Chapter 152: Take the initiative to make suggestions
"This person, if you have been living in a state of confusion, you will bring a mountain of gold in front of him, and he will be indifferent. You people are also men who have fought bloody battles with little devils with guns before, and you can't just slump like this, so I discussed it with Captain Ye, and I decided to take you out for a trip to help you get back the lost and forgotten blood. Tang Cheng's opening remarks made the routs in the barracks stiffen, which was not good news.
"You are soldiers, how can a soldier not have weapons, but the 20th Army's own troops also lack weapons, so you have to take your weapons yourself, and go to the Japanese army to get them." Hearing Tang Cheng's words, more than 20 defeated soldiers in the barracks were in an uproar, everyone was reorganized and collapsed together yesterday, why did they say that they were going to fight with the little devil after only one day, this is too damn fast.
"I know that you don't want to go to the battlefield to fight again, some of you even participated in the Wanjialing victory in De'an County a few months ago, I don't want to know how many people the national army died in the Wanjialing victory, I just need to know that the Japanese army suffered nearly 10,000 casualties in the Wanjialing battle." Tang Cheng looked around with a cold face before continuing, "No one wants to die on the battlefield, and I am the same, my company has fought in Shanghai, Nanjing, Mengcheng, Macheng, and Xiaojieling, and every time it has suffered heavy casualties, but the devil soldiers who are enemies with us have also suffered heavy casualties. ”
"If everyone is like you, maybe you don't need to waste so much strength at all, just by surrendering their imperial army can occupy the whole of China, but at that time, congratulations, you can finally hold on to your own lives, but it's a pity that you have all become slaves of the Japanese. Don't believe in the Japanese friendliness, any of you have heard that the master will treat the slaves well, and it is already good not to kill you, so your every qiē is the master's, because you are stupid people who have nothing. ”
Facing these routs who looked like mud, Tang Cheng seemed to vent all the anger he had accumulated for many days, and finally glanced at the 20 or so routs in the barracks, Tang Cheng finally laughed, "It's not that I think you are dirty and lazy, but because my brothers can't mix with a group of girls." As long as my subordinates are men who can fight and dare to fight, I won't want girls like you. ”
After Tang Cheng said this, he rode out of the barracks, ignoring the shouting and scolding that broke out in the barracks in an instant, but Tang Cheng's speed was not too fast, and he wanted to see how many people would chase him out. Things were just as Tang Cheng guessed, Tang Cheng and his party had not really walked out of the barracks, and more than a dozen of the more than 20 defeated soldiers in the barracks who had been half-dead chased them out. "We're not in a hurry to slap you, we just want you to know that we're not, let alone soft, as long as you dare to shoot the little devil, we'll follow you."
Lao Dongbei, who was also riding on horseback, laughed when he heard this, "I also said that you are not stupid, I will tell you, he is a person who has fought many battles, hasn't such a person who became a captain and company commander by virtue of military merits have not killed little devils?" Put your dog's ears up and listen carefully, the little devils that Company Commander Tang has killed are the most among us, and I am afraid that you have not as many as the dozen or so garlic and a bunch of devil soldiers who have been killed. Lao Dongbei's words made the dozen or so defeated soldiers gasp, while Tang Cheng sat on horseback and enjoyed the respect from the eyes of these defeated soldiers.
"Do you really want to keep them? What about the rest? Looking at the backs of the defeated soldiers leaving, the old northeast on horseback suddenly leaned towards Tang Cheng and muttered quietly. The latter did not answer Lao Dongbei directly, but shook his head and did not speak, only these 20 or so defeated soldiers were assigned to his subordinates, and only 14 people were chased out just now, plus Lao Dongbei, they and themselves were only 25 people in total. At this point, there are only enough people to count two squads in front of them, so they go to fight against the Japanese army, even a small squad of the Japanese army can't beat it.
Tang Cheng's words in the barracks just now that he had seen the regiment commander surnamed Ye were naturally false, and it was just a cover to beat those defeated soldiers, but this time, Tang Cheng was going to meet the regiment commander surnamed Ye. The command headquarters of the provisional regiment looked very shabby, and even the town government of Sandu Town couldn't compare, probably because they were not welcomed, and the people who entered and exited the headquarters also looked listless, which made Tang Cheng shake his head very much, how could a spiritless army be pulled to fight against the Japanese army.
"This is the regimental headquarters?" Not to mention Tang Cheng shook his head, even Liu Shishi, who had always been the most improvised, couldn't look at it, Hou San, who was in charge of leading the way, nodded very affirmatively, he came here with Lao Northeast in the morning. Passing through the somewhat dilapidated gate, Tang Cheng and the others went all the way into the courtyard, and the few soldiers they met at the door didn't come to ask Tang Cheng and the others why they came, and waited until Tang Cheng walked to the door of the main house, and a man in military uniform who came out of the house stopped Tang Cheng, because this person was the head of the regiment he was looking for, Ye Xin.
"Yo, isn't this Company Commander Tang, let's talk." Ye Xin was obviously preparing to go out, and when he saw Tang Cheng appear in his command post, he immediately changed his mind and took Tang Cheng into his command room. Among the 580 people in the provisional regiment, the 20 or so of them in Tang Cheng are outstanding, although most of the other defeated soldiers were withdrawn from the front line, but only Tang Cheng and them were holding a water of Japanese-style weapons in their hands.
Although Ye Xin didn't know why Tang Cheng came to his command post, he knew that Tang Cheng would not come to the door without incident, according to Ye Xin's thoughts, Tang Cheng should have something to ask for him, so Ye Xin has been idling about some useless things, he is waiting for Tang Cheng to take the initiative to explain his intentions. Tang Cheng is a guy who has been on the streets since he was a child, and he has seen a lot of dirty things between people, coupled with Liu Goat's teaching, where can he not see what Ye Xin means at this moment, so he simply stopped holding it and directly said his intention.
"Company Commander Tang, aren't you crazy, there are less than 600 people in the provisional regiment, you plan to go halfway, including all the defeated soldiers, if you think your officer is too small, we can discuss, but you can't do this." When he heard Tang Cheng say that he wanted to borrow manpower, Ye Xin didn't care very much, but when he heard that Tang Cheng needed 300 people, including all the defeated troops in the provisional regiment, Ye Xin was shocked, and he almost jumped up immediately.
"I know, I know all this, you sit down first, sit down and wait until you have heard all my words before making a judgment." Tang Cheng took out a cigarette and handed it to Ye Xin, and motioned for the other party to sit down and talk. "I know that there are less than 600 people in the provisional group, but don't forget, less than 200 of these 600 people have weapons, and if you think that those broadswords and spears can also be considered weapons, well, I admit that 80% of the people in the provisional group already have weapons."
Tang Cheng's words made Ye Xin, who stretched out his hand to take the cigarette, involuntarily sit down, not to mention the temporary formation, even the soldiers of the 20th Army themselves lacked weapons and ammunition. "Maybe you don't know that we withdrew from the north side of the Yangtze River, and when we passed by the Fushui River, we also helped a unit of the 30th Group Army of your Sichuan Army cross the river to fight the Japanese army.
Ye Xin's ears couldn't help but stand up, Tang Cheng took people to help Zhang Leshan cross the Fushui River to fight devils, he was also one of the insiders, and the reason why Tang Cheng and them were also included in the temporary group was mainly for this point. "You give me the manpower I need, I will take them to fight with the Japanese army, and the captured weapons and ammunition will be used to equip the temporary regiment, and when the Japanese army is really close to Xiushui, if you say no, everyone in your temporary regiment will already have guns and bullets."
March is the spring rainy season in the south, and now it is January, and there is not much time left for Tang Cheng, he doesn't want to lie in the muddy water and brave the rain to snatch weapons from the Japanese army, that would be too miserable. "Company Commander Tang, I have to say that your idea is very bold, but you must know that although I am the commander of the provisional regiment, I also have to listen to the above. So I know about this, but I need to think about it, you go back and wait for my news first, and I'll let someone inform you later. Ye Xin didn't dare to agree to Tang Cheng immediately, although this was what he was expecting.
"Big brother, what do you think of this Tang City? Should I promise him? Sending Tang Cheng away, Ye Xin rode to Zhajin Town with a roar, and told his brother exactly what Tang Cheng said to him just now. If Tang Cheng was here, he would definitely recognize Ye Xin's brother as the Sichuan Army colonel who came to the inn that day, of course, Tang Cheng didn't know that this Sichuan Army colonel was named Ye Chuang, who was Ye Xin's brother.
Seeing that his younger brother was so breathless, Ye Chuang couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, "I told you not to listen to Huang Fatzi, I just said that I should beware of this Tang City, but I didn't say that I only let him be a small company commander." If you give him the position of battalion commander, then you don't have to worry about this now, he is the battalion commander, and he is naturally responsible for the soldiers under him. The thing is done, this is your credit, if the matter is on a business trip, killing him, the battalion commander, will not be over. ”
"So what do I do now?"
"Promise him, but before that, you first find a reason to take down a battalion commander and make Tang Cheng your battalion commander, so that he is qualified enough to command 300 people. No matter how things go, this will be Tang Cheng's own initiative, good things are good for you, and things are bad for Tang Cheng. ”