Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 1509 New Soldiers Class

Unlike other regiments, after two days of selection, the Sihang Regiment finally selected 198 recruits that met its requirements, which was still 102 short of the quota needed.

而像预10师麾下的四个团，每个团招满了400人不说，28团和30团这样的主力团还偷偷摸摸又各弄了300人当担架兵。

  The so-called stretcher bearers, when the situation is critical, don't they have to carry guns on the front?

"Our respective needs are different. We are taking the route of elite troops and would rather have fewer than too few. However, Commander Ge believes that there is strength in numbers and great effort can make miracles happen. There is no absolute good or bad, only whether it is suitable or not." Tang Dao happened to see Fang Xianjue criticizing Ge Youcai for not following military orders, secretly recruiting nearly a thousand more people, and not learning from the Four Lines Regiment to take the route of elite troops. He hurried to help Commander Ge with his work.

"Right, that's the truth. The biggest advantage of our 10th Reserve Division against the enemy in this battle is the fortifications. As long as the fortifications are intact and the new recruits can shoot, they can stop the Japanese. Whether they are accurate or not, after a few more days of shooting, even pigs can become sharpshooters." Ge Youcai grinned.

Tang Dao's words touched the heart.

Who can sit in the position of Lieutenant General Division Commander, there is no stupid person? The commander did not need elite soldiers, but Master Ge understood that his 10th Reserve Division could not be as well-trained as the th Regiment because of its equipment and training.

Well, it depends on having enough people! Each regiment is supplemented with 400 people, and one is divided among the three battalions and 3 companies. In fact, each company has less than 12 people, and a squad has only 40 people. Let the veterans lead them, and those who can survive a few battles will become veterans.

And what is least lacking in Hengyang is the battlefield.

Yes, although both sides in Hengyang were secretly preparing for battle and accumulating strength, there were no major battles, but small battles broke out every day.

The new recruits didn't have to go to any training ground. They went straight to the battlefield, were given rifles, and followed the veterans' method, aiming at the opposite side and shooting any living creature.

There are plenty of bullets in Hengyang City today, and there will definitely be no shortage of bullets for new recruits to conduct live-fire shooting.

Therefore, in the next few days, there was constant gunfire from various positions outside Hengyang City, which made the Japanese somewhat confused.

  Although there haven't been any major wars during this period, small conflicts have continued one after another, but what's the point of you blindly fighting like this?

Could it be that the Chinese in the city have so many bullets that they can waste them at will?

"This is the Chinese's empty city tactic! They must be running low on supplies, at least not as much as they show." After 116 minutes of careful thought, Lieutenant General Iwanaga, commander of the 10th Division, came to this conclusion.

  Shimanuki Takeshi

If the Chinese say that they are wasting the limited supplies just to confuse their opponents, then they are extremely stupid.

After all, even a fool knows that the Empire of Japan will never give up attacking Hengyang regardless of whether the opponent has abundant or scarce supplies.

The Chinese side obviously will not give up their new recruits training just because the Japanese army is a little confused. Whether they can hit the target or not is not the point. The point is that the new recruits must be able to shoot and dare to shoot.

A war may break out at any time, and the new recruits must become combat forces in time, even if it means forcing their growth too hasty.

Because this is war.

However, there are still some differences in the training of new recruits in each unit. For example, the main focus of the 3rd Battalion of the th Regiment is on being unique, and Li Jiujin's brain is somewhat different from others.

Luo Dahu was assigned to the 3th Squad, 7th Company, 4rd Battalion, and became a private. He was also the only soldier in the 4th Squad with a rank below sergeant.

Luo Dahu was a strong man ranked 6th in the assessment results. Relying on the sturdy physique unique to northerners and the will to earn a future for his wife and children, Luo Dahu ran within 25 minutes with blood foaming from his mouth.

However, he was a little too old, so Qian Dazhu, who was in charge of selecting soldiers for the 20st Battalion that had been guarding Huangchaling for 1 days, thought it over and over again and finally gave up on him.

But Boss Cao, who came to recruit soldiers on behalf of the 3rd Battalion, took a liking to Luo Dahu, who was already over 7 years old, at first sight. Perhaps Luo Dahu's resume was somewhat similar to his own, which made Lieutenant Cao, who had become the deputy company commander of the 7th Company and the 3rd Platoon Leader of the th Company, empathize with him.

But as Boss Cao said later: "You all think he is old and has little potential, but you don't think about it. A man in his 30s can run 6000 meters in 25 minutes without any training just to ensure that his wife and children can have enough food in the future. How tenacious he is. Just for this tenacity, he deserves to come to my 7th Company 4th Squad."

In most companies, the spearhead platoon and the spearhead squad are both ranked in the 1s. Company 7 is an exception. Squad 4 is the undisputed spearhead squad of the entire company, and no one can earn it.

Because, that was achieved by Squad 4 at the cost of the lives of 13 soldiers and the crippling nature of nature and the earth. It is real military achievement and record.

Which squad dared to say that they could fight against half of the Japanese infantry battalion with just one squad? Which squad dared to say that two people could stop hundreds of Japanese soldiers from attacking continuously for an hour, and one of them had a broken leg and a blind eye?

But Class 4 did it just like that, and the battle at Niangzi Pass performed a miracle.

Moreover, Tu Yunsheng, who lost a leg, and Boss Cao, who was blind in one eye, did not retire due to their serious injuries. They continued to participate in various battles thereafter and accumulated merits to become captains and lieutenants.

What’s even more amazing is that after that serious injury, as if God was taking care of them, these two never suffered another serious injury in the following five years.

Class 4 did not let down the sacrifices of their predecessors. Although in the following years, some veterans retired due to death in battle or serious injuries or were promoted to other platoons or companies, the one with the longest military service was the former recruit Liu Adong, who became the new squad leader of Class 4 last year.

Of course, Luo Dahu only heard these stories after he joined Class 4. Every new recruit who enters Class 4 will be shocked and infected by the stories of his predecessors.

It is precisely because of this spiritual inheritance that the soldiers of Class 4 have never been cowards. Even the new recruits who have just come out of the training ground will not pee their pants in fear when facing the fierce artillery fire like the soldiers in other companies.

Although that is actually very normal, as long as it is a living thing, there is no one who is not afraid of death. There has always been a joke in the Four Lines Group: "It's okay to be scared to pee, as long as you don't poop!"

The Four Strings Regiment had always been quite tolerant of new recruits. They had never executed any of them as a warning to others because of fear on the battlefield. At most, they would consider them unfit for combat and retire them from active service.

That's because the Four Lines Group is confident enough, so confident that they believe that scrap metal can be melted into fine steel in their melting pot.

In fact, this is true. The bravery of one person may inspire a group of people, but what about the bravery of a group of people? The will of an individual is like a weak candle in front of the power of the group, and it is almost instantly swept into the shape of the group.

After seven years of war, the Four Lines Regiment had become what Tang Dao had in mind.

Even if the Four-Line Regiment was crippled in the Battle of Hengyang, as long as one-tenth of its people survived, the spirit and backbone of the Four-Line Regiment would still be there and could be rebuilt at any time. Even if the entire army was wiped out, the seeds he left in Taihang Mountains could still rebuild this elite force.

  The body may disappear, but the fearless spirit and will live forever!

However, when Luo Dahu, who was already middle-aged, first arrived at his glorious infantry squad, he was not shocked by the stories of the veterans.

When Luo Dahu, led by squad leader Adong, walked through the winding trenches and into the anti-artillery cave, he was stunned when he saw his comrades standing up to welcome him.

During this period, he worked for a week on the position of the 10th Reserve Division and knew a little about the military ranks of the soldiers in the infantry squad and platoon.

  In the 10th Reserve Division, it was good to have two or three sergeants in a squad. Most of them were like him, either privates or corporals. How could there be a squad like his? Even a 20-year-old "kid" was a corporal. What was going on? Did the entire infantry squad have military merits?

Seeing Luo Dahu staring at the ranks on the collar badges of the big guys in a daze, Adong, who had become the squad leader of Class 4, smiled and introduced them to Luo Dahu one by one: "This is the deputy squad leader Sheng, from Licheng, Jin Province, with 4 years of military service, and he has won the second-class military merit once and the third-class military merit once. His rank is first-class sergeant major; this is Muggle, from Sichuan Province, with 2 years of military service, and he has won the third-class military merit once, and his rank is sergeant major."

Luo Dahu almost mechanically saluted to these "veterans" who were either sergeants or corporals, even the little guy named Xiao Shiba, who still had some blue hair above his lips and a shy expression on his face.

Why was he called Xiao Shiba? It was because this young man from Henan Province joined the army on his 18th birthday. If the regiment commander had not seen the skinny boy on the road and kindly given him a bag of food, Shiba might not have lived to the age of .

The 18-year-old boy knew that the person who saved him was Tang Dao, the leader of the Four Lines Regiment. He relied on this bag of food and walked hundreds of kilometers into the Fifth War Zone. He found the base of the Four Lines Regiment and asked to join the army. Finally, on his th birthday, he became a member of the Four Lines Regiment.

Shi Ba was a corporal a week ago, but after being rotated to the Huangchaling position of the 1st Battalion, Shi Ba encountered his first actual combat in two years since he joined the army. As a result, this soldier, who was the only soldier in the 4th squad who had never participated in actual combat, became famous in one battle. He shot and killed five attacking Japanese soldiers and sniped and killed four Japanese soldiers with cold guns in three days. The corporal with outstanding combat exploits was promoted to corporal on the front line and was awarded the rank of corporal two days before Luo Dahu arrived.

Luo Dahu's head was buzzing after listening to squad leader Adong's introduction to the corporal who could almost be his son.

What kind of god-like infantry squad did he have? They killed 9 people in just a few days. At this efficiency, how many Japanese would have to die before they were done?

"Okay, now that we've all gotten to know each other, I'll hand Lao Luo over to Eighteen. While the Japanese are relatively quiet these past two days, Eighteen, take Lao Luo to familiarize him with the environment of the position we're defending, and also give him some necessary training.

By the way, Lao Luo is a new recruit after all, so he should be careful about overly dangerous training." After Ah Dong finished his instructions, he turned around and went to the platoon headquarters.

In fact, Adong didn't care much about adding new recruits. A few days ago, a brother who served as a sharpshooter was really unlucky. He killed a Japanese soldier 400 meters away with one shot during a sniper attack, but was ambushed by the Japanese grenade launchers. Six grenade launchers were aimed at him and bombarded him. A shrapnel penetrated his thigh and almost cut his artery. He had to go to the field hospital for treatment. Then a new recruit was added.

However, although Class 4 no longer has the support soldiers originally assigned to Tu Yunsheng, the special organization has been retained. At full strength, it still has 20 people. The lack of a sharpshooter does not have a big impact on Class 4's combat effectiveness.

On the contrary, when new recruits arrive, we have to train them and take care of their safety, which is really a burden.

Adong thought about looking for Platoon Leader Cao again, or arrange Luo Dahu, who has good physical fitness, to the firepower squad. Even if he can't go into the battlefield to kill the enemy immediately, he can still move ammunition with his brute force, right?

  Luo Dahu didn't know that he had become a burden in the eyes of squad leader Adong. He was eager to try his luck when he first joined the army! His comrades were so awesome, so he couldn't hold them back, right?

The most important thing is, when he heard that after Shi Ba became a corporal, his military salary plus allowances exceeded 20 silver dollars, and he was awarded a bonus of 9 silver dollars a few days ago for killing 45 Japanese soldiers, the eyes of the middle-aged man, who dreamed every day about how to earn a living for his wife and children, were green.

  It turns out that the devil’s head is not a head, but a silver dollar. Should it be called a big devil’s head?

"Brother Eighteen, you tell me how to train. Although I am older than you, I am your soldier now. You tell me how to train, and I will do it as long as I can kill the Japs and earn the most money." Luo Dahu was able to survive the war with his wife and children, which showed that he had a flexible mind. Even though Eighteen was much younger than him, he put himself in the right position and expressed that he would absolutely obey the orders of the 20-year-old.

"Brother Hu, you are a new recruit, but you are not a newcomer on the battlefield. After all, you have been in Hengyang City for a month and have experienced what the Japanese artillery bombardment is like. However, this battlefield is not just about artillery bombardment, there are things that are even more terrifying than that. How about we build up our courage first?" Eighteen replied with a chuckle.

"Does courage need to be trained?" Luo Dahu was stunned, looking somewhat disapproving.

He fled from his hometown to Hengyang, and traveled for several years. What had he not seen on the road? Not to mention the various strange corpses left behind by the two armies after the battle, he had also witnessed two massacres of civilians by the Japanese. The bloody scenes were really horrible. Didn't he survive by hiding in the woods?

Not to mention that we saw some incomplete corpses on the road. The flesh on the thighs and arms was obviously cut off by sharp weapons. The mere thought of such a result would drive a normal person crazy.

"According to the practice of our Class 4, new recruits will be issued guns, but if they can seize an enemy gun before that, it will be recorded in the class log." Eighteen continued.

"How can we seize it? The Japanese aren't coming, and I don't have any guns now?" Luo Dahu was a little confused.

"If we can't get the living, then we can get the dead, right? See that deep trench ahead?" Eighteen smiled and pointed forward. "There are so many dead Japanese in there, and we didn't have time to get back many of the rifles. Go look for them in the evening, and it'll be easy to get a Japanese rifle."

"That's easy. Just watch me tonight." Luo Dahu patted his strong chest, his face full of confidence.

The confident Luo Dahu didn't know that he was not the only recruit who was tricked into searching for guns in the 2000-meter-long trench that day. There were more than 20 of them.

Then, among these 20 or so recruits, no more than 5 people will be able to bring back a complete gun like Luo Dahu.

Because almost no one can stay in this hellish trench for more than 10 minutes.

Not only are the deep trenches filled with all kinds of rotting, maggot-infested or gigantic corpses, but walking among these corpses with a lantern in the dark would make one feel extremely terrified.

Rather, it was because the stench in there was so great that even though they wore long leather shoes as required and tied towels soaked in medicine on their faces, the strong stench of the corpse was still enough to make them dizzy.

The 1st Battalion fought fiercely here for 20 days, and at least 3000 Japanese soldiers died in the deep trenches. Although in the early stages, because the smell was too unpleasant and there were concerns about epidemics, Leng Feng ordered gasoline to be poured into the trenches and burned them, and a considerable portion of them were burned.

But the Japanese army continued to throw in a lot of "materials", and eventually the 1st Battalion was laid down and rotten. There was only so much fuel, not enough for their own use, so there was no extra to burn the corpses, so they just let it go.

When the 3rd Battalion took over the position, Li Jiujin was even more aggressive and said bluntly that there was no need to worry about it. The dirtier and more disgusting the deep trench was, the better. The Japanese might even jump in and be sick to death, and it would also save bullets.

You can imagine that when a person walks in this deep trench, wherever the light shines, there are hideous rotting corpses everywhere, the nose is filled with a strong stench, and from time to time, there is a slippery and soft touch under the feet.

Moreover, the old soldiers who led the recruits over the cliffs and reached the deep trenches repeatedly warned them that this was a battlefield and they might run into the Japanese who were approaching.

His nerves were stretched to the point of breaking, yet he still had to use his hands to sort through the corpses to find the legendary intact rifle that had not been taken away in time. Anyone who could persist in completing this task could be considered a strong person, at least in terms of mental quality.

Luo Dahu succeeded, but when he came back he almost vomited all his bile, and he, who loved meat so much, didn't eat a single piece of meat for three days.

That night, he saw meat that he had never seen in his life. It was all around him, right at his feet.

"Brother Hu, this is the nature of the battlefield. Death is not everything. If we are defeated and no one restrains ourselves, it will become like that." Eighteen said these extremely cruel words, but his young face was calm.

Luo Dahu and the new recruits of the 3rd Battalion all shook their heads in their hearts. No one wanted to see such an ending that any living creature would hate happen to them.

If we don't want this outcome, the only way is to defeat the Japanese.

  Perhaps, that is the last bit of dignity of being a human being!

The 3rd Battalion used the simplest, direct, yet extremely vivid battlefield scene to teach its new recruits a lesson that they will remember for a lifetime!

That is, what is a battlefield!

Death is not the final end!

The last bit of dignity is being eaten away bit by bit by the surge of maggots.