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Chapter 523 The Arrival of Winter
In front of the gate of the brigade for a while, the jeep stopped with a "puchi".

Entering December, it seems to be colder than usual.

Li Chong got out of the car and stomped his feet, trying to dispel the cold in his military boots.Just going back and forth to the division headquarters, my feet are not as cold as my own.

Staff officer Ge Changlong was doing business by the stove, and when he saw Li Chong coming in from the gate of the compound, he greeted him, "Old Li, you're back, here's your package."

Now Ge Changlong wants to pick up two responsibilities, one is the deputy brigade commander, and the other is the chief of staff. Although there is no official statement, Li Chong has become the real brigade commander of the temporary brigade, and no new people have been appointed. After coming in, Ge Changlong, who was the chief of staff of the temporary first brigade, naturally took the initiative to be promoted to a higher level, from the third in command of the temporary first brigade to the second in command.

In fact, not only the temporary brigade, but also many of the positions vacated in the Tenth Army because of the second Changsha battle, most of them were absorbed internally, and a few were recruited from the newly graduated [-]th batch of Whampoa officers.Of course, due to the vacancy of the boss, the official appointment document has not been signed by the top leader, so in addition to the newly graduated officers received from the war zone who have a letter of appointment, people like Li Chong who have internalized military positions are only occupying positions for the time being. There is no official mandate.

Li Chong put his hands on the stove to absorb some warmth from the charcoal fire, and then opened the package sent through the military's mail delivery system. The package was written with a familiar place name from Chongqing.

After unpacking the package, Li Chong unconsciously smiled.

There was a sweater in the package, and the mother's footsteps were all too familiar to me, and there were still some unfamiliar parts that were written by Lin Wanru. There were more than a dozen pairs of thick and soft insoles beside the sweater.

Li Chong immediately took off his general's boots, put the insoles on, and stepped on the ground, the feeling of his feet was really different.

After feeling the warmth of the soles of his feet, Li Chong said, "Today, the three members of the division went to the city again to ask the military seat to come back to preside over the work, but they still returned without success."

Staff Officer Ge shook his head and said, "The military seat has a stubborn temper. How can he come back without knowing why after carrying this big stuffy pot? The second Changsha battle was like this. It was not our tenth battle. The responsibility of the army, why do you want to fuck us? Our tenth army is easy to bully?"

"This matter has to be resolved, and I don't know how long it will be deadlocked. Let's not talk about this, how many soldiers have been recruited today?"

Ge Changlong was already aware of the development data of the personnel of each regiment. After a little thought, he said, "Today, the three regiments reported that they have recruited more than 200 recruits. In the past month or so, they have recruited a total of 600 recruits." The rest came up, and there were more than 800 stragglers inside. In addition to the addition of more than 300 recruits from the war zone distribution, now I have more than [-] people in each of the three regiments of my brigade."

Li Chong sighed, and made a comparison in his heart with the strength of the temporary brigade before the launch, and then sighed, "There is still a big gap between 6000 people, compared to the small force of our temporary brigade before the second Changsha battle. 9000 people, this number has only recovered more than half."

Ge Changlong said calmly, "We are already doing well, and many troops cannot receive the soldiers distributed from the rear."

Li Chong took a sip of the hot tea that was warmed over the charcoal fire, "We still have to pay close attention to the training of the new recruits. No one knows when the devil will start fighting again. The banks of the Xinqiang River are nervous all day long."

At this moment, spreading from a garrison position like the First Brigade, all the troops in the entire north of Hunan are recovering their strength as much as possible, including the devils on the other side of the Xinqiang River.

Whether it is the devils stationed directly on the other side of the Xinqiang River, or the devil troops who left Xiangbei and returned to their original camps to recuperate, they are all exploiting and squeezing the surrounding villages and towns where they are stationed, and they are constantly harvesting and scraping grain as military rations. Burning, killing and looting are all evil.

In the eyes of these devils, the villages and towns that were radiated by the devil's influence have become disposable items.

If it is said that they will leave a little bit in the previous raids, so that these villages and towns can recover themselves for a period of time, and then they will be scrapped again, then this time, these devils no longer care whether the swept away places can regenerate themselves in the future.

Entering December, the days become more and more sad for the people in the radiation areas ruled by the various divisions of the 11th Army and the independent detachment. Although they feel that the weather is getting colder and winter is coming, but these people under the rule of the devil People don't have enough food to store, and they don't have quilts to resist the cold, so life is getting harder.

In difficult days, people who are struggling to live have gradually become numb to everything that happens outside, and only a small number of people maintain their sensitivity to the outside world.

Under the numb mentality of many people, a piece of information published in the newspaper cast huge waves among a few people.

On December 1941, 12, the Japanese army attacked Pearl Harbor, and the Pacific War broke out!On the same day, Japanese troops invaded Hong Kong!
On this day, the United States and Britain declared war on Japan at the same time!

Most of the ordinary people who didn’t have enough to eat, didn’t wear warm clothes, and were on the way to exile didn’t even know what geographic terms such as “America” and “Hong Kong” meant. Naturally, they were not at all interested in the news from the Japanese.

But for a group of people of insight, for officers like Li Chong who have experienced systematic military theory education, they all know what this means.

It means that the Japanese have put into action their ambition to make Southeast Asia their own territory and the Pacific Ocean!
It means the official outbreak of the Pacific War!

It means that the Americans with the highest industrial production value in the world, making war fortunes on the European battlefield, and the green Franklin flowing throughout the United States will end up fighting the Japanese in person!

The scope of this anti-government war has expanded incomparably.

"Haha, the devils are out of their minds. Just relying on their domestic economic strength, they are unable to continue to expand in our Chinese battlefield, and they still have the spare power to open up the Pacific battlefield? The Japanese think their navy is useless. Land of martial arts?"

In the compound of the brigade headquarters of the first brigade, Li Chong next to the stove was holding a telegram circulated in the army, reading the first-hand news on the telegram about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and after Pearl Harbor was bombed, the joy on his face showed that he was The mood is quite good.

Chief of Staff Ge Changlong clicked his tongue and said, "The Yankees have suffered a heavy loss. So many warships were damaged and sunk."

Li Chong put down the telegram, shook his legs and said, "I used to study economics in Hong Kong. What do you mean by war? Isn't it about economic and industrial strength? This devil has a fever to challenge the world's economic and industrial strength." The first American? At first, I sometimes thought about how many years we would have to spend with the devils, but now it seems that the Japanese are playing with fire by themselves, and they want to speed up the process of their extinction."

(End of this chapter)