Since he agreed to the other party, Li Yongji has to do things well, so the matter of leaving a group to help Joseph watch the field is decided, and the next thing is to choose who to choose, or which group to stay.

Among the expeditionary forces that Li Yongji brought to North America, they were roughly divided into two parts, one part was the motorized infantry division that he had personally recruited local immigrants at the Red Fort in Hollywood, and the other part was the expeditionary force that Shi Dakai brought from Japan on order, which was in the nature of reinforcements.

In terms of weaponry and combat effectiveness, the motorized infantry division personally led by Li Yongji is undoubtedly the most powerful, this unit not only has the largest number of people, with 30,000 people, but also has the best equipment, all of which are modern equipment.

But the problem is that this motorized infantry division relies heavily on weapons and equipment, has relatively large requirements for logistics, and belongs to the troops that can only follow Li Yongji's movements, because once Li Yongji walks away, loses his golden finger of time and space teleportation, and cannot obtain all kinds of supplies from modern society, the combat effectiveness of this unit will be greatly reduced.

Not to mention anything else, this motorized infantry division has basically been motorized, there are a large number of motor vehicles, once it moves, the daily fuel consumption is not a small amount, and these fuels can only be imported from modern times for the time being, not to mention in the United States, even in the Chinese Empire, it is impossible to produce qualified fuel.

Therefore, although the motorized infantry division is powerful, it can only be regarded as Li Yongji's personal guard. It is impossible to fight independently for a long time.

Although Li Yongji once left a motorized infantry regiment in Memphis, this infantry regiment was not fighting independently at that time, but to cooperate with the troops brought by Shi Dakai. Enhance Shi Dakai's firepower and use it as a trump card.

In other words, the motorized infantry regiment that stayed in Memphis at that time was more of a mode of existence in the corps, in order to deter the surrounding area, so in order to save fuel, they usually stayed in the camp. There are very few sorties, and there are a lot of spare fuel and ammunition stored here in advance, so that it can always be maintained.

But no matter what. Such a unit, which relies heavily on fuel and ammunition, will not be able to fight independently of Li Yongji for a long time in the current environment.

It may be said that the motorized rifle division is just a relatively fuel-gular vehicle, if you put aside those motor vehicles. Isn't it possible to fight on your own? In terms of the armament of this force. A regiment can top at least one army!

But the problem is that this motorized infantry unit relies heavily on motor vehicles in peacetime, and everyone is accustomed to the thinking of relying on motor vehicles to fight, and if they are separated from motor vehicles, their combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.

What's more, after seven days of bloody fighting in Smithland, Li Yongji found that this seemingly sophisticated motorized force was just a good-looking shell. can only rely on weapons to bully the weak, but his own problems are quite a lot. Lack of resilience and flexibility.

In other words, Li Yongji thought that the motorized infantry division under his command should be said to be a failure, because most of those soldiers had developed a lot of bad problems, and they could only fight good battles, not bad battles, and their habit of stealing and playing tricks was very serious, and if they did not start from scratch, there would be big problems sooner or later.

There is another problem, that is, in the motorized infantry division, most of the regiment-level commanders are members of the first batch of young guards that Li Yongji took in, and these people are generally younger and do not have much actual combat experience in the army, and the reason why they are appointed as regiment commanders is only because they are more loyal, and they have come into contact with modern science and technology earlier, have relatively high technical literacy, and can accept new things more quickly.

Facts have proved that among the so-called three heroes of the guards, whether it is Bai Yunfei, Li Fei or Zhang Long, these people are indeed very fast in accepting new things, and can quickly learn how to use new equipment and how to use new tactics, but they are too old-fashioned in battle, and they will only stick to textbooks, and they usually follow the orders of their superiors, but once they are allowed to deal with the complex situation around them independently, judging from their life experience, it is far from enough.

And it was clear that since a regiment was going to be left to help Joseph. Johnston watched the scene and protected this traitor, so whether he could fight or not was only secondary, the key was to be tactful enough and be able to take advantage of the situation, so as to ensure his own interests.

In fact, Li Yongji has long understood it. Johnston's current method of recruiting troops for quick success, let alone giving him two months, half a year may not be able to make the Mississippi River Army have combat effectiveness, during this period, if Pemberton's troops really attack here, then the Mississippi River Army in Memphis will definitely not be able to hold it, even if there are many people, it is useless.

In the final analysis, if a modern army wants to have combat effectiveness, it must form an organization and maintain high morale, and to achieve these two points, the most basic premise is that there must be enough grassroots officers!

That's right, grass-roots officers are the grass-roots nodes that manage soldiers, and without enough grass-roots officers, when the superior commands the troops, all kinds of things are not smooth, and it is impossible to go up and down, like an arm.

Therefore, a unit that does not have enough junior officers, no matter how many people there are, is just a rabble, and it is easy to do it when fighting a tailwind battle or charging in a swarm, but once a large-scale confrontation is conducted, the problems of lack of resilience and weak organization will be highlighted, and it is very easy to cause chaos.

Not to mention anything else, let's just talk about the motorcycle and infantry division that Li Yongji personally brought out, and the reason why it was almost defeated in the seven-day bloody battle of Smithland with absolute superiority was actually the most fundamental reason for the lack of high-quality grassroots officers.

It is precisely because of the lack of sufficient grass-roots officers that the self-discipline of that motorized unit is so poor, and it is lazy and slippery when it finds an opportunity.

It is also thanks to the strong communication ability of that unit, through the radio, it can directly pay attention to the lower-level teams from the headquarters, coupled with Sun Xiangbing's iron-faced supervision, which has allowed that unit to maintain a strict appearance.

However, once Sun Xiangbing immediately. With the loss of blackface and the lack of an effective independent supervision system, the officers and men of the unit quickly dispersed freely.

At the end of the day. This is still a problem of management efficiency, because if there are not enough junior officers, then one officer will have to command more subordinates, and in this case, the command efficiency will be greatly reduced.

It's like a group of elementary school students gathering in the playground to listen to the principal, and you have to face more than a thousand elementary school students, although you can use a loudspeaker or other equipment to make everyone hear you. But because you can't take care of every classmate, you can't see if every student is listening, so you can tell no matter how good you are. I can't make all the students understand, and there will definitely be people who take the opportunity to be lazy and distracted.

And the power of example is endless, not only for good examples, but also for bad examples. Once there was a lazy guy in the troops. It's going to spread quickly. Let the people around you follow the laziness, and after a long time, it will become a collective laziness, and create all kinds of tricks for this collective laziness.

During the Seven Days of Bloody Battle at Smithland, why were the Confederate ski units able to break through multiple observation posts from the river ice so easily, all the way to the port, and quickly break through the defenders' defenses?

It was because of the negligence of the officers and soldiers of the defenders in the rear that only a few unlucky ones were pretended to be outside. Most of the people slept in the barracks, even the pretending sentinels. They also lazily snoozed at the outpost, and did not have the energy to scout the surroundings at all.

Not only that, Li Yongji also placed a lot of secret posts at that time, and these secret posts were on the top of the tree, but because this kind of work was particularly difficult, so later, these secret posts were actually making a show, many of them were in vain, and the observation posts were still there, but the people inside got off the tree early and went to sleep underneath.

Freezing three feet is not a day's cold, this kind of collective laziness, collective deception of superiors has actually happened a long time ago, but in the past, because of the smooth radio and the fact that it has always been fighting a tailwind, so the performance is not obvious, but once it encounters bad weather and encounters a large-scale frontal attack by the enemy, these problems will break out in full force.

Although the battle ended in the victory of the expeditionary force, the process was quite shocking, and for a moment, the expeditionary force was really in danger of being annihilated.

Because the defense line of the expeditionary force is very thin, it relies on strong firepower to block it, and whether the firepower is strong or not, in addition to the performance of the weapon, the most important thing is the person who uses the weapon, to see how well they perform.

At that time, the defenders of the expeditionary force obviously killed the most people, but they were frightened, because they were frightened by the continuous attacking troops on the opposite side, and felt that they could not finish fighting.

This feeling of powerlessness is the most terrifying, especially for people who are not strong in mind, once they find that there is an enemy that they can't fight, the fear in their hearts can be imagined.

It was because of this fear that the first line of defense was broken through so quickly, not because of how fierce the attacking American troops were, but because the defenders retreated early because of fear.

If it weren't for the troops of the second line of defense forcibly strengthening the defensive force, coupled with the fact that Li Yongji led his troops to counterattack the rear in time and stabilized the situation in the rear, the artillery fire of the task force provided timely fire support for the front line, and Li Yongji's countershock troops also took advantage of their mobility and the advantage of the inner line to rush over in time to reinforce them, then once the second line of defense was also broken through, under the situation at that time, I am afraid that it would really be completely defeated.

The fundamental reason for all this is that the motorized unit was established for too short a time, and the soldiers were all recruited on the spot in the Red Fort in Hollywood, and the quality of these people was uneven.

But today's illiteracy rate in China is very high, and there are very few people who can read and write, and even if they can read, they can usually write their own names.

These people you say it's okay to be a soldier and learn to shoot and drive, but if you want to say that you learn complex command skills, you think too highly of them, so from the very beginning, this motorized infantry division lacked enough grassroots officers and was a hasty experiment.

In order to make up for the shortage of officers at the grassroots level, Li Yongji popularized a large number of radio communication equipment, so that radio was popularized to every vehicle, and the headquarters could directly command every vehicle and every group.

This benefit allows the commander to command a larger number of units and more control, but that's all, and it still can't perform some complex tactical maneuvers.

However, fortunately, their opponents were not strong at the beginning, they were all modern infantry, so relying on advanced weapons, they have always been a calculated and unintentional frontal attack, which made use of their strengths and avoided weaknesses, and won consecutive battles.

However, the bad weather in Smithland interrupted this rhythm, and the New Virginia Legion did not play their cards according to common sense, and actually ran away first, and then returned, and took them by surprise with the help of bad weather, so that their problems were all exposed at once.

From that time on, Li Yongji understood that the army could not only look at weapons and equipment, but also the people who used weapons and equipment were the most important, so he planned to reorganize the troops after he returned, remove the original people step by step, and remove the number of the motorized division from the sequence of the expeditionary force, and officially changed it to the sequence of the Praetorian Guard, and truly became the guard unit of Emperor Suihu.

In the future, Li Yongji will also bring in a large number of young people with better quality from within the empire to join the motorized troops, and make great efforts to rectify them, and spend a longer time training and running-in, so as to create a truly invincible guard.

He will continue to keep the Chinese Expeditionary Force, a deliberately created mercenary force, but in the future, he will remove the name of the Chinese Expeditionary Force and officially change it to the Eastern Army to reduce the shadow of the Chinese Empire.

According to Li Yongji's meaning, in the future, the Eastern Army will become a real private mercenary force, and its soldiers will be recruited from all over the world to open up larger overseas markets for themselves and do things that are inconvenient for the national army.

In short, the motorized troops cannot be left behind, they must go with Li Yongji, and the troops that can stay can only choose one from the one brought by Shi Dakai.

Although the unit brought by Shi Dakai was far inferior to the motorized unit in terms of numbers and equipment, and its combat effectiveness was much weaker, the composition of this unit was very complicated, including the former Taiping Army, the former Qing Army, and the military cadets from the Whampoa Military Academy, who were either experienced veterans or student troops with higher overall quality.

Moreover, the officers commanding these troops are also experienced and famous generals in the world, whether it is Chen Yucheng, Peng Yulin, or Li Hezhang, they all have the ability to take charge of their own affairs.

Of course, the most important point is that the unit brought by Shi Dakai is a real infantry, accustomed to fighting on foot, infantry tactics are very strong, and the requirements for supplies are not high.

In addition, they all have experience fighting in Japan and are very good at working with people who don't understand the language, so leaving this group of people in Memphis will definitely not be a problem.

But the problem is that the subordinates brought by Shi Dakai are very good, Chen Yucheng, Peng Yulin and Li Hezhang, the three regiment leaders, all have their own uniqueness, and theoretically no matter who is left.

But the more this kind of situation where anyone can do it, the more you can't order people at will, not to mention, when Li Yongji made the decision to stay in a regiment, he also wanted to do more articles, and there was a spy on Joseph. Johnston means.

Therefore, Li Yongji couldn't make up his mind on the question of who to keep, and finally found Shi Dakai and asked him who he should keep.

After all, compared to Li Yongji, Shi Dakai is their direct boss, and he knows their temperament better, Li Yongji believes that as long as he tells Shi Dakai his thoughts, he will definitely be able to select an excellent left-behind person for himself. (To be continued......)