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Chapter 130 Chapter 129, Calculations on Recruiting Soldiers

Clap, clap... Everyone in the conference room applauded, but Zhu Xingyu stood up: "Old Zhao, you are exaggerating. What new comrade? We are all from the old army, old comrades, you are being so formal! Um... from today on, our Beishan guerrillas will be registered with the headquarters! We have also read the order from the headquarters, let us develop as much as we can, and we will be provided with some food!"

"Just now I learned from Lao Zhao about our weapons and ammunition reserves, which are quite abundant! Wow, there are 20 box guns alone! So, let's discuss how to develop the team next. Captain, I am not familiar with the situation. This matter has to be decided by you and Lao Xing. I absolutely support it!"

"Also, these four comrades are Zheng Changfeng, Lu Xiaoran, Chen Changsheng, and Guo Liandong. They are the backbone cadres selected by the brigade from our 772nd Regiment. They also came from the Long March. Let's get to know each other."

"Hello, comrades. I am Zheng Changfeng..." Four new comrades stood up and introduced themselves.

"Okay, now that we've met the new comrades, we should consider the development of the guerrillas! First of all, the internal designation of our guerrillas is the Beishan Guerrillas, and we can expand it to anywhere from a battalion to a regiment. Of course, there's no fixed number for this, and if there are more people we can call it a brigade, a detachment, or something like that."

"Regarding the development of the team, Lao Xing and I have discussed it in eight words: steady and steady, and gradual development! Now there are 95 comrades in the guerrilla team. The first thing to do is to increase the corresponding troops according to the existing weapons level and the number of veterans, intensify training and running-in, and strive to complete the team structure as soon as possible. The following is the structure and troops that we calculated to be completed."

"Although we handed over most of the weapons to our brother units and superiors in this anti-bandit campaign, we left behind a Type 4 heavy machine gun, which must be used! Therefore, we need a heavy machine gun squad, with at least two groups of heavy machine gunners and deputy gunners, four ammunition soldiers, and two auxiliary soldiers. That's a total of 2 people."

"According to Comrade Peregrine's previous advice, machine gunners are the most likely to be targeted by enemy sharpshooters and grenade launchers during combat, so it is best to pair a heavy machine gun squad with a sharpshooter and an assistant shooter, which requires a total of 12 people. A heavy machine gun squad is special in that the four machine gunners must be experienced veterans, and there must also be a veteran squad leader, and the sharpshooter and assistant shooter are also veterans."

"Therefore, a heavy machine gun squad must occupy at least 6 veterans. After removing 12 people, we are left with 95 people out of 83. And these 83 people, according to the number of Czech-style guns, we plan to divide them into 6 infantry squads of 9 people, each squad has 1 Czech-style gun. Three infantry squads form an infantry platoon, with a platoon leader and 3 grenade launcher combat groups! In this way, one platoon has 2 people, and two platoons have 32 people."

"The two infantry platoons need veterans to serve as the platoon leader, the squad leader and deputy squad leader, the machine gunner and deputy machine gunner, and the grenade launcher and deputy machine gunner. The leader of the assault team must also be a veteran. With this calculation, veterans need to occupy 40 positions. Add in the heavy machine gun squad, and there are 46 veterans left. After deducting the 12 heavy machine gun squad members and the 64 infantry platoon members, we still have 19 soldiers left."

"Among these 19 people, we also need to allocate a 9-man vanguard squad as scouts. This is indispensable! In addition, there is the grenade launcher medical comprehensive squad led by Comrade Youshun, the cooking squad led by Comrade Luo Wei, and the transportation squad led by Comrade Wang Zixian. These are also indispensable units. Of course, due to the function of combat missions, the number of recruits in these three squads can be larger."

"Then the question is, if we want to complete the establishment of the last three classes and have a certain reserve of troops, how many new recruits do we need to recruit?" Zhao Danian looked at everyone.

"How many should we recruit?" The cadres present, including the five new comrades, were also calculating this number. Zhao Danian just mentioned the team organization, but he had not mentioned the organization of the team headquarters. First of all, the captain, deputy captain and chief of staff took up three places. The team headquarters was not enough with only three commanders and fighters, but also needed signal soldiers, messengers, guards, etc. Therefore, in order to complete the establishment of the guerrillas, the number of people needed must be several dozen.

So, how about recruiting more people? That won't work either! First of all, we need to ensure combat effectiveness, so we can't have too many recruits. Secondly, although there are food reserves, we can't support too many troops! A soldier needs to eat a lot every day to ensure basic training and physical fitness, and he also needs meat. Another point is that it is winter now, and it is difficult to get food supply from the wild except for the stored food.

Of course, the guerrillas would also go hunting, but the harvest from hunting was not stable and could not be counted as food. The guerrillas now have a food inventory of about 3 catties. Based on the consumption of 2 catties per person per day, 95 people can be supplied for 157 days, more than 5 months, until the next spring. Therefore, when there is no additional food income, the growth of troops must be controlled.

Although we cannot recruit too many soldiers, we cannot recruit too few either! If we only recruit soldiers to complete the basic formation, we will not be able to recruit soldiers if there are casualties in battle.

"Captain, there is actually a problem we have overlooked!" At this time, Li Yuexuan said: "We have 5 grenade launchers, including me, and we also have 5 grenade throwers, but the two Huyan squad leaders have to command battles while serving as grenade throwers. This is not appropriate! Therefore, we still need to train special grenade throwers." Li Yuexuan reminded.

"Well, this is also a problem..." Zhao Danian took out a small notebook, a pencil, and started calculating on the notebook.

Zhao Danian's calculation method is very simple: 19 people, 9 more for the vanguard squad, 12 more for the general squad, 9 more for the cooking squad, and 20 more for the transport squad (there are 20 large animals that need to be taken care of during the battle march). In this way, there are 50 people. Of course, these 50 people are redundant, after all, there are 16 people who are not counted, and this is the redundant force.

Then, after considering that the headquarters would provide some food, Zhao Danian added 5 more places among the new recruits, making a total of 55 people, and also gathered a total of 150 troops for the guerrilla team.

"Well, after all the calculations, we have actually thought out our organization a long time ago..." After finishing the calculations, Zhao Danian breathed a sigh of relief and showed the notebook to Xing Weiguo.

"Ha... They wanted 150 sets of military uniforms, that's really..." Xing Weiguo was no longer disappointed, and nodded and said, "Let's just recruit 55 new soldiers! They will start training this winter, and they will be ready to fight next spring! Fortunately, we still have enough veterans in our team! Although the Taoist priests have never fought in a war, at least they have seen blood!"

(End of this chapter)