"You are all soldiers, and from the moment you put on your military uniform and eat this bowl of rice, you are destined to be associated with war. I want you to make a choice now, you have to listen carefully to what I say, I want to rebuild the second company in Macheng, this is an order from the 88th Division, so I hope you can stay and help me, I will select a company among you with three platoon commanders and nine squad leaders, and the rest will also be promoted to non-commissioned officers, I want you to make a choice now, stay or leave. ”

Among all 24 people, only nine catties and Liu Shishi were missing, Niu Laogui and the 22 of them were concentrated in the hall of cyclamen by Tang Cheng, and Tang Cheng's multiple choice questions were obviously not so difficult to choose, starting from Niu Laogui, the 22 people in the hall all chose to stay in Macheng. In Tang Cheng's expectations, it would be very good to be able to leave half of the more than 20 people he recruited, but he didn't expect that all 22 people chose to stay and enter the second company, which made Tang Cheng a little overjoyed.

Changed the number to be reorganized by the troops, and then was defeated by the Japanese army and became a rout, and then continued to look for the next unit willing to contain themselves and wait to be reorganized, this is the life of the rout. When the rout is not their own subjective choice, being chased around by little devils is not everyone will be at ease, Niu Laogui There are not a few people like them who are eager to fight with the Japanese army, they just lack a commander who can lead them to fight a tough battle with the Japanese army.

"Since everyone is willing to stay and help me, I won't say anything superfluous, now let's talk about what we need to do next." Tang Cheng looked around at the 22 people in front of him, and then opened the diary in front of him, "The weapons and equipment detained by the garrison regiment before have been stored in Cyclamen, and now Sun Liansheng's people have all been driven out of Macheng, and it says that these weapons and equipment do not need to be returned to Sun Liansheng, it can be regarded as the 88th Division's materials to support the reconstruction of our second company, and the military uniforms and steel helmets we lack, the 88th Division will send people to Macheng later." ”

When the garrison regiment detained Sun Lianshenglian's weapons and equipment, Niu Laogui and several of them also made a move, and they were able to collect the weapons and equipment of a national army company, and Niu Laogui and them were overjoyed. The 88th Division promised to hand over these weapons and equipment to the second company for equipment, which was a good thing, but the problem arose, the second company now only has 23 of them, but those weapons are enough to equip 130 people, and they actually can't give full play to those weapons because they don't have enough manpower.

"The commander of the garrison regiment, Huang, has been confirmed to be transferred to Wuhan, and the commander of the Macheng garrison regiment may be Sun Liansheng to take over, so we must try to select the manpower we need from the existing soldiers of the garrison regiment before the new commander of the garrison regiment arrives." Tang Cheng's words made Niu Laogui and them show a meaningful smile on their faces, and selected the manpower needed by the second company from the garrison regiment, which means that Tang Cheng wants to completely turn the garrison regiment into a local militia group, without those veterans who are favored by them, the most reluctant end of the Macheng garrison regiment is a third-rate militia that can only guard the city gate.

"When the garrison regiment was reorganized, you all went to help, you should know how much about the soldiers in the garrison regiment, I want you to recruit 120 people for the second company within two days, and Huang San will cooperate with you." Tang Cheng had carefully discussed the matter of pulling people from the garrison regiment, with the support of the 88th Division, Huang Hanju didn't care about embarrassing Sun Liansheng, anyway, that kid didn't know what the 500 soldiers of the Ludao Garrison Regiment looked like.

"Old Northeast, give you a task, you know that there are many people in the city, from now on, I want you to take the Huang family's family team to capture those routs, beggars and single homeless people who stay in Macheng and the surrounding areas, and then take them to the military camp of the garrison regiment and hand them over to Steward Huang. I don't care how old they are, as long as they can still handle rifles, we need to make sure that the garrison doesn't fall below 500 men while the second company is rebuilt. "For the rectification of Sun Liansheng, Tang Cheng didn't plan to go too far, he and Sun Liansheng's personal grievances have time to be resolved, and before the second company is really rebuilt, Tang Cheng doesn't want to cause too much trouble.

Stealing beams and changing pillars, this is Madam Huang's idea, to capture the defeated soldiers, beggars and those idle people in the city and around Macheng to fill the number of the garrison, so that Tang Cheng can take those soldiers who are optimistic about Lu in his pocket, and without Sun Liansheng's knowledge, Tang Cheng can recruit enough soldiers to rebuild the second company. The establishment of 140 people is not much, compared with the original infantry company of 180 people in the four platoons of the 88th Division, the second company in the Tangcheng plan can only be regarded as an ordinary scale.

Tang Cheng can fight and has fought battles that others have not fought, but he knows that his command ability is not good enough, just like Liu Shanyang said, Tang Cheng can be a platoon commander at most now. When Mengcheng Beishan intercepted the group of Japanese soldiers, Tang Cheng had already understood the lack of his ability, if it weren't for that, when they encountered Japanese trucks on the road, Zhang Zhan and they would not choose to stand idly by.

Tang Cheng wanted to change himself, for Liu Goat, and for the soldiers who died in Nanjing City in the second company. In Tang Cheng's cognition, the second company is different from other national army units, such a force that dares to fight a tough battle with the Japanese army should not disappear, and he has the obligation to help the second company continue. In order to rebuild the second company, Tang Cheng had to choose to avoid Sun Liansheng when facing him, otherwise with his American passport, he could kill Sun Liansheng ten times. Now that the opportunity has come, Tang Cheng's rebuilding of the second company is about to become a fact, and maybe he will finally be able to sleep well tonight.

From the night of the return of cyclamen from Tangcheng, Lao Dongbei and Niu Lao Gui took over the defense of Macheng from Huang San with the soldiers drawn from the garrison regiment, and before many people knew it, the barracks of the garrison regiment were already crowded with defeated soldiers, homeless people and beggars who had been captured by Lao Dongbei. When the people of Macheng repeated their lives and stepped out of their homes the next day, they suddenly found that there were many fewer homeless people and defeated soldiers in the county, and even fewer beggars on the streets.

"There are already 70 people, and now we are still 50 people short of enough, and we will work harder to try to catch the remaining 50 people today." Tang Cheng, who was standing in front of the window, looked out through the window, and on the playground of the barracks, those guys who had been grabbed by the barracks last night were clearing the weeds on the playground under the leadership of the veterans, and the brand-new homemade military uniforms were wearing on their bodies, making some of them look very funny. Of course, Tang Cheng wouldn't really laugh, because he knew that those were all beggars and homeless people in the city, and he couldn't expect these people to become soldiers like Niu Laogui and them when they put on military uniforms.

"Shoot these people in the afternoon, at least when Sun Liansheng sees them, these people must have the appearance of soldiers." After telling Niu Laogui, Tang Cheng focused his attention on Liu Shishi, not only Liu Shishi was in the command post of the garrison regiment, but even the nine catties who had just been able to walk on the ground were also here. "The doctor said that you can't move vigorously yet, and when you recover from your injuries, it's up to you to ride a horse or fight, but now is not the time." Throwing Jiujin a cigarette, Tang Cheng pulled a chair and sat down opposite Jiujin, of course Liu Shishi had no qualifications to sit down, and he could only stand aside if he did something wrong.

Jiujin took the cigarette and lit it with Tang Cheng's match, and then looked at Tang Cheng without saying a word, Liu Shishi was also squeezing his eyebrows and making small movements beside him, which made Tang Cheng, who was smoking a cigarette, laugh secretly in his heart. "I know what you are here for, but no matter how much you say, it is useless, Wuhan, you must go. Don't forget our medicines and gold bars, do you want to take those things with me to stay in Macheng and be killed by the Japanese army, that is our most retreat, if you don't hand it over to your own people, I don't worry. ”

Before I met Tang Cheng, he was just a countryman who could only farm, herd cattle and drive carts, and even after the villagers in the entire village died in the hands of the Japanese, he would only go around the village looking for possible Japanese soldiers to avenge the villagers. got acquainted with Tang Cheng, went to Nanjing, saw the cruelty of the battlefield and the tragedy of the war, and he also wanted to kill more Japanese soldiers like Tang Cheng, but he knew the gap between himself and Tang Cheng.

Being injured in the middle was the one thing that Jiu Jin regretted the most, and he was not afraid that Tang Cheng would leave her halfway, because he knew that Tang Cheng would not do that. He was just worried that he would no longer be able to follow Tang Cheng to kill those Japanese soldiers, and his injuries were getting better day by day, Jiujin's heart was full of excitement, because he could follow Tang Cheng to kill Japanese soldiers again, but what he didn't expect was that Tang Cheng arranged for him and Liu Shi to follow the Huang family's people to Wuhan, which made Jiujin feel like he had been abandoned as an object.

But the three words of his own people in Tang Cheng's words made Jiujin no longer uncomfortable, he knew that Tang Cheng only cared about two things, guns and money, without guns, he would be bullied by others, and without money, there was no way to live well. It was difficult for Jiujin to understand this, but he knew that Tang Cheng gave him those medicines and gold bars, which was his trust in himself, and he really regarded himself as his own person who could entrust everything. "The Huang family will arrange everything, you just need to follow, and the medicines will also be handed over to the Huang family, and the money obtained will be arranged by Mrs. Huang, and you must supervise the whereabouts of the money."

"The Huang family will go to Chongqing to see Chief Xie, you are all people who have seen Uncle Liu, Chief Xie asks about the Second Company, you have to tell him everything, tell him that I am rebuilding the Second Company." Tang Cheng handed the original roster of the second company to Liu Shishi, "This thing is more important than my life, you have to promise to put it in the hands of Chief Xie, no matter what Chief Xie says, you must obey." ”