Rise from eight hundred.

From the first to the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, there were no Japanese infantry attacks or even aircraft harassment. The people of Dakouzidong Town had a rare and peaceful New Year.

But the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Army Regiment are not qualified to enjoy it for that long. Starting from the third day of the Lunar New Year, all members will end their vacation!

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Tang Dao announced the adjustment of the division of labor within the Four Lines Regiment at the 'Spring Training' swearing-in meeting that was a New Year's message to the entire regiment's officers and soldiers.

Since the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs officially announced that the Fourth Army Regiment was placed under the direct jurisdiction of the Second Theater Command and received the establishment of a special regiment, the Fourth Army Regiment also underwent internal organizational adjustments.

The first is the division of labor in the regiment. Since the chief of staff Gong Shaoxun will be stationed abroad for a long time, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel Shangguan Yun, commander of the fourth battalion, as chief of staff and concurrently as battalion commander of the fourth battalion.

Lieutenant Colonel Gong Shaoxun serves as the director of the external affairs department of the Fourth Corps, focusing on the import of ordnance equipment and external communication business.

Although the officers and soldiers in the regiment did not quite understand how important this external affairs office was to the Fourth Army Regiment, some old men from the cavalry battalion who followed Gong Shaoxun from the 63rd Army privately expressed their dissatisfaction, thinking that this was a disguised attempt to undermine Gong Shaoxun. right.

Perhaps only a few senior officers in the Four Lines Regiment know how much Tang Tuanzuo trusts Gong Shaoxun. Whether it is the 'Laboratory No. 1' in Handan or the connection between the German Krupp Company and the American Rockefeller Company, They are all top secrets of the Four Elements Group.

Even Lei Xiong and Ye Chenghuan only knew about this matter, but they didn't know the details.

And only a few chief officers of the regiment knew that in addition to the research and development of new weapons and equipment and commercial cooperation, this external affairs department also has a more important function-intelligence!

Through this year's battle with the Japanese army, Tang Dao deeply felt the importance of intelligence work.

In the past, when the Four Corps wanted to obtain Japanese military intelligence, they mainly obtained it from the Eightyth Army or the theater headquarters. However, this required the inefficiency of conveying the information layer by layer, and it was always subject to restrictions and could not distinguish its authenticity.

The harm caused by a piece of false information may not only kill one or two people, but may be a hundred or even a thousand times greater.

Tang Dao needs to develop his own intelligence system. He does not need to have a large staff like the military commander who wants to be all-pervasive. Instead, Tang Dao hopes that his intelligence personnel will be hidden in the market. There is no need to infiltrate any high-level officials, and he only needs to keep an eye on the movement of Japanese troops stationed there. Can.

The intelligence system requires a lot of investment and personnel training. The funds are now abundant in the Four Lines Group, which means that personnel training takes time, but it is like painting. How to paint without spreading the canvas?

Gong Shaoxun is the top person in charge of external intelligence selected by Tang Dao. For this reason, Tang Dao specially asked Gong Shaoxun to go to the 683 Brigade Headquarters before leaving the station and returning to Handan. There are bosses there who have been specialized in intelligence work for many years in the th Army Group. Together with his teacher, he was in charge of the highest intelligence system of the th Army.

Do you think Tang Tuanzuo’s several thousand kilograms of pork were given away for free? That is actually Gong Shaoxun’s apprenticeship fee!

Following Gong Shaoxun's departure, there were fully 30 veterans from Hebei Province and the three northeastern provinces. Together with Gong Shaoxun, they would become the initial prototype of the Four Lines Regiment's combat intelligence agency against Japan.

The source of funding and the intelligence system of the Four Lines Regiment, which are almost the lifeblood of the regiment, are placed in the hands of Gong Shaoxun. This kind of trust cannot be replaced by the so-called official position. Moreover, Gong Shaoxun is still among the big bosses of the regiment. The ranking is still above Chief of Staff Shangguan Yun.

Moreover, nearly ten officers in the cavalry battalion were promoted, including two major officers. They were all direct descendants of Gong Shaoxun, which completely eliminated the self-speculation rumors within the regiment.

Pang Panghai finally became the commander of the artillery battalion and was promoted to lieutenant colonel. The air defense company became independent from the artillery battalion and established an air defense battalion. Cheng Tietsou served as the battalion commander and was promoted to lieutenant colonel.

Both artillery battalions are highly equipped with lieutenant colonels, which also shows the unshakable tactical status of the artillery battalion and air defense battalion in the Fourth Line Regiment.

The establishment of the four major infantry battalions remains unchanged. The commander of the second battalion, Guo Shouzhi, and the commander of the fourth battalion, Shangguan Yun, are still lieutenant colonels. The commander of the third battalion, Leng Feng, has been promoted from major to lieutenant colonel.

Since then, all six battalions of the Four Lines Regiment have been upgraded to the deputy regiment level. Anyone with a discerning eye will know at a glance that this is the preparation for the continued development of the Four Lines Regiment in the future.

The Second Theater Command was not stingy this time, and assigned nearly ten school officers to the Fourth Army Regiment in one go.

The mountain infantry company directly under the regiment headquarters was changed from a company-level unit to a deputy battalion-level unit. Captain Gu Xishui, who had just been promoted, had not yet become an army major, but it was only a matter of time.

The reconnaissance company and the engineer company were independent from the special agent battalion and became directly under the regiment headquarters and were changed to the deputy battalion level. The reconnaissance company commander Lu Sanjiang was not promoted again because he had just been promoted to captain. However, the engineer company commander Bai Sheng was promoted to army major this time. But this engineer company commander who was born in the Yunnan Army was moved to tears.

The engineer company commander who was once ordered to plant explosives to blow up the Yellow River Bridge originally thought that he was an abandoned son about to die. Who knew that he would be able to cross the threshold of a mid-level officer and become a colonel a year later if he survived.

Yang Xiaoshan, the former commander of the communications company, was transferred to the deputy battalion commander of the Dakouzidong Town Security Battalion. Although he still had the rank of captain, he was only one step away from being an army major.

步兵连长级则有五人获得晋升，1连长赵大强、2连长卫东来、5连长蔡勇冠、7连长李九斤、10连长唐隶，都成功晋升为陆军少校。

The medical company commander Tantai Mingyue was promoted from captain to major, the deputy company commander Erya was promoted from second lieutenant to lieutenant, and the medical squad leader Zhuang Damei was successfully promoted to second lieutenant. After the Battle of Licheng, the old man joined the Four Lines Regiment because he wanted to find Mingxin. Da Ya, a girl from the medical company, was promoted to Army Sergeant.

There are not many people who can be promoted from private to non-commissioned officer in less than a year, let alone in medical companies, even in front-line combat troops.

What Da Ya got was not the light of the clear path that she finally found, but the military merit that Da Ya earned herself. It was her duty as a nurse to rescue the wounded on the battlefield, but in the battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, she After returning to the wounded and seeing the heavy casualties on the battlefield, she actually chose to take off her Red Cross cuffs, pick up her gun, and fight the Japanese troops in the trenches. Such a fierce woman was extremely rare in the Four Lines Regiment.

Although there is no official record of killing Japanese soldiers in Da Ya, the time when this female nurse who accompanied the supply company persisted in fighting in the front trenches for nearly two hours gave the officers and soldiers of the Sichuan Army's new regiment, which had already been demoralized, a huge impact. She had great courage and was called the Goddess of War by the 2000 new recruits of the Sichuan Army Recruitment Corps after the war.

After two levels, he was promoted directly from a first-class soldier to a middle-class soldier to serve as the squad leader of the medical team, which was comparable to those who received special merit or first-class merit.

Judging from the military rank alone, the female sergeant who is nearly 18 years old is not far behind Mingxin's first-class sergeant major.

The corner of Ming Xin's mouth in the audience twitched slightly. His morality comes from the righteousness, and there is no such taboo as marriage, but his ideal is to eliminate all demons in the world. How could he be tainted by such lustful things just after entering the world of mortals?

When he thought that after the war was won, he would lead a little baby back to see his senior brother: "Senior brother, the master has not been found, but I will get you a nephew!"

Will the senior brother who is known for his honesty beat him? Ming Xin thinks there is an 80% possibility.

Not to mention young Mingxin's somewhat fearful heart, in the hearts of many officers and soldiers of the Four Lines Regiment, they knew that with the four veteran King Kong Leng Feng, Lao Hei, Zhao Daqiang, and Li Jiujin around Tang Tuanzuo all promoted to school officers, the new The Four Little Heavenly Kings Yang Xiaoshan, Gu Xishui, Lu Sanjiang, and Qian Dazhu have also begun to gradually take charge of their own affairs and are moving towards a more important commander level.

This was originally a promotion order issued by the Second Theater Command on the first day of the new year. Tang Dao waited until the whole regiment's spring training swearing-in meeting to announce it, also to boost morale.

Under the leadership of each battalion commander, the four infantry battalions entered designated mountainous areas to conduct civil engineering operations, simulate defensive operations, and attack difficult operations and other subjects.

Of course, for the infantry battalion at the core of the Fourth Line Regiment, the most important purpose of this kind of field exercise is to allow the new recruits added to each battalion to quickly adapt to the battlefield environment and get used to sleeping in comfortable beds in cold weather. barracks, but lying in the cold trenches or tunnels.

Moreover, whether it is marching, civil engineering work, or live-fire shooting, recruits and veterans need a running-in process.

If you try to get used to it in actual combat, it will undoubtedly cost you enough lives. Tang Dao hopes to use exercises as much as possible to make up for these shortcomings that cannot be touched in daily training.

The artillery battalion's mountain artillery company and heavy force company were all dispatched, and were divided into four parts to accompany the four infantry battalions in a half-month-long actual combat exercise.

To test whether the fortifications are strong or not, the officer does not check with his eyes, hands and feet!

Practice is the only criterion for testing truth!

Tang Tuanzuo's standard for testing whether each battalion's fortifications are up to standard is very simple: bombard them with artillery!

The trenches used fake wooden figures in military uniforms, but the dug tunnels contained real company and platoon commanders.

The explosive power of the 150MM heavy mortar shell is much more powerful than the Japanese 105 howitzer. If the tunnel dug is not strong enough, the first ones buried will be the company and platoon commanders who commanded the tunnel digging.

Of course, under the strict orders of Tang Tuanzuo, who was following the Fourth Battalion to guide the exercises, he was the first person to enjoy such treatment.

What does it feel like to be bombarded by your own artillery? In the exact words of Qin Ruoyu, commander of the Fourth Battalion Artillery Company: "It was a fear that I had never experienced on the battlefield. I always felt that I must be a crazy lunatic!" Yes! Anyone who is normal may feel this way. Using one's sharpest spear to blow up one's strongest shield will result in a failure of both, and a waste of precious ammunition. This may be extremely ridiculous for any army!

Sitting in the tunnel, feeling the thunderous artillery fire outside, but remaining calm and composed, Tang Dao answered Qin Ruoyu like this, which also made Qin Ruoyu more determined in his choice.

"Yes! I'm afraid there are many brothers in the camp who call me crazy in their hearts. Even I feel a little crazy.

However, based on the comparison of national and military strength between the enemy and ourselves at this time, if the Japanese are a strong adult, then I, the Chinese, are a frail old man who has entered his twilight years. Under normal circumstances, no matter what method the old man uses, he will always fight. Not winning.

The only way to win is to abandon the thinking of normal people, become a madman, tear, bite, and use all means to hurt them, and fight them desperately!

If we don’t go crazy and fight hard at this time, we in China will always be the sick men of East Asia in the eyes of those arrogant Westerners!

If possible, I hope that in the future, Westerners will be able to retreat without having to throw that punch! "

At that time, there were only two people, Tang Dao and Qin Ruoyu, in the tunnel. Qin Ruoyu understood the first half and knew that Tang Dao meant not to be crazy. He could not defeat the Japanese using conventional means alone.

But the second half is a bit confusing. What does this have to do with the Western world? Why let the Western world retreat when faced with difficulties? Could it be that the Western world will eventually join this Patriotic War in which China is already struggling?

“For individuals, society is a world of the weak and the strong, but for countries, how can it be the same?

From the standpoint of the country, there are no eternal friends, only eternal interests. When interests conflict, yesterday's allies will wield the butcher's knife today. To prevent all this, only you are strong enough, so strong that no one dares to do so. Lift the knife and point it at you. "Tang Dao said faintly, looking at the faint lights amidst the tremors of artillery fire.

Qin Ruoyu certainly didn't know that although the anti-Japanese war in front of him was cruel, as the German Empire had invaded Slovakia in mid-1938 and formally took full control of the entire Slovakia a few days ago, Tang Dao had already determined that the outbreak of World War II was imminent. .

The Empire on which the Sun Never Sets and the Gallic Empire will be forced to declare war on the German Empire in half a year. By then, the world will have initially formed two major camps. If Japan chooses to join the Axis Alliance, they are destined to compete with the United States and the United States. The Mao Xiong faced off against a giant whose national power far exceeded theirs.

The Chinese battlefield where they originally had the upper hand will gradually regain their advantage as the Japanese army continues to invest in the Pacific battlefield.

Tang Dao has been certain that as long as he survives these difficult years or two, the Patriotic War will see the light of day.

The Four Lines Regiment must be stronger and win some victories in local battles against Japan, so that those who are still conflicted between surrender and resistance but still control a large amount of resources and troops will not be as complete as Wang Ni. Betrayal.

But Tang Dao's gaze is no longer limited to this battlefield that will only form a long-term tug of war and will no longer be one-sided.

In the battle for the founding of the country 11 years later, the situation was actually more dangerous than this. By accident, the powerful Western Alliance invaded China, which had just been established in the ruins.

China has already missed the first and second industrial revolution. If it misses the coming technological revolution again, it will be a disaster for the Chinese nation.

The tragic situation of the people in the future deserts and African savannah countries that have never stopped fighting, and the quotes that even teenagers know that they will never grow up, made Tang Dao know that he and his brothers must be stronger.

The Four Elements Regiment currently has no more than 10,000 people, but these 10,000 people are just seeds. When the Anti-Japanese War is over, even if only one-third or even one-quarter of these seeds survive, they will expand dozens of times in a few more years.

At that time, if the Western Alliance, headed by the American Cowboys, still dared to come to the Icefield, they would have to pay a heavier price than before.

That punch brought at least a hundred years of peace!

To achieve all this, Tang Dao, who has set his sights on the next few decades or even a century, wants to do more.

The officers and soldiers of the Four Lines Regiment could only undergo hellish training under the leadership of their commander, who looked cold but actually had a crazy fire in his heart.

But compared with infantry battalions, artillery battalions, cavalry battalions and other units in the "self-abuse" live-fire exercises, mountain infantry companies and reconnaissance companies are more straightforward choices to fight against the Japanese army.

The mountain infantry company, led by its new company commander Gu Xishui, conducted long-distance training. In just three days, they marched 140 miles on foot to the headquarters of the th Army in Monan Town, Zhongtiao Mountain.

After obtaining a certain amount of material supplies from the 200th Army, they crossed the Yellow River and marched for more than 28 miles again to the 8th Division station in Tongguan. They rested there for 3 hours and then secretly crossed the river from Fenglingdu to attack a location of the Japanese rd Division. Artillery positions.

Perhaps the 3rd Division never expected that they would be the victims again. During the Chinese New Year, they were attacked by a group of Chinese people in "fancy clothes" who didn't know where they came from.

It was almost the same pattern as the attack by a small group of Chinese troops last year. They first used the night to carry out a sneak attack, and after giving the Japanese infantry on guard a heavy blow, they immediately used a large amount of explosives to blast and destroy the artillery positions, and then quickly jumped into the mountains.

The 3rd Division, which had learned its lesson, directly dispatched an infantry brigade to chase the murderer to avoid another ambush by the Chinese.

But what the Japanese army didn't expect was that the Chinese were really like lunatics. Not only did they actually ambush, but the number of people they attacked was hundreds of people. Their weapons and equipment were extremely sophisticated. In addition to carrying small-caliber mortars, they also There were nearly ten "heavy machine guns", and their firepower was so fierce that they almost beat an infantry group of nearly a thousand people to tears.

If the infantry battalion commander, Major Kondo Rizhao, had not evacuated immediately, the loss might not have been 232 people but two times three more.

The Chinese people are really too outrageous, and they are not happy during the Chinese New Year!

When the Third Division came to its senses and ferociously planned to dispatch brigade-level troops, vowing to kill these audacious Chinese in the mountains, they were surprised to find that these Chinese were like air. , disappearing into the remaining veins of Zhongtiao Mountain.

This is almost impossible. Although the Chinese do not have heavy weapons such as infantry guns, "heavy machine guns" and mortars also weigh tens of kilograms. How could they carry such heavy objects over mountains and ridges? A runaway?

However, the sent out reconnaissance team showed that the Chinese did not go anywhere else, but hid deep in the inaccessible mountains. A reconnaissance plane circling at low altitude discovered their presence more than 20 miles away from the battle site, and was used to conduct air strikes. It has been attacked by heavy machine guns that "shoot upwards", and the dense bullet holes on the wings are the best proof.

Could it be that they are a bunch of monkeys? No matter how much the Third Division wanted to take revenge, it could only do nothing in front of the vast mountains.

They can go into the mountains, but in the primitive jungle where even donkeys can't walk, the soldiers can only be lightly armed without the protection of heavy machine guns and infantry artillery. So how many people are appropriate to send? Is it an infantry regiment or an infantry brigade?

Thinking about this huge price, this unlucky kid from the Third Division had no choice but to give up.

The mountain infantry company based on the mountain people of Yeyue Village does carry a heavy load, but it is not as high as the Japanese imagined. The so-called heavy machine gun is just an 'MG42' with a tripod attached, and the total weight is only 25 kilograms. Taken apart A three-person machine gun team is fully capable.

That was also the first time the MG42 was put into actual combat, and it achieved remarkable results. The crazy rate of fire was supported by a tripod, and the trajectory was more stable than using a light machine gun-type bipod.

Not to mention that suppressing infantry is like mowing grass. When shooting with 600 heavy machine guns at a distance of 92 meters, it is like an adult meeting a kindergarten child, without any difficulty.

The military industry that the Japanese are proud of is nothing in front of German Seiko.

The weight of the experimental 83-type mortar that Tang Tuanzuo improved with reference to the future Chinese 60-type 60-type mortar is less than 8 kilograms. Thanks to the invention of cyclone explosives, the weight of a shell has been reduced to 1 kilogram, and the weight of a mortar has been reduced to 5 kilogram. A team of only five people can carry a mortar and 40 shells.

The purpose of this long-distance training is not to deal a big blow to the Japanese army, but to see whether the mountain infantry company can march quickly and efficiently through the steep mountain forests with conventional ammunition reserves, as planned by Tang Tuanzuo, and A large-scale operation can be completed.

Obviously, within a week, the army marched nearly 400 miles in a large arc, then completed a raid and ambush, then used the cover of the mountains to escape the pursuit and successfully returned to the base. The whole process did not take more than half a month. The mountain infantry company The nearly perfect combat effectiveness in the mountains is even more amazing than the managers of the Four Elements Regiment imagined!

The Si Xing Regiment is working hard to strengthen itself, and the Japanese are not idle either!