Devil's Army

After Captain Yin returned, bombing the Japanese airport was once again on his plan.

He believed that the Japanese fleet had been repelled by them, and the supplies raised by the Japanese army in Haikou had been destroyed by them, and the Japanese army and navy would not attack the base of the independent regiment in the short term.

As long as they could destroy the Japanese airfield and resolve the threat from the air to the independent regiment's base, they could return to their headquarters in Kunming.

After he returned and landed, he was about to discuss the bombing of the Japanese airport with Captain Zhang, but Captain Zhang pulled him to watch the training of new recruits.

"Well, we just raided the Japanese port and fleet in Haikou, so the Japanese airfields may be on guard. Let's wait a few days and then raid them when their vigilance is off." Thinking of this, Captain Yin happily went with Captain Zhang to inspect the training of the new recruits.

The recruits have been training for a week. The theoretical and firearms knowledge training has been completed, and now they have entered the live-fire shooting training.

Captain Zhang's inspection this time was a surprise raid, but the results of the inspection made him very angry.

He approved a training volume of ten rounds per day for each recruit, and the recruits reported that except for the first day of live-fire shooting training, when each person fired two rounds, they have been practicing raising their guns ever since.

Captain Zhang's first reaction was that "Captain Xu intercepted the batch of ammunition that he approved for the training of new recruits." But he didn't know whether Captain Xu intercepted the ammunition for personal or public purposes.

If it is for personal gain, it is a serious crime in the management of the army. The lighter punishment is expulsion from the army, and the worse punishment is execution.

Captain Xu was a brave and resourceful general, and Captain Zhang felt it was a pity. But since it happened, he had to deal with it, so he asked the guards to bring Captain Xu over for questioning.

When Captain Xu heard that Captain Zhang was coming, he ran over happily and asked:

"Captain, how come you have time to come here today? Oh, Captain Yin is here too?"

Captain Zhang didn't say anything, but pointed to a bench in front and asked Captain Xu to sit down.

Captain Xu quickly sensed that something was wrong in the atmosphere and sat quietly in front of Captain Zhang.

"Tell me, I told you that during the live-fire shooting training for the new recruits, they should fire three rounds of ammunition every day. Why did you only give them ten rounds of ammunition on the first day, and then make them practice holding the gun at other times?"

"Captain, you also know about this?"

"If you don't want others to know, then don't do it. Tell me, where did you hide the saved bullets?" When Captain Zhang heard Captain Xu say this, his heart sank.

"Where are the bullets hidden? I didn't hide any bullets!"

"Where are the bullets I approved for you to use for the new recruits to practice with live ammunition?"

"They are all in the warehouse. I haven't touched them at all," Captain Xu replied aggrievedly.

Soon, the quartermaster came to report to Captain Zhang: except for the 3300 bullets allocated to the soldiers for training on the first day, the rest were in the warehouse, and not a single one was reduced.

Upon hearing this, Commander Zhang heaved a sigh of relief. Captain Xu did not embezzle the bullets. After all, the army was in urgent need of officers, and he did not want to shed tears and execute Ma Su.

Captain Yin asked Captain Xu in confusion:

"Captain Zhang has approved the bullets for you to train new soldiers. Why don't you distribute them instead of leaving them in the warehouse?"

After hearing Captain Yin's question, Captain Xu scratched his head a little embarrassedly and said:

"When we were in the Qiongya guerrillas, we were short of supplies, especially bullets. Sometimes we had to sacrifice our lives to capture the Japanese bullets. I felt sad that every day of training was wasted. We should have used the training to fight the Japanese."

"The training is not wasted. If the soldiers do not strengthen their training in normal times, during the war, five bullets could have killed one Japanese soldier, but now it will take 20 or even 50 bullets to kill one Japanese soldier. It will not only be a waste, but also dangerous." Captain Zhang said after taking a breath.

"Okay, Captain, I know I was wrong."

"Don't worry about the bullets. If we run out, we can go and seize them from the Japanese. If that doesn't work, we can ask the Kunming headquarters for more. We have an arsenal in the Kunming headquarters."

"Yes, I'll arrange it right away."

"Although you didn't do this for yourself, you didn't follow through on the training mission I gave you. I still have to punish you."

"Captain, I will accept any punishment you give me."

"Okay, I will discuss this disciplinary issue with Deputy Commander Hu and we will decide later. You go down and train to replenish the troops first."

Battalion Commander Xu saluted Commander Zhang and Captain Yin and left.