Chapter 62: A Guest Arrives
Following Wangzhuang's spear meeting, Tang Cheng was sent by Liu Goat to continue to clear out other bandits and bandits on the ground in Mengcheng, and for half a month, Tang Cheng spent the whole month with the 1st Company in a busy situation. After more than a dozen battles large and small, Tang Cheng's tactics in Xie Bo's notebook became more and more pure, and the cooperation with his soldiers became more and more tacit, which also made Liu Goat, who had been paying attention to him, finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Tang Cheng's military rank is only second lieutenant, according to the establishment of the national army and the allocation of officers, he can't command a company, but Liu Goat's subordinates are unavailable, and he doesn't want to reuse the people who Ge Kunshan and Li Linge have placed in the garrison regiment, so Tang Cheng, who is only 19 years old, can only take the position of company commander first, but fortunately, the current Tang Cheng has worked hard to make Liu Goat quite satisfied. "Uncle Liu, what are we doing in the 1st Company today?" After breakfast, Tang Cheng, who was carrying two guns, entered Liu Goat's command post.
Since the Spear Clearance Society, Tang Cheng has become accustomed to coming to Liu Goat to receive each mission, and the current garrison regiment has expanded to 5 companies with 800 people. The garrison regiment of the five companies each commanded a company of 150 people except for the people installed by Ge Kunshan and Li Linge, and the remaining 500 people were all in the hands of Liu Shanyang and Tang Cheng, and among the five companies, only Tang Cheng's 1st company had the most veterans. Tang Cheng, who was quite competitive, had always wanted to train his 1st Company to be the strongest fighting company in the garrison regiment, so he was the child company commander who came to Liu Goat's command post to receive the task the most.
After the meal, Liu Goat was smoking in his command post, Tang Cheng's arrival made him a little confused, the 1st Company's clean-up operation that lasted for half a month has made the bandits and bandits around Mengcheng almost disappear or go to other places, and now Liu Goat can't think of any other bandits and bandits who can be used to practice Tang Cheng. "Didn't County Magistrate Ge send another batch of bullets yesterday, or your 1st Company will go outside the city to train by yourself today." Liu Goat, who was holding a cigarette in his hand, just wanted to send this little ancestor away quickly, and as for what Tang Cheng was going to do with 1 company, he didn't want to pay attention to it.
The continuation of the anti-bandit operation brought a large number of troops and money to the garrison regiment, and long before the anti-bandit operation began, Liu Shanyang had already discussed privately with Ge Kunshan and Li Linge. Some of the money and goods obtained by the bandits will be handed over to the county government, and the rest will be kept for the expenses of the garrison regiment.
Although it was not possible to distribute a weapon to each of the 800 people of the garrison regiment, Liu Goat, who used a large number of bullets to train the garrison regiment, could ensure that the marksmanship of most of the soldiers in the garrison regiment was better than that of those third-rate regular troops, at least the current garrison regiment was much stronger than the original Mengcheng militia regiment. In order to have enough weapons and ammunition to train his soldiers, Liu Goat has been thinking about discussing with Lao Xu these days to exchange the money and goods from the clearing for weapons and ammunition, for which he also specially visited Li Linge, an old fox, hoping to buy weapons and ammunition from other places and return to Mengcheng through the network of the Li family's caravan.
As the time approached May, the uneasiness in Liu Goat's heart became more and more obvious, the Japanese army that had occupied the front line of Nanjing and Bengbu could not always be resigned to the status quo, and those Japanese soldiers who appeared in the bandit den in the north of Mengcheng were the best examples. The cigarette after breakfast every day was just the time for Liu Goat to think alone, and Tang Cheng's intrusion made Liu Goat's thoughts that had been sorted out into a mess of twine, no wonder he wanted to perfunctory Tang Cheng.
It has been eight years since he was acquainted with Liu Goat, how could Tang Cheng not see that Liu Goat was absent-minded at this time, but Tang Cheng had a grudge against him when he went back to Wangzhuang Spear Club, and Tang Cheng was tired of annoying Liu Goat. "Uncle Liu, what about those ammunition, why did you give us 1 company of grenades from 3 boxes to 2 boxes? You also know that in our garrison regiment, those guys from my 1st company threw grenades. Tang Cheng raised his legs and sat down on the table in front of Liu Goat, but was bombarded by Liu Goat with a black face.
"I said that you kid is also a company commander anyway, can you learn to stabilize the point, this is Lao Tzu's desk, take your ass down, believe it or not, Lao Tzu will slap you with a big mouth?" and Tang Cheng are used to laughing and laughing on weekdays, Liu Goat really can't face Tang Cheng with a black face all the time, as soon as the words come out, Liu Goat's black face has already loosened, and Tang Cheng can't stop laughing. "You kid was born to bother me, sooner or later, I will be annoyed by you sooner or later." Liu Goat pushed Tang Cheng off his desk, and then watched with a smile and a smile as Tang Cheng took the pack of cigarettes on his table for himself.
"I knew that those you kid was so virtuous, Lao Tzu shouldn't have dragged you into the second company when he was in Shanghai, and he should have thrown your kid in Shanghai and handed it over to those military commanders, what kind of sin am I doing." Liu Goat pretended to hold his head and moaned in pain, but Tang Cheng, who was sitting opposite, was holding a cigarette as if he was watching a play, which made the anger in Liu Goat's heart even stronger.
What kind of thing did you teach, looking at Tang Cheng, who was sitting opposite him with a cigarette in his mouth, and the cynical Tang Cheng, Liu Goat couldn't help but wail in his heart. Originally, I thought that Tang Cheng, who had experienced the spear club, should grow into a qualified officer that he expected, but he didn't want this kid to become the person he is now like a dog, who the hell should be blamed.
After sitting idle in Liu Goat's command post for a while, Tang Cheng, who had become even a dog, was blasted out of the city by Liu Goat, and Tang Cheng, who did not have to go to the task, had to take the 1st Company out of the city for training as Liu Goat explained. The sky in April had already warmed up, and Tang Cheng on horseback did not tie the collar of his military uniform tightly as usual, but rolled up his sleeves and opened the officer's collar like Liu Goat, coupled with the two shell guns that Tang Cheng was carrying on his body, Tang Cheng on horseback looked like an officer.
After more than a month of busy work, a large area of field outside Mengcheng has been dug into vertical and horizontal ravines by the soldiers trained by the garrison regiment, and no less than two companies of the five companies of the garrison regiment will train here every day, and before the first company of Tangcheng left the city, Liang Dahu, who had been promoted to company commander, had already taken his fifth company to train outside the city for a while. "Brother Tiger, you really want to train them to death." Looking at the soldiers of the 5th Company who were training in the trenches, Tang Cheng on horseback couldn't help but turn around and look at the guys in his company who were already lying on the ground.
"It never hurts to practice more, these people of mine are all recruited from bandits, and they can't compare with those guys in your company." Liang Dahu, who was born in the Bengbu militia, did not mean to be jealous of Tang, but the sourness in his words made Tang Cheng on horseback couldn't help laughing. In terms of treatment and experience, Tang Cheng can't be compared with Liang Dahu, but in terms of fighting, the three Liang Dahu are not Tang Cheng's opponents, not to mention that there is a teacher Liu Goat behind Tang Cheng who is teaching face-to-face.
The garrison regiment's suppression of bandits is not just to steal money from their families, Tang Cheng's other task is to replenish the garrison regiment's troops, and when it is impossible to successfully recruit enough troops, Liu Shanyang hits those captured bandits. The bandits lived a bloody life, and now they have been incorporated into the garrison regiment, but they have changed their place to eat, and those who should have guns or guns should kill or kill, but their targets are no longer ordinary people and traders, but the upcoming Japanese soldiers.
The 5th company, which is completely composed of bandits, naturally can't be compared with the ruffians under Tang Cheng, if it is just a single fight, maybe Liang Dahu's 5th company still has a chance to win, but the war is not an individual act, in terms of overall operations, Tang Cheng's 1 company is enough to defeat Liang Dahu's 5 companies with only one-third of the people. "Brother Tiger, don't say this, look at these guys behind me, I still envy you." Tang Cheng's helplessness made Liang Dahu couldn't help laughing, he knew what Tang Cheng meant, just looking at those guys lying on the ground stretching their waists, Liang Dahu could understand Tang Cheng's helplessness.
Liu Shanyang incorporated most of the deserters and routers in the garrison regiment into Tang Cheng's 1st Company, if Tang Cheng was an older officer, it would be better, but Tang Cheng was just a 19-year-old boy. Even if Tang Cheng followed the regiment commander Liu Goat to fight Shanghai and Nanjing, the soldiers of the 1st Company would not easily obey Tang Cheng's command, if it weren't for the regiment commander Liu Goat behind Tang Cheng to support Tang Cheng, the company commander of the 1st Company might have to be replaced long ago, after all, Tang Cheng's age is a hard injury.
"Assemble, assemble." Perhaps stimulated by Liang Dahu's laughter, Tang Cheng, who jumped down from the big green horse, shouted to assemble, and the guys who were lazily lying on the ground were very reluctant, but they still obeyed Tang's order to get up and gather. After seeing Tang Cheng's performance in suppressing bandits after Wang Zhuang, these soldiers and ruffians who originally looked down on Tang Cheng gradually did not dare to underestimate this little company commander, and the ability to shoot with two guns in one hand was not something that anyone could show, not to mention that Tang Cheng had no fewer scars on his body than any of them.
"We detained a group of men at the Creek Bridge and found short guns and grenades from them, who they said were the vanguard of the Fifth War Zone and stationed in Mong." Before Tang Cheng could speak to his soldiers, three healthy horses galloped over from a distance, and the riders on horseback were the soldiers of the garrison regiment arranged by Liu Goat to guard the checkpoint at Xiaoxi Bridge. "This is a document found from them, we are illiterate, so we will take it back to the regiment commander to see, who knows if those guys are fake by devil soldiers."
Since the discovery of Japanese soldiers in the North Mountain bandit den last time, the two checkpoints set by the militia have been reactivated, and the interrogation of passers-by and refugees has been much stricter. After taking the documents brought back by the three soldiers and opening them, Tang Cheng couldn't help but sigh, these guys with the documents should be the real national army, but this force is not from Xuzhou, but from the 48th Army stationed in the upper reaches of the Huai River.