Chuzhou is not too far from Bengbu, and before the sky is yet bright, the officers and men of the 99th Army set off again, and they will leave Chuzhou before dawn.

After all, this is a city, although the scale is not as good as Nanjing and Shanghai, but if more than 20,000 people of the 99th Army want to hide here, it is basically impossible. It doesn't matter if others see that there are more than 20,000 troops here, mainly because they are afraid of being discovered by the air force of the army.

If the march went well, it was estimated that they would arrive at Bengbu by dawn the next day, where they would replenish their troops, rest for a day, and then continue their advance.

This time, there was no time limit for Su Dao to go north to the Northeast, but Su Dao limited himself to a time, half a year. Su Dao was not stupid enough to take a group of recruits to the Northeast to fight the elites of the Kwantung Army, all he had to do was to train the soldiers on the march as much as possible, and when the troops arrived in the Northeast, it would be a war, and Su Dao had no time to train those recruits.

Anyway, there is no Chinese army in the northeast, and there is no such thing as a tight war, and Su Dao has the Germans and the cheap family behind him, Jiang Guangtou is estimated to be unable to intervene in his actions in the future, at least he has no time to order himself to rush to the northeast within a certain amount of time.

The troops had just left Chuzhou not far away, and the sky gradually began to brighten, and there was still some distance from the Nanjing battlefield, and the army's monitoring of this area was much smaller, and in most cases, the fighters of the army would only come to patrol about three or four times a day, in order to see if there were any troops going south to support Nanjing.

And Su Dao's 99th Army was sleeping during the day, and it was about to enter December, and the weather was getting colder and colder, so the soldiers naturally would not just lie on the ground and sleep, and the officers of all departments also ordered to pay attention to the air to avoid letting the army find traces of the troops.

Under the deliberate concealment of the 99th Army, although it could not completely cover the figure of the troops, only a small number of troops were discovered by the Yue Ben Air Force, and they were naturally regarded as ground guards by the Yue Jun Air Force.

The next day, at dawn, the 99th Army finally arrived at Bengbu, where they were replenished with 10,000 new soldiers, of course, who were not armed. And according to the usual practice, when replenishing troops, they basically do not carry weapons, and now even the front-line troops are in short supply of these equipment, how can there be excess equipment for the supplementary troops below?

After replenishing its strength, the 99th Army had reached more than 32,000 men, but it was still far from the full strength of more than 94,000 people. After inquiring about the supply officer in Bengbu, I realized that it was close to Nanjing, and most of the troops were reserved for Nanjing, even if the 10,000 people who were replenished to the 99th Army were still squeezed together.

The remaining strength of the 99th Army will be replenished in Xuzhou, and according to the introduction of the supply officer, the reinforcements transferred from Henan and Shandong provinces are now on the way, and after the 99th Army arrives in Xuzhou, the reinforcements should almost arrive.

After figuring out this, Su Dao began to wonder if he would get the equipment first after the troops were full? When the time comes, you can only stare dryly? However, the location of this supply began to give Su Dao a headache again, and if he wanted to replenish, he must be close to the sea, and if he went to the beach with a large army, he was afraid that it would attract the attention of the army.

But if you don't go, the more time goes back, the more cities will be occupied by the army, and it will be more and more difficult to supply at that time. So Su Dao stared at the map for a long time, and he didn't dare to choose too big cities, so he could only choose those places that had ports and were not easy to attract people's attention.

Shandong must not be chosen, although there are not as many troops there as in Northeast China and Jiangsu, but there are quite a few. After all, after World War I, it was said that it had stolen the limelight from Germany and occupied Shandong. However, after staring at the map for a long time, Su Dao still did not find a suitable place, and after Xuzhou finished replenishing his troops, he basically left Jiangsu, and there was only Shandong in the future.

In the end, under extremely difficult circumstances, Su Dao had to choose the location of the supply near Linyi, which was not too far from the seaside, and just find a place where the traffic seemed okay and did not attract attention. After making up his mind, Su Dao didn't have any worries, and for now, he only needed to bring the troops over there.

Five days later, they arrived safely in Xuzhou, and after Xuzhou finished supplying, the 99th Army would stay here for half a month, which was naturally a reorganization of the troops. Disperse the old troops and scatter them into the new troops, two-thirds of the 99th Army are new recruits, Su Dao is also very helpless about this situation, there is no way, he can only rely on actual combat to solve the problem of recruits.

After the reorganization, the 99th Army had more than 94,000 people, under the jurisdiction of the 766th Division, the 767th Division and the 768th Division, with a total of three divisions, nine brigades and 27 regiments.

After the reorganization, Su Dao began to increase the training of the troops, and after arriving in Xuzhou, there was no difference between rushing during the day or at night, so Su Dao ordered the troops to start marching during the day, training for two hours each morning and evening, and the subjects of training were naturally shooting, stabbing, and tactical use.

Although there are only four hours of training time a day, it is more than 700 hours in half a year, which is enough time for these recruits to become qualified fighters. Of course, during this period, Su Dao will definitely find some opponents for them to practice, and if they don't participate in actual combat, no matter how much they practice, it's useless.

A week after leaving Xuzhou, the full 99th Army finally arrived near Linyi, Su Dao first left the team alone, found a suitable place to take out the atlas, and exchanged the equipment needed now. Since there is no need to fight now, Su Dao did not exchange too many bullets for bullets, and each rifle was equipped with only 300 rounds of ammunition as standard, and the machine gun was 5,000 rounds. In the Battle of Songhu before, Su Dao had already seen that it was not a good thing to be equipped with too many bullets.

This time, Su Dao did not exchange those small-caliber artillery, because Su Dao felt that the exchange seemed to be a bit redundant now, but directly exchanged thirty 75 field guns, twenty 105 howitzers and ten 155 heavy guns. Looking at the terrifying bodies of the 105mm howitzer and the 155mm heavy artillery, it was finally Su Dao's turn to make a mistake. What I was most worried about still happened, after exchanging so many artillery, I can't rely on people to pull it, right?

As a last resort, Su Dao had to exchange fifty taels of trucks for towing artillery and loading some shells, which are estimated to exhaust people to death if they are pulled by people.

In the end, Su Dao directly exchanged fifty T-34/85 tanks, fortunately, when he exchanged the tank, he directly sent a part of the fuel, otherwise there was no fuel in the tank, and Su Dao should cry, the tank Su Dao was not worried about whether he could drive away, and what worried Su Dao the most was the car, there are not many people who can drive this thing now, if he can't drive it, he will play Dafa. After exchanging enough ordinary shells, Su Dao looked at the other equipment, there was no need for planes or anything for the time being, and he didn't have an airport to let these planes take off and land, so he could only talk about this later.

After returning to the army, it was Su Dao's turn to be depressed, there were more than 63,000 people in the 99th Army, and there were only about 30 people who could drive cars, and more than 10 people were tank soldiers and original artillerymen. This made Su Dao particularly angry, and ordered the soldiers to learn to drive, although the road conditions are a little bad now, but there are few cars on the road, as long as there is nothing to turn around, I believe it will not overturn.

Taking advantage of the free time of the soldiers in learning to drive, the rest of the troops are distributing new weapons and equipment, and the armored units are practicing driving tanks, like gunners or anything, it doesn't matter, the main thing is to drive the tanks away first, and then say, the gunners can practice on the march, and the commander can also practice radio on the march, in short, everything is as soon as possible, and the 99th Army cannot stay here for too long.

Three days later, a group of soldiers finally learned to drive, of course, most of these drivers were from artillery units, and they were asked to run around with artillery in later battles. Looking at the swaying trucks, dragging a door of artillery, which was full of boxes of shells, several of which were stacked with 75mm field guns, this caliber was slightly smaller, and the weight was naturally much lighter, so the soldiers got the artillery on the truck.

The most depressing thing is that in order to cover up the traces of the tank's walking, some of the fighters walking behind the tank actually held homemade rakes, and some people held brooms, following the tank to sweep the traces.

Fortunately, Su Dao chose a slightly closer destination for the troops, there is a small mountain range between Linyi and Jining, and more than 20,000 people are not too big a problem to hide in it, and now the attention of the army has not yet arrived, so Su Dao first formulated a one-month training plan, one is to let those infantry master the weapons in their hands, let the artillerymen be familiar with artillery, and at the same time let more soldiers learn to drive, and let the armored soldiers practice more tank work.