Bright Sword: I don’t want to be the king!

The puppet army commander suppressed his inner excitement and said, "Captain Cao Geng! I was originally the commander of the 7th Company of the 312th Regiment of the 59th Division of the Central Army, Wang Hu. Now I am bringing my old subordinates to request to join the 3rd Battalion of the New 1st Regiment!"

Hearing this, the soldiers behind the pseudo-corps commander straightened their backs, with pride shining in their eyes.

They were China’s soldiers before, and from now on, they will still be China’s soldiers!

Although they took the wrong path in the middle, from now on, they will double their efforts to atone for their sins and redouble their efforts to fight against the Japanese soldiers, just to live up to their expectations for the rest of their lives!

"Welcome!"

Cao Geng didn't say much and responded directly like this.

Immediately afterwards, a company commander walked up to Cao Geng.

"Report, Battalion Commander, this time the Third Battalion sent out 632 men to attack the Yongping Town Military Police, 42 were injured, and 3 were killed!"

When Cao Geng heard this, his eyes suddenly focused.

Yongping Town was an important stronghold in the Japanese army's strategic layout. The gendarmerie battalion had more than one thousand Japanese soldiers, far more than the two or three hundred in other counties.

If it weren't for the former puppet army soldiers led by Wang Hu who destroyed the gendarmerie brigade's command post, Cao Geng's losses would probably have been even more severe.

However, in this battle, 632 men fought against nearly 1,000 Japanese troops, with only 42 injured and 3 dead, which was already a very brilliant record.

Cao Geng felt quite satisfied that he could capture Yongping County at such a low cost.

Without thinking too much, he nodded and said:

"I understand. You go down and clean up the battlefield first. Remember, the pension for the fallen soldiers will be increased by two dollars per person."

The company commander seemed to have heard something very ordinary and answered, "Yes."

After saying that, he left.

However, after the company commander left, Wang Hu and others beside him looked at each other in bewilderment...

Increase the pension by two yuan? It seems that the third battalion they joined is not only strong in combat, but also much better in humanity than other troops. Maybe they really chose Cao Geng's third battalion.

Cao Geng asked Wang Hu: "Next, I will mix your people into my third battalion and rearrange them. Wang Hu, do you have any questions?"

Wang Hu immediately shook his head: "No problem, I will obey the orders of the battalion commander." Just kidding, although he was the regiment commander in the puppet army, now that he has joined Cao Geng's troops, of course he has to listen to Cao Geng.

Cao Geng also nodded and said, "Well, then you go back and report the situation to the deputy battalion commander. My third battalion is still short of a commander for the sixth company. You will be the commander from now on."

The commander of the Sixth Company? The puppet soldiers looked at each other in bewilderment. They had never expected that their regiment commander could not even be a deputy battalion commander here.

Being a company commander? Isn't this a four-level demote for the regiment commander?

"Battalion Commander Cao Geng..." Some puppet army soldiers wanted to speak up for the regiment commander Wang Hu.

"Lin Dong!" Wang Hu's eyes were cold and he shouted sternly. The puppet soldier who had just spoken immediately became dispirited.

Wang Hu quickly turned to Cao Geng and said flatteringly: "Battalion Commander, I'm sorry, I am willing to obey the arrangements of the camp, please don't abandon us..."

Now the most important thing for Wang Hu is to stabilize Cao Geng. As long as he can join the third battalion of the new regiment, everything else can be discussed. Even if he is asked to be a platoon leader, he will be willing.

Cao Geng looked at this scene with a meaningful smile on his face. It seemed that the cohesion of Wang Hu's puppet army team was quite strong.

But since they came to the Third Battalion, they had to listen to his command. If these people wanted to form a small circle, don't blame him, Cao Geng, for being rude.

"Yeah." Cao Geng took a look at Wang Hu and got an idea. Wang Hu seemed to have a good attitude. Like Wang Huaibao, he was a useful talent.

But no matter how capable he is, he has to start as a company commander. In his third battalion, he doesn't need arrogant soldiers, everyone must obey him, Cao Geng!

Afterwards, Cao Geng followed the other brothers to clean up the battlefield.

Soon, the results of the Third Battalion's battlefield cleanup came out. In terms of weapons and equipment, the military police brigade had a rich inventory, which surprised Cao Geng and others.

According to statistics, there were 1,752 Japanese rifles in the gendarmerie battalion! There were 63 light machine guns! The soldiers of the third battalion found 45 grenade launchers! They found 23 heavy machine guns! Even the gendarmerie battalion had three Type 92 infantry guns!

When Cao Geng learned that the Third Battalion had seized so many weapons and equipment, he was stunned. You know, in this era, the military police battalion was not an ordinary Japanese battalion. It may be because Yongping Town is close to Huaiyi County, and there are thousands of Japanese soldiers in the military police battalion...

Even so, Cao Geng had never expected that this gendarmerie brigade would have such powerful equipment configuration.

This is equivalent to two-thirds of the weapons of a Japanese army brigade.

You should know that in the Japanese army, about three battalions form a regiment, and three regiments form a brigade.

The equipment in front of us is enough to equip two Japanese army regiments, which means 5,000 people.

However, the Japanese troops in Yongping Town were just a gendarmerie battalion.

Where did they get their weapons?

Normally, it would be considered good if a gendarmerie battalion had one-tenth of the weapons of a full-strength battalion in a regular division.

This is a weapon ten times more powerful than that of an ordinary gendarmerie brigade!

Now, these were actually seized in the gendarmerie brigade in Yongping Town.

Cao Geng would never believe that there was no problem with these weapons.

Cao Geng glanced at Wang Hu, hoping he could explain it all.

However, Wang Hu was also surprised...

Obviously, Wang Hu didn't know that the gendarmerie had so many sources of supplies.

However, after the shock, Cao Geng no longer struggled with it and completely accepted this fact.

Anyway, these weapons now became Cao Geng's trophies.

With so many weapons, he could easily expand his third battalion further.

What surprised Cao Geng even more was that in addition to arms, he also seized countless quilts, medicines and other strategic materials...

According to Cao Geng's estimation, if these supplies were used by the gendarmerie brigade, they could use them for three years!

This is undoubtedly the largest amount of supplies and equipment Cao Geng has seized since his time traveling through time.

He intuitively felt that these things definitely did not belong to the Yongping Town Military Police Brigade. How could a small military police brigade have so many strategic materials?

But, like the weapons he had captured, he didn't care why a small gendarmerie had such a large amount of military supplies.

Since he had destroyed the Japanese gendarmerie battalion, the supplies in these Japanese garrisons would become his.