311, a squad leader's self-report (I)
My name is Liu Erniu, I am 23 years old, and I am a squad leader of the 88th Division. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info A few months ago in Shanghai, I was still an ordinary soldier, I killed three devils, the squad leader praised me for a long time, and the company commander rewarded me with fifteen silver yuan.
It's a pity that we lost in Shanghai, I don't even know why, obviously drove the devils back to the beach, and suddenly the whole army collapsed by the devils.
Since we retreated to Nanjing, we have suffered so much that the people have almost pointed their noses at us and scolded us for being incompetent. Also, more than 700,000 people can't beat more than 200,000 little devils.
In this ordeal, we were incorporated into the Nanjing garrison, and at that time I thought that our 88th Division was finished, from an elite field ~ war German armament division to a local guard unit.
I heard that the commander of the Nanjing garrison was Lin Feng, the former major general of the 201st Brigade, and now he is a first-class general of the army. That's a hero, at the beginning of the Battle of Songhu, he used heavy artillery to wipe out the devil's 3,000 marines and thousands of other troops.
Later, it became more and more powerful, and it is said that when our hundreds of thousands of troops were facing the 200,000 Japanese troops of Matsui Ishine on the northern front, General Hayashi fought against Yanagawa Heisuke's more than 80,000 Japanese troops at Jinshanwei with 30,000 troops, and actually killed and wounded more than 50,000 Japanese troops, which was already most of the strength of the Japanese Tenth Army.
On the second day of General Lin's tenure as commander of the Nanjing garrison, all the troops began to be reorganized, and those who were full of troops were increased, and those who were not full were either filled with new recruits or merged, but fortunately, our 88th Division was not merged and was replenished with thousands of new soldiers. And I was promoted to squad leader because of my heroic killing.
Many of the commanders of the merged units complained very much, saying that they had made them into bare-bones division commanders and regimental commanders, but under the high pressure of the three deputy commanders, everything was calm.
After three days of reorganization, the nine full-numbered divisions totaled 100,000 people, but in fact, they cannot be called full-numbered divisions, which are already overnumbered, and a normal division is 8,000 people.
However, according to the requirements of the Nanjing Garrison Command, each division should have at least 10,000 people, so nine divisions were reorganized, and every three divisions were under the command of a deputy commander.
The day after the reorganization, we saw the commander of the Nanjing garrison, General Lin, who turned out to be so young, not a few years older than me. But as soon as he opened his mouth, he said that we were like chickens with the plague, and that it was all an insult to chickens, which was so annoying!
However, Commander Lin quickly replaced us with new equipment, and the worst spears were light machine guns (assault rifles), with 30 rounds in one magazine, which could be fired in bursts or singles. All the officers, including me, the squad leader, were also given a Browning pistol, which was an American product, and our division commander only had one before, and it is said that it was given to him from above.
My squad was also assigned two heavy machine guns and one mortar, and I didn't know how to assign them. A squad of fourteen people, fourteen light machine guns, two heavy machine guns, a mortar, a pistol, fourteen sapper shovels, grenades for casual use, and a mechanical watch.
The best thing is the artillery regiment, a hundred mountain guns, that's amazing, I've never seen so many cannons, if this fights, it is estimated that a round of artillery bombardment can kill a brigade of devils.
Anyway, compared to before, it is a shotgun for a gun, an old hen into a duck, what a German mechanic, there is no comparison with now! This commander is really generous, and he directly sent 100,000 people new equipment, how many silver dollars does this cost, and the chairman can't afford to supply it!
When it comes to lunch, everyone queues up to receive the meal, this is still a new thing, you don't need to bring anything, it is said that the cooking soldiers directly prepared the meal, let's just bring it directly to eat.
When I got my lunch, my eyes almost didn't fall into this steel plate, the fragrant rice, snow white, and I didn't see a grain of sand; The scrambled eggs with leeks are the worst, the plum vegetables are buckled with meat, and there are several pieces of meat, which are not of this weight during the New Year; The fried chicken thighs were golden and golden, and I couldn't help but drool and drool; And the pork rib soup, the meat on the bones has not been shaved off.
That's it, Commander Lin also said that he was not fully prepared, he was wronged, and he caused evil, and the rich people didn't dare to eat like this! I also took a special look at the food of the brothers, whether the food of the officers was good and the food of the soldiers was bad, and the result was that I was wrong, everyone was the same.
Everyone who ate at lunch almost swallowed their tongues, it was too rich, too delicious, too delicious, I had never been so bright in my life, and then it was a big fish and meat every day, I have to say, Commander Lin is really a good sir!
After lunch, the whole army was familiar with the equipment, not to mention that just by familiarizing ourselves with the equipment, we had knocked out tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition and more than 100 mortar shells in one squad.
However, the effect was surprisingly good, and in less than two days, our class had a thorough understanding of the new equipment, especially a recruit named Wang Shuzi, who actually dismantled the gun and put it back on.
While familiarizing ourselves with the equipment, we are also building fortifications, the combat effectiveness of the little devil is not blown out, let's fight the devil, we have to kill two or three of them, everyone is working hard, no one wants to die because of one less shovel.
Gradually, the news that the Japanese army was approaching came from the front, and the speed of the little devil's advance was so fast, and several lines of defense were broken through in less than five days.
On this day, the devil finally appeared, but the number was not large, it should be the vanguard, just a brigade. Our company was in the outermost position, and the company commander immediately reported to the top that a brigade of devils had approached our defensive line.
Then the company commander conveyed the order from above to the platoon, and the platoon commander conveyed it to the squad, and I was dumbfounded when I received the order, and the order said that we should eat, drink, and smoke, and we should not care about anything.
I wondered, the devils are all in front of us, shouldn't we be ordered to be ready to fire at any time, how can it be like a holiday, isn't this a blind delay! It seems that Chief Lin is still too young and has no experience in commanding an army of more than 100,000 people, and he doesn't know the situation in front when he sits in the rear.
I didn't dare to relax, let the brothers check the weapons, if the devil is close, if you don't fight, you have to fight, you can't die in vain, it's rare to have such good equipment in your hands, how can you kill a few little devils to enjoy it.
However, within a few minutes, the earth-shattering artillery sound frightened us all, and I thought that the devils had concentrated a few heavy artillery brigades to attack us, so I quickly asked my brothers to go into the anti-artillery hole and hide for a while.
The sound of the shell exploding made me stunned again, no, it didn't explode at our position, it sounded like it exploded in the Japanese brigade.
At this moment, I remembered, Commander Lin concentrated 2,000 light and heavy artillery pieces near Jiangning, and only more than 500 heavy artillery pieces of more than 203mm were built, no wonder the movement was so big, it seems that the little devil brigade is going to be a tragedy! (To be continued.) )