"Say it again, what happened to the Erlian in the town's Japanese devils?" Zhou Cheng asked incredible.

"There are all wiped out, and no Japanese are left, and they are killed. 26 puppet troops were captured, and all the rest are killed. The troops are cleaning the battlefield. The company commander is afraid that Commander, you are worried. As soon as the battle is over, I will come and report it." The communications soldier replied proudly.

Chen Zhengyu's reaction was even more exaggerated than Zhou Cheng, and he directly showed a stunned and shocked expression. It was not until the communications soldier confirmed the report just now that he believed it was true. He quickly asked: "To be specific, how did the Japanese and puppet troops in the town be killed by you!"

"All the Japanese and puppet troops have more than 200 people, well-equipped and ammunition are sufficient. Apart from equiping a heavy machine gun that the Japanese do not have, you have no other advantages. It is not easy to kill them."

"Also, are there great casualties in the troops?"

This is also Zhou Cheng’s most concerned issue. Seeing the commander and battalion commander focus on themselves at the same time, a hint of nervousness flashed on the communications soldier’s face. He took a deep breath before answering: “Report to the commander, our casualties are all less than one platoon…”

After hearing this sentence, Zhou Cheng became more and more shocked, and Chen Zhengyu was no exception.

At this time, the most complicated person was undoubtedly Xiang Feng and Chen Hao.

When the mission was arranged, both of them left them in the town on the grounds that there were many new recruits in the second company, and led their own troops to ambush the convoy with the commander.

I originally thought that the contributions of this battle would be divided up by one or three consecutive days, but the Second Battalion emerged and became the real winner of this battle.

With the cooperation of the artillery company, cavalry company, and chariot platoon, the 13th Company killed five or six hundred enemies, and they were all puppet troops.

However, the Second Company fought alone without any support, silently wiped out the Japanese and puppet troops in the town, half of which were the Japanese with strong combat power.

With this alone, the third company won the lead in this battle.

Zhou Cheng didn't give the two people too much time to digest the result of this battle, and immediately ordered: "The army continues to advance and march back to Zhangzhuang Town! We listen to the report as we walked."

When Zhou Cheng led his troops to the entrance of the town, Dong Fei, who received the news in advance, happened to greet him.

Zhou Cheng sighed with a smile before he could speak.

"Company Commander Dong, I heard from the correspondent that you fought very well, and you were very well grasped whether it was the time to block or the time when the troops took the initiative to attack, and all of us were surprised!"

"How is it? The results of the battle have been counted?"

This was the first time that Dong Fei had independently commanded the battle after entering the National Salvation Army. He also won the first battle, achieving the greatest result with the minimum casualties.

When I heard Zhou Cheng praise him in public, my head was very high, just like the correspondent, I was very proud: "The statistics are out!"

"We wiped out a total of 124 Japanese devils, including a captain and squadron leader, and also wiped out 103 puppet troops, capturing 26. The former chief of staff of the National Salvation Army Huang Yonggui survived by chance. He was shot in the shoulder and was seriously injured."

"Seither Czech Republic has been captured, three crooked handles, two grenade launchers, and 128 rifles of various types. The remaining weapons were blown up by us with grenades and grenade launchers during the battle."

"The only regret is that I didn't seize any ammunition. I searched the entire battlefield and found less than four hundred bullets!"

The more Xiang Feng and Chen Hao listened, the more envious they became. At this moment, a decision that made them even more envious was reached.

Zhou Cheng suddenly spoke: "Comrades, given the excellent performance of Comrade Dong Fei and the Second Company in this battle, I decided to appoint Comrade Dong Fei as the deputy battalion commander and company commander of the Second Company of the First Battalion of the National Salvation Army to assist Battalion Commander Chen in managing the First Battalion!"

The two of them immediately became jealous.

But Zhou Chengru seemed to have not seen it, and continued: "Perhaps some of you have seen it. The newly established one or two battalions are almost exactly the same in terms of cadre configuration."

"One company commander is a cadre I want from the old army, and one company commander is brought out by me. He has been promoted from an ordinary soldier to a company commander, and another company commander is the former company commander of the National Salvation Army."

"The current battalion commander of the two battalions is Battalion Commander Chen and the other is me. I will definitely not stay for a long time. This means that the future battalion commander and deputy battalion commander of the first and second battalion will arise from you."

"Whoever performs better will be promoted to deputy battalion commander first, and the chances of being promoted to battalion commander will be greater in the future."

"At present, Company Commander Dong's performance is better than both of you, so I will first promote Dong Fei to deputy battalion commander and lead you one step ahead. If his performance is as good as ever in the future, then when Captain Chen returns to the headquarters, he will be the future battalion commander of the First Battalion."

"Of course, if you work harder and later generations come from the crowd, you may also be the battalion commander of the first battalion!"

"In a word: No matter what everyone's background is, or whether I am a confidant whom I brought out, if I want to get to the top, I have to rely on my own strength to fight it out bit by bit."

"If someone has better abilities than me, it's okay for me to give up the commander's position!"

"This is my Zhou Cheng's employment standard, and it is also the employment standard for the National Salvation Army in the future."

"In addition, the cadres between battalions will not remain unchanged forever. All company commanders within the battalion rotate every six months to prevent the National Salvation Army from becoming a private army of a certain person!"

After hearing these words, Chen Hao and Xiang Feng were suddenly not jealous, and their eyes became hotter and hotter.

Chen Zhengyu will definitely not leave the first battalion in a short period of time, which means they still have a lot of opportunities to show their strength to the headquarters.

In the words of the commander, as long as you work hard enough, you may not be able to take the lead.

The person who is most jealous is Dong Fei. He is the first of the three company commanders to be promoted to deputy battalion commander, and he is also the person closest to the battalion commander. He has the greatest chance of successfully becoming a battalion commander.

As soon as Zhou Cheng finished speaking, he secretly swore in his heart: When the troops enter Zhangzhuang Town, he must hurry up and train the Second Company soldiers, so that they can form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, and then fight more wars, win battles, and strive to be far ahead and be the first to be promoted to battalion commander.

In this case, my promotion speed during this period will definitely envy my former comrades to death.

After pacifying the Japanese garrison command, Asakawa Nakasa slowly became restless.

At the normal marching speed, Wang Dehou can arrive in Zhangzhuang Town at noon.

The order he gave him was very clear: the transport team started the radio station as soon as they arrived in Donghui Town and informed the command center of the specific situation of Zhangzhuang Town.

It is two o'clock in the afternoon and the command has not received the telegram yet.

Although the battlefield changes rapidly and any accident may cause Wang Dehou to not send a telegram in time, it cannot be so long!

Asakawa Nakasa faintly felt something was wrong, but he couldn't say what accident would happen to the transportation team and Zhangzhuang Town?

Although the Second World War Zone rebuilt the pacification and rescue army, the strength of this unit was not restored and was still dominated by the Third Battalion.

Since becoming the captain of the brigade, Asakawa has attached great importance to the intelligence collection capabilities of the troops. Every two days, an information about the Third Battalion was delivered to him.

The Third Battalion commanded by Zhou Cheng is indeed very powerful, but because the troops are expanded too well, the combat effectiveness of the troops is more or less affected.

On the day when the National Salvation Army was reorganized into the garrison brigade, the Third Battalion assembled heavy troops to attack Zhangzhuang Town, achieving considerable results. However, with Asakawa's understanding of the Chinese army, they would definitely kill one thousand enemies and suffer eight hundred of them.

In this case, the Third Battalion had no spare energy to attack the transportation team commanded by Wang Dehou, let alone attack Zhangzhuang Town.

It is precisely because of these intelligence and analysis that Asakawa dared to ask Wang Dehou to only bring the puppet troops to escort a large number of weapons and ammunition to support Zhangzhuang Town.

Now it seems that the development of Zhangzhuang Town has not been carried out according to its own plan, and Wang Dehou did not arrive at Zhangzhuang Town on time. There must be some problem in the middle, either because there is a problem with the intelligence collected by the intelligence department, or because his judgment and analysis of the Third Battalion was incorrect.

"Don't have a telegram from Zhangzhuang Town?" Asakawa Nakasa could not wait and asked this question again, which had been no less than five times.

The deputy captain shook his head: "The radio station has been on-time and has not received any telegrams!"

"Baguyalu, something must have happened!" Asakawa Nakasa's face became increasingly ugly, and he cursed with a calm face.

The deputy captain hesitated and proposed: "Why send scouts out of the city to take a look!"

Asakawa nodded and ordered very seriously: "Send someone out now and let the intelligence department move as well, find Wang Dehou, and find out what happened outside the city?"

"Hi!" The deputy captain quickly took the order.

Pingding County, which had just been calm for a day, became nervous again. All the people on the streets were driven home by the Japanese and puppet troops. More than ten patrol teams took to the streets and no one was allowed to leave home.

Ten minutes later, more than a dozen cavalrymen rushed out of the city gate and quickly disappeared at the end of the official road.

The deputy brigade commander of the Security Brigade Department is still sulking.

If you are put on a brigade commander and lose one-third of your strength directly, you will be sad.

Suddenly, a confidant company commander under his command sneaked in: "Villain, I just heard a news that our newly appointed Brigade Commander Wang seems to have something wrong outside the city!"

"They were able to arrive at Zhangzhuang Town at noon, but the news has not been heard back yet. Do you think they will be given to the National Savior Army..."

Speaking of this, the company commander directly wiped his neck to the deputy brigade commander and continued to report.

"I heard that after Brigade Commander Wang followed the Japanese, the commander of the Second World War Zone was very annoyed and directly offered a reward of 2,000 yuan to buy his head. Do you think anyone would be jealous of money and get rid of him on the road!"

The deputy brigade commander's mood suddenly improved, and his eyes lit up and asked, "Is the news true?"

The company commander nodded: "It must be true. The county town has been martial law by the Japanese. More than a dozen scouts were sent out of the city to find out the situation!"

The deputy brigade commander immediately became excited and thought about the order: "No matter whether something happened to Wang Dehou or not, we must be prepared for any trouble."

"Let me keep an eye on the troops brought to the city by Brigade Commander Wang. If something happens to Brigade Commander Wang, I will immediately take my warrant and hand over their weapons to me. All officers above the platoon will be arrested and replaced with our own people."

"Get another one out and stare at the room of Commander Wang. I heard that he brought a lot of treasures into the city. If something really happens, these treasures must be taken into our own hands."
Chapter completed!