The expeditionary force began to dominate Southeast Asia by recruiting defeated soldiers

Chapter 263: New Soldier Li Chutou and the Japanese Major General Infantry Regiment Commander (Part

At 6 o'clock in the morning, the bugler began to blow the wake-up call.

Amid the loud sound of military bugles, the soldiers of the 35th Regiment of the 12th Infantry Division of the Anmin Army began to get up and fold their quilts.

After the soldiers had tidied their bedding, they picked up the towels, enamel pots, bamboo toothbrushes, tooth powder and other items that had been distributed to them and ran out of the tent to wash up together.

As one of them, the new recruit Li Chutou was naturally caught up in the crowd.

After a quick wash, Li Chutou wiped his face with a towel and felt refreshed.

Li Chutou couldn't help but sigh as he weighed the white towel in his hand.

This pure cotton white towel is so soft.

In his entire life, Li Chutou had never seen such a white and soft towel, whether in his hometown or in the Gui army.

I guess that's what the high-ranking officers of the Gui army used, right?

Am I not being treated the same as those superiors whom I used to have to bow and scrape to?

Thinking of this, Li Chutou straightened his back a little more and felt a sense of pride.

Time flies by.

At 7 o'clock in the morning, if they were in the training camp, the new recruits like Li Chutou would start to tidy up their rooms, clean up and prepare for meals under the leadership of the new recruit squad leader.

However, these new recruits no longer have to deal with housework. After being incorporated into the 12th Infantry Division, they began to carry out search missions with a small number of veterans from the 35th Regiment.

That’s right, the 35th Regiment is a new recruit regiment mainly composed of new soldiers, and their mission is naturally not a front-line combat mission.

Instead, they searched for scattered Japanese soldiers who had fled to the mountains and forests near the liberated city of Mandalay.

While Zhang Chi was besieging Mandalay City, he had already liberated Meiktila, Yenangyaung and other places in the south of Mandalay City.

Therefore, at the last moment of the siege of Mandalay, a group of Japanese soldiers led by General Tanaka Shinichi, Chief of Staff of the Japanese Pegu Front, unexpectedly escaped from the city using a tunnel prepared in advance.

After that, these devils had no chance to escape south along the road, and they just kept hiding in the deep mountains and forests.

Although according to post-war statistics, the number of Japanese devils who finally escaped was less than 1000, a group of Japanese major generals and lieutenant generals led by General Tanaka Shinichi did not stay in the city and commit seppuku, but fled.

In Zhang Chi's opinion, how could this be possible?

There are rewards for killing generals. Now, after a big battle, the Anmin Army only killed a few major generals of the Saka puppet army, which is far from enough.

As a result, many new recruits like the 35th Regiment were pulled to the front to carry out search missions, and under Zhang Chi's orders, these Japanese generals were hunted down and killed.

According to Zhang Chi, the shabby post-war trial allowed many extremely evil devils to escape punishment due to the obstruction of a certain Sindhu judge.

So he simply ordered that there was no need to pursue capturing them alive, and that they should be killed if necessary. Killing them could be exchanged for system rewards, how great.

However, the system, the sanctions against Japanese war criminals, the post-war international situation, these major events were too far away from the new recruit Li Chutou. The only thing that excited him was that he could touch the gun as much as he wanted.

There is no man who doesn't like guns. When he was in the Gui Army, he was conscripted into the army and served as an unarmed soldier.

To put it nicely, he was an unarmed soldier, to put it bluntly, he was just a handyman, so Li Chutou naturally had no chance to touch a gun.

Later, the unit he was in was defeated by the Japanese. He did get to use a gun on the battlefield, but he almost lost half his life.

In fact, according to the method of most White Party officers in those days, they would capture a group of able-bodied men, not train them, and throw them directly onto the battlefield to "raise them". Those who survived in the end would not be "super soldiers" who could tear the Japanese apart with their bare hands or shoot them in the head from 800 miles away.

Instead, it was the "old soldiers" who ran fast enough and pretended to be dead well enough, or the super lucky ones like Li Chutou - who were stunned by the artillery shells and buried by a thin layer of loose soil.

If Li Chutou had woken up a little later, he would have suffocated to death.

Later, dragging half of his infected arm and running a high fever, he was thrown into the refugee camp in Chuncheng. After being cured with penicillin by the medical staff of the 212th Division's rear post there, he was sent to Pegu to continue serving in the army.

However, although he was called a soldier in the Gui army, in reality, apart from wearing a worn-out military uniform, he did the work of a civilian laborer. So after joining the Anmin Army, Li Chutou still had to start from the recruit training camp.

This was also Zhang Chi's additional requirement. In order to prevent these White Party veterans from bringing bad habits to the new Anmin Army, unless the front line was extremely tight and urgently needed to be replenished, all White Party veterans had to go to the recruit training camp. At most, when they graduated and were awarded ranks, they would be promoted a few levels appropriately according to the situation.

This recruit training camp is a melting pot. According to Zhang Chi's idea, all these recruits and veterans can be forged into promising talents. As for those who cannot be forged, they will naturally be eliminated directly.

The meal ends at 7:30 am.

Li Chutou touched his bulging belly and burped with satisfaction.

He never wanted to experience the pain of hunger again.

Breakfast consisted of baked naan and rice porridge with shredded pork, all made with white flour by the company’s kitchen staff, and served with a variety of shiny pickles and boiled eggs.

Li Chutou touched the boiled egg that he had secretly hidden in his arms, while his thoughts drifted back to the past.

In the Gui army, three meals a day is naturally impossible, and two meals a day can only be provided if the commander is in a good mood. After all, if the commander does not withhold the food of soldiers like Li Chutou, how can he marry a new concubine?

As for white flour buns and eggs?

Li Chutou had a chance to show his support once in the Gui army. Before the troops set out to fight the Japanese, the commander, considering that this battle was almost a life-or-death struggle, specially gave all the soldiers a good meal - steamed buns baked with lard.

Li Chutou ate the still hot egg in his arms again. The real feeling of having food in his hands pulled him back.

He breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, in the Anmin Army, such sumptuous meals are a daily occurrence.

Many new recruits like Li Chutou no longer cry and shout that they don't want to eat the "last meal" after seeing the rich food;

Nor will you secretly hide a pile of cakes, steamed buns and other foods after meals for fear of hunger.

Now, new recruits like Li Chutou all have light in their eyes, and the name of that light is "hope".

At 8 o'clock in the morning, after receiving the weapons and packing his luggage, Li Chutou carried the M1 Garand rifle on his shoulder and stood straight like a green pine.

The imitation Type 56 cowhide chest strap issued to him on his chest (the author said the picture is at the end of the chapter) was filled with a compressed 8-round magazine.

That’s right, as a time traveler, Zhang Chi naturally wouldn’t forget the infantry’s carrying equipment.

The recruit Li Chutou, who was armed to the teeth, wore a steel helmet on his head, and a water bottle, gas mask box, bayonet, grenade, first aid kit and other miscellaneous items were hung firmly on his belt.

Li Chutou looked straight ahead and watched Captain Lu nod with satisfaction at his team.

"Everyone! Let's go!"