Otherworldly Castle Era

Zhu Cheng was the colonel leader of the 11th Regiment of the First Division, and was also selected as the vanguard by Li Jing and Liu Ji.

He still didn't know that two generals had blushed for his little vanguard position, and he didn't know that he was already "famous" now.

Zhu Cheng is now leading the eleventh regiment of 8,400 officers and soldiers, 10,000 servants, and 10,000 militia logistics team to form the vanguard towards Nanshan City not far away.

After reuniting the young and strong labors provided by ten thousand vassal nations in Nanshan City, he will once again lead his army northward to advance toward the goal, all the way to the task of building bridges in the mountains.

Until it gets close to the target and encounters the enemy, it will make a choice based on the enemy's situation, or attack, or defend, or call for support...

This vanguard job is actually not a good job, and the most "rough work" is done. But one thing is that the vanguard is also the first army to encounter the enemy.

And this is the reason why Di Qing and Huo Qubing are arguing. As long as they encounter an enemy, it means they have a military exploit, and the vanguard is the first army to encounter the enemy. After all, the whole army is the first. Credit is still very tempting.

Nanshan City is only one hundred kilometers away from Pingguan City, and this section of the road is ready-made, and Zhu Cheng is not required to open the road. Therefore, it only took three days for the vanguard to arrive at Nanshan City.

"Welcome General Shangguo to lead his army to Nanshan City." When Zhu Cheng led his army to Nanshan City in the evening three days later, he was warmly welcomed by the locals.

Nanshan City is a city jointly owned by the vassal state of Xia Guo, and part of the intervention of Xia Guo has allowed the residents of Nanshan City to avoid the suffering of war. This has caused many indigenous residents to flee here to avoid military disasters.

Coupled with the joint management of the vassal state, this city has become very prosperous today. Of course, this is only a comparison with other cities in the vassal state, and of course it is far inferior to the city of Xia.

Nanshan City, with its prosperous population and prosperous business, must have made the five vassal nations look enthusiastic, all wanting to claim it for themselves, but due to the existence of Xia State, they had to abide by the rules and do their own thing safely.

However, Xia Guo also knew the truth that blocking was better than sparse, and he made a promise to the five vassal states: if which vassal state made the most contribution to the development of Nanshan City, who would belong to Nanshan City at that time.

As for how long this period is, how to determine who has made the most, this is Xia Guo's decision. This is another important reason for the rapid development of Nanshan City.

At night, Zhu Cheng refused to greet the officials and returned to the camp, thinking that he would leave immediately after receiving the personnel and materials tomorrow. He knew how heavy his responsibility was.

Somehow, Zhu Cheng came to the side of the book to look at the waning moon in the sky, and suddenly recalled his experience since joining the army. For so many years, he was only a squadron leader of a small light cavalry formation under Zhang Wei's guard.

By now, Zhu Cheng has become a regiment commanding more than 8,000 people, and this expedition is still the vanguard of the whole army. If you count 10,000 servants, 10,000 militias, and 10,000 indigenous laborers, he is now But an officer who commanded nearly 40,000 people was not much different from a division commander.

From the squadron commander of the light cavalry formation to the commander of the light cavalry brigade in the rear, to the cavalry battalion commander of the regular brigade, to a commander of the first brigade, and finally the colonel commander of the first division. .

After thinking about it, Zhu Cheng was still a little complacent in his emotions. After all, not all people can have his good fortune and can rise up step by step.

Some of the officers at the same level as him were wounded and retired; some died on the battlefield; and some were unusable. They are still a low-level officer and have not been long in service.

"Hey~!" Zhu Cheng looked at the waning moon in the sky and sighed, then turned and walked into the military account.

Zhu Cheng thought that he is now a colonel. The term of service is thirty-two years, but he is now nearly forty years old and has served for seventeen years. He doesn’t know how many years will be required before he can be promoted. As a general.

Because the commander of Xia's army is at the rank of colonel, and above the regiment is the rank of division, the rank of chief officer is lieutenant general, and there is not even a transition in the middle.

In other words, even if Xia Guo expanded his army in the future, he could only start as a division chief of staff if he wanted to be promoted to a general.

However, Zhu Cheng still knows how to talk about being a staff officer. Although he has some brains, he still has some distance from the requirements of the staff, let alone the chief of staff.

Previously, Zhu Cheng had heard Zhang Wei's evaluation of him, saying that he was brave in combat, possessed a brain, and was loyal. He admits all of these, but in recent years, he has worked with the regiment staff for several years, but he knows the strength of the staff.

His staff member had studied under Lu Su's staff. The name was Qin Dong. He was not as good as the other. The other side was still modestly saying that it was not enough.

But when it comes to leading the army, Zhu Cheng is more experienced. After all, the military life for so many years is not in vain - this is a specialization in the art industry.

Therefore, in Zhu Cheng's view, the next promotion will be a big step in his military life. If he does not make changes, he will only have a glimmer of hope until Xia Guo carries out military reforms again.

As Zhu Cheng thought, in the current military system of the Xia State, it is a very large threshold for a colonel to be promoted to the rank of major general. Because once he was promoted to the rank of major general, that officer became a general, and was completely at two levels from the previous officer.

It's like no matter how advanced a non-commissioned officer is, even if he is promoted to a first-level non-commissioned officer, his military salary will be half a level higher than that of a colonel, and he is only a "soldier" rather than an "officer.

The same is true for officers and generals. It seems that the rank of colonel to major general is simply increased by one level, but the meaning is completely different~www.novelmtl.com~ Maybe this is also what Li Jing thought when formulating the military system. The goal to be achieved!

The military restructuring that Xia Guo just carried out changed the "brigade" into a "division". Although it expanded Xia's military strength, it was equivalent to raising the threshold for turning an officer into a general again.

It is precisely because of this that Li Jing decided to train regiment-level officers from all parties' considerations, so as to select "generals" from them-this is also one of the reasons why Li Jing integrated the two divisions.

After the integration of the two divisions, the army commanded by Li Jing was left with only five standard regiments, five cavalry regiments, one cavalry battalion, one artillery battalion, and the division headquarters of two divisions-now the general headquarters.

There are a total of 8,700 troops, including 43,500 cavalry, 300 field artillery, 100 siege artillery, and the rest are infantry.

What lies in front of Li Jing now is how to make good use of this huge force, so that every unit can have his use, so that it won't make a trip in vain.

As for the 100,000 servants? It's all said that it's not seen by people, it's just cannon fodder and consumables on the battlefield.