Chapter 31: Dressing the Volunteers

Moreover, Rehe Province is close to Tongliao and Jinzhou, especially the area of Redong is almost bordered by Jinzhou, and many local big families have lost hope for the Northeast Army, and even more have long expected the Japanese army to come. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because only the Japanese army came, they could take possession of the land and property of the large families who had already moved away.

Although the Japanese army was brutal, their evil deeds had not yet spread at this time, so in the eyes of these big households, no matter who ruled Rehe, it was indispensable for them to maintain them.

Even if Rejianping County was occupied by the Japanese army, their interests would at most be at most a little loss in the early stage, and they would not lose all their land and property over the years to those large households who had moved to other places.

Li Han has no way to deal with these people, he can't let all the people under his rule destroy their homes and relieve their difficulties just because the government's army lost the battle, if that's the case, then what's the difference between himself and the devil.

Even Li Han is now evacuating the people in the city, only because Li Han doesn't want them to die under the fire of the devils.

So Li Han just asked them to go to their relatives and friends first, and when the battle between Li Han and the devil was decided, no matter who won the victory, they could come back.

If it is their own victory, then of course it is the best, and the people can live a normal life again; If the devils win, in order to maintain the rule of the Rehe region, it is impossible for them to kill all the people, so who will create wealth for them, but the people will become slaves of the country.

But what can be done otherwise, Li Han himself is just a battalion commander, and he has no rights or ability to carve out a chassis in other provinces for them to live in.

If these people were to be exiled at this point, the number of people who died would be much greater than the number of people killed by the devils.

With the passage of time, Jianping County has become a huge fortification, and basically all the houses that can be used have been opened, which Li Han used when he was preparing to fight with the devils in the streets of the city.

Dozens of light and heavy machine-gun positions were built on the city gate tower, which would become a nightmare for the devils to attack the county seat.

"Battalion commander, the troops sent by Deputy Commander Tang have arrived." The platoon commander of the guard platoon, Jin Long, reported.

"Oh, let's go out and meet them, and we're going to share them in the days to come."

Li Han looked at the gradually improving fortifications in front of him, and a smile of relief appeared on his face. Then he straightened his military uniform, patted the dust on his body, and strode towards the station of the barracks.

"Report, Gao Jian, commander of the first battalion of the third regiment of the Northeast Volunteer Army, was ordered to report to the commander and ask the commander for instructions."

Li Han had just arrived at the barracks when a tall officer came over and saluted.

Li Han carefully observed the battalion commander of the Northeast Volunteer Army, who seemed to be about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and in terms of height, Li Han roughly estimated it, more than one meter eight, a typical image of a Northeast man.

"Could it be that the people of the Northeast in this period are so tall?" Seeing Gao Jian's height, Li Han muttered to himself.

Since crossing over to become the company commander of the Northeast Army, Li Han has been deeply affected in terms of height, although his height of 1.7 meters can only be said to be barely reaching the average height in modern terms, but in the Republic of China period, the height of 1.7 meters should still be good.

The problem is that he is an officer of the Northeast Army, and most of his subordinates are from the Northeast. Among his several company platoon commanders, Wang Dazhu is the most obvious, with a height of 1.88 meters and a score of 85 in appearance.

usually always has a cold expression.,If you put it in modern society.,That's a standard male god.。 The other platoon commanders are all over 1.8 meters tall, and even his fellow countryman and childhood friend Li Yong is 1.78 meters.

Although after the loss of the Northeast, many people from other places were also absorbed into the army, but even so, most of the recruits were northerners, and their height was basically more than 1.75 meters.

This made Li Han very depressed in his heart, and thought that when he returned to the Republic of China, he could become a rich and handsome, it seems that he is still far from a goal, and the first "high" condition is afraid that it will never be reached.

Of course, Gao Jian didn't know what Li Han said again, and when he saw Li Han staring at him and didn't know what he was muttering, he immediately straightened his chest and waited for Li Han's inspection without squinting, fortunately, he had also been a soldier before, so Gao Jian's posture was an absolute standard.

Although they were all battalion commanders, the Volunteers had just been incorporated after all, and except for a few principals and officers at the regimental commander and above who had been awarded military ranks, none of them had any military rank under the regimental commander.

In addition, the number and equipment of the volunteers were uneven, and most of the personnel were peasants and enthusiastic youths, who had basically no formal military training except for their enthusiasm.

There is still a gap in combat effectiveness compared with regular troops, and it is similar to the combat effectiveness of local troops such as the security regiment of the national army or the district squad and county brigade called by the Eighth Route Army.

Gao Jian himself was very clear about this, and before leaving, the regiment commander specially explained that he should obey Li Han's command in everything, so Gao Jian had no resistance to obeying the command of Li Han, who was also the battalion commander.

Of course, Gao Jian is not a junior brother, he himself has been in the area of Rehe for a while, and he knows that Li Hanbu's combat effectiveness is very strong, especially in the battle that happened in Niujiabao Town a few days ago, it was rumored that Li Hanbu eliminated a reorganized brigade of devils.

Regarding this news, Gao Jian's first reaction was: impossible!

But since that battle, the menacing and arrogant devils who have been all the way suddenly disappeared, and at this time, Gao Jian learned through some underground channels that the devil's troops had been hit hard in Niujiabao Town, and the vanguard troops were all wiped out, and I heard that the devils were now mobilizing troops and preparing to retaliate.

For a while, the pressure on several other minor counties in Chaoyang Road was greatly reduced, and at this time, Gao Jian knew in his heart that the news that the devil had been hit by Li Hanbu should be true.

Before the 918 Incident, Gao Jian was also a soldier in the Northeast Army, and he was still a platoon commander.

After 918, because he was dissatisfied with the young marshal's policy of non-resistance, he broke away from the ranks of the Northeast Army, joined the Northeast Volunteer Army, and fought a lot of battles with devils in the vast northeast land.

Therefore, he can be said to have dealt with the devils a lot, and the more than 100,000 people of the Northeast Volunteer Army have not yet played a record of annihilating a large group of devils in one go.

Based on this, Gao Jian admired Li Hanna a lot, so he would assume the posture of a subordinate as soon as they met.

"Battalion Commander Gao is too polite, everyone is a brother, and I don't dare to give instructions, I just hope that you and I will spend the next few days together."

Gao Jian voluntarily lowered his status, of course Li Han couldn't just carry it around. Everyone is a battalion commander, and there is no distinction between high and low officials.

Moreover, they are still here to assist the fourth battalion in defending the city, which will give people the impression of being arrogant and disrespectful to friendly troops, and who will be willing to help them in the future, the fate of the 74th Army is an example.

"Please rest assured, the commander, all the lowly duties are subject to the commander's dispatch." Gao Jian said loudly.

Seeing Gao Jian's insistence on calling himself a chief, Li Han couldn't help but smile bitterly, but this is fine, at least there will be no problems in command. With a big war imminent, the existence of two command systems in one unit will certainly greatly weaken the combat effectiveness of the troops.

"Well, Battalion Commander Gao, take me to see the brothers of the Volunteers!"

Li Han did not bother with Gao Jian's name for himself, but followed Gao Jian to the garrison of the Volunteers, the garrison of the Volunteers, which had been prepared when Li Han saw the telegram, and the location of the garrison was close to the camp of the Fourth Battalion.

Knowing that Li Han was coming, several company commanders of the Volunteer Army had already assembled their troops and stood in the center of the school field, and I don't know why the big men came to review the troops.

On the whole, Gao Jian's soldiers are still good, they are all composed of young and middle-aged people, and they all have high morale, and they can't wait to fight with devils. This is mainly because most of the members of the Volunteer Army are exiled from the northeast and have a common enmity with the Japanese.

If you want to say that it is a pity, it is that the equipment is a little worse, and there are all kinds of rifles in your hands, including the Liaozao 13 type of the Northeast Army, the 38 rifle of the devil, and the Soviet Union's Morgansinna and so on.

A battalion of 500 men uses as many as five or six types of rifles, and I don't know how they usually replenish their ammunition.

Moreover, there is almost zero heavy armament, there is not a single mortar, there are only a few crooked light machine guns for machine guns, and there is not a single heavy machine gun.

Another point is that these volunteers are not uniformly dressed, some of them have tattered uniforms, some only wear clothes without pants, and some have pants without clothes, which makes Li Han's heart twisted. Because Li Han was accustomed to uniform and weaponry in the army.

Therefore, Li Han wanted to change the clothes of the volunteer camp at the first time, if the volunteers used such weapons to fight with devils, they would suffer a big loss, and Li Han could not provide so many models of ammunition here.

"Battalion Commander Gao, I'm going to help your department change the equipment, what do you think?" Li Han said to Gao Jian.

"Sir, really? There are more than 500 people in our battalion, all of whom are well-known men, as long as there are guns and bullets, the brothers will never say anything about killing the enemy in battle! ”

Gao Jian's eyes lit up when he heard it, although the Northeast Volunteer Army is also a unit of Northeast people, but it is not as good as the one raised by the stepmother, most of the weapons and ammunition were brought by the original uprising, and in the later period, they were mainly smuggled from the Guannei, so it will be like what Li Han sees now.

Even such equipment is not available in every volunteer unit, and the soldiers of many units still hold Manshali rifles and large blades left over from the Beiyang period.

Due to the lack of weapons and ammunition, under normal circumstances, the volunteers have to calculate the use of ammunition every time they fight, which leads to a great reduction in the combat effectiveness of the volunteers.

"Of course, I, Li Han, am also a dignified man, and what I said was a spit and a nail, but now I only have the devil's 38 big cover rifle in my hand, I hope Battalion Commander Gao doesn't mind."

After listening to Gao Jian's words, Li Han was a little sad. The demands of the soldiers were so low that they could not be met, and it is no wonder that the national army later fought so many defeats.

Li Han never knew that the Volunteers were so miserable, and in his opinion, the Volunteers had a brigade headquarters of more than 100,000 people, and even if the equipment was not as good as the regular Northeast Army, it should not be similar to other local warlords.

After Gao Jian heard Li Han's words, he was very happy, and immediately waved to the soldiers in the school field: "Brothers, Chief Li is going to change equipment for the brothers, and everyone can let go of their hands when they see devils in the future." ”

As for Li Han's latter sentence, it was directly ignored by Gao Jian. The devil's 38 rifle is already very good in Gao Jian's opinion, and it is also very easy to use, and he can reequip the troops with 38 covers, Gao Jian is too late to be happy, how can he mind!