Zhang Wei told him that the troops had gathered five or six hundred people in the Qingshan area, and they were waiting for them, and Chen Chunyi was relieved. Chen Chunyi talked about his breakthrough experience, it turned out that when he broke through last night, as soon as the Japanese opened fire, the regiment headquarters and the three battalions were in a mess, Chen Chunyi only had to take the special service platoon and the regiment headquarters to go, and along the way to collect stragglers, he was scattered again, and ran all night, until early in the morning he met the 25th Division troops who arrived.

After collecting the troops, Zhang Wei's task was completed, Zhang Wei and his party took Chen Chunyi and the troops to say goodbye to Gao Peng, and the 25th Division was also going to withdraw.

"The order from the division is here, we are going to retreat, there has been a fight on the side of Li Guoyi and the side of Shagou, and now our 52nd Army wants to move the canal, and this side can only be handed over to you."

The orders of the high-level were not something that Zhang Wei and them could manage, and after thanking each other, they retreated.

On the way, Chen Chunyi sighed: "We have killed so many brothers, can this battle be fought?" ”

"Yes, sure." Zhang Wei's memories of his previous life told him that although the results of the Battle of Taierzhuang were quite exaggerated, it did hit the Japanese army, and the Chinese army, mainly the Tang Army, contracted the encirclement on the way back of the Japanese army, causing relatively serious losses to the Japanese army, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the armor was lost.

Chen Chunyi has really been uncomfortable these days, and the whole group that got off in Lincheng is now only a thousand people left, which is indeed unbearable, and the family money he has saved is about to be exhausted again.

On the way back to Qingshan, Zhang Wei saw the 4th Division's reinforcements, which were from the 10th Brigade, and it turned out that the 52nd Army was going to hand over the defense to the 4th Division after the battle of Shagou and Liguoyi, and the 4th Division naturally sent Lai Ruxiong's 10th Brigade, which suffered little loss, and the battalion of the 20th Regiment also returned to its formation on the road, and went forward with the 20th Regiment.

After marching nearly ten miles, the troops finally arrived at the safety of Qingshan Mountain, where the headquarters of the 4th Division and the troops directly under it were stationed, and the 12th Brigade was also stationed here.

The troops don't have to worry about him, a few platoon commanders will naturally organize, and the brothers also need to rest, and the first thing they do when they come back is to sleep. Naturally, other units are responsible for the vigilance task.

During this period, it was rare to get a good night's sleep, there was no gunfire and no gunsmoke, and Zhang Wei, the independent company, and the officers and men of the 12th Brigade of the 4th Division and the division headquarters were all enjoying this rare quiet. Zhang Wei slept very steadily, and when he woke up again, it was the early morning of the next day, and what woke him up was the noise outside.

Getting up made him walk out with a shell gun, and his sanity made him sober up again. Qiu Wei and the others had just woken up, there was such a commotion outside the tent, Zhang Wei saw that it was a major who came over with a group of soldiers.

"What's going on?"

"Company commander, someone from the division headquarters sent a batch of recruits?"

Recruit? Zhang Wei stepped forward to talk to the person sent by the division headquarters, who came was a staff officer who brought twenty recruits, not the strong men who had just been captured, but the training of the division supplementary regiment (also captured by the division management area in the rear), but the training had been completed, that is to say, the basic military skills were there. It was not easy to allocate twenty people to Zhang Wei this time, after all, the 4th Division did not bring many recruits when it opened the city.

"Company Commander Zhang, if someone is delivered, my work will be over." The staff officer said with a smile.

"Then you walk slowly."

After sending off the staff officers, Zhang Wei glanced at the recruits who were sent and stood in two rows, each carrying a rifle and a cloth bullet belt carried crossbody.

He wore a military hat on his head, and no steel helmet. Also, the war has been going on for a while, and the Chinese army is already short of supplies, so it is naturally impossible to equip recruits with anything good, and recruits like Zhang Wei are already good if they have rifles.

Most of these soldiers are less than twenty years old, but they don't have the light in their eyes that they should have at this age, in fact, Zhang Wei also knows that they are probably captured soldiers.

Zhang Wei leaned over, looked at the recruits, and walked up to a soldier: "Where are you from, how did you become a soldier?" ”

The recruit replied tremblingly: "Report to the chief, I am from Henan, and I was pulled by the security chief, so I ...... And he came to the troops. ”

"Hmm"

Zhang Wei looked at a soldier next to him again, and then asked, "You, what did you all learn in the army?" ”

"Sir, the previous chief taught us to shoot guns and throw iron bumps, and also taught us to dig a big ditch."

Well. It seems that the recruits of the Central Army can still train basic skills, and the physique of these soldiers is not good, they are thin, it seems that they don't eat well, in fact, some of them eat well, after all, there are many people who drink the blood of soldiers, and the recruit replenishment regiment is the hardest hit area.

"Brothers, what happened to you before, I don't care, I know, you were all arrested, and there may be those who are sold and famous, we are happy people, since we are here, let's not be deserters, we all treat the big guys as brothers, and no one is sorry for anyone!"

"Come to me, you will have enough food, no military salary, you will share difficulties and blessings!" Zhang Wei had to settle down on this group of soldiers first.

"Of course, the ugly words are ahead, if anyone is cowardly on the battlefield, if anyone runs away in peacetime, then you are sorry for me Zhang, and there is only one result, military law!"

Zhang Wei looked at these soldiers and was slightly shocked, it seems that his "mobilization" is still useful, and the next thing is to distribute, Xu Yi's platoon suffered a large loss, replenished ten, and the remaining ten were divided into the other three platoons, and the strength of the independent company was restored to a certain extent.

"Company commander, these recruits?" He Kun asked.

"These soldiers, you have brought them well, according to our training methods, give them expedited and supplementary classes, veterans are all starting to take the lead, don't beat people during training, scold a few words, don't turn around and scare away."

After listening to Zhang Wei's instructions, several platoon commanders went back to the platoon to make arrangements.

After working for a while, breakfast was also delivered, and today it is mixed rice porridge and pickles. For battlefield food, it's already pretty good. The officers and men of the independent company ran out of breakfast on the spot, and now it is wartime, and it is impossible to waste much time on eating.

Zhang Wei's troops were replenished with 20 recruits, and Chen Chunyi did not receive criticism after reporting to the brigade commander Shi Jue and the division commander Chen Daqing, but was praised for sticking to Yixian and bringing out nearly 1,000 troops (although Zhang Wei played a great role), this time the division did not eat the recruits all to Chen Chunyi, that is, more than 300 troops, and Chen Chunyi wanted to use these soldiers to reorganize the 23rd Regiment.

After Chen Chunyi returned, he added 300 people to the troops, plus more than 1,000 people brought out, he rebuilt the regimental headquarters and the troops directly under him (communication platoon, transportation platoon, special service platoon, mortar company is not good, all the artillery was blown up. The rest were reorganized into two infantry battalions, but machine guns were missing, and the battalion's heavy machine gun company was all riflemen.

By the time of the breakout, almost all the heavy machine guns were lost, and the light machine guns were not complete, but two infantry battalions with a number of numbers that could be used in the First World War were finally organized. Zhang Wei's men also continued to be assigned to Chen Chunyi's 23rd Regiment to fight.