After the meeting, several company platoon leaders and instructors did not leave. Instead, they blocked the camp headquarters and asked Wang Ping and Cheng Xiao if they wanted new soldiers and equipment.
They all know one truth. The sooner the troops are reorganized, the sooner they can be trained. The sooner they can form combat effectiveness, the sooner they can go to the battlefield to kill the Japanese.
"Okay, don't fight anymore. I'll let the instructor and deputy battalion commander give the soldiers and equipment to you now!" Wang Ping slammed the table and shouted while looking at the chaotic situation at the headquarters.
More than a dozen pairs of eyes were all staring at Cheng Xiao and Zeng Quan.
"According to the reorganization plan, each infantry squad of the infantry company has twelve people, equipped with a crooked handle, eleven pieces and thirty-eight pieces!"
"The infantry platoon consists of three infantry squads, plus a platoon leader and two deputy platoon leaders, with a total strength of 42 people. It is equipped with three crooked guns, thirty-five rifles, and three pistols. The deputy platoon leader is equipped with double guns.
The platoon leader is equipped with a pistol!"
"The infantry company includes three upper infantry platoons, plus a grenade squad, a heavy machine gun squad, a guard squad, a cooking squad, and a company headquarters!"
"There are seven people in the grenade squad, equipped with three grenade launchers and four 38-gun covers!"
"There are thirteen people in the heavy machine gun squad, two machine gun groups, one machine gun group of six people, four machine gun shooters, and two ammunition handlers. Except for the machine gun shooters, the others are all equipped with 38-inch caps. There is also one heavy machine gun crew because of limited equipment.
Equip a machine gun first, but I will equip you with all the men!"
"The structure of the guard squad is the same as that of the infantry squad. There are seven people in the cooking squad, equipped with seven, three and eight covers. They participate in battles during wartime! The company headquarters includes the company commander, instructor, two deputy company commanders, two deputy instructors, and then an additional clerk
, three communication soldiers, ten people in total, the communication soldier is equipped with a 38-meter cap, and all the others are equipped with pistols!"
"Calculating this way, each of your infantry companies has 176 men, two counterweight machine guns, three grenade launchers, ten crooked handles, 135 38-shaped covers, and 16 pistols!"
"Except for heavy machine guns, what equipment do you lack and how many men are you missing? Go to the deputy battalion commander to register immediately. Remember, you must register truthfully. We are the main force, not a local force. We must follow the rules in everything! Instructors of each company
Responsible for supervision, if anyone reports an extra person or a gun, I will come to you!"
After finally sending these people away, Cheng Xiao seemed to have lost all strength and collapsed directly on the stool.
"Battal Commander, it's too tiring to deal with these people. Fortunately, we have the goods, the people we need, and the guns we need. Otherwise, these people would annoy me to death!" Cheng Xiao complained to Wang Ping after heaving a sigh of relief!
"It's not easy for grassroots cadres. If they can't bring people and equipment back today, the cadres below them will drive them crazy! How about it? The recruits and equipment are enough!" Wang Ping comforted with a smile!
"There is no shortage of people. There are more than 200 puppet prisoners and more than 100 local recruits, which can just fill up the vacancies in the three companies. I will work harder in the next two days to try to recruit more than 100 prisoners.
, then there will be more after the baggage train and guard platoon are full!" Cheng Xiao quickly regained his serious expression, and then answered very ably.
"The extra recruits will form a recruit company, and they will be temporarily supervised by Lao Zeng, and will be released after a qualified company commander is found. The recruit company has no establishment, and there will be as many troops as there are recruits. All the new recruits we recruit in the future will be released first.
Go to the recruit company for the most basic training, and then add it to the main force for actual combat training. This way, the main force will be less troublesome, and the survival rate of the recruits on the battlefield will be much higher!" Wang Ping decided directly on this order without discussing it with Cheng Xiao.
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"I agree!" Cheng Xiao knew the benefits of establishing a new army and agreed readily.
Then the topic changed and he asked: "But I also have a problem here. Among all the puppet soldiers captured, more than 40 were screened out as unsuitable to join the Eighth Route Army, but their crimes did not meet the standards for execution. They were released directly.
It must be too cheap for them, and if we don't let them go, we will have to feed them in vain. With so many people, they need forty or fifty kilograms of food every day, which can feed an infantry platoon!"
"We must not let them go! They have done so many evil things with the Japanese, and there must be retribution. Otherwise, if we let them go, they will run to the Japanese and continue to be traitors! In addition, we cannot allow them to follow us and eat for free!" Wang Pingyi
Face answered firmly.
After thinking for almost two minutes, he decided: "They must not be allowed to eat for free. My principle is that if you want to eat, you must do something in exchange for it. Lao Cheng, you can give them half a year to ten years of hard labor based on their crimes.
It’s equivalent to working in jail.”
"These barracks at the base are too simple. It will definitely be cold when it really snows. Let them be responsible for repairing them!"
"There are also many places on the mountain road from the outside of the mountain to our station where the terrain is suitable for blocking. Move them there and use the terrain to build positions, dig trenches, underground bunkers, and anti-gun holes! If the Japanese army comes to attack, these positions will
It’s the grave of the Japanese army!”
"Also, comrades cannot rely entirely on captured food for their nutrition. Even if they have a base, they cannot rely entirely on the people. After all, their lives are not good, and they must find ways to be self-sufficient."
"So, we can also use them to open up wasteland around the station and grow food. After it is completely stabilized, we can also raise some livestock, chickens and ducks, especially chickens and ducks. The cycle is short and easy to raise. Earthworms can be used, and they can also be raised.
After laying eggs, it only takes a few months to see the harvest!"
Cheng Xiao looked at Wang Ping with an expression of disbelief. Cheng Xiao was born as a farmer. Although he went to Red Army University, he was still very familiar with raising chickens. But even so, there was still a lot of confusion about Wang Ping's introduction, and then
I asked subconsciously!
"Battal Commander, raising chickens is really such a fast harvest. Also, earthworms can really raise chickens. If this is true, a chicken farm must be set up. For no other reason than to allow our comrades to eat one in a few days.
Eggs, supplement nutrition!”
Wang Ping suddenly realized that he had made a mistake and revealed the chicken-raising technology that would only appear decades later.
However, Wang Ping has no regrets at all. As long as it can make the army stronger and solve the various difficulties faced by the army, Wang Ping does not mind copying more new technologies from later generations.
Seeing Cheng Xiao's fiery gaze staring at him, Wang Ping replied with certainty: "Everything is true! Old Cheng, you make preparations first and prepare the venue. I will personally go to the chicken farm to guide you when I come back from the military subdivision, and I guarantee three months.
Let you eat chicken and eggs for four months!”
After staying with Wang Ping for such a long time, it has never happened that a promise was not fulfilled. Therefore, Cheng Xiao finally chose to believe that Wang Ping could create a miracle for himself!
"Okay, then I will wait for you, battalion commander, to raise chickens in three months. If you succeed, you will definitely become a hero of the Eighth Route Army. Because this solves the Eighth Route Army's major problem of insufficient logistics supplies!"
Wang Ping didn't care whether he was a hero or not. After shaking his head, he continued to ask Cheng Xiao: "Let's get back to the business. We have enough troops. The next step is equipment! How much wealth we have, Lao Cheng, you know best. Let's not talk about the troops directly under us. What can we do?
There is no guarantee that the three main forces will be fully staffed!"
Cheng Xiao answered very eloquently: "The 38 pieces are enough, and there are 70 or 80 more. I am going to equip the guard platoon and rearrange the baggage. If there are more, I will give them to the recruit company. There are not enough crooks, and there are still seven more to throw grenades."
There are nine more barrels, and the pistols are about the same, with only a dozen more! The ammunition is definitely enough, after 50 rounds of ammunition per capita, there will be nearly 70,000 more rounds of ammunition in reserve!"
Wang Ping frowned and thought for nearly a minute before deciding: "Each company will be given six crooked sticks first, and the others will be distributed normally. The extra five crooked sticks will be kept by me. In addition, instructor, you can
Prepare for me ten grenade launchers with twenty rounds of grenades, four Czech machine guns for pseudo-military use, more than four hundred domestic rifles, and the bullets for these guns. Give them all to me, and prepare more.
Thirty thousand rounds of 38-cap bullets. This time we meet the military divisions, we must bring some gifts to the commander, otherwise we will be too embarrassed to ask the commander for someone!"
As an instructor, his awareness in this regard must be higher than that of Wang Ping. After thinking about it, he affirmed: "Bring the extra pistols with you to equip the guards of the headquarters. Other equipment and ammunition will be ready tonight. All of them will be used."
Carrying it on mules and horses makes it easier to march!"
