Liang Jian: Commander, save some for me

Chapter 664

Liu Hexuan didn't know what to say for a moment. Forget about two thousand people in a battalion. It's time to build an arsenal and a hospital. Is this still a battalion?

"In short, safety is guaranteed in our special operations camp." Liu Changshun said with a smile.

With a hospital, their special operations camp can be considered safe.

"Are the medicines and such like enough?" Liu Hexuan asked. It's not enough to have a doctor. You also need medicines and medical equipment. Without these things, you won't have high medical skills.

"Captain Liu, what do you think?" Liu Changshun asked.

"Uh...that should be enough." Liu Hexuan realized then that he had asked a stupid question.

With the capabilities of the special operations battalion, it is estimated that a lot of medicines and medical equipment have been seized long ago. The special operations battalion should have no shortage of these things.

At this time, the sound of reading came from the classroom not far away.

Liu Hexuan was also attracted by the sound of reading.

"That's the recruits learning." Liu Changshun said.

"Your instructor is teaching them, right?!" Liu Hexuan said.

"No, the deputy company commander is teaching. Our special operations battalion only has one instructor, our deputy battalion commander. As for the company's instructor, we haven't arranged yet." Liu Changshun shook his head and said.

The main reason is that Li Jin feels that there is no need to hire so many instructors. The soldiers can read and write anyway, and it is enough to have cadres to teach the soldiers.

"Ah?! Doesn't the company have an instructor?!" Liu Hexuan was stunned. Companies in other troops all have instructors. Company instructors and battalion instructors. This special operations battalion is really special.

The brigade commander actually did not arrange for an instructor to come over to provide guidance. This only shows that the brigade commander trusts the special operations battalion, or in other words, trusts Li Jin and feels that Li Jin can make those soldiers literate and understand the rules.

"No, we don't need too many instructors. If there is a need, just arrange one directly like the deputy battalion commander, and it will be an officer." Liu Changshun said.

Liu Hexuan was deep in thought, and several other technicians were silent. Xu Yun was a little curious, but he didn't ask much.

"Captain Liu, you can go out of the military camp to see the situation in the village." Liu Changshun said, a few people had just arrived and it was a good idea to go out for a walk.

"Okay." Liu Hexuan nodded. He happened to have this idea and planned to take a look at the situation in these villages.

Liu Changshun also sent several soldiers to protect Liu Hexuan and brief them on the situation.

In the next hour or so, the company commanders from other companies also came to Liujiacun.

In the conference room, Liu Changshun and the others were already waiting here.

"Where are the battalion commander and the others?!" Tang Zizheng, the fourth company commander, looked at Liu Changshun and asked.

"The battalion commander should be back soon, just wait." Liu Changshun replied.

The battalion commander and deputy battalion commander left on horseback and were probably on their way back.

"Yeah." Tang Zizheng nodded.

After everyone waited for a few minutes, the sound of horses neighing came from the entrance of the military camp.

"The battalion commander should be back." Liu Changshun said and stood up, and other company commanders also got up and walked out of the conference room.

Just in time to see Li Jin and Xu Qingfeng coming back.

"It looks like they have all arrived." Li Jin said. Seeing the horses tied at the door, he knew that several company commanders should have arrived.

"They came quite quickly." Xu Qingfeng said. He thought that the company commanders would arrive at about eight o'clock, but he didn't expect that they would arrive a lot earlier!

"Now that we're here, let's have a meeting in advance." Li Jin and Xu Qingfeng walked to the conference room.

"Battal Commander, Deputy Battalion Commander!" After Li Jin arrived, Liu Changshun and the others saluted the two of them.

"Hurry in and let's talk." Li Jin saluted back and walked into the conference room with Xu Qingfeng.

Soon, everyone had done it in order.

"I'm calling you here this time because I mainly want to say a few things. The first point is that starting tomorrow, we will move to the base area.

Because we have a lot of supplies, I plan to spend three days moving everything to the new base. Is there no problem? ! "Li Jin looked at everyone and said.

Although the special operations camp has a lot of supplies, it can almost be transported in three days.

"No!" Everyone responded in unison.

"Well, let's talk about the second question. You all know about the establishment of the arsenal and hospital." Li Jin nodded and asked later.

"know."

"In the future, the arsenal will require a lot of people to operate. A few technicians alone will not be enough. So, I plan to ask you to allocate some people to the arsenal to participate in the production. In this way, we can start manufacturing earlier. Come out with useful ammunition." Li Jin continued.

The operation of the arsenal is still a bit difficult at the beginning. Too few people will not work, and too many people will also affect the progress of subsequent tasks.

Moreover, the training of new recruits will be on track by then, so their tasks are still somewhat difficult.

"Battal Commander, you can just give the order directly when the time comes. Our people will be waiting at any time." Liu Changshun expressed his attitude.

"So are we." Others also said.

In fact, part of the reason why Li Jin established the arsenal was to get some soldiers out of the battle and let them survive.

At that time, even if they are transferred away in the future, because they have worked in the arsenal, those soldiers will still work in the arsenal.

This eliminates the need to go to the battlefield and allows some soldiers to survive longer.

"The other good news is that our arsenal has machine tools for making guns. We might be able to make guns in the future." Li Jin said with a smile.

"Machine tool?! We have this thing?!" Everyone was shocked.

"Battal Commander, are you kidding me?! This is a machine tool, not an artillery shell!" Tang Zizheng couldn't help but said. He had served in the Northeast Army and knew that machine tools are very valuable and important.

Therefore, when he learned that the special operations camp had machines, he couldn't believe it.

If it were said that the Eighth Route Army headquarters had machine tools, he might still believe it, but it would be a bit hard to believe that a battalion could run an arsenal and be assigned a machine tool.

He felt that Brigadier Chen would not agree. If the machine tool was damaged, it would be a heavy loss.

"Have I ever made a joke? The machine tool is already in the warehouse and will be transported to the arsenal by then. But you must keep this matter secret and don't tell anyone outside the special operations battalion." Li Jin smiled and then said .

The soldiers in the special operations battalion still know very well what to say and what not to say.

"No, I'm a little surprised. Did this machine tool come from the headquarters?! Did they get a lot of machine tools?! That's why they rudely gave us one too?!" Tang Zizheng asked, confused. "It wasn't from the headquarters, it was sent by the German. There are two in total, one of which was given to me by Lavky's name.

The brigade commander also agreed to let me bring this machine tool. "Li Jin then told what happened to Lavky.

"So that's it." Everyone nodded.

"Anyway, our arsenal has a very heavy task. It would be great if we could make our own guns as soon as possible. I hope everyone will work hard together!" Li Jin said.

"Understood!!" Everyone said loudly, they also had this expectation in their hearts, what would the guns they made themselves look like, and could they be more powerful than the guns made by the Japanese!

"Actually, there is another good news." Xu Qingfeng said at this time.

"What good news?!" Li Jin wondered, Xu Qingfeng was hiding something from him.

"That is, a copper mine was discovered not far from the tungsten mine!" Xu Qingfeng said slowly. Only he and a few soldiers knew about this, and did not let anyone else know.

"Ah?! Copper mine?! Lao Xu, don't be kidding me!" This time it was Li Jin's turn to ask.

With copper mines, there are materials for making copper bullets. The key is that they are cheap.

"It's true. I dug in several places and determined that it was a copper mine!" Xu Qingfeng nodded seriously.

"Damn it, God is really helping me. It's not easy for us to build an arsenal, so he gave us a bunch of things!" Liu Changshun said with a smile.

"God help us, we found this ourselves, or rather, our battalion commander found it. If the battalion commander hadn't said he wanted to move the base area, how could we have found so many things." Zhao Ming started to flatter him. Give the credit to Li Jin.

"Damn it! You're such a flatterer!" The others were speechless for a moment. Zhao Ming is such a good flatterer.

"You can't say that. It's all thanks to everyone. If you hadn't worked hard to build the base, how would you have discovered these things." Li Jin couldn't laugh or cry. He had not even built the thing yet, so he shared the credit first.

"Okay, okay, everyone has contributed, not just one person." Xu Qingfeng couldn't stand it anymore and said directly.

"Another point is that our new base area has an arsenal and a hospital, so our base area has become very important.

The brigade commander gave me another plan to develop the number of people. "Li Jin said slowly.

A base area with arsenals and hospitals is enough to become a very important place, so more people need to be developed.

"Batalion Commander, have you been promoted again?!" Liu Changshun said quickly.

"The promotion of the battalion commander is not expected."

"That's right, the battalion commander should have been promoted long ago for his merits."

Others also said that in their opinion, Li's promotion to the officer was very reasonable, because Li Jinli's contribution was more than that of many troops combined.

In addition, the brigade commander valued Li Jin so much that it was normal for him to be promoted to an official.

"I think too much. I didn't get promoted, but I'm still the battalion commander." Li Jin said.

"Ah?! Didn't you get promoted?! I thought you got promoted. How many people did the brigade commander give you?" Liu Changshun felt a little pity after hearing this.

"Five thousand people." Li Jin said slowly.

"???"

"What?! Five thousand people?!" Xu Qingfeng was shocked. There were actually so many people in the establishment given by the brigade commander. Five thousand people plus the special operations battalion would make it seven thousand people. It was more powerful than the general reinforced brigade. There are many more people.

If this were the previous 386 Brigade, there wouldn't be so many people.

"Battal Commander, did you say the wrong number? It was five hundred people, right?!" Liu Changshun said. He felt that five thousand people was too much.

Others also nodded, thinking that Li Jin had said the number wrong, and five hundred people was about the same.

"That's right, five thousand people!" Li Jin shook his head and said with certainty.

Everyone took a breath. Unexpectedly, there were really five thousand people. Can the battalion commander be called the battalion commander? They could all be called the brigade commander.

"No, battalion commander, there are so many people, where can we recruit troops?! Then we have to travel to many places?!" Liu Changshun said. They had spent a lot of effort to recruit more than a thousand people before.

The next 700 recruits were recruited from the common people rescued from the mines, otherwise they would think that the recruitment age would need to be lowered in order to recruit enough.

But the battalion commander will definitely not lower the recruitment age, because if he lowers the recruitment age, he will recruit soldiers who are thirteen or fourteen years old. Therefore, it is obviously very difficult to recruit enough 5,000 people.

"The key is that we can't afford to support so many people," Zhao Ming said.

Their current supplies are only enough to support the two thousand soldiers of the special operations battalion. If there are more, they will have to reduce the intensity of training.

Only by continuing to reduce the intensity of training can we ensure that we can maintain it, but in that case, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers will not be particularly strong.

But if they don't reduce it, they don't have so many supplies to support so many people.

"Don't be impatient. It's not like we can recruit enough of these five thousand people at once. Let's take our time. As for their training then,

Just follow normal training, reduce the consumption of some supplies, and increase the training intensity when there are more supplies. "Li Jin said.

He has already thought about how to train the soldiers he will recruit later. There are too many people. If they all train according to the current training intensity of the special operations battalion, it will definitely not work.

There are not enough supplies. The key is that they have an arsenal. When the time comes, they can make more bullets so that the soldiers can improve their marksmanship.

As for the training intensity of close combat, reduce it. It is enough to kill one or two Japanese one-on-one. For other things, don't expect too much.

This can be considered an elite soldier, but it is still far inferior to the special operations battalion.

"If that's the case, then it's okay. Focusing on marksmanship training and continuing to reduce close combat training can reduce a lot of material consumption." Xu Qingfeng nodded.

"As for the recruitment, we can continue to expand the scope. Our next task is to cause trouble against the Japanese. Therefore, when doing tasks, we need to stay outside for a long time.

At that time, we will pass through many other villages to see if there are any people of suitable age to join the army, and raise the conscription age to below thirty-five! "Li Jin continued.

The current soldiers in the special operations camp are generally between sixteen and twenty-five years old. The reason why older soldiers are not recruited is because they are afraid that they will not be able to withstand the training of the special operations camp.

But in the future, the training intensity will gradually decrease, so it is not impossible to recruit soldiers under the age of 35. They can definitely withstand the training.

In this way, the age range for conscription will be wider, making it easier to recruit enough people.

"That's not bad. As the age increases, the number of people we can recruit in a village will be much higher. However, there still needs to be a limit. The same village cannot recruit too many people." Xu Qingfeng said.

(End of this chapter)