After finalizing several candidates for the chief officers of the 7th Defense Division, Luo Zhixue also secretly made reservations for the candidates for the 8th Defense Division.
After all, the army is now crossing the river south, and if nothing happens, the Baoxiang Army will capture a large number of prisoners. From these prisoners of war, there may be some left to select soldiers to form a seventh garrison division.
The Eighth Defense Division will definitely need to put up a fight by then.
The military and political department can slowly select the chief officers of the regiments and battalions below, but senior officers such as division commanders and brigade commanders still have to be transferred in advance.
After all, these senior generals are often transferred across units. It is impossible to transfer all the personnel directly from the river crossing unit. At the same time, after these senior officers are transferred, their original vacancies will also need to be filled.
Therefore, the transfer of chief officers above the colonel level often requires preparation in advance.
Regarding the candidate for the division commander of the Eighth Garrison Division, Luo Zhixue settled on Zhao Hongshu. This man was Luo Zhixue's personal soldier and one of the veteran cavalrymen.
Zhao Hongshu has also served in the cavalry for a long time and is currently the commander of the First Cavalry Regiment. However, the size of the Baoxiang Army's cavalry has never been too large, and its size will not increase rapidly in the short term.
This also places certain restrictions on the promotion of cavalry generals such as Zhao Hongshu.
Seeing that the infantry generals were promoted step by step, even the artillery force was rapidly expanding and a large number of officers were promoted.
However, it is more difficult for cavalry generals to be promoted. Even if they are promoted in name, the number of cavalry under them is still the same.
Senior cavalry generals like Zhao Hongshu are pretty good, but more importantly, some cavalry chiefs at the battalion and sentry levels have not moved their positions for some time.
This is abnormal for the Baoxiang Army, which is currently undergoing rapid expansion, and it is easy for the cavalry generals to have some doubts.
At the same time, we also take into account that the commanders of the troops above the brigade commander level often need to command infantry, cavalry, and artillery operations at the same time. This means that the commanders of the troops above the brigade level do not necessarily have to be infantry. Similarly, artillery and cavalry generals also Able to serve as the chief officer of brigade and division level troops.
This will also bring wider room for promotion to the chief officers of the cavalry and artillery units.
Luo Zhixue has tried to let several generals from the artillery unit serve as brigade-level officers before. Generally speaking, the effect is not very good, but it is not a big problem.
After all, for the commanders of the brigade and above, especially at the division level, their more important job is actually not just to command the troops on the battlefield to carry out tactical tasks, but also to be responsible for matters at the strategic level.
The specific tactical work is naturally the responsibility of various staff officers and officers at the regiment and battalion levels.
In order to make room for the promotion of a group of middle-level cavalry officers below, Luo Zhixue also planned to promote a group of regiment-level cavalry generals.
Zhao Hongshu's promotion is an attempt.
Although it seems that he was transferred to a second-line force such as the garrison, the positions of brigade commander and above in the garrison, especially the division commander position, are still real senior positions in the Baoxiang Army, so it cannot be regarded as a derogation.
Promoting Zhao Hongshu one level and transferring him to the Eighth Garrison Division as the division commander can not only solve the problem of brigadier general rank for Zhao Hongshu, but also test Zhao Hongshu's strategic troop leadership ability through the second-line troops such as the garrison division. If Zhao Hongshu is in the second-line troops If he can still lead troops, then Luo Zhixue will still have to transfer him to the main force in the future.
Zhao Hongshu's partner, Luo Zhixue, the deputy commander of the Eighth Garrison Division, is planning to transfer Lieutenant Colonel Bao Yangyun, deputy director of the Strategy Department of the General Staff Headquarters. This person has been in charge of staff work in the General Staff Headquarters for a long time and has a very good view of the overall situation. Otherwise, I would not be the deputy director of the Strategy Department.
One of the brigade commanders of the two garrison brigades is He Renlong. This person has performed quite well in the past two months. He has frequently led troops to fight against Hong Chengchou's troops on the front line in Guanzhong, and has won several good victories.
In early September, this man led 2,000 men of the Sixth Guard Regiment and encountered nearly 4,000 troops under Hong Chengchou's command south of Hanyin. After an encounter, He Renlong successfully defeated the army at the cost of more than 300 casualties. troops, annihilated more than a thousand enemy troops and captured more than 800 prisoners.
Such a battle loss ratio result, if placed on the side of the main force, there is a high probability that he will be dismissed from his post and questioned...
In such wild encounters, in which neither side has much cavalry participation, the Baoxiang Army can often achieve extremely exaggerated battle damage ratios. Battle damage ratios of ten to one or even dozens to one often occur. .
There is no way, the main force of the Baoxiang Army, which has a lot of field artillery, performed so powerfully in the wild battle!
However, the key point is that He Renlong is not leading the main force. The Sixth Guard Regiment under his command is just an ordinary guard regiment. The artillery attached to it is also a two-hundred-pound light cannon, which is matched with dozens of cavalry. They are all half-baked cavalry.
Such a garrison can often win against a Ming army of equal strength, but it will not win too easily, at least it will not have any crushing advantage.
You can only rely on your own better cold weapons, armor and other equipment, and better treatment will bring about a more expensive period to gain tactical advantages.
This advantage can bring certain advantages to the Baoxiang Army garrison, but these advantages are also limited.
To be able to lead a unit like the Sixth Guards Regiment and win more with less and achieve such a good battle loss ratio, to be honest, this ability is relatively rare among the generals of the Baoxiang Army garrison.
Even his immediate boss’s immediate boss, Huang Guangmao, doesn’t have that ability…
If Huang Guangmao had this ability, he would have taken the Guanzhong Mansion with the entire Second Guard Division long ago.
Huang Guangmao led the Second Garrison Division in the battle before, and it seemed that he captured Junzhou and Yunyang Prefecture along the way, but in fact there were no Ming troops in these two places. He only attacked some local garrison posts of the Ming army. There are not many soldiers.
Because the main forces of the Ming army in these two places were basically taken away by Lu Xiangsheng, and then completely lost in the Battle of Sanyuanzhuang.
Later, after the Second Garrison Division captured Yunyang and moved the front line to the eastern part of Guanzhong Prefecture, it basically never fought any decent victories. A few months later, it could not even win the Jinzhou area.
Because the Second Garrison Division faced the main force of the Ming army in Shaanxi under Hong Chengchou in Guanzhong Mansion, and there were still a lot of them, the Second Garrison Division lacked much strategic advantage and was in a state of sufficient defense but not enough attack.
Of course, this is also related to the strategic system of the Baoxiang Army, which mainly defends the Western Front and does not send too many reinforcements to the Second Guard Division and other troops on the Western Front.
Today, the entire Western Front only has twelve two-and-a-half-pound field guns, six of which are on the Guanzhongfu front line and six on the East Sichuan front line.
In fact, when they fought, their tactics were no different from those of the Ming army opposite them.
Under such circumstances, it is particularly rare for He Renlong to be able to win such a victory in the Guanzhong Mansion area.
Regarding this, Luo Zhixue couldn't help but sigh. He was indeed a person who could leave his name in the history books. Regardless of his character, he was really not bad when it came to his ability.
That's because Chen Yongfu was not a very famous general in history, but his military capabilities were not that bad.
Luo Zhixue was also wondering whether he could select a few more surrendered generals in the future. It would be best to bring in a few famous generals from the late Ming Dynasty to work for him.
Among the famous generals in the late Ming Dynasty, Lu Xiangsheng had died in battle, but Sun Chuanting and Li Dingguo were still young. It would be a good thing to recruit them later if there was a chance.
It's just that you can't force this kind of thing, just let it happen. If you have the opportunity, recruit it, if you don't have the chance, kill it with a knife!
Compared with recruiting so-called famous historical generals, Luo Zhixue paid more attention to the training of officers in the Great Chu Empire. After all, the ones he trained were more suitable for the series of new tactics of the Baoxiang Army, and at the same time, their loyalty was more reassuring.
The officer academy of the Dachu Empire has been open for several months, and the first batch of students officially enrolled in July.
After the official founding of the People's Republic of China, the military academy was renamed the 'Army Military Academy'. At the same time, the shipbuilding department was separated and the 'Naval Military Academy' was established in Hanyang City.
At present, the first batch of 100 formal class students of the Army Officer Academy have studied hard day and night to complete the preliminary theoretical study and entered various units for internship.
According to the formal class system of the Army Officer Academy, students in the formal class study military theory for three months and then undergo three months of internship.
This group of students will be the first batch of officers in the Chu Empire to be fully trained according to new tactics. All the military theories they learn are based on a series of new equipment and new tactics of the current Baoxiang Army.
The focus of their learning is on line infantry, the use of artillery, the coordination of infantry and artillery, etc. It can be said that it is quite different from what traditional generals learn.
Luo Zhixue attaches great importance to this and is looking forward to their actual performance after entering the army.
Luo Zhixue personally made arrangements for the internship arrangements for the first batch of formal students at the Army Officer Academy in September, when the first batch of formal students were about to go for internship.
"All students who have completed theoretical studies will be assigned to internships in various ministries and main forces based on the subjects they studied, academic performance and personal wishes. Taking into account their growth potential and lack of experience, they are not allowed to directly serve as The chief officer of a department can first serve as staff officer, deputy and other various positions!"
"After the internship, their internship performance must be evaluated, and a few outstanding performers will be selected for promotion and re-employment later."
"The Ministry of Military and Political Affairs must properly arrange the internships of this group of students!"
Luo Zhixue is very concerned about the arrangements for formal class students, and is even prepared to personally intervene in their internship destinations.
In this regard, Major General Wei Kaifu of the Ministry of Military Affairs naturally made appropriate arrangements.
Wei Kaifu has known for a long time that Luo Zhixue attaches great importance to this group of formal class students, and has personally intervened in the enrollment stage, including internship arrangements and even military rank arrangements.
This shows that Luo Zhixue attaches great importance to and expects them!
