Doomsday Code

Chapter 833: Building an Army

"In short, I still say that the military's combat capability development will be decided by professionals like you, and I will listen to your suggestions. At the same time, I will also have the political work department increase its efforts in military ideology, with the sole goal of building a strong army."

Chen Cheng looked at the two of them and said.

"In the future, all First Army units, from squads to corps level, will be equipped with one or two political workers, who will be the main units for ideological construction in the army.

They are only responsible for the ideological work of soldiers and officers, and for supervising combat commanders, but cannot interfere in military command.

Chen Cheng did not discuss this with Doyle and the others, because ideological construction, especially the ideological construction of a violent force like the military, is the same no matter which dimension it is in.

It was impossible for him to let his newly established First Army be like the traditional aristocratic army, only obeying their lords or commanders.

In fact, Chen Cheng doesn’t have any lords or generals here now.

The reason why traditional armies are loyal to their lords is that, in addition to being soldiers, they are also the lord's subjects and have a direct interest-based ruling relationship with the lord.

The same is true for the main general, because the military supplies and soldiers' wages of the inherited army are all in the hands of the main general.

But now it is different. Although King Pingbei has a title of king, the North City area where the First Army soldiers are recruited is not his territory.

At the same time, Chen Cheng planned to make the military expenditure distribution vertical in the future, that is, the soldiers' wages would not go through the commander-in-chief, but would be paid directly to individuals from the training roster.

For convenience, the military salaries will be distributed to the political workers. At the same time, the army commander can supervise the political workers and prevent them from corruption.

Of course, once their banking system is established, this way of paying military salaries will be completely replaced, and money will be directly transferred to the soldiers' personal bank accounts.

As long as the soldiers know who pays them and as long as their ideological work is done well, it will be impossible for such an army to have mutiny or other situations.

At the same time, with hard training, powerful equipment, and high-quality officers, the army built in this way can be called elite after fighting one or two battles and surviving.

Doyle and the other man listened carefully to Chen Cheng's views on military development. Indeed, if they followed Chen Cheng's advice, it would directly reduce their influence on the army. However, there was no doubt that if Chen Cheng did so, the stability and combat effectiveness of the army would be greatly improved.

"We are just a makeshift team now, with only three of us. But we can't be like this in the future. We have to add key combat generals and the chief political commissar.

At the same time, some soldiers who have completed the initial training can be given more in-depth training in military command capabilities after they have completed the training with outstanding results. This will then serve as the foundation for the gradual development of our military academy."

"The First Army is not only a new hybrid force, but also a touchstone for our future military development. While building the army, we must also accomplish the above initial goals."

Chen Cheng had thought a lot. As for government affairs, since his territory was still small, it was pointless to talk about it. But in terms of military affairs, he said everything he could think of.

Although this may sound like a lot of things to do and difficult to accomplish.

But there are actually only two.

The first is to put ideological work from words into practice, and the second is to complete the establishment of preliminary military schools at the same time as building the army.

Both of these points now have a certain basis here.

With the establishment of the military academy, there is naturally no shortage of venues, and as for instructors, Doyle and Deanborn are the best instructors.

Although most of them still had traditional military ideas, the first army they established was just a mixed army. At the same time, the military command that Doyle and his men were exposed to was different from what Chen Cheng knew in the Kingdom of Moss.

The Kingdom of Moss cannot afford an entire magic arrow force of tens of thousands of people, nor can it afford magic long-range firepower reinforcements of tens of thousands of people.

And all this is known to Doyle and the others.

The biggest difference between artillery and magic is that it does not rely on magical power to be activated, but relies on traditional thermal dynamic potential energy.

Therefore, it is possible to achieve non-stop long-range fire coverage and strikes from large clusters that Doyle and his team could not even imagine.

In fact, the tactics are not much different from commanding magic arrow troops and long-range magic projection troops.

Apart from these, in terms of ideological construction, if it were a year ago, this might be a bit nonsense.

However, after a year, they almost controlled the entire North City sphere of influence, and the secret guards he had taken classes with a year ago have now become excellent basic political workers.

Because of their existence, they were able to take over North City so quickly and quietly.

In addition, they were already powerful secret guards, and being transferred into the army would allow them to be responsible for both political work and training.

The only thing to do is to elevate their existing status.

In fact, when Chen Cheng said that he wanted to improve the status of political workers, he was actually blaming Wang Pingbei and others in disguise.

Because Chen Cheng had already talked about this ideological and political issue a long time ago, but when he came back this time, apart from the ideological classes still training new political workers, he didn't see much other progress.

Of course, Chen Cheng cannot blame King Pingbei and others entirely for this. After all, the ideological and political ideas he proposed were still new to King Pingbei and others, so Chen Cheng can be forgiven this time.

After the meeting, King Pingbei stayed alone, and Chen Cheng also knew why he stayed.

"Uncle, please take a seat."

"Your Majesty, I admit my mistakes and reflect on my mistakes. I..."

King Pingbei uttered a series of familiar political quotations, and Chen Cheng immediately raised his hand and said:

"Uncle, I'm still your nephew, and you don't need to apologize to me or anything like that, because you're my uncle, and I don't want our relationship to become alienated."

Chen Cheng was also trying to maintain the affectionate relationship between the two. After all, it was emotionally difficult for Chen Cheng himself to accept having an elder admit his mistakes.

Although this may make people think that Chen Cheng is pretentious and stupid, that's just the kind of person he is.

However, the King of Pingbei said with a firm look:

"No, Your Majesty, when you taught them, you told us that we should have the courage to admit our mistakes, so that we can correct them and make progress.

And I think this sentence is very correct.

Before, I thought that Your Majesty's ideological and political work was useless, but the establishment of the North City base proved Your Majesty's actions.

I was indeed wrong. I had inherent prejudices and felt unbalanced, thinking that the recovery of North City had little to do with them. Even after realizing this, I still harbored jealousy and wanted to suppress them.

Chen Cheng didn't expect that King Pingbei would actually admit his mistake to him and explain it to him in such a clear and organized manner.

At this moment, the old uncle Chen Cheng really taught his younger generation a lesson.

He did not do what he said, but his uncle, who was of high status, did it, and he was not afraid to admit his mistakes and lose face to his juniors.

This really shocked Chen Cheng.