Songhu: Never Give Up

Chapter 122 Gathering the Scattered Soldiers
After the 527th Regiment entered the city, it began to gather the scattered defeated soldiers. The 18 divisions of the Central Army fought with the Japanese in the city, and thousands of scattered soldiers were defeated. Many of them did not receive the order to retreat and still held on in the streets and alleys of the city.
Yue Qianli now had guns and food in his hands, and he would forcibly recruit any defeated soldiers he saw. Some conflicts broke out during this period, but the 527th Regiment suppressed them with their fists.

Due to time constraints, Yue Qianli only gave a few battalions one day and one night to gather as many troops as possible and then assign them all to the various battalions;
When dividing the troops, Yue Qianli distributed 300 Mauser rifles, 30 machine guns to each battalion, and increased the number of mortars in each battalion's artillery company. The regiment headquarters kept 6% of the other supplies and distributed them all to the battalions.

In this way, they had enough supplies to arm the defeated soldiers. Yue Qianli had said that everyone should rely on their own abilities, and only one reconnaissance company, one guard company, artillery battalion and baggage train were left beside the regiment headquarters.
With the recovery of a large number of wounded soldiers, the number of people in the baggage train has increased to more than 600, of which more than 400 are wounded soldiers and the remaining reinforcements. They are reorganized into three companies, led by platoon leaders and even company commanders of the recovered wounded soldiers. They are equipped with a large number of submachine guns and their combat effectiveness is not inferior to that of regular companies.

After the three battalions were released, they frantically gathered up the stragglers, and the army expanded like a snowball;

Li Jie and others are all veterans. They know the value of these stragglers better than anyone else. They are all iron-blooded veterans who gather and reorganize them.

Many veterans had weapons in their hands, and with the equipment prepared in advance, they were not short of weapons;

In a blink of an eye, the time set by the regiment headquarters passed, and the first battalion also stopped the action of gathering the scattered soldiers. Li Jie knew from the smiles on the faces of several company commanders that they should have gained a lot.

Li Jie smiled and said:
"You all have become stronger, tell us what you have, don't hide anything, so that I, as the battalion commander, can know how many soldiers I have now."

The first company commander, Song Yunhan, spoke first:
“There are 387 people in the company now, including 17 officers, the highest ranking being a major battalion commander, who was retained because of an injury;

There are 3 heavy machine guns, more than 40 light machine guns, 2 flying thunder cannons, more than 500 long and short guns, and ammunition is also sufficient. "

Second Company Commander Ma Haibo then reported:
"The Second Company now has 411 people, 15 officers, 52 light and heavy machine guns, more than 600 long and short guns, and an 1mm mortar."

Li Jie could no longer hold back his smile. There were more than 700 people in the two companies alone. Then he looked at the third company commander Duan Yulin with anticipation. This was his favorite general and he should not let him down.

Duan Yulin saw Li Jie looking at him, so he cheered up and said:

"The third company now has 558 people, including 32 officers, all of whom are company and platoon officers. We have nearly a thousand machine rifles, and we also got two mortars, one of which is the Japanese 2mm mortar, but there are only more than 90 shells, and it is difficult to replenish them after they are used up."

"Our machine gun company has also expanded to 329 people, with more than 300 machine gun rifles. You, the battalion commander, have made an agreement before. These people will belong to us. I just want to organize an infantry platoon."

After hearing this, Li Jie laughed and scolded:
"Yu Liangtao, you have an artillery company and an infantry platoon of nearly 200 people, why don't you go to the sky?"

Yu Liangtao said unconvincedly:
"Battalion Commander, you can't go back on your word. Even if I can find an infantry platoon of 2 people, you have to recognize it.

Li Jie was speechless and could only say:
"Okay, I admit it! I'll nail it down.

You guys are really so arrogant. Even your machine gun company has more than 300 people. As a battalion commander, I am almost living the life of a regimental commander.

People, I may not take it back from you, but your combat effectiveness must also keep up. We cannot wear new shoes and walk the old path. We must hold ourselves to the standards of the battalion!

I will give you one more day to reorganize your troops. After one day, you must be ready to fight the devils to the death.

The reconnaissance platoon is responsible for searching for the devils. This time I want to use the devils to train my troops!"

After listening to this, everyone expressed their opinions, and each of them was really arrogant. Li Jie was in a very good mood.

After he had compiled the strength of the entire battalion, he reported it to the regiment headquarters, which also made Lao Yue happy.

At the regiment headquarters, Yue Qianli was staring at the map of Shanghai and thinking about something. He now needed to take the initiative to fight a battle to attract the attention of the devils.
Since we have to fight anyway, we might as well take the initiative and take the initiative on the battlefield into our own hands.

The deputy regiment commander Tian Yuanxi rushed in excitedly and said to Yue Qianli with a smile: "Commander, the first battalion sent a telegram saying that you are almost the brigade commander now!"

Yue Qianli took the message with a suspicious look on his face, and after reading it, he laughed and scolded:
"They are a bunch of country bumpkins who have never seen the world. They are so arrogant with just a few people. There are less than 2 of them, which is far from my expectation."

Tian Yuanxi was speechless. One battalion had less than 3 people and they were still not satisfied. If the other two battalions were the same, the three infantry battalions alone would have to people. Add the artillery battalion and the regimental headquarters, and the whole regiment would have to people. Not to mention a brigade, even a miscellaneous division would not have that many.

"Captain, the second and third battalions probably won't have too few people. The key is that they have more equipment than people now. If they gather more people later, they will have less than 10,000 people!"

Yue Qianli shook his head and said:

"But the Japanese have more than 100,000 people. Once the fighting starts, these people won't be able to hold out for long. Let's just get along with them for now!
Send them a signal, the Sihang Warehouse has been connected to the fire, hurry up and reorganize the troops, we must also find an opportunity to strike the devils. "

Tian Yuanxi was about to leave when communications staff officer Xu Puguang came over excitedly with a telegram folder in his hand. It should be a call from the second and third battalions.

"Commander, the second and third battalions are calling."

Yue Qianli calmly took the telegram and took a look. It turned out that it was the Second and Third Battalions sending a message to show off. The total number of the Second Battalion had increased to more than 2200, and the Third Battalion had more than 1600. They were indeed not easy to deal with.

Yue Qianli now felt confident. He decided to fight the Japanese while they were still struggling to gain a firm foothold. He wanted to pick on the weak ones, and he was targeting the Japanese Marines.

"Old Tian, ​​record the message!"

Yue Qian then sent his battle plan to the three battalion commanders. This time he wanted to use the asymmetry of information to trick the devils.
First we'll attack the Marines, then surround and attack the reinforcements, and then we'll see who gets unlucky...

In Hongkou, on Sichuan North Road, a group of Japanese soldiers wearing steel helmets and navy blue sailor uniforms marched in four neat columns toward the Navy Headquarters Building;
They were from the Ando Squadron, which was ordered to take over the headquarters building and was affiliated with the 4th Marine Battalion.

As pioneers, they were fortunate to be the first Marine Corps to enter the building. More than two months had passed since the headquarters building was breached by the Chinese, and the Navy Special Marine Corps that had been driven out to sea had returned.

"Yoshi, Shanghai still belongs to the Imperial Army!"

Captain Ando looked at the headquarters building in front of him, which had been completely destroyed, and felt mixed emotions. As one of the survivors, he finally returned to the headquarters building as a winner, so it was normal for him to show off.

What he didn't know was that when he was looking at the headquarters building, the commander of the First Battalion, Li Jie, was also looking at him like prey. The First Battalion had been waiting for them for several hours!

Facing the prey in his mouth, Li Jie muttered:
"Although there are fewer devils, a mosquito leg is still meat, so we can just make do with it!"

After muttering, he turned to the communications staff and said:

"Give them the signal—fire!"

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