Chen Li had been busy for the past few days after he returned.
Song Zheyuan's men came on time to pick up the five M2 machine guns he had ordered, and the balance was paid off on the spot. Two days later, he sent someone to place an order for ten more.
This time, they finally bought another 100,000 bullets, which meant that they also realized the problem of ammunition consumption.
However, Chen Li still felt that Song Zheyuan was too petty. Fifteen M2 machine guns were not even enough for three machine gun companies. If they were distributed to each division, not even a regiment could get one. He did not know what Song Zheyuan wanted to do with them.
The eighth squad that was sent to follow Zhao Gang to fight the Japanese had some gains. Chen Li was very pleased with the increase of ten or so resource points from time to time. Although it seemed that they did not gain much, at least they had achieved the goal of training their troops.
Because of the machine gun trade, the resource points that the security team refreshed every day, and the resource points that the jungler, Squad Eight, contributed from time to time, Chen Li began to have more money on hand.
In order for everyone to be able to use cannons, the training of the artillery was also strengthened…
Grenade launchers, anti-war cannons, from 60mm to 105mm mortars to French 75 cannons, and American 105mm howitzers. He didn't care if Old Zhao knew how to use them or not. He got one of almost everything. If he didn't know how to do it, he would study it together.
In any case, Chen Li firmly believed in the principle of sweating more in normal times and bleeding less in wartime.
If an outsider came to Chen Li's training camp, they would definitely be very surprised. This place almost included the light and heavy weapons of the various countries in the past. It was not an exaggeration to use it as a weapon exhibition…
With so many weapons, it was naturally impossible for the troops to go home every day. With the soldiers 'self-reliance, simple barracks were built one after another, and a system of sentry and password was established.
The training intensity of the army had increased, and the food had to keep up. Fourteen classes took turns to work as cooks. Each class worked for a day, from purchasing ingredients to processing.
The days passed day by day. At this time, Chen Li was no longer involved in training matters. Of course, he would only bring one or two people to walk on the city wall from time to time, take a look outside the city, or walk around the various alleys in the city. He did nothing.
In the Chen residence, the old master of the Chen family, who was not yet fifty years old, had more smiles on his face these days. After all, there were more matchmakers coming to the house. A rich man who did not do bad things was definitely more popular than a loser. This was the same in any era.
Chen Li had also heard his cheap father talking about the girls of various families. However, he was completely uninterested in the girls of this era. Not only did they look malnourished, but they were also uncultured and had nothing in common to talk about.
To be honest, everyone was his grandmother. Just thinking about his great-grandmother generation made him feel a chill.
Moreover, the war was imminent, and Chen Li did not have the mood to deal with these things. Moreover, he had too many secrets. It would definitely be inconvenient to have more women by his side. If he could defeat the Japanese and overcome the mentality of seniority, he wouldn't have any pressure even if it was a matchmaking session.
Right now, he still had to focus on the war. Chen Li knew very well that if he wanted to defend Wanping County after the war, it would not be solved by just relying on the 100 or so people in his hands.
The Japanese garrison in North China had a total of 5,000 soldiers, and they had repeatedly increased their troops before the war. It would not be surprising if they reached 10,000 or 20,000 before the war.
After all, Song Zheyuan, who had always wanted peace talks with the Japanese, would not be so frustrated as to go to the Japanese camp to kill them.
The first batch of soldiers who followed Zhao Gang to fight the Japanese were coming back soon. Two weeks was neither too long nor too short. It was almost June.
There was only a month left until the July 7 Incident. In such a short period of time, they could only send two or three more batches of people…
Therefore, Chen Li needed to make many pre-battle arrangements.
Conscription was necessary, but Chen Li, who had never wanted to spend money on superficial efforts, made the security regiment not even have a face in Wanping County.
He sent two clever lackeys to set up a conscription stall on the street. After a long time, not many people asked about it. Even if they did, they would turn around and leave when they heard that it was the soldiers recruited by the Security Corps.
Chen Li also knew that even if Song Yuanzhe expanded his army and recruited 40,000 soldiers in the Beijing-Tianjin area, most of them were still captured. There were not many who actually volunteered to join the army. If the regular army was like this, let alone a local security regiment like him who did not even have a face.
However, it wasn't completely fruitless. Chen Li still met a human. Although he despised him in his heart, he still spent dozens of dollars to buy the dozens of people in his hands. Each of them was so thin that they were all skin and bones. He didn't care if they were useful or not and directly stuffed them into the army.
There was also a little girl who looked to be about 13 or 14 years old. She was at the age of junior high school in the future. She was thin and weak. Chen Li could not bear to see her, so he bought her as well.
She didn't know what to do with it after she bought it. After she brought it home, she directly threw it to the butler, Uncle Huang. She was used to doing this and didn't have any pressure.
These few days of wandering around were not completely fruitless. They had already roughly seen the locations of the Japanese's military camps. The Japanese were very bold. The camps were still built decades ago, but they did not have much defense. They basically calculated that the Chinese army would not dare to do anything to them.
Chen Li thought in his heart, if they started fighting, a round of artillery fire would definitely make them feel very sour.
Lugouqiao was actually not a dangerous place to defend. If they fought in a positional battle, they could only exchange their lives for their lives. However, the Japanese were the attackers, so the 29th division, as the defenders, could also advance and retreat with their backs against the Wanping City Wall.
Wanping's city wall was not tall. As the second line of defense or sniper operations, it naturally had a good view and also had the advantage of height. However, this kind of cement mixed with gray bricks, lime, and soil had been used for many years. It was definitely not as good as concrete and could not withstand the bombardment of the Japanese.
Actually, those places did not have much to do with Chen Li. He was more concerned about the buildings in the city…
This was because, in the early stages of the war, it would definitely not be his turn for the dispensable security group to go up to the important defensive position like the city wall.
More importantly, Song Zheyuan had always held the idea of negotiating with the Japanese. He stopped and stopped, but he did not let them in. The central army intervened, but they withdrew and even lost the capital.
In other words, Chen Li's time would be a few days after the incident. At that time, the most suitable battlefield would be the streets and alleys of Wanping City.
Street fighting was extremely cruel in war. Not to mention the damage to residents or buildings, the role of armored forces and heavy weapons on such a battlefield would be greatly weakened, and the advantage of numbers could easily be offset.
Unless they planned to use cannons to flatten the entire city, they would have to face the defenders who relied on the complex terrain to attack from all directions.
Chen Li, who was preparing to equip all the troops with Somi submachine guns and pistols, was confident that he had the advantage in terms of weapons.
As for why he had chosen Somi, Thompson needed 8 resource points, and Somi needed 10. Chen Li must have chosen the expensive Somi. No matter how poor the money was, it didn't matter if it was two resource points. Regardless of its performance, it could be used to show off.
In the past few days, Chen Li had already roughly seen which places were suitable for sniping, which places were suitable for burying mines, and which places were suitable for placing machine guns.
Although he did not have any military foundation, he believed that he had experienced two battles and had come into contact with some of the knowledge posted on the Internet by military enthusiasts in the future. He still remembered some of the inverted triangle firing points and the key points of street fighting. In short, he felt that he was definitely stronger than his soldiers who no one knew.
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