Ming Zuo

Chapter 83 Weapon Master
The best thing to distinguish the ranks in the military is, of course, the rank.

Especially on the battlefield, after the inherent system is broken up, the best way for the soldiers to find the backbone is to confirm the military rank.

Those with a lower rank only need to follow the command of a higher rank, and the team will quickly assemble to restore a certain combat effectiveness.

Bai Xiaoqi reminded Zuo Menggeng that he decided to implement the military rank system in the rear camp.

"Military rank?"

"What is a military rank?"

Zuo Menggeng explained: "Although the military rank is a new name, it has been used since ancient times. For example, marshals and generals are actually military rank. For example, Huo Qubing's Hussar General, you can also consider it as a military rank. We want to What we do is to display the ranks of the generals in a way, so that the whole battalion can quickly confirm the rank of the other party, which is conducive to the establishment of the army's command system."

You can digest it slowly, but you can understand it, knowing that this is necessary.

Ancient armies also had a way of distinguishing between ranks.

The armor of marshals and generals is different from that of other people. It is especially obvious on the battlefield, and of course it is easy to become a target of fire.

Even at the bottom, the military uniforms of the team leader and Xiaoqi are slightly different from those of ordinary soldiers.

At the rear camp, the uniforms from top to bottom are the same, and there must be a clear sign to distinguish the level.

Of course, this sign can not be too obvious.

Otherwise, on the battlefield, the enemy will see that you are a general across the distance, and will definitely focus on this attack.

During this time, Zuo Menggeng had thought properly.

In front of everyone, he drew a simple military uniform pattern on the blackboard, and then pointed to the left chest part of the military uniform.

"We can sew different numbers and colors of strips here to differentiate ranks."

He drew a slender piece of cloth on the left chest, about a little longer than the index finger.

"The recruits who have just joined the army are corporal. The rank is marked with a bar, which is colorless."

Colorless is white.

Because the military uniform of the rear battalion is blue, the use of white military rank bars is more obvious.

"Soldiers who have served a certain number of years, or soldiers with merit, are promoted to sergeant. The rank is marked with a bar, two-color."

In a very simple way, as soon as he said it, many people understood it on the spot.

If two soldiers scattered on the battlefield meet, just look at the rank on the chest, you corporal, I sergeant, listen to me.

Straightforward and easy for soldiers to remember.

"One bar and three colors are sergeants. They can be the backbone of the team or the deputy team leader."

A team in the rear battalion is equivalent to a platoon in the later generations, so the deputy team has the rank of sergeant, which is barely enough.

"The two bars are side by side, Wu Shi is the second lieutenant, and he can serve as the leader of the team."

The rank of the squadron is obviously different from other officers of the same level, which helps to maintain the authority of the squadron and better command the squad.

"Two bars and two colors are lieutenants, and they can serve as officers of the squadron and deputy officers."

A squadron is a hundred people, which is equivalent to a company level, and a lieutenant happens to be an officer of this level.

"Two bars and three colors are captains, and can serve as squadron officers and brigade deputy-level officers."

The rank of squadron and squad level, the people present did not care.After all, everyone is a brigade-level officer, and they are more concerned about what rank they can get.

"Three bars without color is a major, and can serve as a senior officer of the brigade."

"Huh? I'm a major."

Zuo Hua cried out, rather disappointed.

Zuo Menggeng laughed angrily.

"A brigade of more than [-] people, do you want to be a general?"

Zuo Hua was trained to bow his head, causing everyone to laugh.

However, everyone has also felt that this rank will obviously have great room for improvement in the future.

After all, the rear battalion is only a very small military unit, and it will definitely expand in the future.

"Three bars and two colors are lieutenant colonels, who can serve as brigade commanders, battalion-level lieutenants, and battalion-level thousand generals."

Zuo Yong asked, "Qianzuo, are you the lieutenant colonel?"

Zuo Menggeng shook his head.

"I'm not."

People are puzzled.

Obviously he is the president of the thousand, why not lieutenant colonel rank?
Zuo Menggeng ignored everyone's doubts and continued to popularize the next military ranks.

The three bars and three colors represent the colonel, which corresponds to the Du Division. The specific organization is unknown.

Zuo Menggeng did not say, because the Ming army did not have a specific organization above the battalion.There is no uniform standard for the strength of the commanders-in-chief of officers at all levels.

He made up his mind that once the battalion expands in the future, he will not continue to follow the habits of the Ming army.

The four bars are general-level officers, which are also divided into three colors: colorless, two-color, and three-color, corresponding to major generals, lieutenant generals and admirals.

In the end, Zuo Menggeng said: "The general level and above of the four bars are the marshal level, regardless of color, there is only one type, the five bars and five colors represent the grand marshal, and I will personally lead it."

Everyone was stunned, and then burst into laughter.

But no one objected to this setting.

Although Zuo Menggeng is only a thousand presidents now, he is the leader of everyone.There is no point in discussing promotion or not.

On the contrary, it is better to go straight to the top in one step.

However, this also tells everyone that in the future, the highest level in the rear camp army is the general.

But think about it carefully, the general is also very imposing.

Zuo Menggeng considered the general's rank on his chest instead of his shoulders.

First of all, he unified the rank and seniority badges.

There is no need to get seniority badges in this era, and bells and whistles should not expect soldiers of this era to recognize them at a glance.On the contrary, it is not as simple and direct as the rank, and the soldiers are easy to remember.

The second is to save costs.

It is easy to sew epaulettes, but it is a huge expense to sew epaulets for every military item.

And the epaulettes are not too secure in any case and fall off easily.

The army of later generations only added epaulettes to the uniforms and dresses, and it has never been seen on field military uniforms.

Instead, the rank is marked with a collar.

Now that the seniority badge and the military rank were combined, Zuo Menggeng simply placed the display position of the rank on his left chest.

When making military uniforms, it is enough to use more needles and threads to sew them up, and the position is obvious and easy to identify.

This is also the case when the armor and rivets are removed from the military uniforms of the rear battalion. The traditional Ming military uniforms wear armor on the top of the armor, which will cover the rank of the general.

The military rank system was unanimously recognized by everyone, and it was quickly promoted throughout the army.

Wang Xiuqin's military uniform factory quickly added ranks to the new military uniforms, while the already issued uniforms were supplemented.

Through the rank, the soldiers quickly clarified the relationship between superiors and subordinates, and the progress of training was greatly accelerated.

After solving a problem, Zuo Menggeng hid in the laboratory again and concentrated on solving potassium chlorate.

The overall development of the flash hat gun has come to an end, and the percussion medicine has been a hindrance.

The preparation of mercury fulminate gunpowder through laboratory methods is still very fast.After ten days of work, Zuo Menggeng finally came up with potassium chlorate.

After the fusion of mercury fulminate and potassium chlorate, it is a stable mercury fulminate explosive.

To get mercury fulminate, the material of the flash cap is the simplest.

If you are more particular, you can use copper. If you are not so particular, you can use paper.

After thinking about it, Zuo Menggeng chose iron.

Paper is easily damaged and will cause great waste.

Copper is too expensive and hard to come by.

Iron is much simpler, and Zuozhuang is already smelting iron.

Blacksmiths have the ability to make iron sheets as thin as cicada's wings, and it is not a problem to make flash hats.

The next thing to do is to carefully record the production process of mercury fulminate.

Zuo Menggeng divided it into dozens of links, and then taught it to Zuo Dai.

This is an absolute killer that can only be mastered by those who can be trusted.

After Zuo Dai took the lead, he immediately began to prepare for the mercury fulminate factory.

The location of this factory is more remote and more closely guarded.

Even in order to meet the requirements of confidentiality, many production links are not included.

After such a layout, unless all the links are leaked, the preparation method of mercury fulminate will be foolproof.

Just as Zuo Menggeng produced mercury fulminate, a carriage drove leisurely into Linqing City, and finally stopped in front of the Bingbei Road Yamen.

When Zhang Jimeng got the news, he came out quickly and welcomed an old man who was nearly sixty years old.

"Teacher, why are you here?"

The old man has a calm demeanor, and everything does not linger in his arms.

"The old man has resigned."

"what?"

Zhang Jimeng was shocked.

"The teacher finally got up and recovered. It's time for a grand plan, how can you resign?"

The old man clutched at the beard and didn't care.

"Merely a mere ministerial envoy in Nanjing, boring and wasting time."

Without waiting for Zhang Jimeng to say anything, he asked, "Where is the kid who made the self-ignited fire gun?"

Zhang Jimeng was extremely helpless.

"The teacher's temperament is the same as before."

The old man blew his beard and stared, very angry.

"Don't talk nonsense, take the old man to see him quickly."

So Zhang Jimeng took the old man to the barracks and appeared in front of Zuo Menggeng.

Zuo Menggeng was inexplicable, not knowing what Zhang Jimeng meant by bringing an old man here.

The old man looked at him like a peerless treasure, smiling as if he could take out a golden axe at any time.

"Old husband Bi Maokang, I'm here to meet my little friend."

　Author's Note: Compose "Illustration of Military Weapons".This book is not divided into volumes.Attached are attached.In front of the book, there is a preface by Zhang Jimeng, a disciple, Xiaoyin by his nephew Dengfu, postscript by Denghan by his nephew, and the author's self-preface.

　　
　
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