There have been a lot of articles about the officers of the Green Battalion in the Qing Dynasty, and the introduction may not be clear enough, so some readers have sent private messages, hoping to systematically talk about the grades and duties of the generals at all levels of the Green Battalion.
The green battalion is the Han soldiers, when the Qing Dynasty enters the customs, the soldiers are full of yellow, white, red, and blue four colors, and the Han soldiers recruited in addition, the flag is green, and the Han soldiers are called the green battalion in the future.
The highest organization of the green camp is "Biao", and there are associations, battalions, and floods below. The standard is divided into several types: supervision standard, Fu standard, promotion standard, town standard, military standard (under the command of the general of the garrison of the Eight Banners), river standard, and Cao standard. In fact, the independent organization of the green battalions in each province is the standard of promotion and town standard, and the commander who commands the promotion is the highest military position in the locality.
Under the commander, there are officers such as the general soldier, deputy general, staff general, guerrilla, capital division, garrison, thousand general, general general, and foreign commissioner. The units to which the adjutant generals belong are "associations," the units to which the generals, guerrillas, capital divisions, and garrisons belong to the "battalions," and the units to which the commanders, generals, and outsiders belong to them are "Xun."
The settings of the green camp organizations at all levels are as follows:
1. Admiral's Yamen
The admiral, commonly known as the "military gate" or "titai", is a military officer, at the same level as the governor with the title of Jiashang, manages the military and political affairs of a province, and is called the feudal official with the governor. The governors of each province controlled the general army of each town, which was distributed in the inland provinces, but not in the northeast.
There are 12 land commanders, 3 commanders (Fujian, Guangdong, and the Yangtze River), 3 commanders of the waterways (Jiangnan, Hunan, and Zhejiang), and 5 governors (Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Anhui, and Jiangxi).
The provincial governors are generally divided into five battalions: center, left, right, front and rear, only the four battalions of the center, left, right and front, Sichuan and Yunnan are the middle, left and right three battalions, and Guizhou is the middle, right and front three battalions.
In addition to this standard, the Admiral also has the city guard camp and its subordinate associations and battalions. Its number of troops is generally 5,600 or 7,800, with Yunnan having the least number, only more than 1,200 people, and Sichuan having the most, with more than 12,000 people.
The governors of each province belong to them, including general soldiers, deputy generals, staff generals, guerrillas, capital divisions, garrisons, thousand generals, generals, and foreign commissions.
2. The Yamen of the General Army
General Soldiers. Commonly known as "the general town" or "Zhentai", it is a military official who is the second rank of the military officer, who has jurisdiction over this standard and its subordinate associations and battalions, guards the place to which the town belongs, and listens to the double control of the governor and the admiral of the province.
The general army of each province is also divided into land and naval divisions, with a total of 70 land soldiers and 13 naval divisions. Among them, the three towns of Langshan, Susong and Fushan in Jiangsu, Funing Town in Fujian, Dinghai, Haimen and Wenzhou in Zhejiang, Yichang Town in Hubei, and Gaozhou and Beihai Towns in Guangdong all have jurisdiction over the water division.
In addition, the town of Nanao in Guangdong was under the jurisdiction of Fujian and Guangdong provinces, and was subject to the control of the governors of Fujian and Zhejiang, the governors of Liangguang, the admirals of the adjutant of the navy, and the admirals of the Guangdong navy.
The total number of land and naval divisions in the country is 83 people, distributed in the inland provinces, but the three eastern provinces do not have the green battalion general soldier and the town standard under the jurisdiction of the general army, most of them are four or five battalions, generally two or three battalions, and some towns have only one battalion. In addition to this standard, it also has the jurisdiction of the town's various camps.
The number of troops varied from one or two thousand to three or four thousand. Fushan Town in Jiangsu Province has the fewest population, less than 1,000 people, and Guizhou Zhenyuan Town has the most, with more than 9,800 people. The general army of each town belongs to it, and there are deputy generals, staff generals, guerrillas, capital divisions, garrisons, thousand generals, generals, foreign commissioners and other officers.
3. Deputy General Yamen
The adjutant general, commonly known as "Xiezhen" or "Xietai", is a military subordinate to the second-rank official, which is under the jurisdiction of generals, governors, governors, admirals, and commanders.
For generals, governors, and admirals in charge of military affairs, they are respectively called the military standard of the army, the supervision of the standard of the army, and the promotion of the standard of the army; for the governor of the river to audit the flood, it is called the river standard of the army; for the governor of Caoyun to urge the protection of the boat, it is called the Caobiao army; and for the governor, fu, mention, and town to guard the danger, it is called the co-standard.
In addition, there is one deputy general in the Beijing Division Patrol Battalion, and the total number of deputy generals in the country is 137. The deputy generals stationed in various localities have their own yamen, and their subordinate military posts include guerrilla, capital division, garrison, thousand generals, generals, and foreign commissioners.
4. Counselors and guerrillas
The staff will be a military officer and a third-rank officer, under the jurisdiction of the governor, the governor, the admiral, and the general soldier. The officers and soldiers under it are "battalions", or they guard one city or one city with their superior military attachés.
Those who manage the camp affairs for the governor and the admiral are respectively called the Fubiao Chinese Army and the Raising Standard Chinese Army. There are a total of 177 generals in the national green battalion, of which 22 are naval generals, and the rest are land generals.
Guerrillas are military officers of the third rank, and their duties are the same as those of the generals, some of whom are officers in each town, and some of whom are generals, governors, governors, admirals, and battalions under the command of the general army. There are a total of 370 guerrillas in the country, of which 49 are naval guerrillas, and the rest are land guerrillas.
5. Metropolitan Division, Garrison, Thousand General, General Manager, and Foreign Commissariat
The capital division is a military officer of the fourth grade, and his duties are the same as those of the generals and guerrillas, some of whom are officers of the various associations, and some are the battalions under the command of generals, governors, governors, admirals, and general soldiers. There are a total of 494 people in the country, of which 82 are naval divisions, and the rest are land divisions.
The garrison is a military officer of the fifth grade, who manages the battalion affairs and food and salary during his duties, and is under the jurisdiction of the provincial governor and the general army, and has a staff officer and a guerrilla officer. There are a total of 887 garrisons in the country, of which 121 are naval divisions, 40 are guards, and the rest are land garrisons.
The general manager, the general manager, the foreign committee and other officials, all belong to the "Xun", which is the grassroots organization of the green camp. Thousands of total for the positive six, the total for the positive seven. The outsourcing is divided into the general manager of outsourcing (positive eight products) and the general manager of outsourcing (positive nine products).
The total number of people by land is 1,543, the total number of sailors is 324, the total number of guards is 51, the total number of land personnel is 3,141, the total number of naval divisions is 479, and the total number of foreign commanders and the total number of land divisions is 4,193, and the total number of naval divisions is 722.
The number of troops under the command of the grass-roots officials of the green battalion, such as the general officer, the general general, and the foreign commission, varied, with as many as one or two hundred people, and as few as only a few dozen or more than ten people.
The above is the basic situation of the military yamen at all levels of the green battalion, if you have different opinions, you can leave a message in the comment area, and Yu Shiding will reply in time.