I want to be emperor

Chapter 240 Famous generals and direct descendants

After finalizing the candidates for the chief officers of the Seventh Defense Division, Luo Zhixue also secretly made a reservation for the Eighth Defense Division in his heart.

After all, the army is now crossing the south of the Yangtze River. If there is no accident, the rural protection army will capture a large number of prisoners. From these prisoners of war, there may be some leftovers for the seventh garrison division.

At that time, the Eighth Defense Division will definitely need to put up a shelf.

The chief officers of the various regiments and battalions below can be selected slowly by the military and political department, but the senior chief officers such as division commanders and brigade commanders still have to be transferred in advance.

After all, the transfer of these senior generals is often done across troops, and it is impossible to transfer all the personnel directly from the troops crossing the river. At the same time, after the transfer of these senior officers, their original vacancies also need to be filled.

Therefore, this kind of chief officer transfer above the colonel level often needs to be prepared in advance.

As for the candidate for the commander of the Eighth Defense Division, Luo Zhixue finalized Zhao Hongshu, who was from Luo Zhixue's personal soldier and one of the veteran cavalry.

Zhao Hongshu has also served in the cavalry for a long time and is currently the head of the First Cavalry Regiment. However, the cavalry of the Township Protection Army has never been too large, and its size will not increase rapidly in the short term.

This also restricted the promotion of cavalry generals such as Zhao Hongshu.

Seeing that the infantry generals are promoted step by step, even the artillery unit is expanding rapidly and a large number of officers have been promoted.

However, it is more difficult for the generals of the cavalry to be promoted. Even if they are promoted in name, the cavalry under their hands is still so small.

Senior cavalry generals like Zhao Hongshu are pretty good, and what is more important is that some cavalry commanders at battalion and sentry levels have not moved their positions for some time.

This is not normal for the Rural Protection Army, which is currently undergoing rapid expansion, and it is easy to cause some doubts in the hearts of the cavalry generals.

At the same time, it is also taken into account that the chief officers of the troops above the brigade level often need to command infantry, cavalry, and artillery at the same time. This means that the chief officers of the troops above the brigade do not necessarily have to be infantry. Able to serve as the chief officer of brigade and division level troops.

This will also give the chief officers of the cavalry and artillery units a wider room for promotion.

Before Luo Zhixue had tried to make several generals from the artillery unit serve as brigade-level officers. Generally speaking, the effect was not very good, but it was not a big problem.

After all, for the brigade and above, especially for the commanders at the division level, their more important job is not simply to command the troops on the battlefield to perform tactical tasks, but to be responsible for strategic affairs.

As for the specific tactical work, it is natural that various staff members and officers at the regiment and battalion levels are responsible.

In order to make room for the promotion of the next group of mid-level cavalry officers, Luo Zhixue also planned to promote a group of regiment-level cavalry generals.

Zhao Hongshu's promotion was an attempt.

Although it seems that he was transferred to a second-line force like the garrison, the positions of brigade commander and above in the garrison, especially the position of division commander, are still real senior positions in the rural protection army, so it cannot be regarded as belittling.

Promoting Zhao Hongshu to a higher rank and transferring him to the Eighth Garrison Division as the division commander can not only solve the problem of the brigadier general rank for Zhao Hongshu, but also examine Zhao Hongshu's strategic leadership ability through the second-line troops of the garrison division. If Zhao Hongshu is in the second-line army If it's okay to lead troops, Luo Zhixue will still transfer him to the main force in the future.

As for Zhao Hongshu's partner, the deputy commander of the Eighth Defense Division, Luo Zhixue is going to transfer Lieutenant Colonel Bao Yangyun, the deputy director of the Strategy Department of the General Staff Department. This person has been in charge of staff work in the General Staff Department for a long time. Otherwise, he would not be the deputy director of the Strategy Department.

The brigade commanders of the two garrison brigades, one is He Renlong, who has performed quite well in the past two months. He frequently led troops to fight against Hong Chengchou's troops on the front line of Guanzhong, and won several good victories.

At the beginning of September, this man led 2000 people from the Sixth Defense Regiment, and nearly 300 troops under Hong Chengchou's command met in the south of Hanyin. After the encounter, He Renlong successfully defeated the army at the cost of more than [-] casualties. Annihilated more than [-] enemy troops and captured more than [-] prisoners.

If such a battle loss ratio is placed on the side of the main force, there is a high probability that they will be dismissed and questioned...

In this kind of field encounters, where neither side has too many cavalry involved, the rural protection army can often play a very exaggerated battle loss ratio, and the battle loss ratio of ten to one or even tens to one often appears. .

There is no way, the main force of the rural protection army with a field cannon is so strong in the field battle!

However, the key point is that He Renlong is not leading the main force. The sixth garrison regiment under his command is just an ordinary garrison regiment. They are all half cavalry.

This kind of garrison army can often win against the Ming army of the same strength, but it will not win too easily, at least it will not have any crushing advantage.

You can only rely on your own better cold weapons, armor and other equipment to gain tactical advantages in a more expensive period brought about by better treatment.

And this kind of advantage can bring certain advantages to the garrison of the rural protection army, but these advantages are also limited.

Leading a unit like the sixth garrison regiment, with less victories and more losses, can still achieve such a good record. To be honest, this ability is relatively rare among the generals of the garrison army of the rural protection army.

Even his immediate boss's immediate boss, Huang Guangmao, doesn't have that ability...

If Huang Guangmao had this ability, he would have taken the Guanzhong Mansion with the whole army of the Second Defense Division long ago.

Huang Guangmao led the second garrison division to fight before, and he seemed to have won Junzhou and Yunyang Mansion all the way, but in fact, there is no Ming army in these two places, and he fought against some local guards in the Ming army. Soldiers, not many.

Because the main force of the Ming army in these two places was basically taken away by Lu Xiangsheng, and then they were completely lost in the battle of Sanyuanzhuang.

Later, after the Second Defense Division captured Yunyang and shifted the battle line to the eastern part of Guanzhong Prefecture, they basically didn't win any decent battles. Several months passed, and they couldn't even win the Jinzhou area.

Because the second garrison division was already facing the main force of the Ming army in Shaanxi under Hong Chengchou's command in Guanzhong, and there were still a lot of them.

Of course, this is also related to the strategic system of the Rural Protectorate Army, where the main defenders on the western front did not send too many reinforcements to the second garrison division on the western front.

Now the entire western front is only twelve two-and-a-half catties field artillery, six are on the front line of Guanzhong Prefecture, and six are on the front line of Eastern Sichuan.

In fact, when they fought, their tactical tactics were no different from those of the Ming army on the opposite side.

Under such circumstances, it is extremely rare for He Renlong to be able to win such a victory in the Guanzhong Mansion area.

Regarding this, Luo Zhixue couldn't help sighing, he is indeed a person who can leave his name in the history books, regardless of his character, but when it comes to ability, he is really not bad.

That is Chen Yongfu is not a very famous general in history, but his military ability is not bad there.

Luo Zhixue was also thinking about whether he could choose a few more generals who surrendered in the future, preferably a few famous generals from the late Ming Dynasty to serve him.

Among the famous generals in the late Ming Dynasty, Lu Xiangsheng had already died in battle, but Sun Chuanting and Li Dingguo were both short-lived. If there is a chance to recruit them later, that would be a good thing.

It's just that this kind of thing can't be forced, follow up with fate, recruit if you have the opportunity, and kill if you don't have the opportunity!

Compared with recruiting the so-called famous historical generals, Luo Zhixue paid more attention to the training of the Great Chu Empire's own officers. After all, the ones he trained were more suitable for the series of new book tactics of the rural protection army, and at the same time, his loyalty was more reassuring.

The Military Academy of the Great Chu Empire has been open for several months, and the first batch of students officially enrolled in July.

After the official founding of the People's Republic of China, the military academy was renamed the 'Army Officer Academy', and at the same time, the ship administration department was separated, and the 'Navy Officer Academy' was established in Hanyang City.

At present, the first batch of [-] students in the formal class of the Army Officer Academy has worked hard day and night to complete the preliminary theoretical study and entered various units for internship.

According to the official class system of the Army Officer Academy, students in the formal class study military theory for three months, and then go through three months of practice.

This group of students will be the first batch of officers in the Great Chu Empire to be fully trained according to the new tactics. All the military theories they have learned are based on a series of new equipment and new tactics of the current rural protection army.

Its learning focuses on line infantry, the use of artillery, the coordination of infantry and artillery, etc., which can be said to be quite different from what traditional generals learn.

Luo Zhixue attaches great importance to this and looks forward to their actual performance after entering the army.

In September, when the first batch of formal class students were about to go to practice, Luo Zhixue personally made arrangements for the internship arrangements for the first batch of formal class students of the Army Military Academy.

"All students who have completed theoretical studies will be arranged to practice in various ministries and main forces according to their subjects, academic performance and personal wishes. Considering their growth potential and lack of experience, we will not let them directly serve as A chief officer can serve as a staff officer, deputy and other positions first!"

"After the internship is over, their internship performance should be evaluated, and some outstanding performers will be selected for promotion and reuse in the later stage."

"The Ministry of Military and Political Affairs must properly arrange the internship for this group of students!"

Luo Zhixue is very attentive to the arrangement of the formal class students, and even prepares to personally intervene in their internships.

For this, Major General Wei Kaifu of the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs naturally made proper arrangements.

Wei Kaifu had known for a long time that Luo Zhixue attached great importance to this batch of formal class students, and he personally intervened in the enrollment stage, from the internship arrangement to the military rank arrangement.

This shows that Luo Zhixue attaches great importance to them and looks forward to them!
(End of this chapter)