Rise from eight hundred.

On August 8, the military conference at the commander and commander level of the group army held in Linfen by the second theater ended.

The commanders and army commanders began to return to the various ministries.

Li Jiayu, who was the commander of the 22th Army of the 47nd Army at the time, issued a combat mobilization order to the two units under his command before setting off from Linfen.

One is the 104th Division, and the other is none other than the Four Elements Group!
"The military order of the theater has been issued, all ministries are ready, and troops will be dispatched soon!" Commander Li sent the same telegram to the 104th Division and the Four Elements Regiment.

Although Tang Dao has not been notified of the specific meeting, this telegram has already indicated that the Four Elements Group is determined to be unable to escape this tactical counterattack to help the Jiangxia battle that is in full swing.

The training of the various departments of the Four Elements Regiment who received the information about the upcoming dispatch of troops became even more frantic. Everyone knew that there was not much time left for them to continue to familiarize themselves with equipment, practice marksmanship, and artillery skills.

The regiment headquarters, staff department, military supply department, supply company, engineering company, medical company, and communications company of the Four Elements Regiment were also so busy that they never touched the ground.

The staff department formulates various combat plans, the military supply department and the supply company need to reserve various combat materials, and special companies such as the engineering company, medical company, and communication company work overtime to reserve the materials needed by the three companies.

For example, Bai Sheng, he guards the arsenal almost every day. His purpose is to hope that the machine tools and steel-making furnaces in the arsenal can help his engineering company process steel plates with a thickness of 10 mm and 20 mm. Those things are used to build heavy firepower fortifications necessity.

According to Tang Tuanzuo's requirements for the firepower protection of heavy machine guns and machine guns, if a bunker can be built, the top must be protected by 10mm steel plates and logs and a layer of soil of more than half a meter, and the front needs to be protected by 20mm. Steel plate with three layers of sandbags.

This kind of protection strength can withstand the frontal bombardment of 70mm infantry guns 800 meters away and the shelling of 75mm mountain guns.

If there is no time or conditions to build a bunker, the machine gun and heavy machine gun fortifications must also be made of 20 mm steel plates and sandbags to a height of 1.2 meters, which can not only bear the infantry artillery bombardment from the front, but also effectively reduce the impact of mountain artillery bombardment on heavy firepower points. The damage coming, unless it is accurately bombarded by the mountain cannon.

Now Bai Sheng's engineering company has already expanded to 410 people, and each of the five engineering platoons under its jurisdiction has 5 people, which is almost equivalent to half of the original engineering company.

It happened that each of the 4 infantry battalions was divided into an engineering platoon, and the professional work was handed over to professional people. The remaining engineer platoon followed the regiment headquarters to support each department at any time.

Logs and sandbags can be obtained locally at any time, but special materials such as steel plates must be prepared by engineers and carried by themselves.

In addition to these special materials needed to build strong fortifications, the most common weapon carried by engineering companies is probably landmines.

A large number of anti-personnel mines, the principle of this thing is very simple, but it is not easy to manufacture, especially it cannot be easily detected by Japanese metal detectors.

So far, the scientific research team led by Teacher Xiao He has not been able to mass-produce the miniature anti-infantry mines requested by Tang Tuanzuo.

That is the design of Tang Dao Fangfu's 72-type anti-infantry mine jumping mine. It has a diameter of 79 mm and a height of 35 mm. The total combat weight of the jumping mine is only 125 grams. , the design of wrapping the killing steel column makes its killing fragments reach an astonishing 650 pieces. After the mine is detonated, there will be no dead ends within the killing radius of 14 meters.

What is even more frightening about this kind of landmine is that the amount of explosives contained in it is not much, which makes the kinetic energy of the fragments not so strong. Many soldiers who accidentally step on the landmine will only be injured and not killed.

And this is the real purpose of this kind of anti-infantry mine jumping. On the battlefield, you can ignore the dead soldiers, but what about the living ones?Even the Japanese army, which is known for its cruelty, would not ignore it, and a wounded person often needs the assistance of 2 to 4 soldiers to withdraw from the battlefield, which greatly limits the input of enemy troops. Once there are more wounded soldiers, the combat effectiveness of this unit will decrease fell sharply.

It's a pity that the plastic shell required for this kind of anti-infantry mine jumping is too difficult for this era, so it can only be replaced with an iron shell, limited by the craftsmanship, and there are not so many steel balls wrapped, and the highest fragmentation rate in the test is only more than 400 , due to the insufficient power of the explosives, the killing radius has also been reduced to 8 meters, but that is still very rare.

After Tang Tuanzuo left after the Jindongnan Campaign, it was developed and finalized as the Min [-] anti-infantry mine. It was loved by several chief officers of the Sixing regiment and asked the arsenal to work overtime to produce this mine.

It's a pity that the arsenal has too much equipment to catch up with. So far, only 1500 of this kind of landmines have been produced, and 600 of them have already been ordered by the reconnaissance company.

The reconnaissance company is the most important eyes and ears in the four-element team battle. All the equipment should be closely attached to them first. For example, the newly produced "Black Star" pistol is not equipped with Tang Dao and Lei Xiong. The reconnaissance company They already had one hand, and they said they wanted so many, and the other battalion-level chief officers could only stare blankly.

However, Bai Sheng's reason is very good. The work of laying mines has always been done by the engineering company. Therefore, 900 of the remaining 600 mines of this new type belonged to them. 1000 SMI-35 landmines found in Rupp's warehouse.

This mine is not well known at present, but it will be famous in the future World War II, nicknamed 'Bouncing Betty'.

In combat, this anti-infantry mine, which was equipped with the Imperial German Army in 1935, would catapult waist-high before exploding, shooting steel columns horizontally at deadly speed.
Really, when Tang Dao found this thing in that munitions warehouse, all that flashed in his mind was the obscenity flickering in the blue eyes of the serious Germans on his face. The tactical design is not anti-infantry at all, but really anti-human!
If more landmines are laid, will the birth rate of the Japanese be a few percentage points lower than in the future?

The pressure threshold of 7kg and the design of the built-in tripwire are enough to ensure that the landmine will not be detonated by wild animals or natural impacts. The terrible killing distance within 20 meters to 100 meters is simply born for killing infantry.

The five-leg disability often caused by 'Bouncing Betty' caused a psychological shadow on the Allied soldiers headed by the American cowboys until many years after the war.

Because the success of 'Bouncing Betty' has attracted many imitators, including Chinese military industry.

Insidiousness has almost become a characteristic that anti-personnel mines must have in the future!
Anyway, Tang Tuanzuo complained about the infamy of the military experts of the Germanic Empire in front of Lou Dehua, and shouted that these landmines have been rounded up.

Unfortunately, only these 1000 pieces!
However, this has basically allowed the small 2000 Japanese infantry to successfully move towards the road of eunuchs.

In this era before antibiotics, the principle pursued by Western medicine is to cut wherever it is rotten. Except for the head, there is nothing that cannot be cut from the whole body.

Speaking of antibiotics, the Japanese don't have them, but Sixingtuan now has them.

Another extremely important scientific research team of the Four Elements Group, under the guidance of Tang Dao's clear enough theory, successfully extracted penicillin and successfully tested it, and also carried out small-scale mass production.

In four months, enough penicillin was produced for more than 4 people.

This has also become the biggest confidence of the Sanitation Company led by Tantai Mingyue, which means that the Sanitation Company no longer has to fight in vain against bacterial infections, and does not have to watch helplessly and sadly the wounded die on the hospital bed due to bacterial infection.

According to statistics from the Sanitation Company, more than 40.00% of the seriously wounded died due to bacterial infection. For the Four Elements Regiment, which has been fighting continuously, that means hundreds of officers and soldiers. They had a chance to return to the battlefield. But bacteria interrupted their young dreams.

And this time Tang Dao returned from Jincheng, not only brought back various arms and equipment, but also a large amount of drugs such as anesthesia and blood coagulation, and various medical supplies were filled with five carriages, let alone enough for the four-element group One regiment is used, and another infantry division is probably enough.

Tang Dao even brought back five blond-haired and blue-eyed doctors and more than [-] Chinese female nurses, all of whom Tang Dao entrusted Laura to recruit at a high salary in the largest Western medicine hospital controlled by the Rockefeller Foundation in Pingbei City.

Originally Tang Dao’s condition was that each doctor’s annual salary would be US$5000 and each nurse’s annual salary would be US$1000, but what was unexpected was that when they heard that they were going to serve the Chinese army, the Chinese nurses offered to reduce their salary to US$100. Not to mention, five doctors from the United States also demanded a substantial salary cut.

In their words, they are willing to do what they can for the Chinese people fighting against the aggressors.

Later, on the way back, Tang Dao had a careful exchange with them and found out that these Western doctors originally came to China for a good salary, but after arriving in China, especially after the July [-]th Incident, they witnessed the tragedies caused by the Japanese army in the city. The impression of the Japanese is extremely bad.

It is a manifestation of the Western culture that advocates freedom to help the weak and weak China fight against the brutal invaders.

This should also be regarded as an ideal and belief!
Tang Dao did not fully agree to the request of these American doctors. Not everyone is a saint. The material conditions in the vast mountains are lacking, and faith alone is difficult to maintain for a long time.

Under Tang Dao's insistence, the personal salary of doctors in the United States is still as high as 2000 U.S. dollars, while the salary of nurses is reduced to 300 U.S. dollars. In conversion, they have reached the annual salary of 8000 oceans and 1200 oceans respectively, which is higher than that of many senior officers of the Four Elements Regiment. Military pay is high.

In the medical and nursing company at this time, in addition to the necessary guard platoon, there were 16 doctors, and 150 nurses who could treat simple trauma. An additional 300 stretcher teams were added, and 8 medical tents that could accommodate 50 beds.

That means that more than 10 surgical operations can be carried out at the same time, and it has the ability to treat more than 400 seriously wounded and 1000 lightly wounded.

The newly added stretcher team of 300 was also selected from the recruit company. A stretcher with 4 people can transport the wounded to the health company at a speed of 75 people per round on the battlefield.

At the same time, in order to prevent the health company from being attacked by a small roundabout force of the Japanese army, except for the reinforced guard platoon, all doctors and nurses are equipped with Black Star pistols, and the stretcher team of 300 people is also equipped with rifles and machine guns according to the infantry platoon model.

Maybe it can't be used as a front-line field force, but if it is attacked, even if it is an infantry squadron level, a heavily armed elite guard platoon leads 300 recruits, at least an hour to resist.

Generally speaking, the guard company and the secret service battalion following the regiment headquarters are nearby, and it takes less than 5 minutes to get there. Unless it is the main force of the Japanese army, it would be hell if he didn't kill him immediately under the attack.

As the company commander of the hygiene company, Tantai Mingyue and her fiancé, who had been back for nearly ten days, only had two meals together, and the two people who were stationed within 500 meters apart rarely saw each other.

As for other things, I know all about it when I think about it with my heels, and I haven't even thought about it. Maybe a straight man with strong hormone secretion still has some thoughts before falling asleep.

The communication company led by Yang Xiaoshan has also put in enough strength this time. Even though its establishment is only 98 people, the communication company is responsible for ensuring the smooth communication of the regiment headquarters and the troops directly under the regiment headquarters.

Especially for the most important artillery battalion companies, no matter how far apart they are, the telephone lines and telephones must be sufficiently guaranteed. Only in this way can the artillery group be able to fully focus their fire.

Tang Tuanzuo had already said at the mobilization meeting of first-level officers of the battalion, company, and platoon that whether this attack can defeat the Japanese army depends first on whether the officers and soldiers of the four infantry battalions can continue to display the heroic and fearless determination of "I am invincible". The second is whether the companies of the artillery battalion can continuously and effectively drop shells accurately on the Japanese positions.

炮兵营3个连，山炮连换装的12门75毫米博福斯山炮，无论射程还是精准度都远在先前装备的四一式山炮上；重迫击炮连换装的12门德制150口径重迫，精准度和威力亦是超越了先前装备的6门辽造16年式150重迫；防空连换装的24门20毫米苏罗通机关炮和24挺勃朗宁12.7毫米重机枪，对中低空的防御能力比之前几乎是倍增。

Artillery equipment has been improved qualitatively, but how to maximize its potential, communication is a crucial factor.

Today's communication company has four German-made Siemens 100-watt radio stations. According to needs, two are reserved for the regiment headquarters, one for the artillery battalion and one for the cavalry battalion; six 15-watt radio stations and four for the Four infantry battalions were allocated, one was given to the secret service battalion, and the other was given to the supply battalion; 6 4-watt radio stations, 5 infantry companies belonging to the four infantry battalions, and 20 machine gun companies were assigned to one. The 12th was given to the reconnaissance company as needed.

In addition to these German-made radio stations, the Four Elements Regiment also had some radio stations seized from the Japanese army, which were also distributed to the other companies directly under the battalion according to needs, basically guaranteeing a radio station for each company-level unit.

The characteristic of wireless communication is that it can get in touch with the regiment headquarters and the battalion headquarters regardless of the terrain, but it also has great disadvantages. One is that the signal cannot be received in special terrain, which makes communication difficult to connect. The other is that the radio station needs electricity. Field radios use batteries, but high-power radios need generators.

Therefore, the radio station cannot be guaranteed to be turned on at any time. The communication at this time requires wired communication. According to the requirements of Tang Tuanzuo, the communication company must ensure smooth wired communication from the regiment to the battalion and from the battalion to the company.

If the battle situation is fierce and the wires are blown off, it is necessary to communicate manually, using two legs to keep the information from the regiment to the battalions unimpeded.

The communication company led by Yang Xiaoshan is not only a technical arm, but it needs to lay tens of thousands of meters of telephone lines and troubleshoot at any time before the war. In addition, it also needs to play the role of a death squad. The decision of the superior is notified to the battalion-level unit, and it may be necessary to risk life and death to cross the line of fire.

Yang Xiaoshan, who was transferred from a leading soldier in the front line to the second lieutenant platoon leader and finally transferred to the commander of the communication company, obviously had a plan. From the day it was established, the officers and soldiers of the communication company did the most in addition to theoretical study of communication technology every day. Yes, it is fully armed 3 kilometers cross-country training.

Perhaps it is not like the front-line troops carrying heavy rifles and carrying various supplies with a load of 25 kilograms, but the signal soldiers who do not lack helmets, pistols, rifles, kettles, and military rations also carry more than 15 kilograms.

The passing line of the signal soldiers is 20 seconds faster than that of the first-line infantry, which was originally taken for granted by the infantry.

After all, speed and stamina are what the front-line infantry eat. If they can't arrive on the battlefield on time, they will lose their heads.

It's not the chief who wants their heads, but the enemy!

Sometimes, to seize the commanding heights is just a time difference of tens of seconds.When you lose the commanding heights, you often don't know how many lives it will take to regain them again.

In other words, it was the specialty of the infantry. Although the signal soldiers had a lighter load, it was absolutely unbelievable for the infantry to surpass them in terms of speed and endurance.

However, Yang Xiaoshan and his communications company's achievements in this large-scale training made all the infantry dumbfounded.

All the signal soldiers who are fully armed and carry 15 catties have passed the passing line!
"Did you see, the little guys in the communication company are better than you idiots, let me run, five kilometers of mountains, 50 rounds of live ammunition! Those who can't hit the 150 ring at 350 meters, all have Chinese cabbage and rice at night! "Looking at the training results of the communication company sent by the regiment headquarters, Fan Mobei, the deputy commander of the 4rd company of the 3th Battalion, had a black face flushed, and his loud voice echoed in the mountains.

The soldiers of the 3rd company almost didn't cry!Their deputy company commander is absolutely crazy. He took everyone for a five-kilometer run and fired 50 rounds of live ammunition in the morning.
Moreover, after running sorely and limply, and firing up to 50 rounds of live ammunition, who can guarantee the accuracy of an average of 150 rings per round at 7 meters?You let those awesome scouts try it?
In the past, Chinese cabbage and rice definitely made everyone cheer loudly, but now, in order to ensure the nutrition of all officers and soldiers during the military training period, the meat food per person per day has been increased to 5 taels, and an egg is also added. They bought out all the eggs in the entire mountain town, and even called on some military members who made their homes in Dakouzidong to raise chickens, in order to have enough eggs for the big guys to increase nutrition in the future.

Good guy, the eggs are all sold out, so what about the chicken?

As a result, some "dumb officials" did not give meat and eggs to eat but only Chinese cabbage. How can the soldiers who are about to cry bear it?Don't run desperately with red eyes, so that you have enough time to recover your physical fitness and ensure your hit rate.

The scouts who were secretly complained by the soldiers of the 4th Battalion and the 3rd Company that they were "awesome" scouts, it was a five-kilometer mountain cross-country trip where the two companies "met on a narrow road". Fan Mobei looked at the soldiers of the scouting company and looked at his own with a smile. Bing looked very upset at the children's expressions, and suggested that the two sides compete on the spot.

It is nothing more than a five-kilometer cross-country in full armor.

The result is obvious. The soldiers of the reconnaissance company selected from the whole regiment of the Four Elements won the victory in a crushing manner. Even the veterans of the original 542 regiment were ten seconds behind the second-class soldiers who were ranked last, making the newly established 3rd company Fully realized the gap between himself and the elite.

Of course, the second-class soldier at the bottom of the reconnaissance company is not a human, but a pig!

A big wild boar named 'Guaiguai'!
The reason why the guy was ranked last in the entire reconnaissance company was not because it ran slowly, nor was it because the big wild boar had two MG2 machine guns and a box of bullets hanging on its body, and it carried a load of 34 catties.

It was that guy who was greedy for food, he ran away for a while if he was given food, and fell behind and groaned if he didn't give him food. Only when he saw his companion running away, he ran after him with four pig legs.

Just like that, he even dumped the veterans of the 3rd company for more than ten seconds, just thinking about it made Fan Mobei's ass hurt for a while!
Anyway, no matter what, the news of the upcoming expedition stimulated the enthusiasm of the officers and soldiers of the Four Elements Regiment to train more and more!
Don't need to say much about the concept of "sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in wartime", most of these soldiers who have experienced the battlefield understand it!