Tang Ning was immediately overjoyed when he saw someone coming.

"Birmingham, you've done a good job. ”

Birmingham came forward and knelt on the ground to salute.

"Your Majesty, according to your orders, I have instigated many people to defect here, and I myself have brought back quite a few this time, and Mr. Fran is registering. ”

Downing quickly walked over and helped Birmingham to his feet.

"Well done, you went over and over the mark. ”

However, at this time, Tang Ning also understood that this guy was still a little selfish, and he came back just after the full moon night, this guy just wanted to see if the Federal Empire was capable of spending the full moon night last year.

It's not good to criticize anything now, and there is nothing wrong with the other party choosing to do this, after all, no one wants to jump into a huge fire pit.

After helping Birmingham up, Downing asked.

"Birmingham, would you have any confidence if you were to assemble a team of spies and train them to be as good as you?"

Birmingham was stunned, frowned and thought for a moment, then knelt on the ground.

"I can try, to become a good spy member, you need to be better than ordinary people in every way, such talents are not easy to find. ”

Downing frowned.

"It's not about trying, you can only succeed, you can't fail. ”

Population is the biggest constraint to development at present, and if an espionage organization is established and the scattered population is gathered, the population will swell at that time, and many useful personnel will certainly be found.

It is necessary to have quantity first, and then to have quality.

Faced with the young king's death order, Birmingham could not refuse despite the countless difficulties.

Get down on one knee and salute.

"I respectfully obey Your Majesty's decree. ”

Although the espionage organization is currently only used to recruit the population, it will have other roles in the future, and will be temporarily organized in the sequence of Defense Minister Sorin.

"Call the Minister of Defense, Sorin, for a trip. ”

One of the guards immediately ordered to leave, and Thorin arrived at the palace shortly after.

"Your Majesty, is there anything going on, I'm building armor for the newly added guards. ”

Downing informed him of the decision to temporarily organize the spy department in the defense sequence, then put on his coat and stepped forward and patted Thorin on the shoulder.

"Let's go to your workshop. ”

Passing through a residential area, I saw from afar that Birmingham was already recruiting the right members, and this guy was resolute and knew that time was of the essence.

After watching for a while, he went to Thorin's blacksmith shop.

He sat down at random and looked at Thorin who followed.

"Have you ever seen heavy cavalry?"

Thorin hesitated, not knowing what the young king was asking for, and nodded in response.

"Well, from now on to build the armor of the heavy cavalry, it is better to improve it, so that the warrior can wear it without a single skin exposed. ”

Thorin didn't understand what the young king was up to, but he had some of his own opinion on soldiers wearing full armor.

"Your Majesty, we don't have horses, and the weight of the full armor will be overweight, and the soldiers will not be able to move at all after putting them on, and when the time comes, it will be self-defeating, which is not conducive to combat. ”

Tang Ning didn't expect Thorin to think of this, and thought that this guy would only strike iron.

Rising from his chair, he picked up the blacksmith's hammer that was sitting on the workbench next to him and swung it a few times.

"You just have to do what I say, and I'll figure out how to fix the platform that can carry soldiers around, so you don't have to worry about it. ”

Leave the blacksmith shop and return to the palace.

Thorin said that the problem did exist, and he didn't have a good solution to the problem that would arise when the soldiers put on heavy armor, but in order to expand outward in the future, he had to prepare in advance.

It's just that this kind of thing is expanding outward, and now it will be doubted and ridiculed when it is said.

The current Federal Empire is still too weak, and whether it can guarantee its existence will always be a question mark, and the rest of the people don't dare to think about expanding outward, so he has not said this future policy.

......

"The soldiers have been training too hard these days, and a large number of them have been eliminated into the judicial police ranks. ”

Holman frowned as he looked at the soldiers who were training according to the training plan drawn up by the young king.

Grant, the head of the General Marshal Police, who was standing on the side, was also full of suspicion and shook his head helplessly.

"This level of training, not to mention these soldiers, even you and I are afraid that it will be difficult to eat, I really don't know what His Majesty the King thinks. ”

At this time, another soldier fainted because he could not adapt to the brutal training, and was carried away by the medical staff sent by Master Merlin.

However, this training plan is not all in question.

"You see, this kid Seaman has been a lot stronger these days, and he is gradually able to keep up with the pace of training, you must know that this kid used to have a bit of a hard time carrying a shield. ”

The young man known as Heman was a soldier, and before the end came, he was a noble young man, pampered, and had no high-intensity training at all, and after the end of the world, he was at the bottom because he was useless, and he suffered a lot, and finally was selected into the guard because of his age.

At the moment he was completing a hundred push-ups, sweating profusely and his skin was covered with sweat.

Although the training was hard, he was now respected, he would not be bullied arbitrarily, and he would have plenty of food to fill his stomach after training every day, and more importantly, his own health had improved greatly with the training, which he had previously been prone to colds.

So he cherishes his current life, even if he cried a few times because of high-intensity training before, he did not choose to quit, but asked Holman to keep him.

Soon the physical training was over, and the remaining guards numbered less than one hundred and twenty people.

The next step is tactical training, which adopts the system of three or three, with three soldiers as a combat squad, no longer a large-scale group operation, and then cover, assault and other coordinated operations.

In this regard, Sea-Man showed an outstanding side, because he was a nobleman before, so his understanding was much stronger than that of ordinary people, especially for these tactics that required the use of his brain, he understood several times faster than others.

At this time, Grant walked up to Sea-Man.

"Young man, are you interested in coming to the marshal's corps, you can be my deputy. ”

Seaman was a little surprised, but in the face of the sudden benefit, he did not quickly agree, but looked at Holman instead.

Holman followed, glanced at Grant, and thought that this guy still wanted to rob him of people, so he was appointed immediately.

"He-Man, from today you are the tactical instructor of the Guard, and you are responsible for teaching those complex tactics to everyone. ”

Upon hearing the appointment, Seaman immediately saluted respectfully.

He still wants to stay in the guard!

The rest of the soldiers immediately came to their senses when they heard about the appointment, and after this training they would appoint junior officers and junior officers, and that their salaries would increase a little after they became officers, which would greatly help improve their lives.

Grant shrugged a little helplessly.

"It seems that the Guards are indeed much more attractive than the General Judicial Police, and I must complain to His Majesty the King and give the General Judicial Police more advantages. ”

At the same time, Birmingham's espionage organization is already stepping up training, and the training of the espionage organization is much more complicated than the training of ordinary soldiers, especially the psychological training, and the psychological quality of the spy members must be passed.

In this regard, many members were not qualified, but Downing thought of another way.

Specially asked the alchemist Kewell to configure some potions, a kind of potion that can improve people's psychological quality many times, the validity of this potion is less than half a month, but half a month is enough for them to go to other shelters to pull people.

The day before the next full moon night, the Federal Empire had a grand day.

The date of the conferment of official members of the Federal Imperial Guard is in the form of a public conferment.

Conferment of titles gives soldiers a greater sense of honor, which has been proven in future armies, and Downing's military ranks are based on the military ranks of future armies, which are Brigadier General, Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel, Major, and Captain and Ensign.

The current number of guards is insufficient, so it can only be determined for the time being, and the ranks of lieutenant general and general will be established when the number of them is sufficient in the future.

First, Downing gave an impassioned speech, and then began to formally confer the title.

Holman was appointed brigadier general and currently the only brigadier general.

He-Man stood in the middle of the procession, watching His Majesty personally put on Holman the epaulettes made of gold.

A moment later, He-Man heard his name and immediately took the stage and saluted respectfully.

"Long live the king......"

Downing looked at the young man and picked up a bunch of epaulettes and fastened them on the young man's shoulders.

"He-Man, you have been awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel as chief of operational staff. ”

It was a decision made after Downing asked Holman who among the soldiers had the highest level of education and the best command of tactics.

This time, almost all the members of the guard who were not eliminated into the General Directorate of Bailiffs received the title of officer, a total of 93 people, which was the cornerstone of the later creation of a modernized ideological army.