Mercury Calendar Year 1937, July 7th, the Rising Sun Army brazenly opened fire on our Luqiao garrison. The 29th Army returned fire, and the July 7th Incident broke out. The full-scale war officially began. A month later, in order to ensure the safety of Ying Tian City, Old Chang ordered the army to concentrate their forces to annihilate the 3,000 Shengyang State marines in Shanghai. The navy blocked Jiangyue and annihilated the Shengyang Army's Longjiang Squadron.
However, the government was riddled with holes, and the secret was soon learned by the Rising Sun Army. The Rising Sun Army's Longjiang Squadron then withdrew from the Longjiang Estuaries. On the 13th of August, the 87th and 88th Divisions of Zhongxia Ge's First Legion were ordered to attack the base of the Rising Sun Army. The Battle of Shanghai began.
At this time, Zhong Yu of Qiongya Hundred Sha County had also begun to reorganize his troops.
After more than two months of development, Zhong Yu already had nine battalions. For the first time, the number of soldiers recruited by the base had reached the upper limit of 3000. With these 3000 Red Alert soldiers as the foundation, Zhong Yu recruited a large number of ordinary soldiers to mix with them. The number of Red Alert soldiers to ordinary soldiers remained at about one to three.
During this period of time, Zhong Yu got someone to report the news of Wang Fugui's execution. Because Wang Fugui's crime was indeed unforgivable, and Zhong Yu had also exterminated the bandits in Sha County, the higher-ups did not say anything. They only sent some officials to manage Baisha County.
After the new officials tested the situation at the edge of danger, they finally recognized the reality that Zhong Yu was the boss in Sha County. They also settled down and dealt with Baisha County's government affairs seriously. Zhong Yu was not interested in handling government affairs to begin with. Seeing that these officials were quite honest and well-behaved, he did not make things difficult for them.
After not triggering any random missions for more than two months, Zhong Yu had accumulated a chance to draw the lottery. However, Zhong Yu was not in a hurry to draw. He planned to wait until he had five chances and ten chances to draw again.
Once the number of soldiers increased, they could no longer be organized as casually as before. Zhong Yu's security regiment was only a local armed force, not a regular army. There was no need to organize it like a regular army. Moreover, the security regiment was just a general term for the local armed forces. There was no clear regulation on the number of soldiers. Most security regiments and civilian regiments only had 300 to 400 people, and some even had only 100 people. After seeing it many times, people understood that the security corps was just a regiment. Of course, no place could afford to raise thousands of people.
Hence, a huge security team appeared.
Based on the current number of people, Zhong Yu organized the troops into eight infantry battalions and one artillery battalion.
Each squad had 12 people. They were equipped with an MG42 machine gun, eight SVT40 semi-automatic rifles, two MP28 submachine guns, and all of them were extravagantly given M1911 pistols. Zhong Yu had originally planned to give them Mauser military pistols, but after considering that all of them were equipped with semi-automatic rifles, the pistols would not be used for self-defense. Mauser pistols were combat pistols, which were too heavy. If they carried too much weight, it would affect the combat effectiveness of the troops. In the end, he chose the lighter and more handsome M1911 pistol.
The MG42 was used as a light machine gun, with one main shooter and one assistant shooter operating it. Considering the terrifying ammunition consumption of the MG42, without the logistics team to transport ammunition, each soldier had to carry additional machine gun ammunition in addition to their own weapons and ammunition. Squad leaders and vice-squad leaders can choose to equip MP28 submachine guns or SVT40 semi-automatic rifles. Wooden hand grenades and egg-shaped grenades are available as options, and can be chosen according to one's own situation.
Zhong Yu originally wanted to assign a sniper to each shift, but the base did not produce professional sniper mirrors or sniper rifles at the moment, so he had no choice but to give up.
Judging from the firepower of the security team, Zhong Yu's security team could definitely be considered the top in the world. As far as the current situation in the country was concerned, other than Old Chang's German Machinists, Zhong Yu's infantry squad could definitely beat any infantry platoon without the support of artillery. They could even fight against an infantry company.
Each platoon had three infantry squads and one fire support squad. The newly added fire support squad was equipped with two MG42 general-purpose machine guns equipped with heavy barrels and tripods as heavy machine guns, two 60-caliber guns, and eight submachine guns (option). There were 12 people in the class. The general machine gun was operated by a main shooter, an assistant shooter, and an observer. The 60-caliber mortar was operated by the main shooter and assistant shooter. There were 10 people in total. The remaining two were mainly responsible for ammunition transportation. Adding a 10-person cooking team, although the base could directly exchange for individual rations, it might be enough to eat once or twice, but over time, that stuff could make people vomit. Anyway, Zhong Yu now wanted to vomit whenever he saw the canned food and compressed biscuits produced by the base. There were 60 people in the entire platoon.
In addition to the three infantry units, each company would be equipped with an artillery platoon of 50 people, equipped with four Type 20 82mm mortars. The artillery platoon would not be equipped with rifles and submachine guns, but only handguns for self-defense. The company had a company headquarters. In addition to the company commander and deputy company commander, a four-person health team and three communicators were added. The entire company had 239 people.
For battalion-level troops, the normal infantry battalion would have three infantry companies and an artillery company. At present, Zhong Yu only had the Bofors 75mm Mountain Cannon. The performance of this mountain cannon was enough to crush the mountain cannons of the same level in the country, including the best Type 94 Mountain Cannon of the Rising Sun Army. The artillery company had a mountain cannon platoon equipped with four Bofors 75 mountain cannons, an air defense platoon equipped with four Oricon 20mm air defense cannons, and a transport platoon equipped with 16 transport trucks responsible for artillery traction and ammunition transportation. The entire company had 120 people.
A battalion headquarters was added to the battalion-level troops, including the battalion commander and deputy battalion commander, two battle staff officers, a 12-man guard squad, and a logistics platoon responsible for the overall logistics of the entire battalion. The entire battalion had 900 people.
In addition, an independent artillery battalion was added. Currently, it was equipped with 24 Bofors 75 Mountain Cannons, 12 Oricon 20mm Anti-Air Cannons, and transport vehicles. The artillery battalion had a total of 400 people. After considering that there were no officers who had undergone systematic training, the combat troops were temporarily set up at the battalion level. They would be reorganized when they had qualified officers in the future.
According to Zhong Yu's idea, an infantry regiment could suppress a reinforced regiment of the Rising Sun Tribe and be evenly matched with a team of the Rising Sun Tribe.
Imagine if the newspaper reported that a certain regiment of the Rising Sun Army had been wiped out by a security regiment of our army, and a certain brigade of the Rising Sun Army had been defeated by a security regiment of our army. It would not only affect the morale of the people of the Rising Sun Army, but also increase the confidence of our people in resisting the invasion. It would also highlight Zhong Yu's heroic image. Just thinking about it was exciting.
Due to the lack of qualified officers, the 9 battalions of the security regiment were temporarily under Zhong Yu's personal command. The total number of people in the entire security team was more than 7600, almost catching up to some of the small staff.
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