Chapter 402: Up the River
Regarding the chairman's intention to dismantle his troops, Zhang Sixing was very clear in his heart.
Just imagine, if he is not at ease with the domestic miscellaneous cards, how can he, a German officer, rest assured.
If he remembers well, then the German officer corps will leave in the middle of next year. All German officers who did not leave at that time would lose their German military status and citizenship.
Although this does not matter to him, the test he will face at that time is the trust of the chairman. And what kind of identity is he, who has no German nationality or military nationality at that time?
So he'll have a lot to do in the next few months.
At this moment, they were placed in a large military camp outside Anqing City, but most of the people inside were ordinary people. Artillery, tanks, and armored vehicles were handed over to the local garrison, and four 88-mm anti-aircraft guns were reported to the officer advisory group, waiting for them to report to the national government.
As for the soldiers, some of them quietly left by the pretext that they were out of strength. Many of the people also left, after all, it was quite far from the battlefield, and it was possible to survive even if there was no one to protect it.
Zhang Sixing didn't have anything to say about this, he issued orders through officers at all levels, and those who wanted to leave only needed to leave their weapons and ammunition at any time, nothing more than to report a death.
As for the common people, Li Youtian, the old tobacco bag, was already quite familiar with doing this kind of thing. According to Zhang Sixing's order, after screening the workers and craftsmen, they were told to ensure that they had jobs to do when they arrived in Kunming.
If the other people want to leave, they will be offered dry food for a few days, hoping that their future will be cherished.
To Zhang Sixing's surprise, about half of the people left. The remaining half were willing to go to Kunming with him, especially the many workers and craftsmen in it.
As refugees and stragglers left, formed soldiers were also preparing to leave.
The first person to arrive in Anqing to say goodbye was Brigade Commander Zhou Zhenqiang of the teaching team, who had already put on a brand new military uniform. Obviously, Anqing's garrison still gave priority to meeting the needs of their lineage.
"Principal Zhang, I have received an order to go to Hankow to carry out the renovation work and rebuild the teaching team. Principal Zhang, thank you for bringing us out of the encirclement of devils......"
At this moment, Zhang Sixing, who is only wearing camouflage clothes, does not look as fierce as on the battlefield, and his attitude is not as arbitrary as on the battlefield.
He stretched out his hand to shake hands with Major General Zhou Zhenqiang, with a faint smile on his face and equally faint words,
"Brigade Commander Zhou's future is cherished, and the journey will be smooth."
After speaking, he looked at Zhou Zhenqiang calmly, and the latter felt the indifferent, slightly embarrassed smile, and continued,
"Principal Zhang, I heard that you are going to the rear to train recruits, but I don't know ...... the recruits trained by the paratrooper school will come to you."
"They, our soldiers who have completed their initial training will be handed over to the Ministry of Military Affairs, and they will naturally have the final say on how to distribute them at that time. Of course, our KRC radio station will also report the news of the completion of the soldiers' training from time to time, so ......"
This is not surprising, Zhou Zhenqiang has seen the performance of the people of the paratrooper school in the Jinling operation, in China, where people and guns can make things happen, who doesn't want to have more elite soldiers under his command.
Hearing the message Zhang Sixing gave him, he was very satisfied. The situation is clear, I heard on the radio that the soldiers trained in the paratrooper school have graduated, and that is when the relationship is used.
Although as a descendant of the Central Army and the elite of the teaching team, the assigned recruits will of course be elite. However, if a large number of soldiers trained by the paratrooper school can be recruited, then the improvement of combat effectiveness is just around the corner.
"It's up to you to train such a new soldier."
shook hands with Zhang Sixing and shook them twice. The brand-new boots under his feet made a "click" sound, and he left Zhang Sixing's tent with the guards.
Immediately after that, the Military Police Regiment, the 88th Division, the 87th Division, the 58th Division, the Tank Company, and other units received the news that the officers had escaped from Jinling City, and they marched to the designated assembly area.
Of course, not everyone left, and when the soldiers left, Zhang Siqian still had as many as 6,000 troops at hand.
In addition to the paratrooper school, which already had three rifle battalions, a pistol battalion, a reconnaissance battalion, and a reconnaissance company, these were supplemented with elite soldiers from the skirmishers.
Zhang Sixing also had a whole regiment of soldiers under Lin Anyu of the Jing'an Army, and the remaining more than 1,000 soldiers were simply handed over to Lin Anyu to form a regiment of more than 3,000 people to act as a general combat force.
In addition, as many as 300 Japanese soldiers and gunners captured in the defense of Jinling were all people who were photographed and handed over to the "surrender certificate".
However, Zhang Sixing's trust in them is limited, and for the time being, these people are all returned to Yamaoka Tetsujiro.
probably wanted to send Zhang Sixing, the plague god, away as soon as possible, and the matter of dispatching ships was going on very quickly. Of course, the gunboat was thrown in Anqing, and as for where it was going, Zhang Sixing didn't care at all.
I don't know where the government mobilized a number of steamers to drag the oil barrels and wooden rafts that the logistics battalion kept making, and began to transport groups of people to Kunming.
As the people who were willing to follow Zhang Sixing, except for the workers and craftsmen, most of the rest of the people were people who had nowhere to go. It was also difficult for Zhang Sixing to arrange enough militia on each oil drum and wooden platoon to protect them all the way.
Looking at the large piece of oil drums and wooden rafts carrying the people that had left, Zhang Sixing had only one hope in his heart. Under the leadership of Xu Zhongze and the German engineers who came with the freighter, they quickly established the foundation of the paratrooper school.
Of course, it's not a training ground, an airport, or anything like that, which ordinary people can build.
After all, the goods brought from the ship include production lines, high-precision lathes, and even equipment for steel mills. Zhang Sixing went to Kunming not only to establish a paratrooper school, but even his goal was not only to train new soldiers.
As for Zhang Sixing and his troops, he was not in a hurry, he was waiting for Yelena to finish her interview and come out of Jinling City, she had film in her hand Zhang Sixing was still very useful, and even for this he did not hand over all the cars and motorcycles.
He felt it was time for the people to know what a cruel choice it would be if their hometown was invaded by the Japanese. Even he wanted most people to know how loyal and brave the soldiers were and how tragic the massacres were in the defense of Jinling.
What he wants to do is to awaken the courage in the blood of the Chinese people.
Let all the countries in the world see the existence of this country with the longest history in the world, whenever the country is in danger, there will be heroes born in the youth, and heroes will rise in the winding alleys.
As a soldier, Zhang Sixing has no ability to change more. But he can do his best to train more elite soldiers and provide more suitable weapons and equipment.
And as the principal of the paratrooper school, he can really do a lot.