I am an artillery soldier

Chapter 181 Success in the Summer Anti-Siege Campaign

"Genzi, you are still good, but you have too little combat experience." Wei Dayong pulled Liu Gen up and said with a smile.

Liu Gen nodded, "We will fight more from now on, but your fist is too hard, and it hurts a little bit to fight with you."

Looking at his fist, Liu Gen could see that the skin was broken. If he continued to fight Wei Dayong, he might hurt his bones.Who made Wei Dayong's fist so hard?Liu Gen didn't understand why Wei Dayong's fist was so hard.

"That's because you practice less, look at my fist." Seeing the injury on Liu Gen's fist, Wei Dayong said with a smile.

Wei Dayong stretched out his fist to let Liu Gen take a good look. Liu Gen's eyes fell on his fist, and he could see the obvious calluses on Wei Dayong's hands.And compared with Liu Gen, Wei Dayong's fingers are obviously much thicker, and his hands look very powerful.

"No wonder, the training of the soldiers of the first battalion will be entrusted to you. Be stricter, as long as the soldiers have no physical problems." Liu Gen nodded and said.

Looking at the soldiers of the first battalion, Liu Gen asked the soldiers to continue training, and Wei Dayong started training the soldiers directly without Liu Gen's words.Liu Gen, the new battalion commander, was not idle either. He trained with the soldiers. Wei Dayong had real skills, so he naturally wanted to learn something from Wei Dayong.

With Wei Dayong's teaching, the soldiers of the first battalion worked harder in training. Having seen Wei Dayong's strength, the soldiers naturally wanted to become as strong as Wei Dayong.Not to mention, the soldiers could see that Liu Gen, the new battalion commander, was also training with them, so they naturally didn't dare to relax in the slightest.

During the training, Wei Dayong was quite strict. If the soldiers did not perform well in the training, he would first point out the deficiencies of the soldiers.If the soldiers commit crimes again and again, Wei Dayong will not be polite, he will directly compete with the soldiers, even if he can't beat him, what qualifications do the soldiers not have to train seriously?
Even Liu Gen has been trained by Wei Dayong, but Liu Gen has a strong learning ability. Whenever Wei Dayong points out his shortcomings, he can quickly correct them.It has to be said that it was a very wise choice for Liu Gen to invite Wei Dayong to be an instructor in the First Battalion.

With Wei Dayong's teaching, the soldiers of the first battalion have undergone obvious changes in just two or three days.Coupled with the formation exercises that Liu Gen required the soldiers to do every day, the discipline of the soldiers has been significantly improved.

But when Zhao Gang came to the first battalion to be an instructor, the soldiers of the first battalion did not have any objection. The soldiers still had a good impression of Zhao Gang, the political commissar.When Zhao Gang came to the Independence Regiment, he treated the soldiers very gently. Whenever the soldiers had any problems, Zhao Gang, the political commissar, would solve them patiently.

It is precisely because of this that Zhao Gang was able to successfully integrate into the independent regiment not long after he joined the independent regiment, and was loved by the soldiers.Especially after Zhao Gang showed his marksmanship, the soldiers of the first battalion were more satisfied. When they listened to Zhao Gang, the marksmanship instructor, they were very serious.

Two days after Zhao Gang came to the first battalion to teach marksmanship, Liu Gen selected some qualified puppet troops to join the first battalion, and the puppet troops selected by Liu Gen were not bad.After Zhao Gang's ideological education, he was deeply aware of his mistakes and chose to join the independent group to fight devils.

Some of the puppet troops who had just joined the first battalion were unable to integrate in. In Liugen, the puppet troops were divided into each squad, and the soldiers in each squad were required to unite. The results of each squad would be recorded every day, and given After corresponding rewards and punishments, this situation has been improved to a certain extent.

A week later, the puppet troops newly joined the first battalion successfully integrated into the first battalion and truly became a part of the first battalion.Of course, this is also because the soldiers are all in the same situation. They all came from poor families, share a common language, and can talk together.

What's more, with the reward and punishment system proposed by Liu Gen, every squad in the first battalion worked hard and conscientiously, and there were no fighters who were lagging behind in every squad.This also means that the new puppet troops who joined the first battalion will get help from the soldiers in the squad, and the exchanges between each other will increase, so they will naturally be able to better integrate into the first battalion.

Half a month later, the devil's summer encirclement and suppression campaign was declared a failure, and the various small devil troops that had encircled and suppressed the Eighth Route Army's base area withdrew from the base area and returned to their respective strongholds.In the past month, all units of the 129th Division have fought hundreds of battles with the devils, especially the 386 brigade, under the command of the brigade commander, effectively killed and wounded the devils' vital forces.

The battle between the units of the Eighth Route Army and the devils made it difficult for the devils to advance in the base area. Various combat methods such as guerrilla warfare, sparrow warfare, and mine warfare made the devils hard to defend against.Every little devil was annoyed by the harassment of the Eighth Route Army troops, and finally could only declare the failure of this encirclement and suppression.

It is said that the success of the Eighth Route Army's anti-encirclement and suppression campaign in summer made Shinozuka Yoshio, the commander of the North China First Army stationed in Shanxi, very angry, and many vases in his room were broken.After Yoshio Shinozuka took office, he organized several times to encircle and suppress the various bases of the Eighth Route Army, but each time they were resolved by the Eighth Route Army and brought a lot of losses to the little devil.

The success of the Eighth Route Army's anti-encirclement campaign this time made the militant Yoshio Shinozuka extremely disappointed. At the same time, he paid more and more attention to the continuous growth of the Eighth Route Army base in the rear.

In July, the devil's forces shrunk, but in order to curb the development of the Eighth Route Army's base areas, the Japanese army vigorously implemented the cage policy of "using railways as pillars, roads as chains, and bunkers as locks".Japan has built solid strongholds in towns, stations, bridges, and tunnels along the railways, each guarded by tens to hundreds of troops, and sent armored trains to patrol.

Among them, the Zhengtai Railway played an important role in the devil's "cage policy". The Japanese army used it to isolate the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the Taihang Mountain base where the 129th Division was active, and the Jinchaji border area, and relied on the Zhengtai Railway to attack the anti-Japanese base.

On the front line, the national army's defeat in the Battle of Zaoyi allowed the Japanese army to occupy Yichang and directly threatened Chongqing.In order to shake the will of the national government.Since May 5, the Japanese air force has further escalated its strategic bombing of the rear area.The Japanese army strengthened the economic blockade against China, military offensive and political inducement to surrender, which made the war of resistance more difficult. Not to mention the vacillation of some people within the Kuomintang, the crisis of compromise and surrender was unprecedentedly serious.

On July 1940, 7, the Independent Regiment received a telegram from the Division Headquarters, which was the "Battle Preparation Order" issued by the Eighth Route Army Headquarters. The Eighth Route Army Headquarters decided to implement the plan to attack the Zhengtai Railway that was brewing and take the initiative to attack the devil's traffic line. , gave a powerful blow to the North China Front Army, supported the battle on the frontal battlefield, smashed the Japanese army's intentions, and made the national anti-Japanese situation better!
"Haha, I knew there was going to be a big move at the headquarters. It seems that my prediction was very accurate!" Li Yunlong, the independent regiment and regiment headquarters, looked excited when he saw the telegram sent by the division headquarters.

"Yes, this time our 129th Division dispatched at least 8 regiments, the 120th Division dispatched 4 to 6 regiments, and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region dispatched 10 regiments, plus most of the artillery regiment at the headquarters, engineers, and counties in various regions. With the cooperation of the militiamen in the brigade and the small team, this time it must be enough for the devil to drink a pot!" Zhao Gang also said a little excitedly.

Kong Jie didn't say anything, but his eyes were fixed on the military map, and he was probably already thinking about how to kill the devil!
(End of this chapter)