In the current Liangzhou, there is no Zhonglang General in the Liangzhou Corps.
At present, in addition to Liu Bei being a general, the highest military positions in the Liangzhou Corps are various school lieutenants.
There are not even many captains.
At present, there are only five school captains in the Liangzhou Corps, namely Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Dong Huang, Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Dun. What they do in the State Mufu is what they do in the army. For example, if Guan Yu serves as Wu Meng, then He is Colonel Wu Meng in the army.
Liu Yong, Liu Sheng, Pang De, and Xu Huang are capable enough, but because they did not have serious military achievements in Liangzhou before, they only held the position of Army Sima, and the leader of the army was Yizhou Mu. The government is engaged in the identity of leading soldiers.
When the Eastern Han Dynasty did not have the position of standing general, it did not even have the position of general Zhonglang. The lieutenant was a permanent mid-level and senior officer in the army, and the general Zhonglang became a general at the commander-in-chief level.
Over the years, as wars have become more frequent, military honors have begun to become more numerous. The positions of lieutenant generals have slowly begun to increase, and the number of generals has also begun to increase. However, most of them are set up during wartime and are not often placed after the war.
This was a practice formed by the changes made by the Eastern Han Dynasty court in order to limit military expenditures and reduce expenditures. At the same time, it was also a manifestation that the Eastern Han Dynasty court did not have enough ability to command large corps for joint operations and instead focused on small-scale public security operations.
Since the Han-Qiang War, with the continuous weakening of national power and the gradual depletion of finances, the Eastern Han Dynasty court has become more and more restrained and conservative, and has lost the idea of exploring and entering.
Regarding military operations, we adhere to the concept of "if we can't fight, don't fight, if we can fight small, don't fight big", reject large-scale operations, and avoid wars as much as possible.
Under this guiding ideology, there is naturally no need for many relatively high military positions and various generals. Even Zhonglang generals have become less numerous. The occasional appearance of one or two generals is not unusual.
This practice has also affected Liu Bei's troops to a certain extent, and is also the reason why it is difficult to promote military positions normally without sufficient military merit.
However, as the number of wars encountered by the Liangzhou Corps continues to increase and military achievements continue to accumulate, it will only be a matter of time before this limit is broken.
Liu Yong, Liu Sheng, Pang De, and Xu Huang were the main generals who followed Liu Bei in the attack. They all made great military achievements this time, so Liu Bei promoted the four of them to the rank of captain.
Generals at the next level such as Cao Ren, Cao Chun, Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Ma Teng, and Yan Xing also accumulated some merits and were officially signed by Liu Bei and appointed as army commanders.
If there is another war and huge gains and seizures next time, the first Zhonglang general in Liu Bei's army may be born, but it is not yet known who that person will be.
Of course, it doesn't matter.
Liu Bei will not be stuck in military merit, and will not let his subordinates not be promoted despite their merits. This is not what he will do. If they make merits and meet the conditions, they can be promoted.
In the future, when their military achievements are greater and their status is higher, it is not impossible to arrange general positions for them.
In the previous era, there were not so many general names, but Liu Bei knew a lot of cool general names. When the time came, he would arrange them one after another, which would be enough to appease people's hearts.
Next is a series of military merit accumulation awards for middle and low-level officers and soldiers, including material rewards and promotion rewards.
The Wu Commander was promoted to Shi Zhang, the Shi Commander was promoted to captain, the captain was promoted to camp commander, the camp commander was promoted to military prince, and the military commander was promoted to military commander.
Because of the strict implementation of the military merit promotion and reward system, the Liangzhou Corps has very strong combat effectiveness and fighting will, and its desire to win is also very high. Basically, it will not panic when it hears that there is a war, and will not worry about its future. worried about his fate.
In addition to the army, other civilian personnel who made contributions to this march also received commendations, generous material rewards, and a series of promotions in the state and pastoral government system.
However, compared to soldiers on the battlefield, civilian personnel are definitely not promoted as quickly.
And to put it bluntly, Liangzhou has such a big market. If everyone really accumulates merits to the point, it is inevitable that there will be no promotion.
Liu Bei calculated that even if he didn't want to go to Luoyang by then, his subordinates would push him to go to Luoyang out of anger.
The small Liangzhou cannot accommodate their strong desire for promotion. They must pursue higher positions, greater power and wider space.
Liangzhou is still too small, and by then, for their own sake, they will have to push Liu Bei forward.
Liu Bei doesn't need to take the initiative, everything will fall into place.
A few days after the large-scale reward based on merit, Guan Yu, the prefect of Jincheng, sent news and told Liu Bei an interesting episode.
During Liu Bei's Northern Expedition to Xianbei, a Jincheng native named Cheng Gongying pretended to be an official from Liangzhou and was sent by Liu Bei to discuss matters. He took the initiative to contact the Shaodang Qiang and met their leader Naduo.
When Naduo met with him, he said that Liu Bei was uniting his troops against the Xianbei people and Liangzhou was empty. It was a good time to send troops to Liangzhou and attack Liu Bei's rear.
He believed that as long as the Shaodang Qiang moved fast enough and raised an army of 10,000 to 20,000 people to invade Liangzhou, they could easily seize Liangzhou and obtain a large amount of wealth accumulated by Liu Bei, which would be beneficial to the Shaodang Qiang. Beneficial and harmless.
Na Da was so shocked that he didn't quite understand this guy's brain circuit. He quickly calmed down despite being surprised, and asked him in detail about his origins and reasons for doing this, as well as the reasons for his actions and his accomplices. clear.
Then Naduo tied him up and handed him over to Guan Yu for disposal, in order to express Shaodang Qiang's importance to the agreement and their trust and loyalty to Liu Bei.
Now Guan Yu has captured the entire Cheng Gongying family as well as several dissatisfied families in Jincheng County, and wiped out all the conspiracy and betrayal forces.
Liu Bei was very happy about this and asked Guan Yu to send all these people to Ji County for him to deal with. In addition, he also sent people to praise and reward him for his loyalty.
Naduo was very happy after receiving the award from Liu Bei, and at the same time he was glad that he had made the right choice.
Because only he knew that when Cheng Gongying came to lobby him, he was tempted. He was far from being as resolute and decisive as he said. As soon as he heard that Cheng Gongying was going to be detrimental to Liu Bei, he decided to tie him up and hand him over. Guan Yu.
There are slight differences in details between what he experienced and what he told.
At that time, when Naduo asked Cheng Gongying about his origins, Cheng Gongying did not shy away and told him that he was once a subordinate of Han Sui from Liangzhou.
Han Sui was captured by Liu Bei on the battlefield, and was taken to Luoyang by him, where he was tortured to the point of being broken into pieces and his entire family was beheaded.
He hated Liu Bei very much and tried every means to avenge Han Sui.
However, Liu Bei's power was very strong and he was protected by a very powerful army. He could not act rashly, so he kept waiting in wait, and finally waited for a good time.
So he immediately found Naduo and started lobbying.
"At the moment, Liu Bei is leading his troops to fight against Xianbei. The rear is empty. You gather the army and march all the way from Jincheng to Ji County. It does not take much time. Liu Bei has taken away the main force, leaving only more than 3,000 people in one county. of garrison strength.
Although Guan Yu has military exploits, he is outnumbered and alone. He is bound to be unable to fight against your main army and will be defeated. You can march straight in and seize Liangzhou. Liu Bei has accumulated a lot of wealth in Liangzhou these days. If you want to seize it, you will definitely do it. Success! "
(End of chapter)
