From deputy battalion commander to regiment commander, this can be regarded as a third-level promotion, and more importantly, this position is not virtual, but real.

It turned out that after Li Xian began to reorganize the villagers of Sanyuanli, he felt that he had enough personnel at hand, so he sent 1,500 recruits and 1,500 strong men who had just been recruited to Macao to accept the command of Chen Guangsheng.

In the case of Li Xian, what is lacking in Sanyuanli is not people, but time, and sending such 3,000 people to Macao has no impact on the combat ability of that side.

After these people arrived in Macao, they would greatly improve the ratio of friends and enemies on Macao's side, deter those who had two hearts in Macao, and make the British think twice about attacking Macao.

And to achieve this effect, Li Xian's side only paid for 1,500 people's military uniforms, weapons, and moon stipends, and other things, and almost nothing was consumed.

Li Xian's request to Chen Guangsheng was also clear: Chen Guangsheng's independent regiment could retreat when the British attacked, but it also had to find a way to get the Macao people to fight side by side with the Chinese, and at the same time, there must be street battles and other battles in the city.

In short, behind this kind of request is full of malice, that is, Chen Guangsheng and Qian Dafu, who have experienced darkness more or less, and those who have read books will really grasp it, and people like Wang Xiaoming and Ma Daha are very reluctant.

"Well, tell the regimental commander that I will carry out the order carefully. Chen Guangsheng said to the officer sent by Li Xian with a complicated expression, Wu Zi couldn't believe that he could become a regiment commander so easily.

"I'll pass it on. The officer sent by Li Xian said, and added: "However, the regiment commander has already appointed himself as the division commander, and in the future, we should be called the division commander, not the division commander." ”

These words are effective, but Chen Guangsheng still understands it, it seems that the head of his family is expanding the army in Sanyuanli very much, Chen Guangsheng can't help but think.

On Sanyuanli's side, Li Xian thought about facing the invading British army, but he hesitated.

In terms of troop strength, the total strength of the British army reached 13,000 men, which is the army and navy, considering that the British still have to guard Hong Kong and Humen Fort, it is inevitable that they will not be able to suppress all the troops, but that is at least more than 8,000 professional soldiers.

On the other hand, on the side of the coalition army, that is, the team named the "Township Protection Army" by Li Xian and Xuan Zheng, the number of professional soldiers is particularly small.

Originally, Li Xian's escort force had nearly 2,000 people, but 300 of them guarded Macao, 300 guarded Donghai Island, and all the rest of the soldiers, workers, and men were transferred to Sanyuanli, and the number of soldiers who had received military training was only 13,400.

Moreover, five or six hundred of them are experienced veterans who have experienced many wars, while the others are rookie recruits who have been recruited for less than half a year and have little combat experience.

In addition, there are about 300 people under the command of Sanyuanguan Wang Jiuxuan, which is a team established by Sanyuanguan Li Xian, and there are also about 300 people, but most of them are recruits.

In addition, the warriors who have been sharing weal and butter with Li Xian from Donghai Island to Macao to Sanyuan Blessed Land, that is, the members of Operation S.H.I.E.L.I.E.L.D., have about 200 people, and they can be regarded as special forces with more combat effectiveness than veterans.

The Sanyuanguan forces are very scattered, and there are blessed lands to guard, which can provide a special grenadier team composed of ten grandmasters, forty second-order martial artists and fifty first-order martial artists, which can only be provided by the Sanyuanguan after uniting with allies such as the Heaven and Earth Society and the Five Pieces Temple.

In addition, the Fuwei Dart Bureau can provide 150 to 200 dart masters; many of the boat gang led by Qiao Daqing of the Huashan Sect have received relatively professional military training under Li Xian, and they can also play a lot of roles after distributing muskets and other weapons, and 300 people also participated in this battle; and there are also nearly 300 people under Yang Tianming of the Demon Sect, who have secretly conducted military training by Yang Tianming.

However, the above-mentioned team of nearly 800 people has a certain combat effectiveness, but they are not professional soldiers, but they are only in the nature of helping, and once there are large casualties, it is difficult to explain to all aspects, so they can only be regarded as mercenaries and participate in battles with a relatively low degree of danger.

In this way, there are only 2,800 people on Li Xian's side who have received professional military training, and there are nearly 30,000 Sanyuanli peasants available, and compared with the British army, the disadvantage in strength is extremely obvious.

After many previous battles and the purchase of weapons, especially the harvest in Macao, there was not much shortage of muskets and artillery and other weapons on Li Xian's side, enough to arm seven or eight thousand people, but there was a special shortage of people who could skillfully use these weapons.

The first thing to do now is to train the team into an army.

Li Xian recruited more than 10,000 peasants from the peasants of Sanyuanli, of which more than 5,000 young and strong were divided between the mixed Yuanzong and Sanyuanguan, that is, they were reorganized into four regiments, of which Li Xian led two regiments, and Sanyuanguan sent Wang Jiuxuan to lead two regiments.

The other 3,000 people, Li Xian sent them to Macao in one go, and they were used under Chen Guangsheng, which is the so-called independent regiment, as for whether Chen Guangsheng's ability can control this team and train it into an army, Li Xian doesn't have to worry about it.

Anyway, this independent regiment is more used to bluff, if the British really attack Macao, whether it is from the secret realm of the Blue Bat Sect to the Sanyuan blessed land, or directly from the land, there are many options, Li Xian believes that with Chen Guangsheng's ability, even if he can't beat the British, he won't lose too many troops.

As for Macao itself, Li Xian believed that there was not much need to defend, and the 16-character principle of "saving people and losing land, people and land will survive, and people and land will be lost, and people and land will be lost" as mentioned by Taizu is particularly suitable for Macao's situation.

In addition, Li Xian deliberately set up a special combat battalion, and put into it all the high-level grenadiers provided by the S.H.I.E.L.D. team and Sanyuanguan, which were directly managed by Li Xian and Elder Yuanfang of Sanyuanguan.

As for the Fuwei Dart Bureau, the Huashan Boat Gang and the Demon Sect Reinforcements, etc., they had combat effectiveness, but they were particularly sensitive to battle damage, so they were organized and trained into a separate mercenary group, divided into three battalions according to their origins, with Lin Pingzhi, Qiao Daqing and Yang Tianming serving as the battalion commanders respectively.

Because of the characteristics of the mercenary group, the Mixed Yuan Sect and the Sanyuan Guan jointly funded the equipment of the 800-person team and conducted training, but they would only engage in safer tasks such as material transportation and public security management, but they could not directly participate in the distribution of military seizures, and could only rely on the post-war allocation of these two major factions.

In addition to these, Li Xian also set up a workers' picket, requiring that the 1,000 or so workers, shop men, stewards, and administrative personnel transferred from Donghai Island receive a certain amount of military training so that they could at least protect themselves at critical moments.

In short, the structural framework of Li Xian's four regular regiments, one independent regiment, one mercenary regiment, one picket team, and one special operations battalion was established, which also had a profound impact on the future development of Li Xian's troops.

Li Xian's biggest problem now was that there were few elite soldiers and many peasants, so he immediately arranged for people to conduct strict military training for the new peasants, and at the same time began to carry out a large number of civil fortifications around the Sifang Fort outside the city of Guangzhou, digging trenches in preparation for the British attack.

The officials in Guangzhou thought that Sanyuanguan's team would immediately withdraw their troops and return to fight in the Sanyuanli area, but they did not expect that the other party would place the battlefield near Guangzhou, so that Guangzhou would still have the possibility of being involved in the war, and their faces became very ugly on the spot.

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