But fortunately, most of the officers in the **** army are equipped with adjutants, and the responsibility of these adjutants is to deal with work like documents and materials, so Zhang Chi completely threw these miscellaneous things to them to deal with.

But there are some things that Zhang Chi must understand, such as the several company commanders under him, what are the characteristics of each, and so on...... Otherwise, once a war starts, it will not even be a joke if you don't even know how much equipment and how many troops you have.

These don't need to be understood, because Zhang Chi had fought with these friendly units when he was a company commander, so he knew it for a long time.

Of course, some of these company commanders were newcomers...... As I said before, the new division sacrificed a total of more than 50 company commanders in the first battle of Lingbang, and almost every company commander sacrificed twice, so most of the company commanders under Zhang Chi were promoted by deputy company commanders or even platoon commanders.

Zhang Chi casually flipped through the information of these company commanders:

Needless to say, the first company commander and fellow villagers, the comrades-in-arms who followed him all the way, Zhang Chi knew him well.

The second company commander was a Fujianese named Li Changshou, perhaps because of the word "Changshou" in his name, so his subordinates gave him the nickname "Young Marshal...... In fact, this "young marshal" is not handsome at all, on the contrary, there is a terrifying scar on his face, and the flesh inside rolls out like a reptile.

That scar was left by him on the first battlefield in Burma, when the little devil who rushed into the trench stabbed him in the neck with a bayonet, and Li Changshou, who had no way out, chose to rush forward...... It turned out that his choice was right, instead of retreating, he made the devil's bayonet deviate from his neck and only scratch a scar on his face, and at the same time, Li Changshu also choked the devil's neck until he died.

Because he knew that Li Changshu had this experience, Zhang Chi felt that he should be a person who was in a hurry, otherwise he would have been eliminated by the cruel war.

Wu Xiaodong, the commander of the third company, is not a new company commander, he, like Zhang Chi, is one of the few company commanders who survived the first battle of Lingbang.

Of course, this is not because Wu Xiaodong is lucky, but because Wu Xiaodong is relatively short...... At this time, most of the Chinese soldiers were not tall. This is mainly due to the general malnutrition caused by the shortage of supplies in the country.

Zhang Chi didn't know much about the extent of the shortage of materials, because he hadn't been back until now.

But......

Zhang Chi once asked what was going on with those reinforcements, and the answer was: "There is a shortage of everything in the country, and there is also a shortage of clothes and military uniforms, and the commander knows that we will have Yankees military uniforms when we come here, so let us all leave our military uniforms!" ”

These words almost choked Zhang Chi, even if those clothes and military uniforms were left, they would not be worn for long, but the Kuomintang officers still wanted to leave them behind and let the supplementary soldiers go abroad naked and without dignity.

This not only shows that the **** officers have exploited the soldiers to an outrageous level, but also reflects the extreme shortage of domestic materials from another side...... If it weren't for the shortage of supplies. Who cares about those torn uniforms?!

Wu Xiaodong is an orphan who never knows who his parents are, and he has been begging for a living since he was a child, so he is half a head shorter than the average person, but the deputy company commander is a tall man, and in the past few months of Sun Babbeng, the deputy company commander has eaten a lot of oily and fat face, so when the Japanese sniper saw the two of them standing together, he took it for granted that the deputy company commander was the chief officer, and then knocked the deputy company commander to the ground with a bullet.

Afterwards, when Wu Xiaodong remembered this, he sighed that he owed the deputy company commander a life, and vowed that if he could return to China alive in the future. Be sure to find the family of the deputy company commander to repay them.

As a result, Zhang Chi felt that this beggar-born third company commander should be a good company commander under the individual shirt, because he had a grateful heart.

In addition to these three infantry companies, there was a machine gun company and a mortar platoon under the battalion.

This is something that the **** troops did not have in the past...... it would be good to have a machine gun company under the **** unit battalion. The mortar platoon doesn't have to think about it, this thing belongs to heavy equipment above the regimental level.

HOWEVER, THE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE HAD EIGHT 81 MM AND 12 60 MM MORTARS AT THE BATTALION LEVEL.

This firepower was actually strengthened, because Zhang Chi remembered that when he came out of the Sunbula Beng training camp, the battalion's mortars were only half of this firepower. That is, four 81 guns and six 60 guns, respectively.

This may be because Stilwell thinks that this kind of firepower is not enough in the face of the Japanese army, so he strengthens it, Zhang Chi thinks so.

Later, Zhang Chi realized that he had actually guessed wrong.

Increasing firepower was not Stilwell's original intention, but the appetite for equipment from top to bottom in the Chinese army was great...... China's troops are short of equipment and fearful. It's the same as a hungry or poor person, a hungry person doesn't feel that he has enough to eat, and a poor person doesn't feel enough even if he gets more money.

In the same way, when there is a lot of equipment in front of the Chinese army, which has always been short of equipment, they do everything possible to rub more, and it will never be enough.

However, the Yankees were relatively lenient in terms of equipment, and the equipment of several divisions shipped from the United States had already been in place, but the source of troops from Chongqing had not yet arrived, so the new 1st Division rubbed the equipment of the other division on the grounds that it would strengthen its firepower in the war.

In other words, the artillery fire of the new 1st Division was actually twice as much as originally expected, and the howitzer battalions under the division even tripled to become a howitzer regiment.

To some extent, this kind of "eating" of equipment by the Chinese army is somewhat irrational, because equipment requires logistical support, and more artillery means more shells. However, the Yankees are very strong in terms of logistics, and some of them have artillery shells, so this is not only no problem, but also a good increase in the firepower of the new 1st Division.

Stilwell knew this, too, so instead of stopping the Chinese army from doing so, he was a little proud: he wanted to tell the other Chinese troops that the Yankees were equipped and were not stingy with the troops that could win the battle.

It should be said that Stilwell's trick is very useful, and the Chinese army soon knew Stilwell's unspoken rule: as long as you win the battle on the battlefield, then you don't have to worry about the loss of equipment, not only will it not fight less and less, but will fight more and more, and it will increase exponentially.

This successfully stimulated the combat enthusiasm of the soldiers of the expeditionary force, and at the same time, to a certain extent, changed the soldiers' thinking that equipment is more important than life. (To be continued.) )