According to the scheduled plan, the designation of one of the four infantry regiments in the 20th Division was directly revoked, and the musketeers were transferred to the other three regiments.
After the reform, because the spearmen were no longer in the new first-class divisions, there were a large number of spearmen waiting for placement. Luo Zhixue also personally made appropriate arrangements.
Following the principle of voluntary assessment, those who are willing to continue to join the army and pass the assessment can continue to stay in the original army as musketeers or baggage soldiers, artillery or even cavalry and other arms.
Those who are willing to continue to join the army, but fail to pass the examination for changing arms, will be transferred to the second-class divisions on the spot and continue to join the army. After all, the current second-class divisions are still mainly equipped with matchlock guns and need to be matched with a large number of spearmen. In the next few years, When it is the turn of these second-class divisions to be reorganized and re-equipped every year, these soldiers have served for several years and can be retired and resettled one after another according to conventional recommendations.
For those who have served for a long time, if they are unwilling to continue serving in the army, they will be arranged to retire and transfer. Basically, they will be arranged to work as grassroots civilian clerks, patrol police or tax police in various places.
At the same time, you can also arrange to enter a factory affiliated to the Ministry of Industry for technical training, and then become a skilled worker, low-level manager, or something like that.
Because there are literacy classes within the Chu Army, although these retired soldiers don't know many words, they can basically recognize common words and can do basic arithmetic.
These soldiers who knew basic common words and could use arithmetic, and a few of them had the ability to read and write, might be top soldiers within the Chu army, but outside, they were very few literate people.
After all, under the current rule of the Chu Empire, the illiteracy rate is very high.
Generally speaking, only about ten percent of people can recognize two to three hundred characters.
Only 10% of people who can recognize a few hundred words and can do simple arithmetic and keep accounts are overwhelmed.
However, those who can understand popular language, such as the Three Kingdoms, and can write a letter home, well, that is, those who have basic reading and writing skills, only three percent is enough...
As for scholars in the traditional sense, that is, those who can understand the Four Books and Five Classics and can write a formal article, less than one percent.
The illiteracy rate is too high and there are too few scholars. This is also the reason why when the Chu Empire recruited officials, anyone with the ability to read and write would basically not reject the application...
It was also one of the reasons why the Chu Empire launched literacy classes in the military.
If we were simply fighting a war, it wouldn't matter if ordinary soldiers couldn't read. But why did the Chu Empire require officers to carry out literacy education for their soldiers? It was to cultivate enough grassroots reading and writing talents.
These people who have gone through literacy education are better than pure illiterates no matter how bad they are. Some of them who work hard and have flexible brains will also be able to read and write. When the time comes, they will be transferred to the local government and become department members. No.
As the reorganization continues, a group of soldiers with basic literacy skills will enrich the grassroots of the Chu Empire.
Of course, there are still some soldiers who are unwilling to accept job transfer arrangements for various reasons, so a batch of retirement benefits will be directly given.
Anyway, there are many options, follow the voluntary and flexible arrangements.
But as long as you retire, regardless of whether you accept the job change arrangement or choose to receive retirement pay, as long as you joined the army five years ago in Chengshun.
Everyone can get a piece of personal land for free based on their service years and merit.
As long as you joined the army before Chengshun five years ago, no matter whether you are a soldier or a general, there will be merit fields, and there are a lot of them. Even if a soldier dies in battle, they will be awarded to the immediate family members.
Luo Zhixue's words about joining the army and being granted free land were not empty lies, but a promise that he would fulfill once he said it.
Of course, it is limited to soldiers who joined the army five years ago in Chengshun.
As for five years after Chengshun, the Chu Empire no longer shouted the slogan of free land grant for joining the army, so naturally this policy was no longer available. However, good military treatment and subsequent career transition arrangements, and even literacy classes, were all beneficial to The children of farmers are extremely attractive, so the recruiting points of the Great Chu Empire have never been short of young and strong recruits.
Luo Zhixue still treats the soldiers who follow him to conquer the world relatively favorably. He will not just kick the soldiers out after the army is reorganized or the world is unified.
That is not kind, and the hidden dangers are very great, and it will even hurt the morale of the army.
Therefore, Luo Zhixue has formulated many resettlement plans to arrange for these retired soldiers as much as possible.
However...the Unification War is still ongoing, so large-scale decommissioning is not impossible. Only some units that have accepted the reorganization will make small-scale decommissioning arrangements, while recruiting new recruits who have undergone a complete three-month training.
In conjunction with the reorganization and replacement plan, Luo Zhixue officially approved the military's soldier service plan in October of the fifth year of Chengshun.
Ordinary soldiers serve for four years and then go into active service. This time is slightly longer, but this is considering that the recruit training cycle is three months. At the same time, newly recruited soldiers are often not in good physical fitness and need to supplement a lot of nutrition during the recruit training period. .
In other words, the cost for the Chu army to turn a new recruit into a qualified soldier is still relatively high.
Replacement costs for soldiers will be relatively high if they only serve for two or three years.
At the same time, due to transportation problems, it takes a while for soldiers to arrive at the recruit training camp after being recruited. Then, after completing the recruit training, they are dispatched to various front lines. It may take several months on the road...
After all, the Chu Empire was too big, and many places were relatively far away. At the same time, in order to avoid local service, they often served in other places. Therefore, it was necessary to set aside a longer service time as a buffer to ensure the normal service time of the soldiers.
And he was incorporated into the local militia as a reserve force and served for eight years, receiving regular military training every year;
He withdrew from the militia after eight years, but remained in the reserve for four years, and completely withdrawn from the reserve after four years.
For technical arms, the service time is extended. For example, artillery and cavalry in the army, and technical personnel in the navy are extended to six years.
After the backbone non-commissioned officers of the army have completed their service years, they can choose to stay in the army and continue to serve for several years on a voluntary basis to stabilize the combat effectiveness of the army.
The active duty plus reserve period for ordinary soldiers is sixteen years. However, considering the large number of soldiers in the Chu Empire, it is estimated that non-militia reserves will be unlikely to be drafted after twelve years.
But I made a reserve plan to be prepared and extend the time as much as possible.
According to this plan, the Da Chu Empire will be led by provincial garrison headquarters and establish militia units in various places. These militia units are engaged in production on weekdays and only need to receive military training for a certain period of time each year. They will also be responsible for some places on weekdays. low-intensity tasks, such as maintaining law and order, disaster relief, etc.
In emergencies, such as when special circumstances such as the invasion of foreign enemies require the recruitment of reserves, these militia units will be recruited and used as supplementary soldiers to join the regular army for combat, or separately organized as reserve units to participate in the war.
The establishment of militia forces is to cooperate with the reserve system and to further maintain local security.
After all, so far, the Da Chu Empire actually has no reserve system. Although there is a second-class division, the second-class division is just a low-cost version of the first-class division, reducing mobility and standing troops. Even a second-class division It is also a regular army.
Based on the need to control extensive territory, the Chu army urgently needed a military system that was cheaper and more widely used as a supplement, so the militia system was finalized.
However, whether it is the militia or the reserve force, these are plans that have just been launched. Currently, there is only a piece of paper, and many places have not yet received relevant documents.
What is now in front of the Da Chu Empire Army is the reorganization and refitting plan of the 20th Division and several other divisions.
After the 20th Division was removed from the 60th Infantry Regiment, only the 57th Regiment, the 58th Regiment, and the 59th Regiment remained, but the strength of these three remaining infantry regiments , but it has directly increased from about 2,000 people in the past to 3,200 people.
According to the organization of the new first-class division, each infantry regiment has three infantry battalions, an artillery post, a baggage post and other regiment-affiliated troops.
Each infantry battalion has five line infantry posts, a grenadier post, and a baggage team.
Each sentry has one hundred and twenty line infantry or grenadiers. In addition to the combat infantry fighting in formation, there are three captains. Each sentry commander has a total of four officers, as well as orderlies and military musicians. , cooks, grooms, medical soldiers, etc., the total number reached one hundred and thirty-eight.
The new infantry battalion eliminated some of the previously retained heavy armored commando troops and replaced them with some grenadiers who also served as heavy armored assault troops. It also reduced the redundant personnel of the previous battalion, especially the elimination of two-pound and three-pound short-term assault troops. The shotgun is a weapon that is neither high nor low.
Therefore, in the newly reorganized new organization, the strength of an infantry battalion has been reduced, and the current total strength is 900 people.
Correspondingly, the infantry regiment's directly managed troops have increased, and a small eight-gun artillery battalion has been organized.
It has four two-and-a-half-pound field guns. This kind of artillery has completely become a battalion-level infantry support firepower in the Chu army. It is light, easy to use, and very maneuverable. It can also be used as infantry support firepower.
In addition, four new nine-pound light howitzers were also compiled.
The nine-pound light howitzer fires new grenades with a caliber of 115 mm and a bomb weight of four kilograms. It can also fire shotguns with direct aim to kill enemies at close range.
This thing is very light, the gun body is only more than 100 kilograms, and it can only weigh more than 200 kilograms. It can also be broken into several parts for mules and horses to carry.
Although the shells are not very powerful, they are highly maneuverable and have extremely curved trajectories.
