Chapter 476 Military Rank System
After announcing the army reorganization plan, the next step is to reward meritorious service.
Wei Zhang was awarded the title of General Yang Lie, and the rest of the generals, including soldiers who were advantageous in combat, were given awards. Of course, all rewards are carried out according to the military merit system and military rank system formulated by the Military Affairs Administration.
After a busy month, Du Ruhui led the Military Affairs Department, and finally formulated the territory's military merit system and military rank system a few days ago, which was approved by Ouyang Shuo.
This time, the discussion of meritorious deeds is based on the "Shanhai Lingling Rewarding System for Military Merit".
According to the established regulations, territorial military merit awards can be roughly divided into three categories.
First, reward property.
This is the most common and most common type of reward. Gold and silver jewellery, silk and satin, equipment armor, elite horses, elite weapons, and secret books of exercises, etc., are all among the rewards.
Among them, rewarding with money is the most common.
In the system, there are express regulations on "how much meritorious service one makes, how much reward one receives". From generals to ordinary soldiers, all are among the rewards.
Of course, the rewards are limited to those who perform well.
That is to say, the rewards in the army will not be widespread and widespread. Only those who fight the most bravely, kill the most enemies, and achieve extraordinary achievements are eligible to receive rewards.
Only in this way can the morale of the army be stimulated and play its due role in motivating.
Second, promotion of military rank.
According to the "Shanhailing Military Rank System System", the territorial military ranks are divided into general, captain, lieutenant, soldier, and soldier, with a total of 18 ranks in five ranks.
Generals are divided into five ranks, with rank one being the highest and rank five the lowest. Every general has a specific title and is unique. Captains are divided into three grades, namely the upper grade captain, the middle grade captain and the lower grade captain.
Both lieutenants and sergeants are of three ranks, namely captain, lieutenant and lieutenant, sergeant, sergeant and corporal. The lowest level of soldiers is the fourth level, that is, first class soldiers, first class soldiers, second class soldiers and private soldiers.
The military rank is linked to the position.
The rank of general is only awarded to division commanders and above. The rank of lieutenant corresponds to the first level of brigade commander; the rank of captain corresponds to the first level of battalion officer; the rank of sergeant corresponds to the first level of team officer; the rank of soldier corresponds to the first level of fire chief.
In addition, the rank of private soldier is only awarded to non-officer soldiers. All recruits in each department become full-timers, and the rank of soldiers reaches the fifth rank, and they will automatically obtain the rank of private soldiers.
Soldiers below the fifth rank are uniformly called recruits and have no military rank.
From this criterion alone, we can see Shanhai City's elite soldier strategy. According to this standard, the meaning is obvious, everyone below the fifth level is a rookie, and they are not even qualified to go to the battlefield.
This is to put other territories aside, and the fifth-tier warriors can be regarded as elite soldiers.
Every officer has a basic military rank after taking office, and the following ranks shall prevail. For example, when a soldier is promoted to fire chief, he automatically obtains the rank of second-class soldier. After making meritorious service, he can be promoted to first-class soldier and upper-class soldier in turn.
Of course, the corporal goes to the top. Only when he is promoted again to the rank of team leader can he be awarded the rank of corporal. By analogy, all division heads will automatically obtain the rank of fifth-rank general after taking office.
Military ranks, which demarcate the relationship between superiors and subordinates in the army. Junior officers must obey their superiors unconditionally. This is the iron law in the military. In this way, in the war, there will be no problem of command confusion.
Take a battalion as an example. If the battalion is killed, according to the usual practice, there is no one to stand on top, and the battalion has no command right, and the whole team immediately becomes a mess.
With military rank, the situation is very different.
Once the battalion is killed, according to military regulations, the highest rank in the battalion will automatically take over as the temporary commander. If the successor is also killed, he will be replaced by the survivor with the highest rank. This cycle goes on and on, and this team can continue to fight until it is completely defeated.
This alone is better than thousands of troops, and no territorial characteristics can compare to a perfect system.
In addition to marking the relationship between superiors and subordinates, military ranks are also closely related to military salaries.
Taking this opportunity, Du Ruhui also made a change to the territory's military salary system. In the future, military pay will only be linked to military rank, and will no longer be linked to the rank and position of soldiers.
For example, Huo Chang's monthly military salary was a unified 1 gold coin before. After the reform, it was changed to 1 gold coin for the first-class fire chief, 80 silver coins for the first-class fire chief, and 60 silver coins for the second-class fire chief.
Wait, if you say that the above ranks correspond to the previous standard military pay. In this way, invisibly, the expenditure on military officers' salaries was reduced.
You know, the military officer group accounts for about 30% of the military salary expenditure.
Unfortunately, the officer could not say anything about this. In the army, martial arts are respected, and they are also fire chiefs. If the fire chief of the second-class soldier feels that the military salary is low, he will fight hard and be promoted to the first-class soldier.
In this way, on the contrary, it will stimulate the hearts of the lieutenant soldiers to do meritorious service.
Du Ruhui's move can be described as a stroke of genius, it has deceived people and left people speechless.
Correspondingly, the military salary standards at all levels of military ranks have been uniformly adjusted. The basic principle is to use 0.8 as the benchmark. It means that in the same rank, the military salary of the next rank is only 80% of that of the previous rank.
The sergeant team is paid 5 gold coins, the sergeant team is paid 4 gold coins, and the corporal team is paid 3 gold coins. The captain's camp is 20 gold coins, the lieutenant's camp is 15 gold coins, and the lieutenant's camp is 12 gold coins.
The top-rank school lieutenant brigade commander pays 50 gold coins, the middle-rank school lieutenant brigade commander 40 gold coins, and the low-rank school lieutenant brigade commander 30 gold coins.
The rank of general is different.
According to regulations, generals get an annual salary, which is received once a year. The annual salary of the fifth-rank general is 1,000 gold coins, the fourth-rank general is 2,000 gold coins, the third-rank general is 3,000 gold coins, the second-rank general is 4,000 gold coins, and the first-rank general is 5,000 gold coins.
In addition to the annual salary, the general also enjoys other special treatment.
According to the regulations, every general is given a general's mansion in Shanhai City. According to the different grades, the specifications of the General's Mansion are also different.
For example, Lin Yi, who is now a fifth-rank General Huwei, gave him a mansion of General Huwei. Bai Qi is a first-rank general, so he is specially given a general's mansion.
Ouyang Shuo made this arrangement in the hope that the generals under his command would not only command troops to fight, but also enjoy the warmth of home. Back to Shanhai City, there is still a place to stay.
According to Gaia's arrangement, the family members of historical figures will automatically appear in the wilderness after the dynasty joins the wilderness process, and they can be found.
For example, Bai Qi's wife is like this.
Similarly, the family members of Sun Bin, Elai, Zhang Han, Wei Zhang and other generals also came to Shanhai City one by one.
In the military rank system, in addition to the different treatment of generals, there are also different regulations for private soldiers and even recruits. Similarly, due to the reduction in the military rank and salary of soldiers, the military salary of soldiers will naturally also be reduced.
Recruits from Tier 1 to Tier 4 are paid 20 silver coins. Private soldiers of the ninth rank and below are paid 40 silver coins. Tenth to twelfth ranks of elite soldiers, the military pay is 60 silver coins, which is the same as that of second-class soldiers.
Du Ruhui is also ruthless. With this reform alone, military expenditures have been cut by more than 10%. Previously, the average rank of soldiers was a battalion of the fourth rank, and the military pay was 275 gold coins.
After the reform, the military salary expenditure was directly reduced to 237 gold coins.
By analogy, the military salary expenditure of a division is directly reduced from the original 8250 gold coins to 7200 gold coins. The cost of a full army is around 36,000 gold coins.
Three full regiments, one month's military pay, roughly around 110,000 gold coins.
In order to reduce military expenditures, Du Ruhui played a ruthless hand this time.
Similarly, the Military Affairs Administration also made clear regulations on the military pay of local garrison forces.
The military pay of the garrison troops is the same as that of the field army, and the military pay is calculated at 80% of the latter. The city guard division is the guard force defending the capital, and the military salary is paid according to the standard of the field army.
If you have a military rank, you will naturally have a corresponding medal.
According to Ouyang Shuo's instructions, the medals use dragons as models and totems.
General, all wear the Golden Dragon Medal.
What distinguishes the rank of generals is the number of golden dragon spit beads. A fifth-rank general has only one dragon ball; a fourth-rank general has two dragon balls. By analogy, the first-rank general is the five dragon balls.
The first-rank general has six dragon balls.
As the commander-in-chief of the whole army, Ouyang Shuo also wore the Golden Dragon Badge when he was wearing military uniform. The difference is that his golden dragon is a nine-clawed golden dragon, and the dragon ball he spit out is also a huge golden dragon ball.
Nine-clawed golden dragon, five in front and four in back.
The general's dragon ball is the white dragon ball. The golden dragon only has seven claws, four in the front and three in the back.
Xiaowei, Wei and Shi correspond to the Silver Dragon Medal, Iron Dragon Medal and Bronze Dragon Medal respectively. The upper, middle, and lower ranks correspond to three dragon balls, two dragon balls, and one dragon ball.
The material of each dragon badge corresponds to its title one by one.
For example, the Golden Dragon Medal is made of gold.
As for the lowest rank of soldiers, they do not have the right to wear the Dragon Badge. Their medals are also made of bronze, and the symbol is a cross of Tang Dao and epee, and the bar is used to distinguish the ranks.
A private has one stripe; a second-class soldier has two stripes; and so on, a first-class soldier has four stripes.
Undoubtedly, the establishment and implementation of military rank marks another solid step for the army of Shanhai City on the road to the professionalization of the army.
One of the major tasks of this army reorganization is to confer ranks on all officers and men of the army.
According to the arrangement of the Military Affairs Administration, the conferring ceremony will be held immediately after the reorganization of the army is completed.
At that time, Ouyang Shuo will personally preside over the awarding ceremony.
The last category of military merit awards is imperial titles.
Needless to say, in ancient times, a title was a reward that was more important than a military rank, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was the biggest reward. As long as one gets a title, it is enough to honor the ancestors.
It's a pity that Ouyang Shuo, whether he was the Marquis of Lianzhou or the Protector of Southern Border, did not have the right to grant titles to his subjects or generals.
Only the lord of a country can be awarded the title.
Therefore, the third category of rewards can only stay in the files formulated by the Military Affairs Administration for the time being, and cannot be implemented yet. You must wait until after the founding of the country before you can confer titles.
Du Ruhui's list is also to give the soldiers a thought.