agreed early on.

The reward is divided into two parts, one part is the reward, which has already been distributed, no matter the scholars, Guo Zisheng or the low-level soldiers, the standard is the same, and the reward is 55 yuan.

In addition to rewards, there is also the military merit system or the title system.

Many scholars look forward to the military merit system, but fear the title system.

The reason for this is also very simple. Whether it is the commanding soldiers of the Shiziying or the first batch of Guozi students, they all consider themselves scholars, so they disdain to work with generals and have conflicts with being named nobles.

Xue Zongzhou said: "In my opinion, most of them follow the example of the Qin and Han Dynasties to establish the military merit system."

The rest of the scholars and Guo Zisheng also agreed one after another, agreeing with Xue Zongzhou's judgment.

However, Jiang Tianyi said with a smile: "This is what I'm talking about, what a coincidence."

Zheng Sen immediately regained his energy when he heard it, and asked anxiously, "Has the military merit system come out?"

"Come out." Jiang Tian said with a smile, "But it's a bit different from what you said."

"What's that like? Brother Wen Shi, tell me quickly." Zheng Sen said anxiously, "Don't be a fool."

Jiang Tianyi said: "The military merit system established by the Holy Spirit is not the [-]-level military merit system of the Qin and Han Dynasties, but is divided into five levels and thirteen levels, from low to high, they are corporal, sergeant, sergeant, second lieutenant, lieutenant, captain, and major. , Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel, Major General, Lieutenant General, Admiral, and Marshal, and above Marshal there is the Grand Marshal of Land, Sea and Air, but this is exclusive to the Emperor.”

"Scholar? Lieutenant? Colonel? General? Fifth rank and thirteenth rank?" Zheng Sen and other scholars and Guo Zisheng looked at each other in blank dismay.

The military merit system established by the Holy One is indeed somewhat beyond their expectations, it is simply unheard of.

However, Jiang Tianyi went on to say: "The Holy One actually did not set the military merit system, but the military rank system, but the meaning is the same. Soldiers in command and Guozisheng need to accumulate military merit to be able to achieve promotion in military rank. The more military merit they accumulate or the higher the military rank The bigger the rank, the greater the promotion of the military rank will be.”

(End of this chapter)