Chapter 192: Reorganization of the Forward Battalion
"Helper, I don't know what you have to tell your subordinates?" Sun Liu was brought into the infantry battalion by the big tiger, since he followed Xiao Yao back to Shouyang from Xuyi, he has been staying in Shouyang, taking the brothers of the beggar gang to develop his power here, after all, he was born in troubled times, and he fought for many years, and the most important thing is the displaced beggars!
"Sixth, what is the situation in the city now, because of Wang Lin's death, what do the people think of Chen Jun?" Xiao Yao asked.
"Now the city is wailing, every household is burning paper to commemorate Wang Lin, inside and outside the city, whether it is a local, or a rural homeless person who has just wandered in Shouyang, hearing what happened to Wang Lin, everyone is in tears! However, they didn't see any complaints about Chen Jun, they were just purely sad about Wang Lin's death. Sun Liudao.
"It seems that Wu Mingche is right, Shouyang City has just been breached, and the people in the city have a deep fear of Chen Jun, killing a defeated general at this time, even if he is a Jianghuai celebrity and highly respected, but who dares to complain!" Xiao Yao sighed.
"In fact, Wang Lin's death, I also feel a pity, when I was a beggar in Jinling, I heard his deeds, he was righteous and thin, and he stuck a knife in his brother's ribs, and many people in the rivers and lakes admired him! I didn't expect to be killed so suddenly. Sun Liu also sighed.
"People in the rivers and lakes talk about righteousness, and Wang Lin is a well-known loyal person, of course he is very respected! Sixth, you rush to Xuzhou immediately, hand over this letter to Wang Yi, the leader of the Fuliang gang, and follow him, I have his trust! I'm sorry! Then return to Jinling and tell Jiang Shun that the Beggar Gang has been established in your hands for a year, and it is time to develop to the north! Let him establish the rudder of the beggar gang in Xuzhou, develop the gang forces in the north, and collect intelligence for us to attack Xuzhou when the time comes! Xiao Yao commanded.
"Yes, helper!" Sun Liu replied excitedly.
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After Sun Liu left, Xiao Yao immediately convened a meeting of the generals of the forward battalion, and now he has taken over the forward battalion instead of Cheng Wenji, and then reorganized the forward battalion with the cadres of the infantry battalion as the structure, and also changed the forward battalion into the forward brigade according to modern habits!
Because Xiao Shilian, the cavalry captain of the forward battalion, was also promoted to general, and he was Xiao Yao's elder brother, he did not let him continue to be his younger brother's subordinate in the forward battalion, but transferred him back to Xiao Moke's cavalry battalion, saving everyone embarrassment!
And the biggest beneficiary of this order is Huang Wenyuan, because his father Huang Faqu led the Fourth Route Army to capture Liyang, Hefei and other places in this Northern Expedition War, and his military exploits are also leveraged, so he was named the general of the Eastern Expedition by Chen Xu, and the history of Hezhou Assassination! So, as his son, Huang Wenyuan, who was the first to rush into the inner city of Shouyang in the battle of attacking Shouyang, and had an outstanding performance, was also awarded the title of cavalry captain!
In addition, he turned out to be the captain of the cavalry team of the infantry battalion, so Xiao Yao stuffed all the original cavalry of the forward battalion under the banner of Huang Wenyuan, and made his cavalry team increase from 300 to 1,000 at once! Moreover, the rout of Pi Jinghe's army also left a lot of trophies for the Chen army, and Xiao Yao got more than 2,000 good horses, so he expanded Huang Wenyuan's cavalry by 1,000, and now his cavalry team has reached 2,000 people, becoming a cavalry battalion under the forward brigade, and it is the most elite offensive weapon under Xiao Yao!
He Fu's musket team also expanded to 1,000 people and became a musket battalion, because according to Xiao Yao's requirements, during this time, Zhou Chao created for Xiao Yao in Jiangzhou not a Mini rifle with complex technology, but a smoothbore gun with relatively simple technology, because there was a time-consuming and laborious rifling process, which greatly increased the production of muskets!
And Li Nong's artillery team, because of the limitation of shooting technology requirements, is not expanded if you want to, the number of all artillery, there is no change, Xiao Yao can only upgrade their equipment, plus now Xiao Yao has a large number of horses in his hands, so the original artillery that can only be dragged by donkeys or even manpower is changed to use horses to drag, in order to make these artillery pieces become mobile and flexible, and can move at any time and adjust tactics according to changes on the battlefield!
Then Xiao Yao selected a thousand infantry from the original forward battalion and joined the artillery team, but they could only be responsible for protecting and transporting ammunition and materials, and the increase in numbers also turned the artillery team into an artillery battalion!
In Xiao Yao's adaptation of the forward battalion this time, compared with Huang Wenyuan's steady progress and spring breeze, Zhang Dabao is very lost and bumpy, he is also a second-generation official, not only did he not get promoted like Huang Wenyuan, but also encountered a disguised demotion! Although he is still an infantry captain and the deputy company commander of the second company, because the artillery team has become an artillery battalion and the company commander Li Nong has become a battalion commander, Zhang Dabao's deputy company commander has an additional deputy battalion commander and a full company commander in front of him, which is equivalent to a two-level reduction!
After a few times, the reorganization of the forward battalion was finally completed, but the work went unexpectedly smoothly, because now all the soldiers in the Northern Expedition army hope to be soldiers under Xiao Yao, so the veterans of the forward battalion before have no opinion on Xiao Yao's adaptation, and they are very cooperative, even if there is a gap in the position, but because they have officially become the soldiers under Xiao Yao, they also feel very honored!
"Colleagues, the reorganization of these pairs of forward brigades is going very smoothly, and everyone is very cooperative with my work, and I would like to thank you all in advance!" Xiao Yao said with a smile.
"Thank you, Commander, for the compliment! This is what subordinates should do! Everyone responded in unison, for the new titles of 'commander', 'battalion commander', 'company commander' and so on formulated by Xiao Yao, in addition to the old men of the infantry battalion, there are also those new newcomers who are also very slippery, it seems that they have been specially trained in private, which shows that they are very willing to be soldiers under Xiao Yao.
"Very good, because the weapons used by my troops are mainly firearms, so I adapted the forward battalion with the structure of the infantry battalion, which made some of the original forward battalion generals have some changes in their positions, and some are even equivalent to demotion, but everyone has no objection to this, which makes me feel very gratified, but I can promise you, although your current position is lower than before, but it won't be long before you will be promoted because of your military achievements! Cavalry battalion commander Huang Wenyuan is a living example! Xiao Yao pointed at Huang Wenyuan and smiled.
"It's all thanks to the commander's trust and cultivation that Wen Yuan can be promoted to his current position, Wen Yuan thank you Commander!" Huang Wenyuan immediately got up and saluted Xiao Yao and thanked him.
He was sincerely thanking Xiao Yao, if he hadn't been transferred to Xiao Yao's infantry battalion at that time, and had stayed in his father's Western Route Army as before, although he could have been promoted by virtue of his father's relationship, but this kind of promotion achieved by relying on his relationship could not give him the sense of achievement and satisfaction he has now, because his current promotion was achieved through real combat exploits, which also made Huang Wenyuan, who had very strong self-esteem, feel very satisfied!
Other people have no objection to the promotion of Huang Wenyuan, the second generation of officials, and those who were incorporated into the cavalry battalion, and the cavalry generals of the original forward battalion under the second generation of officials have no complaints, after all, people have to have a background, and they want to have military merits, and the first person to attack the inner city of Shouyang was Huang Wenyuan! If you really want to complain, you can only complain that your luck is not as good as his, and you can't be a soldier under Xiao Yao early!
"There is also Zhang Dabao, this adjustment, because you did not participate in the Shouyang War in Xuyi, so your position has not changed, but I hope you will not be discouraged, don't complain, sum up experience and lessons, and give full play to your strength next time!" Xiao Yao comforted.
"Thank you for the commander's encouragement and trust, Dabao will definitely learn the lesson of this time, and next time he will definitely fight bravely and make meritorious achievements, and he will not disappoint the commander's expectations of me!" Zhang Dabao also said firmly, but in his heart he had already killed Xiao Yao tens of thousands of times, on the surface you were comforting me, but at this time, pulling me out as a negative teaching material is clearly humiliating me!
"Excellent! My troops rely on strength, if you have strength, you can go up, if you don't have strength, you can go down, don't stand in the way of others! So no matter what relationship you have behind you, what background you have, if you want to be reused by me, then show me your strength, resolutely carry out my orders, and listen to my command, then you will be invincible on the battlefield, invincible and invincible! Xiao Yao said loudly.
"Yes, Commander! The subordinates will definitely obey the commander's orders and resolutely carry them out! The crowd responded in unison.