The two soldiers looked at each other and smiled, and the previous soldier immediately said happily: "Fellow, if you ask to be a soldier, you can come with us, and our company's car will come back to pick us up, and take the car with us to Yingzhou City to sign up for the army." ”

"Boss, I'll go with you!"

"I'll go too, grandma is a bear, let's also be a soldier to fight devils."

"I'll go, I'll go too......" Dozens of sturdy men stepped forward and surrounded the two warriors and said loudly.

Immediately, the two soldiers walked out of the village with dozens of sturdy men, and before leaving, these sturdy men said goodbye to their relatives and gave some advice, and then left the village under the send-off of the villagers, and waited for the car of the tiger army on the dirt road of the village.

After about half an hour, just when the people and the people were waiting impatiently, several military trucks finally drove slowly along the dirt road from the next village, but to everyone's surprise, several military trucks were already full of people.

Many people and those people in the car still knew each other, and they greeted each other for a while.

The door of the car slammed open, and a second lieutenant platoon strode over, and the two soldiers hurriedly stepped forward and stood up and saluted: "Platoon commander." ”

The second lieutenant platoon commander saluted back, looked at the hundreds of civilians behind the two soldiers, and subconsciously asked, "How many people have been recruited?" ”

"About thirty or forty, platoon commander, can we still fit so many people in this car?" The soldier looked at several military trucks that were already full and asked rhetorically.

"Damn, don't mention it, there are nearly 100 people in the first few villages who want to be soldiers, I didn't expect the reputation of our Tiger Ben Army to be so good, as soon as the people heard that we were recruiting, they were all enthusiastic to participate." The second lieutenant platoon commander said a little depressed.

"What then?" The warrior asked.

"What else can I do, you are all waiting here, Lao Tzu will pull the batch back on the car first, and then ask the company commander to get a few more cars." The second lieutenant platoon commander said angrily, and immediately turned around and walked towards the truck. He didn't expect one guy to recruit so many people, and it seems that he will have to run at least a few back and forth today.

"Yes!" The two fighters hurriedly stepped forward.

After witnessing the officer getting into the car, several trucks roared away, and the people of Xiaowang Village hurriedly stepped forward and surrounded the two soldiers and asked, "Boss, why did they leave?" ”

"Folks, because there are too many people who want to join our Tiger Army, our cars are full, don't worry, soon our commander will mobilize more cars to pick you up, please wait patiently......" The two soldiers hurriedly explained to reassure everyone.

…………………… Yingzhou City, on the east gate city wall.

Chu Jingming, accompanied by adjutant Wang Baoshan and others, was patrolling the city, Chu Jingming held the battlement wall with both hands, watched the trucks full of people and strong people roaring into the city one after another, and asked in a good mood: "Baoshan, how many recruits have been recruited today?" ”

"Back to the group, not counting the city of Yingzhou, there must be three thousand people." Wang Baoshan thought for a while and replied.

"What three thousand?" Chu Jingming couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard this, the recruitment had only been going on for a few days, and this was not counting the city in Yingzhou, if it continued like this, he would have recruited enough men and horses for one of his divisions.

"yes." Wang Baoshan nodded and said: "If you add the soldiers recruited in Yingzhou City, the number of recruits has already exceeded 5,000 people, plus our main regiment only needs to recruit troops for one more day, and we can form four divisions." ”

"Inform all recruitment offices that the recruitment operation will recruit for another day, and then temporarily stop recruiting." Chu Jingming pondered for a moment and said, "In addition, I will prepare a telegram on the situation on our side and briefly report it to Anbang." "It's not that Chu Jingming doesn't want to recruit more soldiers, it's just that there are many practical problems that need to be considered, and there is huge pressure on logistics, military salaries and other aspects of recruiting more recruits.

Expanding a division with a main force regiment as the backbone is already the limit, no matter how large the scale is, the training cycle required will also be extended, so that it is difficult for the troops to form combat strength as soon as possible, if Chu Jingming is allowed to choose between an elite division and a group of rabble, he will definitely choose the former.

A rabble, no matter how many people there are, will not help.

As the saying goes, sharpening knives does not mistake woodcutters, as long as the fourth division is trained and formed and its combat effectiveness is formed, it can continue to expand the troops with the fourth division as the backbone, which Chu Jingming is deeply influenced by Qiao Anbang.

"Yes!" Wang Baoshan hurriedly stepped forward to respond, he had followed Chu Jingming for many years, and the two of them had already been like brothers and sisters, Wang Baoshan would not hesitate at all about Chu Jingming's decision.

………………………… Tiger Ben Army Longshan Military Camp.

Since the division of troops, the originally lively and crowded military camp is now much calmer than before, except for the guard regiment and the reading brigade, which are still out for training as usual, most of the training grounds are vacant.

Qiao Anbang, accompanied by Liang Jiahan, was walking and inspecting the barracks, today is a rare sunny day, the sun is high in the sky, the sun is not very strong on the body of the person is extraordinarily warm, occasionally a spring breeze hits, suddenly makes people refreshed.

Following behind Qiao Anbang, Liang Jiahan seemed to be in a good mood, looking around from time to time.

While the group was walking, a communications soldier hurriedly ran over, and hurriedly saluted Qiao An Bang Lizheng and said, "Military seat, Yingzhou is calling." ”

Liang Jiahan hurriedly stretched out his hand to take the message, and immediately handed it to Qiao Anbang.

Qiao Anbang took the telegram and opened it to read it at a glance, and said with a hearty smile: "Yes, the eldest brother's recruitment in Yingzhou is going very well, and it seems that it is time for other divisions to follow suit." ”

"Military seat, do you still need to expand the troops?" Wang Gensheng, the head of the guard regiment who had been standing behind him, asked.

"Well, our current strength is still too small, at least double the number of troops!" Qiao Anbang nodded thoughtfully.

Wang Gensheng and the others looked awe-struck when they heard this, and secretly shocked, if the army is doubled, the Tiger Ben Army will have an army of 100,000, obediently, the scale is about to catch up with a group army.

Qiao Anbang pondered for a moment, and suddenly said to Wang Gensheng: "Gensheng, I plan to form another division, I want you to be the commander of this division, how about it?" ”

Wang Gensheng was shocked when he heard this, and immediately shook his head and said: "Thank you for the love of the military seat, but I have a few pounds and a few taels of my own heart, I am not qualified for this division commander, so I will be the head of the guard regiment for the military seat." ”

"You bastard boy, Lao Tzu gave you a division commander, you don't do it, you have to be the head of the guard for Lao Tzu, don't you know how many people want to rush to this position?" Qiao Anbang knew that Wang Gensheng didn't want to leave him to be in charge of the army alone, after all, the two of them had been playing since childhood, and Wang Gensheng's feelings for Qiao Anbang were the same as for his eldest brother.

"Hehe, Gensheng doesn't care about that, just follow the military seat!" Wang Gensheng said with a smile on his face.

Qiao Anbang thought for a while and said, "Okay, then I'll think about others." "With Wang Gensheng as his own guard head Qiao Anbang is also relieved, if it is really replaced by someone else, it is difficult to guarantee that something will go wrong, and the position of head of the guard regiment must also be filled by his absolute confidant.

"Soza, I recommend someone to you." Wang Gensheng said suddenly.

"Who?" Qiao Anbang asked back.

"My deputy commander, Jiang Jun." Wang Gensheng replied immediately. "Him?" Qiao Anbang frowned when he heard this, Jiang Jun was born as a professional soldier, and he had more combat experience than Wang Gensheng, thinking about it, there seemed to be no one more suitable than him in the combat sequence of the Tiger Ben Army.

"Let me think about it!" Qiao Anbang said and took the lead and continued to walk forward. Liang Jiahan, Wang Gensheng and others hurriedly followed.

…………………… Xuzhou, on the highway leading to pheasant and set.

A military jeep was winding along the road, and in the back seat were two well-dressed young men, who sat in the car and looked around the scene from time to time, feeling more and more good.

"Brother Hao Yao, this northern Anhui is really good, thousands of miles of Pingchuan, it is really suitable for large-scale mechanized troops and armored assault troops." Zhang Yi, who was sitting on the left, looked left and right.

"Yes, now Brother Lingyun don't have to worry that you have nowhere to play your strengths, the current Tiger Ben Army has tens of thousands of troops, and its armored forces are even larger, which can be called the largest in the country!" Liang Haoyao smiled and nodded.

The two of them are Liang Haoyao and Zhang Yi, overseas Chinese who returned from Germany, because of the far-reaching distance between China and Germany, the two of them came to China with great difficulty, when the Battle of Xuzhou had just begun, and there was a possibility of the fall of East China at any time, so they stayed in the rear for a period of time, until the Battle of Xuzhou was victorious, and the two strategic groups in the north and south of the army retreated one after another, and they were on the road again.

When passing through the defense area of Sun Lianzhong in Xuzhou, he met Chi Fengcheng, the commander of the 31st Division, and heard that they were coming back from Germany, Chi Fengcheng intended to take in the two, but when he learned that the two planned to go to the Tiger Army, Chi Fengcheng was lost, and personally sent the adjutant Li Dongming and a military vehicle to send the two to the Pheasant and Jihu Ben Army base area.

After all, Qiao Anbang's Tiger Army was grateful to the entire Second Army, especially the 31st Division of Chifeng City, and without the help of the Tiger Army, the whole army was wiped out as early as the Battle of Taierzhuang.

Along the way, Liang Haoyao and Zhang Yi also heard about the performance and recent situation of the Tiger Ben Army in the Battle of Xuzhou, and learned that the Tiger Ben Brigade had expanded into a main force in just a few months, and the two were even more eager to participate in the Tiger Ben Army.

While the two were talking, Li Dongming, who was sitting in the front row, suddenly turned his head and said: "Two, the front is about to reach the defense area of the Tiger Ben Army, we can only send you to Xiangcheng, and they will naturally have someone take you to Pheasant and Ji." ”

"Well, thank you, Chief Li." Liang Haoyao nodded solemnly.

(To be continued)