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After the military discussion ended, Li Liang and Guo Chengan really came to ask for a meeting, and Li Jing simply asked the two to go into the study together to meet. Both of them came for a simple purpose, and they both understood that Li Jing was a smart and cautious person. Now send troops to Ziqi to suppress bandits, the other party is only 800 horse thieves, even if there are many bandits in Ziqi, but there is no need to dispatch four elite battalion heads, plus the logistics of auxiliary troops, that is tens of thousands of horses.

Li Jing did not ask Li Liang and Guo Chengan directly in the court, but asked later, and this caution satisfied him. If two people know that there is a problem with Lu Dao, but they ignore it, then these two people are incompetent.

"In fact, the suppression of bandits is just an excuse, this time our real target is Qingzhou Wang Jingwu!"

"Is this what the marshal meant, or is it just the general?" Guo Chengan was a little surprised and said, the relationship between the festival marshal Song Wei and Wang Jingwu is not harmonious, which is also something that has been known from top to bottom for more than a year. Everyone thought that Song Wei Qianglong would be difficult to suppress the head snake, and after three years of work, he would leave like several predecessors. Unexpectedly, Song Wei really deserved to be a general who had fought several battles, and he was not willing to compromise with Wang Jingwu at all.

"Of course, this is what the commander means, our army has won many battles, and the prestige has long been passed to the ears of the commander. Otherwise, he wouldn't have such plans. As early as before, the family teacher had planned to transfer us to Qingzhou to quell the chaos, but he was always worried that Wang Jingwu would jump off the wall in a hurry. Now that there is such a good opportunity to destroy the world, how could they miss it. Li Jing chuckled.

Li Liang twisted the beard on his lips. "If that's the case." The general shouldn't have agreed so easily. Since we are the key to Song Jieshuai's bulldozing of Wang Jingwu this time. There are a few conditions that should be put forward. ”

Li Jing laughed and said the conditions he proposed.

"Dengzhou Assassin History, Zhendong Army Commander?" This request made Li Liang and Guo Chengan both surprised and silent. They said that they would ask for something, but they just said that they would increase the number of troops or something, but they didn't expect that Li Jing really dared to speak. Dengzhou Thorn History and Zhendong Army.

But after thinking about it, the two really admired Li Jinglai. Li Jing acted every time. It always seems very bold and reckless, but in fact it is well thought out and very feasible. Just like the current situation, Li Jing's request seems unreliable, but in fact it is very reasonable.

"Maybe Song Jieshuai will really agree!"

"When our soldiers and horses arrive in Qingzhou, how can Song Jieshuai have any other choice."

Guo Chengan said with some concern: "But if you make such a direct request, even if Song Wei agrees now, isn't the general afraid that he will turn around and deal with us after he calms down Wang Jingwu afterwards?" ”

"What is there to worry about, Wang Jingwu is only holding a Qingzhou tooth soldier in his hand, with a number of five thousand. There are no more than 10,000 private soldiers, but he dares to fight against Song Wei. We now have more than 20,000 men and horses. And I just need to go to the state, and I don't fight against him, in fact, we got the Dengzhou and the military number, and we are still his people. If it was just for such a little thing that could not threaten his position, he would have to do something to us, then Song Wei would have died a thousand times under Wang Jingwu's sword. ”

"But there are too many soldiers and horses, and the supply of tens of thousands of people is very difficult even if they are by water." Guo Chengan said.

"No, this time I don't bring a baggage logistics battalion, and directly let the Nutao battalion be responsible for transporting troops and supplies. In addition, after we arrived in Qingzhou, we fought a quick battle, and after solving Wang Jingwu, could we still be afraid that there would be no logistical supplies? ”

After discussing some details, Li Liang said: "The most important thing now is actually how to solve Wang Jingwu, Qingzhou Yabing has always had a reputation for bravery, and it is very powerful. And almost all of the tooth soldiers under the Qingzhou Tooth Army have been inherited from generation to generation, the father died and the son took over, the elder brother died, and the younger brother took over the throne. This is true not only of the officers, but also of ordinary soldiers. Moreover, these officers and officers, soldiers and soldiers, are married to each other, so that the relationship between the military is complicated. Fathers and sons in battle, brothers in battle, Qingzhou Yajun is extremely grouped. ”

"Jie Shuai has 3,000 Shuaifu soldiers, 5,000 Qingzhou unity soldiers, plus 3,000 guards from the Prison Military Academy, if we add our four battalions and 6,000 men, although we have a sufficient advantage over Wang Jingwu in terms of numbers. I'm just afraid that the people on the Jieshuai's side will not be of great use, and we may have to rely on ourselves then. And the Qingzhou army is fierce, in case of a scuffle, I am afraid that our losses will be very large. ”

"You can't fight with conventional warfare, you can get a surprise soldier, it's best to be able to suddenly attack, capture Wang Jingwu, capture the thief and capture the king."

"You can let the special operations capital sneak into the city in batches first, and then Song Jieshuai will lead the direct attack on Wang Jingwu's nest."

"Not bad." Li Jing nodded. "Specifically, you can immediately send someone to Qingzhou to contact Song Jieshuai."

After saying this, Li Liang and the others also let go of their worries. Guo Chengan is new and wants to show his skills everywhere, but he is reluctant to leave at this time, and said to Li Jing: "Although my subordinates are new, I have also discovered some situations in the army and want to talk to the general." ”

Li Jing smiled and said to Li Liang, who wanted to get out: "Staff Officer Li will stay and listen to it together, if it is reasonable, we will think about changing it together." ”

Guo Chengan smiled: "Actually, there is no big problem, but there are two points, one is that the soldiers' salaries and war merit pensions are too high. I know that General Lu Dao did not have many soldiers and horses before, and he was in danger, so opening more food and pay and rewarding and bereavement will help win people's hearts. But now there are more and more horses, and we now have more than 20,000 people under our command, and these can all be paid by the government. Regardless of anything else, two liters of rice per person a day, six buckets of rice a month, the whole army has to consume 6,600 stone rice in a month, or about 80,000 stone grain a year. And that's not even counting the food that is several times the amount of food consumed on the march during the war. ”

"And the subordinates looked at it, this is only the least consumption, and now the salaries of the soldiers are very high, not only the high of the officers, but also the high of ordinary soldiers. In addition, the rewards are higher, and the bereavement benefits are also surprisingly high. Although there is a lot of progress in the army at present, this is not a long-term solution. Another point is that the officers have upper and lower ranks. But the soldiers below are not divided into ranks. Many of the brothers who had followed the general early were not promoted. Until now, he is just an ordinary big-headed soldier, but many new recruits are treated the same as them. In this way, not only is it not conducive to management in the army, but it is also difficult for soldiers to fight on the battlefield without a high or low rank. ”

Li Liang also nodded on the side: "The two points that Secretary Guo said are to the point, I think they are very reasonable." However, it was a rule that had been set a long time ago, and it cannot be changed rashly now. It's this rank of soldier. I think we can divide it. ”

Li Jing thought about it, in fact, of course he understood the problem of excessive rewards, in the early days, he had to deal with the bad situation at that time, how could he make his subordinates work hard without taking money. But now it is difficult to descend. It's easy to go up, but it's hard to come down. Now hearing them mention it again, Li Jing's heart suddenly moved.

He said: "Hearing you say this, I have a preliminary plan, that is, to put all the soldiers below the current official nine ranks. Including the captain of the army, the captain and so on, to formulate a soldier rank. My initial plan was to divide all the soldiers below the squad rank into three tiers. Soldiers, sergeants, non-commissioned officers. ”

Li Liang asked with some interest: "How to divide it?" ”

"For example, there are 5th class, inferior, 3rd, second, 1st, and upper. According to the time of enlistment, all those who first enlist in the army are classified as inferior, and then every year that passes, they are automatically promoted to the first class. Those who have meritorious service can be promoted according to merit. Above the soldiers, there are sergeants, and the sergeants are also divided into corporals, sergeants and sergeants, and this sergeant is above the ordinary soldiers, and the ordinary soldiers have been five years old, or those who have made great contributions, can be promoted to sergeants. For soldiers who have been promoted to sergeant, a sergeant can serve as a deputy sergeant, and a sergeant can serve as a sergeant. Sergeants, on the other hand, are promoted every two years, or according to their military merits. In the promotion, it is a non-commissioned officer, a sergeant major of the third class, a sergeant major of the second class, and a sergeant major of the first class. Sergeant Major III can serve as the flag bearer and deputy flag bearer. Sergeant Major II may serve as a deputy Captain, while Sergeant Major I may serve as a Captain. Under normal circumstances, the sergeant major is one liter every three years. ”

Guo Chengxin calculated that if a soldier enlisted in the army, without obtaining military merits, he could only be promoted from an ordinary soldier to a sergeant in five years, and then it would take six years to be promoted to a non-commissioned officer and to the top. From enlistment to sergeant major of the first class, it takes seventeen years. As for the rank of officer above the first sergeant major, it cannot be promoted only according to the number of years, but must have military merit before it can be promoted.

"Isn't there too much of a grade?" Guo Chengan asked.

Li Liang said with a smile on the side: "I think this is very good, I have set the current salary standard for the gang commander as the treatment of a first-class sergeant major, the salary standard for the captain as a sergeant, and the current salary standard for ordinary soldiers as the treatment of a first-class soldier." As a result, most of the soldiers can now only be rated as inferior and third-class soldiers, and as a result, their salaries will be downgraded, and most of the problems that plague our soldiers will be solved. ”

"A battalion commander, that is, a sergeant major of the first class, has a monthly salary of six thousand, five thousand for the second class, and five thousand for the third class. Then a sergeant, that is, the sergeant was four thousand five, the sergeant four thousand, and the corporal three thousand five. Ordinary non-commissioned officers, 3,000 privates, 2,080 first-class privates, 2,060 second-class privates, 25,000 third-class privates, and 2,000 privates. ”

"Could this ordinary soldier be too low?" Li Jing asked.

"It's not low, the monthly salary of a junior soldier is two thousand, which is exactly the same as the salary of the border army soldiers in the imperial court two times a month. But we only have two thousand inferior soldiers, so our standards are much higher, not to mention that we have high rewards and pensions. The reward should also be appropriately reduced, and the amount of money for an enemy soldier at the first rank is almost the same, except for the military merit of the first rank, the battle merit is counted according to the transfer, one turn two times, two turns four times, three turns eight times, four turns sixteen times, and the maximum five turns and 32 times money. ”

Seeing that Li Jing was still a little hesitant, Li Liang persuaded: "This is already good, and if you stick to the previous standards, you will not be able to bear it in the long run." Li Jing thought about it, but also felt that there was a lot of reason, with the continuous expansion of the territory in the future, the soldiers and horses will definitely expand, when the time comes, seventy or eighty thousand soldiers and horses, or even hundreds of thousands of troops, too high food and salary rewards are really unbearable, taking advantage of this new expansion, it is good to launch a new eleventh level of soldiers.

The most important thing in the army is rank, which not only reflects the authority of the upper and lower levels, but also allows the veterans to occupy a more dominant position in the soldiers when fighting. Veterans are experienced, and receiving higher salaries also shows their value.

On the same day, Li Jing began to issue notices throughout the army, posted announcements, and evaluated and graded all soldiers. Basically, the existing gang commanders, deputy gang commanders, standard-bearers, deputy flag-bearers, bannermen, captains, deputy commanders, and heralds can be directly assigned corresponding ranks according to their current positions without assessment. Each person's rank is engraved on their pawn card, which is clear at a glance.

Basically, the first batch of soldiers in Shamen Town are now basically low-level officers in each battalion, and this time they have also been awarded the rank of non-commissioned officer and non-commissioned officer. Others, such as the soldiers and horses newly brought back from Liaodong, most of them were inferior soldiers, with good martial arts and strong height, and the sailors were generally third-class soldiers. And the cavalry, the lowest are all privates.

The soldiers of Li Jing's guard battalion and the crane control battalion are one level higher than the soldiers of the other battle battalions. The black bear battalion and other combat battalions are generally one level higher than the logistics battalion. The soldiers of the barracks, baggage and other battalions are basically inferior soldiers, and their status is much lower than that of the soldiers.

At the same time, it was announced that Li Jing officially ordered the whole army to be officially the Zhendong Army, with five compartments, divided into front, middle, left and right compartments. Li Jing transferred one garrison battalion and one battalion of soldiers from the eight battalions of Qingni City to join the garrison of Beisha City. In this way, there were five battalions each in Qingni City and Beisha City, all of which were organized into one box. The five battalions of Qingnicheng were organized into the left wing, and Lin Wu was the soldier and horse envoy of the left wing. The five battalions of Beisha City were organized into the right wing, and Wang Zhong was the soldier and horse envoy of the right wing.

On Da Xie Yan's side, Li Jing organized the Black Bear Battalion, as well as the Tiebi Battalion, as well as the Nutao Battalion and the Transport Battalion, plus an auxiliary battalion as the front compartment, and Lin Wei as the front carriage soldier and horse envoy. Garrisoned in the area of Great Black Mountain Island. The logistics battalion, the baggage battalion, the engineer battalion, the gendarmerie battalion, and the medical battalion were also organized into the rear compartment, with Zhang Chengzong as the rear carriage soldier and horse envoy.

Li Jing led the middle compartment by himself, under the jurisdiction of the crane cavalry battalion, the silver lance guard battalion, the flying eagle reconnaissance battalion three battalions, because the crane battalion and the guard battalion are both large battalions, so the two battalions are divided into two battalions, for the silver spear battalion and the guard battalion, the crane battalion and the flying cavalry battalion.

The five-compartment soldiers and horses, with Li Jing's self-led middle chamber is the strongest, with two cavalry battalions, and the guard battalion, the silver spear battalion, and the flying eagle battalion each have a cavalry, and there are 2,600 cavalry in the entire middle chamber, and more than half of the soldiers and horses are cavalry.

Because the left and right carriages are stationed in Liaodong, the soldiers and horses are also very strong. Among the five battalions, the five battalions of logistics, baggage, engineer, gendarmerie, and medical are not combat battalions, except for the gendarmerie battalion, which has a slightly stronger combat effectiveness, and the others are all logistics auxiliary battalions.

Without Song Wei's consent, Li Jing has already reorganized the banner and establishment of the Zhendong Army, which also shows that Li Jing is bound to win. Regardless of whether Song Wei was willing to give him a military horn after pacifying Wang Jingwu, he had already played the military horn himself anyway. In the late Tang Dynasty, the generals with strong soldiers in hand were like this, and Li Jing was certainly no exception.

Three days later, all the subordinates of the Zhendong Army were organized, and all the soldiers were assessed and received new ranks. On the wharf, in addition to the dispatch of the fifth battalion in the middle box, Li Jing also transferred the Nutao battalion in the front compartment to transport them to Qingzhou from the sea, and was responsible for logistics and supply.

On the dock, under the banner of the huge Zhendong Army, the soldiers who went out bid farewell to their families and began to fish on the boat. Many soldiers stood on the boat, looking at the rank on their military badges, and secretly said in their hearts that they must take this opportunity to cut off a few more heads and make war exploits, and then they can be directly promoted to the rank by virtue of their war exploits. On the dock just now, the soldier and horse envoy had already said that if he thinks he is of low rank, he will go directly to the battlefield to get it.

Wealth and fame will be taken immediately! (To be continued......)