Chapter 41: No One Wants to Carry a Gun
Huang Haoran couldn't accept that the team of men in front of him, who were yellow and thin, who had no clothes to cover their bodies, and were tied up with iron chains and thick hemp ropes, were actually the strong men who had just been sent to the Yibin Garrison Headquarters by the Yibin Division Management District today!
Zhuangding, as the name suggests, at least if it is young and strong, right? He just glanced at it casually, and he already found that there were many fourteen or fifteen-year-old children in the team, and uncles about forty years old. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć The gold-toothed squire boasted in front of the receiving officers at the Yibin Training Office, saying how they had worked so hard to send "such outstanding" soldiers to the Yibin Garrison Command.
"Sir, look at the size of these strong men, and look at this body... Pick the best of them all! In the end, it is the ace army, before we came out, there were thousands of instructions from above, and the strong men sent to Yibin must not have problems, otherwise, how can this group of wooden pimples have such a good treatment...... It's dead...... Don't believe your points! That's 127 people! Along the way, we didn't feed less food~ hundreds of miles away, and we fell behind 23 ......! ā
A trip to Sichuan Province, 150 people at the time of departure, 125 half-dead spirits when they arrived, with a loss rate of more than 15%! Such a work achievement can still boast of face. One can imagine how bad the conscription work is elsewhere!
Needless to ask, the 23 people who were left behind either fled, fell ill, or died. These so-called troops who send strong men are actually military police escorting prisoners. Since the vast majority of strong men are forcibly drafted, the flight rate on the way is extremely high. Therefore, the soldiers of the Songzhuang army were all bayonets unsheathed and bullets loaded, as if they were facing a great enemy, guarding the front and rear of the ranks, staring at each other along the way.
What surprised Huang Haoran even more was that the officers of the training department under him actually patted the other party's shoulder happily, and he did not hesitate to praise the big gold tooth in his mouth.
"Lao Li, do a good job! As long as I do this again this month, I will definitely tell you the county magistrate and let you be promoted to the next level...... Come on, the brothers in the division have worked hard for us to recruit soldiers, send them to the barracks, eat and drink well, and then receive the money according to the head! ā
"Thank you, sir, for your kindness! Look, next time I'm not going to send you ...... over thirty."
After the flattering big golden tooth and the officers and soldiers escorting the strong men left, Huang Haoran beckoned to the major officer of the training office who had just spoken to them. After arriving in Yibin, it was the first time he inquired about the conscription. I only knew that the training office was very fast, but I didn't expect it to be in this way.
"How? Such a strong man dares to accept it? According to the standards of our 25th Group Army, only thirty or forty of these more than 100 people can pass at most, and if you dare to engage in indiscriminate behavior in the training department, Lao Tzu will kill you! ā
The recruit battalion is the foundation of the 25th Army, which plays an extremely important role in replenishing the losses of soldiers and promoting the construction of the armed forces. If problems begin to arise from this link, the combat effectiveness of the 25th Army cannot be guaranteed at all. If you want to bargain with the Japanese army, it will be even more difficult to reach the sky.
"Report to the general seat, we really can't help it. According to the latest order of the Ministry of Military Affairs, after the implementation of the new conscription method in Sichuan, we no longer have the right to directly conscript, and this work is carried out by the divisional districts in each county. We can only ask for what they send, but the commander can rest assured that our training department has never relaxed its requirements for the quality of recruits. Take the 127 people today, only those who pass the physical fitness test will be assigned to the new barracks, and the rest will be transferred to civilian labor and do some labor......"
The young major's explanation did not satisfy Huang Haoran, he pointed to the pile of strong men in the distance and asked, "Physical fitness test?" Just these people who can't stand? I don't believe that one of them could pass the recruit test of our 25th Army today! You'd better tell the truth while I'm not in a bad mood......"
"It is impossible to carry out the test today, these strong men have been on the road for more than ten days, although the division is in charge of the district, but the officials said that they have food, but it should only be to ensure that they will not die of hunger. They had to rest and drink rice porridge for two days, and then feed them with our food for a few days before they could take the recruit test. In fact, compared with the previous batches, the quality of this batch of strong men is still good, at least there are no old, weak, sick or disabled. We don't lose ...... money we spend."
The major officer, who was familiar with the doorways of the conscription, tried to comfort his commander, but failed to have the effect he wanted. The stalls of the troops are getting bigger and bigger, people are eating and eating horses and eating and buying equipment, and the books of the logistics department are flowing gold and silver every day, and the holes are getting bigger and bigger. Because of this incident, white hair appeared on Wang Huanzhi's head. Seeing that the cost of conscription was spent so inefficiently, Huang Haoran felt distressed~
"Do you mean the yellow rice of conscription? If I'm not mistaken, you paid for 150 heads at the time of departure. And the actual number of strong men who can reach the standard will never exceed fifty. It took three people to recruit a new recruit. If your account is seen by Wang Huanzhi, he will have to shed tears in distress......"
What about 3:1? Boss, what I just gave out was a reward in addition to the conscription fee. If this is not the case, I am afraid that less than one of the strong men sent over can meet the standards of our army's recruits! Don't you see that at the beginning, eleven or twelve-year-old children and old men in their fifties dared to use it to make up the numbers! The conscripted yellow rice has long been issued to the division management area by the Ministry of Military Affairs, as long as the number of people is enough when departure, the division management area will allocate the same amount to the locality, and after receiving the money, where will the local government buy it again? At first, we didn't know the rules, thinking that the Sichuan people bullied us from outside, and we retreated two or three times, but after that, even the old man and the child refused to send it~ Fortunately, the change was fast later, and we found powerful people in Sichuan to help, so we found the doorway, and guaranteed the conscription work with a high reward in private. The specific amount, per head, our bid is three times that given by the Ministry of Military Affairs......"
Obviously, it is a strong man who should be sent by the Ministry of Military Affairs on time and quality, but he has to spend a lot of money to buy it! Such a bastard thing has become a well-known fact. Huang Haoran felt a pain in his temples.
It is true that during the Anti-Japanese War, China was still a traditional agricultural country, and peasants were the main body of the population. But who would have thought that at the juncture of the Japanese invasion and the survival of the country and the nation, the conscription work in China would be so difficult!
As long as the Chinese people still have a bite to eat, they will choose to be patient. Under the influence of the lack of national consciousness and the indifference of national consciousness, as well as the traditional culture of good men not soldiers, the peasants actually chose to preserve themselves in the face of the choice of the state and their own families, and resisted the wartime conscription system by evading and fleeing.
However, the people are the foundation of victory, and without the extensive mobilization and participation of the people, it is simply inconceivable that the War of Resistance against Japan would be carried out and maintained, and even that victory would be achieved in the end.
The damned Manchu Qing Dynasty, the damned foolish policy, cultivated a group of obedient people. Now that the little devils have come to the door, they still choose to bury their heads in the soil and just live their own lives...... (To be continued.) )