Valley Emperor

Fang Dongquan and the others were not unreasonable for their concerns, because Li Xuan had really considered letting those half-sized officers serve as direct battalion officers.

But after serious consideration, he still gave up the idea!

This is not to say that those half-sized officers from the Guards do not have this ability. No matter how poor they are, they have learned some words after a year of study, and they have been taught by Li Xuan himself.

What is Li Xuan teaching? Basically, he teaches according to the modern shooting in his memory.

Therefore, they may not be really qualified officers, but they are definitely much stronger than the bandit chiefs like Fang Dongquan.

Even Wang Danxu can't compare to those teenage officers in terms of professionalism.

But a lot of times, it doesn't mean that if you have the ability, you can ascend to a high position, even if Li Xuan wants them to ascend to a high position.

Here, we must also consider the prestige and influence of the officers themselves, as well as the internal unity of the Tang Dynasty.

Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren, and Butcher Chen were only bandit leaders, but they were also the heroes of the founding of the country. When Li Xuan fled to the mountains last year, Fang Dongquan and the others supported Li Xuan's ascension to the throne and became emperor. Later Huang Xueren, Cai Erhu and the others Although they surrendered, they did not surrender alone at that time, but surrendered with hundreds of people.

They themselves had a relatively large influence within the Tang Dynasty.

So even if Li Xuan was reluctant, he would throw Fang Dongquan and the others aside at this critical period.

This is too cold for the hearts of heroes!

Now the Tang Dynasty has only a few thousand people, and the army does not even have a thousand people, so they started to play the role of suppressing heroes. Others have to worry that they will end up like this too.

Therefore, in the position of battalion officer, Li Xuan still does not intend to bring up those young officers, but intends to continue to use veterans.

In addition, the reason why he delayed appointing battalion officers of each battalion is another important reason, that is, he did not intend to throw out all three battalion officers. .

As an emperor, and an emperor who started a rebellion, it is not enough to have no direct troops in his hand, but it is okay for him to serve as the commander of the entire army as an emperor, but if he wants to serve as a battalion officer of an infantry battalion, then some Too much.

That's why Li Xuan delays for a while, trying to find a way to solve this problem.

However, this matter did not drag on for too long. After arriving at Liushazhuang for six days, more than 400 new recruits were recruited, and the second and third infantry battalions were also formally established. Li Xuan finally began to appoint the leaders of each unit official.

The battalion officer of the 1st Infantry Battalion is beyond the expectations of many people. It is not Wang Danxu, the most hopeful, nor the veteran Fang Dongquan, but Huang Xueren.

Although Huang Xueren is also a veteran, people also think that he will serve as the battalion officer of one of the battalions, but they did not expect him to serve as the battalion officer of the first battalion. After all, there are three infantry battalions in the current Datang New Army, only the first battalion. Officially formed an army, and the soldiers of the second infantry battalion are still less than a hundred people. At present, there are only less than 300 people, and most of them are recruits. As for the third infantry battalion, there are even fewer people. Yes, they are all recruits.

In this way, it can be seen that among the three infantry battalions, in fact, the second and third infantry battalions are only superficial.

For such an infantry battalion, its battalion officer is naturally incomparably important.

Li Xuan naturally had his own reasons for choosing Huang Xueren to serve as the battalion officer of the 1st Infantry Battalion. On the one hand, Huang Xueren's prestige and qualifications belonged to the first echelon, and he was qualified to serve as a battalion officer. Second, he was weaker than Fang Dongquan and Wang Danxu, and the weakness of the battalion officer allowed Li Xuan to better directly command the 1st Infantry Battalion.

The battalion officer of the second infantry battalion is Fang Dongquan, and the battalion officer of the third infantry battalion is Wang Danxu.

In addition to these three infantry battalions, there are also various units directly under the Privy Council, such as the baggage battalion.

Auxiliary troops, but the scale is not small at all, there are three teams under its jurisdiction, with a total strength of 300 people, mainly old bandits from the original Huangzhu Mountain and prisoners of the Ming army who have surrendered.

The importance of the cargo battalion is no less than that of the infantry battalion. The food and ammunition needed by the entire army must depend on the cargo battalion. Therefore, Li Xuan arranged for his uncle Bai Yunqi to be the battalion officer of the cargo battalion.

Although Bai Yunqi is not good at fighting, he is still very good at persuading Ming army prisoners, and many of the soldiers in the baggage battalion are soldiers from Ming army prisoners. At the same time, Bai Yunqi has also managed baggage affairs many times, and now he is officially appointed as the baggage battalion. The camp officer was a more suitable arrangement for him.

The Heavy Armored Sword and Shield Corps, its team officer is still Butcher Chen, but although the officer is still the team officer, the size of the Sword and Shield Corps has expanded from more than 30 people to more than 80 people, which is not far from the full 100 people. Far away~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and the second warrior in the Tang Dynasty, Cai Erhu, who dared to rush to kill, was assigned to Chen Tiantian as his deputy, and served as the deputy commander of the sword and shield soldiers.

Cao Mingda is still the leader of the cavalry team. Although this person made a fool of himself a while ago, which made Li Xuan a little dissatisfied with him, but this person has since done his best, and to be honest, now Li Xuan can't find the first There are two cavalry officers who can replace him, so although I don't like it very much, I have to continue to use it.

The size of the cavalry team has also expanded from the previous ten or so people to more than 30 people. During this time, the new army of the Tang Dynasty collected a batch of horses from the Ming army and the countryside. Less, these horses are given to the cavalry, except for a few mounts as high-ranking officers.

Then came the archers team. The original thirty people plus the recent addition of more than twenty people, barely managed to gather about sixty people, which is still far from the full size of a team, but it is not enough. The solution is that archers are really scarce troops, and they are not so easy to find. Among the recruits recruited by ordinary people, there are not many ready-made archers at all, and they can only be found from prisoners of the Ming army.

The captain of its archer team was a surrendered general of the Ming army, named Ouyang Shi, who surrendered along with Zeng Ziwen when he was in Luohu Valley. After the dynasty, because of his good archery skills, he was naturally placed in the hands of bows and arrows. At first, he was banned as a nominal thousand households, and his real position was a corporal.

Such a former Mingjiang general can be mentioned as a team officer, and there is naturally an inside story behind this!