"The deputy commander of the Xuzhou army? This position is too high! Lu Guangda was indeed taken aback by this position.

"I, Lu Guangda, have only been transferred to General Xiao for more than half a year, and I have not made too much credit to General Xiao, the reason why I was able to lead my troops to capture the empty city of Xuzhou at that time was also because General Xiao transferred the main force of Gao Changgong away from the mountain, and I picked up this big bargain! Now if General Xiao appoints Lu as the deputy commander of the army, I am afraid that it will cause dissatisfaction among other generals! Lu Guangda said worriedly.

"How dare they be dissatisfied? Li Nong and He Fu are my private soldiers, until now, they are not our official generals of Da Chen, and Huang Wenyuan is only a second generation of officials, General Lu, you are our old general with rich Chen Guoqu qualifications, you are the same generation as his father Huang Faqu, Huang Wenyuan in front of you but I want to respectfully call you Uncle Lu, now you have become the deputy commander of the entire Xuzhou army, that is right, deserved! Xiao Yao said with a smile.

"Then what is this deputy commander responsible for?" Lu Guangda was praised by Xiao Yao for a few words, and suddenly became confident!

"Deputy Commander, of course it's like me, strategizing and winning thousands of miles away! As for the specific work, it is responsible for assisting me to manage the three battalions of the forward brigade, do a good job in their ideological work, do a good job in logistics, and coordinate the needs of all parties, so that they can fight for us without worries! Xiao Yao shook his head and said.

"Isn't this the job of the military department? Isn't it all the work of those who are in the rear to formulate strategies and prepare military supplies? The old man thought that he could continue to lead the soldiers, and then go into battle to charge into battle and kill the enemy bravely! Lu Guangda said with a disappointed face.

With such a disappointed expression, does General Lu feel that the work of making strategies and managing armaments in the rear is boring? I know that General Lu is middle-aged, and he is domineering and mighty, so he likes to be on the battlefield and enjoy the thrill of those thrills and crises! But that's what I hate the most! Xiao Yao shook his head and said solemnly.

"What I hate the most is those tactics of killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred, I only like to kill chickens with a knife, use absolute strength to defeat the enemy, and determine the absolute victory, and even I hope that my soldiers can completely defeat the enemy without casualties! That's why I invented muskets and artillery that can kill people in the air and attack enemies from a distance, so that I can defeat them when they can't see us! This is the principle of my leading troops in battle, and it is also the reason why the Forward Brigade exists! Xiao Yao said seriously.

"Therefore, the kind of combat in General Lu's heart that can lead tens of thousands of soldiers, rush up when they encounter the enemy, meet each other, and start a white-edged battle between the two sides is difficult to appear in the forward brigade! If General Lu is not willing to assist me in managing Xuzhou here, then I can also explain the situation to Your Majesty and transfer General Lu back to the side of Wu Dudu, but the more than 20,000 soldiers in General Lu's hands, some have been incorporated into the forward brigade, and some have also become Xuzhou's production troops, so if General Lu wants to leave, he can only take your personal guard and leave Xuzhou! Xiao Yao said expressionlessly.

"This..." Hearing that Xiao Yao refused to return the more than 20,000 soldiers in his hands to himself, Lu Guangda was a little discouraged, because as a general, how could he have no soldiers in his hands?

At the beginning, he was appointed by His Majesty as the vanguard army to attack Huaibei, and then led more than 30,000 soldiers to attack Xuzhou, when he first set out to fight, looking at the mighty team behind him, he was so high-spirited, but he never thought that in Xuzhou he was met with fierce resistance from Gao Changgong, resulting in the end he only led more than 10,000 people to flee back to Renzhou, and left more than 10,000 Chen soldiers outside Xuzhou City!

And the morale was low at that time, and he had to wait until Xiao Yao led the forward brigade to come to the rescue before he dared to go out of Renzhou, and then he could cooperate with Xiao Yao's forward brigade to break through Xuzhou, which could be regarded as saving a little face! But now, if he finally returns to Wu Mingche as a bare-bones commander, he won't be laughed to death by other colleagues!

"Alas! It seems that the old man is really old! The old man has seen how powerful General Xiao's forward brigade is on the battlefield, those powerful muskets and artillery, all kinds of dozens of zhang can kill the enemy, and can also produce violent explosions, so that even if the enemy hides in his own camp, there is nothing to hide, and in a few hours, he can defeat the tens of thousands of Qi troops who defeated the old man in one fell swoop, which is indeed breathtaking and shocking! Therefore, the old man also knew that he really did not have the ability, courage and face to lead this invincible army! So as General Xiao said, stay in Xuzhou as the deputy commander of a large army, although he can no longer personally lead the soldiers into battle to kill the enemy, but he can use the old man's qualifications and title to coordinate various issues for General Xiao's forward brigade, after all, the old man still has some connections in the imperial court! Lu Guangda said self-deprecatingly.

"General Lu doesn't have to be so disappointed, make the best use of everything, and perform his own duties is my Xiao Yao's principle of employing people, the reason why I let General Lu be the deputy commander of the army is, of course, that you are the most suitable for this position! And you and I are both generals of Da Chen, you don't have to go into battle to kill the enemy to be loyal to the country, serve the country, stay in the rear, manage the government affairs of Xuzhou, let the people live a good life, manage the army well, so that the soldiers can kill the enemy bravely, this is also a great merit of loyalty and patriotism! Xiao Yao immediately served a large bowl of chicken soup and comforted Lu Guangda.

"Thank you General Xiao for your persuasion, Lu is willing to be the deputy commander of the Xuzhou army and assist the Xiao family in logistics work!" Lu Guangda was no longer entangled, and said with the order.

After leveling Lu Guangda, a veteran with military qualifications higher than himself and even higher than Xiao Moke, the Xiao family immediately carried out the second thing he did in charge of Xuzhou, which was to reform the forward brigade!

Because of the new addition of more than 10,000 people, Xiao Yao directly named the Forward Brigade as the Xuzhou Army, and then reorganized the three battalions in the Forward Brigade!

Because of the increase in the number of soldiers, the original three battalions can no longer be divided into three independent arms of musketeers, artillery and cavalry, but correspondingly join other arms, and then directly upgrade the three battalions to three brigades, each with 5,000 people, with musket battalions, artillery battalions and cavalry battalions under their command!

For example, the company commanders of the three musket companies in the musket battalion should be transferred to the artillery battalion and the cavalry battalion, and then let them train a new musket battalion in the artillery battalion and cavalry.

The officers and men of the original artillery battalion and cavalry battalion will also be transferred to the other two battalions, and then those new soldiers will be trained to become qualified soldiers of the firearms unit!