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Chapter 177 The Equipment of the Whole Battalion

After taking over the military coat from the guard squad leader and putting it on again, Li Chong took out his notebook, pulled out his pen and sat on the steps and said:
"Okay, now it's my turn to understand the situation of our battalion. Old Tang, let's start with your first company commander, including the number of people and detailed weapon configuration. I want the truth and details."

"Reporting to the battalion commander, my company now has a total of 200 soldiers after supplementing the supply of troops, and 40 of them are recruits. However, the supply of troops is good. After the Battle of Wuhan, the supply of troops for our whole division is all Sichuan children trained in the rear."

"In terms of weapons, there are a total of 170 long spears in a series. Among them, only the second floor is made in Hanyang, the first floor is the 24th cover of the captured devils, and the rest are all the seventy-nine styles after the Songhu battle. There are three organs, exactly one for each squad leader. One light machine gun is a crooked way to capture the devils. The average M1.5 long-handled grenade is one for [-] people."

Tang Dayao was very fond of the equipment of Quanlian, and his tone was proud.

The so-called Type Seventy-Nine is the "middle official" rifle used by Li Chong in the military academy. Compared with the three-eighth gun used by the Japanese army, this type of gun is inferior in range and penetration, but it is more lethal.It is also because of this that within an effective range of 150 meters, the Type 150 rifle has a small wound when it enters, but it can bring out a large piece of flesh when it comes out, while stray bullets exceeding [-] meters cannot penetrate the body after piercing the body. Staying in the body, compared with Sanba Dagai who can only leave one eye on the body, the lethality is much greater.

As for the Sichuan army, which is at the bottom of the local warlords' equipment, it is too rare for a battalion to be equipped with such a scale of seven or nine styles.

This kind of treatment is also made by all the officers and soldiers of the 88st, 88rd and [-]rd Divisions. On the Songhu battlefield, they were rated as the most capable division after the [-]th Division of the Central Army and the Tax Police Headquarters. The [-]th Division is a German weapon division. The Tax Police Headquarters was a mech division, and the [-]rd Division at that time was just a local army.

The three company commanders reported one by one, and Li Chong found out his current family background:

There are 690 people in the whole battalion company's cooking team, which is far more than a battalion of ordinary troops. This is due to the large number of Sichuan soldiers. .

But the whole battalion's long guns, no matter what they are, even the inferior guns made by Sichuan are counted, and they can barely make up a whole number, five hundred.

In terms of light machine guns, there are seven machine guns, two Czech-style guns, and one crooked handle.The entire battalion was able to have seven flower organs thanks to Songhu. When changing clothes after Songhu, these were equipped according to the standard of "non-commissioned officers above the squad leader". After the battle of Xuzhou and Wuhan, these seven organs were left intact. Bundle.

There are 460 grenades, about [-] people can hold one.

On heavy weapons.

There is a Maxim heavy machine gun;
Four mortars, three of which were made in Sichuan, which were considered private property made by the warlords in Sichuan at the time, benefited from the fact that Liu Xiang, the leader of the Sichuan warlords, built an arsenal, and one [-]-type mortar, which was refitted in Songhu later inheritance;

As for the cannon, there was none. Li Chong saw one at the regiment headquarters, and it was placed in the regiment headquarters compound. Now that I think about it, the appearance is more important than the reality. The caliber of 75mm was left over from the Guangxu period of the previous dynasty, and it is the grandfather's generation regardless of age.

In terms of living supplies, each soldier has six catties of quilts and a pair of cotton shoes for the winter. He can eat one meal of meat in seven days, two to three meals a day. pause.

Overall good.

Li Chong is already very satisfied with such a family background. Before coming here, he could not collect the information of the frontline combat troops, but he also heard that the Sichuan Army was known as the "Straw Shoes Army".Back then, the photos of troops leaving Sichuan wearing coarse singlets, wearing straw sandals, carrying bamboo hats, and holding "Old Mauser" from the previous dynasty shocked the attention of many people at home and abroad.

Being able to have such a wealth should be attributed to the two changes of clothes before and after.One time, after the July [-]th Incident, the Sichuan Army was reorganized out of Sichuan for the second time. These warlords were no longer hiding their secrets. All the weapons they had hidden before were brought out to fight Japan. The [-]st, [-]rd, and [-]rd Divisions were Yang Sen’s direct troops, and all members were changed first. equipment.

However, this wave of equipment was consumed a lot on the Songhu battlefield, and now there are only three Sichuan-made mortars and some inferior guns left in the whole battalion.Seeing that the [-]st, [-]rd, and [-]rd divisions were extremely brave in combat, the chairman ordered the priority to change their outfits, so that they have the current foundation.

"From now on, we will work together to fight the devils together. I, Li Chong, are here, please everyone!"

Li Chong put away his notebook, and on the first night when he came to Chenjiahe, Li Chong sat in front of the oil lamp and set a small goal for himself: at least one shot per person and three meals a day!

There is currently no major battle to fight. After the Japanese captured Wuhan, the available troops were exhausted. There has been no movement for a long time at this moment. It seems that they are preparing for the New Year.

So I should have a stable development period.

How to do it, Li Chong lay on the bed thinking about it until he gradually fell into a dream.

In the next few days, Li Chong went down to various companies to check drills and living supplies, talk with grassroots soldiers, and even went down to the homes of villagers stationed there from time to time.

After five days, these squad leaders, who had already boiled like old fritters, paid more and more attention to Li Chong, and no longer underestimated him because of his age.Instead, he is reasonable in his mouth and skillful in his hands, which makes people have to be convinced.

Of course, there is no end to learning.The military academy taught how to plan the layout and lead troops to fight, but for Li Chong, it is still necessary to start with leading a battalion at this moment

Li Chong made two decisions that day.

"report!"

"Enter."

Three company commanders walked in.

Li Chong put down the pen in his hand, looked at the three company commanders standing in front of him and said:
"Two things. The first thing is that there are six old farmers in the compound of the battalion headquarters. Each of your companies will lead two of you back, and each company will pick a squad of discerning soldiers. These days, you will follow behind into the mountains to look for talents. Wild vegetables and roots to eat."

This is when Li Chong went down to the homes of ordinary farmers in the past few days, and found that their food in the cold winter months was often mixed with wild vegetables and plant roots dug from the mountains.There are many mountains in Hunan, and the continuous mountains are rich in products. Although these things are short of oil and fried, they will make your throat rough, but there is no shortage of options to add to the meal.

As long as they eat three meals, even if there are more than half of the recruits, the morale of the troops will be strong!

But only these old farmers know what they can and cannot eat, so Li Chong gave each of these old farmers an ocean and invited them to come to the camp to sit as a teacher for a few days.

"Second thing, do you see that fat pig tied up in the yard? I'm planning to hold a sports meeting in the whole camp. There are only four events, including marksmanship, grenade throwing, bayonet fighting and cross-country running. Each event The top fifteen eat pork, the big pot of pure pork, just the fat pig at the door!"

In the sports meeting of the whole battalion, Li Chong was out of cohesion considerations, and created a platform for recruits to get to know each other through mutual competition.

After the news spread, the whole battalion was beaming.The gate of the battalion was bustling with activity, and soldiers would come over to take a look from time to time, and a fat pig looked like a flower girl in the eyes of everyone.

It's just a fat pig with its belly sticking to the ground, it's not comparable to floating two slices of bacon in the thin soup every seven days.

Two days early in the morning, after the cooking team borrowed three large pots from a fellow villager, six large pots were lined up in a row, and the large pots were boiled with water.

(End of this chapter)