With the reward from Dayang, the recruitment work was successfully completed. In more than half a month, about 10,000 new recruits were successfully recruited. They were spread all over Yuezhou, Qingyuan, Laiyang, and the surrounding counties.
After all, Zhou Weiguo's salary was very high. Those from poor families all signed up to join the army. In the beginning, they were only in Yuezhou's county. Gradually, young people from the surrounding counties also came here to join the army. Therefore, the recruitment process was smoother than expected.
Although most of the soldiers joined the army for the sake of pay, even so, Zhou Weiguo could not say anything. It was a time when people did not even have enough to eat, and most of them were illiterate. If you talked about national justice and freedom and democracy with them, it was simply playing the lute to a cow. Only piles of cash were real.
Although the recruitment went smoothly, the amount of money spent on settling down was also a terrifying figure. It cost more than 600,000 yuan. Originally, the 500,000 yuan reward from the chairman was not enough, but the headquarters had already sent over the full military uniforms, salaries, and equipment of the 101st Division.
These were weapons and equipment that could equip 30,000 soldiers.
As for some weapons and equipment, Zhou Weiguo only needed a portion of the German-style equipment that could equip about 3,000 people. There were also 28 62mm mortars and 80mm mountain cannons that the chairman had specially left for him. From this aspect, it seemed that the chairman valued Zhou Weiguo very much!
After all, cannons were very expensive nowadays. Everyone was lacking in them, but the chairman still managed to transport 26 mortars to Zhou Weiguo.
As for the other weapons and equipment that Zhou Weiguo did not care about, they were all shipped over in exchange for money.
What a joke. With the Iron Blood System, he could exchange for more advanced weapons and equipment with greater destructive power. Why would he need those 'mid-level' and 'three-eight-big-cover'?
Although the military supplies department did not understand Zhou Weiguo's request, they did not say anything. Firstly, your 101st division is under the chairman's direct line of descent. This is obvious from the appointment letter given to you. Secondly, weapons and equipment were not something that the current Dayang army could compare to. For the current Dayang army, other troops preferred weapons and equipment. Since Zhou Weiguo did not want weapons and equipment, they could give them to other troops.
Because of this, the logistics department generously gave Zhou Weiguo tens of thousands of dollars in cash for the conversion of weapons and equipment.
Therefore, after Zhou Weiguo spent 600,000 yuan, there were still hundreds of thousands of yuan in the warehouse.
At this time, some basic barracks for the garrison camp had been built. Of course, the follow-up military defense definitely could not involve the citizens in the construction. If that was the case, only an extremely stupid commander would do so.
The entire encampment occupied a huge area. After all, it was a place that required more than 10,000 people to train and rest. It was definitely not small.
At this moment, in the Great Northern Ditch Town camp, there was a large open space. This was the training field. Today, the training field was filled with newly recruited recruits.
As the saying goes, if there are more than ten thousand people, there is no end to it. With more than 10,000 people gathered together, the scene was very shocking.
At the very least, Zhou Weiguo was shocked when he saw more than 10,000 people staring at him without saying a word.
Seeing that everyone was waiting for his officer to speak, Zhou Weiguo no longer put on any airs. He directly held a megaphone and stood on the high platform."Brothers, first of all, I want to congratulate all of you here. From now on, all of you have turned from ordinary citizens into official soldiers.”
"Although many of you are here for the 30-yuan settlement allowance and the 5-yuan monthly salary.”At this point, there was a burst of laughter.
Zhou Weiguo smiled and said,"There's nothing shameful about this. It's only right for soldiers to eat and receive their salaries, but…" Zhou Weiguo's tone changed and he said rather sternly,"I'm not a soldier.""Since you've received your pay and eaten your rations, you have to follow the rules and live up to your clothes. I won't lecture you today.”
"Soldiers are the people who can be relied on when the people are in trouble. Soldiers were the weapons of a country. When the country was in trouble, they would risk their lives to fight the enemy!”
The 20,000 people below were all silent, waiting for Zhou Weiguo's next words.
Zhou Weiguo continued," Some people say that a soldier is just a headless person. No one knows when he will no longer belong to himself!”
"You're right! Since he had become a soldier, he had to be prepared to sacrifice himself at any time!”When the surrounding officers heard this, they looked at each other in dismay. How could there be a military officer who talked about risking his life and sacrificing himself on the day a recruit joined the army?
If anyone feels that they can't stand this pain and this sin, then leave this place as soon as possible, take off your military uniform, and be an honest citizen. Otherwise, if you become a deserter on the battlefield in the future…""Even if I recognize you, the military law doesn't recognize you! Don't blame me for being rude!"
The 10,000 soldiers looked at each other, but none of them took off their uniforms and left.
After all, they were all adults over the age of 20. They all had to face their dignity. If you couldn't endure the hardships that others could endure, then if you took off your military uniform today, what would you have to face others in the future? How could he still have the face to go out and meet people?
Li Youcai stood in the ranks of the recruits and looked at the highest ranking officer. He had seen him a few times from afar when he had just been recruited. At that time, he felt that this officer was quite gentle, but he did not expect him to be so gentle when he was angry!
'I have to be careful in the future. Don't get into his hands,' Li Youcai thought.
After talking for a long time, he saw that the people below were all staring at him, not daring to make a sound. Zhou Weiguo nodded in satisfaction. Now that he had intimidated them, he should be able to reap benefits. The carrot and the mallet were the way to rule.
Hence, Zhou Weiguo waved his hand.
"Next, let's begin the reorganization and spear ceremony!”Zhou Weiguo said loudly.
"We have recruited a total of more than eleven thousand new recruits. Including the original veterans, there are about fourteen thousand people.”Zhou Weiguo held a piece of paper and said seriously.
Crash!
As soon as Zhou Weiguo finished speaking, the recruits, including some officers, stood up straight, especially the officers. They knew that it was time for Zhou Weiguo to announce the appointment letter!
As expected, Zhou Weiguo continued,""For these 14,000 men, I plan to form four infantry regiments, each with 2500 men. A cannon regiment. There was also a guard battalion and an anti-aircraft artillery battalion.”
"Next, I will announce the appointment letter!"
The surrounding people pricked up their ears and listened to Zhou Weiguo's words seriously. They heard Zhou Weiguo slowly say,"First Regiment Commander Fang Shengli, awarded the rank of Colonel!”
"Yes, sir!" Fang Shengli stood up and saluted. He wasn't surprised that he had become the regiment commander of the first regiment. After all, Fang Shengli was Zhou Weiguo's battalion commander when he was in the 522nd regiment.
"Fang Shengli, I'll leave the first team to you. You have to train seriously!”
"Don't worry, I will definitely train the First Regiment into a unit that will make the Japanese tremble in fear!”Fang Shengli said loudly.
"Yes!" " Yes." Zhou Weiguo nodded and said," The commander of the Second Regiment, Xu Hu, will be awarded the rank of Colonel!"”
Xu Hu stood up and saluted Zhou Weiguo.
Third Regiment Commander…" Zhou Weiguo looked down and said,""The leader of the Third Regiment is Zhang Xianyu! Zhang Xianyu was awarded the rank of Colonel!
Zhang Xianyu walked forward excitedly and took the appointment letter that belonged to him. Actually, Zhang Xianyu was still very nervous about whether he could become a regiment commander. Although he was originally a battalion deputy, and Zhou Weiguo had been letting him follow him around all this time, it was obvious that he wanted to nurture him. However, he was not sure if he could become a regiment commander in the end.
Zhang Xianyu's heart skipped a beat when he read it out. He felt even more grateful to Zhou Weiguo.
In fact, in Zhou Weiguo's heart, Zhang Xianyu and Xu Hu were not suitable to be commanders. However, Zhou Weiguo did not have any talented commanders under him, so he could only make do with them. For this reason, Zhou Weiguo even asked Long Yi from the special forces to go to a place to invite someone over, and this person was the commander of his fourth regiment.
" Next, I will announce the candidate for the fourth regiment commander. He is…" Zhou Weiguo looked down and said slowly.
"Chu Yunfei!"
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