now announce Captain Yue’s personnel appointments. From today onwards, the official teams will be disbanded, all personnel will be converted to military personnel and supplies can be obtained in accordance with the corresponding military rank.”
“In accordance with our side’s current armed forces, the regiment will consist of four battalions. The post of Regiment Commander will be held by Yue Zhong, who shall also hold the post of Commander of the 1st Main Battalion. The post of Regiment Vice‐commander will be held by Chi Yang, who shall also hold the post of Commander of the 2nd Main Battalion. The Vice‐commander of the 1st Main Battalion will be Xu Zhenggang. The Vice‐commander of the 2nd Main Battalion will be Liu Yan. The Commander of the 3rd Defense Battalion will be Da Gouzi and the Vice‐commander will be Wang Shuang. The immediate Commander of the 4th Special Combat Battalion will be Ji Qingwu and the Vice‐commander will be Cheng Yu.”
(Note: Cheng Yu is an assassin whom Yue Zhong recruited a while ago.)
“The 1st Main Battalion will manage four companies. The Commander of the 1st Company will be Liu Yan and the Vice‐commander will be Zhao Xing. The Commander of the 2nd Company will be Kong Tianyu and the Vice‐commander will be Lang Zi. The Commander of the 3rd Company will be Chen Shitou and the Vice‐commander will be Xiao Ming. The Commander of the 4th Armored Company will be Wu Guang and the Vice‐commander will be Lang Zi.
(Note: Zhao Xing is from the Chen Family’s Village; Lang Zi used to be under Xu Zhenggang’s command; Chen Shitou was the best hunter from the Chen Family’s Village; Xiao Ming is an ex‐gunman from Always Bright Village; Wu Guang also used to be under Xu Zhenggang’s command.)
“The 2nd Main Battalion will manage three companies. The Commander of the 1st Company…”
“The 3rd Defense Battalion will manage two companies. The Commander of the 1st Company will be…”
“… The 4th Special Combat Battalion will be directly under Captain Yue and no one else has the right to mobilize the battalion.”
After the entire base had landed in Yue Zhong’s hands, the number of people under his control had already broken past the mark of 10,000. After the ‘end of the world’, men had relatively strong bodies and thus their survival rate was quite high. Among the 10,000 people, there were over 5000 men, whilst the rest were women and children. If Yue Zhong engaged carelessly in military activities, he would be entirely capable of pulling out a large army of 4000 men.
Nevertheless, the result would be that there’d be a shortage of manpower in all aspects. Subsequently, Yue Zhong only established four battalions with just over 1000 men.
The 1st Main Battalion under Yue Zhong’s command had over 400 people altogether, grouping a large number of the elite soldiers and evolvers together. Moreover, those who previously had a military occupation were greatest in number and formed one of the strongest battalions.The majority of the soldiers in Chi Yang’s 2nd Main Battalion had already experienced the battle in Qing Yuan County; those who had fought with the zombies also gained an enhanced element of survival, but their strength was still much less than that of Yue Zhong’s 1st Battalion.
Nevertheless, they were all evolvers and didn’t lack courage when fighting zombies, so as long as their training was stricter, their strength would not be weak. Da Gouzi’s Defense Battalion only had two companies (platoons) of veteran evolvers, while most of the rest were newly recruited survivors, whose strength in melee combat might not even exceed that of the Scum Battalion.