"Recruiting? Are you crazy? Without orders from above, where does our second company have the authority to recruit young men at will?" Liu Yangyang only found out that Xie Bo wanted to recruit troops in Qiandeng Town just before dinner time. As the person who is about to replace Xie
Liu Yangyang, the successor of Bo who commanded the Second Company, naturally hoped that the Second Company would have strong soldiers and horses, but the Second Company was affiliated to the 88th Division, and recruiting soldiers privately was against military discipline. Moreover, if the superiors did not agree with the private recruitment of soldiers by the Second Company, these people were recruited in Qiandeng Town.
The soldiers did not even receive military pay.
Liu Yangyang has always been muddle-headed in the 88th Division. If he hadn't looked at Xie Bo quite well, I'm afraid that when Xie Bo fell to the ground with serious injuries, Liu Yangyang would have left Xie Bo and ran away with the wounded soldiers of the Second Company.
Just because he is muddling along does not mean that he is only interested in dawdling. The 88th Division is a well-equipped German weapon division, and it is also the direct line unit that the Chairman regards as his favorite. The other troops have long been eyeing and hating their German weapon division.
You can't bite off a piece of meat. Qiandeng Town is located at a transportation hub. Xie Bo's recruitment here is simply giving the information to those who are eyeing the 88th Division.
It would be okay if Xie Bo controlled troops above the regiment level, but now he is just a captain who is about to leave his post, and he only commands an infantry company. Once he is held accountable by the superiors, Xie Bo will be the one who violated military discipline.
The convicted person was arrested and imprisoned for a few days. Liu Yangyang was afraid that his superiors would demote Xie Bo's military rank.
This idle job in Chongqing is not his turn, but if Xie Bo is demoted to a military post, the matter in Chongqing will be ruined.
"The order given by the regiment is to garrison Qiandeng Town and ensure the smooth flow of the highway. Do you understand? Our main task is to garrison Qiandeng Town for rest and recuperation. The highway is only secondary, secondary. Brothers.
We have just settled down. What kind of soldiers did you recruit? If I had known this, we might as well have stayed in Shanghai." This was the first time that Tang Cheng saw Liu Yangyang yelling at Xie Bo, including Nianzi and Niu.
No one else, including Wazi, dared to come up to persuade them. They could only hide aside and watch silently, watching the fierce quarrel that broke out between Liu Yangyang and Xie Bo.
"Hey, you've learned how to write and write. It seems I taught you." Xie Bo, who looked weak and frail, was actually the most powerful of the two. Faced with Liu Yangyang's persistence, Xie Bo just smiled.
, "What's important and secondary? We are soldiers and we don't understand those foreign words. I will only tell you one thing. This soldier must be recruited, and the recruitment will start tomorrow. If it is later, you will not be able to make it. If you don't
If you are willing to do this, then I will let Nianzi take Tangcheng with him."
"Is your brain going to be kicked by a donkey? The nianzi is just a gourd with a sawed mouth. Three sticks can't beat a fart. That kid from Tangcheng is a fool. Don't you see what he did to that bully?
No matter how damaged the gun is, if you let these two boys go to recruit soldiers, you might as well let Niu Wazi bring a rope and go directly to catch the strong men." Liu Yangyang and Xie Bo have been getting along for more than a day or two, and naturally they know that Xie Bo will not
He suddenly wanted to recruit soldiers for no reason. After the first hesitation appeared in his mind, Liu Yangyang changed his tune without realizing it.
"There are only these 30 people left in our company, and half of them are wounded. It's okay for you and Nianzi to be the only ones among them. But if you don't go, I'll have to send Nianzi, like Niu Wazi.
I can only stay here and help light the fire in the kitchen." Hearing the hesitation in Liu Yangyang's words, Xie Bo showed a very embarrassed face. Liu Yangyang has always been a soft-spoken man, so he argued with him.
It would only make things more troublesome, and he would be dumbfounded if he choked on his words.
"Then I can go. First, tell me why you have to recruit troops in Qiandeng Town?" Liu Yangyang turned around and drove away the guys watching the fun. After closing the broken door of Xie Bo's room, he asked quietly. Qiandeng
The location of the town is really not suitable for the Second Company to recruit troops, but Xie Bo is so insistent. Liu Yangyang wants to know why Xie Bo is so anxious to recruit troops?
"Have you forgotten the corpses we buried outside Qiandeng Town?" Xie Bo's one eye looked particularly bright under the oil lamp, "Since the Japanese army can send such a small group of troops dressed up as women to mix among the refugees.
, then they can also sneak into Qiandeng Town or Suzhou City. Qiandeng Town is the only way for our 88th Division to retreat to Suzhou. Once it is occupied by the Japanese army, our division will have no way out.
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"I know that, but what does this have to do with you insisting on recruiting troops here?" Liu Yangyang still didn't understand.
"Are you stupid? You are the only ones who can fight with guns now. Without conscription, how can you fight the Japanese army? Just one Japanese infantry squad is enough to deal with us." After saying this, Xie Bo kept insisting.
The tone he raised finally weakened. It is an indisputable fact that the Japanese army lost to the Japanese army. It is easy to deal with a few Japanese soldiers who are alone, but once the Japanese army is dispatched in squad units, you must use it to deal with them.
More than double the number of Japanese troops, because the Japanese army is not as good as the Japanese army in cooperating in operations.
"Then do you know that private recruitment will bring trouble to you and the Second Company? The key is that we don't have recruitment orders from the division headquarters or the regiment. Even if we want to recruit strong men, we still need a name. The streets of Qiandeng Town are full of people.
They are human beings, but no one is stupid enough to follow you to carry a gun and fight. If they were not afraid of death, would they have come to Qiandeng Town from Shanghai? You expect to find the master who dares to kill among a group of ghosts who are afraid of death. I
It’s so boring to watch.” After finding the answer, Liu Yangyang began to try his best to get Xie Bo to give up the idea of recruiting soldiers, because there was no suitable source of soldiers here.
Xie Bo nodded with deep sympathy and said in a deep voice, "Indeed, I asked Niu Wazi to go out and have a look in the afternoon. People in Qiandeng Town are now panicked. They are all asking Niu Wazi how the battle in Shanghai is going. It can be seen that they are still
I want to go back to Shanghai, but I am afraid that the Communist Party will be defeated in Shanghai and provoke the revenge of the Japanese soldiers." Regardless of Liu Yangyang's purpose in preventing him from recruiting troops in Qiandeng Town, Xie Bo admitted that Liu Yangyang's words were very reasonable.
These people are indeed not suitable for fighting, because they are terribly afraid of death, otherwise Niu Asi and a few other members of the group could force thousands of people to pay tolls to enter Qiandeng Town.
Seeing that Xie Bo's attitude had softened, Liu Yangyang stopped saying anything and just sat there with a blank expression and looked at Xie Bo. He himself was a soft-spoken person, and Xie Bo was not a submissive donkey.
Liu Yang believes that Xie Bo can make the right judgment. Continuing to argue with Xie Bo at this time will only make things worse, which is not what Liu Yang wants to see. "Anyway, we still have a little less manpower now."
, we need to add at least 30 people, so that we have three squads of manpower, and we can fight against a small group of Japanese infiltration troops."
"What are you thinking about? You haven't listened to a word of what I've been saying for a long time. Private recruitment is against military discipline. I think you, the captain, don't want to do it anymore." Seeing that Xie Bo had made up his mind to go to Qiandeng Town.
When recruiting soldiers, Liu Yangyang finally couldn't sit still and jumped up. "You can drag new recruits to fight the Japanese to the death without training? How many of them can there be like that in Tangcheng? Once there is a firefight, these recruits will run away.
They will take our own people away as well, do you know?"
"Calm down first, you have to listen to what I have to say." Xie Bo smiled and threw a cigarette to Liu Yangyang, and then smoked the cigarette in his mouth with the match Liu Yangyang drew, "This
As you said, conscription is a violation of military discipline. After all, I am also a captain officer who graduated from Huangpu. How can I do something that violates military discipline?"
"We are not recruiting soldiers for the Second Company, but we are helping Qiandeng Town recruit regiment members. Qiandeng Town is full of refugees, so the security is naturally very poor. There are still a lot of black sheep like Niu Asi here, so we have to help
Qiandeng Town recruits their own regiments. If the Japanese don't come, the regiment members will protect Qiandeng Town. If the Japanese come over, isn't it justifiable for our regular army to command them?"
"Where's the money? Qiandeng Town won't provide this money. How can we recruit soldiers? Without military pay, no one is willing to be a member of the regiment." Liu Yangyang, who was smoking with his head down, felt a little strange, but when he thought about the military rank issue, he turned to face him again.
Xie Bo rolled his eyes. "Before we left the regiment, I went to get some groceries, but today I used almost all of it when I looked at your injuries at the hospital in town. Thanks to Niu.
Four, the money they collected to buy the road was secretly collected by Niu Wazi, otherwise the brothers would have difficulty even eating, and there would be no money for you to recruit soldiers."
"Don't we still have a spare rifle? If you have a lot of money, find someone to sell it to. Once you sell the gun, you will have money. You will also have money to recruit soldiers, and you will also have money to buy your own property." Xie
Bo held a cigarette in his mouth and leaned over to discuss with Liu Yangyang in a low voice, but when the latter heard that he was going to sell guns, he immediately shook his head and said he would not do it.
"I think you are crazy. Those rifles we have are all authentic Mauser rifles, not some Hanyang-made rifles with old slides. This is a gun seller and conscript. I think you are tired of living." Liu Yangyang
The quarrel was fierce, and they disagreed with Xie Bo's proposal. However, after Xie Bo whispered a few more words, Liu Yangyang, who looked unhappy, still took Nianzi and the others out for a spin.
"There are too few rich people in this small place, so guns and bullets cannot be sold at high prices. I only sold 100 bullets for 8 Hanyang shots for 100 yuan. I still got half of the pork in exchange for a watch."
"After a hearty meal of braised pork and flatbread, Liu Yangyang couldn't help but let out a long sigh. What Xie Bo wanted him to sell in the afternoon was 8 Hanyang-made sticks that he had seized from the group members. If these were placed in the bandit areas of Shandong and Henan,
These 8 pieces made in Hanyang can be sold for at least 150 yuan.