"Regiment Commander, why are they Battalion Commanders the moment they arrive?”
It was normal for some people to be unconvinced. Zhou Weiguo did not show any dissatisfaction when he saw Li Wu step forward.
He knew that these people were clones and knew how big of a military position they could hold, but Li Wu and the others did not know!
To be honest, these clones did not have much prestige in Clear Wind Camp, so it was normal for Li Wu and the others to raise doubts. If they did not raise doubts, then there would be a problem!
"I've already given the order. If you have any objections, you can challenge them later. Tell me the result. If any of you defeat them, they can be removed from their positions as battalion commanders.”
Zhou Weiguo said softly. The army was a place where the strong were respected. Actually, it wasn't just the army! Wasn't it the same for bandits?
Zhou Weiguo didn't object to them respecting the strong, nor did he object to them proposing a competition. However, there was a prerequisite. If there was anything, you could talk about it after you went down. After you went down, you could have a competition. Here, I was the boss. You could question the people I promoted, but you couldn't refute me without any reason!
Li Wu looked provocatively at Ma Yiwen and the others. His meaning was obvious. He was prepared to challenge them when he went down.
Zhou Weiguo didn't care about Li Wu's provocation. He looked at the people below and said,""In the following period of time, all the troops still have to be prepared for battle at any time. According to the information we received, the Japanese troops in Laiyang received reinforcements the day before yesterday. About two battalions of Japanese troops were stationed in Laiyang County.
However, according to the current situation, the Japanese in Laiyang County will not be mobilized on a large scale for the time being. They have not yet figured out our situation. However, just because they aren't moving out on a large scale doesn't mean that we aren't. I can tell you that according to my plan, our next mission is to attack Laiyang County.”
Once Zhou Weiguo finished speaking about attacking Laiyang County, the people below began to discuss.
"Alright! Go and prepare! All the infantry battalions had to be ready to enter the battle at any time. Xu Hu, not only are you the commander of the Guard Battalion, you are also in charge of the new recruits 'training camp. Your training must also be done quickly. Those new recruits in the recruit training camp must also be trained as soon as possible!”
Zhou Weiguo looked at Xu Hu and said.
"Yes, sir! Please rest assured!"
Currently, there were close to 2,000 new recruits in the recruit training camp, and the five infantry battalions and one guard battalion of the Pre-First Regiment had already been fully formed. In other words, Zhou Weiguo now had six battalions in his hands, which was about 3,500 soldiers.
This was not counting the three artillery battalions. If he added the artillery battalions, he would have even more troops.
Soon, only Zhou Weiguo and Zhu Ziming were left in the hall.
"Brother, why do you want to attack Laiyang County? Didn't you say that the Japanese had two more battalions of Japanese reinforcements? Including their previous troops, the Japanese now had more than 3,000 soldiers in Laiyang County. It was almost the same as the Japanese army! If we attack, can we do it?”
Zhu Ziming asked worriedly.
"Brother, do you think I want to do this?" Zhou Weiguo said helplessly. I also want to develop here for a period of time. When we have tens of thousands of troops, we can attack Laiyang County. At that time, even if the Japanese army transfers divisions from other places, we can still fight. But now, we have to fight.
Yesterday, Xu Hu reported our rations to me. According to our current numbers and rations consumption, our rations can only last for ten days. After ten days, we will be in a situation of running out of food.”
"What? Running out of food again? Didn't we buy food with all the money we seized from the Japanese in the last battle? It's almost gone again?"
Zhu Ziming said.
The last time the Japanese attacked and failed, Zhou Weiguo and the others seized a lot of money from the Japanese. Later, they gave the money to Zhu Ziming to buy food. However, Zhu Ziming did not expect that they would soon run out of food again.
"Sigh! The number of people increased! We've been expanding our army during this period of time, and the consumption of food has been increasing. How can such a small amount of food withstand our consumption?”
Food, this was what Zhou Weiguo was most helpless about. The extraterrestrial base could solve his problem of medicine, weapons, and ammunition, but it couldn't solve his problem of food.
Food was the most important thing for the people. This sentence meant that whether the people could survive depended on whether there was food. But if the army wanted to survive, they needed food!
There was a saying in the ancient times that grain and fodder had to be prepared before troops and horses moved.
Now, Zhou Weiguo did not have any food on hand, so he had to fight to support himself. Attack Laiyang County.
This was because Laiyang County had the logistics supplies of the Japanese and a large amount of food. At that time, not to mention three to four thousand troops, even seven to eight thousand troops would be enough to support them for a long time.
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"Brother, fine, you should think about this. I won't!”
Zhu Ziming scratched his bald head and prepared to leave this matter alone. Previously, he was the boss, so he had no problem managing a village of a hundred people. But now, he felt a headache managing a few thousand people. Shaking his head, he left.
Zhou Weiguo shook his head helplessly. He took out a map and looked at it. From time to time, he would draw on it. At the same time, his mind was constantly thinking about how to attack Laiyang County.
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Laiyang County, Imperial Guards Headquarters
Some time ago, because he did not have any extra troops on hand, he did not make a move against Clear Wind Camp. However, just because he didn't make a move didn't mean that he didn't pay attention to gathering information about Clear Wind Camp.
"Guardian, according to the information we have gathered recently, the strength of Clear Wind Camp has expanded like a balloon in just 20 days. After the battle with us last month, they had less than two thousand soldiers, and many of them were wounded and new.
But now, they had no less than seven thousand soldiers. They were mainly distributed in the central and southern regions of Laiyang, controlling the vast villages and towns in the central and southern regions. According to our intelligence, they are still recruiting and expanding their forces.”
Matsushita Naoto picked up his baton and swiped it across the map of Laiyang County, while Keibun stared at the map with a gloomy expression.
"How did they expand their army so quickly? Did they have so much food to feed so many soldiers? How could they feed an army of seven thousand soldiers with just the towns in the central and southern regions?”
The guard said in a deep voice.
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