"No wonder they say that victory boosts morale, and that's true." Zhang Yang looked at the overexcited soldiers and felt a little bit in his heart.

"Hey, what's going on in our heads? Could it be that you have fallen in love with a certain beauty? Perez, who jumped off the card, rolled his eyes and sneered.

"Begging for a beating! Be careful to let you go running 10 km off-road! ”

Annoyed and angry, Zhang Yang glared at Perez, threatening the other party.

However, it is clear that Perez has no fear of the threat of publicity, and he still looks like a hippie smile, and there is no fear at all.

After returning to the base, they were also warmly welcomed, of course, it was Steve who was in the limelight, after all, one person singled out a base, which was too shocking compared to Zhang Yang and his group of more than a dozen people, and it also caused the others to be a little numb.

Anyway, as long as they are related to the Dire Brigade, they are definitely not ordinary people, so what is there to worry about doing something earth-shattering?

The complete destruction of the two important bases of the Hydra overnight, such a record is a great credit even on the battlefield, and if it is replaced by a strong attack by ground troops, the number of casualties is definitely more than a little bit. Unless bombers are dispatched to bomb, but the losses of bombers being intercepted and shot down must also be taken into account.

In this way, the two records of Zhang Yang and Steve have become important.

The most surprising thing was none other than the U.S. government, which originally sent Steve to the army to offer condolences in order to appease people, although the other party violated the order. Leaving the camp without permission and going deep alone, but it also brought them a huge surprise. In the past, the U.S. team was only supported by a powerful propaganda offensive. Outside of the gold and jade, the defeat is in it, and the current iron record is a real credit! directly sat on the title of Captain America.

The next morning, Steve received the latest telegram from New York, asking Steve to immediately end the condolence action and return directly to New York for the honor. As a reward for this battle. Senator Brandt asked Washington for instructions, applied for a medal of courage for Steve, and informed reporters from many newspapers. No one wants to miss the headlines.

The more credit Steve's deed, the more the U.S. government will be able to publicize it. On the contrary to Steve, despite the same meritorious service, Zhang Yang and the Dire Brigade are more low-key than the other. In addition to the relevant troops. Only the top brass of the Army knew about these things. It was not hyped up.

Since it is a special force that needs to be kept secret, then the hype is completely looking for death, which is equivalent to putting the handwriting into a target and exposing it in front of everyone. Once known to the Germans or the Hydra side, and thus specify the corresponding combat policy, the advantage of the Dire Brigade will be lost.

Of course, it is not public, but the credit is real, and this time the people who participated in the action collectively recorded a credit. As long as you wait for the right opportunity, the merits accumulated from this merit can be taken out. In exchange for the payment you deserve.

After this turmoil passed, everyone was still talking, and for Zhang Yang and Phillips, there was a more important thing to do.

"The selection is divided into three locations, one for each of the 11th and 33rd divisions, and one for the new recruits on our side, with the same rules and time, for the second reselection."

Regarding the expansion of the Dire Brigade, it was brought up early on the itinerary. After the complete destruction of these two Hydra bases, the pressure on the Allied front line was suddenly reduced a lot, but the ordinary German army, with the difference in morale and equipment between the two sides, the Allies had more and more advantages.

Two days ago, one of the two armored battalions assigned to Phillips had settled at the base, and the burly tanks had given everyone great confidence. In addition to the selection and training of the Dire Brigade, the base has also added training subjects on infantry and tank cooperative operations, striving to master relevant skills in the shortest and fastest time, so as to apply them on the battlefield.

In the military base in Tennessee, although there are also a few tanks, but after all, they are in the United States, and there is no way to transport them across the ocean, and Phillips has not thought of the idea of resource exchange, but even if the selection of the super soldier program is stopped on the base, it still needs defense forces, and these tanks are still not used in the end, and they are still guarded in the base as treasures at the bottom of the box.

It is precisely because of this that when the training was first held, everyone had no chance to carry out the infantry and tan coordination training, and they were completely holding the gun and screaming and rushing forward, and there was no concept of any coordination.

In order to reverse this concept of running crookedly, Phillips did not make any less effort, and repeatedly emphasized the importance of coordination, after all, after joining two more armored battalions, the 107th Infantry Brigade is actually equivalent to half an armored brigade. The huge gap in combat effectiveness determines that the status of the two sides is not the same, although it is two infantry battalions, but it occupies one-third of the combat strength of the 107 Infantry Brigade.

The remaining two-thirds are undoubtedly the Dire Brigade and the original infantry team, the Dire Brigade is a strange soldier, and the original infantry team has reached about 700 people after expansion, which belongs to the main force of conventional operations. And Phillips was reluctant to let the Dire go to such a small scene.

The two infantry divisions combined, the number of people is as many as 50,000, after a rough audition, there are still more than 10,000 people who entered the second re-selection, because it is on the battlefield, the original exercise selection has changed a little bit, and the standard has been improved a lot compared with the previous first batch of selection, under such a double change, in the end, more than 1,000 people are still left in the second selection, which makes Phillips angry and greedy.

The anger is that out of more than 1,000 people, Dire can only choose half of them, and the highest standard is the standard regimental establishment of 500 people, and the greedy thing is that these nearly 500 new team members, all of whom are veterans of a hundred battles, can form new combat effectiveness after a series of preliminary training.

Moreover, because of the selection, the more than 600 people who were not selected were also taken care of by the army, and secretly left a list, if they were ready to continue to expand the number next time, these more than 600 people could directly carry out the expansion, and the province would spend a lot of effort to get the matter of selection.

"Five hundred, ......"

Zhang Yang rubbed his darkened eye circles, looking at the thick stack of lists on the seat, in addition to the first batch of veteran players, the number of new members reached 470, slightly exceeding the standard establishment of 500 people. However, this is not a big problem, in times of war, some teams have more people, some teams have fewer people, a regiment with more people may have more people than a brigade, and a regiment with fewer people is less than two battalions.

The selection work lasted for half a month, and during this time, Phillips also reorganized the hundreds of Allied prisoners rescued by Steve, of which 249 returned to the original unit according to his own wishes, and nearly 200 remained as originally intended, and were directly incorporated into the 107th Infantry Brigade.

Among these people, there are mixed arms, including infantry, artillery and armored soldiers, and a quarter of them are airborne troops.

Fortunately, the infantry is the most inclusive of the most inclusive troops, more than 200 people were left by Phillips, together with the infantry of the original unit, it reached more than 700 people, plus an armored battalion of 260 people, a Dire brigade of 503 people, and the number of the 107th Infantry Brigade at the moment reached 1,500 people.

This is still the number after the transfer of only one armored battalion, and another full armored battalion is still being transferred, and it is expected that it will take another week, and by that time, the 107th Infantry Brigade alone will have a combat strength of 1,800 men, although it cannot be compared with those full divisions that often exceed tens of thousands of people, but it is enough to make Phillips feel satisfied.

In December 1941, the total strength of the U.S. Army was 1685403, and after 1944, the total strength of the U.S. Army reached more than 8.29 million, more than 4.9 times the total strength of the total strength in 1941.

By this time, the army had 66 infantry divisions, 5 airborne divisions, 16 armored divisions, 1 cavalry division, and 1 mountain division. Among them, 31 infantry divisions were deployed to the European theater alone.

Among them, due to the small number of brigades, most of the division level is directly below the regiment level, so the brigade establishment is generally a little special, and some tank battalions and armored battalions are independent, and later in order to facilitate management, most of the independent low-level formations were reorganized, and the two armored battalions assigned to Phillips were originally independently established.

If it weren't for the fact that Phillips's rank was a brigade commander, a small regimental level would not have been able to eat these two armored battalions, you must know that the number of these two armored battalions alone has reached 500 people, and they are at the top of some regimental levels.

With more than 1,000 people in his hands, Phillips felt that his eyes were no longer dazzled, his waist did not hurt, his food was fragrant, his sleep was steady, and he smiled the most all day, so he almost didn't write the word "proud" on the door of his head. Not to mention the flamboyance who has been busy with Phillips all day long, even others have noticed that Phillips has been in a good mood lately.

"It's a brigade now, maybe it's a division next year, hehehehe......"

Phillips's little abacus snapped, but Zhang Yang knew very well that by next year, that is, in 1945, World War II would be over, and if he was lucky, Phillips might be able to live the addiction of being a division commander before the end of the war. If it was too late, when the war was over and large-scale disarmament began, Phillips would have no place to cry. (To be continued......)