Chapter 144: New Officers and the New Formation of the Preparatory Battalion
Perhaps due to the influence of the war in the eastern direction of Henan, the atmosphere of the 200th Division has become more and more serious recently, and the infantry regiments below do not know, but there are more and more carriages and horses driving towards the division headquarters, and not only ammunition is pulled, but also supplementary officers are sent. X
As Qiu Qingquan said, a captain with rich combat experience was assigned to Mu Chao, who was originally attached to the lieutenant of the 10th Division of the 14th Army in Wei Lihuang, and later the 14th Army fought with the Japanese army in Nankou, Xinkou, Qianjuntai and other places. This time he was drawn by the 200th Division in the field hospital, Mu Chao himself went to a military school, and he was attached to the lieutenant company before, and now the rank is mentioned as a captain, just ready to make him a company commander.
In addition, there is also a captain Zheng Yiqun who has fought in a war, but can only be regarded as a "war", and has not personally commanded the operation, and does not have rich combat experience, Zhang Wei originally planned to be stuffed into a heavy machine gun company as a company commander, anyway, the main responsibility of this position is to manage it in peacetime, and it just happened to let Zheng Yiqun have some experience, but Zhang Wei looked back and thought about it, if Zheng Yiqun, the captain, became the commander of the machine gun company, wouldn't the three infantry companies of the preparation battalion be one less infantry company commander.
After thinking about it, Zhang Wei still made him the company commander of the third infantry company, and when he was fighting, this company was used as a reserve as much as possible, which also gave Zheng Yiqun the opportunity to temper. After all, the commander of the heavy machine gun company is basically responsible for management, and the distribution of the gun company in wartime is also in charge of Zhang Wei, the battalion commander, and it is the same to go around and around.
As for the remaining three second lieutenants, the one who had fought, Zhang Wei was going to let him be the platoon commander, and the other two would be attached first, and then let them be the platoon commander when they had enough experience.
Taking advantage of the arrival of the new officers, Zhang Wei formally compiled the new personnel appointments and changes in the preparatory battalion into a book, and prepared to report to the above; under normal circumstances, officers above the company level need to be appointed by the division, and only at the company level and below can Zhang Wei adjust them on his own. However, this time Qiu Qingquan gave Zhang Wei enough rights, in his words, special affairs, the officers of the preparation battalion were adjusted by Zhang Wei himself, and he could go back and make a list and report it.
The three infantry companies of the reserve battalion, among which the independent company is a veteran who followed Zhang Wei all the way from Nanjing to Xuzhou, and has been fighting, and the preparation battalion will become an army immediately, Zhang Wei decided that in addition to sending a small number of soldiers to the other two companies to serve as squad leaders, deputy squad leaders and machine gun shooters, the rest of the people are still in the independent company, or the first company of the preparation battalion.
Most of the first company were veterans with rich combat experience, and Qiu Wei and He Kun both mentioned whether they wanted to make a flower arrangement and transfer the old independent company to one platoon to improve the other two companies that were basically new recruits.
In the end, it was vetoed by Zhang Wei, it is good to hold the fist in his hand, only the strength is useful, if it is broken up like this, Zhang Wei is afraid that the strong will become weak, and the weak will be weak. Moreover, when these recruits were brought here, there were sergeants such as Wen Yong who came with them, and these sergeants who had been educated by Zhang Wei plus a small number of veterans of the independent company who were transferred to the past, I believe that they can control the troops as the backbone.
The three platoon commanders of the old independent company, Qiu Wei, He Kun and Hao Zhong. Qiu Wei needless to say. Taking over the commander of the first company with the strongest combat effectiveness of the preparation battalion, in addition to the company commander, a company also has a deputy company commander and a company attached, the deputy company commander is taken over by He Kun, the military rank is promoted from second lieutenant to lieutenant, and the company attached to the first company is vacant.
Hao Zhong was assigned to Mu Chao's second company as a deputy company commander, and his military rank was also promoted to lieutenant, and the second company was attached to a newly assigned captain. Another second lieutenant was assigned to Zheng Yiqun's third company as a company, and the deputy company commander was also empty first. In this way, a new personnel system of the preparatory battalion was formed.
Qiu Wei, the commander of the first company, He Kun, the deputy company commander, and the attached company are temporarily vacant, the second company commander Mu Chao, and the deputy company commander Hao Zhong are attached to the company, and the company is attached to the second lieutenant, Zheng Yiqun, the commander of the third company, and the deputy company commander is temporarily empty, and the company is attached to the second lieutenant, and the commander of the heavy machine gun company is Zhang Wei, and the deputy battalion commander and battalion attached positions are temporarily vacant.
The second lieutenants with combat experience who were transferred directly served as platoon commanders in the first company, and the platoon commanders and platoons attached to the remaining companies were temporarily selected and transferred from among the sergeants and veterans.
Zhang Wei sorted out the list of reported personnel, and then asked the heralds around him to send them over, now the stall is big, He Kun Haozhong's old brothers can't always follow him, and the battalion commander has to have someone around him to take care of, so he transferred three soldiers from the first company, all veterans who fought all the way, and became Zhang Wei's guard and correspondent. The ranks were all promoted from corporal to sergeant, and the guy at hand was also replaced by a shell gun, with a cowhide ammunition bag on his waist, and a dozen magazines stuck in front and back.
Zhang Wei rubbed his temples that were a little painful, and it took a lot of effort to sort out these appointment tables and personnel forms, not only to take care of the soldiers' emotions, but also to reduce friction as much as possible, and improve the combat effectiveness of the troops.
"Report!" A loud voice sounded outside Zhang Wei's cabin.
"Battalion commander, it's Company Commander Mu." A communications soldier came in to report.
"Come in!"
The person who came was Mu Chao, the commander of the second company, Zhang Wei came to him, the company commander under his command must know the roots, the commander of the first company, Qiu Wei, is an old acquaintance, and the commander of the third company, Zheng Yiqun, has no combat experience, he is a beginner, there is nothing special to talk about, Zhang Wei just told him to learn more and do more.
Only this Mu Chao, there are many battles, of course we have to talk about it.
Mu Chao opened the door and entered, and his face was scratched by shrapnel from artillery shells. Zhang Wei asked him to sit down, Mu Chao was not polite, and sat on Zhang Wei's marching bed.
"Company Commander Mu, how do you feel about coming to the troops?" Zhang Wei asked first.
"Report to the battalion commander, our camp is eating well!"
Zhang Wei smiled and said: "It's not a good thing, your previous army was also the main force, you won't even be able to eat pork." "Mu Chao's unit is the 10th Division of the 14th Army, which belongs to the Central Army, the first batch of German-style adjustment divisions, and the division commander Li Mo'an is also a capable general.
Mu Chao shook his head: "It's not comparable, when I was in the tenth division, I could only eat a meal of meat in two or three days, how can it be like us, there is meat every day." Mu Chao didn't know what other troops of the 200th Division were eating, and he didn't know that the pork he was eating now was all bought by Zhang Wei by selling guns and bullets.
"Don't talk about meat, let's talk about training and operations, Mu Chao, I won't tell you, you can also see it, the atmosphere in our station is getting more and more wrong, I heard that there has been a fight in eastern Henan, what about us, we are troops directly under the division, but we also have to be prepared, once the battle is fought, what is needed most is the troops." Zhang Wei turned the conversation to combat.
"Battalion commander, I understand, in the past few days of training, Deputy Company Commander Hao has helped me a lot, I feel that the recruits in our battalion are not bad, I also heard Deputy Company Commander Hao say, the soldiers in the company are basically newly replenished strong men, but the physique and quality training are good, to tell the truth, and I am not much worse than those veterans in the 10th Division, tactically, I listen to the battalion commander every night with the big guys, the more I listen, the more aggrieved, what you talk about is the losses we have suffered before."
Mu Chao sighed after speaking.
"When our 10th Division was in Shanxi, to be honest, it was a few happy battles when reinforcing the 13th Army in Nankou, Chief Wei took our division, as well as the 85th Division, first to Beiping side to fight hard, and then in Qianjuntai, Laiyuan side and Dog Day repeated tug-of-war, you hit me over, but more and more people died, and the battle became worse and worse, and then later, sometimes there were too many recruits, and as soon as the officers and veterans were finished, they all ran out."
The 14th Army did fight very badly in Shanxi, and killed more than half of its men and horses in the tug-of-war of raiding Beiping and Qianjuntai, and later participated in the Xinkou defensive battle before it had time to remediate, and Mu Chao was also promoted to acting company commander at this time.
Zhang Wei patted Mu Chao: "So, I also said the night before yesterday that the officers and sergeants below should be responsible, and the soldiers should practice more and dare to fight." One Japanese soldier cannot defeat three Chinese soldiers, and ten Japanese soldiers can drive thirty Chinese soldiers around. ”r