nycdaug Chapter 286 The cruelty of the Tiger Guards’ new recruits training!
Chapter 286 The cruelty of the Tiger Guards’ new recruits training!
Time flies, and a month has passed in the blink of an eye.
This month, the Huben Army launched a large-scale recruitment campaign in Jin.
Not only did the various forces in Jin know about it, but even other states outside Jin knew about it.
Moreover, because of the fame and combat effectiveness of the Huben Army, many young people from other states also came to join the Huben Army.
Originally, Zhou Weimin thought it would be difficult to recruit 80,000 to 90,000 soldiers, so he had a special talk with the Eighth Route Army, hoping that the Eighth Route Army would not compete with the Huben Army for soldiers.
Furthermore, Zhou Weimin believed that the main source of soldiers for this recruitment would be northwest Shanxi, but what Zhou Weimin did not expect was.
The source of soldiers for this recruitment was actually the entire Northwest, and young people from several states in the Northwest continuously joined the Tiger Guards.
In just less than ten days, the Huben Army had recruited enough soldiers, and there were still many left.
So Zhou Weimin thought about it and recruited two more reserve divisions, totaling more than 40,000 people.
At this time, the Huben Army had nearly 180,000 soldiers, but 140,000 of them were new recruits.
Now all the units of the Huben Army are short of people. After learning that there are a large number of new recruits, the officers of the Huben Army have come to Zhou Weimin.
The tradition of the Tiger Guards was that new recruits could only be assigned to units after three months of training.
However, due to the shortage of manpower in each unit and the fact that the Tiger Guards were not engaged in any war at the moment, Zhou Weimin decided to give the new recruits some simple training and then assign them to units.
So for the next twenty days, the instructors of the Tiger Guards could only use the most brutal methods to help these recruits master the knowledge of how to save their lives on the battlefield.
When Zhou Weimin walked to a training ground, he heard bursts of gunfire coming from the direction of the shooting range.
At this moment, teams of new recruits, driven by instructors and officers, were crawling forward under the barbed wire with difficulty, under the machine gun fire.
Under the barbed wire, there were still the usual screams of ghosts and wolves, feeling the bullets raging overhead.
Some of the recruits cried loudly, some closed their eyes and dared not move no matter how their comrades urged them, and some were even scared to the point of defecating and urging.
However, such scenes have long been commonplace for Zhou Weimin and the veterans around him.
After all, they had been through the same thing in the past, and they had seen people who were even more outrageous than these. The current scene could only be described as a drizzle.
Suddenly, a scream was heard in front, and the raging gunfire stopped abruptly.
Then a group of people rushed over. It turned out that a new recruit who was frightened to the point of insanity suddenly jumped up.
He was then hit in the thigh by a flying bullet and fell to the ground with a scream, bleeding profusely.
One or two nurses who had been waiting nearby ran over quickly carrying medicine boxes.
After a quick check, they immediately took out a bandage and bandaged his thigh, then lifted him onto a stretcher and sent him to the hospital.
After everyone left, the instructor's roar was heard on the training ground as usual, and a few minutes later, gunshots rang out again.
"Wei Min, is it really okay to train like this?" Qiao Linwei, who was standing next to Zhou Weimin, said to Zhou Weimin with a pale face.
Qiao Linwei had never seen such training for new recruits, nor had she ever heard of any unit training new recruits in this way.
"There's no other way. All the troops are short of people, and these new recruits will be assigned to troops soon."
"So we can only give these new recruits some time to adapt to the battlefield. In fact, the real battlefield is ten or even a hundred times more brutal than here."
"If they can't even hold up in such a small situation, I advise them to take off their uniforms and go home!"
After hearing what Qiao Linwei said, Zhou Weimin looked at the training ground and then slowly spoke to Qiao Linwei.
In fact, the Huben Army has always trained new recruits in this way, but this time because there are a large number of new recruits and the various units are short of manpower, the process has been accelerated.
According to the procedure of recruit training, this type of training should start in the second month of a recruit's training.
This is to let the recruits experience the battlefield and the sight of bullets flying past them in advance.
Without this kind of training, when new recruits go to the battlefield, they will easily be frightened by the sight of flying bullets and dare not move.
"Commander, Madam." An instructor saluted hurriedly after seeing Zhou Weimin and Qiao Linwei.
"Yeah." Zhou Weimin nodded, then asked the instructor, "How is the training of these new recruits going?"
After hearing Zhou Weimin's words, the instructor cried out in pain, saying, "Commander, time is too short. It's really too late."
"I have to make it clear to you in advance that these soldiers are currently unable to go to the battlefield."
"If you send these soldiers to the battlefield now, you will lose at least half of your troops after a major battle."
Although the instructor is very strict with these recruits, he also cares about them. He doesn't want them to go to the battlefield right now.
"That's not right. I remember that after the last recruitment, those new recruits were sent to the battlefield after just over a month of training."
"And the new recruits are not weak in combat. Although they are a little worse than the veterans, it's only a little bit!"
After hearing the instructor's words, Zhou Weimin recalled the soldiers he had found in the past few months, and then said to the instructor.
"Commander, most of the new recruits in the last recruitment had previously held guns. Those new recruits were either from other units or bandits."
"So with just a little training, they can adapt right away."
"But the new recruits we recruited this time are completely green. They have never handled a gun before."
The instructor seemed to have thought of something when he said this, and his face changed. He continued to speak to Zhou Weimin in an urgent tone: "Commander."
"You don't really want these new recruits to go to the battlefield right now, do you? That's absolutely not possible. They can't go to the battlefield right now."
After hearing what the instructor said, Zhou Weimin shook his head slightly, then said to the instructor, "Not at the moment."
"But I can't say for sure. The Japanese have been making too many moves recently. I'm worried they might take further action against our Tiger Guards."
"Look at the Japs recently. They've been attacking everywhere in Shanxi. Both the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army and the Eighth Route Army have been attacked by the Japs."
"A few days ago, a group of Japanese invaders entered our defense zone and exchanged fire, although they retreated quickly."
"But this also shows that the Japanese have already taken action, so our Tiger Guards have to make preparations."
"Also, I have a feeling that there seems to be some changes in the Japanese headquarters. Their current actions are completely erratic."
After hearing what Zhou Weimin said, the instructor was silent for a while. The recruitment of the Tiger Guards last month was too exaggerated.
It would be strange if the Japanese did not react. Not only the Japanese, but even the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army and the Eighth Route Army came to look for Zhou Weimin.
But Zhou Weimin still said the same thing: the Huben Army will move south at the end of the year and will not stay in Jin.