Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 20 The New Second Regiment, Poor and Empty

That’s right, after being defeated by Yamamoto’s Special Forces, it was a shame for the entire independent regiment, especially for Kong Jie.

So Kong Jie was holding his breath! Kong Jie urgently needed a big victory to wash away this shame.

The battle of Lijiaopo naturally helped Kong Jie wash away the shame of the Battle of Yangcun.

After the entire Yamazaki Battalion was completely wiped out, naturally no one would talk about the independent regiment being a piece of dough anymore.

So after the battle, Kong Jie looked at Li Yunlong gratefully and said:
"Old Li, you set the stage and let us put on a good show! We've avenged our previous defeat. Old Yamazaki was riddled with machine gun fire. All that's left is this knife, the only flaw in the ointment!"

As he said that, Kong Jie handed the commander's knife he had just obtained from Captain Yamazaki to Li Yunlong.

Li Yunlong looked at the injured Kong Jie and said:

"Brother, just rest and recover!"

As he said this, he called for a stretcher to carry Kong Jie down Lijiaopo.

After that it was time to clean up the battlefield, and when cleaning the battlefield, Li Yunlong really felt that this battle was worth it.

It's worth it to bomb thousands of grenades, considering that there are quite a lot of people in a battalion.

Under normal circumstances, a fully staffed battalion can have up to one thousand people, which is equivalent to the number of an ordinary external regiment of the Eighth Route Army.

As for what the external regiment is, it is actually a regiment like the New 1st Regiment and the Independent Regiment, and the number of people in these regiments is only a few thousand. Only the main regiments like the 772nd Regiment or the 771st Regiment have two or three thousand people.

Moreover, the previous attack by Cheng Xiazi of the 772nd Regiment also caused a lot of casualties to the Yamazaki Battalion. Otherwise, the casualties of the Yamazaki Battalion would have increased a lot if the Independent Regiment had captured it.

Of course, after seizing the equipment of the Yamazaki Battalion this time, there were thousands of Type 38 rifles alone, and these rifles meant that the independent regiment could expand by thousands of people.

It has become an external editing group that can rival the main group. However, Li Yunlong's idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

Because not long after Li Yunlong returned from cleaning up the battlefield, he received a phone call from the commander, asking him to send half of the seized weapons and equipment to the commander's headquarters.

Because the higher-ups decided to form a new Second Regiment for the 386th Regiment, and the equipment would come from the spoils of this battle.

Li Yunlong was not happy when he heard this. Why would he give away half of the spoils he had worked so hard to win? So he immediately said:

"Captain, please don't! These are the weapons and equipment that the Independent Regiment obtained after defeating the Yamazaki Battalion with great effort. Kong Jie was even injured for this! If Kong Jie recovers from his injury and comes back, I won't be able to explain it to you!"

However, the chief on the other end of the phone said:

"No need to explain. Kong Jie can't come back. The new Second Regiment will be led by Kong Jie. Of course, if you think it's not worth it, that's fine. The leadership of the new Second Regiment will be yours, and Kong Jie will return to be the leader of the independent regiment."

Li Yunlong was frightened by the words of the chief, and he immediately refused:

"No! No! No! Can't you just give it to me?"

There was no way. Li Yunlong was unwilling to be the commander of the new Second Regiment. It was extremely difficult to re-establish a new regiment, as it required no backbone or equipment.

Especially since there were only 500 people with equipment. Although Li Yunlong gave half of the captured equipment, the remaining half of the equipment could increase the number of people in the independent regiment by 500, bringing the total number of people in the independent regiment to 1,500. This was better than starting over. Of course, the commander had also asked Kong Jie for his opinion.

Is he willing to be the commander of the newly formed New Second Regiment, or return to the Independent Regiment to continue serving as his deputy commander?

Kong Jie naturally chose the former without thinking about this question. There was no other way. After spending these days together, Kong Jie understood that if he served as the deputy regiment commander under Li Yunlong again in the future, he would be so angry that he would get sick.

Moreover, it is not impossible to expand the equipment of these 500 people, but Kong Jie still has a request, which is to transfer Wang Gensheng to serve as his battalion commander.

Of course, to be promoted from deputy company commander to battalion commander is to jump three levels in a row, and it is more difficult than to be promoted from soldier to platoon leader. However, when Kong Jie reported Wang Gensheng's battle record in Lijiaopo, and added that the new second regiment was just a newly formed regiment.

So the director agreed to Kong Jie's request, and this is the advantage of establishing a new team, that is, promotion is fast, just like the employees who joined the company in its early stages, after the company becomes bigger, they can at least become a team leader or manager.

Of course, Wang Gensheng doesn’t know this news yet!

After returning to Yangcun, the independent regiment began to rest and recuperate, and Li Yunlong asked Wang Gensheng to be the throwing instructor again.

However, this time Wang Gensheng was found by Wei Dayong because Wei Dayong actually wanted to learn Wang Gensheng's flying knife technique.

Wang Gensheng had no intention of hiding anything about his flying knife skills. Of course, the more important thing was that Wei Dayong would also teach Wang Gensheng Shaolin Kung Fu in return.

Originally, Wang Gensheng didn't have a high opinion of Shaolin Temple's martial arts. After all, before he traveled through time, he had seen some Shaolin monks fighting in the ring, such as Yilong, and he didn't see anything special about them.

For example, he could exert internal force outside his body, and he had never seen any of the 72 Shaolin unique skills. However, what Wang Gensheng did not expect was that after accepting Wei Dayong's guidance, especially after Wei Dayong taught Wang Gensheng how to stand still.

Wang Gensheng actually felt a warm current in his body. He didn't know whether this warm current was internal force.

However, when this heat flowed to his arm and when he threw the knife, the power of his knife was actually greater than before. To give a specific example, when Wang Gensheng did not use this heat flow, the knife could penetrate the wooden pole three centimeters at a distance of thirty meters.

But with the help of heat flow, it can penetrate three and a half centimeters.

This discovery immediately made Wang Gensheng very happy.

However, just when Wang Gensheng was about to continue learning Shaolin Kung Fu from Wei Dayong, the transfer order for Wang Gensheng had arrived at the independent regiment.

That’s right, Kong Jie has recovered from his injuries and been discharged from the hospital, so it’s naturally time to form a new second regiment.

When Wang Gensheng heard that he was going to be the battalion commander of the New Second Regiment, he naturally agreed without thinking. Otherwise, it would not be so easy to be promoted to battalion commander if he stayed in the independent regiment.

Moreover, several battalion commanders of the independent regiment all had someone in their position, and there was no way they could be replaced by Wang Gensheng without any fault on their part.

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"Wang Gensheng, you will be the commander of the Third Battalion from now on. However, you know the situation of the New Second Regiment, so right now the Third Battalion only has one platoon. As for how to turn a platoon into a battalion, that's your business!"

Wang Gensheng was speechless when he heard Kong Jie's words. Well, it turns out that this was a promotion in name only and a demotion in reality!

He used to be the deputy company commander, but now he is the battalion commander, and ended up being the platoon leader. But it doesn't matter. There are not many people. As long as they can get the equipment, they can make a whole battalion, even a lion.

(End of this chapter)