Chapter 11: Boost morale
However, Lin Feng immediately thought of another question. γReading.comγ
When it comes to fighting guerrillas, there must be a fixed area of activity.
Otherwise, no matter how good an army can fight well, it will only be a tree without roots and water without a source, and it is destined to not last long.
Lin Feng said again: "But Brother Xu, even if you fight guerrillas, you have to have a base after all, right?" You say, which place should we choose as a base? β
Xu Rui took out a map from his satchel.
This combat map was brought by Xu Rui from a devil officer.
Xu Rui spread out the map on the ground, and then pointed to the map and said to Lin Feng: "Brother Lin, please look, this is Nanjing, I am afraid that it will be a matter of time before Nanjing is lost, after the little devil captures Nanjing, the next step will inevitably be along the Jinpu Road north to Xuzhou to meet the Japanese army in North China, and then next, along the Yangtze River west to attack Wuhan." β
Lin Feng nodded thoughtfully, agreeing with Xu Rui's judgment.
Xu Rui pointed to a certain place on the map and said: "This is Damei Mountain, Damei Mountain is adjacent to Jinpu Road in the east, and the Yangtze River Waterway is in the south, as long as we control Damei Mountain, whether the little devil is transferring military supplies from Jinpu Road or from the Yangtze River, they are all within our attack range, guarding these two water and land communication lines, we are still worried about no military supplies?" β
Lin Feng's gaze fell on the map, and he nodded: "This Damei Mountain is really a good place. β
"And that's not all." Xu Rui drew a big circle on the map, and then said, "When our provisional 79th Division recovers its vitality in the future, or becomes stronger, we can even control the entire Dabie Mountain Area, and at that time, Longhai Road in the north and Pinghan Road in the west will also be within our attack range!" β
Lin Feng's eyes lit up, and he was already completely attracted by the vista depicted by Xu Rui.
If the provisional 79th Division can really gain a firm foothold in Dameishan and develop and grow, it will naturally be better than returning to the war zone and receiving the splint of the commander's department.
However, Lin Feng was excited for less than half a second, and Xu Rui immediately poured cold water on him again.
Xu Rui said: "But Brother Lin, please forgive me for being blunt, with the current situation of the provisional 79th Division, don't say that crossing the Yangtze River to Damei Mountain in the north, even getting rid of the devil chasing soldiers in Wuxi is enough, in case of aerial reconnaissance tomorrow, even if you only bring up an infantry squadron, you are afraid that it will be difficult to escape." β
Xu Rui's words are an exaggeration, as a special warfare soldier from the army, as a high-achieving student who graduated from Nanjing Military Academy, he has a way to bring the remnants of the provisional 79th Division to Dameishan, if he can't even do this, Xu Rui is embarrassed to call himself the king of soldiers, and he is embarrassed to call himself a high-achieving student of Nanjing Military Academy?
Xu Rui just didn't want to go with a group of routs with low morale and poor equipment.
Xu Rui wanted an elite army with high morale, high morale, and well-equipped screaming, such a force that could quickly open up the situation wherever it went.
Therefore, it is necessary to take the rout of the provisional 79th Division to fight a beautiful turnaround.
Lin Feng couldn't help frowning when he heard this, and then looked back into the courtyard, only to see that most of the remnants gathered in the courtyard were in rags, and many of the remnants' rubber shoes were worn out, even the two big toes were exposed, and even many of the remnants were actually empty-handed, as a soldier, their weapons were gone.
The equipment is scarce, and the ammunition is even more scarce, Lin Feng has already counted it just now, except for the twenty or so remnants brought back by him and Xu Rui because they captured the weapons and equipment of the Japanese army, which can be regarded as having enough ammunition, the rest of each person has less than five rounds of ammunition! Five bullets, what is enough? Not even a battle of the lowest intensity and the smallest scale could be organized.
That's it, that's not the worst.
The worst thing is the mental state of these remnants.
Lin Feng glanced over and found that except for the dozens of remnants who broke through with him and Xu Rui, the rest of the more than 400 remnants were all drooping their heads without exception, and all the expressions on their faces were frustrated.
Such a unit is simply devoid of combat effectiveness.
Xu Rui said: "Brother Lin, if we don't solve the morale problem, we won't be able to get to Dameishan at all!" β
"Why don't I know this?" Lin Feng sighed and said, "The problem is that without a long period of training, we can't restore morale at all, but now we don't have the conditions for training at all." β
Xu Rui said: "Who told you that you must go through long-term training to restore morale? β
"Am I not right?" Lin Feng was stunned and said, "If you don't train properly, how can you restore your morale?" β
"Of course not, training is never the best way to restore morale!" Xu Rui said hesitantly, "A tooth for a tooth, blood for blood, where you fall, you can get up, how to get back what you have suffered, this is the bloody nature that a soldier should have, and this is the most effective means to boost morale!" β
"A tooth for a tooth, blood for a blood?"
"Where you fall, you get up?"
"How do you get back what you suffer?"
Lin Feng was stirred by Xu Rui's loud words.
But after calming down, Lin Feng said again: "Brother Xu, I understand what you mean, winning a battle is indeed the most effective means to restore morale, the problem is that we are now extremely short of weapons and ammunition, and we can't even organize a battle of the lowest intensity and the smallest scale, how can we do tooth for tooth and blood for blood?" β
"Why can't it be?" Xu Rui said, "You haven't tried it, how do you know it's impossible?" β
Lin Feng couldn't help but feel a pang when he heard this, he remembered that when he first met Xu Rui, Xu Rui proposed to gather sand into a tower and restore the command system of the provisional 79th Division, Lin Feng also said that it was impossible, but Xu Rui said that it was possible, and the final facts proved that Xu Rui was right, although the remnants of the gathered army were only more than 400 people, but the provisional 79th Division did restore the command system.
Perhaps, Xu Rui can really take the remnants of the provisional 79th Division to win another battle and create another miracle!
Xu Rui said again: "Brother Lin, I still say that, do you believe me?" If you believe me, give me the troops, and I promise you that when tomorrow dawn I will give you a roaring tiger battalion, and moreover, a well-equipped and well-armed army, a force with excellent combat effectiveness! β
Lin Feng looked at Xu Rui deeply, and said in a deep voice: "Okay, I believe in you!" β
"Then I'll leave it to me." Xu Rui smiled, turned around and strode towards the group of remnants.
Xu Rui walked through the corridor, strode to the steps of the main entrance of the academy and stood still, and then shouted at the hundreds of remnants of soldiers sitting or lying in the courtyard and the corridors on both sides: "Get up, all get up!" β
The dozens of remnants who followed Xu Rui to break through got up one after another, and they all looked excited.
However, the remaining more than 400 remnants were indifferent at all, they didn't know Xu Rui.
Xu Rui's eyes instantly floated with a terrifying cold flame, and he shouted: "You have donkey hair stuffed in your ears, get up, all stand up for Lao Tzu!" β
Finally, a few remnants reluctantly stood up.
However, many more remnants remained indifferent.
There are even a few thorns who are on top of Xu Rui.
"Lost, where did this decrepit boy come from?"
"Mother Die, what are you roaring, you have a loud voice?"
"Hurry up and shut up Lao Tzu, otherwise I want you to look good."
"If you dare to shout again, believe it or not, Lao Tzu squeezed out your egg yolk?"
Several remnants turned around and shot a vicious gaze at Xu Rui.
Lin Feng frowned, and was about to come over to stop drinking, but Xu Rui stopped him with a look.
The corners of Xu Rui's mouth showed a cruel smile, when he was an instructor in the army, how many thorns did he clean up? These remnants in front of them are nothing compared to those who have killed people on the battlefield in later generations, and have excellent military skills in all subjects, at least at the level of military skills, they are not on the same level at all.
Even those thorns let Xu Rui clean up unwanted, not to mention these remnants?
"It's pretty sideways." Xu Rui stepped down the steps, leaned his head forward slightly, stared condescendingly at the eyes of a remnant soldier at close range, and said coldly, "I guess you think you must be very good, but I want to ask, from Shanghai to Wuxi, how many devils have you killed along the way?" β
The remnant soldier also stepped forward, held his head high, glared back at Xu Rui closer, and said, "Lao Tzu has not killed many devils, but it is certainly not less than you." After a pause, the remnant soldier stiffened his neck and shouted, "Listen, from Shanghai to Wuxi, Lao Tzu killed a total of eight devils along the way, eight!" Eight! β
One person killed eight devils, for an ordinary national * army soldiers, it is indeed rare, if each national * army soldier can kill eight devils, the little devil does not want to enter China at all, however, the reality is extremely cruel, the reality is that a devil can usually kill more than a dozen national * army.
"Eight devils, it's really a lot." Xu Rui turned around and shouted, "Big tree! β
"Yes!" Yang Dashu, who was sitting on the side resting, quickly stood up and responded loudly.
Xu Rui's gaze was wedged into the eyes of the remnant soldier like a knife, and he yelled at Yang Dashu without looking back: "Tell him, just today, in Wuxi City, how many devils did Lao Tzu kill in total?" β
Yang Dashu straightened up and shouted: "Report to the chief, just today, in Wuxi City, you killed a total of twenty-eight little devils!" β
"Hear me?" Xu Rui sneered.
"It can't be!" The remnants of the soldiers turned colored.
The other also looked at each other.
"I can testify that he did kill twenty-eight devils." Lin Feng strode forward, his cold gaze swept over the faces of several prickly heads, and said, "Let me solemnly introduce to you again, this is Chief Xu, Xu Rui, the king of soldiers who has just returned from the special forces training camp in Brandenburg, Germany!" β
"Chief Xu? Brandenburg special forces training camp? A few were stunned for a moment.
With Lin Feng, the chief of staff, coming forward to testify, these thorns naturally have no trace of suspicion.
Xu Rui stared at the remnant soldier and shouted: "I just killed only eight devils, and I dragged them like this, and Lao Tzu killed twenty-eight, what should I drag them into?" β
The remnants were ashamed of themselves, and they no longer dared to face Xu Rui's cold eyes.
Xu Rui's gaze immediately left the remnant soldier, turned to all the remnant soldiers, and then shouted: "And you, look at your current appearance, what kind of ball have you made the devil do?" A whole division, more than 6,000 people, let the devils do it, only three or four hundred remnants are left, and you still have the face to drag me here? β