Chapter 388: Recruitment

With the strong fire support of the air force, this Japanese army quickly lost its combat effectiveness, and when the first Japanese soldier dropped his rifle and surrendered on his knees, more and more Japanese soldiers chose to follow.

"Yaga! Don't surrender! We still have so many soldiers, as long as we unite and fight back together, we won't lose, bastard! Stand up for me! ”

"Stand on your grandma!"

Koizumi brandished a pistol in his hand and threatened to kill the soldier who surrendered voluntarily, but at this moment, a strong force came from behind him, kicking him to the ground fiercely, falling five or six meters away, and the gun in his hand also fell to the side.

It was the monkey who kicked him, and he had just set his sights on Koizumi, a guy who was dressed differently from ordinary soldiers, and he knew that this was the leader of this Japanese army.

He hurried over in three or two steps, and stomped on the struggling Koizumi with his head and face, and the latter screamed and rolled over with his head and head in his hands, until Du Luoming and a few people pulled him away, only to find that the Japanese commander below had been beaten by the monkey and had a blue nose and swollen face, and his face was full of shoe prints, and he was about to fall unconscious.

"Monkey, don't beat him to death, it's useless to keep it!"

"The little miscellaneous pieces of the dog day, several of Lao Tzu's comrades-in-arms have died at their hands, and what do the people who escaped from the county town say about them? These inhuman beasts have done all the bad things, and killing him has cheapened him! Only to keep him alive and torture slowly! ”

After the monkey was forcibly pulled away, more and more soldiers of the Dragon Regiment surrounded them, and they took the soldiers under Wang Xian's command and began to collect the weapons of these Japanese soldiers, take care of them in batches, and then decide whether these people would stay or stay after reporting to the top.

"Monkey, calm down, I can't wait to cut those beasts with a thousand knives, but we are soldiers now, and if we are soldiers, we must obey orders, don't forget your identity!"

The monkey gasped and finally calmed down, and Koizumi was dragged away by the other two soldiers on one leg and just like that.

Du Luoming finally appeased his deputy, looked left and right, there were a lot of prisoners here, he was afraid that the monkey would not be able to control his temper again, so he took the initiative to say: "Let's go, let's go into the county town to clean up the remaining enemies, remember, don't hurt the people." ”

Relying on the absolute superiority of the intelligence system and the crushing weapons and equipment, Wu Xiaolong's Youlong Regiment combined with Wang Xian's men and horses to successfully wipe out the Japanese troops entrenched along the Nu River.

In this battle, they annihilated more than 4,000 enemies, captured 10,000 people, and nearly 2,000 escaped or disappeared.

While counting the spoils after the war, Wu Xiaolong unexpectedly found enough food to eat for a year, as well as ammunition supplies that could equip an army of at least 5,000 men.

This batch of supplies was quite timely for them, because a full-scale counteroffensive was imminent, and the number of the Dragon Regiment had to be expanded.

Wu Xiaolong meant that the Dragon Regiment would be expanded to the Dragon Division, Niu Zhixin and Mu Dezhu would also be promoted to brigade commanders, and each department would be recruited downwards in turn, recruiting soldiers on the spot for training, and now this was the only and most effective way.

Fortunately, Wang Xian was very influential among the workers, peasants, and students, and with his help, Wu Xiaolong quickly recruited an army of 5,000 people.

Of course, this army is much older and looser than the private army of the Dragon Chamber of Commerce before, but he knows that this is inevitable, the fewer the number of people, the better training and control, but if you are close to the large corps to fight, the test of the commander is the grasp of macro tactics and the issuance of every decision, as for how to fight on the battlefield, you must learn to trust your subordinates, otherwise even if you are powerful alone, it is impossible to command an entire army.

Wu Xiaolong ordered his troops to rest and recuperate in this place, and repeated the old trick, taking advantage of the intelligence gap to lure the entrenched Japanese troops in Kunming outside the city, engaged in a fierce battle, and successfully settled in this important city.

On the other side, Wang Lianhao, who had already gathered all the guerrillas, also received Zhou Yu's order and began to counterattack, and the number of troops under his control at the moment had exceeded 50,000, which even he did not expect.

However, the biggest reason why so many soldiers were able to be recruited was the outstanding performance of Wang Lianhao and others in the defense of Nanjing, many defeated soldiers and small warlords, and even bandits and bandits, were impressed by their heroic and fearless spirit, and took the initiative to come to surrender, which also made the number of Wang Lianhao's troops swell rapidly.

Of course, the corresponding problems also quickly surfaced, and the most intuitive changes brought about by the rapid expansion of the number of people were the overall decline in equipment levels, the scarcity of food, and the overstretched personnel management.

Due to the complexity of the composition of the personnel, many of the soldiers who defected to Wang Lianhao were bandits and bandits who blocked the road and robbed them before, and now you suddenly let him abide by the discipline and not take a stitch from the surname of the hundred families, and he really can't change it for a while.

However, Wang Lianhao had no intention of opening his mouth in this regard, he withstood the pressure and killed three soldiers who robbed the people's property in a row, one of whom was still the first in command on a certain mountain.

But Wang Lianhao said that if the rules are not established, they will always be a plate of loose sand, although they were bandits who could not see the light before, but only if everyone abides by the rules and obeys the form, can they grow from a spurned mud leg to an iron warrior who defends the country.

In the process of training soldiers, Li Zhaodi, a big beauty, also played a great role.

She and the female field medical team she led are very popular with the soldiers, not only because they are all girls, but also because the soldiers trust them very much in these female nurses and doctors, and the soldiers know that even if they are injured on the battlefield, as long as they are not injured on the spot, Li Zhaodi and the beautiful female nurses she led can save their lives, which is like a powerful spiritual sustenance and guarantee, so that these soldiers are extremely brave in battle, and they don't know what cowardice is.

With the news of Hu Rentian's tank mobile unit's successive victories, Wang Lianhao also gathered his forces and contacted the local garrison entrenched near Xi'an to make a response, preparing to drive the main force of the Japanese army to the east in Luoyang, to the confluence of their tridents.

Due to the highly developed communication equipment on the side of the Dragon Chamber of Commerce, the telegrams sent by the enemy commander were constantly being sent to Wang Lianhao.

Wang Lianhao organized the 50,000 men in his hands into five divisions, namely the 18th, 23rd, 460th, 51st, and 77th Divisions of Zhanlong.

This is not to say that they arbitrarily numbered divisions and regiments, but to confuse the enemy's line of sight so that the enemy could not guess how many troops they had deployed there.

"Commander, this is the latest telegram from the enemy."

An intelligence officer respectfully handed Wang Lianhao a stack of materials in his hand, who reached out to take it and looked through it carefully.

I saw that the intelligence sent by the Japanese army actually described in detail the plan for the upcoming battle of Luoyang.

"Brother Hao, how is it? Are the little devils ready for an all-out attack? ”

A dark-cheeked Gonda leaned in, and Wang Lianhao handed him the stack of materials, turned to his feet, and carefully studied a battle map hanging on the wall of the room.

Gonda flipped through the pages of the information and couldn't help but read it aloud.

"Dog's day, the little devils have invested a lot of troops this time, their main force has begun to approach the west of Luoyang in the direction of Baiyang, Yiyang, Shiling, etc., as well as the northwest area of Luoyang, the First Army is also trying to strengthen the Yellow River, and the 63rd Division is going around to the north of Luoyang, trying to encircle us from the east, south, west, and north...... Not only that, but they even laid an ambush on the road we retreated west into Shaanxi, and the commander of this Japanese army looked like something was something. ”