Chapter 486: Chapter 227: Soaring Like a Rocket! Evolve Again! (Vote for Monthly Ticket)
Hearing this, Xu Zhou quickly checked his own military merits.
He opened the wristband projection and entered the second-level page.
[Xu Zhou
Military rank: First-Class Private
War Merit: 51,300]
“Did it suddenly increase by more than 50,000 war merits?” Xu Zhou was a bit surprised.
Zhong Qiang laughed and said, “In these two battles, we completely annihilated over 4,000 enemy troops, with total war merits of about 500,000. As the commander, you can receive one-tenth of the war merits.”
Xu Zhou asked, “How much did Brother Zhong receive?”
Zhong Qiang said, “I’m equivalent to the deputy commander, so my war merits are half of the commander’s, which is more than 20,000.”
“I see.” Xu Zhou nodded slightly.
Looking at it this way, the commander can indeed get a lot of war merits, taking away one-tenth alone.
Subtracting several deputy commanders’ war merits, the 4,000 martial artists in the 23rd brigade can only share about a hundred war merits per person on average.
This is still in the case of a complete victory, otherwise, they wouldn’t get this much.
“No wonder the principal wanted me to become a commander as soon as possible.” Xu Zhou couldn’t help but sigh, “If I were just an ordinary private, I wouldn’t get any war merits at all.”
Zhong Qiang seemed to know what he was thinking and explained, “After a battle, the widespread warriors indeed don’t get many war merits, but as long as the battle is won, the military department will award them ‘Victory War Merits’.
“For battles of that scale before, every one of them could get around a thousand victory war merits.”
Xu Zhou suddenly realized, that makes it very reasonable.
Otherwise, the 4,000 warriors of the 23rd brigade fought so hard but could only get a hundred war merits afterward, which would be too little.
Zhong Qiang laughed and said, “Let’s not talk about this first, Brother Xu, you can now apply to the military department through your wristband to promote your rank.”
“Oh?” Xu Zhou asked curiously, “I wonder to which level my 50,000 war merits can advance me?”
Zhong Qiang smiled and said, “I won’t say, Brother Xu can look forward to it.”
Upon hearing this, Xu Zhou also became interested.
He immediately opened the wristband page and applied to the military department.
The efficiency of the military department was extremely fast. After waiting for a few minutes, Xu Zhou saw his military rank starting to change.
Private → Second Lieutenant → First Lieutenant…
Finally, the military rank insignia changed to two stripes and three stars before it stopped changing.
“Colonel?!”
Xu Zhou showed a look of surprise, “Promoted so quickly?”
He was really a bit shocked, advancing from Private to Colonel, which spanned six levels!
In other words, after this battle, he had jumped up six levels!
Zhong Qiang laughed and said, “How is it, isn’t it surprising?”
“It is a bit surprising.” Xu Zhou calmed his nerves and shook his head with a smile, “I originally thought, at most, I’d be promoted to Captain, but unexpectedly, it went straight to Colonel!”
What is the concept of a Colonel officer?
A Lieutenant officer can command a battle formation of more than a thousand people.
A Lieutenant Colonel officer is equivalent to a Brigade Commander and can control an army group of more than three thousand people.
And a Colonel officer is equivalent to a Deputy Division Commander, controlling an army group of five to ten thousand people, being a military commander!
Further up it is a General, that’s a Division Commander and Army Commander, or even a Commander-in-Chief, capable of directing the course of war.
Zhong Qiang laughed and said, “Brother Xu commanded over 4,000 people in the 23rd brigade, defeating the Earth Star 31st Army Group, which already counts as having Colonel-level capability, so this promotion is well-deserved.”
This statement elevated Xu Zhou’s status, after all, the 23rd brigade is just a brigade-level combat unit, with the commander level as Lieutenant Colonel.
Like Zhong Qiang himself, he is originally a Lieutenant Colonel officer.
This time Xu Zhou’s promotion immediately surpassed him.
Zhong Qiang jokingly said, “Brother Xu, from now on when I see you, I should address you as senior.”
“Brother Zhong, don’t tease me,” Xu Zhou laughed and said, “I was able to be promoted so quickly this time, thanks to Brother Zhong.”
“Where, where, it’s all your own ability,” Zhong Qiang said, though he was modestly talking, but he felt very gratified in his heart, Xu Zhou’s attitude made him feel he didn’t invest in the wrong person.
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Next, Xu Zhou took a look at the subsequent promotion routes.
Soon, he was secretly startled.
Promotion to Second Lieutenant requires one thousand war merits, First Lieutenant two thousand, Captain five thousand.
Lieutenant ten thousand, Lieutenant Colonel twenty thousand, Colonel fifty thousand.
This was still normal up to here, but going further up, the required war merits become more and more exaggerated.
Promotion to Lieutenant General requires a hundred thousand, Major General a million, and General ten million!
“Lieutenant General is still okay, but Major General and above skyrocket absurdly high.” Xu Zhou was somewhat surprised.
Beside him, Zhong Qiang explained, “At the level of General, it involves the direction of the overall war, and only large-scale army battles require them to take the field personally. Usually, high-grade individuals take up these positions, hence ordinary people find it very difficult to reach this level.”
“Precisely so,” Xu Zhou nodded slightly.
Generals were still too far away from him, the current Colonel level was already a great surprise to him.
“Right, these war merits, besides promotion, do they have other uses?” Xu Zhou asked.
Zhong Qiang said, “Of course, they are useful. War merits can be used to purchase some rare resources, such as some Treasure Medicine for promotion to Seventh Grade, only the military department can exchange them, they’re extremely precious.”
“You, Brother Xu, are now at Fifth Grade, the military department also has resources to aid Fifth Grade cultivation, which can help you get through this stage faster.”
Xu Zhou nodded, “I got it.”
These war merits can be used as backup resources.
However, he currently wasn’t short on resources for Fifth Grade cultivation.
After all, last time he freeloaded resources worth billions from the Liu Family, and he still had twenty pills of “Five Internal Organs Divine Embryo Mixed Yuan Pill” at the Fifth Grade Realm that haven’t been consumed.
These days he had been consolidating his realm, after these intense days of battle, he felt he had almost consolidated enough.