Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 885 The fight is about to begin!
The military meeting of the Four Elements Regiment has a big topic: send troops to Licheng!

Except for Li Jiujin and a few infantry company commanders who had already heard the news, who were still calm and composed, most of the people heard the topic announced by Tang Dao, and their faces became serious involuntarily. They smoked faster and drank water. more of them.

This is quite normal.

After all, the Four Elements Group just came to the Taihang Mountains, so they still understand everything!Even the resident had just been settled, and such a big battle began, and it was a tough battle that the Four Elements Regiment had never had before.

Those who can participate in the meeting are at least company-level cadres. How can you say that there are hundreds of people under your command? It’s not like before, there are only a few brothers. 100 lives isn't it?
Soon, however, they no longer had to worry.

"You don't need to look so heavy. The regiment headquarters called everyone to come, not to discuss whether or not to fight Licheng County, but how to fight!" Tang Tuanzuo looked around and calmly decided on a decision for the meeting. keynote.

It's good now, people drinking water and smoking cigarettes are not as frequent as before. After the short period of silence just now, more officers raised their hands to speak.

This is the temperament of the soldiers of the Four Elements Regiment now. They may not all have iron ambitions. In the face of sudden battles, they will be afraid and afraid, but when their commander has set a goal, they will throw away Let go of the burden and work hard to complete it!

Of course, Tang Dao wasn't completely eloquent. He had already communicated with his three deputies before the military meeting.

Lei Xiong, choose to support as always!

This fighter-type lieutenant colonel unreservedly supported Tang Dao, who came from behind, just like the lonely army guarding the Sixing Warehouse.

Tang Dao even knew from his eyes that he was more eager to fight this battle than himself!
In fact, Eastern Shanxi is only one step away from his hometown of Shaanxi Province.

Half of the Shanxi Province has been lost. If the huge barrier of the Taihang Mountains is lost, the Japanese army will free up troops. The natural moat of the Yellow River alone cannot guarantee the safety and security of Shanxi Province.

Lei Xiong has seen too much misery in the battlefields of half of China. Under the flames of war, life is as cheap as an ant. Heart, can't bear to look directly!

How could Lei Xiong accept that his hometown elders and close blood relatives also suffered such a tragic fate?
"If I lose Jindong, I will return to my hometown and stay with my wife and children!" This is a sincere sentence that Lei Xiong said when he and Tang Dao were patrolling and chatting one night after arriving at the station.

Soldiers are also human beings. If you really want to destroy your country and your family, and be as tough as Lei Xiong, you will choose to die with your wife and children!
"Don't worry, you won't have this chance." Tang Dao remembered answering him with such a smile.

In the past time and space, the [-]th Army did not lose eastern Shanxi. Instead, it developed hundreds of thousands of troops based on this mountainous area and marched into the provinces of Shanxi, Cha, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, and Jiangsu. The anti-Japanese base areas with a size of one million square kilometers and a population of hundreds of millions, until Japan was defeated, did not occupy these lands in a real sense. The so-called Japanese-occupied areas are actually only cities, and they are basically over at the town level.

In Shaanxi Province, the most important grain and cotton-producing area in Northwest China, the Japanese did not even touch a hair until the defeat.

And Gong Shaoxun, after listening to Tang Dao's description of the background and prospects of this battle, he also readily expressed his support.

He is a very wise soldier, even if he knows that he is just a lonely existence in the group of four in the regiment headquarters, if Tang Dao makes a decision, even if he opposes it, it will be a three-on-one situation, but he still chooses to listen to his heart and support him Thinking that the right decision is what Tang Dao admires most about him.

What Tang Dao needs is not a tool man who obeys his words. What he needs is a comrade-in-arms who can not only fight to the death under his military orders, but also put forward his own opinions at certain times to make up for his shortcomings.

Tang Dao never looked down on the people of this era because he came from the future and could grasp the pulse of history. On the contrary, the more he got in touch with them, the more Tang Dao knew how outstanding these people were. It's GG before it grows up.

Compared with Gong Shaoxun, Zhuang Shisan was much more straightforward, and said with a wry smile: "You know, Tuanzhang, that I, the chief of staff, took advantage of the Songjiang Security Corps and you didn't dislike me. Sounds good, at my level, even if I were asked to lead an infantry, it would be enough! I can’t make any more suggestions about what you said about attacking Licheng, but I can guarantee that I have all the materials needed by the various ministries involved in the war. Do our best to supply, and also promise to do a good job in the treatment of the wounded, so that the brothers in the battalions and companies will have no worries!"

"What I want is your words!" Tang Dao smiled and patted Zhuang Shisan on the shoulder.

Zhuang Shisan probably didn't even know that Tang Dao's satisfaction with his officers was at least in the top five as chief of staff of his regiment!
In terms of fighting, as Zhuang Shisan himself said, Tang Dao would rather use Bai Sheng, the engineer company commander, than let him lead an infantry company to fight, even if his performance in the peripheral battle in the Songjiang defense battle It's not bad, but that can only show that his will is still strong and the Japanese army is too big and lucky enough.

But Zhuang Shisan is self-aware enough to know his strengths and weaknesses, and to maximize his strengths.

Just like the five-day resident construction, this person is responsible for the deployment of all materials and personnel. The 3000 members of the Four Elements Regiment plus more than 4000 people who came to help eat and live. It is definitely an extremely complicated job, but in this hands, everything becomes It was well organized, almost no friendly troops found Tang Dao to make a small report because of the problem of food and accommodation, and Tang Dao was able to get out, and took a cavalry squad and three college students from the Department of Geography to inspect the surrounding terrain of the station with an area of ​​tens of square kilometers. lap.

Combining past and present lives, it was Tang Dao's first visit to this place. As a commander, if he is not even familiar with the terrain and geographical environment of his own area, then he is not qualified for the precipice!
The three college students in the geography department drew a detailed map of the four-element regiment's residence overnight based on the map of Licheng County engraved from the 683 brigade headquarter and combined with the terrain visited on the spot.

In addition, 300 students were divided before entering the resident. About 40 people chose to join Division 921 without forgetting their original aspirations. Under the leadership of Teacher He, he expressed his willingness to stay in the Four Elements Group.

However, this is not because of the charismatic personality of a certain Tuanzuo, but because the prospects described by Tang Tuanzuo are too good, why build a thermal power plant!Build a military factory to develop rifles, machine guns and even artillery!We also need to develop iron ore, smelt steel and so on. Anyway, as long as they stay, no matter how bad they are, they are engineers. They don't need to carry guns to the front line, and they can still contribute to fighting devils.

The reason why the proud sons of heaven want to join the army is more because of their blood after seeing the misery of the war. When they gradually calm down, they will find that Tang Dao's words are not only reasonable but also speak to their hearts.

If the Great Patriotic War can be won only by sacrifice, then China can almost certainly win!
The population recorded by the government alone is [-] million, and those who are destined to be missed may be as high as [-]. With such a huge population base, even if only [-]% is willing to sacrifice, what kind of war cannot be won?

It's a pity that war is not an examination room, and we don't completely look at the data, otherwise the Japanese wouldn't be gambling like this.

War requires soldiers who dare to die, and it also needs support from the economy, industry, and mineral resources. It is an extremely complex and huge system.

And what they are most proud of is the knowledge that they learned at the highest university in China that can change everything. If they can make stronger weapons and more bullets, they can easily kill a hundred devils. As a soldier, even if he died, he might not be able to kill ten devils!
Tang Dao used such a simple truth to change the stubborn thoughts of these once passionate and proud sons of heaven.

Of course, the actions of the Four Elements Group these days also gave Tang Dao enough confidence to tell them that you are responsible for making guns and cannons and killing devils, let us come!
However, Tang Dao did not stop liberal arts students from choosing to go to Division 921. Although these guys are scholars, their passionate writing is quite provocative, and it will also be of great help to the promotion of Division 921. , can be regarded as putting it in a suitable position.

For the Four Elements Regiment, it is enough to have the thick legs of the 921 Division in front of them, and the Four Elements Regiment must keep a low profile.

If the scale of the army expands too fast, coupled with new weapons, it will completely attract the attention of the Japanese base camp, that will be terrible. Seven or eight divisions will surround them with great fanfare.
The Tang Dao and the Four Elements Regiment only need to develop insignificantly. When the military factory produces decent finished weapons, even if there are not many soldiers, they can still beat the Japanese hearts and lungs.

If the entire Great Patriotic War is compared to a patient, and the Japanese who gained the upper hand are the main body of the patient, then Tang Dao, who knows the pulse of the war, decided to turn himself and the Four Elements into an influenza virus. It is to make the human body feel uncomfortable, but it does not need to attract too much attention, and quietly erodes this body. In the end, all the virus cells work together to directly kill the patient and completely end this war.

And if you turn yourself into a 'cancer cell' from the very beginning, then the 'patient' will naturally launch a desperate counterattack, preferring to destroy this horrible guy even if both sides suffer. Isn't that what the future western medicine will do when dealing with this kind of disease?It is very common to kill an enemy with one thousand and lose two thousand and five.

Far away, Chief of Staff Zhuang Da's work is extremely efficient. Not only is the construction of the resident well done, but even in such a busy five days, he even took time out to recruit two hundred young men from the surrounding mountain villages to form a transport team And the stretcher team, and these 200 people are all assigned to Tantai Mingyue's medical team, which completely solved Tantai Mingyue's worries about the future.

You know, Tantai Mingyue asked Tang Dao five or six times to say that the stretcher team of the medical team was short of personnel, especially in the last ambush of the Japanese army on the south bank of the Mihe River, the medical team was divided into four parts to follow the frontline officers and soldiers.

Usually, there are quite a lot of medical teams with more than 100 people, but with such a score, the manpower is stretched. If the Japanese army was not pressed on the ground from the beginning and the casualty rate was low, if the two sides fell into a bitter battle, then It is not known how many wounded will be sacrificed due to insufficient treatment.

Of course Tang Dao knew that what Tantai Mingyue said was reasonable, but the Four Elements Regiment was not fully staffed yet, so where would he recruit people to supplement the medical team?
Not to mention that there are more than 400 recruits left after the battle, each company is staring at this piece of fat, waiting to ask someone from the more than 400 recruits to replenish their company to a full establishment, if Tang Dao said to send the recruits to medical treatment The team carried the stretcher, so those company commanders couldn't say that Tang Dao, the commander, was partial to his fiancée?
Although this is a normal situation, Tang Dao, as the team leader, even if he has achieved complete control, he still has to maintain balance.

The human heart and human nature have always been complicated!Maybe because of an extremely small thing, it will lead to a break.

Tantai Mingyue understands Tang Dao's difficulties, but it doesn't mean that she won't pinch someone who is cheap but doesn't do practical things with her bones when someone hugs her waist. 'Claw marks' left on the man's body!
This may be the difference between the thinking of women and men!

A certain man has been so painful and happy for a long time, and insists on not doing 'practical things'!
In future terms, it is shameless!

And Zhuang Shisan, a guy with enough wisdom, as soon as he arrived at the station, he helped the medical team solve this big problem with the original intention of solving the leaders' worries.

The medical team, which expanded to more than 300 people, immediately had more than a dozen doctors, more than 30 professional nurses, and a large number of auxiliary personnel, capable of receiving at least more than 100 wounded at the same time.

Of course, the sudden increase in doctors and nurses was also the result of those favored men from the School of Medicine of Jinling University actively joining after the Battle of Bihe. It wasn't them, the number of casualties in the Battle of Bihe increased by at least one-half.

Caring to do practical things for the chief, and knowing his own position, how can Tang Dao not appreciate such Zhuang Shisan?
Therefore, Tang Tuanzuo, who reached an agreement with his three deputies, set the tone from the beginning of the meeting, and turned the meeting into a tactical discussion.

A group of battalion and company commanders still put forward a lot of opinions for Tang Dao to record in person.

For example, Lao Hei and Gu Xishui of the Special Warfare Squadron put forward: "Although our department has infantry artillery, rapid-fire artillery, mountain artillery, large-caliber mortars and other artillery, it is fully capable of destroying the enemy on the city wall, but it will be difficult to deal with it later." A large number of shells are consumed, and secondly, the infantry attack will still cause a large number of casualties after the shelling, so the role of the special warfare squadron should be played, if we can enter the city ahead of time and use the cover of night to kill the defenders, this siege battle will be more effective!"

The two commanders of the special operations squadron have become more and more clear about the concept of special operations, and at the same time they are becoming more and more confident. This is what Tang Dao is most willing to see.

The battlefield is indeed the best training ground. Even though these officers and soldiers have not received any formal special training, their progress rate far exceeds that in peacetime. It has only been a few months. From the officers to the soldiers of the special squadron They already have the temperament and technical and tactical level of special forces.

However, infantry company commanders like Li Jiujin and Zhao Daqiang cared more about the distribution of combat tasks. Of course, the sharp knife company was in charge of the main attack.

If you play too many assistants, you will not have the confidence to speak at the meeting. This is also the consensus of the infantry company commanders!

However, these controversies were all extinguished by Tang Dao one by one. It is a good thing to strive to be the vanguard, but this has to be arranged according to the actual situation on the battlefield.

Hitting such a big target in Licheng does not mean that the Four Elements Regiment can attack it with all their strength and encircle it.

The Japanese army has two strongholds near Licheng. The larger one is in Lucheng, where there are two Japanese infantry brigades. They will naturally become the main force of the Japanese reinforcements after receiving the message from Licheng asking for help, but that is what Brigadier Cheng said. If necessary, he has already put up a huge formation. If the Japanese army in Lucheng does not send more than a thousand soldiers, he will not be able to eat enough!

The other stronghold is in Shecheng, 26 kilometers east of Licheng. Its strength is about the same as that of Licheng. It is an infantry brigade, and they will definitely send reinforcements.

If there is no accident, they will quickly reinforce Licheng with cars and motorcycles, equipped with about two infantry squadrons and an infantry artillery squadron, as they did in time and space.

The main force of the 683rd Brigade is in the Pocket Formation near Shentouling, and the reinforcements from Shecheng can only be dealt with by the Sixing Regiment itself, which means that there must be troops to stop the Japanese invaders and even wipe out them .

However, if there are no accidents, there will be accidents. The arrival of Tang Dao has changed history a little. Tang Dao dare not hand over his fate to what he thought he knew. out?
Therefore, Tang Dao would rather have fewer troops besieging Licheng than reduce the number of troops fighting to block.

After all, the strength of the 683rd Brigade of the Japanese Army in Li City has been determined several times, and it is the strength of an infantry brigade, so it will not change much.

In the end, Lei Xiong decided that there was no need to fight. He was in charge of leading the first battalion to fight this block. If the Japanese army had few troops, the first battalion would eat up all the belts and bones for him. Wait for the main force of the Four Elements Group to deal with the enemies in Licheng, turn around and kill them with one blow.

However, before that, Tang Dao had to complete Wei Donglai's infantry company, otherwise the battalion would only have two infantry companies and one fire support company, with a total strength of only more than 400 people, which is really small.

Tang Dao agreed, and he also intends to organize the recruits into the company. After the last battle of Bihe, the performance of the recruits was not bad. This battle will be the test for them to become real soldiers.

Just in time, take this opportunity to completely solve the problem of recruits' belonging, so that every battalion and company will not look at this big piece of fat and complain to him every day.

Li Jiujin even runs seven times a week, and his temperament has already rivaled that of Comrade 'Wang Xiaoqiang'. If the two of them have a drink, Tang Dao feels that they can become lifelong enemies!
In terms of being shameless, they really don't allow anyone stronger than themselves to appear in this world.

At the meeting, Tang Dao announced that there are currently more than 400 recruits, and 260 of the best performers will be filled into the first and second battalions. 200 people, 70 people will be added to the third battalion, and the rest will be added to the 1st and 2nd artillery companies.

The first battalion and the second battalion each lost one company, and more than half of the best-performing recruits were added to them. Naturally, the third battalion and the two artillery companies had nothing to say. Dissatisfied with the establishment of the spy company and the supply company, these two companies have been waiting for more than a month, but none of them have been caught!
The first battalion took the initiative to jump out of the vortex of fighting for the main attack, and the battalion commanders of the other two infantry battalions were not good enough to let their company commanders jump out to fight for them. One was to attack the east gate and the other was to attack the south gate. The feints in other areas to attract Japanese invaders are considered the main attack.

As for who is the first to break into the city wall, it depends on their own abilities, and they also have to be lucky enough.Whether the special warfare squadron can open the city gate will have to be reconnaissance after entering the city.

The 1st artillery company and the 2nd artillery company, as well as the guard company, cavalry company, and engineering company were all dispatched. The two artillery companies divided some artillery to support the first battalion. Most of the artillery was placed on the Licheng side, and the engineering company was in charge. Assist the first battalion and the main siege force to build field positions, while the guard company and cavalry company serve as the reserve team in Tang Dao's hands to deal with emergencies.

The secret service company and the supply company each have half of their staff, and the other part is responsible for staying at the station to ensure the safety of the station. Don't let the fight over there be lively, the city here has been stolen.

After more than four hours of discussion, the senior military meeting of the Four Elements Regiment, which has both disputes and unity and harmony, has basically finalized the tactical plan!
All that remains is for the battalions to go back to prepare for mobilization and wait for the time determined by the 683rd Brigade.

If nothing else, the time should be around mid-March!
The first battle of the Four Elements Regiment in Eastern Shanxi is about to start!
(End of this chapter)