"As I said, it doesn't matter how many soldiers we provide. You just need to carry out the plan!”
"From tomorrow onwards, all units of Regiment 369 will be provided with food according to the conditions I mentioned just now! Whoever dares to touch the soldiers 'rations, I will chop off their hands!”
The officers of the 369th Regiment who were sitting in the courtyard exploded!
The group seat was actually for real!
With such an exaggerated logistics ability, it would be impossible for the 369th Regiment not to become the strongest force in Southwest Jin!
Perhaps, if he followed the group seat, his future gains would not be comparable to the small profits in the past!
Seeing how excited everyone was, Gu Xun patted his thigh and laughed.
"I've said it before. If you follow me, you'll get glory and wealth! As long as you brothers are willing to walk together, you can have anything!”
The officer in charge of the recruitment work immediately stood up from the bench and saluted solemnly. He said to Gu Xun to show his loyalty,
"Please rest assured, Guild Leader! If I don't expand the 369th Regiment to the 369th Division this year, I, Liang Xu, will come and see you!”
Su Liancheng, the company commander of the guards who was standing quietly beside Gu Xun, also had a strange look in his eyes.
He had witnessed Gu Xun's drastic change in temperament, leading the guards to a dilapidated farm nearby to retrieve a large number of weapons and equipment, and then using iron fists to rectify the military discipline of the 369th Regiment.
Perhaps following the group seat was really a good choice?
Gu Xun smiled and stood up from the bench. He said heroically,""Let me repeat, our most important task this year is to recruit soldiers and train soldiers! If everything goes well, we'll fight the Japanese in the second half of the year and make our 369th Regiment famous!”
"As long as our brothers work together, we will definitely be able to turn the 369th Regiment into an iron-blooded army! If I can get the most advanced weapons and equipment from the foreign powers, I can do the same for anything else!”
The officers of the 369th Regiment, who had been fully stirred up by Gu Xun and had fantasies about the beautiful future, stood up and applauded, expressing their loyalty and value to Gu Xun.
"Well said, regiment commander!"
"As long as the supplies are in place, I will definitely be able to train a team for the regiment commander to beat the hell out of the Japanese!”
"Since the regiment commander thinks highly of our brothers, we can only repay him with our lives!”
Gu Xun was quite satisfied. Although he had never built an army or a team before he transmigrated, as long as he had enough resources, it was not a difficult task.
Then, Gu Xun announced the end of the meeting, and the 369th Regiment officially began the crazy expansion process.
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In the early spring of April, the 369th Regiment made a name for themselves in the nearby area, attracting the attention of their allies.
It wasn't that the 369th Regiment had any impressive achievements, but that this group of lunatics had actually mentioned something like " rice every day, meat every week " when recruiting soldiers.
In the beginning, they treated it as a joke and were prepared to see when this group of big-tailed wolves could not hold on.
It's rare for a battalion level officer to drink a few mouthfuls of sweet potato yaki. Who are you trying to fool by providing rice and meat?
In the end, after three months, not only did the 369th Regiment not collapse, but the soldiers of the 369th Regiment occasionally bragged about the food in their troops when they communicated with other people in their hometown.
For a moment, everyone in Southwest Jin had heard of this Regiment 369.
The soldiers might be bragging, but their healthy faces and gradually developed muscles could not lie.
In this era, more than 99% of the people in the country were severely malnourished according to Gu Xun's standards. A slight improvement in food could significantly improve the physical fitness of the soldiers. The investment was small but the return was great.
It was normal to have a pale face, but it was not uncommon to see people starving to the point of being skin and bones.
In the entire 369th Regiment, the special conscription office became the busiest department. When their recruitment slogans and vivid examples gradually spread in the southwest of Shanxi, there was no need for the soldiers of the conscription office to go to the villages to publicize. The farmers who brought their own dry food to the 369th Regiment every day were enough to keep the conscription office busy.
Gu Xun had already expected this situation and set two rigid recruitment standards in advance:
Those who were physically disabled and had criminal records were not allowed to confess.
Of course, given that China's household registration was basically in a state of collapse and out of control, they could only ask their fellow countrymen if they had a criminal record. The only thing that could be strictly enforced was the rule that " disabled people are not recruited."
"Fellow villager, the regiment commander has ordered that we can't recruit people with physical injuries.”
At the simple recruitment office of the 369th Regiment, a young soldier wearing a hat looked at the middle-aged man in front of him who was blind in one eye and said helplessly.
If there were only scars on their bodies, they could pretend that they did not see it. After all, people who worked all year round were inevitable. However, how could an army that had not fought until it was at the end of its rope recruit disabled people?
"General, I have the strength to help you carry things! As long as I have a bite to eat, my life is yours!”
The middle-aged man said anxiously after being rejected, but the little warrior still shook his head.
"Fellow villager, it's useless for you to tell me. I'm just a soldier, not a regiment commander.”
Looking at the man in front of him, the little soldier sighed and took out a bag of dry food from the box behind him and threw it to the man.
"Let's go back, fellow villager. When we beat the devils away, everyone will have a good life.”
The work of the conscription office was still ongoing. Liang Xu, who was in charge of the conscription, was also ruthless in order to show his face in front of Gu Xun. Almost every day, he personally brought people to various villages to publicize the policies of Regiment 369.
The effect was very obvious. The rapidly expanding 369th Regiment even had a shortage of officers.
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"Liancheng, when do you think we can get out of this small place in Southwest Jin?”
Gu Xun was leading the security company to inspect the training of the new recruits of the 369th Regiment. He was in a good mood as he chatted with the security company commander, Su Liancheng.
"When we become the 369th division, I believe that no matter which side it is, they will treat us with respect.”
Su Liancheng's eyes vigilantly scanned the surrounding situation as he replied.
"Don't worry, that day won't be far away.”Gu Xun had his hands behind his back and a relaxed smile on his face.
During the war, China's military system was quite chaotic, but a regiment usually had 1,000 to 3,000 soldiers, and a division had about 10,000 soldiers.
Gu Xun's 369th Regiment had once participated in the Battle of Xuzhou and was also crippled at that time. In the end, they moved to the southwest of Jinxi and barely settled down.
It was embarrassing to say that the national army rarely had an " orderly retreat." Once the front line was broken and the main force was defeated, the entire line would basically collapse. Only when the supply line of the island army reached its limit and could no longer pursue would the front line be stabilized again.
After three months of conscription, Regiment 369 had expanded from a little more than a thousand to nearly four thousand, almost the size of a brigade.
He believed that as the news about Regiment 369 spread, the speed of recruitment would continue to increase.
"Guild Leader, I don't know if I should say something.”
"Speak!"
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