"Oh my God, I can't be dreaming." "I think I must have misheard." "He's just a baron, or an honorary baron with no territory."

The supreme commander of the expeditionary force is not an ordinary high-level position, but a big man who really holds the military power of one side, and an important minister and powerful minister above 10,000 people under one person.

Ricardo's face was a little pale, and his fist hidden below was clenched tightly. The huge sense of drop made the eagle owl on the dragon's shoulder fluctuate and it was difficult to calm down.

However, this was only a momentary wavering, and soon he returned to his usual calm appearance, and even joked with the person next to him, "What a surprising news." ”

Chen Xing, who was on the cusp of the storm, had an indifferent expression, stood up and bowed to the girl on the throne, "Thank you for the princess's love, your subordinates must be diligent and self-denying, and live up to their mission." ”

Very polite and tiarable, Alia replied with a bow, and then nodded to Lacey next to her. Lacey stepped forward and announced that today's military and political meeting was over.

The crowd was amazed again. This means that this military and political meeting is only convened for one person. The partiality and weight of the princess of the north have been completely written on her face.

People have speculated about the relationship between this Chen Xing and the princess, who was actually promoted to such a high position. The credit for the night attack on the Seven Peaks is indeed not small, but after all, it was just a demonstration, not really the Seven Mountains. Such a credit is not enough to rise several levels in a row and ascend to the sky in one step.

After Aliya left, Chen Xing didn't stop long, bowed slightly to the crowd behind him, and then left the venue.

Now that he has become a pivotal figure in the city, his words and deeds will be closely watched, and the slightest mistake will become the headlines of the tabloids. He understands that too many words are bound to be lost, and before he can adjust to his new position, he must keep a low profile and avoid the eyes of the crowd.

It is impossible to say that his heart is not agitated. The surface is not shocked, but in fact, the heart has long been turned upside down. Alia really didn't disappoint him, either she didn't give it, and she gave the best if she wanted to.

The supreme commander of the expeditionary force means that he can form an army group that is completely under his orders, just like the First Army of the Red Dragon Principality of the Grand Prince Gavin Maris, the Second Army of Lacey, and the Third Army of Count George.

According to the military practice of the Red States, the smallest tactical unit is a squad, the smallest strategic unit is a war group, and the largest strategic unit is a group army.

Army groups have the power to independently attack and occupy an area. If Qin Wu dared to come, the only result would be to flee in the wilderness.

Strictly speaking, Chen Xing's expeditionary force has a higher political status. He was an expeditionary force of the Northern Alliance, not of the Red Dragon Principality. Although they are all under the command of the princess of the north, the meaning is completely different.

The army of the Red Dragon Principality is first of all the Red Dragon Principality, followed by the Northern Alliance, and the expeditionary force is the princess's expeditionary force.

If this team is pulled up, Chen Xing will be the real bigwig, and as long as the opportunity is ripe, he will be able to form his own country.

But then again, all he gets now is the preparation and budget, and the team has to pull up on his own.

The news spread quickly, and before Chen Xing returned to Beiqiao Town, the news of the appointment had already spread throughout the entire Red Dragon Principality.

The first one to come to the door was Xiang Caidie. But even if she doesn't come, Chen Xing will go to her.

"Don't think about it now, do you?" Xiang Caidie leaned against the table and asked, her plump face line pressed against the edge of the table, sinking deeply.

"Does that need to be said?" Chen Xing put his feet on the table and posed like a big boss.

The expeditionary force has an establishment of 100,000 people, and it definitely does not worry about its position. It was easy to absorb the regular troops of the North Bridge Regiment of more than 2,000 people. Incorporated into the expeditionary force, he will rely on eating imperial food in the future.

And in terms of their relationship, the Beiqiao Regiment is the descendant of the expeditionary force.

Even if the general is fair, the troops under his command will be divided into descendants and collaterals, pro-soldiers and ordinary soldiers. It is impossible for the scales to be completely untilted, and whoever has a closer relationship and who seems more loyal will receive more resources.

"Hua Po wants me to continue to lead the team." Xiang Caidie said.

"She meant you to follow me?" Chen Xing asked with some surprise.

"Hua Po wants me to have more experience, now that the Crow Ruins have been converted into business, it's better for me to stay on the battlefield." Xiang Caidie replied.

"Yes." Chen Xing agreed without thinking about it. Xiang Caidie was originally the sub-head of the Beiqiao Regiment, responsible for the management of the regular troops, and it was only fitting for her to continue to lead.

"Then you ......" Xiang Caidie twisted and asked, "Then what position are you going to give me?" ”

This is to ask for a position.

"What location do you want?" Chen Xing asked straight to the point.

"Commander-in-chief of the Chinese army." Xiang Caidie said.

The group army is usually divided into seven major parts: the left army, the middle army, the right army, the reconnaissance brigade, the military police brigade, the guards army, and the reserve army.

Among them, the left, center, and right armies are the main combat forces. Among them, the Chinese army is the largest and the largest in number, and the commander of the Chinese army is almost the second person in the corps.

"Well, let me think about it......" Chen Xing muttered.

Xiang Caidie is a quasi-lord-level powerhouse, and his relationship with him is close enough, so he could have been entrusted with important tasks, but Xiang Caidie is not smart enough, he belongs to a warrior type with a simple mind and developed limbs, and it is okay to lead troops to fight, but the strategy is not very good.

But then again, this commander of the Chinese army is actually a puppet, just listen to the supreme commander, and you don't need to have your own head.

The Chinese army usually only plays at the time of Armageddon, and at this time, the strategic command is no longer important, and it is just to do it.

It is estimated that she asked Hua Beidou about this proposal, and Hua Beidou also made a judgment after weighing the pros and cons.

Xiang Caidie didn't speak, and waited quietly beside her. After Chen Xingsi thought about it, although Xiang Caidie was not the most suitable candidate, he finally agreed.

He did this out of a number of reasons. First of all, Xiang Caidie has the strength of a quasi-lord and can control the field, and at the same time, she also has many years of experience in the management of large mercenary groups. Don't expect her to be tricky, but not to make low-level mistakes.

Secondly, this is a gesture of goodwill to Yeyang Bailiu and Hua Beidou. Although the relationship between him and Yeyang Bailiu goes without saying, they are always two different forces and cannot be confused. No matter how good an individual personal relationship is, they can't ignore the interests of their respective teams. Even if Ye Yang Bailiu doesn't care, what about the sisters below her?

The Iron Sisters Church is already a major force in the Monitor Lizard City, and it is necessary to deepen cooperation and seek closer common interests.

"You have to guarantee execution, as well as absolute loyalty to me personally." The Supreme Commander put forward requirements for the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army, and then the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army proved himself to be an "obedient good boy" and a "loyal good cadre" with various "services......

After Xiang Caidie went back, Chen Xing thought about it all night, and the next day he called the high-level leaders of the Thunder Light Troupe and the Master Troupe over.

On the side of the Thunder Light Regiment, Fire Mouth, Rat, Pang Li, Gong, Iron Cannon, and Xiong Ben, these high-level leaders are all at the town guard level and do not need to use hero potions.

On the master's side, Lao Ji passed away, and Big Cat and Cassie were lucky to survive, and now they are at the town guard level. Lin Shiyuan did not use hero potion, and there was no danger to his life.

Today, there are only more than one hundred and fifty people left in the Thunder Light Troupe, and there are only more than fifty people in the Master Troupe, adding up to more than two hundred, and most of the rest are dying in the struggle.

After a night of thinking, Chen Xing decided to preserve the formation of the two legions. Although it is only a name, it carries the legacy of its predecessors, and once it is broken up and reorganized, it will lose its original style and heritage.

The Thunder Light Regiment maintained the bloodlines of Tie Nuo and Shen Guangming, and the Master Group maintained the bloodlines of Chen Xing.

Huo Tsui continued to serve as the deputy head of the Lei Guang Regiment, and the rat served as the assistant of the Legion, so he could freely absorb like-minded newcomers and become the first elite regiment of the Guards in the establishment of the expeditionary force.

The Guards are the elite combat units of the army, like the tip of a sword and the cone of an arrow.

Big Cat continues to serve as the head of the Master Regiment, Cassie continues to serve as the deputy head of the Regiment, and there are two main ways to replenish personnel, one is to draw elites from the North Bridge Regiment, and the other is to recruit in the territory of the Hanging Skull Alliance to ensure the purity of the bloodline of the Master Regiment, and to make the expeditionary force a reconnaissance brigade.

The reconnaissance brigade is an intelligence agency in the group army, which is responsible for reconnaissance, assassination, sneak attack, etc.

Seeing Yuecanlian is in charge of the guard regiment, and the main personnel are recruited from Orchid Town to be responsible for the daily security work of the command.

The second group to come to the door was the Gray Corner City Gate Valve Family headed by Ye Yang Zhengxiong.

"I'm glad to hear that my son-in-law is promoted, and I'm here to congratulate you." "Congratulations to Lord Chen, from now on, the sea is wide and the fish jumps, and the sky is high and the birds can fly!"

"I said before, Chen Da is very popular, and he is by no means a thing in the pool." "Lord Chen soars into the sky, and the great cause can be accomplished!"

After some hype, we got to the point.

"It's all my own family, so I won't beat around the bush with you." Ye Yang Zhengxiong said bluntly, "We came this time to get a military police errand under the hands of adults......

In the group army, the gendarmerie has two main roles, one is to supervise the war, and the other is to deduct military salaries. To sum up, it is high status and thick oil and water.

Supervising the war, not to mention, the main role of the gendarmerie. It was the custom of the Red Army to withhold military salaries, because the salaries of the upper ranks were calculated according to the head and position, and were paid directly to the soldiers, in order to treat everyone equally.

However, in fact, the dangers and pressures borne by the descendants and the collateral units, the elite troops, the main forces, and the logistics units are all different, and the treatment is obviously different, and it is impossible to really achieve complete fairness, so there is a practice of deducting military salaries.

Internally, the gendarmes cut their own people, which is a dirty job. To be honest, Chen Xing didn't plan to let his direct troops do such an errand.

Obviously, doing dirty work affects combat effectiveness.

However, the work of the gendarme is indeed suitable for the family of gate valves.

The biggest difficulty for the gendarmerie is that it has to do dirty work and have a bottom line. Not only to stab one's own person, but also to have the most basic sense of glory, not to the end, there is no lower limit.

People who have been in officialdom for a long time are the most suitable for this. Strong execution, unscrupulous, but has its own bottom line, and has a firm position on major issues of right and wrong.

The family of gate valves is the vested interest of the state, and the interests of the country are closely related to their interests. One is prosperous, and one is lost.

In essence, how can you let other people's families cut your own wool and your own leeks? So their position is more firm than that of the bottom of society.

Chen Xing didn't think long before agreeing to Ye Yang Zhengxiong's request and appointing him as the supreme head of the military police headquarters of the expeditionary force, the chief inspector of the military police, and he would transfer personnel from the family troops of the gate lord family to form the military police brigade of the expeditionary force.

"Virtuous son-in-law, we have a lot of talents in Gray Corner City, can you arrange another legion commander......

"Don't think about it!"

Before Ye Yang Zhengxiong finished speaking, he was vetoed by Chen Xing. Xiang Caidie, commander-in-chief of the Chinese army, Ye Yang Zhengxiong, chief inspector of the military police, and another commander, the expeditionary force will be surnamed Ye Yang.

Not to mention internal problems, he can't give all his positions to others, and he also needs to win over other forces. Of course, Ye Yang Zhengxiong can gather 100,000 people for him, but the problem is that the combined family troops of the Seven Great Lords of Gray Corner City are less than 20,000 people, and it is impossible to give them all to him.

The dispatch of a gendarmerie of about 3,000 men is almost enough.

In this way, the basic framework of the expeditionary force was established, and all that remained was to draw together all forces and expand the ranks.

Since Aliya appointed Chen Xing as the supreme commander of the expeditionary force, a new undercurrent has emerged in the circle of monitor lizard city elites. This undercurrent is so obvious that it almost gushes out of the sea and becomes a torrent.

On this afternoon, the eldest princess Lacey Maris invited the eldest prince Gavin Maris for afternoon tea.

The royal garden in the afternoon sun is quiet and elegant, with fragrant flowers and plants, and a gentle breeze.

"Dear sister, why are you so leisurely and elegant today, don't you need to accompany your adult?" Gavin asked with a chuckle.

"Gavin Maris, we must join forces in this matter, otherwise in the near future, the dragon city will be surnamed Chen!" Lacey's face tensed, almost gritting her teeth as she uttered the words.

"Relax, my dear sister. It's just a low-level kid who relies on luck to get on the top, and he can't make much waves. As the saying goes, good luck can't come all the time. I'm sure it won't be long before he falls hard and his face is bruised and his nose is swollen. Gavin said disapprovingly.

"You'd better go back and listen to your eagle owl." Lacey threw down a word and left. In her eyes, the only merit of her dull brother was probably that he had raised an eagle owl.

It didn't take long for Gavin Marris to pass on the words of his eldest sister to Ricardo.

"The surname of the monitor lizard city is not Chen. A little hamster who doesn't have a lord-level can, just with the favor of that adult, it is impossible to turn the sky upside down, let alone shake the thousand-year-old foundation of the Maris family. Ricardo concluded, "The eldest princess should be overly worried." ”

"I'll just say, my self-righteous sister has loved to make a fuss since she was a child." Gavin scoffed. Lacey has always been his biggest rival. Fortunately, he was the first heir to the Red Dragon throne, and he was assisted by Ricardo, so he was not overshadowed by the aura of Princess Allure.

"But......," Ricardo mused, "we ought to join forces with the eldest princess in this matter." ”

"No matter how small the possibility is, it must be strangled in the cradle."

"This man has a low status and an unstable foundation, and we only need to spend a small amount of energy to make it difficult for him to move in monitor lizard city."

"Makes sense." Gavin spread his hands, "Then it's such a happy decision." ”

In the next few days, except for the Beiqiao Regiment and the Gate Valve Family of Gray Corner City, no new force came to visit Chen Xing.

Chen Xing went to the city to inquire, and when he came back, he was not good.

There are three main points about the negative/news about him.

The first point is that he was born as a low-level mercenary, and he did not go to any formal military academy, and it is estimated that he does not even have a primary school diploma. It is completely dependent on the wild road to lead the troops, and the success of the sneak attack on the Chiyan Mountains is completely like a blind cat encountering a dead mouse. It is better to count on him to win the battle than to expect the Silverclaw Principality to surrender itself.

The second point is that there is no money, no power and no strength, and it is completely dependent on hugging the thighs.

The third point is that the dual identity of the nouveau riche and the rural aristocracy, the pattern is low, short-sighted, and the deduction of military salaries is definitely more serious than that of ordinary troops.

All kinds of tabloids and magazines have fabricated a bunch of stories about him out of thin air, and the dirty water is overwhelming, almost he is Huang Shiren and Zhou Papi, and he wants to vomit blood.

In the face of all kinds of deliberate slander, Chen Xing is speechless. He can't be clarified by everyone, and if he does, others may not believe it. His foundation is too weak, his reputation is too low, and if he wants to reverse the reputation, he can't do it at all.

Although it is difficult, things still have to be done and cannot be easily defeated.

He pondered all night, and finally found a solution that did not work out in his past business experience.

At present, if you want to attract people to join the gang, you can only follow the routine of pyramid schemes, starting with acquaintances......