Chapter 157: An Unexpected Decision

The Laoyagou ambush came to an end, in this battle, the bloody hand regiment with pure artillery firepower, completely annihilated a fully equipped field brigade of more than 11,000 people, from the brigade commander down, none of them missed the net, the artillery casualties of the bloody hand regiment were 12 people, including 4 killed, 6 mortars were destroyed, 8 infantry casualties, of which 3 were killed, all of them were done by devil snipers, consumed more than 83,000 rounds of various artillery shells, and no capture. )

At such a small price, the brilliant record of the Ninth Brigade of the Devil Annihilation Regiment, it can be said that the results are outstanding, if it was a duel with infantry in the past, the casualties would never be this number, although the artillery shells cost a lot, but this is in line with Tang Qiuli's consistent guiding ideology, I would rather spend an extra 100 shells than exchange the life of a soldier for a little devil.

The special detachment on the periphery, which is responsible for monitoring the movements of devils from all walks of life, sent telegrams, and the devils everywhere did not see any movement, as if they did not know that I was encircling and annihilating the Ninth Brigade, and asked for instructions on the next course of action.

Tang Qiuli ordered them to continue to monitor the movements of all kinds of devils, and after receiving the order, they gradually withdrew to the base for repairs.

More than 20,000 troops, with the joy of victory, quickly left the battlefield, leaving more than 11,000 lonely souls wailing in a foreign land, unable to find their way home.

Perhaps, the top brass of the Kwantung Army is puzzled, why the Ninth Brigade suddenly lost contact, where is their current location, according to later intelligence, the Kwantung Army Headquarters has been troubled by this problem for nearly a year, once sent a large number of reconnaissance planes to find the whereabouts of the Ninth Brigade, and later the devil's agents found the remains of the battlefield, from the soil, found the buried broken military flag, judged that the Ninth Brigade has been completely annihilated.

As for the anti-Japanese forces, the top brass of the Japanese army unanimously believed that only the Bloody Hand Regiment and the Anti-Japanese Union had this strength, and then the aircraft reconnaissance did not find a large number of troops, and the signs of marching in the surrounding areas were really puzzling, and this was also a big mystery for the Kwantung Army.

took advantage of such a big advantage of the devils, and did not quickly slip away, so the troops hid in the forest as quickly as possible, evading the aerial reconnaissance of the devils, and the troops of more than 20,000 people did not let the devils touch the slightest trace, and the concealment ability of the troops was commendable.

Four days later, the troops returned to the base and were greeted heroically by everyone who stayed at the base, in Tang Qiuli's eyes, every qiē was so kind, as if he had returned to the place where he grew up, that kind of kindness and nature, let him be intoxicated.

When the soldiers entered the base from the secret passage in groups, the recruits who were training in the square, under the orders of the instructors, all stood upright and saluted the triumphant warriors, and the eyes of the recruits could not hide their envy and eagerness.

The soldiers held their heads high, shouted slogans, and walked in front of the recruits in a strict queue, covered with dust, their glory, their torn uniforms, and their medals, which were the silent encouragement of the veterans to the new soldiers, a vivid example, and this encouragement was enough to ignite the blood in the hearts of the recruits, prompting them to aspire to go to the battlefield of killing the enemy as soon as possible and establish meritorious deeds.

After a night's rest, a plenary meeting was held the next day, for a long time, the personnel were not so united, each had its own tasks, from the annihilation of the Yoshino Wing, the shelling of the Eighth Division, the total annihilation of the Devil Armored Wing, to the command of Changshan Cave in distress, nine deaths, a surprise attack on Anton, a bloody battle on the banks of the Yalu River, waving the Mudanjiang River, turning East Manchuria upside down, capturing Xinjing, forcing the Emperor of Manchukuo to flee in a hurry, threatening Harbin, to the total annihilation of the Ninth Brigade.

It has been nearly two months, and the east and west have been killed, the battle line has been thousands of miles, annihilating more than 80,000 devils, killing the majesty of the bloody hand regiment, and killing the heroic spirit of the bloody hand regiment, which has made the Kwantung Army fearful and made the Kwantung fathers and villagers see hope.

Qiu Sheng, Zhang Quan, and Wang Xu, who stayed at the base, looked envious, and Feng Jiwu first reported on the situation of the troops, and now, the total strength of the troops has reached more than 47,000 people, of which more than 24,000 recruits have been recruited from various places.

After Feng Jiwu finished speaking, everyone below, including Tang Qiuli, gasped, my obedient, in the blink of an eye, the troops of more than 40,000 people were pulled up, and the troops were more than doubled, Tang Qiuli's head was a little dizzy, and he was temporarily stunned.

In his impression, the fact that there are more than 30,000 people in the army is already very remarkable, so many soldiers have come out, isn't the chief of staff mistaken? He looked at Feng Jiwu with suspicion, and Feng Jiwu also knew that it was beyond everyone's expectations.

He smiled and called out an officer who was twenty-six or seventeen years old, with a tall figure and a stern face, everyone knew him at a glance, Wu Hongtao, the commander of the recruit training camp, but he had less to deal with, Wu Haitao opened the folder and explained very clearly the recruitment location of these recruits, the number of people, which troops escorted back, and what time they arrived at the base.

Everyone summed up in their hearts, isn't this number, Tang Qiuli looked at this recruit battalion commander with interest, who was not very familiar with him, since the expansion of the troops, he had relatively little contact with non-front-line combat units, and this aspect of work belonged to Brother Qiusheng.

He only remembered Wu Haitao, who came from Li Honggang's ** party member system, and it seemed that he was also a very capable commander, and from the moment he came back and saw the mental outlook of the recruits, he knew that the work of the recruit camp was fruitful.

Tang Qiuli looked at Brother Qiusheng again, Qiusheng was obviously a lot thinner, but his eyes were still bright and wise, and his intelligence work was no better than fighting devils on the battlefield, with real knives and guns, it was easy to come, and if he was careless, he would be defeated and die, and the burden on Brother Qiusheng's shoulders was not light

Zhang Quan looked much older, nearly 50,000 horses and horses ate and drank, guns and ammunition, all planned by him, this is tired, Wang Xu has not changed, he is still so calm and polite, but the optimistic and positive attitude that comes out of them makes Tang Qiuli very moved, these old guys, although they do not have great achievements, they pay no less than anyone else.

Next, the meeting held a heated discussion on the issue of troop organization, and finally decided on the following grouping plan:

The four detachments of the whole army remained unchanged, but the strength of each detachment was increased to 10,000 men, and there were four brigades under its jurisdiction, each of which had five squadrons, each with a full strength of 450 people, and each squadron had eight detachments, each with a full strength of 45 people, including a 90-man squadron directly under the machine gun detachment.

In addition, each detachment is required to form a new artillery brigade, which is required to be equipped with 16 field artillery, 48 mountain artillery, and 80 Type 92 infantry guns, and each brigade is newly formed an artillery squadron, which is required to be equipped with 10 mountain artillery, 20 Type 92 infantry guns, and 40 mortars.

According to Tang Qiuli's assumption, a detachment of the Bloody Hand Regiment will not suffer a loss in terms of strength and firepower against a brigade or a second-rate division or regiment against the devils, and a brigade will have an advantage in terms of strength and firepower against a field wing of the devils.

Each detachment will also form a new anti-tank gun squadron and an air defense squadron, both of which will be directly subordinate to the detachment command.

This can be illustrated by the firepower of a detachment, the most basic combat unit of the Bloody Hand Regiment, a combat detachment with a full strength of 45 people, equipped with two mortars, two heavy machine guns, eight Czech light machine guns, four grenadiers, six submachine guns, two sniper rifles, twenty shell guns, and the rest are riflemen.

This kind of firepower is extremely terrifying, even if it is a squadron against the devils, in addition to having fewer troops than the devils, in terms of the ferocity of firepower alone, I am afraid that it will be more than twice as much as the devils.

According to Tang Qiuli's requirements, any of his troops, when they are equal to or slightly inferior to the devil's strength, must surpass the opponent's firepower intensity.

The equipment that the troops lacked, the arsenal stepped up production, and the troops were equipped as much as possible, Wang Xu took over the task very easily, and at the base, there were enough technologies and raw materials to manufacture these weapons and equipment.

The artillery detachment will be mainly composed of field artillery, mountain artillery, and Type 92 infantry artillery, and will initially be equipped with 40 field artillery, 80 mountain artillery, and more than 300 Type 92 infantry guns.

At the beginning, Zheng Yong heard that his mortars were transferred to various detachments, and he was anxious to blush and thicken his neck, considering that this was the chief of staff reading out the grouping plan, and he held back his breath without squeaking.

The strength of the special detachment was increased to 2,000 people, and before the whole unit was selected and the detachment leader Tang Qiuquan did not return, Liu Tiehan, deputy commander, acted as the head of the detachment, and the cavalry detachment was not expanded for the time being, which made Liu Chun extremely depressed.

The base guard brigade should be reorganized, and the strength of the base should reach more than 1,500 troops, and the base garrison force should be increased.

In the near future, the troops do not have major combat tasks, but mainly train new recruits, so that the recruits can form combat strength as much as possible, and replenish them to the detachments in a timely manner; if there are special circumstances that require the troops to leave the base and go out to fight, they must have the mutual consent of the two deputy commanders and the chief of staff before they can carry out the combat mission.

After Chief of Staff Feng Jiwu finished speaking, everyone found a problem, there is no matter what happened to Tang Qiuli, the commander of the No. 1 person in the army, and the commander handed over the command, what did he do?

Tang Qiuli saw everyone's doubts, and after letting the irrelevant personnel leave, he announced a decision, which was no less than a bombshell, which made the bigwigs in the base stunned, and it took him half a day to react.

Tang Qiuli announced that he was going abroad to Europe, now everyone can fry the pot, commander, you go to Europe, that unfamiliar environment, how can we all rest assured, if something happens to you, what will happen to the troops? What should everyone do? Besides, now that you're fighting with the little devils, you leave the army, and everyone has no backbone

No, no, everyone's opinions are surprisingly unanimous, even Liu Tiehan and Qiusheng are opposed, this is too sudden, why is there no rumor in advance, commander, you are too thunderous, this matter, there is no need to discuss, we have to consider your safety

(To be continued)