Chapter 262: Confrontation
There was a sparse sound of pulling and pulling, and Flange. Harris sat down at the table and drank a bowl of barley porridge.
"Hiccup~"
He burped hard, stroked his round belly, and sighed comfortably.
"I'm very strange, you actually released me directly from the dungeon, and let me eat and recover my strength, aren't you afraid that I will coerce you?"
Flange. Harris raised his eyebrows and looked at Li Mu. As a commander, the requirements for strength are not high, but as a member of the Harris family, he still has one or two stunts.
Li Mu glanced at him, pressed one hand on the dining table, and with a little force, the sturdy steel dining table made a piercing creak, and was bent in a large piece.
Flange. Harris immediately became honest, and his eyes became serious when he looked at Li Mu. Able to bend steel plates as easily as origami, he knew that he would not be the opponent of the young man in front of him.
"What the hell did you release me from the dungeon, if you want information about Ameriken, I can only say that I have no comment."
"It's very simple, I want you and your subordinates to serve as our military instructors, and what we need to learn is not how to become a qualified soldier like the Yin Corpse Gang, but how to become a qualified officer."
The backbone of an army is its middle and lower officer corps, as long as it has a well-trained officer corps. If the whole army is not completely destroyed, it will soon be able to be reconstituted.
Li Mu had seen information about the German officer corps in his previous life, and after being promoted to the fourth energy level, all of it came to mind without omission. After its defeat in World War I, the Treaty of Versailles stipulated that Germany could only retain an army of 100,000 men.
Hans von Seckt, the Supreme Commander of the German Army at the time, was the Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht and was a central figure in the reorganization of the German Army. In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the army, he paid special attention to the training of officers, whose minimum education level is high school graduation, and all officers on active duty must obtain a high school diploma in their spare time, otherwise they will be discharged early, no matter how great their military exploits.
At that time, the German army also had the highest demotion rate, 4% in 1923 and 8% in 1928.
Every officer is required to undergo rigorous military training, and an officer with the rank of second lieutenant needs 2 years of training before receiving the rank. First training as a soldier, followed by training as a reserve officer, then military academy studies, and finally intensive learning and the art of synthetic combat. Even after being appointed as an officer, they have to attend lectures, staff rotation training, and technical weapons training.
This rigorous training of the officer corps was of great quality and was one of the reasons for Germany's successes in the early stages of World War II.
Compared with the German officer corps, the current Free Brotherhood army can only be said to be a grass platform, which is not a professional soldier in the strict sense of the word, and does not even have the most basic military rank system. Of course, the only regular army in the entire Deccan Plateau now is the Zhuxia garrison stationed outside the new Linfen City.
Li Mu wanted to use these American officers to form a small military academy in Lakin Bayde, promote the regularization of the Freedom Brotherhood army, and train these soldiers to become qualified officers.
The officers they captured were all active duty officers of the elite Americon Army, with a formal education from the Americon Military Academy. Unlike the instructors recruited by the Yin Corpse Gang before, most of them are spies of the Foreign Intelligence Agency, and a small half are mercenaries who came to cheat and cheat.
Flange. Harris's eyes narrowed when he heard Li Mu's request. He looked at the young man standing in front of him, as if he could see the ambition in him.
"It seems that you are going to become the second Yin Corpse Gang, but that is inseparable from the assistance of the Americans, as long as you hold us, you can naturally make a request to the Foreign Intelligence Agency, as long as it is not too excessive, I think a few instructors should not be a problem, they are much more professional than me."
Li Mu sat down and crossed his arms.
"I'm not one of the fools of the Corpse Gang, I will be infiltrated into a sieve by the Foreign Intelligence Service to do the stupid thing of hiring spies to train soldiers. If you don't want to, I'll have to send you back to the stinking iron cage, and there will always be some of your men who are willing to leave the dungeon and live in comfortable rooms. ”
Flange. Harris didn't expect that Li Mu didn't give him a chance to bargain at all, and his face suddenly turned green when he thought of the damp and dark dungeon full of the stench of mutated creatures.
"Okay, I promise you, but let my men out as well. I need their help, I can't build a military school alone. ”
He didn't think it was a big deal to train officers for the Brotherhood of Freedom. Despite the capture of Larkin Bede, the Brotherhood of Liberty is still a small force in a corner of the earth, and no matter how it develops, it will not pose a real threat to Ameriken. On the contrary, if they are allowed to grow, they can contain the power of Zhuxia Zhongzhou.
Li Mu nodded.
"Of course, but I have something to say up front. First, your range of movement will be restricted, and you will not be allowed to go outside the designated range of movement, and second, you will not be allowed to come into contact with captured soldiers. ”
Flange. Harris nodded, a small smile on his face.
"Ameriken can't let so many soldiers be captured, I believe that the senior officers of the Foreign Intelligence Service will contact you soon, our teaching career will not be long, I hope that the soldiers under your command are smart enough to learn enough."
"If the Foreign Intelligence Service pays enough ransom, we will release the ordinary soldiers back, but those experienced combat engineers and officers, you will have to stay with us for a while longer."
Flange. Harris's smile froze as he stood up, his hands propped up on the table top.
"If you do this, aren't you afraid that Ameriken will strike at your Brotherhood of Freedom!"
"Haven't you already activated it once, otherwise how would you be here? This is the Deccan Plateau, the colony of Zhuxia, not Honolulu, your colony of Ameriken. ”
Li Mu still sat firmly in his seat.
"Without the support of the Americans, you would not have been able to gain a foothold on the Deccan Plateau, and without a source of weapons, you would not even be able to defeat the marauders."
Flange. Harris's calm expression was gone, and he became a little angry. The thought of spending the rest of his life in the wild land of Larkin Bede was filled with sorrow.
"There's no need for you to worry, we have our own way, and the Foreign Intelligence Service won't necessarily give up on communicating with us because of you. As far as I know, the Harris family's sphere of influence is limited to the Marine Corps, and it does not influence the decision-making of the Foreign Intelligence Service and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ”
Li Mu looked at Flange. Harris, said slowly.
"How could you possibly know?"
Flange. Harris had a shocked expression on his face, the status of the Harris family was almost well known in Ameriken, but it was very unbelievable that a little-known small leader in the Deccan Plateau also knew about it.
"You just need to be a good instructor honestly, and our Freedom Brotherhood will not treat instructors badly."
Li Mu said, patted him on the shoulder, and walked out. (To be continued.) )