Chapter 59: Replenishing Troops
Ask for tickets early in the morning, and if you have a ticket, smash it!
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Zhang Chi on the other side didn't know what happened in the headquarters of the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army, he was still waiting anxiously in the jungle, thinking in his heart: What if Ding Lun didn't get the news on? What if the Volunteers didn't believe in Ding Lun as a traitor? Or maybe this information didn't attract the attention of the Japanese army?!
If this is the case, then the equipment of the engineer regiment is gone, it is still a trivial matter, and the expeditionary force will still be kept in the dark because of the British blockade news, as in history, and will not begin to retreat until two days later, then it will fall into total passivity.
You know, it's not two minutes or two hours, it's two days. Two days is enough for an army to draw up another set of plans and organize defenses.
"Report!" At this time, two soldiers carrying Hanyang on their backs stood in front of Zhang Chi and saluted:
"Liu Da came to report!"
"Liu Xiao came to report!"
"Yo drink!" Before Zhang Chi could speak, the hooligans shouted at them from the side: "Twins! ”
Zhang Chi took a closer look, they were really twins who looked exactly the same, no wonder the names were similar.
The fellow villagers smiled on the side: "Liu Da, Liu Xiao...... It's a lot of trouble to come up with that name! ”
"It's better to call it a big cow or a small cow!" Xiao Zhejiang quipped.
The warriors also laughed, and the two brothers fell into the nicknames "Big Cow" and "Little Calf".
After asking clearly, Zhang Chi knew that this was a supplementary soldier...... Most troops will bring a few new regiments with them when they go to war, and these recruits have only undergone some simple military training, and they are not used to fight, but are used as a supplementary source for other troops, especially those who are fighting abroad like the expeditionary force, and when the combat unit is killed or wounded, it is impossible to replenish the troops locally, and this is when the recruit regiment comes in handy.
Zhang Chi's platoon was only replenished by two because of its low casualties, and the other platoons were replenished with more than 20 platoons because of heavy casualties during the attack on Yongkegang Airport.
But that's not in the way, because the backbone is all veterans, and those veterans will soon take the recruits to learn the necessary survival skills on the battlefield and make a difference.
Although they are twins, Da Niu is obviously old and capable, he handed Zhang Chi a pack of cigarettes as soon as he came up, and then stuffed a small bag of things into Zhang Chi's dry food bag without paying attention, and said: "Platoon leader, this is the chestnuts from my hometown, taste the taste, and ...... later." Take care of it! ”
Zhang Chi smiled, took out the chestnut and shook it at the soldiers: "Brothers, the big cow and the little cow have brought good things to everyone, let's divide it!" ”
With a "coax", the soldiers rushed up, and you and I quickly snatched them up, only to see the embarrassment on the face of the big cow.
Zhang Chi also picked up a chestnut and bit it open in his mouth, chewing the kernel while saying: "It tastes good, I don't dare to take care of it, no one can take care of this matter, and it is the most important thing to follow the brothers to learn how to fight devils, understand?" ”
"Yes, understood!" The big cow and the little cow replied in unison.
Looking at the big cow and calf leaving, Zhang Chi couldn't help but feel a little funny, how could he suddenly look like a veteran, and even speak in a tone of teaching.
But then again, I have experienced those few tears in Tonggu and felt the baptism of blood and fire, so even if you are not a veteran, you can take off the hat of a recruit.
And not to mention, there is really a difference between the soldiers who have fought and those who have not, for example, this big cow and calf stand among the soldiers, and they always feel that they are a little timid and can be picked out at a glance.
"Brother!" The little cow secretly pulled the corner of the big cow's clothes and asked in a low voice, "Look at their guns, why are they different from ours?" ”
"Don't you see blood all over their uniforms?" Da Niu turned around and whispered: "That gun should have been taken from the Japanese devils!" ”
"It's a British's gun!" The hooligan raised his gun and patted it, and asked the two brothers in some disbelief: "You don't even know what gun the Japanese devil uses?" ”
"This ......" Da Niu replied with some embarrassment: "We are all farming, how do you know what gun the devil uses!" ”
After a pause, he felt that something was wrong, so he asked the hooligan: "Sir, aren't the British from our side?" Why did they confiscate their guns? ”
"You don't know that, do you?" Xiao Zhejiang replied: "The British let the Japanese devils hand over the guns, and the Japanese devils let us hand over the guns!" ”
"Oh, oh......" Da Niu nodded.
The little cow asked curiously, "Then, you have killed a lot of devils!" ”
"Is that not it?" Xiao Zhejiang raised his head: "There are hundreds of devils who died in our hands!" ”
Xiao Zhejiang, this is not bragging, not counting the devils killed in the battle of Sedanghe, and hundreds of devils died in the hands of the third row in the battle of the tile iron bridge.
"Few, hundreds of devils......" The calf swallowed with difficulty.
"Sir!" Da Niu took the Hanyang in his hand and asked, "Then let's shoot...... Isn't it time for a change? ”
The soldiers were silent for a long time before the hooligans replied: "Don't be in a hurry to change your guns, maybe we will have to change them back!" ”
"Why do you want to change back ......" Xiao Niu was just halfway through his question, and he was glared at by Da Niu and held back.
There was silence all around, except for the sound of the old squad leader smoking a dry cigarette.
Of course, Zhang Chi can understand the mood of the soldiers, and there is a saying that "it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift". At this time, the psychology of the soldiers is similar to the meaning of this statement, before the engineer regiment used two generations of Hanyang, when the Enfield and armored vehicles were used, the joy in the heart is self-evident.
But now, after using these equipment and letting them exchange it back to Hanyang-made, the psychological and morale blow to the soldiers will be fatal, and the soldiers will always miss the feeling of having Enfield and despise and dislike Hanyang-made.
If a soldier is disgusted with the gun in his hand, does he still have the confidence to go into battle? Do you still have the confidence to go to war? Is there still faith to survive on the battlefield?
The answer is clearly no.
But some things seem to be unchangeable, or it can also be said that Zhang Chi and other small soldiers can't change, so they can only wait quietly.
At this moment, there was the sound of car motors in the direction of the road, and then a row of more than a dozen cars drove out of the bend and stopped at the edge of the jungle, and from the cars jumped out of the cars were groups of heavily armed British and Burmese soldiers.
"It's coming!" The hooligans sighed, those Anglo-Burmese troops had apparently come to receive the equipment.