Then Wang Xuexin made another suggestion: "Captain, in addition, I think we can also add a new recruit platoon or new recruit company to each battalion. We can recruit newly recruited soldiers who have never been on the battlefield or have little combat experience.
Soldiers are organized into this company. On the one hand, this can give them a chance to adapt to the battlefield and learn to fight. On the other hand, they are generally equipped with only self-defense weapons or even no weapons. Once extra rifles are seized from the enemy, they can be distributed immediately.
give them!"
Wang Xuexin actually learned this idea from Hans, who had a permanent recruit camp in his army, but they were not to use the captured equipment as much as possible but to give the recruits a chance to adapt to the battlefield so as to maximize their combat effectiveness.
"I agree!" Zhao Gang nodded: "This way we can make full use of every captured equipment and exert its combat effectiveness as quickly as possible!"
Other cadres also nodded, and Li Yunlong certainly had no objection.
Zhao Gang spent more time thinking that the ideas proposed by Wang Xuexin were very good, so he wrote them down in his notebook.
While remembering it, I thought, these experiences are also applicable to the whole army.
Because the Eighth Route Army is different from other armies. Other armies have a large amount of self-produced ammunition and do not rely on capture. The Eighth Route Army is just the opposite.
Therefore, we cannot forget about it and equip a certain battalion or even a certain regiment with this rifle.
If we organize it like this, we will suffer losses in a war.
After the meeting, Zhao Gang reported this idea to the headquarters, and the chief and chief of staff nodded repeatedly.
"Not bad!" said the chief: "This rifle has only been equipped for a few days, and Xiaobei has already found a problem. This experience is very good. I think all troops equipped with official rifles in Citigroup must be organized like this!"
Another advantage of this compilation is that originally, 20,000 Citigroup could only equip two divisions, but now it can be divided into four divisions.
The meeting of the Independence Group is still open.
Li Yunlong said: "If we want to form a company of new recruits, we can't form too many people in one battalion, so we have to leave some positions for the new company. In this way, our regiment of more than 1,700 people can form five battalions.
There are still two battalion commanders missing!”
After a pause, Li Yunlong glanced at Sun Ming and said: "Needless to say, Fourth Battalion Commander, I think Comrade Sun Ming is suitable. What are your opinions, comrades?"
How can the cadres have any opinions?
Sun Ming had brought more than 1,200 people into the group. He could be called a regiment commander in the Eighth Route Army. It was only natural that he should be a battalion commander.
"As for the fifth battalion commander..."
Zhang Dabiao grinned and replied: "Commander, is there any need to say this? It must be Xiao Dongbei!"
Zhang Dabiao actually didn't want to say that. He wanted to bring Xiao Dongbei into his army from the beginning. If Xiao Dongbei became the battalion commander, there would be no chance.
However, he also knew in his heart that the position of battalion commander belonged to Xiao Dongbei, and no one in the Independent Regiment was more qualified than him.
Sure enough, Li Yunlong beat the snake and put it on the stick, saying: "The commander of the first battalion proposed that Xiao Dongbei be the commander of the fifth battalion. Do you have any objections, comrades?"
Zhang Dabiao muttered below: "Is this still my 'proposal'?"
The other cadres laughed out loud when they heard this, and then nodded one after another and answered:
"No comment!"
"Comrade Wang Xuexin can do it!"
…
Wang Xuexin was actually not surprised at all.
After all, he had made great contributions and gained prestige in the Independent Regiment... In fact, he not only gained prestige in the Independent Regiment, but at this time, not many people in the army knew the nickname "Little Northeast".
In this situation, it would be hypocritical for me to pretend to refuse.
"Little Northeast!" At this time, Li Yunlong turned to Wang Xuexin and asked, "What questions do you have?"
Wang Xuexin stood up and replied simply: "Report to the leader, no problem!"
Zhao Gang said with satisfaction: "That's it, let's welcome the two new battalion commanders!"
There was a burst of applause in the conference room immediately.
In fact, if a company commander can be good, then a battalion commander is just about the best.
It can even be said that the battalion commander has fewer tasks and is more relaxed.
Because the company commander is known as the "soldier head, general and tail", to be precise, he should be the soldier head and officer tail, which is the link between officers and soldiers.
This determines that there are two levels of pressure on it: not a single task is missing from the superiors, and there are still more than a hundred soldiers to manage at the lower levels. Things from both ends are squeezed together and piled onto the company commander, which is trivial and complicated.
There are countless things. If Huzi and Xie Baoqing hadn't helped, Wang Xuexin wouldn't have been able to handle them.
Although the battalion commander has only been promoted one level, he basically does not need to take care of the affairs of the soldier level. He is more concerned with considering the tasks assigned by his superiors and how to complete them independently...
In modern times, more company-level units complete tasks independently.
However, during the Eighth Route Army period, due to poor equipment and lack of ammunition, company-level units lacked combat effectiveness and found it difficult to complete tasks, so they often fought in battalion-level units.
Wang Xuexin’s Fifth Battalion is really awesome.
Li Yunlong first transferred the seventh company of the third battalion to form the thirteenth company as the backbone, then captured the two companies of the original Jinsui Army and organized them into the fourteenth and fifteenth companies, and also organized the monk's reconnaissance company.
Go to the fifth camp.
This immediately made the other battalion commanders unhappy.
"Captain!" Zhang Dabiao said in a sullen voice: "Aren't you showing your favoritism? Who doesn't know that all the soldiers in the reconnaissance company are good soldiers, and they are equipped with submachine guns!"
"Yes, commander!" Shen Quan said: "The fifth battalion has one more company than us, so forget it, the reconnaissance company is still included...will we still have a share of meat in the future?"
The one who was least happy was Guan Dashan. He said with a sad face: "Captain, look at our Third Battalion... Xiao Dongbei has gone out and was taken away by the Seventh Company. This is a cramp and a bone break!"
No wonder Guan Dashan would say this. The Seventh Company was the main battalion of the Third Battalion. Being transferred along with Xiao Dongbei really stunned Guan Dashan.
Li Yunlong responded fiercely: "What are you shouting for? Everyone says that this reconnaissance company is good... Wasn't the reconnaissance company brought out by Xiao Dongbei? Wasn't the submachine gun brought back by Xiao Dongbei? The team he built by himself is now transferred to
The Fifth Battalion is rightly called!"
As he spoke, he pointed his finger at the battalion commanders in the void a few times and cursed: "What's wrong? Only now do you realize that you are jealous? Where were you when we changed the equipment to lead the troops? Why didn't you organize the equipment?
Come here? Why don’t you do some business with the foreign devils in exchange for something? There’s no future!”
With that said, he left with his hands behind his back.
When Li Yunlong said this, several battalion commanders became silent.
If we count the merits, no one can compare with Xiaodongbei. Even if you don’t accept it, you have to accept it.
However, Wang Xuexin knew in his heart that the reason why Li Yunlong arranged the reconnaissance company to the fifth battalion was more to protect him as the battalion commander.