Chapter 196: Official Adaptation: Independent Battalion!
This appointment also has an important role, that is, when Liu Cheng enters the Guannei, he can have a reasonable reason and identity.
That night, Liu Chengcheng left with Gao Yuan's people and went straight to Wudou Township.
After returning to Wudou Township, Liu Cheng didn't even bother to listen to Tian Liuwa's report on the battle first, and immediately asked everyone to gather for a meeting.
It was the first time since he became the commander of the junior camp that such a formal meeting had been held.
After everyone lined up, Tian Liuwa reported to Liu Cheng the current actual situation of the juvenile camp:
There are 636 people in the youth battalion, and about half of them are recruits who were secretly recruited and mobilized by Qian Lu during Liu Cheng's absence.
Weapons: 241 Type 38 rifles, 309 Liao-made rifles, 19 Taisho 11-year light machine guns, 2 Czech-style light machine guns, 1 grenadier canister, 42 war horses, and 53 Type 32 sabers.
Such a weapon was absolutely unique among the anti-Japanese forces in the Northeast at that time.
After listening to Tian Liuwa's report, Liu Cheng just nodded slightly.
Everyone looked at Liu Cheng, whose face was sinking like water, especially those recruits, and they were very curious about whether their young battalion commander was as powerful as those veterans said.
Liu Cheng's gaze swept over everyone's faces one by one, and he didn't say a word during the period.
After a long time, he withdrew his gaze and said in a deep voice:
"From today onwards, we are no longer a junior camp, but an independent battalion."
As soon as these words came out, there was a burst of applause from the audience.
According to the rules set by Liu Cheng, there will never be a phenomenon of exchanging ears or even making loud noises in this case.
Even the recruits who had just joined applauded in a proper manner, and no one spoke.
Although most of them did not know the essential difference between the juvenile camp and the independent camp, in today's parlance, they were not aware of it.
Liu Cheng's face didn't have any expression, and he was still as cold as a knife.
"Maybe you don't understand the difference now, and I don't need you to know; However, I want you to remember that from tomorrow onwards, you will receive more rigorous training than before, and no matter what kind of training tasks your instructors order, you will carry them out unconditionally! Did you hear it?! ”
Hearing the neat and loud response, Liu Cheng's face finally softened a little.
His gloomy face just now was not because of anger, but because his heart was very heavy.
The appointment that Zhang Guanyi won for him saved him many problems that he had not yet thought of solving.
Not only these recruits, but even Tian Liuwa, who had been following Liu Cheng, was the first time he heard Liu Cheng say so many things at once.
At this moment, no one could understand the agitated emotions in Liu Cheng's heart at this time.
Maybe after many years, those who are still alive among them will finally understand, or perhaps, Liu Cheng's mood at this moment will never be understood......
Liu Cheng didn't say anything more, but took everyone to the hillside of the Japanese cavalry squad that had been completely annihilated a few days ago, and stood quietly in front of those low graves, silent for a long time.
Tian Liuwa was closest to Liu Cheng, and she only faintly heard him seem to be whispering to himself, and his tone was a little strange:
"The company commander who came back from Laoshan;
You always say that his happiness is your expectation;
Though you have returned triumphantly, you are covered with scars;
Although you returned safely, you said that there were still your comrades;
They are still on the old mountain and can never return to their hometowns;
I can no longer marry a bride, and I can no longer wear a military merit medal......"
Tian Liuwa didn't know what these words meant, and she didn't dare to step forward to ask.
In fact, this is Liu Cheng's favorite song in his previous life.
It was the only one he knew, and the only one he knew who lived to 1984, and sang it to him when he was drunk.
At that time, Liu Cheng was sixty-six years old and his comrade-in-arms was seventy years old.
That year, just after the end of a war, the comrade-in-arms' thirty-year-old son did not return, and the body was buried on that old mountain.
Two months later, he was gone.
From then on, every year when he went to pay homage, he would sing it in front of the graves of his comrades.
Sing once, cry once.
At that time, he thought, maybe he was really old, and there were more tears.
But in fact, it is just the result of the accumulation of sorrow that has never been forgotten.
Two and a half years have passed since he was reborn.
How many people have fallen around him in just two years?
In the battle against the rock, those old people, knowing that it was a Yellow Spring Road, still moved forward firmly, and won them the opportunity to throw javelins with their lives;
Under the eagle's beak cliff, those warriors who died with the devil;
On the Red Rock Mountain, that childish baby face has not been shed......
The north wind howled, but it couldn't bend Liu Cheng's straight waist; I can't blow away the tears hanging from the corners of his eyes.
That appointment gave Liu Cheng a deeper understanding of this war and the people in the war.
After returning from that hillside, Liu Cheng immediately ordered someone to customize a flag.
To be precise, it is a military flag with only three big characters on it: Independent Battalion!
Liu Cheng took all the soldiers and swore under the military flag:
"People are here, the flag is there!"
Perhaps in many people's minds, this will also be branded as "formalism"; But in the hearts of the soldiers of that era, this is a kind of faith, a kind of persistence!
The matter of the big flag erected by Goto Township soon reached the ears of Nomura Toshio.
If he can temporarily endure even the total annihilation of that cavalry squad, this banner touches his bottom line.
The area of Jilin City is the garrison area of Tanomura's brigade, that is, his territory.
A large banner was erected in his territory, and it stood there brightly, waving in the wind, dazzling.
If this matter reaches the Xinjing Headquarters, he, the captain, will not have to do it.
So, no matter what, he can't tolerate it.
As soon as he got the news, Toshio Nomura immediately ordered:
Ordered the Japanese army stationed in Panshi Yuji Falcon Squad, stationed in Huinan Ikeda Squad, stationed in Chimney Mountain Puppet Army Fifth Brigade 11th Company, stationed in Heishi Puppet Army Heavy Machine Gun Company, stationed in Guanma Puppet Army 7th Brigade Sixth Company, to complete the assembly within three days, with Ariyoshi Hayabusa as the temporary supreme commander, to clear out the anti-Japanese forces in Wudou Township!
After receiving the order, Ariyoshi Falcon's heart suddenly sank.
Originally, he was a little inexplicably stunned by the name Liu Cheng, but now he is a little weak at the thought of going to fight Wudou Township.
This has nothing to do with cowardice, but after seeing the tragic image of Ono Taro's throat being bitten open in Huadian, there was an obstacle in my heart.
However, the military order has been issued, and it is impossible for him to refuse, so he can only go hard.
Before he could come up with a battle plan, he received a call from Toshio Nomura:
"You can rest assured that our people will take care of you."