Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 1092

On August 21, the military meeting at the level of group army commander and corps commander held in Linfen by the Second War Zone ended.

The commanders and army commanders began to return to their respective ministries.

Li Jiayu, then commander of the 47th Army of the 22nd Army, issued a combat mobilization order to his two units before setting off from Linfen.

One is the 104th Division, and the other is none other than the Si Xing Regiment!

“The theater military order has been issued, all ministries are ready, and troops will be dispatched soon!” Commander Li's telegram to the 104th Division and the Sixth Regiment contained exactly the same content.

Although Tang Dao has not yet been notified of the specific meeting, this telegram has already shown that the Four Lines Regiment is determined not to escape from this tactical counterattack to help the Jiangxia Battle that is in full swing.

　　After receiving the news that troops were about to be dispatched, the various units of the Fourth Army Regiment trained even more crazily. Everyone knew that there was not much time left for them to continue to familiarize themselves with the equipment, practice marksmanship, and artillery skills.

And the four departments of the Regiment Headquarters, Staff Headquarters, Munitions Department, Baggage Company, Engineer Company, Medical Company, and Communications Company were also so busy that they couldn't even touch the ground.

The staff department formulates various combat plans. The munitions department and the baggage company need to reserve various combat supplies. Special companies such as the engineer company, medical company, and communication company work overtime to prepare the supplies needed by their three companies during the war.

Bai Sheng, for example, stays at the arsenal almost every day. His purpose is to hope that the machine tools and steel-making furnaces in the arsenal can help his engineering company process steel plates with two specifications of 10 mm and 20 mm thick. Those things are used to build heavy firepower fortifications. necessity.

According to Tang Tuanzuo's requirements for the protection of firepower points of heavy machine guns and machine guns, if a bunker can be built, the top must be protected by 10 mm steel plates and logs and a layer of soil of more than half a meter, and the front needs to be protected by 20 mm Steel plate with three layers of sandbags.

This level of protection can withstand frontal bombardment from a 70mm infantry gun at a distance of 800 meters and shelling from a 75mm mountain gun.

If there is no time or conditions to build a bunker, the machine gun and heavy machine gun fortifications must also be made of 20 mm steel plates and sandbags to a height of 1.2 meters. This can not only withstand infantry artillery bombardment from the front, but also effectively reduce the impact of mountain artillery bombardment on heavy firepower points. The damage will come unless it is accurately hit by the mountain cannon.

Now Bai Sheng's engineer company has expanded to 410 people, and the five engineer platoons under his jurisdiction each have 80 people, which is almost equivalent to half of the original engineer company.

It just so happens that each of the four infantry battalions is assigned an engineer platoon, and the professional work is left to professionals. The remaining engineer platoon will follow the regiment headquarters to support the various ministries at any time.

Logs, sandbags and other materials can be obtained locally at any time, but special materials such as steel plates must be prepared and carried by the engineers themselves.

In addition to these special materials needed to build strong fortifications, the most common weapon carried by an engineering company is probably landmines.

A large number of anti-infantry mines. The principle of this thing is very simple, but it is not easy to manufacture, especially it cannot be easily detected by Japanese metal detectors.

So far, the scientific research team led by Mr. Xiao He has not been able to mass-produce the kind of miniature anti-infantry mines requested by Tang Tuanzuo.

That is the design of Tang Dao Anti-Future Type 72 anti-infantry jumping mine. It has a diameter of 79 mm, a height of 35 mm, and a total combat weight of only 125 grams. The jumping mine uses an integral fuze. The plastic mine shell greatly reduces the detection rate of the mine detector. , the design of the wrapped anti-personnel steel column allows it to kill an astonishing 650 fragments. After the mine is detonated, it will have no blind spots within the 14-meter killing radius.

The more terrifying thing about this kind of landmine is that it does not contain much explosives, so the fragmentation kinetic energy is not so great. Even after many soldiers accidentally stepped on the landmine, most of them were only injured but not killed.

This is the real purpose of this kind of anti-infantry jumping mine. On the battlefield, you can ignore the dead soldiers, but what about the living ones? Even the Japanese army, which is known for its cruelty, will not ignore it, and a wounded soldier often requires the assistance of 2 to 4 soldiers to withdraw from the battlefield. This greatly limits the enemy's troop input. Once there are many wounded soldiers, the combat effectiveness of this unit will be reduced. Sharp decline.

Unfortunately, the plastic shell required for this kind of anti-infantry jumping mine is too difficult for this era, so it can only be replaced with an iron shell. Due to technology limitations, there are not so many steel **** wrapped in it. The highest fragmentation rate in the test was only more than 400. , due to the insufficient power of the explosive, the killing radius was also reduced to 8 meters, but it was still very rare.

Since Tang Tuanzuo left after the Battle of Southeast Shanxi, it was developed and finalized as the Min-27 anti-infantry mine. It was loved by several chief officers of the Sixing Regiment and the arsenal was asked to work overtime to produce this kind of mine.

It's a pity that the arsenal has too much equipment to rush into production. Only 1,500 of this kind of mines have been produced so far, 600 of which have already been reserved by the reconnaissance company.

The reconnaissance company is the most important eyes and ears in the four-line team battle. All equipment is attached to them first, such as the newly produced 'Black Star' pistol. Even the chief officers such as Tang Dao and Lei Xiong have not yet equipped it. The reconnaissance company They already had a handful of them, and when they said they wanted so many, the other battalion-level officers could only stare.

However, Bai Sheng's reasons are very good. The job of laying mines has always been done by the engineering company. Therefore, 600 of the remaining 900 mines of this new type of mines went to them, and they also added Tang Dao from Lou Dehuak. 1,000 SMI-35 mines found in the Lupp warehouse.

This kind of landmine is not well-known at present, but it will be famous in the future World War II, nicknamed "Bounce Betty".

During combat, this anti-infantry mine, which was equipped with the German Empire Army in 1935, will ricochet to waist height before exploding, shooting the steel column horizontally at lethal speeds.

Really, when Tang Dao found this thing in the arms warehouse, all that flashed in his mind was the wretchedness in the blue eyes of the Germanic people who were looking at the serious face, and this one was just playing "crotch picking" The tactical design is not anti-infantry at all, but really anti-human!

If more of these landmines are laid, will the fertility rate of Japanese people be several percentage points lower than it will be in the future?

The pressure threshold of 7 kilograms and the design with built-in trip wire are enough to ensure that the mine will not be detonated by wild animals or natural impacts. The terrifying killing distance within 20 meters to 100 meters is simply designed to kill infantry.

The five-legged disability often caused by 'Bounce Betty' left a psychological shadow on Allied soldiers, led by American cowboys, until many years after the war.

Because, the success of 'Bounce Betty' has attracted countless imitators, including the Chinese military industry.

Insidious damage has almost become a must-have feature for future anti-infantry mines!

Anyway, Tang Tuanzuo was complaining about the insidiousness of the German Empire's military industry experts in front of Lou Dehua, and he was shouting that these landmines have been rounded up.

What a pity, only these 1,000 pieces!

However, this has basically allowed the small 2,000 Japanese infantry to successfully become eunuchs.

In this era before antibiotics, the principle followed by Western medicine is to cut off the rotten parts of the body. Except for the head, nothing should be cut off.

Speaking of antibiotics, the Japanese don't have them, but Si Xing Tuan does now.

Another extremely important scientific research team of Si Xing Tuan, under the guidance of Tang Dao's clear enough theory, successfully extracted penicillin and successfully tested it, and also carried out small-scale mass production.

Within 4 months, a total of more than 8,000 people's supply of penicillin was produced.

This has also become the greatest confidence for the health company led by Tantai Mingyue. It means that the health company no longer has to fight in vain against bacterial infections, nor does it have to helplessly and sadly watch the wounded die in the hospital bed due to bacterial infections.

According to statistics from the Sanitary Company, more than 40% of the deaths of seriously injured personnel were due to bacterial infection. For the Four Lines Regiment, which fought continuously, that is hundreds of officers and soldiers. They originally had a chance to return. On the battlefield, bacteria interrupted their young dreams.

And this time when Tang Dao returned from Jincheng, he not only brought back various weapons and equipment, but also a large amount of drugs such as anesthesia, coagulation, etc., and various medical supplies filled five carriages, not to mention enough for the Four Lines Group One regiment is used, and an infantry division is probably enough.

Tang Dao even brought back five blond doctors and more than twenty Chinese female nurses, whom Tang Dao entrusted Laura to recruit at a high salary from the largest Western medicine hospital controlled by the Rockefeller consortium in Pingbei City.

The original conditions offered by Tang Dao were an annual salary of US$5,000 for each doctor and US$1,000 for each nurse. But what was unexpected was that when they heard that they were going to serve the Chinese army, the Chinese nurses took the initiative to lower their salaries to US$100. Not to mention, five doctors from the United States also asked for a significant salary cut.

In their words, they are willing to do whatever they can for the Chinese people who are fighting against the invaders.

Later, on the way back, Tang Dao talked with them carefully and found out that these Western doctors originally came to China for the generous salary, but after arriving in China, especially after the July 7th Incident, they witnessed with their own eyes the tragedies caused by the Japanese army in the city. My impression of the Japanese is extremely bad. Being able to help the currently weak China fight against brutal invaders is a reflection of Western culture that advocates freedom.

This should also be regarded as an ideal and belief!

Tang Dao did not fully agree with the request of these American doctors. Not everyone is a saint, and the material conditions in the vast mountains are inherently lacking. It is difficult to sustain long-term by faith alone.

Under Tang Dao's insistence, the personal salary of American doctors is still as high as 2,000 US dollars, and the salary of nurses has been reduced to 300 US dollars, which translates into annual salaries of 8,000 and 1,200 oceans respectively, which are lower than those of many senior officers of the Four Lines Regiment. Military pay must be high.

At this time, in addition to the necessary guard platoon, the medical company had 16 doctors, 150 nurses capable of simple trauma treatment, an additional 300 stretcher teams, and 50 medical tents with 8 beds.

That means that more than 10 surgical operations can be performed at the same time, and it has the ability to treat more than 400 seriously injured patients and 1,000 lightly injured patients.

The newly added 300 stretcher teams are all selected from the recruit companies. Each stretcher has 4 people per set and can transport the wounded to the health company on the battlefield at a rate of 75 people per round.

At the same time, in order to prevent the health company from being sneak-attacked by a small Japanese outflanking force, Tang Dao, except for the reinforced guard platoon, equipped all medical staff with Black Star pistols, and the 300-person stretcher team was also equipped with rifles and machine guns according to the infantry platoon model.

It may not be used as a frontline field force, but if it is attacked, even an infantry squadron level, with a fully armed elite guard platoon leading 300 recruits, can resist for at least an hour.

Generally speaking, the security company and special agent battalion following the regiment headquarters are nearby and can be reached in less than five minutes. Unless it is the main force of the Japanese army, it would be a fool not to kill him immediately under the attack from the front and rear.

As the commander of the health company, Tantai Mingyue and her fiancée who had returned for nearly ten days only had two meals together. The two of them, who were stationed only 500 meters apart, did not see each other much.

As for other things, I know everything about it, and I haven't even thought about it. Maybe a straight man with strong hormone secretion has some ideas before falling asleep, but he doesn't have an egg, so he has a ball?

The communications company led by Yang Xiaoshan is also full of strength this time. Although its establishment is only 98 people, the communications company is responsible for ensuring smooth communications between the regiment headquarters and the units directly under the regiment headquarters.

Especially for the most important companies and platoons of the artillery battalion, no matter how far apart they are, telephone lines and telephones must be adequately guaranteed. Only in this way can the artillery group be able to fully concentrate its fire.

Tang Tuanzuo has already said at the mobilization meeting of officers at the battalion, company and platoon level that whether this attack can defeat the Japanese army depends primarily on whether the officers and soldiers of the four infantry battalions can continue to display the heroic and fearless determination of "I am invincible". The second is whether each company of the artillery battalion can continuously and effectively deliver artillery shells to the Japanese positions accurately.

There are 3 companies in the artillery battalion. The mountain artillery company has replaced 12 75mm Bofors mountain guns, both in range and accuracy, which are far superior to the previously equipped Type 41 mountain guns; the heavy mortar company has replaced 12 German 150mm cannons. The heavy caliber, accuracy and power also surpass the previously equipped 6 Liao-made 16-year-old 150 heavy guns; the air defense company replaced the 24 20mm Surotong machine guns and 24 Browning 12.7mm heavy guns. The machine gun's defense capability against medium and low altitudes has almost doubled compared to before.

Artillery equipment has been qualitatively improved, but communication plays a vital factor in how to maximize its potential.

Today's communications company has four German-made Siemens 100-watt radio stations. According to needs, two are left at the regiment headquarters for backup. One is given to the artillery battalion and the other to the cavalry battalion; there are six 15-watt radio stations and four parts are given to the regiment headquarters. Four infantry battalions were allocated, one to the special agent battalion and one to the supply battalion; 20 5-watt radio stations, 12 infantry companies belonging to the four infantry battalions, and four machine gun companies were all assigned to one. Division 4 was given to the reconnaissance company as needed.

In addition to these German-made radio stations, the Fourth Army Regiment also had some radio stations captured from the Japanese army, which were also distributed to other companies directly under the battalion as needed, basically ensuring that each company-level unit had one radio station.

The characteristic of wireless communication is that it can contact regiment and battalion headquarters regardless of topography, but it also has major shortcomings. One is that places with special terrain cannot receive signals, making communication difficult to connect. The other is that the radio station requires electricity. Field radios use batteries, but high-power radios require generators.

Therefore, the radio station cannot guarantee smooth power on at any time. Communication at this time requires wired communication. According to Tang Tuanzuo's requirements, the communication company must ensure smooth wired communication from the regiment to the battalion and from the battalion to the company.

If the battle is fierce and the wires are blown down, then manual communication must be used, using two legs to keep the information flowing between the regiment and each battalion.

The communications company led by Yang Xiaoshan is not only a technical unit, it needs to lay tens of thousands of meters of telephone lines before the war and clear obstacles at any time. It also needs to act as a death squad. It not only has to run several kilometers in one breath on two legs, but also needs to The superiors' decisions are communicated to the battalion-level units, and they may have to risk their lives to cross the line of fire.

Yang Xiaoshan, who went from being a top soldier in the frontline troops to a second lieutenant platoon leader and finally being transferred to the communications company commander, obviously had a plan in advance. From the day it was established, the officers and soldiers of the communications company did the most in addition to learning the knowledge and theory of communications technology every day. Yes, it is a 3-kilometer cross-country training in full gear.

Maybe not like the front-line troops who carry heavy rifles and carry various supplies with a load of 25 kilograms, but the signal soldiers, who have no shortage of helmets, pistols, rifles, water bottles, and military rations, also carry a load of more than 15 kilograms.

The passing mark for signal corpsmen is 20 seconds faster than that of front-line infantrymen. This was something Yang Xiaoshan took for granted in the eyes of the infantrymen.

After all, speed and endurance are what front-line infantry rely on. If they fail to arrive on the battlefield on time, they will lose their heads.

It's not the commander who wants their heads, but the enemy!

Sometimes, it only takes a few dozen seconds to seize the commanding heights. Once you lose the commanding heights, you often don't know how many lives it will take to regain it.

In other words, that is the specialty of the infantry. Although the signal soldiers carry a slightly lighter load, they still have to surpass them in terms of speed and endurance. The infantry is absolutely unbelievable.

But the results displayed by Yang Xiaoshan and his communications company in this large-scale military training stunned all the infantrymen.

　　Everyone of the fully armed signal soldiers with a 15-pound load passed the passing mark!

"Did you see that the little guys in the communications company are better than you idiots? Let me run, five kilometers of mountainous terrain, 50 rounds of live ammunition! Those who can't hit the 350-meter target at the 150-meter target will only have cabbage and rice at night! "Looking at the training results of the Signal Company sent by the regiment headquarters, Fan Mobei, the deputy commander of the 3rd Company of the 4th Battalion, had a dark face and a red face, and roared so loudly that the mountains reverberated.

The soldiers of the 3rd company almost cried! Their deputy company commander is absolutely crazy. He just took everyone on a five-kilometer run in the morning and fired 50 rounds of live ammunition. Before he could calm down, he came again!

And if you shoot up to 50 rounds of live ammunition after running sorely, who can guarantee the accuracy of an average of 7 rings per round at 150 meters? You let those awesome scouts try it?

In the past, Chinese cabbage and rice would definitely make everyone cheer loudly, but now, in order to ensure the nutrition of all officers and soldiers during the military training, the meat meal per person per day has been increased to 5 taels, and an egg has been added. It is said that the Military Supplies Department has They bought up all the eggs in the entire mountain town and even called on some military personnel who settled in Dakouzi Cave to raise chickens in order to have enough eggs to provide nutrition for everyone in the future.

Hey guys, all the eggs are sold out, what about the eggs and chickens?

As a result, some "faint officials" did not give meat and eggs to eat but only cabbage. How could the soldiers who were about to cry endure it? Don't run hard with your eyes red, so that you have enough time to recover your physical fitness and ensure your hit rate.

The scouts who were secretly complained by the soldiers of the 3rd Company of the 4th Battalion as 'awesome and coaxing' were two companies who met on a narrow road during a five-kilometer mountain cross-country trip. Fan Mobei looked at the soldiers of the Scout Company and looked at him with a smile. Bing looked very unhappy with the children's expressions and suggested that the two sides compete on the spot.

It's nothing compared to anything else, it's better than a five-kilometer cross-country trip in full gear.

The result is obvious. The soldiers of the reconnaissance company selected from the entire Fourth Line Regiment won the victory in a crushing manner. Even the veterans of the original 542 Regiment were more than ten seconds behind the last-ranked privates, leaving the newly established 3rd Company Fully aware of the gap between myself and the elite.

Of course, the private at the bottom of the reconnaissance company is not a human, but a pig!

A big wild boar named 'Guaiguai'!

The reason why that guy was ranked at the end of the entire reconnaissance company was not because it ran slowly, nor was it because the big wild boar was carrying two MG34 machine guns and a box of bullets, carrying a weight of 60 kilograms.

But that guy was a glutton. He would run for a while when he was given something to eat. If he wasn't given anything, he would fall behind and grind away. Only when he saw his companion running far away would he chase after him with four pig legs.

In this regard, I also dumped three consecutive veterans for ten seconds, and I would make Fan Mobei hurt for a while!

Anyway, no matter what, the news of the upcoming expedition stimulated the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Army Regiment to train more and more enthusiastically!

The concept of "sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in war" does not need to be explained by Tang Dao. Most of these soldiers who have experienced the battlefield understand it!

Chapter end

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