Rise from eight hundred.

After the merit ceremony, Tang Dao announced that the entire regiment, except those on rotational combat duty, would take a 3-day holiday from now on!

The whole audience burst into cheers!

This means that from the 6th of the twelfth lunar month to New Year's Eve and then to the first day of the Lunar New Year, the entire regiment no longer has to get up at 4 a.m. to run and exercise, train for 3 hours in the morning, train for hours in the afternoon, and do more than two hours of training in the evening. Hours of cultural and political study.

Most people may not be afraid of physical fitness, firearms shooting and other training, but the two and a half hours of reading and writing after dinner are really life-threatening, especially the mathematics, physics, and chemistry taught by Teacher Xiao He. A group of big-headed soldiers had question marks on their faces. They didn't understand at all. What was the purpose of those twisted symbols?

But the fact is that the guns and bullets in their hands are the creation of these symbols.

Perhaps only a very small group of people can understand what Teacher He is saying.

Of course, this does not prevent the soldiers from respecting the teachers. This has nothing to do with whether they understand or are in pain.

Fortunately, in addition to having a certain assessment mechanism for literacy, the league does not have test score limits for other subjects, so that players like Long Yan, who relied on blind mastery to get 6 points, are all over the world. Who can let him take advantage of his brother-in-law? Such a rough guy failed the exam!

And what makes Lieutenant Long most proud is that now his military rank is rivaled only by my sister and my future brother-in-law. On formal occasions, the 'greasy middle-aged man' who snatched his sister away has to give him a military salute.

It is a pity that sister's happiness does not depend on Lieutenant Long's will. The 'greasy middle-aged man' has been busy marrying the headwoman of Yeyue Village a few days ago, which resulted in a rare three-day holiday. , Lieutenant Long couldn’t be idle either.

He wants to send his sister off to get married!

The only thing that made Lieutenant Long feel happy was that this time, his Long family didn't have to follow the rules of Yeyue Village to do a crazy dowry, but they saved a lot of money.

Because, my sister chose a new style wedding!

For most of the troops of the Four Elements Regiment, it is the greatest happiness to have no training or study, and finally have free time to meet fellow soldiers or close comrades to eat hot pot and drink some wine in a restaurant in town.

Although everyone is in the same regiment, they are stationed far away from each other. On weekdays, they are either training or on the way to the training ground. When the war commander gives a military order, everyone has to pack their backpacks and rush to the battlefield.

Many times, those familiar names will appear on the death list, and the brief encounter a few days or months ago and a wave of greeting will become forever.

During this three-day vacation, it is rare to be able to meet and talk to each other in a real way.

For the officers and soldiers whose families are in Dakouzidong Town, it is even more rare. They rarely have time to spend with their families, so these three days and 72 hours are extremely precious.

"Director Ye, are you herding sheep now? What if the little Japs take advantage of this holiday when we relax our vigilance during the Chinese New Year to attack?" A colonel leader of the Independent 46th Brigade, who still lacked some understanding of the Four Elements Regiment, asked curiously.

"Old man, put your heart in your stomach, drink and eat meat with peace of mind. Let's not say whether the two coward divisions 108 and 109 dare to come. Even if they dare to come, Taihang Mountain is our Taihang Mountain. If you dare to come in, don't leave. , give us extra meals during the Chinese New Year." Wang Xiaoqiang on the side directly answered for his old superior.

"Besides, old man, do you think the Four Elements Group really released Nanshan's swords and guns into the warehouse? Even the Japanese themselves probably don't believe it!"

This is the truth. Naoji Sakai, who is far away in Changzhi, holds the intelligence sent by the spies in the Taihang Mountains: "The Four Elements Regiment is celebrating the New Year vigorously, and the defense is empty!"

"Asshole! Can't you see such a simple trap? Tang Dao is really a big problem for the empire. He thinks about harming the empire all the time." Sakai Naoji angrily threw the intelligence that the spy risked his life back to the division headquarters into Garbage heap.

The more gay you are, the more likely you are to be frustrated!

The first thing Naoji Sakai, who was newly appointed as the division commander, was to establish his authority over the whole division, this fire became more intense. Looking at the fat and thick thighs of a certain prince behind him, the 108th Division's The major general brigade commander and the colonels all gave him enough face.

But as soon as the second fire of the Explosive Hammer Four Elements Group was lit, Naoji Sakai himself was almost cooked. What is the concept of an entire infantry regiment being trapped in a vast mountain?

Counting the Russo-Japanese War decades ago, this is probably the only one in the history of the Japanese Army that has had such a big impact!

If it weren't for the even more miserable Major General Nishimura Genichi and Lieutenant General Suematsu Shigeru who were at the bottom, Naoji Sakai would have had the urge to pull out his command sword Akashi several times.

Especially when he thought that his 108th Division might be facing only one of the Four Elements Regiment, Naoji Sakai felt that Juhua was tight and even half of them couldn't win, let alone that the main force was now gathered.

After finally taking advantage of the Chinese New Year period, the Four Elements Group stopped to attack several counties. Naoji Sakai felt that he should recite Amitabha and defend the emptiness of Shenbaga.

At this point where he was complaining wildly in his heart, Naoji Sakai's eyes suddenly condensed, as if he suddenly grasped something important.

Could it be that Tang Dao, the great enemy of the empire, has tried another trick to 'secretly infiltrate Chen Cang'? It looks like they are celebrating the New Year over there, but in fact they are sending the main force out of the mountains to attack several counties!

"Order the garrison troops in each county to strengthen their vigilance, especially in the past few days, and double the number of night patrols!" Sakai Naotsugu ordered.

Therefore, what the colonel commander of the 46th Independent Brigade is worried about is that the 108th Division, which has retreated to the counties, is facing a powerful enemy and has two sentries at night. This year has been much more tense than usual.

Of course, the Four Elements Group is not always loose on the outside and tight on the inside as the guests see it on the surface.

The four major infantry battalions and the security battalion, baggage battalion, cavalry battalion, artillery battalion, special agent battalion and other departments, including the mountain infantry company directly under the regiment headquarters, each have a company that maintains full alert.

The total number of troops on duty during the New Year is about 1800!

The other ministries also have sufficient personnel on duty.

Except for special reasons, all active-duty company commander-level and school-level officers must stay at the garrison.

The combat duty troops are divided into three shifts based on 24 hours a day, with two companies forming one shift, maintaining a rapid response of more than 500 troops.

Moreover, with the reaction speed of the Si Xing Regiment to sound the alarm roar for the entire regiment, excluding the more than 2000 people who returned home, the 8000 officers and soldiers still in the garrison could all assemble and rush to the battlefield within 5 minutes.

Even the officers and soldiers who have returned home can all return to the station to assemble within an hour when receiving an emergency signal to return to the team.

The farthest distance for the officers and soldiers returning home is only 10 miles from the garrison. Tomorrow there will be a big party in the regiment on New Year's Eve, and all the military families have been invited by the Si Xing Regiment to come to the garrison.

At that time, there will be food, drinks and the legendary lottery. Who wouldn’t bring their whole family?

Of course, what's more important is that at noon on New Year's Eve, there will be a wedding between Tang Tuanzuo and Tantai Mingyue. To be more precise, it is the first collective wedding held by the Four Elements Group, led by the Tuanzuo leader himself.

The officers of the Si Xing Regiment are all very old, especially veterans like Shen Laoliu who have been in the army for five or six years. They are about to reach their thirties. The Chinese people all pay attention to the three things of being unfilial. It's the big one in the end. It's not easy for someone to take a liking to this. Why don't you hurry up and hurry up?

Moreover, we had a big blind date on the outskirts of Zhengcheng on New Year's Eve last year. In the past year, there have been many young ladies who followed their parents to this poor valley. Secretly adding fuel to the flames, seven or eight couples were finally settled.

For example, Wei Donglai is a talented and handsome captain and infantry company commander. His girlfriend's father is Boss Qian's brother-in-law. For the sake of his daughter's happiness, his family, which is not considered wealthy, invested nearly 6 yuan to open a business in Dakouzidong Town. Cotton clothing factory. The scale is not that big, but in just half a year, it provided more than 4 sets of winter clothes and sets of quilts to the Fourth Army Regiment and the Eightyth Army, which greatly relieved the pressure on recruits of the Eightyth Army who did not have suitable winter clothes to wear when they enlisted. Brigadier Cheng made a special trip to this cotton clothing factory to thank Boss Leng this time.

The eldest daughter of the Leng family is also a woman. She does not stay at home in Dakouzidong Town. Instead, she organizes a group of sisters and sets up a mutual aid group for orphans and widows, specifically for those whose husbands have sacrificed their lives or who have died. Women whose husbands were fighting on the front lines provided help, which greatly eased the pressure on the logistics department of the Fourth Army.

The logistics department led by Zhuang Shisan has the function of supporting these women, but these big-headed soldiers are rough-handed and will send some rice and noodles regularly. How do you know that these sisters-in-law and aunties need more than food and drink?

The elderly have to be taken care of when they are sick, the children have to be fed when they are hungry, and they have to do farm work and earn money to support the family. Who can tell the pain in the hearts of women who have lost their mainstay?

Four months after it was founded, the mutual aid club has more than 4 female volunteers and more than 50 registered members, which has perfectly made up for the shortcomings of the logistics department of the Fourth Army in caring for women.

Not to mention Zhuang Shisan's gratitude, after Tang Dao heard about this incident, he took time out of his busy schedule to visit the mutual aid association and spoke highly of it, and allocated 5 yuan for its later operations.

If you don't catch such a wife quickly, Wei Donglai is not stupid, he is a big fool!

This wedding must be held as soon as possible, and we cannot let the duck that was put in the pot fly again!

However, it is too troublesome to hold a wedding one-on-one, and the leaders of the Four Elements Group have to act separately, which is not lively at all.

Tang Dao had an idea and thought of a mass wedding in the military camp in the future. Although this is almost non-existent in this era, there has to be a first time for everything, right?

Tang Tuanzuo is the kind of person who often breaks the rules. It is not surprising for the soldiers of the Four Elements Regiment to hear the new word "mass wedding", and all the soldiers who plan to use this New Year to get married are still very excited.

Not everyone can get this opportunity to be the groom's officer with the regimental commander, and there will be so many generals coming to watch the ceremony. Who can get this treatment in ordinary times?

But just because the couple doesn't object, doesn't mean there's no resistance. Especially for those from traditional families, who are willing to marry off their precious daughter just like that?

It’s just a matter of not going to the woman’s home to get married. She doesn’t even make any pretense. The woman comes directly to the group, and the two parties exchange wedding tokens. Then the wedding host announces that the ceremony is over, and the daughter is considered married. The parents of that family have to pay for it. I do!

Not to mention those who are bound by old traditional ideas, even those as enlightened as the Tantai couple had reservations when they heard the term mass wedding for the first time.

The reason why Mrs. Tantai came across thousands of mountains and rivers was that she had imagined countless times in her mind the scene of her husband and wife sending their daughter to the sedan chair. The mother and daughter were not allowed to hug each other and cry for a while?

The result was great, the mother was here, the sedan chair was gone, and her daughter didn’t have to say goodbye to her. She could just stand on the stage with that brat and give a wedding speech, and that was it.

How does it feel to be a parent when your sweetheart of more than 20 years simply gets married?

This knot in the heart cannot be solved by the soldiers who are the sons-in-law, so they can only rely on the women to do the work!

"Don't think that your daughter's marriage is easy. My parents-in-law are still in my hometown thousands of miles away. My son can't even have a cup of tea with his wife when he gets married! When we hold wine in my hometown, my son and his wife can't even arrive. "Where do you want them to go to reason with you?" What Tantai Mingyue said made Mrs. Tantai speechless. She could only raise her hands in hatred to hit her daughter.

"You stinky girl, you're not even married yet! Why do you call me the father-in-law and the mother-in-law, so that others can't hear and laugh at me, the daughter of the Tantai family, who is in such a hurry to get married?"

"Mom, you are right. My sister is not in a hurry to get married! I came here but I heard that someone is thinking about my brother-in-law! I heard that he is still a foreign girl." Tantai Mirror smiled. 'Explain' to my own mother.

"Foreign girl? Then dear girl, what do you have to worry about? Let me tell you! Your father also met a blond and blue-eyed foreign woman in Jinling City back then. I heard your father praise his ink paintings, although I guess he You can’t even understand the Chinese, but those green eyes are shining. Your father is playing harder and harder, spitting all over your Uncle Nie’s face. "Mrs. Tantai But she didn't take it seriously, and digressed thirty-eight thousand miles away to reassure her daughter.

"Madam, that's all happened in the Year of the Monkey. Why are you bringing this up?" The old handsome man from Tantai said weakly as the sweat started to fall from his forehead.

That’s it! It's okay for the couple to quarrel with each other, but in front of their grown-up children, the old handsome guy from Tantai still looks a bit uneasy.

After all, who doesn’t want to maintain the image of a father as tall as a mountain in front of his children?

"Mom, what happens next?" Tantai Mingyue almost broke her belly laughing as she looked at her father who suddenly became cautious.

"You were only one year old at that time, and you were not even a little bastard like Tantai Mingjing! When I heard about this, I took you in a carriage to Jinling City to see how the foreign iron pickaxe from there dared to pry the corner of my wall. , guess what the result is?" When Mrs. Tantai mentioned this past event 20 years ago, she was as high-spirited as a female general.

"That golden hair, like tiger hair, and those green eyes, my mother, is just the female ghost in the picture book! This is not your father's aesthetic point, what should I worry about? ? I took you to live at Jinling University for half a month. You see, it’s different after you have been exposed to spiritual energy since you were a child. Aren’t you much better than that little bastard Tantai Mingjing, and you still make grandma worry about it. "

The old handsome man from Tantai, who was exposed to the embarrassing incident in his youth, glared at Tantai Mingjing, who was suffering from an unreasonable disaster. The subtext did not need to be translated: "Let you talk too much, you little bastard, and I will wait for you!"

who I am? Where am I? Tantai Mingjing was confused.

Aren’t we talking about my sister’s marriage? Why did one of them scold me and the other want to beat me?

It was his unlucky fate. Ever since he arrived at the Si Xing Tuan station, the hot-blooded young man had gone to Xia Dayu to practice his marksmanship at dawn every day. He also ran 3 kilometers with a sandbag tied on his back, as if he had abandoned literature and embraced martial arts.

It's strange that the Tantai couple could like him now. Now Lao Tantai finally found an opportunity to get rid of this unlucky child.

Only Tantai Mingyue sighed in her heart. Blond hair and blue eyes were not in her father's aesthetics, so how could he be so eloquent?

If a man is not interested in a certain woman, he doesn't even bother to say a word.

For Grandma to successfully repel her opponent, she probably had to be able to frighten the foreign men and women who were thinking about it by running 300 miles!

As for Laura, she had seen it with her own eyes. Although her appearance could not be called extremely beautiful, the temperament of a noblewoman from a big family would make it difficult for even Tantai Mingyue to be hostile to her, let alone as a man. What about Tang Dao?

But Tang Dao is better than she imagined. No matter who is in front or behind, they all keep a distance from this proud woman with billions of wealth and breathtaking beauty. This may be why she feels a deep sense of security in Tang Dao. One of the reasons for the feeling!

After all, Dantai Mingjing is too young. She is in a hurry to get married, not because of the so-called external threats. She simply loves that man and shares his fate with him. Even if one day the husband and wife die on the battlefield, for Dan For Tai Mingyue, she has no regrets.

If you have not experienced love, or love in the flames of war, you will not understand.

Tantai Mingyue persuaded her parents, but one person was extremely hesitant and had been wandering back and forth on the cold mountain road for many days carrying homemade toys and carrying a cloth bag.

Even the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month is no exception!

Lieutenant Colonel Leng Feng Leng, who is extremely courageous on the battlefield and has thousands of capable troops charging into battle at the first command. He is known as the cold-faced Yama in the Four Elements Regiment. From the moment Tang Dao announced the mass wedding, he was entangled.

"If you want to marry Qingru, you can report here to me for a purpose. Why, you have to ask me, the leader of the regiment, to help you propose? I am in charge of heaven and earth and killing Japanese devils, but I can still control Qingru." For example, does your sister-in-law want to marry you?

Let me tell you Leng Feng, the collective wedding is scheduled for New Year's Eve. If you don't fight for it, then you can continue to wait until you are both in your seventies, you have no teeth, and you can't speak at all. "Tang Dao was extremely angry at the inexplicable withdrawal of his good brother Leng Feng.

Didn't Li Jijin promise that on the eve of the Black Dragon Pond battle, he would propose marriage after the battle? Why are you so sloppy now?

"But, but it's been many days since I came back, and Qingru has been avoiding me." Battalion Commander Leng, who was bold on the battlefield, was not as green as Xia Dayu in this regard.

"That's right! Then think about it yourself, and make your own decision after thinking about it." Tang Dao didn't bother to talk to him anymore after leaving a word.

Seeing that the ceremony for meritorious service has ended, and there is less than 24 hours until the collective wedding, the other 20 couples are either in the military, so they can decide by themselves, or they can explain it to their parents-in-law in Dakouzidong Town. Well, Battalion Commander Leng has been dawdling for several days, and he still hasn’t even settled on his wife yet.

To be more precise, no one was seen.

This is probably considered an extremely strange existence of the Four Elements Group.