Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 105 Selection of Special Cavalry
Wang Gensheng did not expect every soldier in his cavalry regiment to be born with the ability to lift a tripod, but at least they had to be one level higher than ordinary people.

If you want soldiers with good physical fitness, you naturally have to conduct large-scale selection.

But relatively speaking, the current soldier selection is simply incomparable to the soldier selection before Wang Gensheng traveled through time.

Wang Gensheng remembered that there was a military recruitment drive in the county where his family lived. More than 10,000 people came from the county, but only 100 soldiers were needed, so the elimination process began. Those with flat feet were not accepted.

Because it is said that people with flat feet cannot run fast. Of course, in addition to flat feet, people with body odor and hemorrhoids are also not allowed to run.

In addition, those with scars on their bodies are not allowed, whether they are surgical scars or any other scars. Most importantly, those with tattoos are not allowed.

In addition to these visible tests, there are also visual, olfactory, auditory and other tests, as well as psychological tests. Those who fail will be rejected.

Just as Wang Gensheng was thinking about how to select his cavalry, the commander spoke again:

"Alright, it's getting late, let's get going! I've reclaimed two hundred of the three hundred horses from the Independent Regiment, and I've also allocated a hundred more from my own cavalry reinforcement company. Together with your five hundred horses, we can barely form a cavalry regiment. Now, take your cavalry regiment and report to Shiti!"

The cavalry reinforcement company directly under the command of Commander Xu was naturally the cavalry horses of the two companies that were seized from Li Yunlong at the beginning. However, after Wang Gensheng used the special cavalry company to achieve brilliant results.

The commander looked at the cavalry reinforcement company that was almost treated as signalmen and felt that it was a waste of these horses.

So they directly picked out a hundred horses and gave them to Wang Gensheng. After all, the communications troops of the Hu army had more than enough horses for one company, and it would be a waste to raise so many for nothing.

So when they came, they had 500 horses, and when they left, they had 800 horses. With these 800 horses, Wang Gensheng came to the lion tribe of the 129 lions in such a mighty manner.

However, just when Wang Gensheng was rushing to the Lion Tribe, Commander Xi called and told him that he agreed to let Wang Gensheng select cavalry from the entire 129 Lions, and also said that if he disagreed, then Wang Gensheng's cavalry regiment would directly become a cavalry regiment directly under the Xi Tribe.

What else could the Lion Chief say about the Chief's behavior? He naturally nodded in agreement.

As soon as Wang Gensheng arrived at the Lion Tribe, he saw the Lion Chief coming out to greet him in person. Wang Gensheng had seen this Lion Chief before. Although the Lion Chief did not have many roles in the early stage of "Bright Sword", he had many roles in the later stage.

However, after traveling through time, Wang Gensheng had never seen the lion leader of his own lion family. After all, Wang Gensheng was not an old soldier like Kong Jie and Li Yunlong who had walked through the grasslands, so it was normal that he had never seen the lion leader.

Therefore, when Wang Gensheng saw a group of people coming to greet him at the village entrance, he immediately dismounted and saluted:
"Cavalry Regiment Commander Wang Gensheng reports, please give me your instructions, Chiefs!"

At this time, the Lion Chief also returned the greeting and said:
"Chief Lion of the 129th Lion welcomes you."

What Wang Gensheng didn't expect was that after returning the gift, the lion chief actually extended his hand to Wang Gensheng to shake hands. Wang Gensheng quickly stepped forward and shook hands with the old lion chief. After all, the lion chief was almost fifty years old, so compared to Wang Gensheng, who was less than twenty years old, he was naturally old.

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he was nineteen years old, seventeen years old. That's right, Wang Gen was born in the early 1940s, and he was only fifteen years old when he traveled through time during the night raid on Yang Village!
It is really unbelievable that a person who is seventeen or even less than eighteen years old has become the leader of the group.

The Lion Chief praised Wang Gensheng while shaking his hand:

"You're truly young and promising! This time, you've achieved our 129th Lions' most impressive performance yet in the counter-encirclement campaign! Your special cavalry company's tactics are truly creative! Concentrating superior forces for a surprise attack at night, quickly concluding the battle, and then leveraging the cavalry's superiority to quickly disengage from the battle and escape the enemy's pursuit. This is a truly innovative tactic."

Wang Gensheng smiled and said modestly:
"This is all thanks to the support of Captain Kong Jie. If it weren't for Captain Kong Jie's support, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to form a special cavalry company!"

"It's good to be humble, but your record is also worthy of recognition. This time, I heard from the commander that you want the entire Lions to select cavalry, and I agree to this. Later, I will have someone cooperate with you in selecting soldiers for the cavalry regiment. Of course, I fully support you in terms of soldiers, horses, and food. However, you have to rely on yourself for weapons. You want a submachine gun or light machine gun for each member of the regiment. Not to mention our 129 Lions, even the Japanese would find it difficult to supply them!"

What Captain Lion said was true. After all, a squadron of the Japanese had only nine light machine guns, and even a battalion had only thirty-six light machine guns.

Wang Gensheng now wants to expand his special cavalry company tenfold, from about a hundred people to about a thousand people, so naturally he needs a thousand light machine guns.

So it would take thirty battalions of Japanese devils to gather so many light machine guns, and thirty battalions are equivalent to thirty thousand people.

This means that Wang Gensheng has to kill 30,000 Japanese devils to obtain so many light machine guns.

Therefore, Wang Gensheng could only smile bitterly at the Lion Chief and said:
"Captain Lion, I also know that it's a bit impossible for a regiment of about a thousand people to have a light machine gun for each person, so for the time being, I can only keep the size of the special cavalry at one company, and then expand the size of the special cavalry as we seize equipment. However, these soldiers still need to be selected according to the physical fitness of the special cavalry! Otherwise, there will be no way to expand it after we have more equipment!"

"Okay! That's no problem. By the way, I heard that when you were in the New Second Regiment, in order to mobilize the enthusiasm of the soldiers in your Special Cavalry Company, you specially arranged for all the soldiers in the company to receive deputy squad treatment. Now, do you want to do the same with your Special Cavalry Regiment?"

After hearing this, Wang Gensheng thought for a moment and said:

"That depends on whether the newly recruited soldiers can pass the training. It would be inappropriate to give them deputy class treatment right away! I think it would be better to train them first and let them win a few battles before giving them deputy class treatment. After all, to get deputy class treatment, you need to have a record of success. What's the difference between a special cavalryman without a record and an ordinary soldier? Why should they be treated as deputy class?"

The Lion Commander greatly appreciated Wang Gensheng's use of battle records as an example. On the battlefield, battle records are what matter. Without battle records, no matter how good the words are, they are no different from empty talk.

So the Lion Chief also smiled and said:
"Very good, I admire that about you. Everything depends on your battle record. Without it, you're just Zhao Kuo, a man who only knows how to talk about war on paper! As long as you can show your achievements, you'll be treated as a deputy squad leader for the entire regiment. Okay, you've been traveling for half a day. Rest up tonight. Tomorrow morning, I'll have someone take you to the various regiments to select cavalry!"

(End of this chapter)