On June 10, the eighth year of Chongzhen, Luo Zhixue officially led his army to Nanyang City. He was welcomed by many local civil and military officials of the local army and local gentry and entered Nanyang City, where he stayed at the Tang Palace.

Of course, it is no longer called Tang Palace, but has the name of General Nanyang Befu of the Baoxiang Army.

But after entering Nanyang Beppu, Luo Zhixue held the first meeting of the day before he had time to rest.

Luo Zhixue will be very busy when he arrives in Nanyang City. He will take advantage of these few days to further improve various military and political institutions and deal with many issues.

Before he officially entered the city, he had already arranged four meetings and was waiting.

In the afternoon of that day, less than an hour after Luo Zhixue arrived in the city, he held today's meeting, which was an arms meeting.

The participants were mainly mid-level and senior generals in Xiangyang City, and they mainly discussed issues such as the recruitment of new recruits and equipment supplies for the 1st Infantry Brigade, 3rd Infantry Brigade, 1st Artillery Brigade, and 1st Cavalry Brigade.

At the same time, we will promote the preparation of the 7th Infantry Brigade.

These questions are easy to talk about. Anyway, personnel from the Ordnance Department, Logistics Department and other departments have already made relevant plans on the road. Luo Zhixue only needs to listen to the plan and approve it.

It is worth mentioning that at this meeting, the issue of changing the regular uniforms of the officers of the Baoxiang Army was finalized, and the military rank system began to be implemented.

In the early days of the Baoxiang Army, there was no grade system. After the establishment of the General's Office, grade positions were finalized, but this was limited to civilian officials and military advisors specifically for demoted generals.

As for the matter of military advisor, it seems that the word "military" is attached to it, and those involved in the matter are indeed related to the military. For example, Chen Yongfu now proposes various military suggestions to Luo Zhixue in the name of special military advisor.

However, strictly speaking, Chen Yongfu is still not under the jurisdiction of the military. Military advisors at all levels are directly under the general's office, which is under the jurisdiction of Luo Zhixue, and have nothing to do with the four major military departments and the field forces.

In other words, the current generals of the Baoxiang Army do not have a hierarchical system corresponding to the civilian officials, only a simple job system.

And this is obviously abnormal.

Even in traditional feudal dynasties, such as the Ming Dynasty, the generals had grades, and the grades of generals were actually similar to military ranks to some extent.

However, Luo Zhixue did not intend to directly link the grade of military commanders to the grade of civilian officials. This was to completely reverse the situation in the middle and late Ming Dynasty in which civil servants were strong but military was weak, and civilian officials discriminated against military commanders.

Luo Zhixue wanted to directly distinguish the grades of civilian officials from the grades of military generals. Each should be treated separately. At most, the actual job linkage would be done later when the soldiers retire and change careers.

To this end, he is preparing to implement a new military rank system.

The military rank system can also better adapt to the development needs of today's rural protection army.

After all, the tactical system and even the military philosophy of the Baoxiang Army are different from those of the traditional army. It is not possible to directly apply the traditional nine-level system.

According to Luo Zhixue's plan, the military rank system was directly finalized at this meeting. Luo Zhixue's military ranks were very simple. There was no alternative military rank system with various names. Instead, he directly used the military rank system common to all countries in modern times, which is simple and easy to understand.

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They are divided into three levels: officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers.

Officers are general, lieutenant general, major general, brigadier general, colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, lieutenant, second lieutenant, and warrant officer.

The above are officers, holding officer positions at all levels above the captain. This is the backbone of the Baoxiang Army. Among them, warrant officers are temporarily only awarded to students enrolled in the military school with the camp, such as new officers recruited from scholars, and newly promoted soldiers enrolled.

New officer.

Non-commissioned officers are sergeants, staff sergeants, sergeants, and corporals. They serve as corps commanders, commanders, team chiefs, and are awarded to senior backbone soldiers of various technical arms and branches of the Home Guard Army.

Soldiers are divided into first-class soldiers, second-class soldiers, and third-class soldiers.

At the same time, the military rank and grade are linked. For example, a captain will only be awarded the rank of second lieutenant in principle, and under special circumstances, he will be awarded the rank of lieutenant;

The infantry sentry commander is awarded the rank of captain, and under special circumstances, a lieutenant can temporarily serve as a concurrent post;

The infantry battalion commander is awarded the rank of major, and lieutenant colonel is a special case.

The infantry brigade is awarded the rank of colonel, and lieutenant colonel is a special case.

Positions at other levels are matched by a priority military rank, and there are also one or two auxiliary military ranks.

In addition, Luo Zhixue also considered that the current cavalry and artillery lack battalion-level establishments, and the brigade is directly above the sentry post, so taking advantage of this time to formulate the military rank system, it is also to finalize the establishment of artillery battalions and cavalry battalions.

It is tentatively decided that the artillery battalion will have three artillery posts, with military ranks similar to those of infantry.

Subsequently, the First Artillery Brigade will have a First Artillery Battalion, and plans will be made to build a Second Artillery Battalion at the same time.

The 1st Cavalry Brigade will also set up the 1st Cavalry Battalion and the 2nd Cavalry Battalion.

After finalizing the military rank system, Luo Zhixue awarded the military ranks to the senior generals on the spot.

Taking into account the principle of equivalence between positions and military ranks, as well as giving a head start to the generals under their command in the future to ensure the scarcity of senior military ranks to ensure their gold content, military ranks above major general are not currently awarded.

Wang Xiazi, director of cavalry and commander of the 1st Cavalry Brigade, Zhang Malin, director of artillery and commander of the 1st Artillery Brigade, and Huang Dingquan, commander of the North Route Army, were awarded the title of brigadier general.

Brigadier General is also the highest military rank currently awarded, and there are only three people.

The newly appointed commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade Li Chengtong, the commander of the 2nd Infantry Brigade Lin Dongsheng, the commander of the 3rd Infantry Brigade Xu He, and the commander of the 4th Mixed Brigade An Yongduo who captured Yuzhou City and held on for many days were all awarded the rank of colonel.

In addition, the chief officers of the four major departments, Chief of Staff Xu Zhixian, Minister of Ordnance Hu Hongzhuo, Minister of Logistics Yu Xiujie, and Minister of Military and Political Affairs Wei Kaifu were all awarded the rank of colonel.

A total of eight people were awarded the rank of colonel.

There are more people awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel.

After the Battle of Yuzhou, the brigade commander Li Dongshao, who was renamed the Guards Brigade from the Guards Battalion, was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel. Except for An Yongduo, the commander of the 4th Mixed Brigade, all the other mixed brigade commanders were temporarily awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel.
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The deputy brigade commanders of the three main infantry brigades, the director of the Operations Department and the chief of staff of the North Route Army, Zuo Yingzhe, and others were all awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel.

There are even more majors, so I won’t go into details one by one.

One of the most noteworthy things is that among the many people who were awarded the title of Major, there is a very different person.

That is Wang Daqian, the former captain of the engineering team and now the director of the Engineering Department of the Logistics Department...

This man was not a soldier yesterday, but today he directly obtained the rank of major!

This is because just yesterday, Luo Zhixue just split the original engineering team into two, and transferred some of the technical staff of the engineering team and the captain of the engineering team Wang Daqian directly to the jurisdiction of the Logistics Department to establish the Engineering Department.

As a result, now is the time to confer military titles, and Wang Daqian, an architect who has only been a soldier for one day, has been awarded the rank of major.

This man can't even lift a knife.

However, no one present was dissatisfied or questioned Wang Daqian's award.

Because although Wang Daqian was not a soldier before and had never been on the battlefield, what he did had always been closely related to the army.

Speaking of which, Wang Daqian is also one of the few non-soldiers in the Baoxiang Army who has been mixed up in the military system.

This man was just an ordinary mason in the early days. During the Funiu Mountain period, he was 'voluntarily' recruited by the rural protection army. Later, because of his solid work and really good ability, he gradually became the captain of the engineering team. He was responsible for the early defense of Sanshui Village in Funiu Mountain.

The construction of Wuliguan and the construction tasks of Songshan Defense Line.

After the army went south, Wang Daqian continued to go south with a group of craftsmen and hundreds of people under him. He first built various fortifications in Li Qingdian, and was also responsible for the construction of many factories such as Li Qingdian Arsenal, and later went to Nanyang City.

Build city fortifications.

Immediately afterwards, people were arranged to capture Xiangyang and build Xiangyang City defenses.

To put it simply, almost all the fixed military fortifications of the Baoxiang Army were built by the engineering team under Wang Daqian...

Wang Daqian's engineering team is actually the engineers within the military system. Wang Daqian and his engineering team have naturally been regarded as one of their own by Wang Xiazi and other generals.

In the process of building various fortifications, Wang Daqian continued to recruit and recruit various construction craftsmen to form a construction team with hundreds of various craftsmen.

Of course, these are all technical personnel, and it is impossible to complete a large number of engineering constructions just by relying on these hundreds of craftsmen. In fact, the engineering team also manages a large number of prisoners of war, young people from the camp, and ordinary civilians hired directly from the private sector.
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When large-scale construction was carried out in Li Qingdian, in order to build major factories in a short time, the Baoxiang Army directly used the human sea tactic. At the peak, there were more than 20,000 prisoners of war, soldiers from the settlement camp, and Qingqing camp soldiers.

Strong, athletic women work for the engineering team.

After the Battle of Yuzhou, because the Yuzhou Defense Line must be built and the Luyang Pass Defense Line must be improved at the same time, the engineering team will have a very heavy task.

Considering that the engineering team has more military construction tasks, at the same time, the engineering team also takes into account the construction tasks of many factories, docks, bridges and other ordinary buildings.

Luo Zhixue simply divided the engineering team into two, one part was incorporated into the Logistics Department, and a new engineering department was established to be responsible for various military buildings, including fixed barracks, fortresses, forts, docks, roads, bridges and other military needs required by the military.

Construction of related tasks.

The ordinary labor force is mainly composed of prisoners of war and surrendered soldiers. For this reason, Luo Zhixue specially set up a construction camp, which is a construction unit of the same nature as the settlement camp.

The other part is placed under the Ministry of Industry and establishes the Construction Department, which is responsible for other official non-military buildings, such as factories of government-owned factories, ordinary private docks, roads, bridges, government agency buildings, etc.

Its labor force is mainly young and healthy women among the people, especially those who are homeless.

Today, whether in Nanyang Prefecture or Xiangyang Prefecture, there are still a large number of refugees, and there are even more lower-class people who have not yet become refugees but still cannot feed themselves.

The Construction Department, like many factories under the Ministry of Industry, gives priority to recruiting young and healthy women from the refugees as workers. This not only gives them a way to survive, but also prevents them from turning into bandits or even bandits.

To a certain extent, this is one of Luo Zhixue’s measures to implement work-for-relief measures to reduce the number of refugees and restore people’s livelihood.

At the same time, we also organized young refugees to carry out reclamation and recruited young people to build various water conservancy facilities.

These measures were taken by Luo Zhixue from the Ming Dynasty's process of suppressing uprisings in Shaanxi and other places. The officers and soldiers had just suppressed and pacified the uprising, but then bandits appeared in the back.

Without settling the local refugees and the people who cannot survive, it is impossible to truly quell the civil unrest.

Luo Zhixue doesn’t want the Nanyang Basin he finally won to be still full of refugees and the land is thousands of miles away!

He also hopes that the Nanyang Basin will become the granary of the rural protection army!

Due to the superior natural and geographical conditions of the Nanyang Basin, even if it has suffered from drought in recent years, as long as appropriate measures are taken and part of the investment is invested, it is possible for the Nanyang Basin to resume agricultural production and become a granary again.
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