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Chapter 199
The military ranks of the officer class are divided into ten levels: Lieutenant (Major Middle to Upper), Colonel (Major to Middle), General (Major to Middle), and Marshal.

The captain and corps commander are served by first-class privates and non-commissioned officers.

Officers at the capital level are held by the rank of lieutenant, officers at the battalion level are held by the rank of colonel, and officers at the military level are held by the rank of general.

Military-level officers generally have at least the rank of major general, so they can be called generals.

After the new reorganization, Sun Zheng was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and took office as commander of the Kaifeng Group Army (two armies/2 people). He was stationed in Kaifeng and cooperated with Li Gang in implementing the New Deal in Kaifeng Mansion.

Lai Qingyun was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and assumed the post of commander of the Hebei Group Army (three armies/3 people). After completing the initial training, he crossed the river to Hebei to clean up the remnants of the Jin Army on Hebei East Road and Hebei West Road, and eliminate or disperse the local Song forces. Army, reorganize the local rebel army.

In order to fulfill his promise, Chen Xun placed Yue Fei in the Hebei Army Group as deputy army commander with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and led five new battalions under a veteran Chen Jiajun officer.

Ke Lei was also promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and took up the post of commander of the First Navy Group Army (three armies/3 people), mainly responsible for the navy north of the Yangtze River.

Finally, Chen Xun himself, with the title of Marshal of the Self-Ling, and the commander of the Xuzhou Group Army (Fourth Army/4 people), is responsible for the attack on the lower reaches of the Yellow River and Jingdong East Road, Jingdong East Road.

In addition to the three lieutenant generals who went north, Chen Xun did not forget the officers who stayed at home.

Wang Yuan was promoted to major general and took up the post of commander of the Second Navy Group Army (two armies/2 people), mainly responsible for the navy south of the Yangtze River and the South China Sea Navy.

Lu Hui was promoted to lieutenant general and took office as the commander of the Guangzhou Group Army (three armies/3 people). He was mainly responsible for defending his hometown in Guangzhou and waiting for an opportunity to attack Guangnan East Road.

The officers and men of the Second Navy Group Army were reorganized by Wang Yuan on his own under the supervision of the General Staff Department and the Ministry of Military Affairs. The original naval forces in Jiangnan were not enough in number. They recruited new soldiers on their own and were assisted in training by the Ministry of Military Affairs.

The same goes for the officers and soldiers of the Guangzhou Group Army. Lu Hui, under the cooperation and supervision of the General Staff Department and the Ministry of Military Affairs, reorganized the Chen Family Army in Guangzhou on his own. If there was insufficient manpower, he recruited himself on Guangnan East Road, and the Ministry of Military Affairs assisted in training.

All officers above the battalion level were promoted and recommended by the five generals and the staff, and the list was confirmed by Chen Xun before taking office.

Promotions of officers below the battalion level are directly determined by the staff.

At the same time, Li Gang was also invited to join the staff department, becoming the second military government official to hold both government and military positions.

The first one is Chen Xun himself.

After the general reorganization came the running-in training. By the time the training was initially completed and the troops could march long distances, it was already mid-June.

On this day, Chen Xun had nothing to do. He was playing with some animals at home and cultivating feelings. Pei Ren came over to report on his work:
"Yue Fei has entered Hebei West Road and just occupied Liyang of the Anli Army."

Yue Fei's five cavalry battalions were the first to be formed. Due to the high proportion of veterans and elites, the training speed was also fast, and their combat effectiveness quickly returned to the standard. In early June, they couldn't wait to break camp and go north.

The five cities on the north bank of the Yellow River can be said to have been defeated by the wind, and then the northernmost Huazhou on the Gyeonggi Road was captured by the fifth battalion without any effort.

When Yue Fei had some self-doubts, he finally met a hard nut in Li Yang.

Li Yang went back and forth between the Song Army and the Jin Army before, but was finally exploited by a rebel army after the Jin people were defeated.

This rebel army was not a rebel army dedicated to resisting the Jin Dynasty, but a rebel army that rebelled and sought survival. It had no ambitions. After occupying Liyang, it did not continue to expand its territory, but instead enjoyed Liyang.

If Liyang hadn't been plundered and depleted of much oil and water, this rebel army might have been "corrupted" directly in Liyang.After Yue Fei arrived, he asked him to open the city gate, but of course the rebels would not agree.

After seeing that the defenders defending Liyang were not the Song army, Yue Fei directly commanded the army to fight, and the Chen Jiajun's standard siege process was used.

Muskets suppressed the city walls, explosive charges breached the city, and grenades were used in street fighting. The battle ended quickly.

"He still insists not to fight the Song army?" Chen Xun asked.

"I'm not as persistent as before, but I still admire you. It's such a good strategy." Pei Ren praised.

The strategy he spoke of was not complicated. Chen Xun arranged for Yue Fei to command the five cavalry battalions with the rank of lieutenant colonel, but besides Yue Fei's own battalion, the other four battalion commanders also had two major ranks. Two lieutenant colonel titles.

In other words, there are two old Chen family officers who are on the same level as Yue Fei in terms of military rank, only one level different in rank.

Although the first level of official rank is overwhelming, Yue Fei was promoted to lieutenant colonel by Chen Xun when he first arrived, and he had no foundation at all in the Chen family army.

Even half of the deputies and subordinates in his own direct battalion were not very convinced of him.

Chen Xun came from a later generation and knew that Yue Fei was very powerful, but the Chen family army officers did not know that. There were many people who didn't buy it.

If Yue Fei hadn't had some old comrades come to help him, he would have had difficulty even performing basic commands.

Chen Xun had no choice but to let Yue Fei overcome this situation.

The same situation directly caused Yue Fei to be completely unable to implement his bottom line of not participating in the civil war.

Previously in Huazhou, when Yue Fei encountered a city defended by the Song army, Yue Fei avoided the battle and did not attack, but the other four battalions directly joined forces to attack on their own, and won consecutive victories.

This led to Yue Fei's reputation among the five battalions being further reduced.

Now, unless he, Yue Fei, puts down his bottom line and truly integrates into the Chen family army and regards the Song army as his enemy, this situation cannot be changed.

"It's not a trick, and I didn't ask him to fight the Song army. It's just that our sphere of influence has not yet bordered on the Kingdom of Jin. I don't have any good ways to form a Jin army. Go north and open up the entire Hebei West Road, and then you can enter the Kingdom of Jin to hunt for gold." Chen Xun argued.

In fact, Chen Xun really didn't expect to devise this conspiracy at first, but he didn't expect that the Jin soldiers in Hebei would escape so completely. After the reorganization of Chen Jiajun was completed, almost all the remnants of the Jin soldiers in Hebei had fled back to the country. Now only Song soldiers were left in Hebei. The army and the rebels were at each other's throats, causing this misunderstanding.

Fortune plays tricks on people, I can only hope that Yue Fei can figure it out on his own.

"I will write to him soon. If he is really unwilling to become an enemy of the Song people, I will send a ship to take him by sea to Goryeo or the Liaodong Peninsula, and let him lead troops there to harass the Jin army's rear area." Chen Xun I don't want to offend Yue Fei because of this little thing.

Currently, there are people in charge of the strategies for the three routes in Hebei (Kaifeng, Hebei, and Jingdong). Yue Fei is young and does not yet have the ability to take charge of his own job. The more distant he is, the better the training effect will be.

"Okay, why don't you write him a letter and ask him to think about it. It's not a solution for the fifth battalion of horse troops to go on like this." Pei Ren suggested.

"Okay, I'll take it with you when you leave." Chen Xun asked someone to prepare a pen and paper.

(End of this chapter)