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Chapter 63 Personnel
"Keep your voice down, what if it causes a riot!" Ma Chao's sudden words really startled the surrounding soldiers.Therefore, Xie Jinyuan quickly said to Ma Chao.

"What did you just say, Commander Xie?" Ma Chao stared at Xie Jinyuan closely with the expression that you were lying to me, hoping that he had misheard just now.

Ma Chao knew very well that the remaining soldiers of the 400th Regiment were the 100-odd people who were in the Sixing Warehouse at the beginning, and the number of real veterans in it was definitely not [-].

As for the first batch, those who had fully experienced the training of the German instructors before the war would never exceed 30 people.This figure still includes the number of officers such as Yang Ruifu and Lei Xiong.

Because during the entire Battle of Songhu, the No.80 Eighth Division replenished its troops five times! ! !

If you want to divide the battle damage level according to the casualty ratio of the troops.When a troop reaches 20.00% casualties, it basically loses its combat effectiveness, and when it reaches 30.00% casualties, it is the boundary line of casualty tolerance, that is, it has suffered heavy losses.

You know, the casualties here are all front-line combatants. Taking Germany during World War II as an example, the German infantry division has about 7000 people, divided into three infantry regiments and one artillery regiment. Be frontline combatants.The rest is the headquarters, communication battalion, medical unit, etc., all of which have little combat capability.The main infantry regiment has about 500 people, and the three infantry regiments are nearly 500 people. The infantry ratio is exactly 40.00% of an infantry division.When the casualty rate of the German army reached 30.00%, the infantry division almost lost its combat effectiveness.

And if the casualty rate is higher than this, the troops are in danger of being completely disintegrated.And the 88th Division actually had five reinforcements, what does this mean?This means that the grassroots forces of the entire army have basically been replaced.

As a result, there are only one or two veterans left in each of the most basic classes.

Moreover, due to the large casualties of the troops, there was an extreme shortage of commanders and fighters at the lowest level.Therefore, there are such existences as Lieutenant Shi Meihao, the commander of the third company, and Tang Di, the deputy commander of the company, who are appointed as commanders as soon as they are added.

Just like at the beginning of the movie Eight Hundred Miles, the soldiers of the security regiment came to support the war of resistance, but they were dispersed by the Japanese army, and finally they were shot dead.

Some of them happened in reality, and some of them were processed artistically.For example, going to the battlefield to support on your own is handled artistically, mainly to highlight a sense of contrast.But the part where he was shot to death actually happened.

Because if it is on the battlefield, it is impossible for this kind of supplementary team of stragglers to exist, because the formed troops cannot be distinguished, and there is no time to confirm whether these people are really coming to supplement, or simply from the frontline battlefield. The retreating deserters.

This is why Ma Chao and the others can easily gather more than 1000 people, because for them, if they can't find their original unit, they may be shot as deserters wherever they go.If you finally meet a fool, if you don't hug him quickly, then you are really sorry for yourself.

In fact, in the later period of the Songhu Battle, those grassroots officers and soldiers from Hubei were rarely able to add to the front line.Because the line of communication from Hubei to Shanghai has been cut off by the Japanese army.This further led to a large number of troops, because there were not enough soldiers to support them, their designations were revoked and they were merged and reorganized.

As for the 88th Division, it was only after the formation of the system that it accepted a large number of members of the Hubei Security Regiment that it was able to survive the Songhu Battle from the beginning to the present moment under such heavy casualties.

The last batch of supplementary soldiers of the May [-]th Regiment were more than [-] soldiers from the Hubei Tongcheng Ba'an Regiment commanded by Shi Meihao and Tang Di.

But the ensuing problem is that these soldiers basically have not received formal military training. They only received sloppy military training in the ten days before going to the battlefield.

Therefore, their casualty ratio has always been high.Therefore, Ma Chao attached great importance to the group of stragglers organized by him.

After all, for fighters, the battlefield is the best teacher. If you are lucky and don't die in the initial stage of entering the battlefield, then the environment will force you to quickly become a qualified fighter.

And those who can survive on the battlefield can be called qualified fighters after only a short period of training. This is a way for Ma Chao, who has just taken power, to quickly recover his strength.

It's a pity that those more than 1000 people have already been taken away.Ma Chao's wishful thinking was destroyed.

"So, how many people do we have left?" Ma Chao asked Xie Jinyuan.

"Count the original ones, plus you and me. We are exactly 500 people now." Xie Jinyuan said.

"Well, I've been busy for a long time, and with me, the main force of the German weapon division, there is only one reinforcement battalion." Ma Chao said depressingly.

"Um, Commander, this, I can't help it. We have too many soldiers from other troops here. As soon as they arrived here, they went to the old troops one after another. As a result, this matter was reported by the brigade. It was discovered, and all of them were taken away except for those resources left behind." Xie Jinyuan said helplessly.

"Hey, I've been busy for a long time. It's really a waste of time to fetch water from the bamboo basket. Fortunately, there are still people who are willing to stay." Ma Chao was quite relieved, at least he didn't take away all of them, and he still left some soup.

"By the way, those compressed biscuits they brought with those knives, I have divided the rest. Otherwise, I guess, I will also be required to hand them in." Xie Jinyuan said a little proudly.

"How many compressed biscuits do we have left? Thank you, Commander." Ma Chao asked.

"It happens to be two packs per person, head." Xie Jinyuan replied.

The packaging standard for compressed biscuits is one catty, and there are four compressed biscuits inside, each weighing 120 grams. Basically, one compressed biscuit can satisfy an adult.

"Well, it's very good. Now we can guarantee at least two days of combat food supplies. When I go back, I tell the soldiers that they are not allowed to be used unless it is an emergency. It is only used to save our lives." Ma Chao said solemnly. Xie Jinyuan explained.

"I understand, I will notify them immediately when I go back." Xie Jinyuan said.

(End of this chapter)