Since mid-September, the "rolling training" proposed by the Ministry of Military Affairs has been carried out in an orderly manner, and the more than 200 young men selected by Qian Yuanshan and others when they inspected various industries were the first batch of them. Originally, Qian Yuanshan and others wanted to train this group of young men as the backbone, but after getting those miner recruits, the thoughts of the brothers in the military department changed somewhat. They put more hope for the training of backbone on the miner recruits, and for these recruits from the tenants, the brothers, after another selection, still trained some of them as backbones with higher quality, and others with relatively poor qualities were only trained as ordinary soldiers.

At the end of October, Gu Anjia and others, who were tasked with collecting labor for the team, finally returned to Liangxiang City, along with a group of nearly 2,000 new refugees from the Northern Han Dynasty. After a careful vetting, the new migrants were placed in various settlements – and since the autumn harvest was long over, they had to rely on supplies from the crossing team to make ends meet until the spring of the following year.

As the new migrants moved into the resettlement sites, a large number of tenants who had previously lived in the settlements were relocated and reassigned to the newly purchased land by the team. The families of these tenants who moved out were all young and strong who were taken to receive recruit training, and in a sense, they belonged to the so-called military families in the previous life. The main reason why the crossing team moved them out of their former places was to keep these people at a distance from other tenants who had not been drawn from the young and strong, so as not to arouse the curiosity of their neighbors because of the sudden departure of their strong laborers.

After a series of operations, by the end of this year (the sixth year of Liao Yingli, the third year of Zhou Xiande, 956 AD), the number of recruits in the "Feilongzhai" recruit training camp had exceeded 3,000. This number has already surpassed the Jihua proposed by the Ministry of Military Affairs to expand the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" to 2,500 people. However, considering that there will be some people who will be eliminated due to ability and quality problems in the process of recruit training, this figure is still more appropriate.

On the 10th day of November of the sixth year, after three months of arduous and scientific training, all 120 miner recruits successfully completed the basic military training they had to go through as recruits and became qualified backbones of the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion." Although the original intention of the military department in selecting these miners was to train them to become squad leaders, deputy squad leaders, and other grass-roots cadres, the actual needs of the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" for squad leaders and deputy squad leaders are limited after excluding the grass-roots cadres promoted from the original veterans, and the total number of squad leaders and deputy squad leaders that can be assigned to these new backbone cadres is limited, and the total number of squad leaders will not exceed 40. In this way, the backbone of the miner recruits will inevitably face the situation of "more monks and less porridge".

In this regard, the brothers of the military department did not make any difficulties. After selecting 40 backbones, they organized the remaining 80 miner recruits into an elite infantry detachment similar to the Ranger squad, and gave it a very distinctive name - "Wolf Tooth" Special Squad. This name was given by Qian Yuanshan based on the name of a very powerful special forces unit in a military novel in his previous life, and he hoped that this special operations team composed of miners could deal a blow to the enemy with the fighting style of "fast, ruthless, accurate, and poisonous" described in the novel.

On the fifteenth day of the sixth lunar month, the first batch of 260 tenant young men also completed their recruit training and became qualified soldiers of the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion". Among this group of young and strong people, except for more than 10 outstanding grassroots cadres who have become squad leaders and deputy squad leaders, the remaining more than 200 people have been arranged into different establishment sequences and have become the backbone of priority training for each class.

From the 28th day of the first month of the seventh year of the new year's calendar to the end of February, almost every four or five days, a group of young people completed basic training and became a member of the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion." By the first day of the third month of the seventh year of the corresponding calendar, the total number of the entire "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" finally exceeded the original expectation of the Military Department, reaching 3,200 people, thus successfully completing the first major adjustment and expansion of the team's armed forces.

After nearly nine months of hard work, the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" was expanded from one battalion and several independent squadrons and squads totaling more than 500 men to three infantry battalions (each battalion had three infantry companies and one artillery company -- out of habit, the military department finally gave up the original title of squadron and squad and replaced it with a company or platoon -- a total of 600 men), an artillery battalion (under the jurisdiction of two mortar companies and a forward-loading artillery company, equipped with a total of 16 mortars and six forward-loading guns), A cavalry battalion (a newly formed ordinary combat unit, not related to the original Ranger squad. It consists of three Ranger companies with a total of 400 men), a logistics battalion (with a total of 500 logistics support detachments), a Ranger squad (expanded to 120 men) and the newly established "Wolf Teeth" squad (80 men). ,

Due to the fact that the scale of the establishment has expanded several times compared to before, it seems that it is not appropriate for this armed force, which has reached 3,000 people, to be called the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" again, and it seems a bit petty. Therefore, after the study and discussion between the committee and the military department, it was finally decided to change the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" to the "Flying Dragon Army" -- this is not only to match the scale of this Liliang, but also to show that this armed Liliang has broken away from its original nature of a courtyard and has become a military Liliang in the true sense of the word that can fight a powerful enemy face to face.

With the establishment of the "Flying Dragon Army," which is much larger, the commanders' arrangements that were originally compatible with the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" naturally have to be adjusted. Among them, Wang Kunjun and Xu Shaoan still served as the nominal commanders of the "Flying Dragon Army" without any suspense. Qian Yuanshan, Zeng Zhilin, Tang Chao, Muter, and Xin Feiyu formed the forward command center, which was responsible for the specific operational command of this armed force -- Qian Yuanshan, as the commander-in-chief of the forward command, was responsible for the combat determination of Zuihou when the brothers disagreed; Zeng Zhilin, as his deputy, was responsible for assisting from the side; Tang Chao, as chief of staff, was responsible for formulating the relevant operational jihua; Xin Feiyu, as the deputy chief of staff, was responsible for assisting Tang Chao in his work; As a member of the command, Muttel was responsible for the command of two special forces.

In addition, out of consideration for directly holding the most elite troops in his hands, in addition to his position in the forward command headquarters, Tang Chao, the new chief of staff, also served as the commander of the first battalion, the strongest in the "Flying Dragon Army," just as he did when he was in the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion." While commanding special forces, Muttel also served as the commander of a cavalry battalion. In addition to his position as deputy chief of staff, Xin Feiyu also served as the battalion commander of the artillery battalion.

In addition to the above positions, the other positions of the "Flying Dragon Army" from battalion commander to deputy squad leader are all held by non-traversers. For example, Wu Pingdong, the original squadron leader of the second squadron, became the battalion commander of the second battalion, Wang Baoshan, the former squadron leader of the third squadron, was promoted to the commander of the third battalion, and Chang Shengjun, the deputy squadron leader of the original ranger squad, was appointed as the captain of the ranger squad, and so on.

In order to celebrate the successful completion of the expansion of the army, and also to test the training results of the recruits during this period of time, after discussion between the committee and the brothers of the military department, everyone unanimously agreed to hold a military parade four days later, that is, on the morning of the fifth day of the third month of the seventh year of the calendar.

In order to make the parade a complete success, Li Fu, who had already been promoted to commander of the logistics battalion, under the guidance of Qian Yuanshan and others, leveled out the large open space in front of the "headquarters" -- the original "Juyi Hall" -- which was usually used for the training of the soldiers, and used it as a venue for the parade. Then a wooden platform was erected under the steps of the "headquarters" to serve as a review stand for the lords during the military parade.

On the day of the parade, except for Xu Shao'an, who was far away in Kaifeng, and other members of the Kaifeng Detention Center, other traversers were all present. After the brothers ascended to the high review platform, in accordance with the review process in the previous life, Qian Yuanshan, commander-in-chief of the forward command and commander-in-chief of the parade of the "Flying Dragon Army", came to the review stand, reported to Wang Kunjun, the nominal supreme commander of the "Flying Dragon Army", and asked him to review.

Subsequently, Wang Kunjun, accompanied by Qian Yuanshan, stepped off the review stand, rode on a high-headed horse that had already been prepared for haode, and inspected the phalanxes to be read -- Originally, Wang Kunjun also planned to imitate the habits of his previous life, and shouted a few slogans in the process of reviewing. However, considering that those slogans commonly used in the previous life were not very appropriate to shout in this era, and it was too late to temporarily make up new slogans, so in the end, Wang Kunjun just rode a horse and walked around the front of the team, except for waving to the soldiers from time to time, he did not say a word.

After reviewing the various formations of the "Flying Dragon Army", a more exciting parade began. The soldiers of the various units of the "Flying Dragon Army," accompanied by the modern music playback equipment that is rarely used once, lined up in a neat queue with an impassioned march, and carried the spotlessly wiped "Five-Five" rifles on their shoulders.

Listening to these long-lost music, watching these long-lost movements, all the traversers, especially the military traversers, were extremely excited and enthusiastic, and they raised their right hands one after another to salute the standard military salute to the phalanxes that walked under the stage - if it weren't for their own identity, these military traversers would have jumped off the review stand and kicked the right steps with the soldiers in the audience.

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