Chapter 507: ‘Recruit Danzi’ Company Commander’s Problem (Part 1)
There are 73 people who can still participate in the original Sihang Battalion, 538 people who can still participate in the original guard battalion, and 507 people who can still participate in the original security group, including three units that are still treating their wounds in the field hospital and actively requesting to return to the war.
The staff is about 50 people.
Tang Dao organized the entire independent battalion into 8 companies, with a total strength of 1,200 people, and there was still a shortage of more than 70 people.
These gaps are actually reserved for seriously injured people who are still lying in hospital beds.
After the continuous battles, whether it is the Four Elements Battalion, the Garrison Battalion or the Security Group, there are many seriously injured people being treated. Of course, those with disabilities have no choice but to retire after recovering from their injuries, but if those wounded who can still recover know
The old troops are gone, and there is no place for them in the newly established independent battalion. What kind of desolation must that be?
Therefore, except for Gu Xishui's special operations team, which is fully staffed, the rest, whether it is the infantry company, artillery company, baggage company, or special agent company, all have a shortage of nearly ten people.
There was no official who came to Tang Dao to complain about the lack of people. Not only did they realize Tang Dao's painstaking efforts, but more importantly, they were too busy to touch the ground.
Especially the four infantry companies saw great changes in personnel.
Take Qian Dazhu's third company as an example. He was originally the second platoon commander of the second company of the security battalion. This time he was appointed as the commander of the third company of the independent battalion. The infantry platoons he was familiar with were all left to him.
With the support of the new company commander, there are only less than 30 people, and there are nearly 110 people left. There are more than 60 new recruits from the security group, plus more than 40 original veterans from the Four Lines Battalion and the Guard Battalion.
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There are more than 70 veterans of the regular army. The security regiment soldiers are said to be new recruits. In fact, they have experienced several battles and are better than the veterans of many troops. There is no problem in terms of combat effectiveness.
But as the new company commander, he had to worry about personnel arrangement.
Tang Dao only announced the appointment of each company deputy and three infantry platoon leaders, while Lei Xiong was even more simple. With a stroke of his pen, he only gave a list of personnel and did not mention who would be the squad leader and who would be the squad deputy at all.
All of this had to be arranged by him, the infantry company commander.
Want to make arrangements purely based on military rank?
That's really too much to think about.
Not to mention that the youngest privates in the Sixing Battalion after a bloody battle in Songhu are now holding the rank of sergeant, and some of the outstanding ones are now second lieutenants, just like Gu Xishui, Erya and Yang Xiaoshan.
The twenty-something veteran in the garrison camp is also a rank-and-file sergeant.
Sergeants represent their bravery and their military merit. If such elites are placed in the ordinary army, the chief officer will be extremely happy.
But there are too many elites, and the chief officer's joy is followed by distress. He must find more elites among these elites to serve as squad leader, squad deputy, and elite shooter.
Elite marksmen are a must-have establishment that Tang Dao requires for each infantry squad. There should be at least one. If there are particularly outstanding ones, two can be appointed. They will enjoy the treatment of squad deputy according to their level, and the military salary will be an extra ocean.
The 9 infantry squads meant that he had to select 27 people from the more than 100 men under his command to occupy positions suitable for them.
Compared with these 9 infantry squads, the small artillery squad with two mortars and the heavy machine gun squad with one heavy machine gun are relatively simple. Those two things are very professional, and Lei Xiong's allocation
This was also taken into consideration at the time, and its main gunners and heavy machine gunners were veterans specially drawn from Pang Dahai's artillery company and Cheng Tieshou's fire support company.
The squad leader and squad deputy were undoubtedly born from these few veterans, and their squad members were naturally mostly composed of soldiers from the security regiment. Qian Dazhu was not stupid enough to assign those veterans to the fire support unit.
However, the recruits who had grown up in the flames of war also knew at this time that this was the first threshold that Tang Dao set for them, the new chief officers. If they could not even do this well, let alone command battles in the future.
Of course, Qian Dazhu could choose the simplest and easiest way to reuse his familiar subordinates and promote some soldiers with bravery and commanding ability to squad leaders, but that would inevitably cause confusion among the new soldiers.
dissatisfied.
It's okay for the soldiers in the security group. After all, they were once militia troops. They know how much they have. If they want to complain, they can only mutter a few words in private.
But what about those veterans of the Sixing Camp?
They can be regarded as the most direct troops of Battalion Commander Tang Daotang, and they have fought against the most ferocious Japanese troops for the rest of their lives. Later, like them, they participated in the bloody battle to defend Baihe Port and annihilate the Sixth Heavy Artillery Brigade.
Regardless of their qualifications or combat effectiveness, they are all outstanding.
If you want simplicity, you have to take risks; if you want balance, and if you want to be as reasonable as possible, you have to find the most reasonable solution.
Being a company commander now is far different from what I considered as a platoon leader back then.
This is the so-called head determines the position of the buttocks, and the position of the buttocks determines a person's vision and pattern.
At this point, Qian Dazhu improved as quickly as his various tactical skills on the battlefield.
But these Tang Dao had no way of knowing. Tang Dao didn't have time to observe the ability value range of each of his subordinates. He could only see Qian Dazhu's commanding ability and the potential of this recruit who had chatted with him through the battlefield.
Therefore, taking advantage of the break in the war, he gave such a question to the new company commanders under his command. In addition to command ability, he gave a test question on management and coordination ability.
Such test questions are not difficult for veteran grassroots commanders like Leng Feng, Cheng Tieshou, and Pang Panghai.
They already have a "bad reputation", such as Leng Feng. Yesterday, the news that the independent battalion was about to be established just came out. Almost everyone unanimously believed that he would definitely become the commander of the independent battalion's main infantry company.
Not only was Major Leng Feng Leng a direct subordinate of Tang Dao, but his reputation for killing three Japanese invaders with his own bayonet in the Four Lines Battle was by no means inferior to that of the Tang battalion commander. The veterans of the Four Lines Battalion unanimously agreed that
If there are three giants in the Sihang Camp, Major Leng Feng Leng, who was ruthless to the Japanese invaders after losing his young brother, is definitely the third giant. For this point, even Captain Cheng Tieshou, who made a brilliant ambush on the Japanese fighter formation in Baihe Port, cannot reach this level.
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Let’s talk about Cheng Tieshou. Not to mention that he was the first to follow Tang Dao and Lei Xiong. Let’s just say that he personally controlled the machine gun and Japanese aircraft in two consecutive low-altitude duels and destroyed two Japanese aircraft.
Which one is available in the independent camp?
It was a perfect combination of bravery and skill. No one would be dissatisfied with it, including all machine gun shooters, including Heizi, who was transferred to the special forces unit by Tang Dao.
There is also Pang Dahai, not to mention that this is a veteran who has been immersed in the artillery industry for ten years. Anyone who is an artilleryman can disapprove of his artillery skills. And this man was in the battle to block the 36th Infantry Brigade.
Because of the surprise attack by the Japanese troops on the flank, he led a group of artillerymen to participate in extremely cruel hand-to-hand combat, which was so shocking that even a fierce man like Lieutenant Lei Xionglei gave him a thumbs-up after the war.
This old artilleryman from Shandong killed several Japanese soldiers by himself with the barrel of his artillery.
Thinking about this person actually carrying a cannon barrel weighing more than 30 kilograms as a sledgehammer, everyone couldn't help but feel their scalps numb. If they had encountered each other, they would probably have been hit so hard that they wouldn't even recognize him.
Although people like Peng Chong and Li Jijin are not as famous as the three above, they are veteran guard company commanders and veterans who have been in the army for more than ten years. They are well versed in the rules of the army, and they have their own differences.
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Needless to say about the baggage company, the two commanders of the security regiment may not have the power to intimidate the veterans of the Four Lines Battalion and the Garrison Battalion, but 90% of their subordinates are former security regiment soldiers, and given their special
Because of this, Zhuang Shisan, who was in charge of logistics, specially arranged for seven or eight veterans who had either injured their arms or legs in the battle to serve as squad platoon leaders. The original squad platoon leaders basically served as squad deputy platoon deputy, which is not even the heart of the squad.
No need to do anything, the stage is set up.
In the end, after all calculations, Qian Dazhu and Zhao Daqiang, the two "newcomers" who were directly promoted from platoon commander to company commander, were slightly inferior in terms of reputation and ability.
Zhao Daqiang is still being treated in the field hospital and will not be released from the hospital until night at the earliest. Therefore, Lei Xiong, the deputy battalion commander in charge of the infantry company, can only help him organize the company in person. Deputy battalion commander Lei's reputation is even more terrible than that of the field hospital.
Leng Feng, who can disapprove of him?
This is called 'a blessing in disguise'! Zhao Daqiang, who was sore with the pain of losing a piece of flesh on his buttocks and was about to burst into tears, managed to escape a 'catastrophe'.
That leaves Qian Dazhu, the 'unlucky boy'.
Everyone, including Tang Dao, watched how the new recruit Danzi Company Commander built his own infantry company.
