Bright Sword: Let my company hold off the Yamazaki Battalion

Chapter 16: Combat Battalion Formed! Chu Feng: "Live combat training; whatever we lack, we'

Back at the guard company, Chu Feng immediately sprang into action.

As orders were issued, the five hundred new recruits were quickly distributed to the other six guard companies and eighteen guard platoons, accompanied by their communications officers.

The following day, the 500 veterans who had been selected, along with the company commanders, political instructors, and platoon leaders of each guard company, reported to the regimental headquarters.

"Comrades!"

Outside the arsenal, on the training ground, all the officers and soldiers of the combat battalion gathered together. Chu Feng stood on the high platform, his gaze sweeping across the entire area, and his voice rang out clearly and loudly in everyone's ears: "First of all, congratulations on becoming the first batch of officers and soldiers of our Guard Regiment's combat battalion."

As soon as Chu Feng spoke, everyone instinctively sat up straight, their eyes filled with excitement and anticipation.

During this week, they met the new leader and talked a lot with Chu Feng, learning what the leader was going to do.

"Combat Battalion!"

Amidst everyone's expectant and excited gazes, Chu Feng's voice rang out again: "As the name suggests, a combat battalion is a unit focused on combat."

"Our guard regiment is an infantry regiment established by the General Logistics Department. Its core mission is to ensure the safety of various units and factories."

"But we are also a military unit, and a military unit must fight, must fight the Japanese devils."

"And the combat battalion is the only channel for our guard regiment to fight against the outside world; it was created for combat."

Hearing Chu Feng's clear, concise, and to-the-point expression.

The crowd erupted in applause, their eyes filled with even greater excitement and anticipation.

Fighting the Japanese devils? What soldier wouldn't want that?

However, they were located inside the base area and had almost no opportunity to participate in combat. They were even lacking in weapons and equipment.

It's impossible to say I have no objections.

However, due to the special nature of the military, as officers, they could only suppress their grievances.

Now that the guard regiment has taken office, the new commander has made it clear that they are not just responsible for watching others fight the Japanese, but they can also fight the Japanese.

Their long-held desires were finally fulfilled at this moment, and they didn't jump up, which was already a great show of restraint.

"but!"

Seeing the excited crowd, Chu Feng changed the subject: "But let me make this clear from the start: joining the combat battalion only means you are qualified, not that you are guaranteed to stay here forever."

"You were selected because our guard regiment is newly established, and you have the advantage of being veterans."

"But that doesn't mean the guard regiment only consists of veterans like you."

"Next, I will train and assess you. If anyone performs poorly, I will not be satisfied."

"Then I will not hesitate to send you back and replace you with someone else."

As he spoke, Chu Feng paused, his sharp gaze sweeping over the group of company and platoon leaders: "Compared to the soldiers, I have higher expectations for you officers, because I firmly believe in one saying: the greater the position, the greater the responsibility."

"Combat battalion, everything is born for combat, so there is only one ironclad rule here: the capable rise and the mediocre fall."

"If you want to stay, if you want to keep fighting the Japanese, then show your spirit and your abilities."

"Now, I'm giving you a choice."

"If you feel my requirements are too demanding, you don't like them, or you feel you can't meet them, you can bring it up."

"I'll give you ten seconds to think and make a decision." After saying that, Chu Feng shut his mouth.

Ten seconds passed quickly, and no one chose to quit; they all stood straight in place.

"OK!"

Seeing that no one was quitting, Chu Feng smiled and said, "Since no one is quitting, let's settle this with our true abilities."

He took out his notebook and began announcing the organization and personnel allocation of the combat battalion.

"Company Commander Huang Zhenggong, Political Instructor Gao Chongxi, Deputy Company Commander Tian Erkuan."

"Second Company Commander: Zhang Mieri; Political Instructor: Ge Zengfei; Deputy Company Commander: Huang Erhu."

"Third Company Commander Zhao Quanyou, Political Instructor Shen Yilong, Deputy Company Commander Jin Yidong."

"Fourth Company Commander You Tianming, Political Instructor Ma Dingguo, Deputy Company Commander Fang Kairen."

"Artillery Company Commander Zeng Niuda, Political Instructor Luo Yifei, Deputy Company Commander Zhang Dongyi."

After announcing the appointments of the company commanders, political instructors, and deputy company commanders of the five companies.

Chu Feng then handed over the personnel lists of each company to them, letting them find and form their own teams.

An hour later, the personnel of each company were assigned.

Chu Feng waved his hand: "Alright, deputy company commanders, lead your troops back. Company commanders and political instructors, come to the regimental headquarters for a meeting."

The troops were quickly led away to their new location to get to know each other.

Regimental Headquarters!

Chu Feng sat at the head of the table, with the company commanders and political instructors of the five companies standing on either side.

"Comrades!"

Chu Feng's gaze swept over the crowd, and his voice rang out: "I called you here to tell you three things."

Upon hearing this, everyone instinctively sat up straight, their expressions serious and earnest.

Chu Feng didn't keep them in suspense and went straight to the point: "The first thing is the issue of weapon and equipment allocation."

"Our four infantry companies, each with 150 men, are equipped with the same weapons and equipment. Each company is equipped with two heavy machine guns, three light machine guns, three grenade launchers, and one rifle per man."

"An artillery company of 80 men, equipped with 6 82mm mortars."

"We originally had four Type 4 81mm mortars made by the Japanese, but Minister Zhang and I replaced them with our own 82mm mortars."

"These weapons and equipment include those provided by Minister Zhang, those we already had, and those captured from that damned Yamazaki Battalion."

"In terms of ammunition reserves, we have 2 rounds of ammunition, 500 melon grenades, and 100 mortar shells, which can be deployed for training."

Everyone's eyes lit up immediately when Chu Feng said those words.

"Good heavens, so much?" Company Commander Zhang Mieri exclaimed in surprise, "My goodness, in all my years of service, I've never been this generous!"

The third company's political instructor, Shen Yilong, quickly did the calculations and exclaimed in astonishment, "Just from live-fire target practice alone, if we leave 8000 rounds for light and heavy machine gun training, and the remaining 12,000 rounds can be distributed equally among all the soldiers, with each soldier receiving at least 30 rounds."

Artillery company commander Zeng Niuda was also beaming with joy: "100 shells, that's three rounds per artilleryman."

An artillery company of 80 men is not entirely composed of artillerymen; the core artillery force consists of only a few dozen men.

Company Commander Huang Zhenggong was somewhat surprised, and even more shocked by Chu Feng's extravagance. He looked at Chu Feng with some concern: "Regimental Commander, isn't this too much?"

"We're just doing this much for training? What will we do in actual combat?"

Upon hearing Huang Zhenggong's words, the others snapped out of their euphoria and excitement, and all looked at Chu Feng with concern.

"rest assured!"

Chu Feng remained calm about this: "Skills and tactics can't be learned by aiming alone. What our combat battalion lacks is time."

"I'm using so much ammunition for training because I'm only giving you a week to get used to it."

"In a week, I'll take you to fight the Japanese."

"My arrangement for the combat battalion is not to train soldiers on the training ground, but to train them in actual combat."

"We're all veterans now. There's limited improvement on the training field; the battlefield is where we grow the fastest."

"The most important thing is that if we want to develop better, we can only sustain ourselves through war. We want to maintain this scale of live-fire training in the future."

"There's only one way: seize it from the Japanese devils. Whatever we need, we'll take it from those damned Japanese devils."

As he spoke, Chu Feng smiled and said, "These are the second and third things I mentioned."