Chapter 640: The Arrival of Wei Lihuang
After Hu Bin arrived in Hubei for more than ten days, he completed the reorganization of the troops and began to order the troops to conduct jungle combat training.
At this time, Hu Bin and Li Nian and a group of logistics cadres held a meeting together to hold a meeting on the logistics support issues of the entire overseas operations. Hu Bin first listened to their preparations for materials and heard them say that there might be problems in procurement. At the meeting, Hu Bin recorded the materials they were going to purchase in detail. After listening for more than two hours, those people finished speaking.
"Commander, what do you have to add?" Political Commissar Li Nian said to Hu Bin.
"Very good, you did a good job. I just heard that the difficulties you face are not only the difficulties our troops have, but the entire Chinese troops may have such difficulties. You said that the fuel may not be enough. I will do this. I will find Chongqing to go.
However, I guess they don’t have many, but we can make some adjustments here. In addition to having to use cars, we can only use those cars, otherwise, we can’t use them.
Those who can use human and animal power should use human and animal power. The transportation of automobiles is only used for our material transportation. The troops may move forward on foot. However, I think Chongqing should give me some oil.
There are a few other supplies, I just heard you talk about, but I didn’t mention it at all. The first one is dry lime, this must be used, and the purchase volume is large. The second one is mugwort and wormwood. I will provide you with samples in a few days. You will need as much as you buy it!" Hu Bin said to them.
"Why are you purchasing this? It's everywhere!" The political commissar heard it and looked at Hu Bin in confusion and said.
"Morphyr can not only be used to smoke mosquitoes, but also cure diseases. Artemisia annua is a good medicine for treating dysentery. In Southeast Asia, mosquitoes are quite powerful. The soldiers are very prone to infection with dysentery. I don't need to say what the harm of dysentery is, do you all know?" Hu Bin said to look at the cadres.
"This is really good?" When the cadres heard this, they all looked at Hu Bin in shock. Of course they knew the harm of dysentery. The people were afraid of this. Once such a person appeared in a place, the entire village might be isolated.
"It's really OK!" Hu Bin nodded affirmatively.
"Then we must purchase, we must purchase more!" The cadres nodded and said when they heard this.
"There is another one, that is, charcoal. You must purchase more charcoal. If you cannot purchase more charcoal, you must also bring the soldiers who can burn charcoal. Go there and start burning charcoal!" Hu Bin continued.
"This, isn't it cold over there?" The people heard it and looked at Hu Bin and asked again.
"Charcoal is not used to roast fire, it is used to dry clothes or even to cure diseases. It is best to bring a lot of them in advance!" Hu Bin said to them.
"Dry clothes?" The soldiers heard this and looked at Hu Bin in confusion.
"As the rainy season comes over there, it rains every day. How do you let the soldiers' clothes dry? It's humid and stuffy. If you can't wear dry clothes, the soldiers will easily get sick. Also, the water we drink may not be clean. It is necessary to filter it with charcoal!" Hu Bin said to them.
"Okay, then we have to find such talents!" The cadres heard this, nodded, and continued to record.
"There is also a set of clothes for the soldiers. As the rainy season comes over there, the soldiers on the battlefield may not have time to wash clothes at all!" Hu Bin continued, and the cadres continued to record.
Next, Hu Bin continued to arrange the things to be purchased, and if the materials were not purchased, Hu Bin asked the cadres to go to Chongqing to ask for them!
Li Nian also sent a lot of cadres to Chongqing. After receiving the supplies from Chongqing, they began to transport them to Yunnan. Hu Bin and his troops would also go to Chongqing after a while.
After the meeting was over, Hu Bin began to focus on the training of the troops. There were dense forests everywhere in Southeast Asia. If the soldiers were not familiar with this way of combat, they would easily suffer losses and would be beaten and could not find their direction.
On that day, Hu Bin was checking the jungle combat training of the 235th Division. After watching for a whole morning, Hu Bin was quite satisfied. When the 235th Division came, he did not bring any weapons. Now they are all equipped with new weapons. They not only need to train to use new weapons to fight, but also to train jungle combat.
"Commander, my army is now in training very hard. I strictly follow the training requirements of the special regiment instructors and dare not slacken off!" Sun Jinxin of the 235th Division looked at Hu Bin and said.
"It can be seen that the soldiers are very tired, but they are all very skilled in their movements. However, you commanders must also be familiar with the way of fighting in the jungle!" Hu Bin nodded and said to Sun Jinxin, the commander of the 235th Division.
"We stayed at the grassroots level every day, and the entire division headquarters left a few correspondents, and the others were training at the grassroots level. We also know that the way of this combat may be completely different from our previous methods of combat.
We are also training below, observing carefully, and seeing how to arrange defense, firepower, and attack in jungle combat. We are discussing this every day!" Sun Jinxin looked at Hu Bin and said.
"Not bad, this is great! That's the case, you must know the soldiers before you can lead the soldiers!" Hu Bin was quite satisfied when he heard this.
Sun Jinxin was also very happy for Hu Bin's praise. No one dared to ignore Hu Bin. Although Sun Jinxin is over 40 years old this year, his eldest son is older than Hu Bin.
But on the battlefield, what we compare is not age, but ability, Hu Bin's ability. All Chinese troops know that they can fight and fight. When facing the Japanese, they have not been defeated. Even at the beginning, he was a company commander and dared to challenge the Japanese's two corpses. This is strength, and you can't accept it!
"Report, I received a notice from the Expeditionary Force Command!" A correspondent came to Hu Bin and reported.
When Hu Bin heard this, he took the telegram and looked carefully. The telegram said that Wei Lihuang, commander of the Expeditionary Force, and Jiang Dingwen, chief of staff of the Expeditionary Force, were going to inspect his troops, and Jiang Dingwen was eventually appointed as chief of staff by the commander.
"Call back, welcome!" Hu Bin said to Mo She,
"Yes!" Mo She nodded and began to order the correspondent.
"Commander, when will we set out to fight?" Sun Jinxin asked at Hu Bin.
"We have to set off for a month at most, so the troops must hurry up and train, and make the soldiers proficient!" Hu Bin said to Sun Jinxin.
"I understand! Don't worry, commander!" Sun Jinxin nodded.
"I'm going to see the 231st Division tomorrow. You are doing well here, so keep going!" Hu Bin said as he looked at him, Sun Jinxin nodded.
Anyway, Wei Lihuang is not here so quickly, so Hu Bin needs to hurry up and go to the various troops to see how the training is going.
On the third day, Hu Bin returned to Jingmen early. Just an hour after returning there, Wei Lihuang and the others came. At this time, General Stilwell and General Wright were also following, two people who negotiated with Hu Bin in Yan'an. One of them served as deputy chief of staff in the Expeditionary Force and the other as deputy commander!
After Hu Bin greeted them at the command center, he invited them to the command center.
"Brother, your place is good. I look at it all the way, those people look very peaceful than our Hunan people. And I see that their clothes seem to be good, much better than our Hunan people!" Wei Lihuang looked at Hu Bin and said, now he is still a commander in Hunan.
"I am not like you, just take care of the troops. I not only have to take care of the troops, but also the people's belly!" Hu Bin said with a wry smile.
"Tell me, why do you care! I heard that you need a lot of businessmen and entrepreneurs here now. They have set up many factories in you. Is that true?" Wei Lihuang continued.
"Well, if you don't run those factories, how can those in distress come from all over the country live? You can't watch them starve to death, right?" Hu Bin nodded and said,
The business environment here is really good now, especially this time, Hu Bin's troops went on a war, giving priority to purchasing local enterprises' supplies, allowing more businessmen and entrepreneurs to come here to open factories, which also drives Hubei's economy.
"I didn't expect General Hu is still a talent for governing the local area!" Jiang Dingwen, who was standing beside him, looked at Hu Bin and said with a smile. No matter how you hear this tone, what's wrong!
"Chief Jiang, you can't say the talent, and you dare not forget your original intention!" Hu Bin said with a smile.
"Oh, what is General Hu's original intention?" Jiang Dingwen heard this and looked at Hu Bin and said.
"Let the people live a good life!" Hu Bin stared at him and said.
"Okay, okay, brother, come, and Brother Jiang, you two are not acquainted. Since you are going to have a meal in the same pot this time, how about everyone shaking hands and talking about it?" Wei Lihuang said to Hu Bin and Jiang Dingwen.
"No need for this. General Hu and I are not as unfriendly as rumored outside, right, Brother Hu?" Jiang Dingwen waved his hand immediately and said to Hu Bin with a smile. He didn't want to shake hands with Hu Bin at all. He also knew that the purpose of his coming here to be the chief of staff was to kill Hu Bin.
"Yes!" Hu Bin smiled and nodded.
"General Hu, I want to know how your troops are preparing now. The troops may have to go on an early expedition!" Stilwell, who was standing beside him, immediately asked.
"Going out early?" Hu Bin heard it, looked at Stilwell, and then looked at Wei Lihuang in doubt and asked.
"Yes, the Japanese troops are advancing very quickly, especially after knowing that we have determined to send troops, they have increased 500,000 troops to Southeast Asia again, and are now advancing quickly towards our border!" Wei Lihuang nodded and explained to Hu Bin. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!