Empire

Chen Ziang organized a competition to select officers in the 9th Battalion. He used fists to speak through public selection. Although it seemed rough, it was unanimously supported by all soldiers.

These selected people were directly appointed as officers at all levels, and the soldiers did not have any resistance.

In these years of war and killing, soldiers are also willing to follow a strong officer, because this can greatly increase their chances of survival and make it easier to win the battle.

No one wants to follow a good-for-nothing to die, so these strong officers appointed by Chen Ziang were accepted by ordinary soldiers.

Chen Ru personally went to the 9th Battalion of the Qinghe Army to watch the process of the competition selection, and was very interested in Chen Ziang's simple and effective way of selecting officers.

"Although the ring competition can select some brave generals who can fight, this move has some flaws. The brave generals are good at fighting on the battlefield, but they know nothing about marching and dispatching troops. I am afraid that it will affect the war?"

After the ring competition, Deputy Commander Chen Ru also found Chen Ziang and asked���

Chen Ru was indeed the deputy commander of the Qinghe Army. His questions were very sharp and pointed out the flaws in Chen Ziang's selection of generals.

"I have organized those officers who failed to be selected into the army general team. Although they are not good at charging into battle, they could have become generals of a thousand or a hundred men. Some are good at managing food and grass, and some are good at gathering people's hearts. I will train them and assign them to appropriate positions to assist the commanders at all levels."

Faced with this question from Deputy Commander Chen Ru, Chen Ziang had already had an idea, so he told it all, which made Chen Ru couldn't help but give a thumbs up.

The army general team was trained by Chen Ziang as a reserve officer. Once there is a vacancy in other places, they can quickly replace it.

At the same time, Chen Ziang also had an idea, that is, to conduct rotation training for generals at all levels in the future to improve their respective combat command capabilities.

After Deputy Commander Chen Ru asked Chen Ziang some more questions, he left with satisfaction, but he did not return to his deputy commander's tent, but went directly to the commander Zhang Dayuan.

No one knew what Deputy Commander Chen Ru and Commander Zhang Dayuan discussed all night, but early the next morning, the Qinghe Army Command issued an order for each battalion to follow the example of the 9th Battalion of the Qinghe Army to select generals.

The command had no choice but to do so, because they had appointed too many officials in order to win over the various rebel forces that came to surrender.

The result is that there are too many officers in each battalion, and the command system is complicated and chaotic.

Now that they see that the 9th Battalion has straightened out the command system in this way, the command will naturally follow suit.

Of course, Chen Ziang’s 9th Battalion is truly an open selection of military generals at all levels, but the other battalions are... It was not so transparent and open, and there was some laxity in the implementation. Many people with connections and backgrounds did not need to compete and went directly to the next round, so the effect was not as good as the 9th Battalion.

While the entire Qinghe Army was conducting competitions to select commanders at all levels, Chen Ziang began to make drastic reforms to the 9th Battalion.

There were more than 5,000 people in the 9th Battalion, but they were mixed, and many of them had families. What

Chen Ziang needed was a roaring tiger and wolf army, not a group of old, weak, women and children on the battlefield.

So Chen Ziang spent a whole morning re-registering and separating the young and strong from the old, weak, women and children.

After the final statistics, there were only two thousand soldiers in their 9th Battalion who could fight, and the other three thousand were the elderly, the weak, women and children, and the families of these soldiers.

Chen Ziang organized the two thousand soldiers into two thousand-man combat teams, which were the main combat force of their 9th Battalion. For the other three thousand family members, Chen Ziang also organized them into three thousand-man logistics teams according to the military system, and appointed officers at all levels to manage them.

These three thousand family members had no way to fight in the battlefield, and would be a huge burden if they did.

But they couldn't ignore them, because these were the soldiers' families. If they didn't, the soldiers would mutiny.

"From today on, the main task of the two thousand-man combat teams is to march and fight, and all logistics, transportation, and material custody will be handed over to the thousand-man logistics team."

Chen Ziang divided the functions of the combat team and the logistics team so that they can perform their respective duties.

"The combat troops' camps are separated from the logistics troops' camps. Without military orders, combat troops are not allowed to go to the logistics troops' camps without permission."

"If a soldier dies on the battlefield, his family will be taken care of by the 9th Battalion and given a pension."

"Soldiers were allowed to keep 30% of battlefield spoils and hand in the other 70%.

At the same time, the 9th Battalion established a military pay system, with each combat soldier receiving 50 copper coins per month, and logistics soldiers receiving 20 copper coins per month.

Those with military merits were also rewarded.

"Although Chen Ziang changed the system of keeping battlefield spoils for individuals, he established a military pay system to ensure that every soldier and his family would have enough money when there was no war, which won support.

Now the entire 9th Battalion is under the control of Chen Ziang alone, so he quickly established a series of systems.

Now the entire Qinghe Army has more than 100,000 troops, and as long as they can win the battle, the command will not care what the people below do.

Moreover, Chen Ziang is now valued by the deputy commander Chen Ru, so it is much easier for Chen Ziang to do things.

After Chen Ziang reorganized the 9th Battalion and established a series of systems, he still felt it was not enough.

In the evening, Chen Ziang called Li Lang, the thousand-man general, to his tent alone.

""General, what do you want me to do?"

Li Lang was captured and thought he would be beheaded, but Chen Ziang didn't kill him. Instead, he pardoned him and appointed him as a swordsmanship instructor.

Now this time he challenged the Thousand-Man General with his own strength and was appointed as the Thousand-Man General by Chen Ziang, so he was very grateful to Chen Ziang.

"Now our 9th Battalion is just being established, and the soldiers have no rules, so I decided to set up a military police force, and you will be the head of the military police force."

""Sir, please forgive my ignorance, but what is this military police?" Although Li Lang was well-informed, he was confused when he heard that Chen Ziang wanted to set up a military police force, because he had never heard of it.

"Military police is just a name. Its main task is to rectify military discipline and enforce military law. It is equivalent to the military supervision team in the Dynasty Army, but its power is greater than that of the military supervision team."Chen Ziang explained.

After Chen Ziang's explanation, Li Lang finally understood the role of the military police.

Although Li Lang knew that serving in the military police would be an offensive job, he still gritted his teeth and took it.

"My life was given by the commander-in-chief. I will do whatever the commander-in-chief tells me to do."