Chapter 898: Borrowing Soldiers
The gift of a battalion of 480 rifles, sixteen Czech light machine guns and six Makqin heavy machine guns is very tempting, and the old man who is the 19th Route Army on both sides is still there, especially Zhang Yan also knows that the Sichuan army has taken in Liu Lang, the person who threads the needle and leads the three or four thousand remnants of the army, and this sentiment is even more serious.
It stands to reason that Liu Lang couldn't be easier to ask him for help.
However, love is love, but Liu Lang begged for more than 700 veterans with a big mouth, which made Zhang Yan feel distressed. Not to mention the more than 700 officers and soldiers, it is enough for one battalion and another company, and what Liu Lang wants is a second lieutenant sergeant, at least a total of more than 700 senior soldiers, which is almost the foundation of a regiment. How many people are there in one brigade and two regiments in Zhang Yan? On the basis of more than 3,000 veterans, a little new recruits have been added, and there are only more than 4,300 people when the full battle is full, Liu Lang is good, as soon as he opens his mouth, he will leave one-sixth of the strength of the new 61st Brigade, not to mention, and almost half of the regiment has been evacuated, even if the equipment of a battalion is not enough, it can't make up for it!
Liu Lang didn't want to dig into the corner of the new 61st Brigade under the banner of establishing a security regiment, but the more than 700 veterans don't look at a lot, but they were divided into 11 security regiments, with an average of 70 people in each regiment and 15 people in a combat squad, which can be regarded as a squad leader in each squad.
Liu Lang knows the importance of veterans who have experienced battles. A recruit, no matter how long he trains, is always just a soldier on the training ground, and he is always just a recruit until he has experienced actual combat. The real battlefield is incomparable to the smoke of gunpowder on the training ground, the veterans who have not seen blood press the formation, and the recruits are either frightened by the artillery fire and the rain of bullets and cannons and don't even dare to lift their heads, or they are so frightened that they shoot blindly in a chaotic formation, but these are not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is to run backwards in fear. One person taking the lead in escaping can cause a squad and platoon to flee, and the rout of a platoon may even cause the entire line to collapse.
Such an example is not uncommon in the headquarters of the national army after the loss of the elite of the Battle of Songhu, not all Chinese are afraid of death, on the contrary, most Chinese are not afraid of death. However, most of the troops composed of recruits who have been trained for months or even ten and a half days often lose everything because of the emotional loss of one or a few people, and that is also part of human nature.
On the contrary, the red troops are much better than the national army that likes to pull up the number of soldiers, and their approach is to use the instructors at the grass-roots level at the company level to do ideological work, and second, to use the veterans who have experienced the Long March as the grass-roots commanders, and use their rich combat experience to give practical guidance and comfort to the recruits.
Seeing that Zhang Yan uncharacteristically wrung his brows and smoked a stuffy cigarette and did not agree to his request, Liu Lang smiled slightly and said: "I want to come to Brigade Commander Zhang is a little embarrassed, and Liu Lang will not let you make it difficult, it is better to do this, Liu Mou should not only borrow, do you think it is okay?" ”
Zhang Yan, who was embarrassed, was slightly stunned, "What do you mean by Brother Liu?" ”
"Look, let's 。。。。。。 like this" Liu Lang said confidently.
After Liu Lang finished talking about his plan, Zhang Yan's face also changed several times in a row, and finally looked at Liu Lang with a smile.
It turned out that what Liu Lang meant was that if you don't want to give soldiers, you can borrow soldiers. Zhang Yan's new 61st Brigade sent a total of 770 senior soldiers, non-commissioned officers, and second lieutenants, with an average of 70 people per county, to set up a teaching team in each county's security regiment. To put it bluntly, it is a recruit training camp, temporarily serving as a squad platoon leader and serving as a military training instructor. After half a year, these officers will return to the 61st Brigade and then send another 770 officers over, and the entire training cycle will last for two years or one and a half years.
As the commissioner of the 14th Administrative Supervision District, Liu Lang is responsible for raising travel allowances for these "business trip" personnel of the 61st Brigade who serve as instructors. At first glance, this sounds like a good thing for both parties. The 61st Brigade was equipped with a battalion, and the personnel who went to participate in the training were able to earn additional training allowances while leading the salaries, and the security regiment also received the military instructors they needed.
But as Zhang Yan, who was once able to mix with the head of an army, he was also a person with a bright brain, and finally came back to his senses in the end. After a long time, borrowing soldiers is the real purpose of Liu Tuanzuo! At the beginning, the lion opened his mouth to make it difficult for him, just to lay the groundwork for borrowing troops, he had already refused once before, such a "little" request to you, General Zhang, is not good to refuse again!
Of course, Liu Lang's most absolute thing is not that he blatantly "tricked" Zhang Yan into borrowing troops, but the role of the teaching team he established. Use his Zhang Yan's soldiers to train the security regiment, and rotate it every six months, so you don't have to worry about these grassroots officers controlling the military power of the security regiment, three rounds of training, the officers and non-commissioned officers sent out by Zhang Yan's department are always just instructors in the eyes of the soldiers of the security regiment, and they cannot become commanders, and the military power of the security regiment is always firmly in the hands of the military chief officers sent out by Liu Lang.
However, Zhang Yan was not annoyed by Liu Lang guarding him like this, in his opinion, this was the way for a military commander to lead a domain to open. 11,000 military power, if it is handed over to others so stupidly, then whether a friend like Liu Lang is worth handing over in the future Zhang Yan really has to think carefully. "If you are not afraid of god-like opponents, you are afraid of pig-like teammates" is not only the patent of future people, from ancient times to the present, generals on the battlefield are most concerned about this.
Otherwise, before the generals go to war, they must know who their friendly commander is? Those who are a little stupid, the friendly forces will involuntarily stay away from him, so as not to be implicated.
Liu Lang knew that Zhang Yan would find out his "careful eye", but he was not taboo, because this was enough for the Republic of China, if he was too selfless and treated everyone as a brother, it would be stupid in the eyes of others.
"Captain Liu, what if I still refuse? What would you do? Zhang Yan looked at Liu Lang with a smile and said.
"No, you won't refuse." Liu Lang shook his head very firmly, "You know, I trained the security regiment like this, not for my Liu Lang's selfish interests to expand my troops and occupy any territory, but to deal with the upcoming Japanese." ”
"Are you so sure that I will also go out of Sichuan to fight against the Japanese invaders?" Zhang Yan's eyes suddenly became extremely hot.
Why did his 19th Route Army rise up in Fujian? Isn't it precisely the hope that the Chinese nation can unite with the outside world? Liu Lang's words can be regarded as hitting the hidden pain in Zhang Yan's heart, Sichuan, which is located in the hinterland of China, will send troops, can it be said that China still has the possibility of unanimity with the outside world?
"The Great War is about to start, and all the places of China are battlefields, but all the people of China are soldiers." A trace of coldness flashed in Liu Lang's eyes, and he replied resolutely.
Zhang Yan's eyes were blazing and he stared at Liu Lang without speaking, and Liu Lang looked at each other fearlessly.
There was a moment of silence.
"It's a soldier for all the people, just for this sentence, I borrowed this soldier." Zhang Yan's face showed joy, and he suddenly stretched out his right hand towards Liu Lang.
Not a military salute, but a handshake, is the most trusting sign among like-minded people in this era.
When the hands of the two pairs of men were clasped together, Liu Lang knew that the man in front of him, who had finally let down his guard, would become his most reliable comrade-in-arms on the battlefield in the future.
Because their big goals are aligned.
Borrowing 770 veterans from the newly formed 61st Brigade, Liu Lang's independent regiment also quickly made adjustments, with nine infantry companies in the regiment plus two companies of the artillery battalion, each company with a lieutenant and a company deputy to serve as the commander of the other 11 county security regiments, and six second lieutenants and platoon deputies from each company to serve as the battalion company commander in the security regiment. In order to ensure the safety of these officers, who served as commanders of the security regiment, each company assigned a full combat squad to serve as a guard for the security regiment and also served as a training instructor for recruits.
However, unlike those who were transferred to the security regiment and the garrison battalion, the officers and soldiers who went to the security regiment still held their military positions, and the vacancies were retained. Moreover, Liu Lang, the military rank in the security regiment, also skillfully used the prevalent rank in the national army, that is to say, the rank of the head of the security regiment is major, so this lieutenant will receive the rank of major, but when he leaves the security regiment and returns to the independent regiment to report, he is still a lieutenant. Major is his rank of duty, and lieutenant is his actual military rank.
At the same time, their task is not only to train the soldiers of the security regiment, but also to find outstanding talents from them and send them to the independent regiment base for training and then return to serve as their deputies.
The 70 veterans of the newly formed 61st Brigade in each county set up a recruit training team, and these veterans served as grassroots squad and platoon leaders to conduct regular army training for 1,000 young and strong men selected from various counties.
In other words, Liu Lang did not want to build these 11 security regiments into 11 regiments of combat troops, but to build them into 11 supplementary regiments, from which new recruits could be drawn to supplement the independent regiment or security regiment or garrison battalion at any time.
Moreover, what Liu Lang will do next is more than that.
All the people are soldiers, but it is not empty talk, Liu Lang wants to turn him into reality, at least in northern Sichuan.
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