In the period of warlord melee, the establishment and rank system of various warlords were very different, and it can be said that the combat effectiveness of the army has a lot to do with the establishment, and this is also doomed to the situation in which the weak eat the strong in the warlord melee. As the best of the warlords, Zhang Zuolin's troops have very strong combat effectiveness, so what is their organization? What is the rank system?
Zhang Zuolin has always had the title of "King of northeast China", so in the establishment of the Fengzhi warlords, there are also very strong northeastern regional characteristics. It should be known that Zhang Zuolin's Fengzhi warlord is the product of the integration of his private armed forces and the Beiyang side troops, because of Zhang Zuolin's early experience in the green forest, therefore, his troops have a very distinct green forest color, in other words, Zhang Zuolin's troops are just the old army cloaked in the Beiyang New Army system.
On the other hand, because the Fengzhi warlords borrowed from the beiyang warlords, and the beiyang warlords in the early years under the leadership of Yuan Shikai, with the help of a large number of Japanese rank systems and establishments, they were full of Japanese characteristics. After the Fengzhi warlords learned from it, this characteristic was also used in practice, and the development of Zhang Zuolin's Fengzhi warlords was inseparable from Japan's help, so among the Fengzhi warlords, Japan's military rank system occupied a large proportion.
In the course of the development of the Feng Army, through a series of annexations and expansions, they reached the strength of 20 army divisions at their peak, totaling 350,000 people. The organization of the Bong Army is also based on the division of the Japanese military, roughly composed of "regiments, divisions, brigades" and other systems. Among them, the corps-level establishment is not commonly used, and is only temporarily established in major military operations, and after the end of the military operation, the corps establishment is disbanded accordingly. Therefore, for the Feng army, the most basic organization is the division.
Among the Warlords of the Fengzhi clan was also a very strong naval power of China at that time, with a total of three naval fleets, each of which had the rank of lieutenant general and the commander-in-chief of the navy with the rank of admiral. In addition, under the efforts of Zhang's father and son, Fengjun also has a fledgling air force, which had more than 300 aircraft at its peak. The Fengzhi Air Force also has seven detachments, each of which is headed by a general officer and most of the pilots are lieutenants.
Therefore, from this point of view, the ranks of the warlords of the Fengzhi clan are not much different from today, and they have three general ranks, three school grades, and three lieutenant ranks. As the supreme leader of the Fengzhi warlords, Zhang Zuolin took the rank of general himself.