It was already the second half of the night after finishing the work, and there was no clear idea about the formation of the army, as well as the number of soldiers taken away and left, rubbing his dizzy head, Lin Xiao stood up and prepared to go out to check the sentry.

In the second half of the night in late autumn, the moon had already gone down, the sun had not yet risen, and only a dark blue sky remained, and everything was asleep except for the things that traveled at night. The high, blue sky was sparsely dotted with jewel-like stars, the horizon was constantly flashing with ghostly fire, and the air was filled with the smell of earth, fog, and the freshness of freshly ripened rice.

Lin Xiao stopped, greedily took a few deep breaths of fresh air, looked up at the starry sky, and thought about various questions.

Those veterans of the old port battalion, he is ready to break up and integrate into the new army as the backbone, so that he can quickly improve the fighting will and team quality of the troops, but the old port battalion does not exist, what title should the new army change? What is the best structure for the new army?

It is enough to bring back the new army to the country, there are about 3,000 people, and the rest must be left to protect the base area, supervise the collection and transportation of subsequent food and salary, and pacify the Southern Dynasty, so who is more appropriate to leave to lead the team?

The sky was slightly bright, the east was white, Lin Xiao hadn't finished checking the post, and he had a sleepless night......

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The next day, the tense recruit assessment was carried out vigorously.

It was normal, but as the remaining assessment items became fewer and fewer, those recruits who had been deducted two points suddenly collapsed with their tense heartstrings, and some people cried bitterly on the spot, and finally drove all the eliminated people to cry earth-shatteringly, crying so much that even those instructors stared at red eyes and looked embarrassed.

The final result was beyond Lin Xiao's expectations, less than 1,200 of the more than 6,000 recruits were eliminated and could only go back to serve as militiamen, and finally 4,818 recruits officially became members of the rebel army.

There was also something that surprised Lin Xiao, that is, Situ Zheng surpassed his senior brother He Shouxin, ranked first in the comprehensive score, and won the first place in the three individual events of the 3,000-meter run, horizontal bar and snake run; Live firing was tied for first place in single shot and point fire.

"This kid, that's good!" Lin Xiao looked at the report card and said excitedly.

That night, Lin Xiao organized a dinner party to welcome the recruits and send off the militia, and made an exception to allow a small amount of alcohol.

During the banquet, Lin Xiao specially came to He Shouxin's group of people, praised Situ Zheng, and learned that all of them passed, and no one was left behind, so he was very happy to clink glasses with everyone to celebrate.

The next morning, the unsuccessful recruits reluctantly left the camp and returned to Haiphong to serve as a militiaman, only to be another vigorous farewell and bitter cry.

For three whole months, the comrades-in-arms who eat, drink, and fight together, and the brothers who share their successes and failures, joys, sorrows, and sorrows...... This time, all the instructors, including the special combat troops, cried tears.

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At present, the total number of soldiers in Lin Xiao's hands is 4,818 recruits, 392 veterans of the old port battalion, a total of 5,210, and 200 naval sailors, 10 special combat personnel, 1 intelligence officer, 20 seafarers and interns, and 4 experts. Including himself, there are a total of 5,445 allocable personnel, which can be regarded as an overnight rich.

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Immediately afterwards, Lin Xiao invited Li Tao, Chen Yiming, and Gong Zhenhao to discuss the return to China.

According to Lin Xiao's opinion, it was unanimously decided to change the name of the righteous army from "Daming Old Port Camp Qinwang Righteous Army" to "Daming Overseas Anti-Qing Righteous Army", considering that the army would be expanded after returning to China, so it was referred to as "Daming Righteous Army".

After the reorganization of the rebel army was completed, it stepped up all preparations and was scheduled to leave for China on 8 November.

With regard to the organization of the troops, Lin Xiao decided to reorganize the existing Righteous Army into two regiments, with the main regiment returning to China to fight as the first regiment and the left-behind regiment remaining in Annam as the second regiment.

Among them, the 1st Army Regiment has four main battalions, a baggage battalion, a reconnaissance company, a machine gun company, a guard platoon, and a field hospital. The total number of troops is 3,300, and Lin Xiao is also the head of the regiment.

The 2nd Army Regiment has three main battalions and one guard company. The total number of troops is more than 1,900, with Li Tao as the head of the regiment and Xiao Kaifeng as the executive deputy commander.

The navy, with "Longsheng" and "Unicorn" as the backbone, requisitioned 20 transport ships of more than 100 tons, and expanded them into a detachment, with Chen Yiming concurrently serving as the head of the detachment, which was temporarily mainly responsible for the transportation of materials from Annan to Daming.

These transport ships belonged to different businesses, and Lin Xiao had approached Gong Zhenhao in Haiphong to discuss the feasibility of requisitioning.

Gong Zhenhao felt that according to the current mass base, as long as the requisition price was reasonable, there should be no big problem, so Lin Xiao entrusted Gong Zhenhao with the requisition of merchant ships and the recruitment of sailors, and finally Gong Zhenhao requisitioned these 20 big ships at a price of less than 50,000 taels of silver per year.

Invite Gong Zhenhao to come today, Lin Xiao still has two important things to entrust to him.

First of all, he wanted to entrust the operation of the base area to Gong Zhenhao.

After the main force of the army left, Li Tao was left to preside over the overall work of the Annan base area, Xiao Kaifeng was left to be in charge of military work, and Gong Zhenhao was in charge of civil affairs and logistics.

Lin Xiao thought twice and decided to leave Xiao Kaifeng, who can take charge of himself, and Xu Tianshi, who has a calm personality, to Li Tao.

Although Li Tao and others stayed in Annam temporarily, after helping Zheng Nahu pacify the Southern Dynasty, they would have to return to China sooner or later, and then only the militia would be left to defend Haiphong, and all military, financial, civil, and construction affairs would gradually be handed over to him to preside over.

The second major event, he also has to entrust Gong Zhenhao to do it - shipbuilding.

Among the refugees were a large number of carpenters, some of whom had worked in shipbuilding, and he wanted to recruit them to open a shipyard that could build transport ships of more than 100 tons, and then build warships after the technical equipment was gradually completed.

In order to block the colonization of the Far East by the Europeans, they must form a powerful fleet sooner or later, Lin Xiao thinks that it is better to be familiar with the construction technology of sail warships first.

Although he felt that the burden was too heavy, Gong Zhenhao was a little scared, but Lin Xiao's full trust aroused Gong Zhenhao's ambition, and he decided that the old man would talk about juvenile madness, and he would live up to his expectations with his life, so that Haiphong would become Lin Xiao's strong backing.

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After the meeting ended, Lin Xiao left Xiao Kaifeng to study and determine the commander-in-chief and weapons and equipment of the troops.

The composition of the troops is basically the same as that of the old port battalion, with each company having jurisdiction over three platoons, plus a reconnaissance squad, a machine gun squad, and a cooking squad, with a total of 120 people. Each battalion has three main companies, plus a baggage company, a reconnaissance platoon, a machine gun platoon, and a cooking squad, plus a total of 600 people, including the chief and deputy battalion commanders, clerks, and communicators.

In addition to the four main battalions under its jurisdiction, the regimental headquarters also directly subordinate a baggage battalion of 550 to 600 people, a machine gun company with 120 people, a reconnaissance company with 120 people (cavalry), a guard platoon with about 30 people (cavalry), a regimental headquarters cooking class with about 10 people, a field hospital with about 30 people, plus 9 people in the communications squad, and a number of staff officers, the whole regiment has a total of about 3,300 people.

The four main battalion commanders were Ding Shuai, Liu Xulei, Zhu Yujia, and Xia Bomin, the baggage battalion commanders were Li Hanzhi, Duan Zhenghong and Zhang Chenfeng were respectively the commanders of the machine gun company and the reconnaissance company, and He Shouxin and Situ Zheng were respectively the guard platoon commander and communications squad leader; Yu Jifan was in charge of the field hospital.

The second regiment has the same establishment below the battalion level as the first regiment, with three garrison battalions of 1,800 people, a guard company directly under about 100 people, plus staff officers of the regiment headquarters, and a number of logistics personnel, with a total of more than 1,900 people in the whole regiment.

Lin Xiao left Xu Tianshi as the commander of the first battalion, and the other two battalions were led by Li Tao and Xiao Kaifeng personally.

In addition, the Second Regiment also has about 1,200 militia members under its jurisdiction in the base area, and can be organized into two militia brigades, each with three squadrons under its jurisdiction, all of which are on duty in peacetime using cold weapons, participate in the vigilance and guard work in the base area in their spare time, and serve as a reserve source for the Second Regiment's wartime expansion.

In this way, the actual strength of the second regiment also has more than 3,000 people.

Regarding weapons and equipment, Lin Xiao decided that the reconnaissance company and guard platoon were all equipped with carbines, and the scouts of the subordinate battalions and companies were also mainly carbines; Each machine gun squad is equipped with two M249 squad machine guns as a regular configuration, and each battalion machine gun platoon is equipped with an additional "Javelin" missile as siege fire in independent operations.

In addition to the conventional weapons of the sailors, Lin Xiao equipped the navy battleships "Longsheng" and "Unicorn" with four "Javelin" missile launchers to ensure absolute firepower superiority in naval battles.

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Everything is ready, O motherland, my son is coming back!