After a period of preparation, Su Yonglin ordered the Privy Council to summarize and sort out the proposals put forward in the past.
He will read it first and then convene a state council for detailed discussions. If the agreement is similar, reforms in this area will be carried out.
In order to prevent undesirable phenomena such as clumsiness within each unit, it is necessary to make personnel adjustments and institutional changes in each unit.
The Privy Council quickly came up with a complete logistics reform plan in accordance with Su Yonglin's request.
After reading it, Su Yonglin felt that it was very feasible. Two days before Zhao Buxi and others arrived in Zhongdu, he held a military affairs meeting to thoroughly discuss all issues including the serial number.
This military affairs meeting that took place at the beginning of the eighth year of Hongwu discussed many things about the Ming army's military construction, and reached an agreement on reform issues, which were officially promoted.
The first is the issue of the number of the Ming army.
It was decided at the military affairs meeting that numerical designations will be used to replace regional designations to dilute the regional color of the army and strengthen national awareness. The designations of each corps will be assigned according to the time when each corps was established.
The earliest established Henan Corps will be renamed the First Corps of the Ming Dynasty.
The Qilu Corps, Hebei Corps and Yanyun Corps that will be established later will also be renamed as the Second Corps, the Third Corps and the Fourth Corps respectively according to the time when the Corps was established.
The Liaodong Corps was renamed the Fifth Corps, the Hexi Corps was renamed the Sixth Corps, the Jiangxi Corps was renamed the Seventh Corps, and the Sichuan-Shu Corps, which has not yet been established, will be renamed the Eighth Corps.
The military-level designations under each corps will also be changed from the old military designations left over from the earlier Liberation Army period to new numerical designations.
The numbers are completely arranged in order according to the time when the army was established, and do not involve arrangements such as military glory and military exploits.
For example, the first formation in the Henan Corps was the Trapping Army under Zhang Yuejing's personal command. Therefore, when the designation was changed, the Trapping Army would be renamed the First Army of the Ming Dynasty's First Corps, the enemy-defeating army would be the Second Army, and the Youyi Army would be the Third Army. .
Starting from the Second Corps, also known as the Qilu Corps, the Tianxing Army, Wu Ce Army, and Shenrui Army were changed into the Fourth Army, the Fifth Army, and the Sixth Army.
And so on.
The eight corps have a total of twenty-four military-level designations.
The division-level designations under the army became numerical designations after the Ming army was reorganized.
The difference is that during the previous battles, each army had a first division, a second division, and a third division, and there was no independent division designation.
According to the new regulations, division-level combat units are likely to operate independently from corps-level units on the battlefield, so division-level armies must also have independent designations.
Then according to the same regulations, the division-level designations are located under the corps-level designations, starting from the First Division, the Second Division, and the Third Division under the First Corps of the First Corps, to the Fourth Division of the Second Corps, The fifth and sixth divisions, all the way to the final 72nd division.
A corps has three corps and nine divisions, and the eight corps of the Ming Army total 24 corps and 72 division-level designations, which is clear at a glance.
In addition, each of the eight corps has a cavalry unit directly under the corps, with a strength of 10,000, which exists as the mobile combat force of the entire corps.
Because these eight directly-affiliated cavalry units are pure cavalry units, when the new numbers are compiled, they are set with the number of [cavalry division]. Which corps they belong to is the cavalry division.
In this way, seventy-two infantry divisions plus eight cavalry divisions are the entire new designation of the Ming army.
Brigade, battalion, and class combat units below the division level still follow the old rules. Each division is assigned numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, and no independent numbers are set.
The only special existence is the Huben Army, which serves as the Central Guards.
The designation of the Huben Army has not changed, and the division-level organizations under its command also have special designations, namely the First Huben Division, the Second Huben Division, etc., which highlights the special status of the Huben Army and the glory of the Central Guards. And tough.
The designation issue has almost been resolved at this point. The Ming Army's new designation regulations will be notified to all units and prepared for implementation.
Then regarding the relatively more complex logistical issues, after discussion, it was decided to implement the plan first proposed by the Privy Council.
That is, the Privy Council took back the power to recruit, train, and assess new recruits to each army, and put all the recruit training departments in the logistics departments of each corps under the direct management of the Privy Council.
The Privy Council will set up recruit training camps in Zhongdu and all areas directly under the Central Government across the country, specifically responsible for recruiting and training new soldiers, and then allocate them to various corps to supplement their strength according to certain needs.
At present, the areas directly under the central government of Shangshu Province across the country include, in addition to the central areas around Zhongdu, there are also areas directly under the central jurisdiction of Hetao, Lianghuai, and the planned central area of Chongqing. So new recruitment and training camps will also be built in These places recruit soldiers from all over the country.
At that time, the national army's recruitment needs will be reported to the Privy Council by the Corps. After the Privy Council makes a decision, tasks will be assigned to recruit training camps in various places. Recruits who have passed the assessment will then be assigned from the training camps to serve in the various Corps.
In the future, each corps should not allow soldiers from a certain region to make up the majority. Instead, it should regulate the origins of soldiers within each corps through statistics on the origins of soldiers in the entire army to ensure the regional diversity of the origins of soldiers in an army.
If the diversity of soldiers' origins is guaranteed, the harmony of the army will be even more guaranteed.
In this way, we can contain and deal with situations such as regional groupings and hilltops that have begun to show signs within the entire army.
If such situations in the military cannot be dealt with in the future, Su Yonglin will use other methods to deal with them, such as commander transfer, army transfer and establishment, etc. He does not seek to eliminate them all, but to maintain them in a benign state. .
These important issues regarding military construction were handled very quickly by the central government of the Ming Dynasty. Once Su Yonglin signed the order and promulgated it, it could be implemented over there.
The handling of the army will be properly resolved along with the stability of most areas of the Ming Dynasty.
The meeting here has just ended, and over there, the Shu Song regime prisoner group and surrender group headed by Zhao Buxi arrived in Zhongdu smoothly.
Because some people are prisoners and some people surrender, there must be different ways to treat these people.
Of course, this is a trivial matter, at least compared to the reform issues of military construction.
Therefore, it was only after Zhao Buxi and others arrived in Zhongdu that Su Yonglin realized that no meeting had been organized to discuss how to deal with them.
So Su Yonglin could only temporarily place them in a military camp outside the city, and he quickly held an internal meeting of the Renaissance to discuss it.
