Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 1085

Chapter 1085 Welcome home!

"The Ministry of Military Affairs requires the Second Theater to take the initiative to attract the main force of the Japanese North China Front Army and prevent the Japanese North China Front Army from massive reinforcements on the Central China battlefield?" Tang Dao asked Gu Xishuidao.

"Yes, Deputy Lei Tuan and Director Ye asked me to convey this to you before I come to pick you up, sir. The Second Theater Command has summoned all group army commanders to hold a military meeting. The deputy commander-in-chief of the 80th Group Army Already leaving for LY," Gu Xishui replied.

"It seems that this battle will be fought in advance." Tang Dao looked at the mountains in the distance and sighed slightly.

For the battle he originally planned, it would be best to wait until the equipment such as MG42 machine guns, anti-tank rifles, and German-made 40mm anti-aircraft guns arrived in the army. This ensures nothing goes wrong.

But not everything in the world is subject to his will. The famous Battle of Jiangxia has already begun. China has invested 1.1 million troops in the four provinces of Anhui, Henan, Jiangxi, and Hubei, while the Japanese Central China Expeditionary Force has invested 14 divisions. There are 120 ships of various types, 300 aircraft of various types, and 9 divisions with 250,000 troops directly participating in the war.

In November 1937, although the Chinese government moved westward to the mountain city in name, the government agencies and military headquarters were actually in Jiangxia. Jiangxia was actually the military, political, and economic center of the country at that time. There was no room for failure in this battle.

Of course, it is not invincible. Since the preparations for the Jiangxia Battle, the military command has decided on a strategy of exchanging space for time, using terrain and fortifications, and primary and secondary resistance to consume the Japanese army and kill a large number of Japanese troops.

In fact, it was successful. This large-scale battle that took place in the past time and space lasted four and a half months. It was the longest, largest, and longest-lasting battle since the Anti-Japanese War. A total of 40,000 Japanese soldiers were killed and injured, which greatly consumed the Japanese army's effective strength. , became a turning point in China's Patriotic War from strategic defense to strategic stalemate.

The current situation on the battlefield in China is that the North China Front Army of the Japanese Army, divided into two groups, is blocked at the last line of defense in Shanxi Province, while the Central China Expeditionary Army is advancing vigorously to several provinces in central China.

The idea of the Chinese military command is to use the terrain advantages in Jiangxia to consume a large number of Japanese troops, while the strategy of the Japanese base camp is to wipe out China's backbone resistance force, the 1.1 million army, in one fell swoop! If it could be eaten all in one bite, it might be difficult for China to effectively organize such a large-scale army to form a resistance. This big fat piece of China could almost be put into the pot.

Who would have thought that the stubborn track of history has changed slightly.

In the Battle of Xuzhou a few months ago, even though the Japanese army finally occupied Xuzhou, in terms of actual casualties, the two sides were only tied. In addition, in the recent victory in the Battle of Southeast Shanxi, even a Japanese major general was killed, and the Chinese side The morale of the army was boosted.

In just the first month of the war, the Japanese Central China Expeditionary Force felt that it had hit an iron plate.

They have not yet entered the general offensive, and are still fighting on the outside. The Chinese army, which no longer sticks to the gains and losses of one city and one place, does not fight head-on with the Japanese, but fights flexibly and flexibly. In one month, the Japanese army lost more than 10,000 people, and the army troops invested Although there were 250,000 men in nine divisions, they still felt that they were not strong enough and had to ask for help from the base camp.

In the end, the Japanese base camp could only ask the newly defeated Japanese North China Front to send the two main divisions, the 14th Division and the 18th Division, to go south to support the Jiangxia operation.

But this is also not an easy task. The total strength of these two divisions is more than 50,000. If the Japanese army occupied Zhengcheng, it would be okay. Relying on the Pinghan-Han Railway, it would be nothing more than running a few more special trains to transport them there.

Regrettably, not only is Zhengcheng still in the hands of China's First War Zone, the Yellow River Iron Bridge has also been bombed, and the section from Zhengcheng to Xinyang is closely guarded by a Chinese group army to prevent the Japanese troops in North China from reinforcing the battlefield in Central China.

However, the intelligence received by China has shown that the two Japanese divisions have left their respective stations, indicating that they still want to go south to reinforce the Central China battlefield.

It was difficult for the 250,000 Japanese troops to attack, but what about tens of thousands or even 100,000 more?

As a last resort, the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs could only issue a secret order to the Second Theater Command, requiring them to launch a certain-scale counterattack against the Japanese army in North China no matter what, try to hold back the main force of the Japanese North China Front Army, and increase the number of Japanese troops in Jiangxia by two divisions. One more carry, but not two more.

"The telegram ordered deputy commander Lei, director night, and director Zhuang of the regiment headquarters. From today on, the four-line regiment will enter a state of combat readiness. Each battalion and company will prepare military rations and required ammunition for the 15th, and the vacancies in each department will be filled as soon as possible." Tang Dao gave the order to Gu Xishui.

“Yes!” Gu Xishui listened to the order solemnly.

The soldiers of the reconnaissance company next to the two looked at each other, excitement rising on their faces.

In the last battle in the southeast of Shanxi, Tang Dao only ordered each battalion and company to prepare field rations for 10 days, but this time he was required to prepare field rations for 15 days. That only meant one thing, the scale of this battle was definitely not small.

The bigger the battle, the more opportunities there are for making military exploits.

After the last battle in the southeast of Shanxi, although Tang Tuanzuo was away from the regiment due to important matters, the regiment headquarters still completed the work of conferring honors and awarding bonuses under the leadership of officers such as Lei Xiong and Ye Chenghuan.

A large number of award certificates and gold, silver, and bronze medals represent the glory of the soldiers, and the white flowers in the ocean prove the value of the soldiers' hard work.

Furthermore, for the first time, the Si Xing Regiment had a special merit in addition to the first class military merit. However, the officers and soldiers of the Si Xing Regiment were only envious but no one felt jealous.

In fact, Lao Abacus, like Yang Bicheng and Tudou, who used three people to stop a Japanese infantry squad and kill a Japanese lieutenant colonel and capture a Japanese major general, relied more on luck than strength. Otherwise, no matter how magnificent the medal is, it will only It can hang on the graves of the three of them.

Fortunately, the three lunatic soldiers survived. The deputy commander, chief of staff, and director of the political section of the Fourth Corps personally pinned the medals on their chests.

The three special merit medals are not only made of a large amount of pure gold, but are even inlaid with jade seized from the Japanese. It is said that the actual value of the three medals alone is more than 800 oceans. The special merit certificate is equally awesome. The Fourth Army Regiment Headquarters applied to the Temporary Headquarters of the Southeast Shanxi Campaign and asked the CEO of the 80th Group Army who served as the commander-in-chief to personally sign.

Although this is a medal issued within the Four Lines Regiment, with a certificate signed by a general commander, the meaning is completely different.

The two non-human guys who participated in that small but significant event also received a lot of treatment.

Needless to say, he has a hammer and no medals, but as an official soldier of a four-line regiment, his military rank has been raised one level and he has become a real sergeant.

The sergeant -level military dogs, the recruits who enlisted for more than three months saw that they had to shout the squad leader, and the veterans had to shout the hammer brother.

And the half-big wild boar 'Guaiguai', who had been seen as being ready to be made into bacon, now relied on his military exploits to follow his brother Hammer and infiltrated into the system and became an official soldier of the Four Lines Regiment.

What's even more awesome is that 'Guaiguai' loves to follow his brother Hammer. After Hammer comes back from his business trip, he follows Hammer every day and hangs out in the reconnaissance company. So, with a wave of his hand, the deputy of Lei Tuan assigned 'Guaiguai' to the reconnaissance company and became a scout.

Company Commander Hei and Deputy Company Commander Gu Xishui couldn't laugh or cry. You have to say, "Guaiguai" this wild boar was so ferocious that it bit several Japanese in that battle, so raising it was not a big deal.

But since this guy arrived at the reconnaissance company, he has almost lost all the people in the reconnaissance company. His daily life is to eat and sleep, and his military salary of less than 10 yuan can hardly support him.

It doesn't matter, at least one person in the reconnaissance company can feed it.

The word "fat" always feels like something is wrong, but the soldiers of the reconnaissance company definitely don't have any bad intentions.

But this guy actually likes to be self-reliant. Once he feels hungry, he will stick out his big head covered with rough hair and act cute everywhere. Whenever someone rubs his pig head, he must hold the other person's trouser leg in his mouth, not as big as a steamed bun. Pies and stuff, even Brother Hammer didn't buy it when he came.

The key point is that this guy also likes to go to the sanitation company, looking for the nurse lady in the sanitation company. It is said everywhere in the sanitation company that there is a rogue pig in the reconnaissance company who specializes in pulling the pants of female soldiers.

Gu Xishui had to go to the health company to explain to the nurses and asked them to stop licking their obedient pig heads. Otherwise, if their pants were pulled down, the reconnaissance company would not admit it.

This is why the love story between Gu Xishui and Yao Meier is a legend in the health company. If it were other company commanders, they might have been chased away by a group of female nurses in the health company.

How cute is 'good boy', why are you talking about it so badly? If you have the ability, if the tough guys of your reconnaissance company are injured during training, don't come to the sanitation and apply medicine. The two chief officers of the reconnaissance company were still worried about Guaguai. The 200 yuan bonus and subsidy given to Guaguai by the regiment headquarters was also paid.

This is definitely a golden pig! The officers and soldiers of the reconnaissance company instantly fell in love with this little pig who liked to 'harass' female nurses.

This matter has two sides, saying no, no one is allowed to apologize! Maybe if I go there more often, I can solve the lifelong problem of the singles in the reconnaissance company!

You must know that the regiment headquarters has strict regulations. Unless there is injury or official business, no one is allowed to go to the health company station at will. Anyone who violates this will be required to stand in a military position for 6 hours.

In front of the white ocean, the "delicious and lazy" little wild boar quickly became the favorite of the reconnaissance company.

Even the reconnaissance company actually gained a lot from this battle in southeastern Shanxi. A total of 2 people received first-class military merit, 5 people received second-class military service, and 18 people received third-class military service. The bonus for the entire company was nearly 50 yuan.

If placed in the entire Si Xing Regiment, the entire regiment can give out bonuses of more than 300,000 yuan, and the average bonus for an individual is close to 40 yuan, which is equivalent to 4 months of military pay for many new recruits.

Let's not talk about anything else, just in terms of bonuses, the Sixings Regiment deserves to be the first rich infantry regiment in the second theater.

But no one complained about the lack of military exploits and money. The upcoming war did not frighten this group of Chinese elites, but made them extremely excited.

The head of a Japanese soldier is synonymous with war achievements and banknotes.

Five days later, Tang Dao returned to the Sixings Regiment Headquarters with 276 officers and soldiers of the 542nd Regiment. Lei Xiong, Leng Feng, Li Jijin and others were already outside the gate with more than 50 former officers and soldiers of the 542nd Regiment who could come. meet.

It was quite lively to meet old comrades-in-arms.

One side has just escaped from the military camp where they were trapped for nine months, while the other side has been fighting **** battles on the battlefield for half a year. Only half of the hundreds of comrades who were forced to separate due to their own choices now remain, and more than a dozen are missing arms. leg.

“Shangguan, welcome home!” Lei Xiong took the lead and hugged his former comrade.

However, what followed was more than just exchanging military salutes. Many people held hands and laughed and cried.

Even a restrained soldier like Shangguan Yun shed tears as he touched the empty sleeve of a second lieutenant who had tears in his eyes but a smile on his face.

That man who used to be his correspondent was later urgently added to the infantry squad due to the war situation. Although he was transformed from a first class soldier to a second lieutenant in just over half a year, he lost an arm. What does this mean to the soldiers?

Qin Ruoyu cried loudly. The one infantry squad he didn't take away could still hug him, but there were only three of them. For the rest, even if no one told him the answer, he knew it very well.

Because, on the way to the headquarters of the Sixings Regiment, Shangguan Yun and the three company commanders had already asked Tang Dao to call over all the old brothers of the 542th Regiment who were not on combat missions so that they could meet each other.

A dozen disabled soldiers who had to retreat to the second line due to injuries are here. Those who can't come will never come.

The soldiers of the Four Lines Regiment stood around and watched them silently. No one advised them to restrain themselves. They just watched in silence until everyone had vented their grief to their heart's content.

“Salute to our returning comrades and brothers!” Ye Chenghuan roared.

The sentry, holding the trigger with his hand, holds the gun tightly against his straight chest. This is the military salute of soldiers performing military duties!

The remaining four ranks of the army, including Tang Dao who was standing at the front, all raised their right hands and performed a standard military salute.

"Salute to my fellow soldiers!" Shangguan Yun took the lead in standing straight, holding his head high, and saluted to his former signal corpsman and to the four regiments of troops who came to line up to welcome him.

Yes, as Ye Chenghuan said, what they joined this time was not a friendly army. This was the Si Xing Regiment, an honorary infantry regiment created by them with their lives and blood. This is their home.

Since then, the Sixings Regiment has welcomed another elite group that has fought hard battles. More than 270 iron-blooded veterans serve as the skeleton, enough to support a fully equipped infantry battalion.

After the brief welcome ceremony, Tang Dao, who had just returned, immediately held a company commander-level military meeting. In addition to announcing the plan to form a fourth infantry battalion, he also informed everyone that within the next week, all artillery battalions would be re-equipped. , the infantry battalion-level fire support company will also usher in new heavy firepower equipment.

20mm machine guns, 12.7mm heavy machine guns and dual-caliber artillery will become the heavy firepower to support battalion-level combat troops.

The 60mm mortar will completely replace the grenade launcher as fire support at the infantry platoon level. After the replacement, a large number of Japanese grenade launchers will be withdrawn from the front-line infantry squads. In principle, each infantry platoon will only retain Both are useful.

In addition, the additional 40 MG34 machine guns collected from the Krupp Company's warehouse will also become the heavy firepower configuration choice for the 12 infantry companies. Basically, there can be one for each infantry platoon, and the remaining 4 plus the original ones The two guns will basically be reserved for the reconnaissance company and the guard company.

There is also the problem of insufficient Czech semi-automatic rifles originally used by the infantry squad. This batch of German weapon division equipment shipped back has exactly 600 Czech semi-automatic rifles. Even if it is calculated, some part should be reserved for the 80th Army and the 17th Division, 300 rifles. It is also enough to add 2 shots to each infantry squad, and one MP28 submachine gun to each infantry squad.

The instantaneous output firepower intensity of a 15-man infantry squad is increased by 30% compared to before, and this does not even include the replacement of grenades with 60 mortars.

If we zoom in to the entire infantry battalion and add all the light and heavy firepower together, we are completely confident that we can withstand a Japanese infantry regiment.

After all, the infantry battalion-level heavy-fire direct-fire artillery planned by Tang Dao not only has 3 double-caliber artillery, but also a large number of 82mm mortars and 60-mm mortars, flat-fire cannons and 20mm machine guns, not counting the range of 1500 American Browning heavy machine guns, these alone are already equipped with 4 mountain cannons and 10 infantry cannons for the Japanese infantry regiment.

If the heavy firepower cannot form a complete advantage over the Japanese infantry regiment-level troops, then in terms of light firepower, a large number of semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns, as well as the addition of the German MG34 machine gun, can compete with the Japanese 38 and 9 Six light machine guns and 500-meter range grenade launchers were a total crushing force.

This short meeting definitely made the eyes of the soldiers present shine, and several officers of the 542nd Regiment headed by Shangguan Yun were dumbfounded.

Until then, they did not know that in 9 months, the Four Troops had grown into such a terrifying war machine.

If what Tang Dao said is true, I am afraid that its strength is no longer comparable to the 542nd Regiment of the past. It is not that there is no comparability at the same level, but comparable to the entire 88th Division.

This is because they did not know that the artillery battalion of the Fourth Line Regiment was about to be equipped with 12 Bofors 75 mountain guns, 12 150mm heavy mortars, 24 Sulotong 20mm machine guns, and 32 Browning 12.7mm machine guns. Down.

As for these heavy equipment, not to mention the 24 artillery pieces for ground attack, the former 88th Division of the Royal Forest Army could not even catch up. The air defense equipment that can be divided into eight combat groups to defend an airspace of more than ten square kilometers is something that many group armies do not possess.

It was precisely with this luxuriously equipped air defense company that Tang Dao truly gained the confidence to fight the Japanese army directly on the spot without relying on fortifications.

Of course, this is still an intermediate version in Tang Dao's mind. When Lou Dehua gets the German-made 40mm anti-aircraft gun that he always dreamed of owning, the Japanese small Type 96 fighter will dare to fly below 2000 meters. , the Fourth Army Air Defense Company will definitely make them deeply understand why the flowers are so red.

That's all dyed red!

“Damn it, sir, it's you, we're all convinced! Don't give up.” Li Jiujin, who was made to smile by the dazzling list of weapons dictated by Tang Dao, flattered him without restraint.

But soon, Lao Youzi will pay the price for his unscrupulousness.

That was a 'tragedy' caused by the appearance of a pig!

(End of this chapter)

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