Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Arms Dealers

After leaving Fuzaobang, Su Dao led the soldiers of the third battalion to Jiading. Nanjing's intentions are very clear, I will give you a formal establishment and soldiers, but then you have to be obedient and become a force loyal to the party-state and the leader.

But is Su Dao the kind of person who covets comfort? The War of Resistance is not a one-person thing, but Su Dao will not let Nanjing dictate him, and he is controlled by others everywhere, sometimes many things he wants to do will be stopped by the above, and what he doesn't want to do will be forced to do it.

The distance between Fuzaobang and Jiading is not far, and it is only an hour to walk, Su Dao started to set off at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, and by six o'clock, the third battalion has already arrived in Jiading.

It wasn't until he arrived in Jiading that Su Dao discovered that not long after the war began, there were so many troops who came here to replenish the troops. But most of them were only replenished by one or two thousand people, and they were all assigned to the divisions, and then distributed by the divisions and villages.

In fact, they came to receive the supplementary troops so early, just to make plans for the future, after all, everyone knows that there will be a fierce battle in Shanghai, if they don't get the supplementary troops as soon as possible, it is estimated that it will be very difficult at that time. Once the war starts on the whole front, the army is overwhelmed, and all the troops are short of soldiers at that time, where can they go to recruit soldiers?

Therefore, the current situation has been created, the logistics personnel of each division have come to Jiading for supplies, the army has just attacked, Jiading at this time still belongs to the rear, not too far from the front line, supplies or something can be delivered in time, but there is also a point, at this time Jiading's logistics base has long been ready to retreat, once the army breaks through the position, Jiading logistics base will quickly retreat.

Su Dao took out the telegram given to him by Sun Liren and handed it directly to a logistics supply officer.

"Reading Regiment of the Ninth Army." The supply officer glanced at the unit on the telegram and read it directly, while another supply officer next to him quickly checked the notebook to see how many troops they should supply.

Soon, another supply officer found out that Su Dao's reading force group needed to supply 3,000 troops, which was the largest supply since they came here, but looking at Su Dao in front of him, the supply officer was a little confused. He has seen a lot of things about directly expanding a battalion into a regiment, but it is the first time he has seen a battalion directly into a reading regiment directly under the group army.

"Brother, you should have just returned from the front line, right? How's the way forward? The supply officer asked directly with interest, while another supply officer was going through the supply procedures.

"Well, the army has begun to attack, and the losses on the front line are not small, but fortunately, we have resisted it, and now I am having a headache there." Regarding the actual situation on the front line, Su Dao did not dare to tell the truth, at least in front of him, a logistics supply officer.

Successfully got the supply of 3,000 recruits, Su Dao's three battalions finally became a real reading group, but immediately after Su Dao faced a more serious problem, now his officers are not enough, the battalion-level troops have been expanded into regiment-level troops, in addition to the most important soldiers, there is also a need for more important officers, without a large number of grass-roots officers, even if there are 10,000 soldiers, it is difficult to become a big weapon.

However, on the issue of officers, Su Dao didn't want to ask for officers from Nanjing, because he was afraid that Nanjing would secretly cause sabotage in his troops, and second, he was worried that with the growth of the troops, some people would seize the handle and blackmail him.

On the issue of officers, Su Dao adopted the simplest method: the company commander became the battalion commander, the platoon commander became the company commander, and some talented and meritorious soldiers were selected from among the squad leaders to be the platoon commanders, and some shrewd veterans were appointed as squad leaders. However, the three battalions were expanded several times at once, and there were only a few soldiers left who did not become squad leaders, of course, when the next round of expansion of the army was carried out, these people were Su Dao's first choice.

It was busy until noon the next day, Su Daocai so-soly sorted out the things of the reading group, most of which were sorted out by the original four company commanders, this time Su Dao's reading group was directly built according to the four battalions, although the number may be less, but this does not affect Su Dao's plan after that, people can slowly recruit again.

At present, the battle of Songhu has just begun, and there will be many fierce battles in the future, and there are countless troops that have been scattered, Su Daoda can use the name of the Ninth Army to include those veterans in his reading group, anyway, the troops have already dispersed, and it is normal for those with low ranks to obey those with high ranks.

After finishing all this, Su Dao finally found time to report to the headquarters of the Ninth Army, no matter how eye-catching the Reading Regiment was, but the Reading Regiment was a unit under the Ninth Army after all, no matter how he said that he, a newly incorporated unit of the Ninth Army, had to go to the headquarters to report the truth, so as not to gossip.

"Report sir, Su Dao of the Reading Force Group is here to report." Entering the headquarters, Su Dao saw several lieutenant generals and major generals talking about something around a map, so he reported directly.

"Hehe, it turned out to be our anti-Japanese hero, contemptible Zhang Zhizhong, commander of the Ninth Army." Zhang Zhizhong heard Su Dao's report, and quietly turned his head, first deeply shocked by Su Dao's youth, and then welcomed with a smiling face.

He had heard Su Dao's name, he served in the German army at a young age, and he was also a company commander, just this background was enough to make Su Dao popular in the country. In recent years, the image of the German army in the country is very good, not only can fight tough battles, but also resourceful, many battles need to be learned by these generals in the country, and now this Su Dao has been incorporated into the Ninth Army, Zhang Zhizhong is still a little excited.

"The chief smiled, the department is just a reputation, if it weren't for the lives of its soldiers, it is estimated that the department would have been dead in the field by now." Su Dao preached respectfully.

Here are all major generals and lieutenant generals or something, to leave a good impression on these people, and they will not be too passive in dealing with them in the future, and if there is anything difficult to control in the future, these people can help themselves to some extent, anyway, everything Su Dao is doing now is to plan for his future, he is used to being a thief, and he didn't have any other ideas when he first became an officer, but now Su Dao has a whimsical idea, if he wants to complete this idea, he must need the full support of many people, what Su Dao is doing now, that is, to lay the foundation.

"Today, our Ninth Army is also engaged in a battle with the devils, the elite of the devils really surprised us, and the brothers on many fronts began to chatter, Commander Su, as far as I know, you seem to have just come down from the front line, and at the cost of less than two hundred casualties, you wiped out nearly two squadrons of the army, can you tell us old guys, how did you do it?" Zhang Zhizhong didn't plan to pursue Su Dao's identity too much, no matter how dazzling his identity was, it was not his own, instead of envying the origin of others, it was better to care more about the current war situation.

General Su Dao talked to Zhang Zhi and others in detail about the situation in Fuzaobang, and after listening to it, everyone gasped, they didn't expect that the Yue army would use poison gas to attack, although everyone was secretly scolding the despicability of the Yue army in their hearts, but at the same time, they had to think about their own troops.

Now the Chinese army does not have any gas masks at all, and if the army starts a poison gas war again, they can only use the flesh and blood of the soldiers to resist, or simply abandon the position, and they have no other way.

"Su Dao, can you help us get a batch of gas masks? It's easy to say the price. After a long time, Zhang Zhizhong said slowly.

"I don't think it's a big problem to get a batch of gas masks, but the number won't be too much, and the price is estimated to be relatively expensive, but I don't know where my friend is now, and whether he will continue to help me get equipment. In order to change the clothes of the third battalion, I already owe more than 8 million oceans to my friend. Su Dao said with a bitter face.

As soon as Zhang Zhizhong spoke, Su Dao understood what he meant, now all over the country, who doesn't know that Su Dao has a way to get advanced equipment? Otherwise, his three battalions would not be the best equipped troops now, although the heavy firepower is still slightly insufficient, and if it is only about light firepower, none of the entire Huaxia army is the opponent of the three battalions.

At this time, Su Dao also understood what Zhang Zhizhong meant, although everyone is responsible for defending the land during the War of Resistance, but Su Dao doesn't want to be the wrongdoer, if this opening is opened, how will Su Dao mix in the future? Where can I account for the huge amount of money I owe? There are too many loopholes, and they will always attract the attention of others. So when Zhang Zhizhong spoke, Su Dao first told all the problems, so as not to embarrass himself when he got it.

"In this way, you can tell your friend as much as possible, after all, it is a time of war, and the country's finances are tight, and it will not come up with too much money, ten yuan per gas mask, how about it?" Zhang Zhizhong said a little embarrassed, this price is indeed a bit sorry for others, but the crux of the problem is that they have no money now.

"I'll do my best, but sir, I hope that the Reading Force Regiment can have at least ten days of rest, now that the troops are not fully equipped, I need to find my friend to buy a batch of equipment, and at the same time retrain the troops. As long as our Ninth Army can hold back the enemy, then I will have a way to clean up the army. Su Dao thought about it, although the price was a loss, but Su Dao was not a loss at all, after all, this thing does not cost at all, and it is profitable to sell as much as it sells, but this is not a long-term solution after all, it seems that you have to think of a separate way.

"Okay, I'll give you ten days of rest and recuperation, you don't have to participate in the war during this time, but let's just talk about gas masks." Hearing that Su Dao agreed, Zhang Zhizhong finally showed a smile on his face, for fear that Su Dao would sit on the ground and raise the price, so he finally let go.

"Sir, can you give me some of the money for this gas mask first? After all, I owe so much money to my friend, if I don't give it to anyone at all, just let them help with equipment, I'm afraid that sooner or later we will lose this partner. After satisfying Su Dao's conditions, Su Dao began to look at Zhang Zhizhong with a pitiful face.