Li Congyi also understands that although the high-level of the Southern Tang Army, headed by his father-in-law Huangfu Jixun, plus Zhu Lingyun, are all guys with negative combat values, it can be said that they are rotten to the roots, and even the grassroots of the army are rotten. But there are always some officers who are worth fighting for.

And with Li Congyi's status, it is difficult to always control the army on the front line, so he must establish his own team of middle and high-level military generals. This is also Li Congyi's purpose to observe Cui Feihu this time, and it is also Cui Feihu's intention to personally perform martial arts on the school field. However, after thinking about it, Li Congyi still felt that the building of the new army must be in his own hands in the initial stage, and he would never pretend to others. At least in the seeds of the first three battalions, plant Li Congyi's authority and create a new army with its own brand.

Therefore, although Cui Feihu deliberately caters to and deliberately shows off, his way of thinking about governing the army is incompatible with Li Congyi, and Li Congyi finally decided to wait until he finishes training the army.

Back in Xuanyao, Li Congyi couldn't wait to start reorganizing the army.

The setting of grassroots combat teams with ten people and one team of 100 people continued until the Qing Dynasty in ancient China, which made Li Congyi always consider whether "existence is reasonable".

But a battle between Dong Jingye's department and the mountain pirates made Li Congyi completely understand that if this mechanism doesn't work, it won't work. That night in the battle, the two captains each led a direction, and the captains of both occupied their own people, taking the lead, and thought that the battle merits were captured, how could they think that the pirates' combat power was comparable to them, and as a result, as soon as the battle was engaged, one was killed and one was seriously injured, and as soon as the captain died, the two teams were dispersed, and there was no longer the strength to fight. Even the third captain of the capital also tried to gather the team, and was targeted by the pirate's counterattack team, and was also seriously injured, so the three capital teams were no longer restrained, and everyone just fled for their lives.

At the battalion level, except for some personal guard battalions or elite troops who will set up battalion adjutant generals, there is usually only one battalion commander, and once the battalion commander is accidentally killed or injured or escapes, the entire battalion will lose its command and will no longer have the strength to fight.

Therefore, Li Congyi resolutely decided to imitate the modern military system for adjustment. Now there are enough people, and although the training has just begun, it is enough to pull out a whole battalion.

At that moment, with the establishment of Dong Jingye's department, Li Congyi's first battalion in this world was established.

With ten people as a squad, three squads as a platoon, and then three platoons and a group of husbands as a company, a company has about 100 people. With these three infantry companies as the main force of the battalion. At the same time, a battalion headquarters platoon, a cavalry platoon, a reconnaissance platoon, and a non-combat unit such as an engineer platoon, a baggage platoon, a medical squad, and a men's platoon were set up at the battalion headquarters. The nominal battalion commander is still Dong Jingye, but in fact, Yang Fei of the Guogong Mansion Guard is the commander of the first battalion. Originally, Li Congyi asked Wang Damu to be the commander of this battalion, but later found out that this Wang Damu was really a talent for training recruits, so he wanted to appoint him with another appointment.

In order to prevent a situation in which once a commander is killed in battle, his headquarters will be scattered, Li Congyi has set up a wide range of deputy posts at all levels, not only as deputy battalion commanders but also as battalion staff officers as battalion cadres, and deputy posts in companies and platoons, for example, deputy squad leaders in each squad.

Cadres at the battalion and company levels, including cadres from battalion headquarters organs, were basically appointed by Li Congyi on the basis of the opinions of Gu Dazhuang, Wang Damu, and others. However, at the squad and platoon level of the three infantry companies, the trainees themselves elect themselves. After all, it is a matter of personal life on the battlefield, how dare everyone be sloppy, and the people selected are basically unexpected. is the original captains of Dong Jingye's department, and this time he was also selected as the platoon leader; And it turned out that the two captains, one became the deputy company commander, and the other wanted to be the platoon commander of the cavalry platoon, harassing Wang Damu and Gu Dazhuang in various ways, and finally Leng put the guards of the Guogong Mansion who also wanted to be the leader of the cavalry platoon, and sent them to the latter battalion to do work.

The ranks were pulled up, the people were in place, but everything was just beginning. For Li Congyi, there are still a few major things to do.

The first is to make regulations. When training the guards of the Guogong Mansion, Li Congyi forced several captains to do some, but it was obviously not enough.

The second is the construction of military camps. Still entrusting Xuanzhou to build, Shen Deshui has arranged a group of people to go to Dongmendu, and now the site is selected and land acquisition, as well as design drawings, and procurement of materials, recruitment of laborers, and soon construction will start.

Ordnance again. Li Congyi made a special fund plan of 300,000 taels, so he no longer asked the state government to allocate materials, but only purchased them by himself.

But now there is really nothing to procure. The main procurement action was to place orders for nearly 10,000 sets of uniforms from several garment workshops in the city, and to distribute three complete sets of clothing from underwear, shirts, coats, and military shoes to each new army soldier. Li Congyi had the intention to change his uniform, but it meant that he had to spend more effort, but at this time, he was really lacking in skills, so he gave up.

Fortunately, the main task of the first battalion is still to train the queue, and the commanders and fighters at all levels will not bother Li Congyi for the time being.

Dong Jingye was more happy, it turned out that he was also responsible for the food of nearly 800 people in the Xuanyao military camp, and after the establishment of the first battalion, he cooked by himself, while Dong Jingye was only responsible for providing raw materials, and the number of people under management dropped significantly, and the workload was much lighter. And Li Congyi did not restrict Dong's shop because of the relationship between Dong Jingye and Dong's shop, but only required Dong Jingye to have three or at least two commonly used suppliers for each material.

Envious of Hu Yuan, a battalion full of more than 500 people, which Hu Yuan didn't even dare to think about before. Although the 1st Battalion had nothing to do with Hu Yuan, when the 1st Battalion held a mobilization meeting for company and platoon-level cadres, it specially invited Hu Yuan to attend the meeting, which made Hu Yuan understand that Jiang Guogong had not forgotten himself, and his opportunity was still very great, so he just had to wait patiently.

The next day, Hu Yuan's original battalion came to the Xuanyao camp, and then the five captains and a few guards were left to Hu Yuan alone, and the rest were immediately dispersed and put into training.

Hu Yuan was praised by Li Congyi for successfully helping the dog overcome the problem of physical incoordination, and let him lead a platoon for training, which will add a shift, which is equivalent to becoming a reinforced platoon. Hu Yuan also understood what Li Congyi meant, and he was not ambiguous, and he was just an output to these old brothers during the day.

When it was time to rest in the evening, sure enough, Wang Hongda and others came over: "Head, the grandfather of this country is obviously fixing you, are you still working so hard to fix us?" Everyone comes to be a soldier and eats, and the meaning is ......"

Hu Yuan asked them to look at a line of words on the playground nailed to the trunk of a tree with a large wooden board, "Look at what is written in that line?" ”

Wang Hong stooled and said: "Boss, that big character may recognize me, but if you let me recognize it, won't it be difficult for me?" ”

Hu Yuan said, "I'll read it to you: sweat more in peacetime, and bleed less in wartime!" ”

He pointed to another row of words on the opposite side and read: "All for war, all for victory!" ”

Wang Hongda gasped, "The grandfather of this country is bent on fighting!" ”

Hu Yuan looked at him coldly: "Wang Da, are you afraid of death, and when you hear that you are going to fight, you will be intimidated?" ”

Wang Hong's neck was stiffened: "Just a joke, I'll be afraid of death?" I just don't think Grandpa Guo is authentic......"

Hu Yuan interrupted him: "Wang Da, if you think of my love, don't harm me; If you still recognize me as a big brother, then you will be able to train. Otherwise, if this great opportunity in front of me Hu Yuan is disturbed by anyone, then don't blame the big brother for turning his face and being ruthless! ”

In the evening, Hu Yuan was not worried about those fools, so he went to check the post. The other tents were already snoring, but Wang Hongda and they didn't, Hu Yuan heard it through the curtain, and there seemed to be a voice inside. couldn't help but feel on fire, and immediately opened the door curtain and flashed in.

I only saw a few figures squatting on the ground, and the moonlight leaking down from the roof of the tent seemed to be gambling. Hu Yuan was extremely angry and shouted: "Xu Jin! Xu Jin! ”

Xu Jin was originally the captain of the capital, but he was promoted by everyone as the squad leader here. didn't sleep at night, gathered to gamble, Hu Yuan first had to clean up the squad leader.

There was a person standing in the pile of figures, not who Xu Jin was, "Boss, this Wang Hongda's name can't be written well, let's let him practice again." ”

Hu Yuan leaned over to take a look, and sure enough, Wang Hongda's name was drawn crookedly on the ground, but it was not a word. Hu Yuan knew that he had blamed them, and his heart warmed, but he still said sternly: "If you want to practice, you can ask for instructions first, and then go outside to practice." If you go to bed at the specified time, you have to sleep, what is the matter with everyone getting together?! Today's first offense, the rest will not be investigated, and Xu Jin, the acting squad leader, will punish a group of 50 push-ups and 50 sit-ups tomorrow ......"

When Wang Hongda heard this, he made a fuss, "This incident was caused by me, and I will be punished!" A few others also clamored.

Hu Yuan grinned: "Xu Jin class, don't rest after a while, punish a group of 50 push-ups, 50 sit-ups and 50 squats tomorrow!" ”

After all, Hu Yuan's department has a foundation, and after a week of training, compared to the recruits, this momentum is much greater.

Li Congyi didn't say a word, and immediately took Hu Yuan as the battalion commander and formed the 2nd battalion.

After another two weeks, Xu Le'an took Wu Feixing and others to Xuanyao.

Gu Dazhuang used the last batch of recruits to bring them into the camp. Li Congyi found an excuse and quietly met Wu Feixing and other surviving Lin Renzhao's personal guards, who were the veteran trapped in Langxi Prison, who was also fished out by Li Congyi.

Of course, Li Congyi will not catch just one person, that is too obvious. Li Congyi suggested screening out smuggler salt dealers and confiscating those smuggler who did not risk human life or did not do much harm. This matter was under the control of Chen Qiao in the central government, and Chen Qiao found an opportunity to ask Li Yu for advice, and soon agreed.

Li Congyi took Gu Dazhuang as the battalion commander and Wu Feixing and others as acting company and platoon-level cadres, and soon pulled up the shelves of the 3rd Battalion.

Of Li Congyi's three seed battalions, the 1st Battalion was based on the Guogong Mansion Guard, the 2nd Battalion was based on Hu Yuan and his subordinates, and the 3rd Battalion was the backbone of Lin Renzhao's personal guards represented by Wu Feixing. When it comes to execution, of course, the 1st Battalion is more capable of commanding; In terms of the proportion of veterans, the 2nd Battalion has the most; But when it comes to combat effectiveness, Li Congyi feels that the 3rd Battalion may be stronger, not only because the Huaishang smuggler brought by Wu Feixing are all veterans and have fought bloody battles, but also more than 100 wounded soldiers from Dong Jingye's department have basically entered the 3rd Battalion after recovering.