Fang Xiaoyu continued: "I don't have any experience in commanding combat troops before, so I hope you will cooperate with my work in the future and disband." Fang Xiaoyu didn't say anything, now he just needs to announce that he has become their brigade commander, because he still needs to transfer personnel in the Ninth Brigade to squeeze Dong Chao's cronies out of the army, and then rely on his father's former subordinates to firmly control this force, from now on Fang Xiaoyu has regarded the Ninth Brigade as his own team.

The next morning, Fang Xiaoyu went to the staff headquarters to report to Marshal Xia Jun in the name of reporting on his work, and handed over a list of requests for transfer by the way. In addition to transferring Dong Chao's cronies from the Ninth Brigade, a large number of officers and soldiers who were previously under Fang Weihong were transferred to the Ninth Brigade, and Fang Xiaoyu proposed that Feng Shichang and the other four people be promoted to one level each.

Feng Shichang served as the commander of the First Regiment, and Zhang Mingzhong, Sun Zhonglian, and Wei Lihui served as the three battalion commanders of the First Regiment. This kind of low-level transfer order did not need to alarm the emperor at all, it only needed the approval of the three marshals to be issued, and the three marshals all strongly supported Fang Xiaoyu and met his requirements one by one, and the order was quickly issued.

Seeing Xia Jun's personal order, Xia Houde couldn't disobey it, so he had to transfer everyone over according to the order, and in just a few days, the Ninth Brigade became a gathering place for the former 29th officers and soldiers, with the influence of Fang Weihong's father, Fang Xiaoyu easily took full control of this force.

Due to entering the active army to work, Fang Xiaoyu can no longer go back to the villa as often as he used to be in the staff department, fortunately, things in the villa have been on the right track, there is Huadong Xing, a person who has been a county guard and a prime minister, to coordinate the deployment, Fang Xiaoyu is also very relieved, he only needs to check the account books and work on the two days off every month, and now he is ready to build the iron army in his mind, whether this army can be trained well is also the most basic guarantee for him to obtain combat merits in the future and become a lord.

After the adjustment of positions, the newly appointed commander of the Second Regiment Lin Yangchun, battalion commanders Zhang Zhonglin, Qiu Yu'an, and Du Guangting; Su Zhizhen, the commander of the third regiment, Liao Jianchu, Li Delin, and Xue Boling, the battalion commanders, all met with Fang Xiaoyu, plus the first regiment of Feng Shichang and the other four, and the first official officer corps under Fang Xiaoyu was formed.

At this time, Fang Xiaoyu's first task was military training, which was a more detailed and harsh training method than the training plan he wrote to Xia Jun, this training method was basically the same as Fang Xiaoyu's training method in his second uncle's special forces in his previous life, but the amount of physical training in order to take care of ordinary soldiers was reduced by half.

After looking at the training method issued by Fang Xiaoyu, Feng Shichang, who was the best at training, first lit up his eyes and said: "This method is too good, even better than the training method issued by the General Staff a few years ago, if the elite soldiers trained like this are simply invincible." ”

Su Zhizhen, who was holding this plan, frowned a little and said: "Brigade commander, is this plan too cruel, it is difficult to stick to it with the current physique of the soldiers." "The food of the garrison is not good, is there such a thing as nutrition in this world, if you rely on the existing food and nutritional conditions, the physical strength of the soldiers is indeed unable to support such training.

Fang Xiaoyu nodded: "Yes, it is indeed not possible to rely on the physique of the soldiers now, so we have to improve the food, and I will personally determine the recipe." After speaking, Fang Xiaoyu took out another list of soldiers' food. Wei Lihui, who was a little curious, picked up this food catalog and looked at it: "This, how much does this food cost, I'm afraid our monthly food expenses will be spent if we can't even use it for five days." Fang Xiaoyu smiled: "Not bad, so I am ready to pay for the soldiers to improve the food." ”

After listening to Fang Xiaoyu's words, several officers looked incredulous, this is something that has never happened before, how can there be any reason to lose money to train troops for the country. However, everyone immediately thought of Fang Xiaoyu's current wealth and fame, and they were relieved, when it came to making money, no one dared to compare with Fang Xiaoyu now, people were not bad at money.

The next day's breakfast didn't change much, after all, there weren't many tricks for breakfast, and it wasn't easy to eat too much, at best it was just rice porridge and steamed bun pickles. But at noon, the soldiers of the Ninth Brigade who were about to eat were shocked to find that their meal was no longer brown rice and pickle soup, but a stew of white flour steamed buns and pork.

Although everyone was fed a ration, they were able to eat enough and there was fruit after the meal, a huge change that caused an uproar among the soldiers. In the surprise of the soldiers, Fang Xiaoyu announced the latest training plan, such a shocking effect of lunch is still there, and now the soldiers' brains are still a little unable to turn, and they have not found the cruelty of the training plan at all.

Fang Xiaoyu's appointment as a brigadier general was naturally approved very easily, and he could be regarded as breaking the record again, becoming the youngest general in the history of the Lanfang Empire. In the next month, Fang Xiaoyu completely delegated power to the three regiment commanders, allowing them to each lead the troops to train, anyway, if there is a training plan, they will not be too out of line.

Fang Xiaoyu was in charge of logistics, in order to increase the nutrition of the soldiers, Fang Xiaoyu increased the food standard of the Ninth Brigade by twenty times, and specially found a chef trained by himself to cook for them, which made the soldiers who had never even eaten a full meal and had been living a relatively poor life simply thought that they had gone to heaven.

The training during the day was indeed arduous, but what made the officers and soldiers scratch their heads the most was the cultural class that Fang Xiaoyu requested. Every night after dinner, all the officers and soldiers had to attend cultural classes, so Fang Xiaoyu found some scholars from the capital, and also found some orphans from Lin Feng and others who had good grades in cultural classes, to teach the officers and soldiers of the Ninth Brigade.

In order to improve the soldiers' interest in learning, Fang Xiaoyu stipulated that each soldier should learn at least ten words a day, add a chicken leg to lunch on the second day after completing the task, and halve the unfinished lunch.

Stimulated by the food, these soldiers are highly motivated to learn. And those officers, Fang Xiaoyu personally gave them tactical theory classes at night, although these officers were all born in the army, and they didn't know much about big characters, but once they became officers, they also learned some culture, after all, officers still need to write in many places, such as writing fake notes when going out, writing duty records on duty, writing plans for field training, and writing camping reports at night, it is really not good to have no culture.

Although they know how to read, none of these officers have gone to military school, and their tactical experience is all based on their own exploration, not only is there no system, but there are also many mistakes and omissions, and they are simply unable to adapt to today's increasingly rapidly changing war mode, while Fang Xiaoyu has the systematic military knowledge that Xiaofeng has researched, and he still has the same appearance when he teaches classes.

Most of the officers and soldiers of the Ninth Brigade were originally from Fang Weihong's troops, and Fang Xiaoyu took out the cultural textbooks he personally wrote on the ship for them to try out, and added a large number of textbooks with personality cult content, which definitely had the effect of brainwashing, so as to ensure Fang Xiaoyu's absolute authority in the army, plus the soldiers everyone knew that the brigade commander paid for them to add food out of his own pocket every day, and the recognition of Fang Xiaoyu also skyrocketed.

The unprecedented increase in the cohesion of the Ninth Brigade made the officers of the other brigades envious, and the soldiers below were also very envious, of course, they were envious of the food of the soldiers of the Ninth Brigade, and some officers also asked their soldiers to train like the soldiers of the Ninth Brigade, but the soldiers did not dare.

What they said is also quite realistic, the soldiers of the Ninth Brigade have an egg every day, a glass of milk, white flour steamed buns and rice are enough, a meal of big fish and meat, and there are additional meals on rest days, the chefs are at the same level as the best McDonald's fast food restaurants, if we can also eat such a good meal, it is no problem to double the training intensity, most of the officers who were robbed of white like this chose to be silent, joking, if they are all the same food standards as the Ninth Brigade, I am afraid that the military funds allocated by the empire every year are not enough to eat.

The only one who consciously had a light on his face was the commander of the Third Division, and when he met people, he would say how good Fang Xiaoyu was and how strong the Ninth Brigade was trained, and in order to show the satisfaction of the other side Xiaoyu, he even reported to the General Staff Department, asking the Ninth Brigade to be reported to the whole army as a model unit. Of course, after the proposal of the third division commander was reported, the three marshals did not dare to approve it. This is mainly because there is no money, what if the Ninth Brigade is hyped as a model unit, and other troops require that the food conditions be raised to the level of the Ninth Brigade, Marshal Xia Jun can only smile bitterly at Fang Xiaoyu's behavior of buying people's hearts and engaging in military training with such fanfare, this kid is so eye-catching everywhere.