Chapter 26 Recruiting Soldiers and Training Speech
The recruitment ended smoothly, and just as Zhang Biao and his men were about to pack up, two female students suddenly appeared. They were extremely beautiful, one with short hair and the other with long hair. As soon as they saw Zhang Biao, they shouted in unison: "Wait! We want to join the army too!" Zhang Biao turned around and looked at the two beautiful girls, awkwardly saying: "We're already full, we can't take any more."
One of the short-haired female students batted her eyelashes at Zhang Biao and said, "This officer can take us in, two more won't be too many, right?"
Before meeting, the two women who looked like goddesses, Zhang Biao had long thought that no matter what, he must bring them in, especially the woman who was throwing flirtatious glances at him. What kind of man wouldn't be tempted by such a beautiful woman? Especially for someone like Zhang Biao, a young and vigorous bachelor, how could he not be moved by such a stunning woman?
Zhang Biao hastily said: "This is something I also can't decide on, I have to ask our Master, you all wait for me to go and ask."
After finishing, he rushed to Zhang Mingyu's command post and saw Zhang Biao running over. Zhang Mingyu frowned and said: "What's wrong? Were you chased by wolves or what? Why are you running so fast?"
Zhang Biao panted and said: "Master, I have an important piece of intelligence to report to you!"
"What's going on? Spit it out! Stop beating around the bush!" Zhang Mingyu said.
"There are two female students who want to join the army, but we have already filled up according to your order!" Zhang Biao said hesitantly.
"Hey! I'm telling you, when did you become so incoherent? You're full and then you just stop, huh?" Zhang Mingyu said impatiently.
"No! Master Zhang doesn't know, come with me and see for yourself!" After saying that, Zhang Biao pulled Zhang Mingyu and ran towards the recruitment office.
As they were about to arrive at the recruitment office, Zhang Mingyu kicked Zhang Biao, who was pulling him along, to the ground and scolded: "What the hell are you doing, dragging me around like this?" The soldiers in the distance couldn't help but cover their mouths and laugh.
Zhang Biao scratched his head and said, "You go take a look yourself! It's right over there." He pointed to the two female students.
Zhang Mingyu followed Zhang Biao's pointing gaze and saw two exceptionally beautiful female students wearing 1930s standard school uniforms standing there. When they saw Zhang Mingyu looking at them, the long-haired girl quickly lowered her head in embarrassment, while the short-haired girl looked back at Zhang Mingyu without any shyness.
As they faced each other, Zhang Mingyu suddenly felt a sense of familiarity, as if he had seen the girl in front of him somewhere before, but for the moment, he couldn't quite recall where.
Zhang Mingyu said to Zhang Biao: "Take them both into the sanitation team!"
Zhang Biao stood up straight and exclaimed: "Your Excellency is wise! I guarantee that we will complete our mission!"
This time, Zhang Mingyu only recruited 3,000 people. Adding the two female students, there were 3002 people in total, plus more than 800 original people. At this point, Zhang Mingyu had a total of more than 3,800 people under his command. The Anti-Japanese Independence Regiment led by Zhang Mingyu was divided into two regiments, one cavalry battalion, one cavalry reconnaissance company, and one mortar company, which would be dispersed among the regiments during wartime. Zhang Biao was the commander of the First Anti-Japanese Regiment, with three battalions in total, each equipped with a light machine gun company. Lai San was the commander of the Second Regiment, with the same organization as the First Regiment.
Zhang Mingyu also selected over 600 horses, took away 100 horses to form a cavalry reconnaissance company, with Ma Ligong as the company commander. The remaining 500 horses formed an enhanced cavalry battalion, with Zhang Haisheng as the battalion commander and Ma Ligong concurrently serving as deputy battalion commander.
Just after Zhang Mingyu finished recruiting soldiers, the 100 Mosin-Nagant sniper rifles that he had asked Principal Jiang for last time were also delivered. In this way, Zhang Mingyu again selected more than 200 soldiers with good marksmanship from each regiment to form a blocking hand team, with Zhang Haisheng as the captain of the blocking hand team, and the cavalry regiment was taken over by Wang Tihan.
Wang Tiehan's special warfare team and Li Gang's guard platoon were merged, with Zhang Mingyu personally serving as the commander of the special forces battalion, and Li Gang as deputy commander, who was actually in command.
Preparations are complete, Zhang Mingyu begins to train the troops on a large scale. Now there is at most one month left before the Battle of Xuzhou. It will be very difficult for Zhang Mingyu to turn these new recruits into elite soldiers within a month. Therefore, when the troops were divided earlier, Zhang Mingyu deliberately dispersed the old soldiers he had brought back with him to various regiments and battalions, hoping that they could pass on their experience to those student soldiers who had never even held a gun but had a passion for battle!
Some new recruits from the hunting family were good, at least they had fired guns. Zhang Mingyu took them all to Zhang Haisheng's blocking hand team, with a total of more than 200 people. Of course, only 100 people could stay in the end, and the elimination rate was 50%.
All 3,800 new and old soldiers stood on the playground, with dark clouds covering the sky, thunderstorms and lightning. The heavy rain poured down, and Zhang Mingyu walked to the front stage in the heavy rain, looking at some new recruits who were drenched in clothes, shivering all over but still standing firmly!
"Brothers, welcome to join the Anti-Japanese Independent Regiment! From today on, you are a part of my regiment, my brothers! But what I, Zhang Mingyu, want is soldiers who can fight, not weaklings! You must prepare yourselves mentally, for in the next month, I will put you through cruel training. If you cannot bear it, you may leave now."
A tall and muscular man said: "Officer! I, Iron Bull, came here for your sake, but I've always had a thought. Looking at how thin you are, I don't believe you can knock down so many devils. I think those people in my village were just bragging."
"What would it take for you to believe, brother?" Zhang Mingyu asked.
"It's simple! If you can beat me, I'll believe it, and I'll be your soldier. You don't like weaklings, and I don't like pretty boys as my superiors either!" Iron Bull said.
Zhang Mingyu readily said: "I agree to your request."
Soon the soldiers made way for Zhang Mingyu and Tieniu, forming a circle around them. A new recruit said to another soldier, "Do you think our instructor can beat that Tieniu? He's so skinny, but Tieniu can kill an ox with one punch!"
Another old soldier heard him and said: "You little kid, you don't know anything! Just wait and see!"
Just as they were talking, Tie Niu and Zhang Mingyu had already started fighting. Tie Niu threw a punch at Zhang Mingyu's face, the fist whizzing through the air. If it really hit, Zhang Mingyu would probably be left half dead.
As Iron Bull's powerful fist came, Zhang Mingyu tilted his head, pushed with one hand and swept with one foot, and Iron Bull fell forward. With a loud crash, Iron Bull's nearly 300-pound body slammed to the ground, splashing water everywhere. The soldiers cheered in unison.
Tie Niu got up and rushed at Zhang Mingyu again, but was knocked to the ground once more. After being thrown off his feet over a dozen times, Tie Niu could no longer get up, and repeatedly waved his hand in defeat: "Officer, I admit defeat."
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