The Iron-Blooded Army of Beacon Fire

Chapter 294: Recruiting soldiers, getting promoted, and getting rich is a good thing 1
"Come, come, come, everyone, come in and line up."

"Stop fucking running around, stand in line, stand in line, do you understand? Follow the soldiers around you."

"Don't worry, you have everything you need. The white ocean is waiting for you."

One morning, in the spy camp, the original tranquility was long gone, replaced by extremely lively and bustling people.

In front of the camp gate of the camp, more than 200 strong men wearing various costumes were forming several columns under the organization and command of the officers and soldiers of the secret service camp, slowly advancing into the camp.

Most of these strong men are dressed simply and crudely. They wear patched and oily coarse cloth clothes. Most of them wear straw sandals on their feet. They wear towels or daggers around their necks and shoulders. Occasionally, they wear a few The other one was slightly better dressed, but he was only wearing cloth shoes and a short shirt, and his skin color was also the same color as wheat.

Obviously, these strong men all come from poor families and represent the poor farmers and workers who currently make up the vast majority of the Chinese people.

At the gate of the camp, Yang Biao, the leader of the special agent platoon, was shouting at the top of his lungs to direct these young men to advance. The officers and soldiers of the special agent platoon also pulled these young men, most of whom were confused and confused, towards the camp. Enter.

At the gate of the secret service camp, Li Youcai, the lieutenant quartermaster of the secret service camp, was also shouting loudly, but the content of his shouts was related to money. Beside Li Youcai, two large tables had been set up. On one table were On the table was a sea of ​​white flowers, while on the other table were ink pads for signatures and paintings and bundles of pre-written documents.

"Come on, come on, what the hell are you looking at? I won't take advantage of you."

Yang Biao pointed at a strong man at the head of the queue and shouted to him to come over. Although the strong man was strong, when he saw Yang Biao shouting at him, his face turned pale with fright, and his pace was not fast. So he stopped, his knees kept shaking and bending, and he stayed there in a daze, not daring to move.

Seeing this, Yang Biao's expression changed. He ran up to the strong man in three steps and two steps at a time. He waved his big fist and yelled angrily at the strong man: "You have some backbone, don't make your knees weak every time, damn it." I yelled at you and you were so frightened, how can you be a soldier in the future? Let me tell you, you are considered a commoner now, I will let you go. If you are still like this after joining the army, you will suffer a lot!"

"Boss, I was wrong, I was wrong!"

The strong man was so frightened by Yang Biao's evil scolding that he kept bending down to apologize. He kept saying "I was wrong, I was wrong", but he didn't know where he was wrong. He only bent down to apologize. , with panic written all over his face.

The performance of this strong man made Yang Biao impatient for a while. Yang Biao grabbed the strong man's arm and pulled him to the two tables at the entrance of the spy camp.

"Li Junxiao, let's get started. These new recruits still need training."

Yang Biao pointed to the strong man and said to Li Youcai, the lieutenant of the secret service camp who was sitting at the table.

"Name?"

"what?"

The strong man looked at Li Youcai with a questioning look on his face. He was obviously nervous and did not hear clearly what Li Youcai said. Li Youcai shook his head helplessly and asked in a different way: "Let me ask you what is your big name?" What, what’s your last name, what’s your name?”

The strong man finally understood and said timidly: "Boss, my name is Dong Sifu."

"Where do you live?"

"My home is in another province, and now I have no home."

"Well, tell me why you became a soldier."

Li Youcai asked.

The strong man scratched his head and whispered: "My family came here to escape. All my family members died on the way to escape, and I was the only one left. Before the war, I had been working in a factory. After the escape, I had been living by begging and working part-time jobs. "After I came to Hanyang, I originally wanted to work in a nearby factory, but a few days ago I saw that the salary you paid to be a soldier here, boss, was enough to support myself, so I changed my mind and planned to join the army."

"Do you know the words?"

"Boss, you know a few, some words, and the numbers of foreign devils. I was taught by the foreman when I was working in the factory."

Li Youcai nodded and said with satisfaction: "Okay, literacy is good, and numeracy is even better. What do you think?"

The strong man suddenly smiled innocently and said, "I've thought about it, the salary for being a soldier here with the boss is much more than what I did before, and it's also more than what I earn in the nearby factory."

"Okay, then sign and pledge, come, register him, and pay him."

Following Li Youcai's order, the Warrant Officer Secretary on the side immediately took out a document written in advance, filled in the name of the strong man Dong Sifu, and asked Dong Sifu to press his fingerprint.

Immediately, another warrant officer special agent took out 20 yuan from the ocean on the table and handed it to Dong Sifu. After completing the registration and receiving the ocean, Dong Sifu happily covered his face and giggled, and was taken over by a soldier from the secret service battalion. Entered the camp.

"Next!"

Li Youcai, who had completed the registration of the first recruit, shouted at the top of his lungs to the young men behind him and continued his registration work. The young men queuing up in the back just followed Dong Sifu's enlistment procedure, one after another. Register, receive money, and enter the camp.

Not far from the entrance of the camp, He Wei's face was filled with joy and sigh. Looking at the strong men being led into the camp, several company commanders from the special agent battalion around him also grinned. These more than 200 strong men were the first results of He Wei's decision to recruit troops on his own after being inspired by the tragic situation of the recruits in the 103rd Division.

Originally, in order to prepare the soldiers in advance and try to ensure that there were more "volunteers" who took the initiative to serve as soldiers and had better quality in the army, He Wei ordered the entire secret service battalion the day after returning from visiting the 103rd Division. The officers and soldiers stopped resting and engaged in the vigorous recruitment drive.

At first, He Wei's idea of ​​recruiting soldiers was very simple. There is a saying that goes well, soldiers eat food and pay for their lives. If you want to recruit people to serve as soldiers, you must ensure basic treatment and use relatively high salary to attract people. , with such a simple idea, He Wei thought that recruiting soldiers could be solved with money.

So, He Wei asked his four company commanders, Fu Chen, Fang Jing, Hu Zhaowu and Chen Xinsheng, to take lots of white flowers and lead people to open several recruitment points nearby.

He thought that by spending the money, he could recruit soldiers, but when the matter was actually carried out, He Wei realized that recruiting soldiers was definitely not that simple. The four company commanders under him were accustomed to leading troops for a long time, and they knew nothing about leading troops. He has a lot of experience and knows what kind of soldiers are easy to lead.

Nowadays, when it comes to good soldiers, they are naturally farmers from good families in rural areas. This group is also the main source of soldiers for the current national army and is the main force of soldiers in the Chinese army.

The biggest advantage of this group is that they are honest and obedient. Of course, there are also many shortcomings. For example, they are basically illiterate and it is difficult to train them. However, in comparison, this advantage can still outweigh the shortcomings.

Because of this, the four company commanders all waved the banner of recruiting soldiers and went to nearby villages to recruit soldiers with their oceans. Moreover, He Wei also offered generous terms such that all applicants would be given twenty oceans of resettlement allowance. .

He Wei and several company commanders thought that under such generous treatment conditions, they would recruit enough soldiers within a few days. However, the four company commanders visited nearby villages, but in the end it backfired and they recruited The total number of soldiers was not enough to be fifty. Faced with the generous treatment offered by He Wei, the villagers in those villages not only flocked to it, but even went so far as to do the opposite. When they saw the recruiters, they all regarded them as savage beasts and were frightened. It was like a tiger, which made He Wei and others extremely depressed for a while, and they had to suspend recruitment.

And those recruited soldiers quickly used their actual performance to make He Wei and several company commanders almost vomit blood. The less than fifty recruited soldiers quickly showed their performance after being led to the station of the secret service camp. All kinds of abnormalities.

Even before the special agent battalion started training them, these people showed considerable military literacy. They all knew how to take a break, stand at attention, and various passwords without any teachers. They spoke extremely well, and some of them There are thick calluses on his hands, and it looks like he has received military training.

After some questioning and investigation of these people, He Wei found out that these recruited soldiers were all soldiers from various villages, that is, professional strong men who made a living by serving as soldiers for others.

Whenever each village is asked to produce young men, this group of people will take the initiative to sell themselves and earn income by serving as soldiers. Once they have joined the army, this group of old oilmen will look for opportunities to escape and go home, waiting for each other in the future. When there are more young men in the village, they will repeat the old trick and sell themselves out, and then come back after they have joined the army.

In this way, every time this group of people sells themselves to serve as soldiers, they will receive certain military training, and their basic military literacy and various movements will naturally be very skilled.

Under He Wei's questioning, these soldiers also revealed the inside story of why no one from the villages near Hanyang was recruiting soldiers.

It turns out that even the three extremely prosperous towns of Wuhan did not escape the military disaster. Several divisional areas responsible for recruiting new soldiers were set up near Hanyang, and a large-scale recruitment was carried out after the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War. This recruitment was The methods and circumstances were similar to those of the strong recruits of the 103rd Division.

In short, the situation of conscription was extremely miserable. After this conscription, the common people who witnessed the miserable plight of young male recruits dared not send their own men to enlist in the army, and they all came up with various ways to avoid conscription.

According to the Military Service Law, orphans are deferred from military service, and school students are deferred from military service. Prisoners, civil servants, teachers, local teams, and police officers can also be non-soldiers. In order to avoid being drafted, villagers in nearby villages have tried every means and method to exploit the loopholes of the military service law. Hide soldiers.

Some careers in the family involve working as a team member, or as a policeman, as a servant in a government agency or school, or as a security guard at the joint security office. Those with some savings in the family and younger men will find ways to send their children to school, regardless of their children. Whether they were illiterate or not, they were all sent to nearby middle schools. All they wanted was for their children to have student status and not become soldiers. All the public middle schools near Hanyang were full at that time.

In fact, this way of avoiding soldiers by going to school has spawned a whole new industry. Some people saw that public middle schools were full and took the opportunity to open many private middle schools for profit. These private middle schools that were born to avoid soldiers recruited students. Students do not need to go to school. Students only need to pay tuition to have student status.

Of course, the tuition is also very expensive, but in order to save their children from being drafted into the military, the nearby people are willing to go all out and devote their entire family efforts to send the strongest members of their families to school.

As for the young men whose families were extremely poor, they resorted to self-mutilation to hide from the soldiers.

In order to avoid the soldiers, the common people crossed the sea and showed their magical powers. You have a toad mirror and I have athlete's foot. After a few months of hard work, almost every household in the villages near the spy camp met the criteria for exemption from conscription. In addition, the common people themselves He was extremely afraid of being a soldier, so it was natural for the secret service camp to recruit soldiers but failed.

When this happened, He Wei and the officers of the special agent battalion were at a loss what to do. Finally, He Wei, who couldn't think of a way in a short period of time, had an idea and directly threw this problem to the recruited soldiers.

Although these birdmen are not very good people, and they are all very good at it, they are very familiar with the three religions near Hanyang. They are all locals, and they naturally know the local situation better than outsiders like He Wei and others. Many of them People are even local gangsters.

He Wei didn't have a good look on this group of soldiers who were trying to defraud Dayanghua from him, so He Wei directly asked these soldiers to help the secret service camp come up with a way to recruit a large number of soldiers. If they figure it out, He Wei will naturally let them go.

If you can't think of it, humph, then just stay in the secret service camp and serve as soldiers. At the same time, He Wei also patted his chest and expressed to them that he would give priority to pushing them to the front line when fighting the Japanese army!
This group of soldiers are also afraid of being soldiers in the army, let alone fighting the Japanese with real swords and guns. Under the coercion of He Wei, in order to avoid becoming soldiers and save their lives, this group of people are really scared. He was full of wisdom and tricks, and finally gave He Wei an excellent idea.

According to this gang of soldiers, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the three towns of Wuhan gathered a large number of refugees fleeing from the occupied areas. In order to support their families, these refugees who had no food and clothing had to look for work everywhere, and due to the industrial development of the three towns of Wuhan It is relatively developed, so there are many factories near Hanyang. These factories also take this opportunity to recruit workers from refugees at very low wages, and the requirements are not low. They recruit refugees who have factory work experience. Among the refugees, there are indeed many workers from the occupied areas.

Although the factories near Hanyang offered extremely low wages, in order to survive, to support themselves and their families, these refugee workers still went to various factories to apply for jobs in an endless stream.

These workers who were going to work in the factory were the soldiers that the gangsters came up with for him under He Wei's coercion, and they could be regarded as high-quality soldiers.

Because these workers from occupied areas not only have good physical fitness, but also have some rough knowledge of words and even numbers because of their factory work experience, and have a certain degree of organization and discipline. Compared with farmers, they are actually A more suitable source of soldiers, and many workers can also be said to be farmers with certain cultural qualities. Most of them are also honest and hard-working, making them good soldiers.

He Wei and the secret service battalion also relied on these gangsters' quick wits to save their lives. After the initial recruitment failure, they became a blessing in disguise. Bad things turned into good things, and they obtained a better and sufficient source of troops.

Therefore, He Wei naturally shifted his recruitment targets to these unemployed workers. Naturally, there was now a lively scene in front of the spy camp.

(End of this chapter)