Chapter 108 Until then, we are the only ones! "Supplementary camp?" If Cun Yunsheng hadn't reminded him, Meng Fan would have forgotten the existence of this supplementary camp. The original intention of establishing this supplementary camp was to resettle disabled veterans and give them something to do, at least to ensure that they would not starve to death. On the other hand, it is considered that once the casualties in the battle in Myanmar are huge, the replenishment battalion can be used to quickly recover. Who knew that things would develop beyond their imagination? The Sichuan Army Corps fought consecutively and successfully, and even became a force directly under the Allied Forces Command. Although its own casualties were not small, more than 400 people were killed and wounded. However, after absorbing a large number of broken troops and the wounded left by the Fifth Army, it can be said that as long as it takes a period of rest, the combat effectiveness of the Sichuan Army will not be weakened, but will become stronger. Hence, Meng was annoyed and forgot about the replenishment camp. "Yes, you haven't forgotten the replenishment camp in Zenda, right? I remember that when we set out, there were more than 500 people. Over the past month, not to mention more, can it be doubled? I was There are thousands of dollars left behind," Cun Yunsheng said while looking at Meng Fanglai. “A thousand men have been added, and each infantry battalion has been short of strength. Now that there are a thousand men, plus the broken troops and wounded soldiers, full strength should not be a problem.” Hearing this, Meng Fanlao secretly clicked his tongue.
“Your fully-equipped infantry battalion is probably just like our infantry regiment.” “The . military’s standard infantry battalion is similar to our infantry regiment. A standard regiment has more than 3,000 people.” "Our Sichuan Army Corps is to benchmark against the US Army's standard regiment. However, our Sichuan Army Corps now has a difficult task and needs more personnel, so I decided to expand two more infantry battalions." Cun Yunsheng clapped his fingers and explained in detail to Fanla. . “Five standard US infantry battalions? Not including the soon-to-be-expanded artillery battalion? Chariot battalion?” “If you include the engineering company, guard company, communications company, and health team, you will not be able to hold back even your five thousand men.” “My Class B division commander is not as generous as you.” Meng Fan couldn’t help but roll his eyes. Hearing this, Cun Yunsheng shook his head and said. “Have you ever heard of the Synthetic Heavy Brigade?” “What?” Meng Fanlia always felt that the words that popped up from time to time in his group confused him and he couldn’t understand them at all. "It means infantry, armor, artillery and other arms to form an integrated and three-dimensional combat system." Although what Cun Yunsheng said was very simple, it was still too advanced for Meng Fanglia. He was originally a lieutenant and deputy company commander, how could he know so much. "Forget it, you don't understand. You will understand in the future. What we have to do now is to reorganize and let our infantry learn infantry-tank coordination, infantry-artillery coordination, and even land-air coordination." Cun Yunsheng felt that this theory was practical It's too profound and talks too much. They probably don't understand it at all. So what he has to do is to slowly transform the Sichuan Army according to his ideas. "One more thing, you made a mistake. From now on it will not be a communications company, but a communications battalion, and you will be promoted to battalion commander." Cun Yunsheng looked at Meng Fan, patted his shoulder and said with a smile. “There are also engineering battalions and so on, which must be expanded.” Hearing this, Meng Fanlao couldn't help but roll his eyes. Communications camp? Engineer battalion? Is there still a guard camp?
I dare say that by then everyone in the entire Sichuan Army will be the battalion commander. "Tuanzuo, do we need to expand the health team? Is it your size? I'm afraid it will have to be equipped with a field hospital." Meng Fangliao said sarcastically. "Yes, you are right. We do need a field hospital, and the number of people in the volunteer team also needs to be expanded. There are only a few hundred people, which is too few." Cun Yunsheng didn't seem to hear the other party's sarcasm at all, but thought that What Meng Fangliao said makes sense. “Come on, do you think Stilwell will agree? Will the Allied Forces Command agree?” Meng Fannie once again expressed his opinion. "Don't worry, Stilwell wishes we had more troops and that he could control more troops. This time besides us, there is also a new Thirty-Eighth Division that needs to be reorganized. As expected, it should be a division-to-army transformation. Now, Sun Liren will also become a lieutenant general," Cun Yunsheng said calmly. "Hiss, are you becoming a commander so soon? Will those in the mountain city agree? Strictly speaking, the newly formed Thirty-Eighth Division has left the army without permission and will be held accountable." Meng Fangli said hesitantly. After all, the contribution of the establishment of the new 38th Division is not that great, and it also violated Du Yuming's order. Can Shancheng agree? "Why don't you agree? As long as Stilwick pays a certain price, those people in the mountain city will swallow their anger." “But, it’s not that easy for them to expand.” Cun Yunsheng said with a chuckle. “What do you mean?” Meng Fangliao asked in confusion. “We took advantage of Myitkyina and gathered many broken troops along the way. In addition, we gave the Fifth Army a large amount of supplies and gained their favor, so we were able to expand so quickly.” Cun Yunsheng explained. "The newly formed Thirty-Eighth Division is not so lucky. If they want to expand, they can't recruit those natives, right?" “I’m afraid that on the battlefield, these natives will be the first to rebel.” “So their expansion plan cannot be completed?” Meng Fanglia looked at the other party and asked curiously. “It can definitely be completed, but it will be very slow. Now that the China-Myanmar highway is cut off, materials cannot be transported in at all, so we can only rely on the hump route.” “So if the newly formed Thirty-Eighth Division wants to expand, it can only rely on the hump route to transport soldiers.” “But the efficiency of transportation is too slow, and only a few hundred people can be transported at a time.” "There are only a few hundred people, and Stilwell needs to replace them with weapons and equipment. Otherwise, there will be no expansion." Cun Yunsheng's words made Meng Fanlai silent for a long time. He didn't expect that there were such twists and turns. . “So in the next one or two years, we will be Stilwell’s biggest support. He wishes we had tens of thousands of people now, so you don’t have to worry about what other ideas Stilwell will have if there are too many people.” “Yes, I understand.” Meng Fanle responded quickly. On the other side, the news that the Dangchuan Army occupied Myitkyina and successfully prevented the Japanese attack reached Zenda. Stationmaster Wang of the shelter looked at the newspaper in his hand and couldn't help but be surprised. At first he almost forgot about the existence of the Sichuan Legion. After all, he thought the Sichuan Legion was gone long ago after no contact for so long. After all, what use can a cannon fodder regiment of two thousand people do? The only pity is the replenishment battalion left behind. Originally, there were still thousands of oceans, but during this period, the front line suffered another disastrous defeat, and there were many more defeated troops in the shelter. Chanda had consumed most of his food reserves because of the Sichuan Army's expedition. Now we are in a lean period, and every family does not have much food rations, so the defeated soldiers rely entirely on banana leaves to survive. The meat and fish meat was basically invisible, so some of the defeated soldiers ran to the replenishment camp in order to survive. According to the order left by Cun Yunsheng at that time, the supplementary battalion was expanded to 1,000 people.
So the additional battalion commander Xing Jiuhong selected some people from the defeated troops. As a result, things got out of control. Now the supplementary battalion has more than 1,500 people, and it is still growing. The situation we are facing now is that the ocean is going to disappear. Although the food in the supplementary battalion cannot be compared with before, it is still much better than the grass-eating soldiers. At least one dry meal a day, and a bit meaty for a week. But it cannot withstand more and more defeated troops and rising prices. “I didn’t expect that only half of the 100,000-strong expeditionary force came back, and even one of the generals was killed in the battle.” Stationmaster Wang couldn’t help but sigh after reading the newspaper. “Old Xing, how long can your supplementary battalion last?” If it were before, he would not have asked who made the Sichuan Army rich now. It is said that there are Americans behind it, with endless food and endless bullets. Hence, the supplementary battalion has also risen with the tide, and recently there have been more defeated soldiers who want to join the supplementary battalion. Even the gentry in the city sent chickens, ducks and geese as a sign of goodwill. "I can still hold on for seven days, but I just received a telegram from the regiment, asking me to lead the supplementary battalion to Myitkyina. Coming to you today is also to say goodbye to you. Anyway, during this period, I still trouble Station Commander Wang. ." Xing Jiuhong shook his head and then said that he was here to say goodbye. Now it's Station Commander Wang's turn to be confused. Are you leaving now? He now regrets that he has not had a good relationship with the other party in the past few months. "How about staying a few more days? It's said that a group of broken troops are about to arrive. Will we recruit more then?" Station Commander Wang said quickly. There were so many defeated troops that if something happened, he wouldn't be able to survive and walk around. Especially now that there is a shortage of food, Zenda cannot provide food, and the paper notes issued by Shangfeng are not enough to feed the soldiers, so he can only let him get banana leaves to deal with it. If the replenishment camp could take away part of it, he would be much more relaxed, and he could even secretly receive a lot of funding. "Soldiers still need to be recruited. This is what our regiment asked me to pass on to you." Originally, Xing Jiuhong didn't want to pay attention to this guy. Who asked him to name him in the telegram and wanted to give another telegram to Station Commander Wang. Hearing the telegram from Cun Yunsheng, stationmaster Wang's eyes suddenly lit up, and he quickly took the telegram and started reading it. The more I read, the more frightened I became. It’s actually not a big deal. It means that he can send more defeated troops to the Sichuan Army. After all, his position as the commander of the broken troops shelter station is very convenient for him to do this. Even Cun Yunsheng said that in order to prevent him from suffering a loss, he would be given three oceans for each defeated soldier. If he encountered any technical troops, he would be given more. What frightened him was that this guy's appetite was really too big. Even if some were lost in the battle into Burma, if the supplementary battalion is now asked to take 1,500 people across the river, that is two to three thousand people. Who can have so many people in one regiment? Isn’t this nonsense?
But Cun Yunsheng gave too much. One soldier was worth three oceans. If the technical troops were given more. When I thought about the huge expenses that I would have to support so many people, I gritted my teeth and decided to do it. "Okay, I understand. Tell Commander Cun for me. He will definitely do what he tells me." People died for money and birds died for food. There was not much oil and water in the shelter. In addition to depriving the defeated soldiers of food, Don't think about any means of making money. Now that such a good opportunity is in front of him, he will definitely not give up. As long as he works a few votes, he will have money. At worst, he will spend some money to transfer himself. "Okay, I will tell the regiment." Xing Jiuhong nodded, and then went back to start reorganizing the supplementary battalion. He wanted to bring more than a thousand people to Myitkyina intact. And after learning that they were going to Myitkyina across the river, many soldiers were very excited. They have heard that the Sichuan Army Corps is now a unit directly under the Allied Forces Command. Whether it is food or weapons and equipment, they are top-notch. Change first and then change! delayed! The main thing is to understand today’s plot!
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