Chapter 370: Shifting Defenses (Page 1/1)

The new 22nd Division received an order that the whole division should first march to the area around Dong'an, Hunan, and after arriving in Dong'an, the whole division would be on standby, and the garrison in Xiangtan would be taken over by other local garrisons.

Zhang Wei's teaching brigade was the first unit of the new 22nd Division to receive an order to move defense, and the division ordered the teaching brigade to move as soon as possible, move closer to the division headquarters, and form a marching column with the division headquarters and the troops directly under the division to advance in the direction of Dong'an.

It is necessary to rendezvous with the division headquarters and the division before the division headquarters is opened, and as the division directly covering the troops, the division headquarters should be screened.

After receiving the order, Zhang Wei ordered the whole brigade to pack up their luggage and prepare to pull, and all the remaining equipment in the brigade's warehouse was handed over to the baggage platoon to carry, and the excess ammunition was carried by the baggage platoon, and the rest was sent to the soldiers and carried by the soldiers themselves.

"The squadrons stepped up their efforts, brought all the quilts, and did not lose anything." In the chaotic camp of the teaching brigade, the soldiers came and went, carrying weapons, ammunition boxes and uniforms, Zhang Wei said to the squadron leaders around him, everyone was busy, and the squadron leaders received orders to go down to organize the troops.

The training brigade is a relatively wealthy unit, and the firearms in the warehouse are 40 Zhongzheng rifles and nine Czech light machine guns, and the firearms used by the cadets in the training of the teaching brigade are specially allocated by the division headquarters, including a whole company of infantry equipment, and several Type 24 heavy machine guns and 82 mortars for actual operation.

After the cadets left, the weapons and equipment division headquarters allocated for training were to be recovered, and the teaching brigade finally returned the Type 24 heavy machine gun and the Type 82 mortar, half of the Zhongzheng rifle and all the Czech light machine guns.

The division headquarters didn't say anything, and the deputy division commander in charge Liao had no opinion, anyway, the mortars and heavy machine guns were all handed back, and the infantry equipment, Deputy Division Commander Liao, should be a reward for the teaching brigade.

After moving the guns, the soldiers of the baggage platoon are moving the stockpiled blanket ammunition to the horse-drawn cart under the command of He Kun, sometimes the problem will not be found without action, this time the order was opened, and the baggage platoon found that the carrier in his hand was not enough at all.

The surplus uniforms and ammunition of the whole brigade could not be filled with six horse-drawn carts in their hands alone, and the uniforms and ammunition were far more than the transportation capacity required for the weapons in stock.

Moreover, the various animals raised by the teaching brigade also need to be pulled by cars, fortunately, there are villages nearby, Zhang Wei asked He Kun to spend money to buy a few horse-drawn carts, so that the surplus materials of the whole brigade were loaded.

"Captain, it's done! The clothes, the extra ammunition, and the animals were all loaded into the cart. He Kun ran over and reported to Zhang Wei.

"Okay, each squadron will start as soon as it is organized." Zhang Wei was wearing full body equipment and nodded at He Kun, Zhang Wei is also fully armed now, followed by three heralds with military horns, Zhang Wei wears a steel helmet, a Browning pistol pinned to his waist, Zeiss binoculars around his neck, and the military boots on his feet have also been replaced with rubber shoes.

The soldiers of the infantry squadron did not have much of a burden, but they had to carry some more ammunition, all their weapons and their marching blankets, and the preparation of the whole brigade took nearly two hours, and two hours after receiving the order, the whole brigade was instructed to drive out of the battalion.

The vicinity is very safe, not a war zone, Zhang Wei let the teaching brigade march in the way of a brigade preparation, the first squadron is the first, the second squadron is behind, the heavy fire squadron, the baggage platoon, the engineer platoon and Zhang Wei's brigade headquarters are behind the second squadron, and the third squadron is behind the palace, teaching the whole brigade, three infantry squadrons, one heavy fire squadron, one baggage platoon, and a combat engineer platoon, with nine heavy machine guns and two 82 mortars and heavy equipment left the original station, and the original place naturally has nearby garrisons to receive, After the teaching brigade lowered the number plate at the camp gate, more than 800 people of the whole brigade marched to the headquarters of the new 22nd Division on the outskirts of Xiangtan.

The division headquarters is the command organ of a division, and before the regiments are mobilized, the division headquarters must be the first to move, and those who follow the division headquarters will also have troops directly under the division, so the division headquarters and the troops directly under the division must move faster than the infantry regiments below.

Among the divisional units directly under the New 22 nd Division, the teaching brigade is the strongest overall strength, and the units directly under the division of the New 22 nd Division include a mortar battalion, a special service company, a communications company, and a transport battalion.

The special service company is responsible for the close protection of the division headquarters and also protects the senior officers.

The combat capability of the teaching brigade is the strongest among the units directly under the division, and the number of people is also relatively large, so it will naturally be relied on by the division headquarters.

Because of the nature of its tasks, it is impossible for the teaching brigade to be close to the division headquarters, otherwise the guns and artillery fired every day will also have an impact on the work of the division headquarters, and the whole brigade walked for about an hour and finally arrived at the division headquarters of the new 22 nd Division.

More than 1,000 people were busy around, trucks, mules and horses, and a large number of soldiers, carrying all kinds of ammunition and materials, horse-drawn carts and imported trucks were driving slowly in the crowd, and from time to time there were the urging of soldiers and the sound of car horns.

These two very different means of transport drive together on the same section of the road, and from a distance, the area around the division headquarters is quite spectacular. Zhang Wei ordered the whole brigade to stop advancing, and the front was already chaotic enough.

Zhang Wei took his heralds to the direction of the division headquarters, preparing to meet the division commander in the division headquarters and receive the next action plan.

The surroundings were crowded, Zhang Wei and the heralds squeezed through the crowd of people, some of these soldiers around were armed with guns, some were unarmed soldiers, some wore steel helmets, and some did not have steel helmets, and even the shoes on their feet were different, cloth shoes and straw sandals.

However, most of the people are straw sandals, these soldiers are people from the troops directly under the division, and they are fully armed soldiers from the special service company, with tattered clothes and nothing but clothes, and the eight achievements are the big soldiers of the transportation battalion, with steel helmets, and those who do not have many weapons are people from the communication company.

There are also soldiers of the mortar battalion, leading horses in groups, pulling 82 mortars and shells, passing through the ranks, the road is not enough, many soldiers are forced to walk on both sides of the road in extremely poor condition, livestock, equipment, and soldiers of various directly subordinate units are crowded together, which can be called the Republic of China version of traffic jams.

With so many people carrying out all kinds of work at the same time, Zhang Wei really couldn't enter the division headquarters quickly, so he could only walk while squeezing, and Zhang Wei and the three signal soldiers walked for seven or eight minutes at a distance of several hundred meters.

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