Chapter 119, Recruitment Issues
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In the restaurant, "Mr. Bao, the king of news", leaked all kinds of news, which shocked the people around.
"Okay, that's all for today, who, who's going to help me get the money for the drink." The drunken and dizzy bag always hippie.
Hearing this, the crowd that was originally densely packed around suddenly dispersed, and in an instant, the surroundings of Mr. Bao were empty, and some people who didn't know why were dumbfounded.
Mr. Bao was obviously used to it, and when he opened his mouth, he scolded: "You bastards, one is more treacherous than the other, you just said that you will help me with all the wine money, and now the fucking ones are running faster than rabbits, in the future, don't listen to labor and management in the future." ”
Everyone smiled hippiely, but they didn't answer, "." Mr. Bao scolded and staggered to the counter, "Old, boss, hehe, on credit!" ”
"On credit again, you've already paid 10 yuan on credit this month." The boss frowned, if it weren't for the fact that he could attract some customers, he wouldn't have agreed to give him credit.
"Just, just one more credit, one last time." Mr. Bao's wine came up, and he stammered a little when he spoke.
"Okay." The boss reluctantly agreed.
"I settled this gentleman's account, how much is it?" Suddenly, a voice came.
The voice came from behind Mr. Bao, and the boss looked up behind Mr. Bao and saw a middle-aged man, who looked very ordinary, nothing outstanding, if there was anything wrong, that is, he was slightly shorter and not much like Chinese. However, the boss obviously didn't bother with this problem, and a standard smile instantly appeared on his face, "Hello this guest officer." ”
Mr. Bao also reacted leisurely, slowly turned to look at this person, raised his drunken face and said, "This brother, do you want to tie the knot for me?" Thank you so much for that. ”
"You're welcome, I have something I want to ask you." said that he took out more than a dozen so-called banknotes printed by the Republic of China from his bosom and put them on the counter, all of them were one yuan, "Is it enough?" ”
"Enough is enough." The boss nodded hurriedly. Then I saw that this bag was always pulled away by this person, and this short-looking person had a lot of strength.
"Hey, what are you pulling me for?" Mr. Bao, who didn't know why, yelled a few times, and then was pulled away without any resistance.
The next day, people found a body on a wasteland on the outskirts of the city, and after several verifications, it was confirmed that the body was the "news king" Bao Zong.
Mr. Bao's body was covered with scars, which was miserable, and his expression was distorted, his mouth was wide open, and his eyes were staring, which was very hideous.
Mr. Bao's death, everyone talked about it in private, and many people saw the scene of him being taken away yesterday. Everyone speculated that only the Japanese army was capable of killing people at will in Wuhan.
As for the reason for the incident, he talked about his extensive information, but in fact he was bragging and adding a little speculation, but the Japanese army didn't know it, thinking that he had information in the newly established 41st Army, so they took him away, and after some inquiry, they found that the other party couldn't give the answer he wanted, so they killed him. Typical misfortune comes from the mouth.
The Japanese army knows very little about the strength of Lu Qiang's army, and what they know at present is that they have a lot of artillery, strong firepower, good equipment, strong chariots, and strong aircraft. This is the Japanese army's perception of the Lu Qiang army, and nothing else is known. The Art of War: Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated in a hundred battles. And Japan, which has been imitating China, certainly knows this, so they are searching everywhere for information about Lu Qiang and his army, whether the news is true or not.
However, Lu Qiang's military control effect is not bad, although there must be spies in Dawang Village with tens of thousands of people, but they are not willing to move, once they are suspected, they will be arrested immediately, and they will not show mercy at all. Even if there is any news, it is not easy to get out, except for a few caravans, and the original residents can enter and exit once a week, it is easy for outsiders to enter, but to get permission to go out. In addition, there are only three civilian radio stations in Dawang Village, all of which are registered, and except for these three, the signals sent by other unregistered radio stations are all intercepted. Information cannot be disseminated, resulting in some spies being unable to transmit information even though they have it in their hands.
They can't pass on the information, of course Lu Qiang is happy, but what he is concerned about now is that the Japanese army is thinking of dealing with himself, and it can be seen from the Japanese army's wanton looting of their own intelligence that the Japanese army was not so targeted before, and now it seems that the Japanese army is afraid of him, not as rampant as before, and deal with him carefully, if you want to deal with a person, you must understand everything about him, and the Japanese army is thinking like this.
Lu Qiang expressed disgust for this concern of the Japanese army, but he is now recruiting troops on a large scale, and with the number one of a group army, Lu Qiang decided to get 5 or 6 divisions, and then the title of the 250th Division remains unchanged, and the reinforced brigade of the 11th Division has been renamed the 251st Division, and Lu Qiang wants to form 3 more divisions. The 250th Division belongs to the mixed division, the 251st Division belongs to the infantry division, and it is also Lu Qiang's Guards Division, as for the last three divisions, according to his ideas, there will be another mixed division, a mountain division and an airborne division.
The mountain division came out first, the southern water network rice fields, the mountainous dense forests were relatively large, and the mixed division had more armored tanks and artillery, which was difficult to drive in the south.
The individual equipment of the mountain division has not changed much, but it will be appropriately reduced, and the troop establishment is still the 44 system, but the fire support of the battalions of the squad and platoon remains unchanged, and the company-level air defense battalion has been dismantled and changed into a machine gun battalion, all equipped with 81 squad machine guns, which is very frustrating. At the regimental level, there were three infantry regiments plus a 105mm howitzer regiment, a total of 38 guns. After that, there were 4 such brigades, and the means of transport were still Ural heavy trucks and Wesley Jeeps.
This is the result of discussions between several of them, although the firepower has decreased a lot compared with the 250th Division, but it is not comparable to the Japanese army.
After the mountain division, the plan is to form an airborne division, which is also a rapid reaction division, the plan is 8,000 people, and the airborne division does not need too many people, they are not too expensive. And in the end, it's the mixed master, and he puts it last.
As a result, Lu Qiang became 5 divisions on paper, 250 mixed divisions, 251 infantry divisions (Guards Division), 252 mountain divisions, 253 airborne divisions, and 254 mixed divisions. In addition to the planned formation of two reserve 1 divisions and reserve 2 divisions. If these are all formed, then Lu Qiang's army will break through the 100,000 mark. By that time it will be possible to counterattack the Japanese army.
The idea is good, but the reality is cruel.
If the entire Dawang Village is not counted as an army, there are now a total of less than 100,000 people, excluding the old and weak, women and children, there are only less than 30,000 young and strong, more than 20,000, and at most he can form his mountain division.
Dawang Village is relatively remote. Although the population has increased from a few hundred to nearly 100,000 after Lu Qiang's relocation (robbery) of people (people), it is still not enough, so Lu Qiang wants to recruit troops outside the village, but he is not at ease with the people recruited from outside, which makes it very distressed.
"Boss, you can actually go to Henan to recruit soldiers." Suddenly, Zhang Zhongliang put forward an opinion. "Henan because of the Huayuankou embankment, countless people have become refugees, there are many refugees in this Dawang Village, and the military discipline of Henan's Tang Enbo army is very corrupt, the people have long hated him, if we recruit troops to Henan, with our blessings/benefits, we will be able to recruit a large number of people in Henan."
"Isn't it okay around Dabie Mountain?" The lynx suddenly interjected, Henan is some way away from Dabie Mountain, and he doesn't understand why he went all the way to Henan to recruit troops.
"The area around Dabie Mountain is not good, the surrounding area is either occupied by the Japanese army, or the guerrillas of the Fourth Army, recruiting troops here, it is easy to recruit spies, although Henan is far away, but it is still under Chinese rule, the guerrillas are all Tang Enbo's miscellaneous army, military discipline is corrupt, the people are dissatisfied, as long as you are careful, you can recruit a large number of good troops." Lu Qiang said that he understood what Zhang Zhongliang meant.
Tang Enbo is also a small number of famous anti-Japanese generals who are feared by the Japanese army, and he is known as the anti-Japanese iron man with the Battle of Nankou and the victory of Taierzhuang, and his contribution to China's War of Resistance against Japan is indelible. However, after he was promoted for meritorious service and commanded a large-scale army, hundreds of thousands of troops with a very complex composition, all kinds of miscellaneous armies, bandits, militias, and so on, were uneven, and he was unable to take care of the whole army by leviing food and salary on Henan Province alone, which led to the oppression of Henan people by his subordinates, and also caused the incident of Henan civilians defecting to help the Japanese occupy Henan. Some people think that Henan people describe the four major disasters in Henan at that time with water and drought locust soup and Henan four famines, and the soup is Tang Enbo. Tang Enbo's old enemy, Li Zongren, hinted in his memoirs that the military discipline of Tang Enbo's army was very corrupt. Wu Guozhen, a scholar studying in the United States, said that he had witnessed Tang Enbo's behavior of eating empty quotas and stealing and selling military gasoline.
Henan because of the bursting of the embankment at the mouth of the garden, many places have become swamps, blocking the way for the Japanese army to advance, plus the Japanese army is not enough, it may also be the reason for Luoyang (Luoyang homonym sunset, that is, the sunset, and Japan believes in the sun), anyway, Henan has not yet fallen, plus there are no guerrillas of the Red Party, so Henan is still very pure.
"Zhang Zhongliang, the matter of recruiting troops in Beihenan will be handed over to you, bring some people to ensure safety." Lu Qiang said.
"Yes!" This is his first mission, and it has to be done well and beautifully.
"Any other questions?" Lu Qiang crossed his hands and said with his chin propped up.
"Recently, there have been some bad practices in the barracks." Bai Yiren said.
"Where?"
"The main thing is a waste of food, the training is not serious, there is some complacency, and the work and rest are starting to be a little scattered."
"Hmm...... This issue must be resolved, and it concerns the combat effectiveness of our army...... Well, there it is. Lu Qiang pondered and said, "Let the special combat team tie them all up tomorrow night." ”
"Is that all?"
"Specifically, we have to plan again, and give them some bitterness to taste, so as not to really think that defeating the devil twice will look like the second and third in the world."
"This method is good, or in the future, let the special combat team come to attack them from time to time, that is, the special combat team is trained, and it also arouses their competitiveness."
"Well, that's it, it's settled, it's okay to disband."
The future painful days of the army under Lu Qiang's command will start from now.