After Zhou Yi returned to the mountain, the soldiers of the cottage, including the wounded and sick and seven prostitutes, excluding the 100 prisoners who built houses and renovated the training ground under supervision every day, totaled 244 people.

Long Qian decided to reorganize the whole army again.

After more than ten days of recuperation, eight "hospitalized" soldiers have recovered and returned to their original squads, and the people brought back by Zhou Yi have also followed the brigade to participate in training, but there are still more than 20 injured due to illness and are in the infirmary. In Long Qian's opinion, even if half of them get out of the medical center alive, they can't be put on the battlefield as soldiers.

Long Qian decided to form four infantry teams and several direct teams (groups).

The first consideration in the reorganization was the officers. Of course, Long Qian's first consideration was his three old subordinates.

The Tianmen Blockade was the most brutal battle since the formation of the Eighth Team, but fortunately, the three squad leaders under him, the first squad Lu Shan, the second squad Wang Mingyuan, and the third squad Feng Guozhu all survived. Removed the Sealing Pillar and was slightly injured in the Battle of Tianmen, his right arm was grazed by a bullet, and the rest of the people were unscathed. And Feng Guozhu's injured arm basically did not affect his subsequent actions, and now it has completely healed. This cannot but be said to be a miracle for the eight teams that Long Qian advocated that the leader charged forward and practiced it. This fact became the best teaching material for Lu Shan to reprimand and ridicule those timid subordinates who were afraid of death.

These three squad leaders are the talents carefully selected by Long Qian after he served as the captain of the eighth team. Because the eighth team was the infantry team formed after the most difficult group in Mengshanzhai, and the source of soldiers was complicated, Liu Yucai completely gave the appointment of the team leader to Long Qian.

In general, Long Qian was very satisfied with the team leaders he had chosen.

In Long Qian's opinion, the three squad leaders have their own characteristics, Lu Shan seems to be reckless, but he has a delicate mind, and he hides his delicate mind under the reckless appearance. This person has a flexible fighting style, eclectic, loves to learn and can draw inferences from one another, and learns and understands the military knowledge taught by Long Qian very quickly, does not copy and copy, and can be completely independent, so Long Qian only let Lu Shan serve as the left commander when attacking Zhangjiazhai, and command a small team to complete the task independently. In addition, Lu Shan is quite a bit of a "soldier" style, easy to mix with the soldiers, and is very popular with the military, because of his bravery and ** style, the unruly soldiers are also obedient under him.

Feng Guozhu's biggest feature is that he is obedient, he always completes the orders of his boss to the letter, and his character is stoic. This person cares about the soldiers, can share weal and woe with his subordinates, and is very authoritative in the third squad. The disadvantage is the lack of independent thinking. In addition, because of his background and experience, Feng Guozhu hated foreigners deeply, and he had a lot of complaints about Long Qian's kindness to the David brought back from Pingyi Village, in his eyes, foreigners were worse than the government.

Wang Mingyuan doesn't seem to have any characteristics, and he is relatively modest. He is not as smart as Lu Shan, and he is not as good as Feng Guozhu in terms of tenacity, but he is the person that Long Qian values the most. In fact, Long Qian always entrusted Wang Mingyuan with the most critical tasks, such as keeping his squad as a reserve during the attack on Zhangjiazhai. And Wang Mingyuan did live up to Long Qian's trust, not only could he always complete the task successfully, but also gave Long Qian some good suggestions from time to time, such as suggesting that Long Qian pay tribute to several fallen leaders, Lu Shan and Feng Guozhu did not realize the deep meaning.

Long Qian knew the way. Wang Mingyuan is different from Lu Shan and Feng Guozhu in that he has a heartfelt admiration for himself. Wang Mingyuan was the first to get rid of the shadow of the leaders of Mengshan Cottage and regard Long Qian as the leader. For the fiasco and collapse of Mengshanzhai this time, Wang Mingyuan was not worried but happy, and after returning to the mountain, he actively supported all of Long Qian's measures, full of confidence and enthusiasm. During this time, his squad was the most outstanding in morning exercises and queue training.

In short, if the team expands, the three squad leaders cultivated by themselves are all talents that can be cultivated__

In addition to these three people, Team Eight also has several talents that Long Qian values. The first is Ning Shijun, who has a reputation for showing talent, and is now one of the chiefs under Wang Mingyuan. Regarding Ning Shijun's family background, Long Qian only learned about Lu Dao later. However, this secret is currently only known to Long Qian, and Long Qian still kept the agreement with Ning Shijun and did not reveal it to anyone.

Ning Shijun's surname is Fang, and his uncle is Fang Boqian, the pipe leader of the Beiyang Navy Jiyuan Ship. Five years ago, Fang Boqian escaped in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, and by the way, he injured a friendly ship, and was beheaded by Ding Ruchang and Li Hongzhang for the crime of escaping. The Fang clan immediately fell. Fang Shijun, who has been admitted to the show but is fond of learning martial arts, accidentally killed someone when he was arguing with his uncle's merits, changed his name to Ning Shijun, went up the mountain in fear of crime, and was divided into the eight teams that had just been formed.

The reason why the surname Ning is because Ning is the mother's surname.

His Hokkien accent aroused Long Qian's suspicions. After several inquiries, Ning Shijun completely told him about his life experience, which was completely convinced by Long Qian. Faced with Ning Shijun's sense of shame brought by his uncle, Long Qian persuaded him to change his surname back generously, and said to him, you have to use your efforts to wash away the shame that your uncle brought to the family, instead of running away. Let future generations say that Fang Boqian, who is surnamed Fang, has a Fang Boqian who retreats from battle, but there is even more Fang Shijun who has won glory for the country.

These words gave Ning Shijun a great shock, Long Qian, who was "imprisoned" in Mengshan, actually said that he would win glory for the country. How can a ringing horse that rob homes and houses win glory for the country? But Fang Shijun did not immediately change back to his original surname, claiming that if he did not make a career, it was not enough to wash away the shame of the family. Long Qian knew that this kid was very ambitious, and used Mengshanzhai as a springboard to wash away the family's shame. The members of Mengshan Cottage are like the original Water Margin Village, and there are many people who are afraid of punishment, and his origin is not surprising, and no one pursues it. The reason why Long Qian chose Ning Shijun as his chief was not because this person was educated and considered a high-level intellectual of this era, but also because he had a ruthlessness that would not give up until he reached his goal, ruthless to the enemy, ruthless to his subordinates, and ruthless to himself. Leading troops to fight is indispensable to this kind of strength, scholars are often more murderous when leading soldiers, not to mention, most of Zeng Hou's subordinates are literati, but they will never lose to Hong Yang's gang of mud legs in the battle array.

Get rid of Ning Shijun, Cheng Erhu, Jiang Yun, and Song Jinguo, all of them are very distinctive. The first team of Shi Changcheng and Erhu Orion was born, bold and careful, and had a ruthlessness that would not stop until the goal was reached. The temperament of the two tigers is somewhat similar to Lu Shan, but there are differences. Cheng Erhu stammered, so he rarely spoke, unlike Lu Shan, who always shouted around with a loud voice all day long. Wang Mingyuan said that although the two tigers are not angry, they do things in their hearts and count them. The two tigers are resilient in war, strong in execution, and no matter how difficult and dangerous the task is, once it is explained, it will never complain. This is quite like a pillar of the country. Long Qian is very optimistic about Cheng Erhu, who has no culture, likes his simplicity, chats with him intentionally or unintentionally, and teaches him some knowledge of leading soldiers.

Although Jiang Yun, who was recommended by Wang Mingyuan to serve as Long Qian's guard, was young, he was second only to Ning Shijun in the eighth team, he was enlightened at the age of seven and studied in private school for six years. If it weren't for the accidental fall of the family road, this kid might have been caught in Xiucai. Wang Mingyuan valued Jiang Yun very much, thinking that he was the material for engaging in staff officers as Long Qian said, and recommended it to Long Qian, who regarded him as his own protector, followed him, observed carefully, and found many advantages of this young man.

Jiang Yun's biggest characteristic is that he is meticulous and has a very good memory, as long as he has dealt with people, he will always remember it. I remember the events of a long time ago clearly. Observing things in detail, Long Qian once briefly assessed Jiang Yun, he changed a porcelain bowl in his room, and then asked Jiang Yun what had changed in this room, Jiang Yun looked at it for a while and said that the position of the two bowls was reversed, and then he accurately restored the original position. In addition to having a good memory, Jiang Yun also has a skill that Long Qian thinks is very rare, that is, to set people's words. Don't look at him young, he can always put out the inner words of people who are older than him. But my mouth is tight, and a lot of things are rotten in my stomach.

Long Qian believes that Jiang Yun's most suitable position is espionage. He also had this plan, and when the time was ripe, Long Qian was ready to set up an intelligence group and let Jiang Yun be a full-time intelligence staff officer. However, it is clear that there is no need for a special firing unit at the moment. Therefore, Long Qian took Jiang Yun by his side and intended to teach him some knowledge of intelligence gathering and espionage prevention, and Jiang Yun showed great interest, which strengthened Long Qian's idea of cultivating him into an excellent intelligence expert.

Song Jinguo, the head of the former third squad known as the old man of Shanxi, is a good hand at logistics. In Long Qian's view, Song Jinguo, a fellow villager, is much stronger than Sun Dewang's group of people who specialize in logistics, this person is not highly educated but is good at calculation and overall planning. If you train it well, you will be an excellent logistics minister.

The most important thing is that these squad leaders and leaders have accepted Long Qian for more than half a year, they regard Long Qian as their leader, and fully accept and practice Long Qian's training methods that are not in tune at first but have amazing actual results. They are brave, simple, and have prestige among ordinary soldiers, such as the systematic military training carried out by Long Qian after returning to the mountain, they all accepted and took the lead in carrying out without resistance, so that the training could be carried out smoothly and persistently.

They are all the brains of Long Qian's hard work after serving as the captain of Team 8. With this group of people, Long Qian thought that he could completely rely on these more than 100 people to create an elite army, and then rely on them to create a situation in this doomed and unavoidable troubled era.

But will there really be a result? If there is a day, how many of these unpretentious brothers will be left? Long Qian was deeply confused and frightened in his heart.

Now, Long Qian has two more squad leaders, that is, Ye Yanbing and Feng Lun. In a series of actions after the breakthrough and military training after returning to the mountain, Long Qian paid attention to the performance of the two and basically expressed satisfaction. Ye Yanbing is studious and willing to ask anything about anything, but he can't seem to hide things in his heart. Feng Lun is the opposite, he doesn't talk much, he has a heart, he has the strength to train recently, and he has a momentum of not admitting defeat, which is very appreciated by Long Qian.

Talent is everywhere, just see if you will find and cultivate it.

Now the situation has changed again, and Zhou Yi has returned to Mengshan with seventy or eighty people and partnered with him. In terms of goodness, the strength of the cottage has been strengthened. Moreover, several big leaders of the cottage were killed or captured, and without Zhou Yi, there was no one to threaten Long Qian's status in the cottage. From the bad aspect, Zhou Yi is the nephew of Zhou Huanan, the fourth leader of the cottage, and the captain of the original third team, and his qualifications in Mengshanzhai are much deeper than Long Qian. Zhou Yi's return to the mountain will undoubtedly affect the status that Long Qian has achieved.

The well-intentioned people of the eighth team noticed this, and Wang Mingyuan quietly told Long Qian that now there are dozens of people in the cottage, which has affected the training of the cottage in full swing, so it is better to reorganize them earlier.

This is undoubtedly the right proposition. In fact, Long Qian has been thinking about reorganizing the team and integrating the mixed formation that Zhou Yi brought back to the mountain into his Mengshan army. Because Zhou Yi was seriously injured, Long Qian kept suppressing it. After a short rest, the soldiers who returned to the mountain were temporarily integrated into a foot team by Long Qian, and a squad leader named Cao Minzhong of the fifth team led the "make-up class" in military training.

Mengshanzhai has collapsed, and the original leaders are either dead or captured, which has created the best conditions for Long Qian's reorganization, Long Qian originally wanted to wait and wait for Zhou Yi to talk about this matter after his injury is healed. Unexpectedly, Zhou Yi took the initiative to find him, and when Long Qian went to the hospital for a routine visit, Zhou Yi withdrew and said something to Long Qian.

"My uncle has told me more than once that you are a person who does great things, and it is more useful to follow you than to follow him. Now Mengshanzhai is headed by you, and it will be headed by you in the future. The good training of the Eighth Brigade has been best proved in this war. I think the three teams no longer exist, and the people in the three teams are all yours, including me. When I'm healed, I'm willing to serve as a soldier under you. ”

Long Qian was deeply moved by these words. He knew that the head of the house on Thursday admired him more, but he didn't expect Zhou Huanan to speak so highly of himself, "Brother Zhou, the four of you look up to Long." Long doesn't want to be hypocritical, and is trying to discuss with Brother Zhou, the title of Mengshanzhai needs to be changed, if we want to gain a foothold, it is not difficult, but if we want to create a situation, we must change our course. I mean, we have to change our old banditry habits in the future, otherwise it will be difficult to survive in this troubled world. I told you, in the past, we were called Mengshanzhai, and in the future, we will be Mengshanjun. ”

Zhou Yi knew that Long Qian's heart was high, but the three words Mengshan Jun still shocked him, "I heard my uncle say that Zeng Hou trained troops in southern Hunan, and he was afraid of the suspicion of the imperial court, so he didn't dare to call the army and call him brave." In the eyes of the imperial court, Mengshanzhai is just a grass coward who occupies the mountain as the king, but when the banner of the Mengshan army is played, we are clearly pulling the flag and rebelling. ”

Long Qian smiled slightly, did not answer Zhou Yi's question directly, and asked him instead, "Brother Zhou, what do you think of the current situation?" ”

Zhou Yi was dumbfounded. Not to mention the situation in the DPRK, even the situation in central and southern Lu, he can't say a meridian, "This, how do I know this?" ”

"Let me tell you that the situation in the Qing Dynasty is facing a great change that has not been seen in a thousand years. Haven't you heard of the Boxer Rebellion all over Shandong? These peasants, who hate foreigners, will start a fire. Believe me, after surviving these few months, the imperial court is not able to take care of us at all. Don't care about Yuan Shikai's Wuwei Right Army, in my opinion, although Lao Yuan's soldiers are strong, as soon as Lao Yuan leaves Shandong, they will follow. As for those green battalions and patrol battalions in Shandong, will you be afraid of them? ”

"Will the new army go?" Zhou Yi was stunned.

"How not? If they can come, they can go. There are only a few thousand people in the old base of the new army, and if there is something to do in the imperial court, the first thing that comes to mind is the new army. ”

The strong combat effectiveness of the Wuwei Right Army left a deep and even terrifying impression on the people of Mengshanzhai, and except for the eight teams that did not fall behind in the battle against the new army, the rest of the troops changed their colors. Zhou Yi heard Long Qian's judgment that the Wu Weijun would leave Shandong soon, and he breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart.

"Brother Zhou, I judge that they won't come to Mengshan to find the bad luck of a few of our remnants right now. The arrest of a few big leaders gave them a reason to surrender to the imperial court, why did they come to this poor mountain again? Thanks to Leader Sun, the cottage was not burned, the grain and grass that was not searched by the official army and the grain I brought back from Maoyang Town can still support our small group of people for a while. We must seize this time to reorganize and train the troops, and first do not go out of the mountains to disturb the place, so that the government can be completely quiet, and when we have finished training the troops, everything will be fearless. ”

"This is very good, I have already said that in the future, Mengshan will be dominated by you, and everything depends on Brother Long's talent."