During this time, the troops stepped up training while helping the people of the surrounding villages to harvest autumn grain, which was also a new thing, the villagers didn't talk about the experience, they didn't even hear about it, Xiangma (they still regarded the Mengshan Army as bandits in their hearts) also helped the people harvest the autumn!

The recruits were overjoyed at this order, and they were doing it for themselves. But the veterans didn't understand either, especially Lu San Mazi's group. Although the vast majority of them are children of peasant families. It's okay to talk about military training, how to help the common people to harvest autumn? But Long Qian personally went to work in the fields, and the company commanders naturally had to keep up, and the platoon commanders and squad leaders couldn't lag behind, so this strange order was still implemented.

Not only that, Long Qian also asked the autonomous committee to take the lead, with the logistics team of Song Jinguo as the mainstay, to find some skilled soldiers, cut wood, make mud, repair and strengthen the dilapidated houses of the people in Sanzhuang, and before the winter came, Ji Lu was divided into more than 100 most dilapidated houses for repair.

Naturally, this decision was also praised by the people, who felt that they had seen something they had never seen in their lives in the past two months. Of course, this incident also established the prestige of the Autonomous Committee, because the people who gave help were determined by the Autonomous Committee. The minds of the people are very simple, and whoever is good to him, he will support him.

After settling all this, on a rainy evening, Long Qian convened a meeting of officers above the platoon commander level at the headquarters to study the reorganization of the troops.

Ning Shijun, who presided over the meeting, felt fresh.

"Brothers, the theme of today's military discussion is the issue of the reorganization of the troops. Ning Shijun made a very short opening remarks.

The reorganization is certain, more than 900 recruits were recruited at once, nine recruit companies were formed, military training was carried out by Lu Shan, Wang Mingyuan, Ye Yanbing, Feng Lun, Feng Guozhu, Shi Dashou, Cheng Erhu, Ding Xiaofu, Du Sanli, Jiang Cunxian and other company platoon commanders were each responsible for the training of a recruit company, and the subjects were crossed, and later the mixed training of new and old soldiers was implemented, and many tasks unrelated to military training were assigned, such as harvesting autumn, the original establishment was disrupted, and many people expressed concern about this. I feel that the current situation is simply unable to cope with the unexpected situation, what if the official army calls? But facts have proved that the officers and soldiers really gave the Mengshan army precious time.

Everyone understands that Long Qian will definitely carry out a new round of reorganization. All the officers were full of anticipation for this. Now, that day is really coming.

Long Qian stood up, and everyone's exchange of words stopped.

"It's been more than two months since we left the mountain. During this time, everyone lived a completely different life from Mengshanzhai, the life of the big guys has been improved, the food is obviously much better, and the new military uniforms are being prepared. This winter, everyone will have a quilt. And we divided the land, and we had pay and rewards, and we had money in our hands. It's much more generous than in Mengshanzhai! ”

Everyone laughed, but soon realized that Long Qian's tone was a little unkind, so they put away their smiles.

"Everyone also learned a new course, which is to do people's work and learn to deal with people. It's a brand new course that some people don't understand and don't value, but it's important. If we can't learn this course, it will be difficult for us to grow and thrive. Recently, I have heard the talk that our ranks have grown, and there are nine new companies at once, plus five old companies, and the number of people exceeds 1,000. How strong is it? Or is it weak? I think it's weak overall. For what? This question is not difficult, if someone does not understand, think about it yourself and understand.

"After the occupation of Sanzhuang, the discipline situation was generally satisfactory to me. But there were also some disciplinary violations, we shot two of our own soldiers, those who were beaten with military sticks, and those who were locked up in confinement, there were twenty or thirty! Some of the disciplinary violations were quietly concealed by the officers present, who did not think it was worth making a fuss. Some officers began to be greedy for enjoyment, went to the tavern to drink, got drunk, and began to pay attention to the big girls and little daughters-in-law of the people__Although there were no more serious problems, I think if I don't remind them, something will go wrong! I emphasize here that discipline is heaven! It is the guarantee for our Mengshan army to survive in this troubled world! All officers must be models of discipline, and if they can't, I'll take him down! I don't care how brave you are in battle, and how senior you are in the Mengshan Army! This point has a bearing on the development and growth of the armed forces, and there can be no ambiguity. Today, in front of all the officers, I solemnly remind you that I will do what I say. ”

Long Qian's tone became stern, and several people lowered their heads.

Long Qian paused and changed his gentle tone, "Of course, I have seen everyone's hard work and achievements. The changes that have taken place in the three Zhuangzi are proof of this. This is evidenced by the fact that hundreds of peasant children volunteered to join the army. Now, we initially have a base area where we can live, we have a house to live in, food to eat, an expanded ranks, and more than double the number of guns and ammunition. All this proves that we are right to attack Zhengjiazhuang and achieve the expected goal. ”

Long Qian looked at his subordinates, "After recruiting more than 900 recruits, the reorganization of the troops is inevitable. As I told you before, as long as everyone works together, resolutely carries out orders, is not afraid of hardship or death, and moves forward step by step in a down-to-earth manner, the army will become bigger and bigger, and the more you fight, the stronger you will become. If we have such a reorganization meeting, we will definitely open more and always open! Everyone's official position will also get higher and higher.

"The establishment of the armed forces is a very important issue. The foreigners already have a good experience, but we are still in the exploration stage for the preparation of the problem. The establishment involves the branches and branches of the military, what is the service? In the big picture. The army is divided into army and navy, which is the branch of the military. Of course we are in the army, and I think we will have a navy in the future. ”

Ning Shijun's body trembled, and his face turned pale. However, everyone's attention was focused on Long Qian, and no one noticed his abnormality.

"What about the troops? It is to make further subdivisions within the military branches, such as the army, which can be further divided into infantry, artillery, engineers, cavalry, baggage troops, signal troops, health troops, etc. At present, our Mengshan army has only two kinds of infantry and cavalry, and the baggage, engineer and sanitary soldiers are still very irregular.

"The establishment of the Western Army is generally squads, platoons, companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, divisions and corps. The army is not the largest formation, but it is already large. If one day our Mengshan Army establishes a military-level establishment, history will leave your names. But at present, our maximum strength can only be set up as a battalion. ”

Everyone laughed softly, this recruitment and expansion, the strength of the troops has increased greatly, at least it seems so. Therefore, all the officers above the platoon commander level present are in a happy mood. When Long Qian talked about the establishment of the military level, the vast majority of people did not understand what the concept was, in short, it was the great development of the army. In that case, everyone will be promoted and rich.

The news of the expansion into a battalion was spreading, and the officers were all thinking about who could be the battalion commander. There were several battalions, which were undoubtedly decided on the basis of the number of recruits recruited. Now that nine recruit companies have been formed at once, and if you look at this, Commander Long will have at least four battalions, maybe five battalions or even more. In this way, the five current company commanders will all hope to be promoted to one level.

According to the information revealed during this time, Lu Shan, the training officer appointed by Long Qian as the head of the coach, is estimated to be unable to run. Wang Mingyuan has been stationed in Bai Wei, and he is the only one in charge, and he is Long Qian's old descendant, so he must occupy one. Feng Guozhu, Feng Lun, Ye Yanbing and Shi Dashou have to see how many battalions they set up__

"The formation of the army is fantastic and worth studying. Yuan Shikai's new army borrowed from the principles of the establishment of Western armies, but they changed some names, such as changing the company to a team and the squad to a shed. I'm sure we'll have to change it back eventually. It is the general law of things that backward will always learn from the advanced. Militarily, we are far behind the great powers. There will be innovations in the establishment of our Mengshan Army in the future, but for now, let's honestly copy and copy. There must be a profound truth in making it up like this.

"In this reorganization, in addition to setting up a command structure at the battalion level, the headquarters should also be strengthened, first of all, the establishment of a chief of staff, this position, I discussed with Deputy Commander Zhou, and left it to Ning Shijun. When he was the head of the staff group, he was qualified and satisfied, and Shi Jun came up with a lot of good ideas for this reorganization plan. The chief of staff has the right to intervene in all matters related to operations, training, intelligence, and logistics. Shi Jun's task is to get ideas and make plans for me. Everyone applauded the speech of our first Chief of Staff. ”

Long Qian took the lead in applauding, and everyone applauded. No one competed with Ning Shijun for this position, and the officers with the troops even looked down on this position.

"There's nothing to say, the commander looks up to me and will never let down the commander's trust." Ning Shijun stood up and saluted everyone and stepped aside.

"The headquarters has four sections: staff officers, logistics, intelligence, and military law. They are respectively responsible for the four major items of operations, logistics, military law, and intelligence, with Deng Qinghua, chief of the staff section, and Lan Xinzhi, deputy section chief. Song Jinguo, chief of the logistics section, and Wu Lie, deputy chief of the logistics section. Jiang Yun, Chief of Intelligence Section. Cao Minzhong, chief of the military justice section. Long Qian briefly informed the setting up of the headquarters, "Lao Song's logistics department has a lot of affairs, and the logistics section related to grain, grass, clothing, medical care, transportation, ammunition, and ordnance are all under the management of the logistics section, including the land under everyone's name. The Ordnance Section was abolished and transferred to the Logistics Section. Wu Lie served as the deputy chief of the logistics section. This time, the Logistics Section will need to increase its manpower, especially some more carriages and horses. The specific setting of the logistics department, Lao Song gave me a plan, and I fully supported it. Let me tell you, I attach great importance to logistics, and without a good logistics, combat troops will not be able to win a battle. As for the Military Law Section, it is very important. I want to thank Brother Min Chung, who is very selfless, he offends people, but for the sake of the whole army. Whoever dares to hate Min Zhong will hate me and the whole army! This time, the Military Law Section will change a little bit of people, Min Zhong, you will choose. The original Liu Chunning and Hu Zongyu all went down to lead the troops! ”

Cao Minzhong was a little excited. He is a person who understands Long Qian's intentions in setting up military courts. During this time, in order to establish discipline, many people were offended. Now there is the commander's words, it's worth it.

"Now I announce the program for the reintegration of combat units. The combat units of the whole army are set up in four battalions, numbered the first to the fourth battalion. Each battalion is composed of two infantry companies, each of which is composed of three platoons and each platoon of three squads. Each class consists of 10 students. Each company should have a company headquarters, one company commander, one deputy company commander, and one communicator, who is responsible for transmitting the company commander's orders, and also set up a six-person food squad, which is directly supervised by the deputy company commander. In the future, the food will be based on the company. In peacetime, they go to the logistics section to receive rations once every five days, and once every three days in wartime, and they must be distributed to each soldier to ensure that the soldiers have enough to eat. ”

"Thus the number of men in each company is one hundred. The number of people in each battalion is about 220 for the time being. A battalion headquarters is set up, with a battalion commander, a deputy battalion commander, and a communications squad. In this way, the number of our combat troops is about nine hundred. Why did you lock the number of people in each company to 100? I think of it this way, the company is the most basic combat formation, and it will generally undertake tactical tasks independently, and it is different from the battalion and platoon, so the company has set up a food squad. But the platoons and battalions are gone. When a company performs a mission, it has to set up a guard and stand guard, and the number of people is too small, and the tired people are going to die, and there are too many of them, and it is difficult to even find a campsite. Six people can cook for 100 people, but it is difficult to cook for 150 or 200 people, and if there is a food class for 20 people, it is unreasonable. ”

These are a bit esoteric for everyone. They only knew that the original company of the Mengshan Army was only composed of two platoons, but now it has been expanded by one, and the real power of the company commanders has increased.

"The headquarters directly governs a cavalry company, with company commander Chi Chunxian and deputy company commander Gu Xiaolin. The number of people is tentatively 80. Arrange three platoons, and report to me for approval after discussing with Xiaolin about the candidates for platoon commanders. Why don't you make it up a little more? We have captured a lot of war horses this time, so we can make up a little more. Because the consumption of cavalry is too great, and in the case of the popularization of hot weapons, the role of cavalry is changing, and it is a pity that it is mainly used for reconnaissance, running, and frontal combat.

"The rest of the people are all assigned to the headquarters, mainly the logistics section. For the specific grouping, Chief of Staff Ning took the idea. I now announce the candidates for the commanders of the battalions and companies. "Everyone's ears are pricked up, and their posture is unconsciously sitting more upright," Ye Yanbing, commander of the first battalion, and Du Sanli, deputy commander of the first battalion; Based on the first company, it was expanded into the first and second two companies: the commander of the first company, Xiong Xun, the commander of the second company, and Du Sanli; Wang Mingyuan, commander of the second battalion, Cheng Erhu, deputy commander of the second battalion, was expanded on the basis of the second company, Fan Deping, the commander of the fourth company, and Cheng Erhu, the commander of the fifth company; Feng Lun, commander of the third battalion, and Bi Zilong, deputy commander of the third battalion, were expanded on the basis of the third company, with Sheng Guang, the commander of the seventh company, and Bi Zilong, the commander of the eighth company. The commander of the fourth battalion is Feng Guozhu, and the deputy battalion commander is Shi Dashou; Based on the expansion of the fourth and fifth companies, the commander of the tenth company, Zhang Yulin, the commander of the eleventh company, and Shi Dashou. The candidate for the deputy company commander will be decided by the battalion and submitted to me for approval. In addition, the headquarters has a guard platoon under its jurisdiction and two squads, which are responsible for the security of the headquarters. Guard platoon commander, Xu Gongzhi, deputy platoon commander, Jiang Cunxian__The main contents of this reorganization are these. "Long Qian's reorganization plan has been announced.