Of course, with the facilities and equipment gradually in place, what the Independent Regiment lacks most now is not guns and ammunition. With the Huamei Arsenal, which is currently ranked among the top three in China and is likely to become the number one in China's arms production in the future, even if the Independent Regiment expands its army
Even an army or even a group army can have enough productivity to complete all equipment in two years.
What the Independent Group lacks most now is people.
The establishment of 3,000 people is completely unable to meet the needs of having an independent regiment with a complete fortress base for defense and field operations.
Liu Lang had already planned to continue to recruit militiamen who had been trained by retired veterans for two years in the countryside, and mix them with a certain amount of veterans from independent regiments to form a base garrison camp.
However, this garrison battalion is not an ordinary battalion. Due to the establishment and some unspeakable reasons, Liu Lang cannot define this garrison base unit as a garrison regiment. But even if it is a battalion, its personnel will be as high as 2,000 people. Otherwise,
It cannot meet the needs of guarding the base.
The infantry may only have four companies with no more than 800 people, but the artillery unit attached to the garrison battalion has as many as 1,200 people. The 16 main guns, 30 mountain guns, infantry guns, and mortars also have 3 air defense positions. They are needed.
operate.
Of course, the establishment of these 2,000 people is still not within the official establishment of the Independent Regiment. Just like the 1,500-person Blue Army unit that imitated the Japanese army, their military salaries are raised by the Independent Regiment itself, and the list and military positions will not be
Report to the Seventh Route Army Headquarters.
The garrison battalion is responsible for guarding the security and all secrets of the independent regiment's fortress base when the independent regiment's combat troops go out to fight. Its importance is self-evident.
Liu Lang had been hesitant about the officer in charge of the 2,000-strong army, and because all the equipment was not in place yet, he had been delayed.
But after submitting the order for the future needs of the independent regiment to Little Foreign Girl, Liu Lang decided to set up a garrison battalion within three months at the latest. Otherwise, a force composed of a large number of recruits would not have enough
Even if they are given advanced weapons through training, they will not be able to form a strong combat effectiveness.
Liu Lang knew very well that the guards of the Independence Regiment's fortress base might not only have to face certain threats from within, but might also face the Japanese army in the future.
In the past, the Japanese coveted Sichuan. With the dream of defeating the government by retreating the bald bosses to Sichuan, the will of all China to resist would be completely destroyed, the Japanese army chose to attack Chongqing from Yichang. In the so-called Stalin of the East
In the defense battle of Shipai Fortress, 150,000 Chinese soldiers and 100,000 Japanese invaders fought in a bloody battle.
The Chinese military has no retreat. If we retreat further, we will have to accompany the capital, Chongqing. If we retreat further, the center of Southwest China, China's last barrier, will fall into the hands of the enemy. If we retreat further, the whole of China will have no retreat.
At that time, the 150,000 Nationalist Army, which often retreated strategically, resisted the three Japanese troops of the 11th Army on a dozens-mile front centered on a small village between Pingshanba and Huangling Temple on the south bank of the Yangtze River.
An attack by a reorganized division.
The sky-wide fire from 150 howitzers was nothing. The Japanese army used poison gas extensively, but the Chinese soldiers who had no retreat were still stubborn and refused to retreat even half a step.
It was also there that the largest hand-to-hand battle in the history of World War II broke out. Amidst the continuous artillery fire on other fronts, the Gaojialing position stationed by Hu Lian's 11th Division did not hear any gunfire for three full hours. That is not China.
When soldiers avoid fighting, it is not a truce between the two sides, let alone a break, but the fighting has reached a point where shooting is no longer possible. The enemy and our troops are huddled together in hand-to-hand combat, thousands of people fighting for their bayonets.
In this battle, the Japanese invaders lost 2,000 lives. There were no injuries. Under the bloody bayonets, there was no chance of survival. There was no way to retreat. The Chinese soldiers with stronger fighting will will not allow any enemy wounded soldier to retreat.
Possibility of position.
The Chinese side also lost more than 1,500 people. The brutal Japanese invaders opened fire brazenly, regardless of their own soldiers who were still resisting, when their own side was already weakening in the late stage of the hand-to-hand battle.
Liu Lang still remembers how China National Geographic described the young soldiers who died here in the future.
"At that time, children from Chinese peasant families were generally not well-nourished. Most of the soldiers who were sixteen or seventeen years old were not tall enough to mount a rifle with a bayonet. They went into battle with guns that were longer than themselves. If they were alive, they would all be dead.
They are old people in their 70s and 80s. They will also sip sips of fragrant tea in their own orange groves, look at their children and grandchildren leisurely, and live out their days in warmth. But they died so that other Chinese people can have all this.
Already."
On that cruel afternoon, the blood of countless warriors soaked the land on the south bank of the Yangtze River. After three hours of fighting without gunshots, the hand-to-hand combat came to an end, and 1,500 Chinese soldiers lay quietly in the most beautiful mountains and rivers in China. They had once
Fighting bravely, they were quiet and shy at this time, just like most of their short lives. The Chinese army's position was not lost, and it was the Japanese who retreated."
Liu Lang always remembered that he burst into tears after reading that paragraph. The ancestors of the Chinese nation used their frail bodies to fight for a glimmer of life for future generations.
In this time and space, Liu Lang didn't know if the Japanese invaders would make such a choice again. But Liu Lang knew that since oil was discovered in Sichuan and the bald man announced it to the public to cheer him up, perhaps history would inevitably undergo a small change.
In the past, the Japanese invaders never invaded Shaanxi, and they were defeated at Tongguan, the east gate of Shaanxi. Naturally, Guangyuan also did not withstand Japanese attacks. But this time, perhaps because of the temptation of oil, the Japanese army will focus on
They invaded Shaanxi and entered Sichuan from Hanzhong, thus gaining control of the oil fields they coveted.
Although it is just a small oil field with an annual output of tens of thousands of tons, the temptation is too great for an island country whose oil resources are like a beggar. Poor people, seeing that 100 yuan is a huge sum of money, use this
There is no better way to describe the Japanese who have no oil.
You must know that these guys, after feeling threatened by the Americans for the oil in Southeast Asia, went on an angry expedition thousands of miles to the Pacific and stabbed the Americans in the anus. You can imagine their attitude towards oil.
eager.
Therefore, Liu Lang had to spend enough money to operate the independent regiment base and fortress guarding the Sichuan-Shaanxi arterial road. If the Japanese changed their strategy and invaded Shaanxi and entered Sichuan, the independent regiment fortress base would be the stone of Guangyuan.
Liu Lang wants to be here to let the Japanese understand that as long as the Chinese do not give up resistance, there can be stone signs everywhere.
The 2,000-man garrison camp, in Liu Lang's imagination, is still just a skeleton. Once the Japanese invaders enter Sichuan from Shaanxi and the main force of the independent regiment fighting abroad cannot return, the garrison camp will expand its organization and turn from a battalion into a regiment.
The troop strength can expand to more than 4,000 people. The militia guards that are still being cultivated in the countryside of Guangyuan are the best source of reserve troops.
Liu Lang had even looked beyond Guangyuan, which had limited troop sources, to the entire northern Sichuan, the vast northern Sichuan, so that he could continuously deliver sufficient troop sources to the independent regiment.
Of course, with Liu Lang's current status, it is undoubtedly a fool's dream for a small colonel to control the entire northern Sichuan. Not to mention that the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs will turn its attention here, and his uncle Liu Xiang, the king of Sichuan, will also
Can't pass.
The current surname in Sichuan is Liu, but it is not entirely Liu. Unlike the old man in Shanxi who has the final say in Shanxi, Sichuan Province is ruled by more than a dozen large and small warlord groups. Liu
Xiang is just their leader.
Liu Lang still needs to wait, waiting for a suitable opportunity to bring the entire northern Sichuan under the control of the independent regiment.
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PS: I went on a business trip to Yichang Three Gorges University two days ago. Due to busy work, I didn't code for two days and the manuscripts were all used up. I had to take a day off yesterday and didn't update. I returned home today and continued to update normally. I hope book friends don't be surprised.