Rise from eight hundred.

However, the assessment of military merit is not something that can be accomplished overnight.

Each battalion and the company directly under the regiment headquarters will first conduct internal statistics and verification of combat merit, and then report it to the regiment political office for final approval.

Although Tang Dao also said that there is no quota limit for military merit at all levels this time, as long as there is enough persuasion, it can be approved, but that infantry battalion does not want to fight for its own interests for the meritorious officials in its battalion?

Ye Chenghuan, who was in charge of this matter, had a big headache. Those company commanders who were directly under him could only talk about their soldiers under the pretense of reporting on their work. Battalion commanders like Leng Feng, Shangguan Yun, and Guo Shouzhi also took turns coming to his place to eat at meal time. Even Lei Xiong, the second-in-command, knocked on his door at 12 o'clock in the night and yelled with a frown: "Old Ye, let's go, let's have a drink!"

From everyone's point of view, those officers and soldiers with detailed information are naturally people with great military exploits, but Ye Chenghuan knows that he must strictly control the situation and not allow military exploits at all levels to spread. Military medals are worthless and hurt. The first is the courage of the officers and soldiers when fighting the enemy.

When Ye Chenghuan couldn't bear the pressure from all sides, he also talked to Tang Dao. He hoped that Tang Dao would simply limit the number of people to death as before. In this case, he could completely make the battalion and company commanders give up based on the quota limit. .

"My Director Ye, why do we spend a lot of money to get these military merits and medals? It reflects the system and spirit of our regiment that rewards are awarded for meritorious service. In the past, we were poor, so we were limited in quotas, but now we have enough financial reserves. We We can no longer pick and pinch, and we can't chill the hearts of those meritorious ministers who had the courage to fight the Japanese invaders on the battlefield.

Of course, while ensuring that all brothers who are qualified to evaluate military merit at all levels receive due rewards, we must also exclude those who have merit for favors and pensions. Brothers who have sacrificed or been injured will have corresponding pensions. This must not be regarded as welfare. , otherwise the damage to morale will be great.

There is another point that you must be aware of no matter what. In principle, those above the company level cannot achieve first-class military exploits unless they have extraordinary achievements.

For you to be responsible for this matter is not just because you sit in the position of director of the Political Department, but because you are upright and upright and known to the whole group. I believe that you will be able to evaluate the military merits fairly and openly. "Tang Dao deceived and finally deceived Director Ye, who had a head as big as a bucket.

Then early the next morning, Tang Tuanzuo left the extremely busy chief officers in the regiment headquarters and ran away.

The chief officers of the regiment have divided their respective responsibilities in the past half month. Lei Xiong is responsible for welcoming the safe arrival of the chief officers of the division, brigade and regiment who were invited by Tang Dao and his wife.

With Tang Dao's connections, the 921st Division of the 22th Group Army alone has a division commander, two brigade commanders, four regiment commanders and seven or eight battalion commanders are coming. Commander Li of the 12nd Group Army also said that if we add the commanders from far away The th Army, the th Army, etc. in Zhongtiao Mountain are not only going to have a hundred generals, but also fifty.

But now it is still wartime, and we have to pass through the Japanese-occupied areas. The troops responsible for picking up these guests have mobilized nearly a thousand people from the cavalry battalion, reconnaissance company, and mountain infantry company, and there are 20 teams. Among them, we are also responsible for liaison, which can be imagined to be difficult.

In Lei Xiong's words, the intensity of this work is comparable to fighting a battle in Shanxi Province.

Ye Chenghuan was in charge of assessing military merit, and the intricate balance of interpersonal relationships made the hair of the 25-year-old third-in-command of the Four-Hong Group begin to fall out.

Gong Shaoxun returned to the regiment on January 1. The chief of staff who was responsible for weapons research and development and funding docking has gained a lot in the past six months.

Chief of Staff Gong, who led an armed transport team back to Dakouzidong Town through mountains and rivers, not only brought back 3 ounces of pure gold and 150 million ocean funds to the team, but also brought back Grunov's finally successfully developed and mass-produced the Produced MG42.

Gold and oceans are 'gifts' from the other side of the ocean. Of course, they are only a small part of the funds exchanged for the right to use the patent for 'penicillin'.

As early as October, the little foreign girl who kept her promise originally planned to withdraw US dollars in cash from Citibank to Tang Dao. Although it only took a short time, it already amounted to a full 10 million US dollars, but Tang Dao refused.

What Tang Dao wants now is not money, he needs food, a lot of food! There were also the three-wheeled motorcycle he originally planned and the various machine tools and materials Grunov needed.

It is easy to transport these things to Jincheng, but it is not so easy to transport them to Taihang Mountain.

It was Laura who turned around and signed a coal import contract with the Manchuria club, and agreed to deliver it in grain and steel.

Where is the most coal? Naturally it is Jin Province.

Since Japan's North China Front Army now needs to use up limited transport capacity to mobilize troops to fight in China's Second Theater, the club obtained the consent of the North China Front Army Headquarters and had Rockefeller China Branch organize its own transportation team to haul the goods to Jin Province. By the way, The grain shipped to China by ship was delivered to the original city.

There, the Manchuria Club could sell part of the grain to the army to provide enough military rations, and part of it could be sold in Jin Province.

At this point, a convoy of 150 trucks with a pass from the North China Front Army Headquarters was established.

Just one transportation is up to 300 tons of grain or other materials.

The Rockefeller Company has left a huge profit margin for the company, and the officers at all levels of the Japanese North China Front will receive dividends from the company. The transport convoys with the national flags of Japan and the United States are almost walking sideways in Shanxi Province.

The only people who are not afraid of them may be the Chinese army that is active in the mountains of the occupied areas. Convoys transporting supplies have been hijacked twice.

However, the Chinese are probably also afraid of causing international disputes. Basically, they only steal supplies without killing people or burning cars. If the people in the convoy cooperate, they will also throw in some game or something in exchange.

The Chinese were provoking. The Japanese soldiers, who were always late, looked at a few foreigners in suits and ties who seemed to be planning to have a barbecue outdoors. The ingredients were all fresh and dripping with blood. They almost vomited three liters of blood.

But there is nothing you can do no matter how angry you are. It has been almost two years. Even though the Japanese North China Front occupied most of North China, from the beginning to the end, the only place the Japanese army could control was the county town. The vast countryside really had little to do with them.

Not to mention that the foreign convoys would be robbed, even the Japanese army's own military columns and transport convoys were never said to be peaceful. They were robbed, burned and killed by the Chinese army active in the mountains with one hand and two hands. I can't even count my feet.

Fortunately, the Rockefeller Company was very generous. If it encountered such losses, it would bear 7% of the losses, and only let the Japanese side bear 3%. The Japanese side was extremely grateful.

In just two months, Rockefeller Company's reputation within Japan's North China Front Command was so high that even General Shan Shanyuan personally hosted a banquet for Laura and other senior officials of Rockefeller's China branch.

That is, if the Japanese army general knew that it was this convoy, he spent a year and a half using the difference between the actual transportation and the reported figures and the 'plunder' agreed with the Eightyth Army to give the Fourth Army Group After transporting at least 5000 tons of grain and various materials, will anyone be angry enough to ascend to heaven?

Because of the need for such "whitewashing", the price of this batch of materials was nearly 8 times higher than the actual price. However, fortunately, the Four Lines Group had the golden doll of "penicillin" and could still hold on.

As for 3 ounces of gold and 150 million oceans, this was what Tang Dao asked Laura to exchange for fractions. The gold was mainly used for medals. Tang Dao even had the idea that in the future, if financial resources allowed, at the end of every war Afterwards, a commemorative medal was distributed to each member of the group.

The medal does not have to be very valuable. 10 grams of gold mixed with 10 grams of silver is both a commemoration and an inspiration.

And these 150 million Dayang are not all used for rewards. Although the government has long banned Dayang and promoted legal tender, Dayang has never stopped using it, no matter where it is.

Moreover, Tang Dao knew that as the war progressed, especially after Japan began to use a large amount of counterfeit legal currency to impact China's financial market, the devaluation of legal currency was astonishing.

Before the war started in 1937, 100 French coins could buy two big cows; by the beginning of 1939, you could only buy one big cow; in 1940, you could only buy one calf; in 1941, don't even think about cows, 100 French coins only bought you one big cow. You can buy a pig; in 1942, you can buy a pig leg; in 1943, the pig leg turns into a hen; in 1946, 100 French currency can only buy an egg.

Don’t think that this is the end of legal currency. Just like the Chinese stock market in the future, there is no minimum, only lower. 1948 legal currency in 100 could only buy 4 grains of rice.

Therefore, this time, the special envoy Chen sent tens of millions of French currency on a special plane. It won't take long for his purchasing power to shrink to less than half. And the Si Xing Regiment is still in the Taihang Mountains, and many soldiers' money cannot be sent back. The family can only save, and Tang Dao must not watch the wealth they exchanged for their lives disappear into nothing.

Tang Dao planned to use the ocean to exchange the legal currency in the hands of the officers and soldiers, and then spend as much of the legal currency as possible. Just spending it from the stingy old man was not enough. After Tang Dao returned, he specifically met with the Zhengzhou Business Consultants headed by Boss Qian for a day.

It was decided to set up a joint-stock trading company. Si Xing Tuan, the representative shareholder, Tantai Old Handsome Guy, would hold 500% of the shares, and the remaining % would be divided among others. The total investment was million French currency.

The head office is located in Chang'an City, and a branch is set up in Zhengcheng, which was not captured by the Japanese army. The company's only business is to purchase grain.

Whether it’s corn, wheat or rice, whether it’s current year’s rice or old rice, I want them all!

Of course, when people everywhere are cracking down on hoarding, the company only eats food in small batches and sells it in even smaller batches. The purchase and sale prices are strictly in accordance with the market price and will never increase the price. The old grain will never be sold. Although Boss Qian and others don't quite understand the meaning of Tang Dao, they invest a lot of money but make no money. Even if they store some grain, it is mostly old grain. Not only does this require a large amount of granary storage, but the longer it takes, the more losses will be incurred.

But these businessmen are all monkeys and monkeys. Perhaps in their view, Tang Dao is losing money but not making a profit, but the year 1938 made them believe in one thing even more. During the New Year of 1938, They decided that investing in Tang Dao was the most correct choice.

You may lose money in business, but you can make a lot of money by investing in Tang Dao in the long term. Originally, Tang Dao planned to invest independently, but in the end, these businessmen demanded 30% of the shares, just to completely tie themselves to Tang Dao.

Perhaps the businessmen were profit-seeking, but these businessmen from Zhengcheng never expected that it was their decision that allowed them to do the most successful business in their lives.

It's not because they chose Tang Dao, but because they will have the power to save millions of people in Henan Province one day.

Two years later, a catastrophic disaster will come to the land of Henan Province, killing millions of lives.

From now on, all Tang Dao's food hoarding plans are not for the Four Elements Regiment and the armies in the Taihang Mountains, but to prepare for the possible catastrophe.

Chen Liang is better than bark and leaves than Guanyin soil!

When new funds arrive in the spring, Tang Dao will continue to use Dayang and the armies in the Taihang Mountains and Zhongtiao Mountains to exchange for legal currency, and then continue to invest in the trading company named "Yusheng" .

Gong Shaoxun brought back 42 MG96 machine guns to the regiment. These seemingly crude machine guns were initially disliked by the company commanders.

But when the machine gun shooters put these machine guns in the shooting position and fired at the wooden target 300 meters away, a group of country bumpkin company commanders headed by Li Jijin couldn't let go of the machine guns.

In their original impression, the MG34 machine gun with its cold appearance and amazing rate of fire was already the most powerful machine gun in the world.

The world's first general-purpose machine gun, which can be used as a light machine gun or a heavy machine gun and has an incredible rate of fire, is indeed qualified to make soldiers intoxicated.

The MG34 machine gun, which was born on the basis of the MG42 machine gun, uses stamping parts, so its appearance is far inferior to that of the MG34, which uses forged parts. But the battlefield is not about appearance, but practicality.

The maximum rate of fire of the MG42 reached 1500 rounds per minute. The wooden target made of cypress trees was visibly broken into pieces in the flames of the MG42.

With this machine gun, once the firepower is fully activated, the Japanese will die as many as they come.

And once the gun fires continuously, the sound of "Puff, Puff, Puff" is like tearing apart cloth, which makes people's hair stand up when listening to it. This is something that the MG34 has never had.

"Tearer!" This is the vivid nickname given to this machine gun by Heizi, who personally fired 500 rounds of ammunition.

"This gun will become a squad light machine gun! Each machine gun is equipped with 2000 rounds of ammunition in daily life, and each machine gun is equipped with 3000 rounds of ammunition in wartime. Each machine gun is equipped with a shooter, and the deputy shooter is also the ammunition hand with 1000 rounds of ammunition. The remaining bullets are provided by The rest of the infantry squad will help carry it." Seeing how the company commanders couldn't put it down, Tang Dao announced the use of the new machine gun on the training ground.

"Long live sir!" The company commanders all cheered like children who got a toy.

Even if there were MG34s in the past, because there were not enough, they could only be used as firepower at the company and platoon levels. At the infantry squad level, only Czech light machine guns could be used. When encountering a large-scale Japanese charge, the low-rate light machine guns could not form an effective weapon at all. Suppressive firepower also relies on the assistance of semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns in the infantry squad.

But what if the infantry squad suffers too many casualties and cannot form continuous firepower in a short period of time and relies on the light machine gun to block it?

This is the reason why Leng Feng and Shangguan Yun suffered so many casualties during the Battle of Jiulong Mountain. As long as the MG34 machine guns at the company and platoon levels could not respond in time, the Japanese troops relying on their numbers might rush to the front of the position and use grenades to cause heavy casualties to the infantry. Casualties, the Czech light machine gun is obviously no longer capable of meeting the current needs of the Four Troops.

But with the "tearer", unless the Japanese army used artillery or grenade to blow this terrifying firepower point into pieces together with the machine gun, the number of people could no longer be a threat.

The battle of Longyan was the most typical example. The Japanese troops without infantry artillery were like lining up to be shot.

This may also be the most beautiful gift that company commanders receive before the New Year!

Chief of Staff Gong Da, who brought a surprise to the whole regiment, was also miserable. He not only had to allocate the remaining 2000 people of the Sichuan Army's new regiment to four infantry battalions, but also was responsible for the location and layout of the party venue.

Both jobs were difficult to do. This time, the four major infantry battalions, artillery battalions, and supply battalions all suffered losses, especially the third and fourth battalions that suffered the heaviest losses.

Although there are still soldiers from the hometown brought by Deputy Lei Tuan in the Sixings Regiment as supplements, the remaining 2000 soldiers of the Sichuan Army's new regiment who have experienced the Battle of Sizhou Mountain are not new recruits now. The life and death battle in the past ten days has destroyed them. They have all become veterans. After being organized into an infantry battalion, they can be put into actual combat without much adjustment. Which battalion commander doesn't want that?

The battalion and company commanders almost drank Chief of Staff Gong Da to death under the banner of "Long Time No See".

Long time no see. For comrades, what else can you do besides drinking and eating meat? Is it possible that a few grown men can't hold each other and cry together? That's impossible! After drinking, we discuss the vacancies in our battalion and company. Isn't that a normal work exchange?

In this area, almost all Chinese people are self-taught.

Compared with Lei Xiong, Ye Chenghuan, and Gong Shaoxun, who are busy and troubled, Zhuang Shisan, the director of the logistics department, has a simpler job. He is responsible for purchasing various supplies for celebrating the New Year.

The food was okay, the soldiers had no other requirements. No matter whether they were in the south or the north, as long as Chinese people could eat dumplings, it would be considered a New Year.

There is no shortage of rice and noodles in the four-element dumplings, but the meat is really difficult to cook!

What Tang Tuanzuo wanted was a grand celebration between the army and the people. The entire army of the Four Lines Regiment, plus their military families, plus the people from inside and outside the town, plus the guests from afar, the number of entourage must be over 3000 at least, both here and outside. Together with Riga, if there is not , there must be .

One pound of meat per capita, and Dakouzidong Town is not in Shaanxi Province. All counties and towns have collected 30 pounds of meat. Seeing that the New Year is approaching, five or six hundred troops have been sent out, but none of them have been purchased yet. Ten thousand kilograms of meat can make Director Zhuang’s hair turn gray.

Of course, Tang Da Tuanzuo, who left his colleagues and ran away, didn't have much ease.

He wasn't busy, but he was more annoying than busy.

Riding a green horse and wearing a military uniform with a straight waist, Tang Tuanzuo looked into the distance with a rare nervousness on his face.

Tantai Mingyue on the side looked a little funny, but she said softly: "My grandma is very easy to get along with. Besides, I'm not here! What are you afraid of?"

The handsome old man from Tantai who was looking forward to it further away curled his lips secretly.

He had admitted that the little cotton-padded jacket had leaked for a long time, but the leakage was beyond his imagination. He wondered if his wife would be as distressed as he was when she found out.

"Master, madam, they are here." The old servant standing on the hill over there shouted as he ran.

Xia Dayu quickly followed behind. If this excited old man fell into something like this, he would not have a good life this year.

Tang Dao quickly jumped off his horse and instinctively tugged at his military uniform.

In fact, this was the first time he met his mother-in-law in this life. According to common sense, his mother-in-law was not as easy to fool as his father-in-law.

If possible, Tang Dao would rather face ten Japanese invaders, chopping up melons and vegetables with his fists and kicks.