Gao Pragmatic was very moved by Liu Xin's proposal.
The fundamental core of this proposal does not actually lie in the names of Category A and Category B, but in the standardized grading system of military establishments and the standardized equipment provision and treatment provision system that matches its grading.
In human terms, if you are a type A army, then I will give you the largest establishment and the best treatment. At the same time, I also require you to undergo the most rigorous training, serve as a sharp knife unit in war, and send you the most demanding Fight on the battlefield, and you are required to achieve the greatest results;
If you are a type B army, then I will give you a structure that is inferior to that of type A army and relatively normal treatment. At the same time, you must also undergo formal training so that you can serve as the main regular force of the army in war and be able to complete the tasks of an army. In most normal tasks on the battlefield, you can fight against ordinary enemies without falling behind;
Liu Xin only said "Grade A" and "Grade B", but as she just said, the core of what she said was "the standardized grading system of military establishments." In fact, according to the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, Gao Pragmatic knew that the Ming Dynasty must not only be divided into A and B, but also C-type military towns and even D-type military towns need to exist.
Then, the requirements of Type C Army are naturally lower than those of Type B Army, and the requirements of Type D Army are equivalent to those of Type C Army.
Generally speaking, the Type A Army is a sharp-edged force, at least the core elite of a certain town in Jiubian, such as the Qi Jiajun of the Southern Army, the Li Jiajun of Liaodong, the Ma Jiajun of Datong, the Ma Jiajun of Xuanfu, and the Liu Jiajun of Sichuan.
The characteristic of these armies is that their equipment is absolutely top-notch in a town. When fighting externally, they can often do "one against two", "one against three" or even more exaggeratedly;
The Type B Army is the regular main force, which is equivalent to the nine-sided field force after completing the reloading in recent years. Generally speaking, it can be seen as those troops that Gao Pragmatic takes with him every time he leads troops. They have higher fighting will, better military discipline and treatment, and stronger field combat capabilities.
Of course, there are also strong troops among these armies, such as Zhang Wanbang's troops who have achieved several outstanding achievements. As a member of the general family Ding Jun (Datong Zhenyang Hewei) who also belongs to Datong, Zhang Wanbang's combat effectiveness is no weaker than that of the Ma Jiajun with the same number of people.
As for why the "Zhang Jiajun" is still inferior to the Ma Jiajun, it is because the Zhang family rose late, and its foundation and family capital are still somewhat inferior. Therefore, the scale of Zhang Wanbang's army is much smaller than that of the Ma Jiajun. The Zhang family can only provide about 6,000 people, and he usually leads about 3,000 to 4,000 people.
What is the current size of Ma's army? There are many generals, generals, and guerrillas in the Ma family. Together, they have more than 30,000 soldiers. This is called the foundation.
Correspondingly, the strengths of other top goalkeepers have been more or less mentioned before. For example, the Ding Army of the generals with the highest combat effectiveness, the Li family in Liaodong has about 40,000 people, and they are mainly cavalry, so they are the number one generals; the Ma family in Xuanfu has about 25,000 people, and they are mainly cavalry, so The number is slightly smaller; the Sichuan Liu Army is about 30,000 people, and because it is the Southern Army, it has less cavalry.
But here I want to talk about the Liu Jiajun alone. One key point in his family's situation is that the size of the generals in the southwest is far less numerous and powerful than that in the Jiubian. In the entire southwestern provinces, as long as you don't regard the Mu family of Yunnan as a general, then the Liu family is undisputedly the first general family in the southwest. It has no rivals at all and is completely outstanding.
Needless to say, the two generations of the Liu family have made a name for themselves in the Southwest. In the southwestern provinces and even in border areas such as Myanmar, just erecting a "Liu" banner may be enough to withstand the deterrence of 20,000 troops.
Qi Jiajun is a special case, and its number is difficult to calculate according to the standards of other major generals. This is because Qi Jiguang's goal over the years has not been to support his troops and become a general. His ideal has always been to train troops for the imperial court and train all the troops he can train to have the same combat effectiveness as the Qi family army.
This has led to a problem, that is, there have never been many direct troops directly under his command (after him, Qi Jin), with only 6,000 people at the highest point (including now).
However, it is troublesome to count the Qi Family Army in a broad sense, because there are many generals who go out to lead troops across the country. When they go to lead troops, they often take a group of people from the Qi Family Army. Then when I got to the place, I recruited a group of people myself. Do you think these people are considered Qi Jiajun?
If you don't count, then the total number of the Qi Family Army is only 6,000, and they are basically all under Qi Jin's command now; if you want to count, then the Qi Family Army has 80,000 people, not to mention 100,000, making him truly the best general in the world.
Of course, this is generally not the case. Therefore, Qi Jiajun is indeed a special case among generals.
Gao Pragmatic felt that if such an organization plan was followed, the above-mentioned Li Jiajun, Ma Jiajun, Ma Jiajun, Liu Jiajun and Qi Jiajun should all be organized as the first batch of "Type A Army". Moreover, due to certain considerations, it is not advisable to form too many Type A troops at the beginning. It is necessary to give some Type B troops the space to upgrade into Type A troops in the future to encourage Type B troops.
Uh, is it possible that I have to engage in the "five main forces" first? Why does this name sound so unlucky... Well, if you include the Imperial Guards, they are the "six main forces". This sounds much more auspicious.
Talking about the "A, B, C and D" grading system, this system can indeed refer to Japan in its original history. As the name suggests, a highly pragmatic person is pragmatic and will not object to learning from the system they used just because he is disgusted with the invading army. On the contrary, he felt that there were some advantages in learning from the Japanese army at that time rather than learning from European armies in certain historical periods.
What are the advantages? Of course, there are advantages such as geographical proximity and cultural similarities. It goes without saying that Japan is influenced by Chinese culture. Even the Japanese of later generations admit it. Unlike other major powers in the universe, the Japanese do not shy away from this and are even quite proud of it.
For this reason, the systems that the Japanese military can use often have no problem using them in China. The "A, B, C, and D" grading system falls within this category in Gao Pragmatic's view.
And here is something that may surprise many people: the so-called A, B, C, and D divisions have never appeared in the Japanese’s own data, which means that there is no A in the regular establishment of the Japanese army. The terms B, C, and D divisions are probably based on misinformation when studying the establishment of the Japanese army in China, or were formed for the convenience of understanding.
In other words, the divisions like "A, B, C, and D" are actually given by the Chinese according to Japan's actual practice.
So, what exactly was the so-called A, B, C and D classification system of the Japanese Army at that time? In addition, if we go a little deeper, what is the difference between the so-called "horse-drawing division" and the "horse-drawing division"?
During the entire World War II in original history, the Japanese Army formed a total of 173 divisions, of which 17 "permanent" divisions, also known as "ad hoc" divisions, were formed before the war, and an additional 156 divisions were formed during the war. Of these 173 divisions, 61 divisions were successively dispatched to the Chinese battlefield and incorporated into the Chinese Expeditionary Force sequence.
Many people are often confused about what a division, brigade, regiment, brigade, squadron, squad, and detachment are, and they don’t know what specific organizational sizes they are familiar with. According to the establishment of the Japanese army at that time, it was generally as follows:
"Detachment" is the smallest tactical unit, similar to the familiar "squad" and the "shed" of the Ming Dynasty Imperial Guard. There are about 13 people in a detachment, including about 8 to 9 riflemen, 1 captain, 3 to 4 machine gunners and a light machine gun.
A "squad" is equivalent to a "platoon", consisting of three squads, a mortar squad with about 8-10 people, 3-4 mortars, and a squad headquarters, with a size of about 60 people.
"Squadron" is equivalent to "company". It consists of 3 squadrons and a squadron headquarters with about 20 squadron leaders, sergeants, health workers, orderlies, buglers, and signal corps. The scale is about 200 people and is equipped with 1-2 Heavy machine guns and infantry artillery.
"Brigade" has a status between "battalion" and "regiment". Its number is much larger than that of battalion but significantly smaller than that of regiment. It includes 3-4 rifle squadrons, a transport brigade, a machine gun squadron and a mortar squad with about 1,200 people and is equipped with several heavy machine guns and a small number of infantry guns.
The "wing" is larger than the "regiment" and includes a headquarters of about 60 people, 3 infantry brigades, 1 artillery brigade, a communications squadron and an anti-tank squadron, with a size of about 4,000 people. The Japanese army also has an artillery regiment with about 2,000 people and about 40 field guns.
"Brigade", an independent mixed brigade generally has about 7,000 people, while an infantry brigade consists of two subordinate infantry regiments with about 4,000 people.
The "division" is the main cornerstone of Japan. Its status is close to that of the "army" and is the highest organization of the Japanese army. This will be discussed in detail below.
After the outbreak of the war of aggression against China, the Japanese army formed 10 more four-unit divisions. Among them, the newly formed divisions were the 101st, 104th, 106th, 108th, 109th, 110th, 114th, and 116th divisions, and the ones with restored designations were the 13th and 18th divisions. The divisions, together with the original 17 divisions, have a total of 27 divisions in the quadruple formation system.
These four-unit divisions include draft horse divisions and pack horse divisions. The difference is that the artillery regiment in the draft horse division is equipped with field artillery, while the artillery regiment in the draft horse division is equipped with mountain artillery.
As the war situation developed, the Japanese army found that the four-armed division was too large and could not adapt to the changing situations on the battlefield. Therefore, starting from September 1937, seven triple division division groups were formed. In 1939, 10 more three-armed division-making regiments were formed locally. Starting from October 1939, the four-army division-making regiments were gradually reorganized into three-army division-making regiments.
Most of the three-armed divisions formed before the end of 1941 had an infantry regiment headquarters under the division headquarters. The infantry regiment commander was the infantry commander. Later, the infantry regiment headquarters was abolished and was directly commanded by the division commander. Various infantry regiments.
In addition to being divided into draft horse divisions and draft horse divisions, these three-regiment divisions are also divided into three infantry regiments and one artillery regiment and three infantry regiments and one artillery regiment. The artillery regiment here is smaller than the artillery regiment. Team.
The criterion for distinguishing draft horse divisions from draft horse divisions is not to look at the number of infantry regiments under the division, but to see whether the artillery regiment or artillery team under the division is equipped with mountain artillery or field artillery. Because each mountain cannon requires more men and horses than a field cannon, the draft horse division equipped with mountain cannon has more men and horses than the draft horse division equipped with field cannon.
In addition, the Japanese army also has a division that also has two infantry brigades under its jurisdiction, but each infantry brigade does not have an infantry regiment under its jurisdiction, but directly under its jurisdiction four independent infantry brigades, and the two infantry brigades have a total of two infantry brigades under its jurisdiction. 8 independent infantry brigades. A total of 24 divisions with this two-brigade system were formed, and not every division had an artillery team.
Since the Japanese themselves only organized their army according to the above situation, how were the so-called "A, B, C and D" divisions divided by the Chinese? In fact, to put it simply, they are divided according to the size of the establishment, which is very rough.
The more popular saying is that the Type A Division is what Japan calls its horse division. Its size includes about 8 regiments including 4 infantry regiments, transportation regiments, artillery regiments, and cavalry regiments, plus various The total number of non-combatants is nearly 30,000;
The B Division, also known as the Pack Horse Division, has four infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, a transportation company, an engineering regiment, and about 25,000 non-combatants;
The C Division was expanded from the mixed brigade, with 3 infantry regiments, an engineering regiment, an artillery regiment, and about 15,000 non-combatants;
The Ding division is also expanded from the brigade. Generally, it only has three infantry regiments with a size of about 10,000 people. It mainly performs stability maintenance and mopping up tasks in occupied areas and is a garrison force.
I have just said that this kind of understanding is problematic at the level of historical facts, but having said that, this kind of understanding is basically feasible for the current high pragmatism to standardize the establishment of the Ming army.
Gao Pragmatic clapped his hands and said: "Xin'er's suggestion is very good. I think the Ming Dynasty's army currently has a big problem in the formalization of its establishment. In theory, the Weisuo Army, which has formalization requirements, has various problems due to various reasons. There are many types of dissatisfied troops, and the largest scale is only Wei. Even if it is full, there are only more than 5,000 people, and generally it is not possible to do it alone.
When fighting, it is often necessary to temporarily form a joint combat force with several guards under the jurisdiction of a higher-level general. These different guards do not have good coordination with each other, and they cannot exert one plus one to be greater than two or even just one. The performance of one plus one equals two, which is very bad.
As for the Jia Ding Army, which can be made larger, it does not have a formal organization system. It is basically formed at will according to the personal wishes and experience of the commander. Although this may be a relatively combat-effective establishment in the general's main combat area, for the imperial court, there are many problems.
For example, how many people there are in this kind of servant army without a formal establishment, how much money and ordnance the court needs to allocate, almost all of these can only be reported by the general himself, and the court can only send people to make temporary arrangements from time to time at most. Check it out, it's easy to be fooled.
You must know that once these situations are deceived, it is not just as simple as the court often spending more money, but more importantly, the court will inevitably misassess the combat capabilities of the army. Once such things are common among various clan armies, Then it is likely to lead to serious misjudgments in the decision-making process of the court.
To make a simple assumption, I am now going to mobilize 100,000 elite servants to go abroad to fight. According to the report received by the court, this was a real number of 100,000 elites, so I conducted a battle simulation according to the standard of 100,000 elites, and concluded that I could face the enemy's 200,000 troops head-on and win.
The results of it? When the battle was about to begin, I discovered that I actually only had 50,000 men under my command. I was unable to complete the battle as I had envisioned. In the end, I was defeated by the enemy. The retreat caused panic among the defenders at the rear, and even the border wall was lost. , causing the enemy to invade. Should this situation arise? Of course not, of course it should be stopped! "
When Gao Pragmatic said this, he stretched out his right index finger and knocked on the table hard, and said: "Therefore, the preparation of plans for several armies and towns of A, B, C and D is not only because we need to build an artillery company now, so we have to include the guards' The new establishment system was promoted, and more importantly, the formal establishment of the national army was completed, so that the court could more accurately grasp the strength of each army.
At the same time, a state of dislocation has been formed between armies and towns at all levels, especially A- and B-level armies and towns, causing them to compete with each other for court resources and improve their combat effectiveness! "
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