In the past few months, the Baoxiang Army has continued to expand, and many of Zhou Mingxu's colleagues have been promoted, but he has been stuck in the position of commander of the first musketry sentry of the 4th Infantry Battalion.
This was taken seriously by the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs, and those who entered the training list were unable to be promoted for several months. This seemed very unreasonable at first glance in the rapidly expanding Baoxiang Army.
Shouldn't it just fly into the sky?
This is related to the training plan formulated by the Ministry of Military Affairs!
The training plan for potential new officers currently formulated by the Ministry of Military Affairs is actually very simple. Various trainings are given one by one, and various part-time jobs are thrown in. At the same time, the most important thing is to allow them to continue to accumulate experience in leading troops.
This experience in leading troops naturally refers to leading new types of troops, preferably musketeers. Traditional mixed brigades do not count...
That's why Zhou Mingxu continued to accumulate experience in the rapidly expanding Baoxiang Army, while his colleagues around him were being promoted one after another.
However, among his colleagues who have been promoted one after another, except for a few who were promoted and reused in the main force, many of them were actually promoted with too little gold...
In the current stage of the rural protection army, promotion in many cases does not reflect whether an officer has been reused and trained.
On the other hand, in fact, at least half of the officers who were promoted were actually given up by the Ministry of Military Affairs and no longer received special training. It all depends on you how you will succeed in the future...
Why do you say this? Because most of the promotions are transferred to the mixed brigade!
In recent times, the expansion of the Baoxiang Army has actually been mostly mixed brigades, and the expansion rate of the main infantry force is still relatively slow.
Because promotions at this stage are mainly based on transfers to various mixed brigades.
However, transferring from the main force to the traditional old army, even if it is directly promoted to one or even two levels after the transfer, is not necessarily a good thing, and many people are not even willing to do so.
Because everyone knows that new-style troops are the future of the Hometown Protection Army, and the main force is the foundation of the Hometown Protection Army.
Because as soon as they are transferred, it will be extremely difficult for middle- and low-level officers to return to the new main force from the traditional old force.
Unless they are people like An Yongduo and Fei Bingqing who are already senior generals, however, these brigade commanders and deputy brigade commanders were transferred by Luo Zhixue. They are basically used for command, and they can be transferred to the middle and low-level positions. Officers are two different things.
Therefore, the transfer of mid-level and low-level officers from the main force to the mixed brigade is actually a kind of survival of the fittest implemented by the Military and Administrative Department to a certain extent. By constantly selecting new people to take the top positions, and then eliminating the last ones, those with greater potential will be selected. A new type of officer.
How should I put it? Even the position of commander of the sentry in the main force is very important. It is used to cultivate potential rookie officers. It is impossible to let a group of people who don't understand shit and can't even play line tactics. Those who have been in high positions for a long time.
In today's First Infantry Brigade, the battalion-level officers and sentry-level officers are almost all newly promoted officers after going south, while the original batch of middle- and low-level officers who came from the old-style army and have not kept up with the times are gone. ?
Basically, they were transferred to various mixed brigades to serve in various mixed brigades. In order to appease them, Luo Zhixue was very generous. As long as you were transferred, regardless of your seniority or combat achievements, you were guaranteed to be promoted to one level.
Those with slightly better qualifications and military exploits will be directly promoted to two levels.
A few people can even get a third-level promotion.
After the Battle of Yuzhou, Yang Kanghui, deputy commander of the third post of the 1st Infantry Battalion of the 1st Infantry Brigade, was assigned to serve in the 12th Mixed Brigade. Because he was directly appointed as the deputy commander of the 12th Mixed Brigade, he was awarded the rank of major.
From deputy sentry commander to deputy brigade commander, the promotion span can be said to be very large.
The reason for such an appointment was purely because this person was very senior. He was one of the first batch of more than 70 cavalrymen who fled to Sanshui Village. He had gone through countless battles and small battles, and all the Baoxiang Army had fought. He has basically participated in all major battles...
But, this man still doesn’t understand the command of the new army after all this time. He has been the deputy commander for at least half a year, but he still hasn’t been promoted to the commander!
After being hopeless for promotion in the main force several times, Yang Kanghui finally understood that he had no hope in the main force, especially in the core old elite units such as the 1st Infantry Battalion...
If he is finally 'promoted' to the mixed brigade, he might as well take the initiative to speak up, so that he can leave a good impression in front of the general that he understands the general situation and takes the overall situation into consideration!
So he took the initiative to find Luo Zhixue, saying that he really couldn't understand the Musketeers, and asked the general to transfer him to the mixed brigade.
He also said that Yang Kanghui couldn't understand the musketeer, but it was still true to pick up a sword and spear to fight, charge on horseback and shoot him...
Luo Zhixue naturally has an impression of Yang Kanghui. After all, when they first arrived in Sanshui Village, there were more than seventy people in them. At that time, Luo Zhixue was responsible for camp affairs and baggage affairs as a military advisor. It can be said that he had some impressions of everyone. .
This person took the initiative to join the mixed brigade to free up the valuable deputy sentry position under the 1st Infantry Battalion for other potential rookies. Naturally, Luo Zhixue would not treat him badly and directly arranged for him to be the deputy commander of the 12th mixed brigade. position, awarded the rank of Major.
Fortunately, he can also be assigned to the 12th Mixed Brigade and take charge of the newly formed 12th Cavalry Post.
The Baoxiang Army has arranged a cavalry sentry for each traditional mixed brigade. However, due to the shortage of elite cavalry, the Baoxiang Army has always concentrated on using elite cavalry, so each mixed brigade has a cavalry sentry. They were all half-baked mounted infantrymen.
Luo Zhixue thought that if Yang Kanghui, an old cavalryman, could go to the 12th mixed brigade, he might be able to bring up the 12th cavalry sentry.
There are many examples similar to Yang Kanghui!
The Hometown Protection Army is constantly developing and growing, and as it continues to advance, there will inevitably be people who cannot keep up with the development speed of the Hometown Protection Army and fall behind.
Luo Zhixue also made appropriate arrangements for this.
Even if they can't keep up with the pace of development and fall behind, Luo Zhixue will not treat them badly. Those who can still fight will be transferred to the mixed brigade or serve as deputy positions.
If it doesn't work, I'll move him to the rear.
If that doesn't work, then be transferred to a local government as an official responsible for public security affairs.
Nowadays, in the various states, counties, towns and other local government agencies under the rule of the Baoxiang Army, the towns have inspection departments and the prefectures under the jurisdiction of the county have inspection bureaus to be responsible for local public security affairs, and the officials at all levels in the above-mentioned inspections are all the same. Officers who could not keep up with the development of the Baoxiang Army retired and were transferred to other posts.
Luo Zhixue's many appropriate arrangements also dispelled the worries of many old brothers.
As long as you, one to two hundred old brothers, can learn, the Ministry of Military Affairs will arrange for you to learn. It doesn't matter if you are illiterate. Now the Baoxiang Army has launched literacy education, and ordinary soldiers can learn to read.
And serving illiterate officers can also get better learning arrangements.
As long as you are willing to learn and you are not stupid, I don’t know how much you can learn, but basic literacy can still be achieved.
Once you have a basic level of education and some understanding of new tactics, you will be able to get to the top in minutes.
If the new tactics don't work, then you can work in a mixed brigade. If you still can't survive in a mixed brigade, for example, if you become disabled, you can still go to a local inspection officer.
In short, as long as you don't make mistakes and the Home Guard Army doesn't fall in this life, you can still be guaranteed to have enough food and clothing, not to mention glory and wealth, and become a master in the eyes of ordinary people.
Since we are developing and promoting capable rookies, we must also make arrangements for the older brothers who cannot keep up with the pace of development.
Such a two-pronged approach can allow the Baoxiang Army to continue to develop while also stabilizing the hearts of the people within it.
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After everyone discussed the candidates for the three battalion commanders of the 7th Infantry Brigade, Luo Zhixue finally finalized the specific candidates.
Zhou Mingxu, former First Musket Post Commander of the 4th Infantry Battalion, was transferred to Commander of the 19th Infantry Battalion;
Guan Xinhe, the former director of the Transportation Department of the Logistics Ministry, was transferred to the commander of the 20th Infantry Battalion;
Dai Zhengning, former deputy commander of the 2nd Infantry Battalion, was transferred to commander of the 21st Infantry Battalion;
All three of the above were awarded the rank of major.
After finalizing the new battalion commanders of these three main infantry forces, the candidates for the deputy commander of the 4th Mixed Brigade were also finalized. Ding Chuwu, the sentry commander of the 3rd Cavalry, was selected as the deputy commander of the 4th Mixed Brigade and was awarded the title of Major. Military rank.
Now the third cavalry post happens to be over there in Yuzhou, and Ding Chuwu is also over there, so he can take office right on the spot without having to travel around.
After the appointment and dismissal of officers such as the 7th Infantry Brigade were finalized, Luo Zhixue's first military meeting after returning to Nanyang City was considered over.
But the military meeting that lasted for more than three hours had just ended. Luo Zhixue just took a hurried break for a quarter of an hour, had some snacks, and immediately convened a second meeting.
This meeting is not about military affairs, but about finance and taxation.
In the Baoxiang Army, fighting is the first priority, and money and food are the first priority to maintain the war.
Therefore, after the military meeting, the money and food meeting was ranked second.
Compared with the military affairs meeting, which is complicated and cautious and therefore takes a long time, the money and food affairs are generally relatively simple.
Chen Xingkai, the Minister of Taxation, is very capable. Whether it is tax collection or seizing the property of various vassal kings, recalcitrant officials of the Ming Dynasty, and local anti-tax gentry, his methods are very outstanding.
What matters is a ruthless person!
At the beginning of the meeting, when Chen Xingkai reported on the recent work of the tax department, he used a set of data to prove the excellent results of the tax work: "In the past month, our tax department has successively visited various places in Nanyang Prefecture, Xiangyang Prefecture, and Yu In the prefecture and other places, a total of 260 large households of tax-resisting gentry were confiscated, with an average of more than four homes confiscated every day, a total of more than 1,400 tax-resisting people were killed, and more than 3,600 people were arrested and sent to prisoner-of-war camps!"
"The tax work has made excellent and effective progress, which has greatly promoted the tax work of our Baoxiang Army!"
Tax collection by the Baoxiang Army has never been a warm and affectionate thing! !
