Late Tang

After the military discussion was over, Li Liang and Guo Cheng'an really came to ask for an interview one after another, and Li Jing simply asked them to meet in the study together.The purpose of both of them coming here is very simple, they both understand that Li Jing is a smart and cautious person.Now when troops are sent to suppress the bandits in Ziqi, the opponent is only [-] horse thieves. Even if there are many bandits in Ziqi, there is no need to dispatch four elite battalion heads.

Li Jing didn't ask Li Liang and Guo Chengan directly in class, but asked after the fact. This cautiousness satisfied him.If two people know that there is a problem with this matter, but ignore it, then it is their incompetence.

"Actually, suppressing bandits is just an excuse. This time our real target is King Jingwu of Qingzhou!"

"Is this what Jieshuai means or is it just the general?" Guo Chengan said in surprise. The relationship between Jieshuai Song Wei and Wang Jingwu has been known for more than a year.Everyone thought that Song Weiqiang would not be able to overwhelm the local snake, and after three years of work, he would leave like his predecessors.But he didn't expect that Song Wei was indeed worthy of being a general who had fought several battles, and he was not willing to compromise with Wang Jingwu at all.

"Of course this is what Jieshuai meant. Our army has repeatedly won many battles, and our reputation has already spread to Jieshuai's ears. Otherwise, he would not have such a plan. Long ago, our master had transferred us to join us. The plan to put down chaos in Qingzhou, but I have been worried that Wang Jingwu will jump over the wall in a hurry. Now there is such a good opportunity to destroy Guo, how could they miss it." Li Jing said with a light smile.

Li Liang twisted the beard on his lips, and said: "If this is the case, then the general should not have agreed so easily. Since we are the key force for Song Jieshuai to level Wang Jingwu this time, we should put forward some conditions It's just right."

Li Jing laughed loudly, and said the conditions he proposed.

"The position of Governor of Dengzhou, the number of Zhendong Army?" Li Liang and Guo Chengan couldn't help but lose their voices in surprise at this request.When they asked for something, they were just asking for more troops, but unexpectedly, Li Jing dared to speak up.The Governor of Dengzhou and the Zhendong Army.

But after thinking about it, the two of them really admired Li Jing.Every time Li Jing acts, he always seems to be very bold and reckless, but in fact, it has been carefully considered and has great feasibility.Just like the current situation, Li Jing's request seems unreliable, but in fact it has a good reason.

"Maybe Song Jieshuai will really agree!"

"When we arrive in Qingzhou, Commander Song Jie will have no other choice."

Guo Chengan said with some concern: "But if you make such a request so directly, even if Song Wei agrees now, the general is not afraid that he will turn around and deal with us after he calms down Wang Jingwu afterwards?"

"There is nothing to worry about. Wang Jingwu only holds a Qingzhou dental soldier in his hand. The number of troops is 2, and the number of private soldiers is no more than [-]. But he dares to fight against Song Wei. We now have more than [-] soldiers and horses. , and I only want to go to Dengzhou, and I don’t fight against him. In fact, we are still his people even after we got Dengzhou and the military. Then Song Wei died a thousand times under Wang Jing's sword."

"However, there are too many soldiers and horses. It is very difficult to supply tens of thousands of people even by water." Guo Chengan said.

"No, this time without the logistics battalion, let the Nutao battalion be responsible for transporting troops and supplies. In addition, after we arrive in Qingzhou, we will fight quickly and solve Wang Jingwu. Are we afraid that there will be no logistics supplies?"

After discussing some details, Li Liang said: "The most important thing now is actually how to deal with Wang Jingwu. The Qingzhou dental soldiers have always had a reputation for bravery and are very powerful. Moreover, the dental soldiers under the Qingzhou dental army are almost all generations. After the death of the son, Bibi will succeed the younger brother. This is not only the case with the officers, but also the ordinary soldiers. Moreover, these officers and officers, and soldiers are married to each other. In this way, the relationship between the military Intricate and complicated. Fighting father and son soldiers, fighting brothers, Qingzhou Yajun is extremely united."

"Jie Shuai has 6000 soldiers from the commander's mansion, [-] Qingzhou united soldiers, and [-] guards from the Supervisory Academy. If we add our [-] troops from the Fourth Battalion, we have a sufficient advantage over Wang Jingwu in terms of numbers. I'm afraid that the people on Jieshuai's side are useless, and we may have to rely on ourselves at that time. And the Qingzhou army is fierce, if there is a scuffle at that time, we are afraid that our losses will be great."

"You can't fight in a regular battle. If you get a surprise soldier, it's better to be able to attack suddenly, capture Wang Jingwu, capture the thief and capture the king."

"We can let the special forces sneak into the city in batches first, and Song Jieshuai will lead a direct attack on Wang Jingwu's nest."

"Not bad." Li Jing nodded. "Specifically, you can immediately send someone to Qingzhou to contact Song Jieshuai."

After saying this, Li Liang and the two also let go of the worries they had when they came.Guo Chengan was new here and wanted to show off his abilities everywhere, so he was reluctant to leave at this moment, and said to Li Jing: "Although I am new here, I have discovered some situations in the army, and I want to talk to the general. "

Li Jing smiled, and said to Li Liang who wanted to go out: "Staff Li stay and listen together, if what you say is reasonable, let's think about changing it together."

Guo Chengan smiled: "Actually, there is no big problem. There are two points. One is that the soldiers' rations and military benefits are too high. I know that the general didn't have many soldiers before, and he was in a dangerous situation. I should pay more rations and rewards." Pensions are helpful to win over people's hearts. However, there are more and more horses now, and we now have more than 2 people under our command, all of which have to be paid by the government. No matter what else, one person has two liters of rice per day, and six buckets of rice per month. The army has to consume [-] shi rice in one month, and about [-] shi grains a year. This is not counting the food that will be consumed several times when marching in battle."

"The subordinates looked at it, and it was only the least consumption. Now the salaries of soldiers are very high, not only for officers, but also for ordinary soldiers. In addition, the rewards are even higher, and the pensions are also surprisingly high. Although the current military There is a lot of income in the middle, but this is not a long-term solution. Another point is that the officers have different ranks, but the soldiers below are not divided into ranks. Many brothers who have followed the general for a long time have not been promoted, and now they are just a Ordinary soldiers, but many newly recruited soldiers are also treated the same as them. In this way, not only is it not conducive to management in the army, but also it is not good to have no rank among soldiers when fighting on the battlefield of."

Li Liang also nodded at the side: "The two points that Secretary Guo said hit the point, I think it makes sense. However, the rules of heavy rewards and generous caresses were set long ago, and we can't change it rashly now. But this soldier Level, I think it can be divided into one point."

Li Jing thought about it, but of course he understood the problem of excessive rewards. In the early days, he had to deal with the bad situation at that time, and how could he make his subordinates work hard without taking money.But it is also difficult to surrender now.It's easy to go up, but hard to come down.Now hearing them mention it again, Li Jing's heart suddenly moved.

He said: "Listening to what you said, I do have a preliminary plan, which is to formulate a soldier rank for all the soldiers below the ranks of the current official rank nine, including the team leader and corporal leader. My The preliminary plan is to divide all soldiers below the team level into three ranks, soldiers, non-commissioned officers, and non-commissioned officers."

Li Liang asked with some interest: "How to divide?"

"For example, soldiers are divided into five ranks, lower ranks, third ranks, second ranks, first ranks, and upper ranks. They are divided according to the time of enlistment. Those who first enlist in the army are all lower ranks, and then every year, they are automatically promoted to first rank. Those who have military merits can be promoted according to their merits. Above the soldiers, there are sergeants. The sergeants are also divided into corporals, sergeants and sergeants. Promoted to a sergeant. A soldier who has been promoted to a sergeant, a sergeant can serve as the deputy captain, and a sergeant can serve as the captain. The sergeant is promoted every two years, or promoted according to military merit. After the promotion, it is a non-commissioned officer, which is the third level The Sergeant Major, the Second Sergeant Major, and the First Sergeant Major. The Third Sergeant Major can serve as the flag bearer and the deputy flag bearer. The Second Sergeant Major can serve as the Deputy Team Chief, and the First Sergeant Major can serve as the team leader. Under normal circumstances, the sergeant major One liter every three years."

Guo Chengan calculated in his mind that if a soldier enlists in the army, it takes five years to be promoted from an ordinary soldier to a sergeant without any military merits, and then six years to be promoted to a non-commissioned officer, and another six years to reach the top level. .It takes 17 years from enlistment to first-class sergeant major.As for the position of officers above the first-level sergeant major, they cannot be promoted only according to the number of years, they must have military merits to be promoted.

"Will the levels be divided too much?" Guo Chengan asked.

However, Li Liang smiled and said: "I think this is very good. I set the current salary standard for the chief sergeant as the treatment of a first-class sergeant major, and the salary standard for the chief sergeant as the salary standard for ordinary soldiers. The treatment of upper class soldiers. As a result, most of the soldiers can only be rated as junior soldiers and third class soldiers. As a result, their food and salary standards will be downgraded, which plagues our soldiers with the problem of excessive food and salary That will take care of most of it.”

"A team leader, that is, a first-class sergeant major has a monthly salary of [-] yuan, a second-level one is [-] yuan, and a third-ranking one is [-] yuan. Then a corps leader, that is, a sergeant is [-] yuan, and a sergeant is [-] yuan. [-], corporal [-]. Ordinary soldiers, [-] first class, [-] first class, [-] second class, [-] third class, [-] junior class.”

"Is this ordinary soldier too low?" Li Jing asked.

"It's not too low. The monthly salary of the junior soldiers is 32, which is exactly the same as the salary of the frontier garrison soldiers of the imperial court. But we only have [-] for the junior soldiers, so our standards are much higher. What's more, we still have high rewards and pensions. The rewards should also be reduced appropriately. An enemy soldier's head is about the same money. Except for the first-level military exploits, military achievements are counted according to transfers. Turn eight guan, four turn sixteen guan, the highest five turn [-] guan money."

Seeing that Li Jing was still a little hesitant, Li Liang persuaded: "This is already good, if we stick to the previous standard, it will be unbearable in the long run." Li Jing thought about it, but also felt that there was a reason. Expansion, soldiers and horses will definitely be expanded. By then, there will be [-] to [-] soldiers and horses, or even hundreds of thousands of troops. The high food rewards are really unbearable. Taking advantage of this new expansion, it is good to introduce a new eleventh-level soldier rank.

The most important thing in the army is rank, which not only reflects the authority of the upper and lower ranks, but also allows the veterans among the soldiers to occupy a more dominant position when fighting.The veterans have rich experience, and their value can also be reflected by higher wages.

On the same day, Li Jing began to issue notices and post announcements throughout the army to assess and grade all soldiers.Basically, the existing group leaders, deputy group leaders, standard bearers, deputy standard bearers, qiqi, corporal chiefs, deputy corporal chiefs, messengers, etc. can be directly assigned to the corresponding ranks according to their current positions without assessment.Everyone's level is engraved on their soldier cards, which is clear at a glance.

Basically, the earliest batch of soldiers in Shamen Town have now basically become low-level officers in each battalion, and they have also been awarded the ranks of non-commissioned officers and non-commissioned officers this time.Others, such as the soldiers and horses newly brought back from Liaodong, are mostly low-level soldiers with good martial arts skills, tall and strong horses, and sailors are generally third-class soldiers.As for the cavalry, the lowest is the second-class soldier.

The soldiers of Li Jing's Guard Battalion and Crane Battalion are one level higher than the soldiers of other War Battalions.The black bear battalion and other military battalions are generally one level higher than the logistics battalions.The ranks of the soldiers in the barracks and supply battalions are basically low-level soldiers, which shows that their status is much lower than that of soldiers.

At the same time, it was announced that Li Jing formally ordered the entire army to officially become the Zhendong Army, with five compartments under it, divided into front, rear, middle, left, and left.Li Jing transferred a garrison battalion and a foreign army battalion from the eight battalions in Qingni City to Beisha City.In this way, Qingni City and Beisha City each have five battalions, each of which is organized into a wing.The five battalions in Qingni City were organized into the left wing, and Lin Wu was the envoy of soldiers and horses in the left wing.The five battalions in Beisha City were organized into the right wing, and Wang Zhong was the envoy of soldiers and horses in the right wing.

On the side of Daxie Village, Li Jing organized the Heixiong Camp, the Iron Wall Camp, the Raging Wave Camp and the Transportation Battalion, plus an auxiliary barracks to form the front compartment, and Lin Wei was the front compartment soldier and horse envoy.Stationed in the Daheishan Island area.The logistics battalion, supply battalion, engineering battalion, gendarmerie battalion and medical battalion were also organized into the rear compartment, with Zhang Chengzong as the rear compartment.

Li Jing led the middle chamber by himself, and had three battalions under his command: Crane Control Cavalry Battalion, Silver Spear Guard Battalion, and Flying Eagle Reconnaissance Battalion. They are Silver Spear Battalion and Guard Battalion, Crane Control Battalion and Flying Cavalry Battalion.

Among the five compartments, the middle compartment led by Li Jing is the most powerful, with two cavalry battalions, and the Guards Battalion, Silver Spear Battalion, and Flying Eagle Battalion each have a cavalry camp. There are [-] cavalry in the entire middle compartment , more than half of the soldiers and horses are cavalry.

Because the left and right chambers are stationed in Liaodong, the soldiers and horses are also very strong.The weakest ones are the front and rear compartments, especially the rear compartments. Among the five battalions, the five battalions of logistics, logistics, engineering, military police, and medical treatment are not combat battalions. Except for the military police battalion, which has a slightly stronger combat effectiveness, the others are all Logistics Auxiliary Battalion.

Before getting Song Wei's consent, Li Jing had already adapted the banner and organization of the Zhendong Army. This move also showed that Li Jing was determined to win.It doesn't matter whether Song Wei will give him the bugle after Wang Jingwu is put down, anyway, he has already played the bugle himself.In the late Tang Dynasty, the generals with strong soldiers were like this, and Li Jing was no exception.

Three days later, all the troops of the Zhendong Army were completed, and all the soldiers were assessed and obtained new grades.On the pier, besides the deployment of the Fifth Battalion in the middle compartment, Li Jing also transferred the Nutao Battalion in the front compartment to transport them from the sea to Qingzhou, and to be responsible for the logistics supplies. Apart from the soldiers from the Fifth Battalion in the middle compartment, Li Jing did not have a single logistics soldier. They just transferred a team of troops from the medical battalion and engineering battalion to accompany them.

On the pier, the huge banner of Zhendong Army with three big characters, the soldiers who went out bid farewell to their families and began to file on board.Many soldiers stood on the boat, looked at their ranks on their military cards, and thought to themselves that they must take this opportunity to cut off a few more heads, make military exploits, and then be able to directly increase their ranks based on their military exploits.On the pier just now, the soldiers and horse envoys have already said that if you think your level is low, you can go directly to the battlefield to get it.

Get wealth and fame immediately!

(To be continued)