When Xu Rui, accompanied by Mr. Mao Yisheng, Mei Jiuling and a dozen engineering students, appeared at the fortress construction site, the security platoon directly under the fortress garrison battalion was practicing.@,
Gao Chu Zhengyuan stared at his one eye and shouted the command majestically.
Because of his bravery in fighting floods and disaster relief, Gao Chu's punishment has been officially revoked. Now he no longer takes the blame in the regiment's cooking team and watches others fight, but serves as the battalion commander of the newly formed fortress garrison battalion.
After spending so much money to build such a fortress, Xu Rui certainly attached great importance to it.
Moreover, this fortress is also the gateway to the Dameishan base area, so there is no way to ignore it, so Xu Rui transferred some militiamen from the county brigade in Meixian County, recruited some young people from the victims, and then recruited some veterans who had returned from the field hospital after recovering from injuries.
More than a hundred key veterans were mobilized and a separate fortress garrison was formed.
This fortress garrison camp is only a battalion in name, but actually has more than a thousand people. It is basically a regiment.
The fortress garrison camp has three main infantry companies, each company has more than 300 people, and the battalion guard platoon has more than 100 people. Isn't this a regiment of soldiers?
What Gao Chu is training now is the guard platoon.
Seeing Xu Rui coming, Gao Chu quickly left his troops and ran over, stood at attention and reported: "Report to the regimental commander, the guard platoon directly under the Dameishan Independent Regiment Fortress Garrison Battalion is training in formation. Please give your instructions."
Xu Rui returned the military salute and said: "Take a break."
Gao Chu immediately turned around and howled: "The commander has an order, take a break."
After arranging the troops, Gao Chu turned back to Xu Rui and said: "Captain, you are here at the right time. I have something to do and want to go to the regiment headquarters to see you."
"Do you still want a veteran?" Xu Rui waved his hand and said, "I tell you, stop thinking about it as soon as possible."
The veterans Xu Rui mentioned refer to veterans who have returned from injuries in field hospitals. There are more than 2,000 veterans in this group, but they are a huge wealth.
Originally, after veterans recovered from their injuries and returned to the army, they could go back to their respective homes and find their own mothers. There was not much to say about this.
But the problem is that many of the more than 2,000 veterans are wounded from the original puppet army garrison division and the central Anhui advancing brigade. Now that the puppet army garrison division and the central Anhui advancing brigade no longer exist, these veterans have become useless.
The Lord's property became a treasure that was looted by the independent regiment's battalions.
Ever since the first batch of veterans recovered from their injuries, Xu Rui has been pestered by several battalion commanders all day long, which is annoying him to death.
Among them, Gao Chu, who had just been promoted to battalion commander, was the most annoying. Others ran once a day, but Gao Chu would run to the regiment headquarters whenever he had the chance. Xu Rui would not let go when he went to the toilet.
Come to bother Xu Rui when he is having sex, but if he really dares to bother him when Xu Rui is having sex, he will probably be shot to death by Sai Hongfu with an arrow.
Xu Rui finished his words, but Gao Chu still refused to give up and said: "Captain, what are you doing? These veterans are not precious babies. If you keep them, can they give birth to cubs or what?"
Xu Rui was forced to become anxious and said: "You are really right, I really plan to use them to breed babies."
"What are you talking about?" Gao Chu widened his eyes and said, "Captain, they are all males and cannot lay eggs."
Hearing this, the more than a hundred recruits of the guard platoon lined up on the playground burst into laughter. Many of them laughed so hard that they couldn't stand upright. These untrained recruits were really not decent.
Gao Chu immediately became angry and said angrily: "I have them all, run fifty laps around the playground, and you won't be allowed to eat until you finish."
More than a hundred recruits ran away in a hurry. Gao Chu came over and said to Xu Rui: "Captain, you have so many veterans, I don't want more, just a few dozen. Do you think so?"
Xu Rui said: "What do you think of me? How about I become a soldier for you?"
"Captain, you are wrong." Gao Chu said with a sneer on his face, "Even if I want you, I don't dare to command you. In our independent regiment, who dares to command you?"
Xu Rui said: "You still know that I am the regiment leader? You also know that you can't command me? Then why don't you think about making decisions for me, how to arrange those veterans?"
Gao Chu said: "Commander, what you said is serious. How dare I make decisions for you? I just want to ask you for a few veterans. Just a few are good. A few are enough."
If not dozens of them come, a few will do, and they are all a profiteer.
"I'm still saying the same thing, not a single one." Xu Rui snorted and walked away. After taking a few steps, he turned back and glared at Gao Chu and said, "Also, training must be stepped up. Look at you, the army is in your hands."
It has been three days since we went up, but in the end, we are still a group of stragglers, and we can’t even move in line.”
"Captain, walk slowly." He waved Xu Rui away. When he turned around, Gao Chu pulled his face down and muttered, "What do you mean it's been three days? It's only been three days, okay? As long as you can, you can
To train a group of useless idiots to become veterans in three days? Just think of it, you."
Let’s talk about Xu Rui, accompanied by Mr. Mao Yisheng and Mei Jiuling, he walked into the largest main bunker.
At this time, the three forts had been repaired, and the walls were made of cement mixed with steel bars. Xu Rui deliberately hit the fort wall twice with stones, very hard, leaving only two white marks on the wall.
The seal was not even broken off by even a small piece of cement, which shows that the quality of the project is excellent.
But this is reasonable. Who is Mr. Mao Yisheng? He is an engineering genius who presided over the design of China's first cross-river bridge, the Qiantang River Bridge.
Until Xu Rui crossed over, it had been nearly a hundred years. The Qiantang River Bridge was still in use, and no engineering quality problems had ever been found. This was unlike the ones built later that were often crushed, washed away by floods, and easily destroyed.
The bridge collapsed by the ship is much stronger.
Mei Jiuling accompanied Xu Rui to visit the main bunker. While introducing the facilities in the bunker, he asked: "Captain, what are your plans for the veterans who have returned from the field hospital after recovering from injuries?"
"What?" Xu Rui glanced at Mei Jiuling and asked, "Do you even want to get involved?"
In the independent regiment, the youth training department headed by He Shuya, Huang Shouxin and Mei Jiuling is Xu Rui's Huangpu department. In order to ensure the unity and cohesion of the independent regiment, Xu Rui is extremely strict with the officers of the youth training department. Whenever something happens
When it comes to benefits, the youth training department comes last. Whenever there is any hard work, the youth training department is the first to do it.
He Shuya and other officers from the youth training team also knew this very well, so they never let their guard down.
Seeing Xu Rui's misunderstanding, Mei Jiuling quickly explained: "Captain, please don't misunderstand, I just asked casually."
Xu Rui breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Well, this matter will be announced soon anyway, so I will tell you first. These veterans really have offspring, because I want to use these two thousand veterans as the basis.
, plus the local county brigade, district squad, and some strong men among the victims, we will expand eight to ten infantry battalions."
"What? Ten battalions?!" Mei Jiuling's eyes widened in surprise.
Good guy, the independent regiment now has three main infantry battalions, an independent battalion, a fortress garrison battalion, a cavalry battalion, a guard battalion and a youth training camp, and the fortress garrison battalion and youth training camp are still at the regimental level.
The scale has thousands of people. If we expand ten more battalions, wouldn't there be eighteen battalions? What is the concept of this?
There are only 21 battalions in the National Army's Class A division of three brigades and nine regiments, such as the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps. The regiment leader wants to expand the independent regiment into an independent division. Is he planning to live the life of a division commander?
Mei Jiuling swallowed and whispered: "Commander, the head of the military department won't disagree, right?"
"Head of the Military Department?" Xu Rui said in amusement, "I asked specifically, but the leader said that if you Xu Rui have the ability, you can expand the independent regiment to 180 battalions. There is no problem, but there is one thing.
I don’t have a gun or a gun for you, and if you expand it to 180 battalions, you will still be the regimental commander."
Mei Jiuling smiled and said: "Then it's settled. We have plenty of guns. Of the many guns we captured before, more than half of them have been repaired by the military factory. It's more than enough to equip ten battalions."
The munitions factory in the Dameishan base area has been built. Zheng Jiakang, an eighth-level fitter, finally returned to his old job as the director and chief engineer of the munitions factory. However, the factory building hidden deep in the mountain has not yet been built.
Okay, so for the time being, we can only work in the shack, and we can only repair the firearms for the time being.
As for making guns, it is difficult to achieve in a short period of time. All the personnel and equipment are available, but the steel used to make guns has not yet been obtained. The indigenous steelmaking method of building a small blast furnace can only be used to produce hand grenades.
Mines or something like that are barely ready to be used as gun barrels.
Because of this, Xu Rui is already thinking about how to build a steel factory.
Although scraping the rails can be used in emergencies, it is not a long-term solution.
Xu Rui nodded and said, "No, the military chief has already agreed. Why don't we expand?"
Mei Jiuling nodded when he heard this, expressing his understanding. He actually didn't know that there was another reason why Xu Rui was so eager to expand his army.
There are actually advantages to rushing to expand the military now, but there are also disadvantages.
Needless to say, the benefits are that as the army expands and its strength increases, it will be able to fight larger-scale battles. If all eighteen battalions of troops are formed into an army, the Japanese will just come to a field division, and Xu Rui will not do it at all.
fear.
As for the disadvantage, these eighteen battalions will not form an army at once, and the improvement of combat effectiveness will be a long process. After all, training opportunities like Feicheng do not come often, and even if we come to Feicheng again
In the defense battle, Xu Rui cannot guarantee that he will be able to achieve the same results as last time.
Maybe this time the whole army will really be wiped out.
