binnovel Chapter 139 I'm Helping You Share the Burden
Chapter 139 I'm Helping You Share the Burden
After the 655th Regiment was supplemented with Wang Mazi's brothers, its combat effectiveness did not decline much. On the contrary, it played an amazing effect in hand-to-hand combat. You know, Wang Mazi's brothers used to be murderers and robbers. They didn't use bayonets to fight you. Basically, they used all kinds of weapons. Wang Mazi wielded a ghost-head knife with great vigor. There were also daggers and even sickles. None of them talked about bayonet fighting skills with the Japanese army. They just used whatever tricks they had. The most commonly used one was the "monkey stealing peaches" technique. This made all the Japanese officers commanding the operations behind curse the Chinese army for having no martial ethics and not being samurai.
After Zhang Wenwu waited for the military police to send over the 300 officers and soldiers who had violated military discipline, he sent someone to call Li Shangping over. He planned to send all 300 people to the headquarters of the 18th Army. He also had to recruit some more people to the 18th Army, otherwise it would be difficult to explain to Commander Luo.
As for the remnants of the 65th Independent Brigade and the more than 102 people he had exchanged for with his own money, he planned to send them back to the 102nd Division to replenish the troops. After all, he was the head of the Quartermaster Department of the nd Division, so it was normal for him to be a little partial.
After all the reinforcements left the camp, it started to rain heavily that night, which made Zhang Wenwu relax.
The next morning, Zhang Wenwu looked at the heavy rain outside the tent and sighed in his heart that God had finally opened his eyes. In this heavy rain, the Chinese and Japanese armies could finally take a breath. There was no more roar of Japanese planes in the sky, no more deafening gunfire from the front lines, and the entire battlefield in Shanghai became quiet.
Zhang Wenwu also had some more tents built, and called back the newly recruited soldiers and the brothers from the military police company who were out to have a good rest. They had been exhausted in the past few days and needed a good rest. He was now hoping that God would rain for a few more days so that everyone could have more rest and the troops in front could have more time to rest and recuperate.
At the headquarters of the 102nd Division, Division Commander Huang Jinxian took advantage of the good weather and quickly summoned all the military chiefs at the regimental level and above to hold a meeting to summarize the previous combat situations and experiences, and at the same time to cheer everyone up and boost their morale.
However, the meeting had not been underway for ten minutes when the topic was diverted by the officers below, and they all started discussing the issue of troop replenishment with Chief of Staff Zhao Dong. The meeting room in the entire division headquarters' operations hall immediately turned into a bargaining market.
There was no way. When everyone knew that Zhang Wenwu had brought back the remnants of the 65th Independent Brigade, they all wanted to bring this powerful force under their command. The two brigade commanders and their regiment commanders began to argue fiercely, while Huang Jinxian and Zhao Dong waited for them to finish arguing with each other and then make a distribution based on the actual situation. In their hearts, they were also constantly weighing how to reasonably allocate and use the troops sent by Zhang Wenwu this time.
While the officers were arguing with each other, Zhang Wenwu looked at Wu Jincheng in front of him and said with sympathy: "Deputy Stationmaster Wu, you have worked hard. I have some freshly cooked porridge here. Deputy Stationmaster Wu, please make do with it for now."
Wu Jincheng came to Zhang Wenwu's side to hide from the limelight. Now the military station is full of people sent by various troops to replenish their troops. His office alone is full of people who come to him to ask for various replenishments. He has no choice but to use the pee-runner method to hide in Zhang Wenwu's side under the cover of his cousin to relax. He has no choice. The military station has only so many supplies, and so many troops who need replenishment have poured in at once. How can he replenish them all? He can't replenish this troop and not that troop. He can't afford to offend those people who are bloodthirsty.
Wu Jincheng was also not polite. He had been stuck in the military station office for the whole morning. Not to mention eating, he didn't even have a sip of water. So he sat on an ammunition box, took the bowl of porridge handed to him by Zhang Wenwu and started drinking it. When he drank it, he found that there was even the taste of beef in the porridge. He immediately drank it without caring about his image. He now felt that Zhang Wenwu was quite good. Not to mention that he could bring him practical benefits, his politeness was at least much better than those who came to him for supplements. He was almost held at gunpoint by those guys just now, and none of them could speak reasonably.
After Wu Jincheng finished a bowl of porridge, Zhang Wenwu quickly helped to serve another bowl and handed it to him, sighing in his heart: Wu Jincheng was forced to not even have a bite of food, and it looked like he was very hungry. How pitiful! He is a lieutenant colonel deputy station chief of a military station. How could he be forced to this point if he really had no other choice?
After Wu Jincheng finished two bowls of porridge, he felt something was wrong in his stomach, so he took the cigarette handed to him by Zhang Wenwu and started smoking it happily.
Zhang Wenwu saw that Wu Jincheng had recovered a bit, so he said with a smile: "Deputy Stationmaster Wu, hiding here is not a long-term solution for you. You still have to deal with those people in the military station who need supplies and personnel replenishment."
Wu Jincheng, who had been relaxing, immediately thought of the mess in the military station after hearing what Zhang Wenwu said. He couldn't help but get annoyed and said impatiently, "What can I do? I'm not Monkey King. I can't pull out a hair and turn out the supplies and personnel they need. Wait, the Quartermaster Department is urgently coordinating trains to transport weapons and ammunition here. As for the personnel, it depends on fate. Those security guards have walked here one by one. Who knows when they can reach Shanghai? If we need to replenish the personnel, we can only replenish the critical troops first."
Zhang Wenwu understood immediately after hearing what Wu Jincheng said. There was no shortage of weapons and ammunition at present. What was lacking was the tight railway transportation capacity. After all, the railway transportation capacity was basically used to ensure the transportation of troops. The transportation of weapons and ammunition was arranged by arranging wagons whenever possible. As for road transportation, Japanese planes were constantly bombing a large number of transport trucks on the road during the day. The logistics department could only let the transport vehicles drive forward at night without turning on the headlights. It was conceivable how slow the speed was. It was raining heavily now, which was good for the troops on the front line, but it was very bad news for the logistics trucks. There was no telling how many trucks were stuck on the road.
As for the replenishment of personnel, it is indeed as Wu Jincheng said, it all depends on luck, but the Central Army troops are definitely lucky, didn't you hear him say that the important troops should be replenished first. Apart from the Central Army, the other troops are not important at all. In the end, most of the other troops will probably transfer the highest commander of that unit to the back to recruit troops on their own, and the remaining remnants will be disbanded and replenished to other units. This can be seen from the 65th Independent Brigade.
"Hey, Deputy Stationmaster Wu, don't argue with those guys. They all just came back from the battlefield. They are probably bloodthirsty and have bad tempers. Just wait for the weapons and ammunition to arrive. As for the personnel, you should rush them as soon as possible. In addition, I have a way to temporarily solve the problem of replenishing troops."
Wu Jincheng glanced at Zhang Wenwu. Based on his understanding of Zhang Wenwu, it was impossible for Zhang Wenwu to come to help him think of a way to solve the problem at hand for no reason. However, he also wanted to hear what bad ideas Zhang Wenwu had for him, so he said with a smile: "Thank you for your concern, Deputy Director Zhang. I wonder if Deputy Director Zhang has any good ideas."
Zhang Wenwu first asked Cao Huaguo beside him to check if there was anyone outside the tent, and then he whispered, "Deputy Stationmaster Wu, I think you can talk to the officers of the few remaining troops and have them merge into other troops. The military station will issue a certificate and let them return to their original location to recruit new personnel. The remaining troops will be merged into other troops after the military station gives them certain compensation based on the specific situation."
Wu Jincheng didn't say anything. Zhang Wenwu's bad idea was a solution, but it was not easy to implement. It would be difficult for the commanders of those local troops to give up the few troops under their hands.
"Deputy Stationmaster Wu, you should tell the commanders of these troops clearly that due to the huge shortage, there is currently no way to supplement the personnel. Instead of being forcibly added to other troops in the end, it is better to take this opportunity to return home with the compensation money and recruit new troops." Zhang Wenwu knew the key point here, so he directly stated the solution.
Wu Jincheng thought for a long time and then said, "Deputy Director Zhang, it's no problem for the military station to issue a certificate, but the key is that the military station doesn't have that much money to do this."
Zhang Wenwu also frowned and smoked. After a while, he said, "Deputy Stationmaster Wu, how about this? I have received a lot of care from you. Now that I see you are so anxious about the war, I will take charge of this matter. You call the troops who are willing to accept this plan to come to me. I will talk to them in detail. This will also help you relieve some pressure. What do you think?"
Wu Jincheng finally understood that Zhang Wenwu was not giving him any advice. He said that because he knew that the military station could not come up with the money. Zhang Wenwu was indeed a member of the 18th Army. This "Star Absorbing Technique" was inherited very well. He wanted to swallow up all these troops. His appetite was quite big. And from what he said, he was helping him this time. There was no doubt that he would not give him a bribe in the same way as before.
"Deputy Director Zhang, this is not appropriate. We have been busy at the military station, but in the end all our efforts were in vain. I can't explain this to you." Wu Jincheng planned to ask Zhang Wenwu for some money so that his work would not be in vain.
When Zhang Wenwu heard that Wu Jincheng was willing to discuss the price with him, he immediately said with a smile: "Deputy Stationmaster Wu, it's not that I'm ignorant, it's that I really don't have that much money. I don't even know how much compensation those troop commanders will ask for." Zhang Wenwu really didn't want to give a penny.