Fang Dongquan's worries were really not unreasonable, because Li Xuan had really considered letting those half-grown officers serve as battalion officers directly.

But after careful consideration, he gave up on the idea!

This is not to say that those officers from the Guards who are half the size do not have this ability, no matter how bad they are, but after a year of study, they can more or less recognize some words, and they have been taught by Li Xuan himself.

What is Li Xuan's teaching, it is basically taught according to the modern shooting in his memory.

Therefore, they may not be really qualified officers, but they are definitely much stronger than Fang Dongquan and other bandit leaders.

Even Wang Danxu can't compare to those teenage young officers in terms of professionalism.

But many times, it doesn't mean that you can reach a high position if you have the ability, even if Li Xuan wants them to ascend to a high position.

It is also necessary to take into account the prestige and influence of the officers themselves, as well as the internal unity of the Tang Dynasty.

Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren and Chen Butcher, even if they are just a bandit leader, but that is also the founding hero, when Li Xuan fled to the mountains last year, but Fang Dongquan and a few of them supported Li Xuan's ascension to the throne and became the emperor, and later Huang Xueren and Cai Erhu Although they surrendered, they did not surrender alone at that time, but surrendered with hundreds of people.

They themselves have a relatively large influence within the Tang Dynasty.

So even if Li Xuan was reluctant in his heart, he would leave Fang Dongquan and them aside at this critical period.

This is too cold for the hearts of the heroes!

Now the Tang Dynasty has only a few thousand people, and the army is not even a thousand, so they have begun to play the drama of suppressing heroes, and others have to worry that they will also fall into this kind of fate.

Therefore, in the position of battalion officer, Li Xuan still does not plan to bring up those young officers, but plans to continue to use veterans.

In addition, there is another important reason why he has delayed appointing the battalion officers, that is, he did not intend to throw out all three battalion officers, and he was prepared to personally command the first infantry battalion, which was the main force.

As an emperor, and an emperor who started a rebellion, it is not good to have some direct troops in his hands, but it is okay for him to be the commander of the whole army as an emperor himself, but if he still wants to personally serve as the battalion officer of an infantry battalion, then it is a bit excessive.

That's why Li Xuan will delay for a while and find a way to solve this matter.

However, this matter did not drag on for too long, after arriving in Liushazhuang for six days, after recruiting more than 400 recruits, and the second infantry battalion and the third infantry battalion were officially established one after another, Li Xuan finally began to appoint the commanders of each unit.

The battalion officer of the 1st Infantry Battalion surprised many people, it was not Wang Danxu, who hoped the most, nor Fang Dongquan, who was the old qualification, but Huang Xueren.

Although Huang Xueren is also considered an old qualification, people also think that he will serve as the battalion officer of one of the battalions, but they did not expect him to serve as the battalion officer of the first battalion, after all, there are three infantry battalions in the current Datang New Army, only the first infantry battalion has officially become an army, and the soldiers of the second infantry battalion are still more than 100 people, and there are only less than 300 people at present, and most of them are recruits, as for the third infantry battalion, there are even fewer people, and there are less than 100 people at present, and they are also recruits.

In this way, it can be seen that among the three infantry battalions, in fact, the second infantry battalion and the third infantry battalion are in vain, and the first infantry battalion has combat effectiveness, and it is also the absolute main force in the current Datang New Army.

For such an infantry battalion, the battalion officers are naturally extremely important.

Li Xuan's choice to let Huang Xueren serve as the battalion officer of the first infantry battalion naturally has his own reasons, on the one hand, Huang Xueren's prestige and qualifications are in the first echelon, and he has this qualification to serve as a battalion officer. Second, he is weaker than Fang Dongquan and Wang Danxu, and the weakness of the battalion officer can allow Li Xuan to better directly command the first infantry battalion.

The battalion officer of the second infantry battalion is Fang Dongquan, and the battalion officer of the third infantry battalion is Wang Danxu.

In addition to these three infantry battalions, there are also various directly subordinate units under the Privy Council, such as the baggage battalion, although this baggage brigade is an auxiliary force, but the scale is not small at all, with three teams under its jurisdiction, with a total strength of 300 people, mainly the old bandits of the original Huangzhushan and the prisoners of the Ming army who returned to Shun.

The importance of the baggage battalion is no worse than that of the infantry battalion, and the food and ammunition needed by the whole army have to rely on the baggage battalion.

Although Bai Yunqi is not good at fighting, he still has a very good set of persuasion to take prisoners, and many of the soldiers in the baggage camp are soldiers who were captured by the Ming army, and at the same time, Bai Yunqi has also managed baggage affairs many times, and now he is officially appointed as the battalion officer of the baggage battalion, which can be regarded as a more suitable arrangement for him.

The heavy armor sword and shield team, its officer is still Chen Butcher, but although the officer is still the team officer, the scale of the sword and shield team has expanded from more than 30 people to more than 80 people, and it is not far from the full establishment of 100 people.

And Cai Erhu, the second fierce general in the Tang Dynasty who dared to rush and kill, was assigned to Chen Tiantian as his deputy and served as the deputy officer of the sword and shield soldiers.

The officer of the cavalry team is still Cao Mingda, although this person made a mistake some time ago, which made Li Xuan a little dissatisfied with him, but this person was also dedicated later, and to be honest, now Li Xuan can't find a second cavalry officer who can replace him, so although he doesn't like it very much, he has to continue to use it.

The size of the cavalry team has also expanded from the previous dozen or so people to more than 30 people, during this time, the new army of the Tang Dynasty collected a batch of horses from the Ming army, and collected a batch of horses from the countryside, the number is not much, and there are even fewer of them that can be ridden, except for a few horses as mounts of senior officers, the rest are given to the cavalry.

Then there is the archer team, the original more than 30 people plus the recently added more than 20 people, barely managed to get together almost 60 people, far from the full establishment of a team, but there is no way, archers are really scarce troops, not so easy to find, among the ordinary recruits, there are not a few ready-made archers at all, can only be found from the Ming army prisoners.

The officer of its archer team is a general of the Ming army, named Ouyang Shi, who surrendered with Zeng Ziwen when he was in the Tiger Valley, and was originally a hundred households in the Ming army, after returning to the Tang Dynasty, because of his good archery skills, he was naturally assigned to the archers.

Such a former Ming descendant can be raised to be a team officer, and there is naturally an inside story behind this!