Cross the Songhu battlefield and rise to become the most powerful warlord

Chapter 251: Inspecting the Training Ground

251 Inspecting the Training Ground

"Everyone, stand up straight!

It's only been an hour, and look at you now."

In the city of Jinling, at a national army training ground, rows of militiamen stood in line under the sun.

Several Kuomintang instructors walked beside them with bamboo poles and scolded them.

At a glance, there were several such teams in the huge open space.

Snapped!

One soldier was swaying and was discovered by the instructor, who then hit him with two bamboo sticks. The militiaman grimaced in pain.

"Now I can't even bear this little bit of hardship, I can't even stand in a queue properly.

Once on the battlefield, they faced the brutal Japanese invaders.

Aren't you going to lose your lives immediately?

The more you sweat during training, the less you bleed during battle."

After the instructor had beaten the militiamen who were moving, he did not forget to shout again to the others.

These instructors were none other than the more than 300 veterans who had been sent from the Training Corps.

Of course, there were also a group of veterans sent by the 88th and 87th Divisions.

Ye Qingshan used these veterans, selected several suitable training grounds in the city, and began to train the militia in the city.

At this time, Ye Qingshan had more than 100,000 militiamen under his command.

Ye Qingshan did not expect to train all of them into soldiers.

Ye Qingshan couldn't get out either, as they were armed with so many weapons.

Even if only half of these hundreds of thousands of militiamen were trained, Ye Qingshan would be happy to death.

Now, the Japs' supplies have not yet arrived.

Even after the old devil Matsui Iwane became the new commander, he did not immediately launch a new offensive.

The old Japanese even gave a direct order for all Japanese troops to stop attacking.

This brought Jinling, which had been ravaged by war, into a rare period of peace.

Ye Qingshan did not allow the national army to counterattack.

The troops of both sides were each in their existing occupied areas, keeping a wary eye on each other.

It was a rare opportunity for Ye Qingshan to have some free time, so today he brought Xiao Wusheng and others to inspect the training ground.

Watching so many militiamen gradually being trained and trained by the veterans of the National Army.

Ye Qingshan walked and laughed.

Looking at these trained militiamen, Ye Qingshan seemed to see the scene when he counterattacked the Japanese in a while.

"Sir!"

A moment later, a lieutenant colonel of the National Army saw Ye Qingshan coming and hurried over to salute.

The other party was appointed by Ye Qingshan as the chief instructor of militia training.

He was also the highest-ranking officer among the 300 veterans of the Teaching Corps who came down from Purple Mountain.

"It's alright, Lieutenant Colonel Zhang.

I came over to take a look.

You continue to train.”

Ye Qingshan waved his hand and asked the other party to relax.

"Yes!"

Soon, Ye Qingshan strolled to the other side. The militiamen who were training here were no longer lined up.

Instead, they train in the use of firearms.

The militiamen being trained here are different from the militiamen that Ye Qingshan saw just now who were training and lining up.

They were one of the first groups to start and had long passed the stage of training and lining up.

What they are training now is how to shoot and how to bayonet.

How to throw a grenade, etc.

Ye Qingshan picked up an old water ball and asked the chief instructor Zhang Fa, "How is it? Is it okay to train with these water balls?"

Zhang Fa had a stern face and nodded slightly, “Sir, tell the truth.

In the past, I would have definitely looked down upon these water beads.

But now, for these militiamen we are training.

They are the most suitable.

After all, for so many of our militias, quality is not the most important thing.

On the contrary, the number must be large enough, otherwise there are so many soldiers to train.

If there are not enough guns, some soldiers may not even be able to touch a gun after training.

Now it's all right, with these old water beads sent by you, sir.

All our militiamen who have completed preliminary training can carry out firearms training."

“It would be better if there were more of them.

At present, we only have about 2,000 of these old water beads for training, which is still not enough.

We can only let the militias in each training area take turns to train day and night."

“Don’t worry, I will give you another batch of guns in a few days.

I'm almost buying out all the old Shui Lianzhu from the Russians.

A large number of water beads will arrive later.

By then, you can conduct firearms training at any time."

Ye Qingshan said with a smile.

"That's great."

After hearing this, Zhang Fa, who was usually serious and stern, also laughed happily.

"Sir, could you give us some more bullets?

It would be even better if they could shoot with live ammunition."

Zhang Fa was standing next to him and asked with a smile.

After hearing this, Ye Qingshan's smile froze for a moment, then he pretended not to hear and walked away.

What a joke.

At this time, bullets were the most difficult for Ye Qingshan to deal with.

In fact, compared with guns, the biggest consumption of the national army in the city is actually bullets.

Now, Ye Qingshan was trying to gather the ammunition as quickly as possible for the counterattack against the Japanese later.

He spared no expense to purchase a batch of submachine gun bullets from the Pitt family.

However, Ye Qingshan was also unable to purchase bullets for other guns.

They can only rely on the arsenal in Jinling City to manufacture it themselves.

Just yesterday, Ye Qingshan selected several thousand people from the militia and transferred them to Yan Lao of the arsenal again, asking him to expand the production of bullets.

In this situation, how could Ye Qingshan possibly take out bullets for these militiamen to train?

That really won't work.

When Zhang Fa saw that Ye Qingshan didn't respond, he knew that his request might be too much.

He didn't dare to say anything and just followed Ye Qingshan.

But Ye Qingshan took two steps, then stopped, turned around and said to Zhang Fa, "Wait.

Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, Deputy Commander Xiao will bring back two bullet-making machines from Hong Kong.

Our shortage of bullets should be getting better.

When the time comes, I will transfer a batch of bullets to you for live-fire training."

Ye Qingshan also knew that these militiamen would be his trump card for the next counterattack against the Japanese.

It may even be the foundation of his future army.

But don't be too stingy.

He simply gritted his teeth and agreed to Zhang Fa's request.

"Thank you, sir."

Zhang Fa saluted Ye Qingshan again.

Buzz!

At this moment, suddenly, the roar of a fighter jet engine was heard in the sky.

Ye Qingshan and others looked up at the sky and found two Japanese fighter planes flying over their heads.

Ye Qingshan and others were not panicked.

Because they knew that what was flying over was just a Japanese reconnaissance plane.

It's not a Japanese bomber.

Ever since the failure of the Japanese prince's three-pronged attack plan, the Japanese bomber fleet has never launched any bombing on the city of Jinling again.

Because, in that battle, all the existing aerial bombs in the hands of the Japanese were used up.

Before new supplies and ammunition are delivered from their country.

The Japanese bombers came to bomb without bombs.

However, the Japanese stopped bombing, but their reconnaissance planes flew over Nanjing every day.

Conduct reconnaissance on the situation in Jinling City.