"Auma?" After hearing Jiang Yu's answer, Li Chong's eyes widened with curiosity: "Why is he here?" ”

The current Auma is obviously not what it used to be, it is the main force of the entire Mang Castle, and it is also the troops that Jiang Yu brought to participate in the defense of Mengyang City: the Second Regiment of Mengyang City, which is composed of the first and second battalions with the most well-equipped and the highest level of tactical training.

Li Xian, the commander of the second regiment of Mengyangcheng, was the only low-level officer on Manggu Mountain who survived after previous battles except him when Jiang Yugang crossed over to the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Li Xian also continued to gain a higher status in the Mang Gubao troops, and the official military rank was raised to the general banner, and in fact, the scale of the troops he was in charge of was no longer the level of low-level officers such as the original general banner and small banner, but to the scale of more than 100 people, or even hundreds of people.

Although Li Xian, as a person who had the status of an officer at the beginning, objectively speaking, from everyone's convincing power and the method of ranking seniority, he was indeed a person with a high priority in the promotion status of the Mang Castle army, but Jiang Yugang did not completely regard Li Xian as the person who could share the most power among the officers of the Ming Army of the Mang Castle except himself.

On the one hand, Li Xian is not his acquaintance, or the acquaintance of Jiang Yugang before the crossing, although it can be regarded as a hand-picked up, but the status of the two at the beginning was equal, in the current Mang Castle, although the difference between the two people's nominal military positions is not particularly large, one is a hundred households, and the other is the general banner, but the status can be said to be very different.

Mang Castle is one of the largest camps outside Mengyang City, the degree of activity and prosperity is even no less than Mengyang City, this camp, in fact, can be regarded as a small town, and in Luchuan this kind of place, this size of the town has been regarded as the fourth rate, and Mengyang City, once may be the second rate, and now because of years of war, has been reduced to the third rate, the larger should be similar to Jiangtou City such a town, relying on the nearby large-scale walled city and favorable terrain and geography, although often accompanied by war, However, there are still large scales, and such towns are considered second-rate, and first-class towns are the capitals of some great powers, such as the royal city of the Ava Kingdom.

In addition to thousands of soldiers, there are also subordinates engaged in farming, hunting, production, craft, management and other aspects, plus those who are directly or indirectly managed by him, thousands of people have fallen under his management and control.

Li Xian is just a person who has a certain amount of power and status relatively among the thousands of people in Mang Castle.

Jiang Yugang treated Li Xian, so he had some other considerations, even if Li Xian did not show his disapproval of Jiang Yugang's rights and status at all, Jiang Yugang himself was still ready to disapprove of Li Xian's existence in these aspects.

And after this kind of preparation, Jiang Yugang naturally did not blindly trust and appoint Li Xian, the most critical position of the envoy of the Shenjia Academy, the envoy of the Secret Academy, and even the candidates of the envoy of the Cardinal Academy, all chose to be firmly controlled in the hands of those he trusted.

On the other hand, what kind of positions and powers Li Xian can assume, and what responsibilities should he bear, must be realistically related to his personal ability. In fact, Jiang Yugang is not worried about Li Xian's personal military quality, and it can even be said that Jiang Yugang has a lot of trust in the military quality of dozens of soldiers who have been fighting in Manggushan at the beginning and can hold on to the difficult front garrison environment.

They themselves may be the most experienced group of soldiers in this era, and the army they belong to may also be the greatest army in this time and space, and the dozens of defenders of the Manggu Mountain defense line did not have a fighting spirit to collapse under extremely bad circumstances, but still chose to hold on, and successfully survived in a difficult and cruel environment, this is the best embodiment of ability, more reliable than all assessments.

But to become a commander of the army, you need not only personal tactical literacy, but also sufficient leadership ability and overall situation, Jiang Yuyan was not sure that Li Xian had these at the beginning, or that among all the possible officer candidates, Li Xian was the most suitable one.

However, in the follow-up training and actual combat, Li Xian did show excellent management and organization skills, from the personal ability training at the training end, to the organization and tactical training, and then to the command ability in actual combat, Li Xian was worthy of his ability to stand out from the ordinary soldiers and be selected as a small banner at the beginning, and the development of the Mang Gubao army in the past few months, step by step, the scale of the process of expanding step by step, has sharpened his ability.

So much so that now Jiang Yugang, if it is in some already defined environment, or in the case of restricting some tactical requirements that he and Li Xian are familiar with, let him compare with Li Xian, he himself is not confident that he can defeat Li Xian, which can also prove from one aspect that Li Xian does have sufficient command ability and command level in the face of the Luchuan army.

If Li Xian does not have the actual ability, but simply has a certain personal prestige and qualifications, Jiang Yugang can indeed influence Li Xian's position by appointing his trusted henchmen, after all, the seniority or favor is still an uncertain thing in the final analysis, and Jiang Yugang has the final say to decide.

However, in the process of the actual development and growth of the Mang Gubao army in the past few months, Li Xian has really shown that he is qualified, and even outstanding enough, in this case, if Jiang Yugang still blindly puts the key positions on the person he trusts the most and listens to his orders, it will be a little unwise.

Doing so, on the one hand, will chill people like Li Xian, whose identity and ability are close to perfection, and then affect more people's views of Jiang Yugang, not only will it not play a role in strengthening control, but it will also make people's hearts scattered, which is actually a workshop that outweighs the losses; On the other hand, it will also be a real waste of talents, which will affect the development of the strength of the Mang Gubao army.

His Mang Castle, after all, is located in the vicinity of Mengyang City, which is a place of four wars, which cannot be comforted, and must be tempered by the fire of war to obtain true recognition and the ability to exist, and many of his subordinates do not have enough experience, most of them are from the people in charge of logistics or ordinary people in Luchuan who joined the army.

Although it is said that those who join the army still have the basic conditions to pass the test, their bodies are healthy, they have enough energy to participate in training and combat in terms of age and development, and they can also meet the requirements of combat in terms of strength and technical learning, but after all, they still have too many newcomers and combat experience, and many of them have only participated in small-scale armed fights and the experience of encircling and suppressing bandits, and they are unfamiliar with large-scale wars.

If you want to give full play to the strength of such an army, you need Jiang Yugang to find enough excellent talents, even geniuses, to command and guide, and Li Xian is such a talent who meets Jiang Yugang's requirements to a certain extent.

So in the end, Jiang Yugang still chose to let Li Xianlai lead this most critical force, the second regiment of Meng Yangcheng, said to be the second regiment, in fact, it is just for the convenience of memory, numbering according to the time of establishment, and the actual tactical strength is better than that of the first regiment.

In fact, the composition of the second regiment, the first battalion and the second battalion are the original establishment of the first regiment, and the reason why it was reorganized into the second regiment is because in order to cooperate with the tactical design of Mengyangcheng, the army of Mang Gubao was divided into two parts for command, and the army that went to Mengyangcheng was tactically tilted, so all the bird guns were equipped with the first battalion and the second battalion to Mengyangcheng.

But just like twin brothers, the second regiment of Mengyangcheng and the first regiment of Manggu Castle actually only exist in the time difference between the regimental level, if you really want to talk about the actual soldier training, the time when the organization was built, the second regiment of Mengyangcheng is earlier than the first regiment of Mang Castle, and it is a better soldier.

In fact, the same is true of the internal organization, the second regiment of Mengyangcheng is composed of the original first and second battalions, while the first regiment of Manggubao is composed of the third and fourth battalions. The second regiment of Mengyangcheng is actually the real elite main force of the Mang Gubao troops.

And leading this second regiment also placed Jiang Yugang's trust and expectations on Li Xian. However, in addition to the regiment commander, there are some other personnel to contain power and make comprehensive tactical judgments, and the most critical person in this is naturally the regimental superintendent who plays the role of deputy, and Auma is the regimental superintendent of the second regiment of Mengyangcheng.

On the one hand, Auma has a deep personal relationship with Jiang Yu, and has always regarded Jiang Yugang as his benefactor, from the darkness of Nansang Village, which was occupied by the Luchuan army, to the reappearance of all the vigor and vigor of Mang Castle, Auma has the same for Jiang Yugang as many young people who have been selected, trained, promoted and treated preferentially by Jiang Yugang.

And his daughter Xi'er was also sent by Jiang Yugang to Ah Tian to study and cultivate, along with several other children who were trained, these children are Jiang Yugang's hopes and expectations for the future of his own power, they have received cultural knowledge learning since childhood, and what they have learned are some advanced concepts brought by Jiang Yugang from modern times. Of course, there are some sand mixed by Jiang Yugang in order to maintain his position, but on the whole it is still much more advanced than the ideas of the era of the fifteenth century.

These ideas are a bit difficult to describe in detail, but they can be understood if you use some metaphors or examples. Jiang Yuyan's own definition of this concept is steampunk. Even if he knew what would happen later, he didn't plan to reproduce the electrical or even information age in this era, of course, there will be some technology such as internal combustion engines or radio technology introduction, but in general, it is still necessary to control the progress of this era from the concept level to the actual material level, and then to the application level, because if that happens, it will certainly bring some convenience, but at the same time, it will also provide a lot of trouble for Jiang Yugang to control people's hearts.

The leakage or popularity of advanced technology and ideas will make Jiang Yugang lose his biggest advantage, what he has to do is to let the utilitarian development of technology, let the technology tree be crooked, and there will be a steampunk-style space that can be used for himself.