diymy Chapter 86 The Recruiting Team Badge Has Arrived
Chapter 86 The Recruiting Team Badge Has Arrived
Wang Yousheng was speechless. He thought Li Yunlong had brought him here for a reason, but it turned out that it was just to prevent him from having contact with Zhao Gang.
It seems Li Yunlong is starting to establish his own faction.
"What are you laughing at, kid?"
When Li Yunlong noticed that Wang Yousheng dared to laugh, he slapped him on the back of the head again.
Having been slapped, Wang Yousheng was naturally not foolish enough to take another slap, so he immediately dodged to the side.
He couldn't help but tease, "Commander, did Political Commissar Zhao offend you or something? Why is he always picking on people?"
"Go away, you brat, what do you know? In the Independent Regiment, no one has ever dared to disarm me."
Time flies, and a day has already passed.
Having won a battle, the battalion settled down. The next period of time was spent reorganizing the troops and recruiting soldiers.
While the Eighth Route Army was recuperating, the Japanese also began to take action.
In front of Daxia Village.
A large number of Japanese soldiers have already brought their cars.
Two whole companies arrived, and the hillsides were covered with Japanese sentries; they even brought six heavy machine guns.
After two companies were wiped out by a surprise attack by the Eighth Route Army, Fujita Jiro, the captain of the First Battalion of the Fourth Brigade, who was defending the Huting stronghold, was greatly shocked.
After receiving intelligence that two companies had been attacked, he sent reinforcements, but by the time he arrived, the Eighth Route Army had already completed the ambush and disappeared without a trace.
At this moment, the Japanese soldiers' corpses at the village entrance had been gathered together. Fujita Jiro was furious when he saw that the soldiers' corpses were left with only a pair of loincloths!
Standing next to him were two people: his adjutant, Masao Koi, and Kazutetsu Inaba.
Inaba Ittetsu was the second company commander. After being ambushed by the Eighth Route Army led by Zhang Dabiao, he suffered huge losses. He had never seen the Eighth Route Army have such strong firepower.
One company lost most of its men in just half an hour of fierce fighting. Unable to hold on any longer, it fled with its guards.
"Baka!"
Fujita Jiro was furious.
Inaba Ittetsu suddenly bowed his head and said, "Captain, the reason my Second Company suffered a loss this time must be because the Eighth Route Army called up its main force. Moreover, their weapons and equipment are very fierce. It seems that they are the same Eighth Route Army that killed Sakurai-kun."
Fujita Jiro's face was grim: "We must avenge these fallen warriors! The Eighth Route Army is utterly wicked!"
His gaze fell on the direction of Daxia Village and Baishi Village, and he said, "Order the Third Company to burn everything, loot everything, and kill everyone!"
"Hai!"
In an instant, all the soldiers marched toward the two villages.
However, to their disappointment, there were no villagers in either village, and Zhou Huaiqi, the village chief of Daxia Village, had long since disappeared.
Ma Baohui, the village chief of Baishi Village, has also become a corpse.
This outcome infuriated Fujita Jiro.
Their grain requisition plan has failed.
Fujita Jiro originally intended to expand to the surrounding villages, but ultimately abandoned the plan.
This grain requisition was ordered personally by Sakurai Yu, and it resulted in the loss of two companies. He still didn't know how to explain it to his superiors.
Even if he were to slaughter all the villagers in the Taihang bandit area now, it would be to no avail.
He is currently facing punishment from above.
The loss of two squadrons reduced the combat effectiveness of the First Battalion by half.
Furthermore, he now only has one infantry company left, and he is running rampant in the Taihang bandit area. He might run into the main force of the Eighth Route Army, and at that time, his small number of men wouldn't even be enough to fill the teeth of the Eighth Route Army's main force.
In the end, he could only lead his troops back to the Huting stronghold and report the battle losses.
……
For several days, both sides remained remarkably calm.
Wang Yousheng continues to accumulate points every day.
Although he is now a platoon leader, he doesn't have a single soldier under his command. His platoon was released a long time ago, and he doesn't know how the recruitment situation is.
Wang Yousheng could only help process the documents of the Party Committee of the Youth League every day, and occasionally go out for a stroll to investigate the topography of the Taihang Mountains.
Although he had a large map, he couldn't rely on it to command battles. He needed to travel around the base area to familiarize himself with the terrain.
This is an essential combat quality for a commander. If you don't even understand the situation in your own base area, you can't even be a commander, let alone fight a war.
That day, Wang Yousheng rode back from outside and immediately saw a large group of people gathered at the village entrance.
They were all chatting and laughing, as if they were at a gathering.
When the sentry saw Wang Yousheng return, he quickly went forward to take the horse.
Wang Yousheng glanced at the group of people at the village entrance. There must have been a couple hundred of them, mostly dressed in civilian clothes.
He then asked the sentry, "What's going on? Why are so many people gathered here?"
The sentry replied excitedly, "Platoon Leader Wang, you're going to be a battalion commander!"
"What?"
Wang Yousheng didn't quite understand.
The sentry chuckled, "Oh, it's your recruit company. They're all back, and they've brought a lot of new comrades with them."
"Look, there they are!"
The sentry said, pointing to the group of people.
Wang Yousheng then understood: Damn it, it seems his recruitment efforts have been effective.
How did they manage to pull back a team of over a hundred people?
It's only been less than a week!
However, Wang Yousheng quickly sensed the danger.
The Eighth Route Army had strict rules for recruiting soldiers; not just anyone could join. Soldiers would bring their comrades to the camp without being vetted. If spies were mixed in among these people, the camp of the First Battalion would be exposed.
This is getting a bit far-fetched!
He then handed the horse to the sentry and walked straight toward the crowd.
"Platoon Leader Wang!"
"Platoon leader!"
As soon as Wang Yousheng arrived, several soldiers gathered around him.
Wang Yousheng naturally recognized these comrades; they were all soldiers from the recruit training company.
Wang Yousheng then asked, "Chen Xiaoliu, Lü Ermang, Ma Dafa, what's going on?"
Ma Dafa began by saying, "Platoon leader, we've all brought back new comrades. I went back for a few days and, hehe, found more than a dozen good friends to join the army with me."
Chen Xiaoliu excitedly chimed in, "Me too! My family is a large clan. As soon as they heard I was serving in the Independent Regiment, and in Commander Li's unit no less, half of our relatives came—exactly seventy-eight people!"
Lu Ermang seemed embarrassed and said modestly, "I'm ashamed to say that I only managed to bring three."
Wang Yousheng nodded, and then he glanced at the people who had joined the army. A minute later, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, none of them had negative intimacy levels.
In other words, no enemy agents infiltrated.
Forget about recruiting soldiers; if the camp were exposed, Wang Yousheng wouldn't have enough heads to chop off even if he had ten.
Wang Yousheng then asked, "Very good, how many people came in total?"
The three men eagerly said, "There are other people brought by our comrades, and they've all gone to help with the registration. Now there are a total of 208."
"So many?"
Wang Yousheng was also surprised that by copying Han Xin's recruitment strategy, he had only managed to get a few soldiers back, yet he had already recruited so many people!
Lu Ermang chuckled and said, "Platoon Leader Wang, I estimate it's more than that. Half of the recruits haven't returned yet. When they assemble, there will be at least several hundred people! You're about to become a battalion commander."