Chapter 14: The Story of Correspondent Xu Shun I
The headquarters of the 119th Division was stationed, and the signal corps camp.
Xu Shun, the newly promoted platoon commander of the communications company, was intently looking at the map, planning the route for this communications mission.
After a few minutes, he planned the route, and then looked at a new soldier beside him, thinking back to his days as a platoon commander for the past month, he suddenly sighed.
This platoon leader is simply ...
A month ago, he was originally a member of the division's guard company, but the recent expansion of the 119th Division seriously lacked communications, and the division headquarters formed a new communications company, and he was transferred to become a platoon commander of a communications corps.
Even though he used to be a signal soldier and ran back and forth between the division headquarters and various units, Xu Shun still had a little resistance in his heart to become a full-time signal soldier, even if it was a promotion for him.
The communications corps is very important, but the work is really boring, and every time they run between the various units, they are either preparing to rush or on the road, and they have to dodge the enemy when they encounter it.
He actually wanted to go to the front-line troops to carry the guns and the devil's real knife and real gun, and pass on communication information and orders.
The newly formed communications company is all recruits, and the nearly 100 people in the entire company are all recruits who have been in the army for less than a month, except for the commanders of each platoon, and the recruits who have not even completed the most basic physical training, especially his company, there is not a single recruit squad leader who can use the clever point, which made him wonder if he had done something bad at the beginning, and the old company commander of the guard company deliberately threw him out.
In the past month, he has been busy training recruits, running and exercising with recruits, and teaching recruits tactical movements, and the hardships during this period made Xu Shun regret that he should have asked the division commander to grind his tongue, and maybe he could go to the front line to be a squad leader.
Anyway, he is also a veteran for more than three years, why is he so miserable?
A dignified platoon leader of a communications platoon, but he still has to run by himself for a communication task?
Lian Li was assigned a new task, and none of his queues could run, helpless, Xu Shun could only get on the horse himself, and at the same time, in the spirit of cultivating excellent subordinates, he brought the best recruit in his queue - Niu Ding.
A clever nineteen-year-old man, a recruit who had drunk ink for a few years, and a few recruits in his company who could not make him hairy.
"Let's go, go to the stables"
Patting Niu Ding who was staring at the map with wide eyes, Xu Shun walked towards the stable.
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The stables were located on the west side of the station, a little over a mile from the two of them, and a few minutes' walk away.
The high mobility of the cavalry comes entirely from the horses, and in order to ensure the safety of the horses, the stables are guarded at 24 hours, and there are garrisons stationed around them.
came to the stable management office, handed over the order, Xu Shun and Niu Ding each led a horse.
Looking at the two strong horses beside him, Xu Shun sighed in his heart.
These are two good horses, really good horses.
The fur is soft and shiny, the muscles are plump and strong, the four hooves are as strong as four pillars and pestles, and the large and even hooves are nailed with brand-new shoes, and a strong sense of power comes from the surface, its head is held high, its eyes are staring ahead, and its huge nostrils are slowly contracted and stretched with breathing.
These are two good horses that have been carefully bred.
It is not easy to raise this kind of good horse, especially for the Eighth Route Army, which lacks materials, it is even more difficult, the soldiers are not enough to eat, where is there concentrate feed to feed the horses, in the past, some bran and forage were used to feed the horses, so the horses of the Eighth Route Army were thin and did not stretch the appearance in the past, and they did not have much stamina, and they were tired and out of breath after running a few steps.
But that's different now·····
"Let's go to the back office"
Touching the mane on the horse's head, the two led the horse to the logistics department, where they needed to collect supplies before leaving.
Behind Xu Shun, Niu Ding led the horse with one hand, and subconsciously touched his butt with the other, staring at the horse nervously, for fear of being kicked again.
In the logistics department, an officer is picking up supplies.
He handed over the supplies and said the names of the supplies in his mouth.
"Fifty pounds of corn mixed concentrate for horses"
The first thing that came over was two bags of feed.
This feed, made from corn-based material, is highly nutritious and is the best for excellent horses. This feed is also the main reason why the divisional horses have become more robust recently. The division has food and supplies, and it is very abundant.
This mission is a long way, about more than 300 kilometers of road, this to go at least more than a week, the horse's endurance is a test, although these two are good horses, but if you want the horse to run fast, you have to let the horse eat well, although it is now the middle of July, the horse can eat grass along the way, but the grass nutrition is poor, or you need to bring some high-quality horse feed supplement.
"Two Individual Kettles"
Two brand new aluminium kettles, light and large, with winding canvas straps for easy carrying.
"Two individual soldiers are rare
It is also made of aluminum, with a large capacity, which can be used as a cooking pot and utensils for eating, and the winding canvas belt is easy to carry.
"Twenty pounds of rice, twenty pounds of cornmeal"
The last thing that came over was a bag of grain. It is made by mixing refined rice and ground cornmeal, take half a catty and put it in a lunch box and add water to cook for more than ten minutes, add a little salt foam, the amount is full and nutritious, every two meals, even if you run a whole will not feel hungry.
"It's a canvas tent, something new, it's a horse's, it's yours"
Then four more canvas tents were handed over. It's a tent, in fact, it's four square waterproof canvases, and it's a tent when it's propped up, two big and two big. The big one is exactly the square profile of a horse, and the one is square.
"This tent is much better than the quality of the devil."
Xu Shun touched the canvas of the tent, a little surprised,
The troops fought with the devil many times and captured a lot of devil tents, the quality of the devil's tent is not good, water leakage is common, not better than their Eighth Route Army, and these tents in his hand, the texture of the fabric is obviously thicker and lubricated than the devil, obviously, if it is a tent built out of this kind of canvas, it will definitely not drip in the middle of the night.
"Of course"
The quartermaster spoke in a smug tone.
In the past, the quartermaster was a chore, in the past, there was a shortage of materials, every frown was worried about the materials everywhere, where to care about the quality of the materials, at that time, a grain of grain was eager to be broken in half, and the rags of the devils on the battlefield were all scavenged and sewn together.
And now, hey...
What materials do you want, this day is comfortable.