I want to be emperor

Chapter 255
Gao Zheng is very satisfied with his promotion this time.

Although it seems that the deputy head was transferred from the deputy head to the deputy head, and the deputy head of the first division of the absolute main force was transferred to the newly formed sixth division, which was not even full of recruits, as the deputy head.

At first glance, it seems that not only have they not been promoted, but they have been demoted from active duty.

But this is not the case.

When he was the deputy head of the regiment before, his military rank was only a major, but many deputy heads of the main force regiments were all lieutenant colonel ranks.

With this transfer of duties, his rank was also promoted to lieutenant colonel.

And more importantly, there is no commander in the No. 20 Fourth Infantry Regiment for the time being!
Because before Gao Zheng took office, the No. 20 Fourth Infantry Regiment had just started to put on airs, and hadn't even practiced a whistle yet.

The Sixth Division, like the Fifth Division, started preparations before the Great Chu Empire launched the Battle of Crossing the River, and it was only half a month ago.

In such a short period of time, it is impossible to completely set up the airs of the two divisions.

In order to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, the Rural Protection Army is giving priority to ensuring the formation of the fifth division, and a large number of recruits and weapons and equipment are given priority to the fifth division.

The formation order of the Sixth Division was later.

Up to now, the Fifth Division has successively accepted 3000 recruits who have completed its one-month recruit training, while the Sixth Division has only accepted more than [-] recruits.

In the Sixth Division, priority is also given to the preparation and training of the No. 11 Infantry Regiment and the No. 20 Second Infantry Regiment under the No. 20 Infantry Brigade. Among the more than 3000 recruits, except for artillery, cavalry and heavy soldiers, ordinary Most of the infantry is concentrated in these two infantry regiments.

Of the two regiments under the No. 12 Infantry Brigade, only the No. 20 Third Infantry Regiment was assigned more than 200 recruits, and the No. 20 Fourth Infantry Regiment had only a few dozen recruits.

When the superiors transferred him to be the deputy commander, they actually asked him to set up the airs of the regiment and train the soldiers.

If this job is done well, there is a high probability that he will be able to become a regular on the spot and directly become the head of the regiment.

On this point, Major General Wei Kaifu, Minister of the Military and Political Department, had already made it clear when he met him.

In other words, about a month later, when the No. 20 Fourth Infantry Regiment takes shape, Gao Zheng will become the commander of the No. 20 Fourth Infantry Regiment. Served as the head of the regiment with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Although most of the infantry regiment commanders under the main division are colonels, there are also lieutenant colonels. These two ranks are the matching ranks of the commanders of the main division.

Gao Zheng, who had been promoted, had done a great job. He had just received the letter of appointment, accompanied by a certain director of the Military and Political Department, and went directly to the Sixth Division's station to take up his post.

After meeting Major General Zhang Malin, the first division commander of the Sixth Division, he started his own work.

His first job was not to ask for recruits, but to urge his superiors to quickly dispatch enough middle and low-level officers and some key non-commissioned officers to come over.

Now the No. 20th Infantry Regiment, including himself, has only three officers and more than 40 soldiers, and they can't even put up a shelf.

Even if the Military and Political Department sent them one or two thousand recruits, Gao Zheng didn't have enough officers to manage and train these recruits.

Gao Zheng urged his superiors, and several times a day, the commander of the Sixth Division pestered Zhang Malin to ask for officers, non-commissioned officers and other key personnel.

And Zhang Malin also had a headache about this, if he had someone under his command, he would have been sent to the No. 20 Fourth Regiment.

But there are not enough people!

As far as Zhang Malin is concerned, not only the No. 20 Fourth Infantry Regiment is short of people, but also the No. lack of people.

Especially experienced officers and non-commissioned officers.

As a newly formed unit, the Sixth Division currently has a total of more than 3000 people. It is still a few thousand away from full strength, and the number of officers needed is also hundreds.

The soldiers are actually okay to say that there are a large number of recruits in the Zhongxiang, Jiangling, Hanyang and other recruit battalions who are training. Supplement to the fifth and sixth divisions.

Based on the number of recruits in the recruit battalions and the training time, within half a month their Sixth Division is expected to be able to obtain another [-] recruits, and within a month to replenish all ordinary recruits of non-technical arms.

But officers and non-commissioned officers are not so easy to deal with.

Now that the Rural Protection Army is expanding its army, there is a huge shortage of officers, especially experienced and capable officers, and the non-commissioned officers are even veterans who have been fought in wars.

These backbone forces are not those ordinary big-headed soldiers who can be supplemented by just pulling a young man to train for a month, and can form combat effectiveness after a month or two of training after supplementing the army.

For officers and non-commissioned officers, their training period is longer and more difficult.

The Ministry of Military and Political Affairs has a headache every day about how to arrange the vacancies for officers in various ministries.

If it hadn't been for the experienced and capable officer to confirm, the superiors would not have directly transferred Gao Zheng, who was only a major, to the No. 20 Fourth Infantry Regiment, and would not have sent the company commander there, and would have directly asked him to stare at the deputy. The name of the head of the regiment is responsible for the work of the head of the regiment, and he intends to let Gao Zheng accumulate a few months of qualifications, and then directly promote him to the head of the regiment on the spot.

It's all because of a lack of people.

But in the face of Gao Zheng and Zhang Malin's entanglement, and at the same time, the preparation work of the Sixth Division could not be delayed any longer. Only then did the people from the Military and Political Department pick and choose, and put together over a hundred officers for the Sixth Division. .

A dozen or so of them were assigned to the No. 20 Fourth Infantry Regiment. Among the ten or so newly assigned officers, a young major with an immature face caught Gao Zheng's mind.

Look at the introduction, good guy, this is Wang Yongnian, the only young major with a very scary resume.

This son was born in Tongsheng, Dong Wen was literate, and he was a native of Luoyang. After his hometown called for disasters, he was kidnapped by thieves and ran all the way to Nanyang Prefecture.

At the beginning, he worked in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but he was sent to work in the Ministry of Military Affairs not long after.

This kind of example of transferring civil servants to serve in military institutions was very common in the early and middle period of the Baoxiang Army. After all, at that time, the Baoxiang Army had a small plate and few people, and the distinction between civil and military was not too obvious. At that time, Luo Zhixue A large number of personnel from administrative agencies were transferred to serve in the four major ministries of the military.

Major General Hu Hongzhuo, Minister of Ordnance Department, Yu Xiujie, Minister of Logistics Department, and Major General Wei Kaifu, Minister of Military and Political Department, are the most typical examples.

None of the three of them were soldiers...

In the early days, they were said to be doing battalion and logistics work in the Rural Protection Army, but they were actually civilians. However, they were not the same as they were later appointed by Luo Zhixue as the ministers of the three major ministries.

Among the five military ministers of the Great Chu Empire, only Xu Zhixian, Chief of Staff, and Brigadier General Lu Xingye, Minister of the Navy, are from military backgrounds, and the other three are from civilian backgrounds, who have never even been on the battlefield...

And there are a lot of people who have similar experiences to them. Otherwise, why would there be a large number of officers who were born as children and scholars in the Township Protection Army.

When people first turned to thieves, most people would not choose to pick up swords and guns to fight in the first place, and most people still prefer civilian jobs.

After all, when they turned to thieves, most of them were just to make a living, not to work hard.

It was only later that Luo Zhixue was transferred to a military institution to be a civilian officer first, then to study military theory, and then slowly become a general who leads the army...

Before they surrendered to the thieves, they probably never dreamed that one day they would command thousands or even tens of thousands of troops to fight.

Wang Yongnian's transition from civil to military was almost a process. He first worked in the Military and Political Department as the deputy chief of a certain department.

Then when the Military Academy recruited the first batch of formal class students, he was selected into the first batch of formal class because of his excellent cultural level...

After entering the formal class, he didn't know that this person was a top student, or had excellent military talent.

During the learning process, the grades of each course have always been ranked first, and won the No.1 three times in a row in the school sand table deduction competition between the students in the school and the formal class, as well as the students in the advanced class and the crash class.

While he was studying military theory at school, the Army Military Academy held a total of three school-wide sand table deduction competitions, and he won the first place in all three times.

His defeated generals include a large number of battalion commanders, deputy regimental commanders, and regimental commanders of the main force who came to study.

After completing three months of theoretical study, this person ranked first among more than 100 people in the final military theory examination, and was awarded the title and sword by Luo Zhixue himself.

With excellent grades, he was awarded the rank of major and started his internship. Before that, he served as a combat staff officer in the Division Headquarters of the First Division.

This person was also a staff officer in the first batch of division-level troops in the Rural Protection Army. At that time, the Rural Protection Army had just started to implement the staff system in division-level troops.

During the internship, he participated in almost all military operations of the First Division. From crossing the river to attacking Wuchang City, he participated in the formulation and command of various combat plans in the headquarters of the First Division.

After the internship, he was sent to the No.20 Fourth Infantry Regiment of the Sixth Division as the battalion commander of the First Infantry Battalion under the regiment.

The problem is, this person has never led a soldier before this...

However, such a person who has only played sand table deduction in the military academy, and played strategy and tactics formulation and command in the division headquarters, and has never even actually led troops or been to the front line, was directly sent to No.20 by the Military and Political Department The Fourth Infantry Regiment served as the commander of the First Infantry Battalion.

To be honest, Gao was intimidated.

With such a young man with an amazing resume, but a pure novice in actually leading troops, if something goes wrong with this First Infantry Battalion, wouldn't it be doomed.

(End of this chapter)