Chapter 691

“report!”

“come on in.”

The person in the house held a cup of strong tea in one hand, with the tea leaves floating on the water. He blew the tea leaves gently while sitting in the house and took a sip.

Someone once said that if the tea leaves float on the water surface for a long time after being soaked in water, it only means that the quality of the tea is not good, either the variety is not good or the production process is not up to standard, resulting in poor water absorption.

“The preparation work for Xinzhou has been completed. This is the report submitted by 217.”

“Quick, bring it here.”

In the afternoon when he should have been resting, the man studied the report carefully, and kept praising it when he was excited.

“Number!”

“No!”

“The timing was right and Xu Chaoyang had the advantage of location, which led to a great harvest in Xinzhou.”

“The report says that the millet grains in the fields are plump, but Xu Chaoyang is not satisfied. He keeps looking at the crops and shaking his head, saying that there is nothing like them he has ever seen… Hahahaha, if you ask me, Xu Chaoyang is probably exaggerating about this.”

“If you say he can fight, I believe him. But if you say he knows more about crops than the farmers, I won’t believe it even if you kill me. I don’t believe it.”

“Ah ha ha ha ha ha.”

The man who came to deliver the documents also laughed out loud.

“217’s Chang Zhan has also sent the first batch of young 217s we trained back to Xinzhou…”

“There’s something wrong with what you said. What do you mean by 217’s constant battle? What do you mean by the little 217 we trained?”

“You can’t treat them differently.”

“Yes.”

“The 217th Military Division has decided to expand its three regiments again. We still need to discuss before making a decision. However, this kid has learned to report first instead of acting first and then asking for permission. This shows that our education is very effective.”

“217 is going to expand again?”

“The people of Xinzhou, the refugees from Chahar, and the refugees from Henan have made the entire Xinzhou overcrowded. The political cadres we sent, the ‘Little 217’ you mentioned, and the new recruits they recruited have completely made up for the losses in the previous Shanxi Campaign. Now the situation in Xinzhou is that there are too many soldiers but nowhere to use them. Even the new recruits have completely finished their training and have begun to appear in various defense zones in a unified organization with the old soldiers.”

“Look at how generous Xu Chaoyang is in this report. He is even going to develop a reserve force!”

The person who delivered the documents was surprised: “Isn’t this too fast?” “How could it not be fast?”

“With sufficient funds and abundant food harvests, the people are not blind. Don’t they understand who is the one who truly cares about them?”

“This time, we have no choice but to let Xu Chaoyang attack Shanxi.”

……

Xinzhou, with a total force of 5,000;
The new regiment of the Shuangdagong Hero Regiment has a thousand soldiers stationed in Xinkou. The main weapon of the troops is still the Type 38 rifle, and each soldier has one.

The light machine guns are mainly Czech-style, MG30 and Type rifles. The light machine guns can be deployed to the squad. It is not an exaggeration to say that each squad has a light machine gun. However, a machine gun group needs to be organized. After all, the Type rifle needs oil.

The heavy machine guns are mainly pheasant necks. Since the 217 did not produce heavy machine guns in the Dagu Factory, it is still using the pheasant necks captured on the battlefield. As the MG217, a light machine gun with an extremely fast firing rate, has been almost completely worn out (it was enough to counter the firepower of heavy machine guns before), a small number of guns produced by the Dagu Factory have been sent to the arsenal for use as copy drawings. Now the firepower support in the troops can only rely on the Type 30, and the firepower of the MG30 is the real weapon that makes Xu Chaoyang’s troops invincible.

Nowadays, heavy machine guns are deployed in platoons, with one in each platoon. Their role is basically to connect the battle lines and serve as supporting firepower.

Most of the pistols were captured weapons from the Japanese invaders. The models were very diverse, including the Meiji Type 26 revolver, the Nambu, and an extremely rare Nambu Type pistol. If the nickname of the Nambu pistol was “even suicide is difficult”, then the nickname of the Type pistol should be “it’s hard not to commit suicide”.

And, a small number of box guns.

There was a reason why Xu Chaoyang’s 217 didn’t use box guns. It wasn’t that they didn’t want to use them, nor that they didn’t have any. It was that the officers of all ranks in their 217 suffered too much damage in battle. Most of the time, the pistols were destroyed in the artillery fire along with the grassroots officers, or buried in the dust raised by the artillery fire. This led to the 217s’ habit of using whatever they could get on the battlefield, and they also used the use of Japanese pistols as a symbol of their status. In the end, the box gun became an object of dislike.

As the double meritorious regiment and the main heroic regiment under the 217th, the regiment commander is still Chang Zhan who has just returned. The main battalion-level cadres under his command are all old men from the Northeast, but the company-level cadres are completely different.

The new second regiment had basically the same equipment as the new first regiment, and its commander was Wang Tianhao. Its composition was more complex, with a small number of northwestern people from the 29th Army, and more of them were new recruits after the Battle of Xinkou.

The 67th Regiment was reorganized from the 67th Army, with Zhu Rong as its commander. They followed Xu Chaoyang to Shanxi and had undergone several reorganizations, but their organization was completely disrupted. However, their subordinates were still mostly people from the Northeast and a small number of new recruits. The framework was still the Northeast Army framework of the 67th Army, but the strength was less than a regiment. More people died after the reorganization, with the New st Regiment dying in Tuanchengkou and the New nd Regiment dying in the Xinkou battle.

In addition, the 217th Military Division also has a cavalry battalion, with Altai as its commander;

Artillery Battalion, Commander Man Quang-chi;

Guard Battalion, Commander Qu Yong;

Directly under the command of the machine gun company, the company commander was Liu Gener;
The cannons are now in Ekou, which are Type 92 infantry cannons; the machine gun company is mainly equipped with Oerlikon.

In addition, there is a driver company and a mechanized cavalry battalion that is yet to be established. In other words, it is a mechanized force that has been in training but has never used armored vehicles or tanks on the battlefield.

In this report, Xu Chaoyang also planned to transfer Duan Jingwen back to form a “blasting company” and an “engineer battalion” that was under construction but still had no staff to take over.

All these contents had been put into the “plan to be built” and presented to Yan’an, so he was as happy as if he saw his child finally grow up, full of relief.

When such a troop was stationed in Xinzhou, and at the time when the training of new recruits was completed and the autumn harvest was over, everyone could feel how anxious Xu Chaoyang was, especially when the thermal power plant had started to supply electricity, the arsenal was in full operation, and the first H34Y produced had already been equipped to a regiment of the Sichuan Army. How could he not see what Xu Chaoyang was trying to do?
(End of this chapter)