Gao Pragmatic was very moved by Liu Xin's proposal.
The fundamental core of this proposal actually does not 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 member of the A-type 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 harshest weapons.
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 inferior to that of type A army, with 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 war.
In most normal tasks on the battlefield, you will not be left behind when fighting against ordinary enemies;
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 establishment." In fact, according to the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, Gao Pragmatic knew that the Ming Dynasty must
Not only A, B, and C military towns but also D 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 "one against two", "one against three" or even more exaggeratedly;
The B-type army is the regular main force, which is equivalent to the nine-sided field force after completing the reloading in recent years. It can be roughly regarded as the troops that Gao Pragmatic takes with him every time he leads troops. They have a higher fighting will and a higher
Good military discipline and treatment, strong field combat capabilities.
Of course, there are also strong troops in these armies, such as Zhang Wanbang's troops who have achieved several outstanding achievements. As the generals and Ding troops of Datong (Datong Zhenyang Hewei), the combat effectiveness of Zhang Wanbang's troops is no better than that of the same number of troops.
The Ma family's army is weak.
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 whole Zhang family can use it.
There are only about 6,000 people there, and he usually leads about 3,000 to 4,000 people.
What is the current size of the Ma family's army? There are many generals, generals, and guerrillas in the entire Ma family. Together, there are more than 30,000 family soldiers. This is called the foundation.
Correspondingly, the strength of other top generals has been mentioned more or less before. For example, the Ding Army, the first-class general in combat effectiveness, has about 40,000 people in the Li family of Liaodong, and they are mainly cavalry, so they are the number one general; Xuan
The Fuma family has about 25,000 people, and they are mainly cavalry, so the number is slightly smaller; the Liu family army in Sichuan is about 30,000 people, and because it is the southern army, there are less cavalry.
But here I want to talk about the Liu Jiajun alone. One key point about his family's situation is that the scale of the generals in the southwest is far less numerous and powerful than that in Jiubian. In the entire southwestern provinces, as long as you don't count the Yunnan Mu family as generals,
Then the Liu family is the undisputed number one general family in the southwest. It has no rivals and is completely outstanding.
Needless to say, the reputation that the two generations of the Liu family have created in the southwest is a golden sign that they are invincible throughout the southwest. In the southwest provinces and even in border areas such as Myanmar, just a large banner with the character "Liu" is erected.
It may be necessary to withstand the deterrence of 20,000 troops.
The Qi family army 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 purpose over the years has not been to support his troops and become a self-respecting general. His ideal has always been to train troops for the imperial court and train all the soldiers he can.
The troops are all trained to have the same combat effectiveness as the Qi family army.
This led to a problem, that is, the number of direct troops directly under his command (after him, Qi Jin) was never very large, with only 6,000 troops at the highest point (including now).
However, it is troublesome to count the Qi Family Army in a broad sense, because there are quite a few generals who go out from the Qi Family Army to lead troops across the country. When they go to lead troops, they often take a group of people from the Qi Family Army, and then
When you get to the place, you recruit a group of people yourself. 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 soldiers, not to mention 100,000, making him truly the number one general in the world.
Of course, this is not generally calculated. 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, and space should be given to some Type B troops to be upgraded into Type A later to motivate Type B.
Uh, is it possible that I have to do the "Five Main Forces" first? Why does this name sound so unlucky... Well, if you include the Imperial Guard, that's the "Six Main Forces", which sounds a lot more auspicious.
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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 advantages? Of course, they 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, and unlike the big countries in the universe, the Japanese do not shy away from this, and even
Quite proud.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! For this reason, the system that the Japanese army can use often has no problem in China. The "A, B, C, and D" grading system is like this in Gao Pragmatic's view.
within the scope of.
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? Also, if we go a little deeper, what is the difference between the so-called "horse horse division" and "horse horse 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 division, brigade, regiment, group, squadron, squad, and detachment are, and they don’t know which specific organizational sizes they are familiar with. According to the Japanese army’s organization at that time, it was generally like this:
"Detachment" is the smallest tactical unit, similar to the "squad" we are familiar with, and the "shed" of the Ming Dynasty Guards. There are about 13 people in a detachment, including about 8 to 9 riflemen, 1 captain, 3
To 4 machine gunners and one light machine gun.
A "squad" is equivalent to a "platoon", consisting of 3 squads, a mortar squad with about 8-10 people, a mortar squad with 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 people including squadron leader, sergeant, health worker, orderly, bugler, and signal corps. The scale is about 200 people and equipped with 1-2
Heavy machine guns and infantry artillery.
"Brigade" has a status between "battalion" and "regiment". It is much larger than the battalion but significantly smaller than the regiment. It includes 3-4 rifle squadrons, a transport brigade, a machine gun squadron and a mortar squad.
It has a strength of 1,200 and is equipped with several heavy machine guns and a small number of infantry cannons.
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 scale of about 4,000 people. Japanese Army
There is also 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.
"Division" is the main cornerstone of Japan. Its status is close to that of "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 101, 104, 106, 108, 109, 110, 114, and 116 divisions were restored. The 13 and 18 divisions were restored. Together with the original 17 divisions, the total number was
27 divisions with four regiments.
These four-unit divisions include both draft horse divisions and pack horse divisions. The difference is that the artillery regiments in the draft horse divisions are equipped with field artillery, while the artillery regiments in the pack horse divisions are equipped with
It's a mountain cannon.
As the war situation developed, the Japanese army found that the four-armed division formation regiment was too large and could not adapt to the changing situations on the battlefield. Therefore, starting from September 1937, seven three-army division formation regiments were formed. In 1939, another three-army division formation regiment was formed in the mainland.
10 three-armed division-making regiments were formed, and 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
It requires more men and horses than field artillery, so the draft horse division equipped with mountain artillery has more men and horses than the draft horse division equipped with field artillery.
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 has four independent infantry brigades under its jurisdiction, and the two infantry brigades have a total of two infantry brigades under its jurisdiction.
8 independent infantry brigades. A total of 24 divisions of 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 were 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, and its size includes about 4 infantry regiments, transportation regiments, artillery regiments, cavalry regiments, and about 8 regiments, plus various
Non-combatants, with a total establishment of nearly more than 100 people;
The Class B Division, also known as the Pack Horse Division, consists of four infantry regiments, artillery regiment, transportation company, engineer regiment and about more than 100 non-combatants;
The C Division was expanded from the mixed brigade, with 3 infantry regiments, an engineering regiment, an artillery regiment, and about more than 100 non-combatants;
The D type division is also expanded from the brigade. Generally, it is equipped with only three infantry regiments with about a dozen 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 current Ming Dynasty's army has a big problem in the formalization of its establishment. In theory, the Guards Army, which has regular establishment requirements, has various problems due to various reasons.
There is no such dissatisfaction with the establishment, and the largest scale is only the Wei. Even if the full establishment is only more than 5,000 people, it is generally 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 and cooperation 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 is very bad.
As for the Jia Ding Army, which can be larger in size, it does not have a formal organization system. It is basically formed at will according to the general's personal wishes and experience. Although this may be a more combat-effective organization in the general's main combat area.
, but for the imperial court, there were 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.
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.
Making a simple assumption, I am now going to mobilize 100,000 elite troops to go abroad to fight. According to the report received by the court, this is a real 100,000 elite troops, so I conducted a battle scenario deduction based on the standard of 100,000 elite troops, and concluded that I
It can face an enemy force of 200,000 people head-on and win.
What was the result? 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 they took advantage of the situation to build a wall.
They were all lost, causing the enemy to invade. Should this situation happen? Of course not, and of course it should be prevented!"
When Gao Pragmatic said this, he stretched out his right index finger and knocked on the table hard, and said: "Therefore, the plan to organize several armies, A, B, C and D, and the town is not just because of the artillery company now, so 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 was formed between armies at all levels, especially the 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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