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Chapter 397 Early rice before harvest (2)

"Two reporters, are you going to go out with us to experience the scene? Or are you waiting for good news at the regiment headquarters?"

At dawn, Li Chong asked the two reporters, Mu Ziqing and Liu Xiang, when the officers and soldiers of the regiment headquarters were inspecting the ammunition.

It was only when there was such a glimmer of light in the sky that Mu Ziqing couldn't help but yawned.

Hearing Li Chong's question, his eyes widened in an instant, "Go! Why not go! It is natural to wish for it to be able to participate in person. Whether it is in terms of news value or the vividness of the Anti-Japanese War, this is It can reflect the experience of the grassroots soldiers in the War of Resistance.”

"Okay, those two put on their helmets."

Li Chong put his finger on the helmet and picked it up in front of the two reporters. The helmet was seized from the devil's head, and it hadn't had time to remelt it into the style of the Sichuan Army.

Not only the helmets, but also a lot of devil uniforms that have been washed and dried in the whole regiment. Someone below suggested that they simply put on the devil uniforms and helmets, and pretend to be devil troops to collect grain openly. Li Chong did not reject this suggestion. The troops figured out for themselves.

But the officers and soldiers of the regiment headquarters who were going to fight the devil gunboats all wore neat gray and blue Sichuan army uniforms, and those who had the conditions wore regular Sichuan army style helmets, because this was to be seen in the mirror.

Otherwise, the two journalists clicked their cameras, and the printed photos showed "devils" beating devils. What's the matter?

Not only will it not be photogenic, but it may even be caught by someone with a heart.

Li Chong looked at his watch, the pointer pointed to five o'clock in the morning, and raised his head to look at the bugler next to him, "Assemble the team!"

The assembly number was passed down from the regiment headquarters halfway up the mountain.

Ten people from the guard squad, the special agent platoon and the artillery platoon stood together, a total of 90 people. In order to fight to destroy the gunboats transporting food, Li Chong led the soldiers who were most capable of fighting from the regiment headquarters, and He Maoping and Qiao Zining went out together , As for the regiment headquarters, the platoon leader Shuan Zhu took the remaining officers and soldiers to stay behind.

Speaking of which, the highest level of regimental officers and soldiers is now the platoon, such as Qiao Zining's special agent platoon, Fan Xu's heavy machine gun platoon, Wang Dazhu's artillery platoon, and ordinary combat platoons led by platoon leaders like Shuan Zhu, etc. Li Chong plans to recruit again. After some recruits passed the training, the soldiers of the regiment headquarters were reorganized into a company and hung under the leadership of the regiment headquarters. The company commander was Qiao Zining, and the ordinary combat platoon and special agent platoon were combined into one company.

As for the heavy machine gun platoon and the artillery platoon are still independent, the guard squad of the regiment headquarters can also be upgraded to a guard platoon depending on the number of recruits.

Since the capture of three [-]-type infantry artillery, the word "mortar" in front of the mortar platoon was taken away by Li Chong, and it was directly called "artillery platoon".

The three squads of the artillery platoon, each squad is now dominated by a [-]-type infantry gun, followed by the [-]-type mortar from the Jinling Factory and the [-]-type mortar from the Devil, and finally the Sichuan-made mortar Cannon bottoming.

Compared with when it was first built, there were fewer people, less guns and less ammunition, and now it has undergone radical changes.

In this expedition, nine people were selected from the artillery platoon. In fact, the only ones who can truly independently master the [-]-type infantry artillery and adjust the angle are Li Chong, the commander, Wang Dazhu and Pan Jiaping, and the other seven are learning from the [-] Those who are at the top of the assessment in the infantry artillery.

Li Chong stood with a sword and golden horse, looking at the regiment soldiers who were about to set off, "Today our task is to stop the devil's gunboat! Blow up the gunboat! Take the food brought by the devil to eat rice!"

"Good! Good! Good!"

The enthusiasm of the soldiers was high, and the two reporters on Li Chong's left and right "clicked" and took a photo of the soldiers going out.

The two reporters, Mu Ziqing and Liu Xiang, were very satisfied with the capture just now. The moment before the camera clicked, the scene they locked on was like this: machine guns on their shoulders, cannons carried by everyone, and several high-explosive shells with brass skins. In the basket, the faces of the soldiers were full of pride when they went to war.

If it weren't for the occasion, before the expedition, the two reporters couldn't help applauding this photo.

"set off!"

Li Chong waved his big hand to the front, and when the officers and soldiers of the regiment headquarters set off, the three battalions set off either half an hour earlier or half an hour later.

Sometime sooner or later is because the three battalions are at different distances from the target, the third battalion is the closest, the second battalion is next, and the first battalion is the farthest.

Among the three battalions, only the second battalion followed the same route as the regiment headquarters, the first battalion crossed directly from the east of Meiling, and the third battalion went west.After departure, the first and third battalions fought on their own without reporting to the regiment headquarters. All operational decisions were made by the company commanders of each battalion. This was also the initiative Li Chong gave to his subordinates.

Four or 10 minutes after the troops of the regiment headquarters set off, the second battalion, which had set off half an hour earlier, caught up.

When the troops of the regiment headquarters were halfway there, they watched the news from the third battalion in Huangzhou Town that the devils temporarily recruited six wooden boats, and each wooden boat transported [-] catties of grain, which was another [-] catties. In addition to the grain carried by the gunboat, the devil's grain transport team that was about to drive from the wharf of Huangzhou Town to Anyi County carried a total of [-] catties of freshly threshed grain.

And this is just Huangzhou Town as a grain distribution point. After the early rice was harvested and the threshing ground was delivered two days ago, the amount of grain delivered to Anyi County on the first day. In the next ten days, the harvest came. The early rice will be continuously transported to Anyi County, and then Anyi County will uniformly transport the grain to Yongxiu County and Nanchang City.

For the devils in Yongxiu County, although the Meiling section of the Nanxun Railway was damaged, other parts were intact, so the food was usually shipped from Nanchang Railway Station, but now it has been delivered from Yongxiu County.

For this reason, Shigetaro Amakasu, the division head of the 33rd Division, temporarily mobilized two squadrons to Yongxiu County in the past two days, and together with half of the brigade originally stationed in Yongxiu County, formed a temporary complete brigade dedicated to defending the county.

Of course, Yongxiu County only undertook part of the task of transporting grain. In order to ensure the safety of transporting grain, the devils also built a water transportation line on the Ganjiang River, which was transported from Nanchang City by surface ships, a two-pronged approach.

After more than two hours of fast marching, the second battalion and regiment headquarters filed out from a desolate wild road in the northwest of Meiling.

The team was mighty, walking in the wilderness, and they all avoided the bunkers along the way in advance.

Half an hour later, the team resisted the opposite bank of the river in Zhoushang Village. The green reeds on the river dam were rippling, and the newly built blockhouse in Zhoushang Village could be seen with binoculars.

Li Chong patted Jian Yongjiang's shoulder, "Old Jian, it's up to you how much food you can get back from Zhoushang Village. Let's cross the river."

Jian Yongjiang nodded, and the officers and soldiers of the Second Battalion quickly pulled out rough wooden boats from the reeds. These wooden boats were built by the officers and soldiers with trees in Meiling.

It is said that it is a wooden boat, but it is actually made up of several boards and cannot be used to carry heavy grain. These wooden boats are used to build temporary floating bridges.

A thick bamboo was inserted into the mud at the bottom of the river, and the wooden boat was tied to the bamboo pole. The wooden boat was covered with planks to form a pontoon bridge, and the officers and soldiers of the second battalion crossed the river like this.

(End of this chapter)