Rise From Eight Hundred

There are 73 people who can still participate in the battle in the former Sihang Battalion, 538 people who can still participate in the battle in the former Guard Battalion, and 507 people who can still participate in the battle in the former Security Corps, including about 50 people who are still treating their wounds in the field hospital and actively requesting to return to the team.

Tang Dao organized the entire independent battalion into 8 companies, with a total force of 1,200 people, and there are still more than 70 vacancies.

These vacancies are actually reserved for the seriously injured who are still lying in bed.

After the continuous war, whether it is the Sihang Battalion, the Guard Battalion or the Security Corps, there are many seriously injured people who are being treated. Of course, there is no way for those with disabilities. They can only retire after recovering from their injuries. But if those wounded who can still recover know that the old unit is gone and there is no place for them in the newly established independent battalion, what kind of desolation would that be?

Therefore, except for Gu Xishui's special operations team, which is full, the rest, whether it is the infantry company, the artillery company, the baggage company, or the special agent company, are all short of nearly ten people.

No chief officer came to Tang Dao to complain about the lack of people. Not only did they understand Tang Dao's painstaking efforts, but they were also very busy.

Especially the four infantry companies, the personnel changes were huge.

Take Qian Dazhu's third company as an example. He was originally the second platoon leader of the second company of the security battalion. This time he was appointed as the company commander of the third company of the independent battalion. The infantry platoon he was familiar with was left to him, which was considered Lei Xiong's support for him as the new company commander. However, there were only less than 30 people, and the remaining 110 people were more than 60 new recruits from the security regiment, plus more than 40 old soldiers from the four-line camp and the security battalion.

There were more than 70 old soldiers in the original regular army. The soldiers of the security regiment were called new recruits, but in fact they had experienced several battles and were better than the veterans of many troops. There was no problem with combat effectiveness.

But he, the new company commander, had to worry about the arrangement of personnel.

Tang Dao only announced the appointment of the deputy company commanders and three infantry platoon leaders. Lei Xiong was even simpler. He just gave a list of personnel without mentioning who would be the squad leader and who would be the deputy squad leader.

All these had to be arranged by him as the infantry company commander.

Want to arrange simply by military rank?

That was really thinking too much.

Not to mention that the youngest second-class soldiers in the Sihang Battalion had been in the bloody battle of Songhu until now, and some of the outstanding ones were now second lieutenants, like Gu Xishui, Erya and Yang Xiaoshan. The twenty or so veterans in the guard battalion were also sergeants.

Sergeants represent their bravery and their military merits. If such elites were placed in ordinary troops, the chief officer would only be extremely happy.

But there were too many elites, and the chief officer was distressed after being happy. He had to find more elites from these elites to serve as squad leaders, deputy squad leaders and elite shooters.

Elite shooters are a must-have for each infantry squad in Tang Dao. At least one. If there are particularly outstanding ones, two can be set up. They enjoy the treatment of squad deputy in terms of level, and their military salary will be increased by one dollar.

9 infantry squads means that he has to pick out 27 people from the more than 100 people under his command to serve in suitable positions.

Compared with these 9 infantry squads, the small artillery squad with two mortars and the heavy machine gun squad with one heavy machine gun are relatively simple. Those two things are very professional. Lei Xiong also took this into consideration when allocating them. The main gunners and heavy machine gun shooters are veterans specially selected from Pang Dahai's artillery company and Cheng Tieshou's fire support company.

The squad leader and the squad deputy are undoubtedly born from these few veterans. Naturally, most of their team members are composed of security regiment soldiers. Qian Dazhu is not stupid enough to arrange all those veterans who have fought hundreds of battles to stay in the fire support unit.

However, the new soldiers who grew up in the flames of war also knew that this was the first threshold set by Tang Dao for these new officers. If they couldn't even do this, let alone command the battle in the future.

Qian Dazhu could of course choose the simplest and most feasible approach, reusing his familiar former subordinates and promoting some soldiers who were brave in combat and had good command ability to become squad leaders, but that would inevitably cause dissatisfaction among the new soldiers.

The soldiers of the security regiment were okay, after all, they were once militia troops, and they knew their own strengths and weaknesses, and they could only complain in private.

But what about the veterans of the Four-line Camp?

They were the most direct troops of Tang Dao Battalion Commander Tang, and they had also survived hundreds of battles and encountered the most ferocious Japanese army. Later, like them, they participated in the bloody battle to defend Baihe Port and annihilate the Sixth Heavy Artillery Brigade.

Whether in terms of qualifications or combat effectiveness, they were the best.

If you want to be simple, you have to take risks. If you want to be balanced and as reasonable as possible, you have to find the most reasonable solution.

Being a company commander is far different from being a platoon leader.

This is what is called the head determines the position below the buttocks, and the position below the buttocks determines the vision and pattern of a person.

In this regard, Qian Dazhu's progress is as fast as his various tactical skills on the battlefield.

But these Tang Daos have no way of knowing. Tang Dao has no time to observe the ability range of each of his subordinates. He can only see Qian Dazhu's command ability and the potential of this new recruit who once chatted with him through the battlefield.

Therefore, taking advantage of the interval between the war, he gave such a question to the new company commanders under his command, a test of management and coordination ability in addition to command ability.

Such a question is not difficult for veteran grassroots commanders such as Leng Feng, Cheng Tieshou, and Pang Dahai.

They already have a ‘bad reputation’, for example, Leng Feng. Yesterday, the news that the independent battalion was about to be established just blew up, and almost everyone unanimously believed that he would definitely become the company commander of the main infantry company of the independent battalion.

It’s not just that Major Leng Feng is Tang Dao’s direct subordinate, but his reputation for personally killing three Japanese invaders with bayonets in the battle of Sihang is no less fierce than that of Commander Tang. The veterans of the Sihang Battalion unanimously believe that if there are three giants in the Sihang Battalion, Major Leng Feng, who was cold and cruel to the Japanese invaders after losing his younger brother, is definitely the third giant. For this point, Captain Cheng Tieshou, who ambushed the Japanese fighter formation in Baihe Port, could not achieve it.

Let’s talk about Cheng Tieshou. Let’s not talk about the fact that he was the first to follow Tang Dao and Lei Xiong. Just say that he personally controlled the machine gun and fired at the Japanese planes in two consecutive low-altitude duels and blew up two Japanese planes. Who in the entire independent battalion can have such a record?

That is the perfect combination of bravery and skill. All machine gunners, including Heizi who was transferred to the special forces by Tang Dao, are convinced.

And Pang Dahai, not to mention that he is a veteran who has been immersed in the artillery for ten years. As long as he is an artilleryman, no one will be convinced by his artillery skills. And this man took a group of artillerymen to participate in the brutal hand-to-hand combat in the battle against the 36th Infantry Brigade because of the sudden attack of the Japanese army on the flank. It was so amazing that even a fierce man like Lei Xiong Lei Yingfu gave him a thumbs up after the war.

This old gunner from Shandong, but he knocked down several Japanese soldiers alone with a cannon barrel.

When they thought about this man actually carrying a cannon barrel weighing more than 30 kilograms as a sledgehammer, everyone couldn't help but feel numb. If they met him, they would probably be smashed to pieces.

And people like Peng Chong and Li Jiujin, although not as famous as the above three, but the old guard company commander and the veteran who has been in the army for more than ten years, are well versed in the rules of the army, and they also have their own methods.

There is no need to mention the baggage company. The two former company commanders of the security regiment may lack deterrence to the veterans of the Fourth Camp and the Guard Battalion, but 90% of their subordinates are soldiers from the original security regiment. In view of their special characteristics, Zhuang Shisan, who is in charge of logistics, specially arranged seven or eight veterans who were either injured in arms or legs in battle to serve as squad leaders. The original squad leaders basically served as deputy squad leaders. They didn't even have to worry about it, and the stage was set up.

In the end, only Qian Dazhu and Zhao Daqiang, two "newcomers" who were directly promoted from platoon leaders to company commanders, were slightly inferior in reputation and ability.

And Zhao Daqiang was still receiving treatment in the field hospital, and he would not be released by the hospital until the evening at the earliest, so Lei Xiong, the deputy battalion commander in charge of the infantry company, could only help him organize the company in person. Deputy Battalion Commander Lei's reputation was even more fierce than Leng Feng. Who would not accept his appearance?

This is called "A blessing in disguise"! Zhao Daqiang, who was in so much pain that tears were about to flow from his buttocks, had escaped a "disaster".

The only one left was Qian Dazhu, the "unlucky kid".

Including Tang Dao, everyone watched how this rookie company commander built his own infantry company.