"Stand upright!"

"Take a break!"

"Forward...... See! ”

"Left to right...... Turn! ”

When Xu Rui, accompanied by Mr. Mao Yisheng, Mei Jiuling, and more than a dozen engineering students, appeared on the fortress construction site, the guard platoon directly under the fortress garrison battalion was exercising.

Gao Chu was staring at his one-eyed and shouting the password majestically.

Because of his heroic performance in flood fighting and disaster relief, Gao Chu's punishment has been officially revoked, and now he is no longer in the cooking class of the regiment headquarters to watch others fight artillery, but has become the battalion commander of the fortress garrison battalion that has just been formed into an army.

spent such a big price to build such a fortress, of course Xu Rui attaches great importance to it.

Moreover, this fortress is also the gateway to the Dameishan base area, and there is no way not to pay attention to it, so Xu Rui transferred a part of the militia from the county brigade in Meixian County, and then recruited a part of the young and strong from the victims, and then transferred more than 100 backbone veterans from the veterans who returned from injuries in the field hospital, and set up a fortress garrison camp alone.

This fortress garrison battalion, which is only a battalion in name, actually has more than 1,000 people, and it is basically the formation of a regiment.

The fortress garrison battalion has three main infantry companies, each company has more than 300 people, and the battalion headquarters guard platoon has more than 100 people.

What Gao Chu is training now is the guard platoon.

Seeing Xu Rui coming, Gao Chu hurriedly left his troops and ran over, and immediately reported: "Report to the regiment leader, the guard platoon directly under the garrison battalion of the fortress of the Dameishan Independent Regiment is training in a queue, please instruct." ”

Xu Rui returned the military salute and said, "Take a break." ”

Gao Chu immediately turned around and snorted: "The head of the regiment has an order, take a break." ”

After reorganizing the troops, Gao Chu turned back to Xu Rui and said, "Regiment Commander, you came just in time, it just so happens that I want to go to the regiment headquarters to find you." ”

"Do you still want veterans?" Xu Rui waved his hand and said, "I'll tell you, break this thought as soon as possible." ”

The veterans Xu Rui said refers to the veterans who have returned from injuries in the field hospital, and there are more than 2,000 veterans, but they are a great fortune.

Originally, the veterans returned from injury, and they went back to their respective homes and found their own mothers, so there was nothing to say about this.

But the problem is that among the more than 2,000 veterans, many of them are wounded from the former puppet military garrison division and the Anhui Central Advance Brigade, and now the puppet army garrison division and the Anhui Central Advance Brigade do not exist, and these veterans have become ownerless, so they have become baby bumps looted by the battalions of the independent regiment.

Since the first batch of veterans recovered from their injuries, Xu Rui has been pestered by several battalion commanders all day long, and he is annoyed to death.

Among them, Gao Chu, the guy who has just been promoted to battalion commander, is the most annoying, others run once a day, but Gao Chu ran to the regiment headquarters when he seized the opportunity, Xu Rui refused to let go when he went to the toilet, and he almost bothered him when Xu Rui was snapping, but if he really dared to annoy him when Xu Rui was snapping, it was estimated that he would be killed by Sai Hongfu with an arrow.

Xu Rui said nothing, but Gao Chu still didn't give up, and said: "Commander, what are you doing, these veterans are not baby bumps, can you keep them cubs or what?" ”

Xu Rui was forced to be anxious and said, "I really made you right, I really plan to use them to give birth." ”

"What do you say?" Gao Chu's eyes widened and he said, "Commander, they are all male, and they can't lay eggs." ”

Hearing this, the more than 100 guards platoon recruits lined up on the playground burst into laughter, and many of them laughed so much that they couldn't stand steadily.

Gao Chu immediately became angry, and said angrily: "It's all there, run fifty laps around the playground, and you are not allowed to eat until you finish running." ”

More than 100 recruits ran away in a hurry, and Gao Chu came over again and said to Xu Rui: "Regiment leader, you have so many veterans in your hands, I don't want much, just a few dozen, do you think it?" ”

Xu Rui said: "What do you think of me? Or I'll be your soldier? ”

"Commander, you're not right." Gao Chu salivated and said, "I just want you, but I don't dare to command you, in our independent regiment, who dares to command you?" ”

Xu Rui said: "Do you still know that I am the head of the regiment?" Do you know that you can't command me? Then you still want to make an idea for me, how to arrange those veterans? ”

Gao Chu said: "Regiment Commander, your words are serious, how dare I make up my mind for you, I just ask you, ask you for a few veterans, a few are good, a few are enough." ”

Dozens of them don't come, and a few of them will become, and the whole profiteer will be.

"Lao Tzu still said that, not a single one." Xu Rui snorted and left, just took a few steps and turned his head to stare at Gao Chu and said, "Also, the training should be hurried, look at you, it has been three days since the troops were handed over to you, but the result is still a group of stragglers, and the queue is not even." ”

"Captain, go slowly." Waving his hand to send Xu Rui away, Gao Chu turned his head and pulled his face down, muttering, "What do you mean it's been three days, it's only been three days, okay?" If you're right, can you train a bunch of mud-legged people who don't know anything about it to be veterans in three days? You just, you. ”

Besides, Xu Rui, accompanied by Mr. Mao Yisheng and Mei Jiuling, walked into the largest main bunker.

At this time, the three bunkers have been repaired, and the fort walls are all cast with ash mixed with steel bars, Xu Rui deliberately smashed the fort wall twice with stones, and smashed it very hard, but only left two white marks on the wall, and even a small piece of ash could not be knocked down, which shows that the quality of the project is excellent.

But this is also reasonable, who is Mr. Mao Yisheng? He was an engineer who presided over the design of China's first cross-river bridge, the Qiantang River Bridge.

Until Xu Rui crossed over, it had been nearly a hundred years, and the Qiantang River Bridge was still in use, and the quality of the project had never been found.

Mei Jiuling accompanied Xu Rui to visit the main bunker, and asked while introducing the facilities in the bunker: "Regiment commander, what are you going to do with the veterans who have returned from the field hospital?" ”

"How?" Xu Rui glanced at Mei Jiuling and asked, "Even a few of you want to get involved?" ”

In the independent regiment, the youth training department headed by He Shuya, Huang Shouxin and Mei Jiuling is Xu Rui's Huangpu department, in order to ensure the unity and cohesion of the independent regiment, Xu Rui treats the officers of the youth training department very strictly.

He Shuya, the officers from the youth training team, also know this very well, so they have never dropped the chain.

Seeing that Xu Rui misunderstood, Mei Jiuling hurriedly explained: "Don't get me wrong, head of the regiment, I just asked so casually." ”

Xu Rui breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Okay, anyway, this matter is about to be announced, so I'll mention it to you first, these veterans really have cubs, because I want to use these two thousand veterans as the backbone, plus the local county brigades, district teams, plus some strong men among the victims, and expand the infantry battalion by eight to ten more." ”

"What? Ten battalions?! Mei Jiuling's eyes widened suddenly, and she was very surprised.

Good guys, the independent regiment now has three main infantry battalions, an independent battalion, a fortress garrison battalion, a cavalry battalion, a guard battalion and a youth training battalion, and the fortress garrison battalion and youth training are still regimental scale, both have thousands of people, if ten more battalions are expanded, wouldn't there be eighteen battalions? What is this concept?

There are only 21 battalions of the A division of the three brigades and nine regiments of the National Army, such as the teaching corps of the Central Military Academy, and the regiment commander is to expand the independent regiment into an independent division, and he is planning to live the life of a division commander?

Mei Jiuling swallowed his saliva and whispered: "Regiment commander, the head of the military department won't disagree, right?" ”

"The head of the military department?" Xu Rui said hesitantly, "I specifically asked, but the chief said that if you Xu Rui had the ability, it would be no problem to expand the independent regiment to 180 battalions, but there is one, Lao Tzu does not have a gun and a big son for you, and you will expand to 180 battalions, and you are still the regiment commander." ”

Mei Jiuling said with a smile: "Then this is the matter, what we have is the guns, so many guns captured before, now more than half of them have been repaired by the military factory, and they are more than enough to equip ten battalions." ”

The military factory in the Dameishan base area has been built, and Zheng Jiakang, an eighth-level fitter, finally returned to his old job and became the director and chief engineer of the arsenal, but the factory hidden in the belly of the mountain has not yet been built, so he can only start work in the shack for the time being, and can only repair the guns for the time being.

As for making guns, it is difficult to achieve in a short period of time, and all the personnel and equipment are available, but the steel used to make guns has not yet been settled, and the steel made by the local method of building small blast furnaces can only be used to produce grenades, mines, etc., and it is almost hot to make gun barrels.

Because of this, Xu Rui is already thinking about how to get a steel factory.

Although picking up the railroad tracks can also deal with emergencies, it is not a long-term solution after all.

Xu Rui nodded and said, "No, the heads of the military department have already agreed, why don't we expand?" ”

Mei Jiuling nodded when he heard this, indicating that he understood, but he didn't know that the reason why Xu Rui was in such a hurry to expand the army was for another reason.

There are advantages to rushing to expand the army now, but there are also disadvantages.

Needless to say, the benefits are expanded, the number of troops increases, and a larger scale can be fought, if all the eighteen battalions of troops are built into an army, the devil is to come to a field division, and Xu Rui is not afraid at all.

As for the disadvantage, these eighteen battalions of troops will not become an army all at once, and the improvement of combat effectiveness will be a long process, after all, training opportunities like Feicheng will not come often, and even if there is another battle to defend Feicheng, Xu Rui does not dare to guarantee that he will be able to play the last effect.

Maybe this time it's going to be wiped out.