With the keynote that Yue Zhong had set down, Wang Shuang’s courage was boosted. He looked at Choi Min-ho and the other foreigners, all of them looking rather pale, and said loudly,
“All of you, come over here to report your specialty. We will allocate jobs to you depending on your specialty and those without any ability will become laborers. Of course, if you take your private property and leave this place right now, we will also not stop you.”
(Note: the original phrase for ‘laborers’ was actually ‘coolies’. ‘Coolies’, which is a proper word, just sounds kind of strange to me, so I stuck with ‘laborers’.)
At this time, there were still many zombies littered around Qing Yuan County. Without any methods of transportation, if normal people left the city, they might immediately be devoured up completely by those zombies. Choi Min-ho and those foreigners naturally weren’t stupid and could only go up sensibly to report their own specialty one by one, then let Wang Shuang make arrangements.
As he watched the foreigners who, before the ‘end of the world’, had a social status far above him obediently come up to him one by one and report their specialty, a sense of superiority spontaneously welled up in him. There was even a French woman who threw him a flirtatious look. By now, Wang Shuang had already grown to become a Level 13 Evolver and he kept two beautiful women. Back then, if he hadn’t been determined to follow Yue Zhong, right now, he would either have landed in the mouths of zombies or he would be the lowest level survivor bitterly struggling amidst cold and hunger.
Yue Zhong had just returned to the shooting gallery when Xu Zhenggang came up to him. Looking at Xu Zhenggang, he felt a bit surprised and asked,
“What happened?”
After Xu Zhenggang had accepted Yue Zhong’s recruitment and joined his forces, as always, he didn’t have the intention of improving their personal relationship. He always stayed among his own squad members and trained them; during battle he was also the first to rush up to the front line with a very strong desire to fight. Xu Zhenggang really was the perfect role model of a soldier, the best knife.
(Note: ‘best knife’ sounds somewhat strange but I couldn’t think of any other way to put it than to literally translate the term. Its meaning should be clear though.)
With a straight face, Xu Zhenggang slowly said,
“Captain Yue! I believe that there is a problem with the current establishment of our armed forces! Not including the scum battalion, our current armed personnel have already exceeded 500 men. Using the crude establishment of teams, squadrons, brigades and the like to command the troops to launch a coordinated attack is very problematic. If our armed forces continue increasing, this sort of model is not conducive to our command and control over them. Personally, I think that we should initiate a formalized reorganization of the troops whilst our armed personnel are still not that many in number.”
When Yue Zhong had originally reorganized the teams at Always Bright Village, he didn’t think too much at the time. It was just that he had wanted to organize an elite squad, pass through the zombie hordes and go back to Guangxi to find his loved ones. Yue Zhong didn’t have a military background and he also didn’t have much experience, therefore he only ended up forming a bizarre, crude establishment consisting of a team, squadron and brigade.
(Note: Always Bright Village was where Yue Zhong overthrew Tiger, before he headed to Longhai City Base.)
For searching for supplies and battles on a small scale, this type of crude establishment didn’t have many problems. However, with one glance, professional military officers like Xu Zhenggang would be able to make out the shortcomings of an establishment as such, that it wasn’t conducive to the control and mobilization of a large force. Also, the prospects of promotion for the squad members wasn’t clear enough- being promoted to the official team meant already reaching the peak.
Yue Zhong understood everything instantly.
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“You mean to carry out a reorganization of the troops in accordance with the establishment and model of the regular army?”
Xu Zhenggang rigidly handed a copy of the information to Yue Zhong.
“Right! The current military establishment has already undergone the test of time and practice. There are basically no major oversights. I believe that we should reorganize according to the establishment and model of the regular army. This is the establishment that is able to emerge from our current military strength, please have a look.”
Yue Zhong received that copy of information to have a look, only to see that upon the copy, it was written clearly that the military strength of his powers could be reorganized into a reinforced battalion, with four reinforced companies under its management. Even the number of people in each company and the basic equipment required was clea