lcionline Chapter 295 New Members
Chapter 295 New Members
In this river crossing operation, nearly a thousand civilians were evacuated, more than 700 Japanese devils were killed, and the weapons and equipment of three squadrons were seized. The casualties on our side were minimal, so it can be said to be a great victory.
Afterwards, Lu Cheng did not stay on the west bank of the Nujiang River for too long, and returned to the east bank of the Nujiang River with some soldiers from the spearhead company.
Xia Chen took the special operations platoon and the remaining soldiers of the spearhead company and stayed on the west bank of the Nujiang River to conduct guerrilla training.
When Lu Cheng returned to the East Coast, he learned from Veterinarian Hao, Kang Ya and others that Meng Fanle had a falling out with his conservative old father.
In Heshun Town on the west bank, after Meng Fanle and his men found his father, he wanted to take his parents directly back to the east bank, but his father insisted on taking the Meng family's collection of more than 1000 volumes of books back to the east bank.
Meng Fanle was naturally very dissatisfied. He thought that they should not waste time for those books and put their brothers in danger. This led to a conflict between the father and son. Finally, under the persuasion of Kang Ya and others, Meng Fanle allowed more than 100 soldiers, each taking a dozen books, to leave together.
Afterwards, Meng Fanle led his men to join the guard company. When they were fighting with the Japanese, four soldiers were carrying books and moved slowly, and were hit by the Japanese bullets.
Fortunately, no one was killed and two soldiers were slightly injured because of the obstruction of the books.
Meng was annoyed and blamed his father for this, but his father was very disgusted with his son's behavior of rebelling against Tiangang, and even said that the two rare books were damaged by bullets and so on.
This directly made Meng Fanle very angry. For the first time in his life, he rebelled against his father and even pointed a gun at his father's chest. The conflict between the father and son escalated further.
In fact, the moment he saw his father, Meng Fanle felt a little embarrassed.
The Meng family was originally a family of scholars. They had considerable assets in Beijing and a collection of over 10,000 books. Meng's father had studied abroad and learned mechanics. After returning to China, Meng's father became a professor at a university in Beijing.
When Nanjing fell, Meng's father went on a hunger strike for three days, showing his determination. Later, he often cursed traitors and traitors, believing that the country was lost and those soldiers and officials deserved to die.
Meng Fanle still thought that his father was a man of strong character and would not survive in this chaotic world, and was most likely dead.
But when he saw his father again, the father who always claimed to be patriotic and denounced traitors was actually a puppet head of the Japanese in the occupied area.
This made Meng Fanle very embarrassed, and he even felt that he couldn't raise his head in front of his brothers.
Now, seeing this father who only knew how to study hard and guard his books, Meng Fan finally exploded, rebelled, and finally came to his senses.
Just as Long Wenjian said, this country cannot do without scholars and people of learning, but empty talk will ruin the country.
Father Meng is such a representative feudal patriarch. Although he had been exposed to Western learning and had already stepped one foot into the new world, he still insisted on his old ways, requiring his son to kneel down and pay his respects when he saw him and requiring his wife to obey his orders.
He keeps talking about being patriotic, but in the end he achieves nothing and can only hide in his house and be cynical.
After meeting his father, Meng Fanle finally began to realize that his personality and everything about him were inseparable from his original family.
Now, what really makes him feel the warmth of home are the comrades-in-arms, brothers and compatriots who eat from the same pot around him.
Perhaps it was because of his father's stimulation, perhaps it was because of Long Wenjian's words, or perhaps it was because of this crossing of the river, that Meng Fanle began to understand how to be a good soldier? How to be a good officer?
However, Lu Cheng did not let Meng Fanle think too much, and summoned Long Wenjian, Meng Fanle and others.
"Long Wenjian, I am sorry to bother you. I will assign you a new task. You should immediately arrange all the affairs of the regiment, hand over the work and defense at hand, and then take this group of selected soldiers to the Ramgarh training camp for training."
The two of them were somewhat stunned when they heard this. Long Wenjian was also somewhat incredulous: "Commander, such a good thing can happen to me?"
"You are the captain of my group and one of my most important subordinates. Why can't it be your turn? Moreover, I have another task for you. When you arrive in Ramgar, put your eloquence to good use and attract more useful talents. When the training is over, bring them back to me. Do you understand?"
"understand!"
Meng Anle looked at Lu Cheng: "Master..."
"Meng Fan, you don't need to say more. I don't want to care about your family's trivial matters. Xia Shouzhong and Long Wenjian are already regiment commanders, and you are still a battalion commander. The position of regiment commander has been vacant for you. Do you know why? Because your soul has not been completely recovered. This time when you go to the Ramgarh training camp, you must train well and recover your soul by the way, understand why you want to be a soldier and how to be a good regiment commander!"
"Yes! Commander! I will definitely live up to your trust!"
This group of soldiers selected for training also consists of a company. They will be divided into three batches, one platoon at a time, and will go to the Ramgarh training camp by transport plane.
There are limited places in the Ramgarh training camp, and the number of soldiers that can be transported by transport planes every day is also limited. Some other army commanders and division commanders are trying their best to send some capable officers under their command to Ramgarh for training in order to get as many places as possible.
However, Lu Cheng had directly established connections with the Allied Command. With the support of Stilwell, the Allied Commander-in-Chief, he could arrange for his soldiers to go for training at any time.
Other divisions or even armies only have dozens of vacancies, but Lu Cheng's brigade has already secured vacancies for two companies, and there will be more in the future.
Even Yu Xiaoqing, who was downstream, could only hide there and feel envy and jealousy.
Today, Lu Cheng, who is less than 24 years old, is already a brigade commander. Yu Xiaoqing, who is in his 30s, is still a regiment commander.
Just as Lu Cheng sent off a group of soldiers who were going to Ramgarh for training, he received a batch of supplies sent by Catherine, including 5 bullets for Browning light machine guns and 10 rounds of 7.62*63 bullets of the US Army, which are compatible with Springfield rifles, Garand rifles and Browning light machine guns.
In addition to the bullets, there was also a supply of mortar shells and three hundred Springfield rifles.
Catherine has already established contact with American arms dealers through her family connections and some connections with the Allied Command, and is preparing to purchase arms on a long-term basis.
At the same time, more supplies such as canned food and military uniforms will be delivered.
Of course, along with the supplies, there is also a letter filled with thoughts and longings.
Lu Cheng also immediately wrote a long letter, expressing his longing for Catherine and praising her. All kinds of compliments formed beautiful parallel sentences and metaphors, filling more than ten pages of letter paper, highly affirming everything Catherine had done.
To use a phrase from later generations, the emotional value is maxed out.
Lu Cheng had just received this batch of supplies when two more Americans arrived at the 42nd Brigade by plane.
These two people were none other than Arthur McLuhan, the American liaison officer, and Alger Collins, the mechanic, who later joined the cannon fodder group and attacked Nantianmen with the group in the original drama.
In fact, these two people finally became members of the cannon fodder group and were abandoned on the Nantianmen as cannon fodder...