Chapter 6: Time Waits for No One
Looking at the confused faces of the three platoon leaders, Qin Guoliang didn't know whether to laugh or cry!
Adjutant Chief of Staff, they dare to provoke you, do you think you are tired of living?
"Sir, I can handle it. Would you please do me the honor of having lunch at the Third Guard Company today?"
"Not today, the commander is not here, I have to be on duty at the headquarters!"
Qin Guoliang looked at Zhou Xiaoshan's confident look and laughed secretly. He came up from the grassroots level, and was a platoon leader in a grassroots company. If you don't have some skills, you really can't control these big-name soldiers!
Your confidence is unfounded!
On second thought, the guard company is different from the combat troops below, and it relies more on the connections of the division headquarters and the headquarters!
Only then did he feel relieved and let the three platoon leaders and Zhou Xiaoshan send him away!
After returning to the headquarters, he called Zhou Xiaoshan to his office!
"Your adjutant was appointed by Commander Luo. I'll discuss this with him when I get back. I'll remove your position once you've secured your position in the guard company!"
For Luo Jialie's position, even three or five adjutants are not too many. However, the commander of the 66th Division only has one adjutant, and the General Staff has plenty of staff officers. Luo Jialie will definitely not use two. As for temporary part-time jobs, that's it. Zhou Xiaoshan saved Luo Jialie's life during the Longxi bombardment, so he deserves this treatment!
Zhou Xiaoshan figured it out in an instant!
"Thank you, Sir!"
Qin Guoliang didn't think so. This morning, the commander took a liking to this kid. Even though it involved his concubine, he didn't show any disgust at all, but instead his eyes were full of admiration!
Maybe one day I will get it back and call it by my side!
If the wound gets infected by those ignorant soldiers in the guard battalion and I die, I will definitely be scolded to death by the commander!
"Go ahead, don't rush to work, recover first!"
Zhou Xiaoshan saluted and thanked Qin Guoliang again before returning to the Third Guard Company, 800 meters away from the headquarters building!
The Third Guard Company had a deputy company commander named Liao Chengbing. When they arrived just now, he was still accompanying the family of the deceased company commander Du. When he heard that the new company commander had arrived, he hurried back!
Zhou Xiaoshan was not polite!
He naturally took the main seat in the third company headquarters!
Let Liao Chengbing hold a meeting with the first platoon leader Chen Hu, the second platoon leader Wang Changqing, and the third platoon leader Zhang Zhenhe!
"I don't want to make a big splash when I take office! But the division commander personally asked me to take this position, which means he will have new tasks for the guard force!"
"I understand. We respect the company commander's arrangements. If you have any orders, just give them directly!"
Just because Liao Chengbing missed the lesson that Chief of Staff Qin personally taught him doesn't mean he can turn a deaf ear and dumb!
The reason for speaking first is to show his attitude!
"My four brothers are all older than me. In theory, it is not my turn to tell you what to do. However, the 66th Division is facing a huge crisis. As a guard unit, we must serve the division commander and the commander!"
"What crisis?"
If the lieutenants in the grassroots companies could see the crisis that the shelling of Longxi brought to the 66th Division, they would not be the Sichuan Army of this era!
They only know how to execute the orders given by their superiors. If their superiors are defeated, they should find a way to retreat!
"When the British bombarded Wanxian, countless casualties were caused, and the attack ended in nothing. The Sichuanese were spitting saliva on Yang Sen's face! This time, someone must have paid the British, otherwise the British gunboats would not have come from the Yangtze River hundreds of miles away to our Longxi territory to fire! The purpose is to cooperate with the people in Nanjing to deal with our division commander. Even our Marshal will give up the division commander after weighing the pros and cons!"
Looking at the confused faces of several officers!
Zhou Xiaoshan felt like he was talking to a cow!
I regret it so much!
I was originally planning to take advantage of the Sichuan Army's dire situation to warn these soldiers, but they don't understand at all!
It's still a guard unit, I'm afraid the quality of the companies below is even worse!
"Can any of you read?"
"Our division commander is illiterate. I am the only one in the Guard Company 3 who has studied in a private school for a few years!"
Seeing Liao Chengbing proudly raise his hand to answer, Zhou Xiaoshan was so angry that he almost fainted!
The division commander is illiterate, he is just pretending, he learned from Zhang Zongchang and Han Fuju. You are just a freaking private, why do you compare yourself with the division commander!
What kind of quality of soldiers are these? Only one in the entire company can read!
Zhou Xiaoshan let out a long breath!
Reorganized the ideas!
"Let me tell you this. In the next two years, someone may assassinate the Master at any time. Do you agree?"
"No!"
Military orders should be simple, direct and clear in order to be effective!
You can't reason with these uneducated soldiers !
Zhou Xiaoshan shook his head desperately. He still had to reason with the truth and think of a way to improve the quality of the soldiers!
"If you don't agree, will you rely on the more than one hundred young soldiers in the guard company?"
"Young Master Soldier?"
Some of them had originally been welcoming the new company commander with a smile, but after they made sure that he knew everything, they became completely furious!
"Who the hell is talking nonsense and saying that we are young soldiers?"
"You're just giving birth to a baby without an asshole, and you only know how to attack our guards!"
"Our guard battalion's training is a model for the entire division!"
The guard battalion’s weapons are the best in the entire division. After all, it is the face of the 66th Division. The troops of the three brigades are still wearing straw sandals!
Guard camp, two pairs of cloth shoes for each person in half a year!
During battles, Luo Jialie would arrange a regiment to be close to the guard camp!
This team wasn't wiped out, so the Guard Battalion didn't need to take any action!
It is normal to be complained about as one's own son. It is ok to call soldiers at the grassroots level the "young master soldiers"!
You are the new company commander, what gives you the right to say that we are the spoiled soldiers?
It is better to provoke them than to please them. Zhou Xiaoshan looked at the four company commanders with a smile!
"There's no point getting angry. The 66th Division will have a hard time in the future. The Central Army and the Japanese are eyeing our division commander. When we are sent to protect the division commander, we must fight desperately and defeat those bastards. I have designed a set of training equipment. Go find us some carpenters and get some wood to build it!"
"No need to look for it. I am a carpenter by birth. We have more than a dozen carpenters in our company. We have all the wood tools in the armory. You get the blueprints and I will be responsible for the construction!"
"Okay, Chen Hu, get all the carpenters in the company to gather this afternoon, and I'll leave the matter to you. The battalion training ground is too small. I think the grass dam on the other side of the river is more suitable for our training ground! Anyway, we have more than a dozen small boats in our company, and we can load more than a hundred people in one batch, so we can cross the river at any time!"
The Longxi River is too small, and the grassy area on the other side of the river is uninhabited. If we set up mortars, we can hit the headquarters of the Yongzhou Defense Zone with one shot. Since it is necessary for defense, that area should be made into a security zone. There are also guards patrolling there at ordinary times, so we might as well make use of it!
"Make sure to complete the mission!"
Seeing Chen Hu saluted and agreed, Zhou Xiaoshan asked him to sit down and said that there was no need to salute or do something fake during the meeting, just do the assigned task well!
"Deputy Captain Liao, move the entire company to the other side of the river this afternoon for live-fire target practice! Prepare some grenades, and have the entire company conduct shooting and throwing tests!"
