si-mexico Chapter 1140 can open a door.
Chapter 1140 can open a door.
"I thought it was something serious. Although we prohibit requiring local armies to temporarily recruit soldiers, there are always various interpretations. You're only looking at the main points and ignoring the secondary ones. All this information needs to be reported to the General Staff Headquarters so they can handle it accordingly. Your situation is special, especially in a place like Hankou, so you should increase your infantry strength. Start by forming them into an infantry regiment, but you must find out if anyone is trying to infiltrate. Also, have they really lost their unit designations? If their original unit designations are still in use, we'd better not compete with others for their personnel."
Li Shaoyi thought for a moment and said, "There are many scattered troops around Hankou. Although the government has issued a plan to reorganize the army, the Nationalist government has always been very slow in its work. By the time they start this project, the Japanese will probably have already invaded."
"General, please rest assured. They really had nowhere else to go along the way, which is why they followed us. Since the fall of Nanjing, many of their superiors haven't even asked them a single question. They'd rather these people fend for themselves. I don't know what their superiors were thinking."
When Hao Dashan spoke of these men's superiors, his eyes were filled with disdain. During his time in the 72nd Army, all the officers he encountered treated them like their own lives. After all, the 72nd Army judged its success by its battle merits, and everyone wanted to bring along their old subordinates to gain more credit on the battlefield. But the people in the Nationalist government were a little different.
"You don't understand, but I do. An infantry regiment has 2000 men, but after a battle, only 300 are left. So, he uses those 300 as the foundation to rebuild the regiment. But what if all 300 are gone? Then he'll be given a new infantry regiment. The veterans know that his mistakes on the battlefield led to the deaths of many brothers, but the new recruits don't know that..."
When Li Shaoyi talked about this, he was extremely sarcastic. But this is the current state of the National Revolutionary Army. Although we are dissatisfied, we can only make sarcastic remarks from the sidelines. Don't even think about hoping that our words will attract the attention of the National Revolutionary Army's high command and lead to a full-scale overhaul.
While the group was talking, the food was served. Li Shaoyi was fairly satisfied with the meal: a can of beef stewed with cabbage, another serving of cucumber salad, a sausage for each person, and white rice porridge—it was quite a good meal.
"General, it's not that we're not strictly adhering to wartime supply policies, it's just that Hankou Airport is too small, and the number of landing slots allocated to us is limited, so we can only eat what we have for now. The two meat dishes and two vegetable dishes we used to talk about are really not feasible now."
Hao Dashan knew the 72nd Army's strict military regulations: everything else could be put aside, but the soldiers' supplies absolutely had to be in place, especially food, drink, and clothing.
As Li Shaoyi had said in his previous speeches, the logistical support for all soldiers on the battlefield was directly related to their combat effectiveness.
If any unit encounters any difficulties, please try to discuss them with headquarters and we will work together to resolve the issue.
If headquarters can't supply the supplies, we can use some money to purchase them from various locations. In short, we can't let our brothers fight on an empty stomach.
"The soldiers just need to be fed, but you have to make sure you eat the same things as them every day. From now on, I'll eat the same things as our soldiers."
Li Shaoyi's words warmed the hearts of the brothers around him. At this moment, Li Shaoyi had already picked up his plate and started eating. The others also knew the saying "one should not speak while eating," so they shoveled their rice into their mouths.
Although this was a level below the usual requirements of the 72nd Group Army, on the battlefield at this moment, not only the Nationalist Army, but even the Japanese army fighting against us probably couldn't meet this standard. They would just eat a rice ball with some salt and consider it a meal.
That evening, Li Shaoyi had some of the system's instructors transport 50 trucks loaded with various urgently needed supplies. Anyway, the commander-in-chief claimed he had obtained them; the subordinates only knew the commander-in-chief was capable, and they didn't care where he got them—as long as they solved our current problems.
Blackouts were enforced in Hankou at night, as a number of Japanese planes would be flying overhead. We had prepared quite a few planes, but we weren't sure we could intercept them accurately. So, every night, blackouts were enforced in most parts of Hankou, and people like Li Shaoyi had to hide in basements.
But how could someone like Li Shaoyi possibly hide in a basement? He might not care about other places, but around his office where he lived, this guy had brought out 12 quadruple 20mm anti-aircraft guns.
As for the other anti-aircraft machine guns, there were more than 30 of them, surrounding the entire building like a fiery hedgehog. If they spotted an aircraft approaching, you'd be lucky not to come over. But if you dared to come over, a quick hovering in our skies would definitely bring you down.
At this moment, Li Shaoyi and the other brothers were waiting outside. The air raid siren had been sounding for half an hour, but so far, not a single plane had been seen. Many of the brothers felt as if they had punched cotton when they touched the anti-aircraft guns in their hands.
"What are the people in this air defense command doing? They sounded the alarm half an hour ago, but so far, not a single plane has been seen."
Some of the brothers had already started complaining in the darkness.
“You newcomers don’t know, but the job at the air defense command is the easiest. When you start work at 7 a.m., sound the air raid sirens. When you go to bed at midnight, turn them off. I’ve prepared that for you for the day. If you ignore it and get bombed, that’s your own problem, it has nothing to do with me.”
This guy's words amused everyone. But the air defense units at the Hankou Command were really like that; they didn't investigate many things very thoroughly.
"Attention all units, four enemy aircraft have been spotted in the southeast direction."
Just as everyone was joking around, a message came through our radar personnel in the headset: a small radar had already been installed on the left side of the building, specifically to monitor Japanese aircraft, and they had already made a discovery.