I want to be emperor

Chapter 490 Change of Career and Militia

According to the scheduled plan, the four infantry regiments in the No. 20 Division directly revoked the designation of one infantry regiment, and among the soldiers, the musketeers were transferred to the other three regiments.

After the reform, because there was no spearman in the new first-class division, there were a large number of spearmen waiting to be resettled, Luo Zhixue also personally made proper arrangements.

Following the principle of voluntary plus assessment, those who are willing to continue to join the army and pass the assessment will continue to stay in the original army as musketeers, heavy soldiers, artillery or even cavalry.

Those who are willing to continue to join the army, but fail to pass the examination of changing arms, will be transferred to the second-class divisions on the spot and continue to serve in the army. After all, the second-class divisions are still mainly equipped with matchlock guns, and they need to be equipped with a large number of spearmen. When it is the turn of the year for these second-class divisions to reorganize and change their outfits, these soldiers have served for several years, and they can also be retired and resettled according to the conventional proposal.

For those who have served for a long time, if they are unwilling to continue to serve in the army, they will be arranged for retirement and transfer. Basically, they will be arranged to serve as grassroots civil servants, patrol police or tax police in various places.

At the same time, it is also possible to arrange to enter a factory affiliated to the Ministry of Industry for technical training, and then become a skilled worker, a low-level manager or something.

Because there are literacy classes in the Chu army, although these retired soldiers don't know many characters, they can basically recognize common characters and basic arithmetic.

And these soldiers who can recognize basic common characters and can use arithmetic, and a few of them have the ability to read and write, may be a leading soldier in the Chu army, but outside, they are a rare literate group.

After all, under the current rule of the Great Chu Empire, the illiteracy rate is very high.

Generally speaking, it is estimated that only a dozen percent of people can recognize two to three hundred characters.

On the basis of recognizing hundreds of characters, people who can do simple arithmetic and keep accounts are [-]% dead.

However, people who can understand popular novels, such as the Three Kingdoms, and can write a letter home, um, that is, people with basic reading and writing skills, three percent are enough...

As for scholars in the traditional sense, that is, those who can understand the Four Books and Five Classics, and can write a formal article, less than one percent.

The illiteracy rate is too high and there are too few scholars. This is also the reason why when the Great Chu Empire recruited officials, anyone with the ability to read and write would basically not refuse to apply...

At the same time, it is also one of the reasons why the Great Chu Empire launched literacy classes in the military.

If it’s just a war, it doesn’t matter if ordinary soldiers can’t read, but why did the Great Chu Empire require officers to carry out literacy education for their soldiers?

These people who have gone through literacy education, no matter how bad they are, are better than purely illiterate people. Some of them work harder and have a flexible mind. They will still have the ability to read and write. No.

As the reorganization continues, a group of soldiers with basic reading and writing skills will enrich the grassroots of the Great Chu Empire.

Of course, there are still some soldiers who are unwilling to accept the transfer arrangement for various reasons, so they will be directly given a batch of retirement funds.

Anyway, there are many options, follow the voluntary and flexible arrangements.

But as long as he is retiring, no matter whether he accepts the transfer arrangement or chooses to receive retirement pay, as long as he joined the army five years before Chengshun.

According to the number of years of service and the size of the credit, they can get a piece of land that belongs to the individual for free.

As long as they joined the army before Chengshun five years ago, no matter whether they were soldiers or generals, they would have merit fields, and there were quite a few of them. Even if the soldiers died in battle, they would be awarded to their immediate family members.

Joining the army and granting land for free, Luo Zhixue is not talking nonsense, but a promise that will be fulfilled once he shouts it out.

Of course, it was only limited to soldiers who joined the army five years before Chengshun.

As for five years after Chengshun, the Great Chu Empire did not call out the slogan of granting land for free when joining the army, so naturally there was no such policy. Peasant children are very attractive, so the recruiting sites of the Great Chu Empire have never been short of young and strong candidates.

Luo Zhixue still gave preferential treatment to these soldiers who followed him to fight the world. He would not say that after the reorganization of the army or the unification of the world, he would directly sweep the soldiers out.

That is neither kind, but also has great hidden dangers, which hurts the morale and morale of the army even more.

Therefore, Luo Zhixue formulated quite a few resettlement plans to arrange these retired soldiers as well as possible.

However... the unification war is still going on now, so large-scale decommissioning is not impossible. Only some troops that have accepted the reorganization will make small-scale decommissioning arrangements, and at the same time replenish recruits who have completed three months of training.

Combined with the reorganization plan, Luo Zhixue officially approved the military service plan for soldiers in October of the fifth year of Chengshun.

Ordinary soldiers retire from active service after four years of service. This time is a little longer, but this is considering that the recruit training period is only three months. At the same time, newly recruited soldiers are often in poor physical fitness and need to supplement a lot of nutrition during the recruit training period. .

That is to say, the cost for the Chu army to turn a recruit into a qualified soldier is still relatively high.

If you only serve for two or three years, the replacement cost of soldiers will be relatively high.

At the same time, due to traffic problems, it takes a while for soldiers to arrive at the boot camp after being recruited, and then after completing the recruit training, they are dispatched to various places on the front line. It may take several months on the road...

After all, the Great Chu Empire is too large, and many places are relatively far away. At the same time, in order to avoid the situation of local service, they often serve in different places, so it is necessary to set aside a longer service time to buffer, so as to ensure the normal service time of soldiers.

And serve in the local militia as a reserve for eight years, and receive regular military training every year;

After eight years, he withdrew from the militia, but remained in the reserve for four years, and completely withdrew from the reserve after four years.

For technical arms, the service period is extended. For example, artillery, cavalry in the army, and technicians in the navy are extended to six years.

After the service period of the backbone non-commissioned officers of the army expires, they can choose to stay in the army and continue to serve for several years according to the principle of voluntariness, so as to stabilize the combat effectiveness of the army.

The period of active service and reserve service for ordinary soldiers is 16 years. However, considering the huge number of soldiers in the Great Chu Empire, it is estimated that it is unlikely that they will be recruited after 12 years.

But make a reserve plan, be prepared, and extend the time as much as possible.

According to this plan, the Great Chu Empire will be dominated by the garrison headquarters of each province, and establish militia units in various places. These militia units are engaged in production on weekdays and only need to receive military training for a certain period of time each year. They will also be in charge of some places on weekdays. Low-intensity tasks on the Internet, such as maintaining law and order, disaster relief and the like.

In emergencies, such as in the face of special circumstances such as foreign enemy invasion, these militia units will be called up and used as supplementary soldiers to supplement the regular army to fight, or they will be organized separately as a reserve force to participate in the battle.

The establishment of the militia is to cooperate with the reserve system and to further maintain local law and order.

After all, so far, the Great Chu Empire does not actually have any reserve system. Although there is a second-class division, the second-class division is only the low-cost of the first-class division, and the downsizing troops with reduced mobility and standing soldiers, even if it is a second-class division It is also a regular army.

Based on the need to control a wide range of land, the Chu army urgently needed a military system that was cheaper and more widely used as a supplement, so the militia system was finalized.

However, whether it is the militia or the reserve force, these are all plans that have just been launched. At present, there is only one document, and many places have not received the relevant documents yet.

What is placed in front of the Great Chu Empire Army now is the reorganization and refitting plan of the No.20 Division and several other divisions.

After the No.20 Division was withdrawn from the No.60 Infantry Regiment, only the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Regiments remained, but the strength of the remaining three infantry regiments has changed from the previous 2000 or so. Directly increased to 3000 two hundred people.

According to the establishment of the new first-class division, each infantry regiment has three infantry battalions, an artillery post, a supply post, and other regiment affiliated units.

Each infantry battalion has five line infantry posts, one grenadier post, and one train team.

Each sentry has 120 line infantry or grenadiers. In addition to the battle infantry fighting in formation, there are three captains. A sentry leader has a total of four officers, as well as messengers, military musicians, cooks, Grooms, medical soldiers, etc., the total number reached 130 eight people.

The new infantry battalion cut down part of the commando heavy armor previously retained, and changed some grenadiers to serve as heavy armored assault force, and compressed the redundant personnel of the previous battalion headquarters, especially the two-jin and three-jin short Regardless of the shotgun, a weapon that is too high to be low.

Therefore, in the newly reorganized new establishment, the strength of an infantry battalion has decreased, and the current total strength is 900.

Correspondingly, the direct-controlled forces of the infantry regiment have increased, and there is a small-scale artillery battalion with eight units.

There are four two-and-a-half catties field artillery under its jurisdiction. This kind of artillery has completely become the battalion-level infantry support firepower in the Chu army. It is light and easy to use, and its mobility is very good. It can also be used as infantry support firepower.

In addition, four nine-pound light howitzers were newly compiled.

The nine-pound light howitzer fires a new type of grenade with a caliber of 110mm and a bomb weight of four kilograms. At the same time, it can also launch shotguns in a direct-pointing manner to kill enemies at close range.

This thing is very light, the gun body is only more than 100 kilograms, and it can only be placed more than 200 kilograms, and it can be disassembled into several parts for mules and horses to carry.

Although the power of the cannonball is not great, it has excellent mobility and has a very curved trajectory.

(End of this chapter)