Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 998

Chapter 998 Three Generals Arrive (Happy New Year's Eve!)

Tang Dao returned to the regiment headquarters and simply ate half of a hot steamed bun to fill his stomach.

Since the three generals would arrive in the evening, Tang Dao ordered the regimental cooking team to prepare a relatively rich meal. As a landlord, Tang Dao could not wait until they were full.

I went to the munitions office again and took a look. Zhuang Shisan had already made arrangements. The munitions office had prepared meals for a thousand people, including two taels of white wine per person, half a catty of meat, a portion of broth, rice and white flour buns. All are open to supply.

This is also the first time that a high-ranking officer at the general level has visited the Si Xing Regiment since it established a station. The Si Xing Regiment cannot lose its status.

What's more, there was a big purchase of Tang knives in Linfen. Who didn't know that Si Xing Tuan robbed the Japanese and made a fortune, but the result was still sweet potatoes and green vegetables. It can't be said that Si Xing Tuan was stingy!

Tang Dao can be stingy in other places, but he will never be stingy with the ammunition and food needed by the troops. He always supplies as much as he can. This is known to the other chief officers of the Four Elements Regiment, so Zhuang Shisan also goes to Fengsheng. Prepare.

Sure enough, Tang Dao was very satisfied.

It is estimated that Tantai Mingyue was a little dissatisfied with Tang Tuanzuo's image and insisted on forcing Tang Dao to wash his face and change into a clean military uniform.

Tang Dao's military uniform was dusty from climbing mountains, and there were a lot of grass clippings in his hair, as if he was afraid that others would not know that he had crawled into a grass nest.

Fortunately, a certain woman who accompanied him in the crime was careful and destroyed the evidence before the generals arrived.

But the careful Tantai Mingyue still underestimated the strength of a certain old Jianghu, and in the end he still could not escape being teased.

The first person to arrive was naturally Brigadier Cheng Da.

At first, he exchanged military salutes with several officers of the Four Lines Regiment who welcomed him out of the station in a very formal manner. When he walked side by side with Tang Dao alone, he twitched his nose and stared at Tang Dao, looking up and down, his eyes full of 'With bad intentions'.

"You kid, you must have done nothing good before!" Brigadier Cheng smiled in such a 'vulgar' manner that Tang Dao really wanted to punch him in the nose.

This time of the four-line regiment, this one has the most followers, an infantry-type guard company, plus a cavalry platoon, and a pack horse company with 200 pack horses.

Those who knew, knew that the major general-level brigade commander went to the headquarters for a meeting. Those who did not know, thought he was the commander of the baggage company.

Tang Dao deliberately didn't say that he got some arms and ammunition for them. If he did, Tang Dao doubted that he would send both main groups to move things.

Forget it, anyway, Tang Dao knows this person's personality well. He has the kind of sincerity. If he likes you, he will treat you as a brother. What's yours is mine, and what's mine is yours. If not, Xi Tang Dao, his ability to talk nonsense with you with a smile on his face is really not weak.

But when he came up, he sniffed and smelled, and said that he did not do any good things. What the **** is this? Is there any necessary connection between this?

“Don't pretend to be like me, your eldest brother, I've been here since I was young, I understand!” Brigadier Cheng Da saw Tang Dao pretending to be naive and curled his lips, looking like someone who had come before. "I'm just reminding you that your level is high enough. If you like this girl, you should get married as soon as possible, so as not to cause any trouble. I think Mr. Tantai is not a good person, so be careful. If he comes to your house in anger, your father will not be able to come to power."

Brother, what on earth do you smell? I even changed my clothes and washed my face. Tang Dao's mind was spinning, but his expression remained unchanged. He was very sure that this joke-loving elder brother was just talking nonsense to him. As the saying goes, a soldier never tires of deceit. This man was a good player, and Tang Dao would never fall into his trap easily.

"Hey, you think I'm deceiving you, don't you?" Brigadier Cheng saw that Tang Dao didn't answer, so he laughed and pointed at his nose. "I have a special power that you may not know. My sense of smell is far superior to that of ordinary people. I am especially sensitive to fragrance and the smell of blood. This is one of the reasons why I was always the first to sense danger in the White Zone. You There is a faint fragrance on your body, I'm afraid you haven't even smelled it!”

Damn it, Tang Dao was shocked by this person. This special function is really a bit too awesome. Because of his time travel, his sense of sight, smell, and other body organs are much sharper than ordinary people, but He couldn't smell any fragrance on his body, but this one actually smelled it?

However, Tang Dao had a calm temperament. Although he was shocked, his expression remained unchanged: "Tantai and I fall in love and have been engaged for a long time. It is human nature to get closer occasionally!"

Brigadier Cheng Da was just happy, "Hey, you are indeed a tough guy. You didn't show any emotion when I said that, and you pretended that nothing happened. Didn't you see that the ears of the girl Mingyue in front of me are all red?"

Let's go, Tang Dao realized in an instant, this person was really trying to trick him, any **** special powers were just deceiving people.

In the end, Tang Dao didn't reveal anything, but Tantai Mingyue over there had such a psychological quality, and was ridiculed by this "old Jianghu" to the point of blushing.

"You, the eldest brother, came to see me and Mingyue without any gifts, and you even made fun of your younger siblings." Tang Dao's expression remained unchanged, but he launched a sharp counterattack. "Then don't blame me for being a ruthless younger brother. The eight heavy machine guns originally budgeted for the 683 Brigade are gone."

The sound of Tang Dao was not loud, but it was enough for people more than ten meters around to hear it clearly.

“Ahem!” An army lieutenant colonel from the 683rd Brigade who was accompanied by Ye Chenghuan in front almost coughed out his lungs.

This person has a low military rank, but he is the munitions director of the 683rd Brigade. Before he came, a certain brigade commander had promised him that heavy machine guns, mortars, and even mountain cannons would not be a problem when he came to the Fourth Army this time. It's possible.

Okay! The brigade commander was just kidding, all 8 heavy machine guns were gone. Wouldn't he, the munitions director, be sprayed to death by those regiment commanders when he went back? Especially when I think of Wang Xiaoqiang of the 772nd Regiment, who always only holds grudges but not good intentions, the lieutenant colonel of the army wants to say to his brigade commander: "Commander, please surrender quickly! Heavy machine guns are important."

"Ouch! Brother Tang, sister Mingyue, it's my eldest brother. I was wrong. Every time my teacher criticized me, he said I deserved a beating because I deserved a beating!" Needless to say, Cheng, who has a cheerful nature, said The brigade commander immediately made a 360-degree turn, lowered his eyebrows and actively admitted his mistake.

"Pfft!" Tantai Mingyue couldn't help being amused when she saw that Brigadier Cheng Da had no commanding demeanor and was as soft as he could say.

The previous shyness has disappeared a lot.

As for the other chief officers of the Four Elements Regiment, they looked at each other with secret shock in their hearts.

Brigadier Cheng Da was like a cheerful and joking elder brother at this time, even somewhat similar to the slippery Li Jijin, but no one dared to underestimate this general who was highly valued by both parties.

That year he was accidentally arrested, but more than a dozen generals signed a letter to save his life. Even the principal went to prison to interview him in person. It is said that he even offered the conditions of Jinling City Defense Commander, but this man did not It was rejected.

What's even more awesome is that after a while, this person walked out of the heavily guarded prison. If there was nothing fishy here, no normal person would believe it.

Moreover, not only did he have a wide network of contacts, but his achievements also lived up to his reputation. On many occasions during the great movement of thousands of miles, he personally led the officer corps to fight a **** path for the army. Half a year after coming to the Taihang Mountains, the Japanese were beaten several times by him, and he even issued a slogan for this: If they want to attack, they will attack the 683rd Brigade.

He is such a person, but he doesn't have any airs to get along with Tang Dao, and he doesn't even shy away in front of the two subordinates. Tang Tuanzuo must have such a strong personality to be like this!

Of course, the more critical thing is the relationship between the two armies. Several officers headed by Lei Xiong have already seen that sooner or later this will be the rhythm of the first army!

However, whether it was Lei Xiong or Zhuang Shisan, they had already talked with Tang Dao several times before they planned to set off to Taihang Mountain. Tang Dao had more or less revealed his plans for the future, and they already knew it.

Gong Shaoxun, who joined last, was the easiest to accept, because the 67th Army and the 80th Army had been in contact earlier. Since the young marshal was imprisoned, the leaderless Northeast Army general was extremely dissatisfied with the principal, and the 80th Army was In Shaanxi Province, what started as a common enemy led to frequent high-level contacts between the two sides, but later turned into mutual appreciation. Commander Wu of the 67th Army has never been a fence-sitter, and he is open to accepting people from over there, whether it is the military headquarters or the division. There are many people from that side in the ministry, but due to the current situation, both sides are keeping it secret.

"Brother Cheng, I can only say that you are so capable of bending and stretching! It is estimated that no one among the major generals in the country can be better than you." Tang Dao looked helpless.

"Haha, then I'm afraid you have to add the rank of lieutenant general. Just my classmates, when they were in the military academy, they were often 'scammed' by me to eat and drink. I don't know how many people wanted to beat me. On the way to the great transfer There are quite a few people chasing and intercepting our troops," Brigadier Cheng Da said proudly, laughing. "It's just that they can't beat me. But now, most of them have a higher military rank than me, Old Cheng, but so what, if I don't go to see them, I can't beat them, and there's no way for me to salute them first. ”

These words made everyone happy. Think about how miserable his classmates were. They were "bullied" by this person in school and couldn't be defeated on the battlefield. It was hard to get higher than this person through the Dongfeng Army! This man was hiding in the mountains and forests to fight the Japanese.

Hey! Even if you try to show off, you can't see me, are you angry? We talked and laughed all the way to the regiment headquarters. Tang Dao treated us with tea and cigarettes, but he didn't say anything. The lieutenant colonel of the army was so anxious that he glanced at Ye Chenghuan. What did he mean by saying that he should get some fresh air first? But Ye Chenghuan is very disciplined. He is the director of the Political Training Department and is in charge of personnel and publicity. The distribution of supplies is the responsibility of the Military Supplies Department. He will not let his life get worse.

Zhuang Shisan was very tight-lipped on the other hand. He knew that it was decided by the commander of the regiment. Favors were also sold by the commander of the regiment, but it was not his turn as the director of military supplies.

And where is the Tang Dao! It's not that he deliberately whetted the appetites of the 683 brigade, but he really needed to stimulate the other two senior masters with supplies. If the 683 brigade knew about it in advance, it would lose some of the surprise.

This time Tang Dao invited the two divisions and a brigade to come to him, but he had his own little thoughts in it.

Si Xing Regiment already had sufficient weapons and equipment, but this time they spent a lot of money to purchase a large amount of arms in Linfen, most of which were actually prepared for friendly forces.

On the one hand, it is to increase the firepower of friendly forces, which will naturally increase the strength when resisting the Japanese army.

The new commander of Japan's North China Front, Gen Sugami, is not an ordinary general. What kind of indoor shroud is there? It is not comparable to indoor shrouds.

Tang Dao believed that as long as Shan Shanyuan took action, the Japanese army's use of troops in southeastern Shanxi would be far better than in the past.

Therefore, Tang Dao needs his friendly forces to be stronger, otherwise, he has no idea whether he can withstand this siege by the Japanese invaders.

Tang Dao was right to worry. The day after the interview between Shanshan Yuan and Xiang Yue Qingshi, the Japanese North China Front Army Command issued a secret order. Lieutenant General Xiang Yue Qingshi, commander of the First Army, was appointed as the commander of the Shanxi Province East Road. The commander of the army, under his command was the 2nd Mixed Brigade, the 108th Division, the 109th Division and the 16th Division under the First Army, and had the command authority to call on Japanese troops within 200 kilometers of the surrounding area.

That means that in an emergency, he can even have the rights to the 14th Division that is fighting in Henan Province.

Under normal conditions, the number of troops under his command is as high as 3 infantry divisions and a mixed brigade, with a total strength of 85,000.

This troop strength is equivalent to one-quarter of the Japanese investment in the Battle of Songhu and one-third of the Japanese investment in the Battle of Xuzhou. For a battle-level battlefield, it is already an extremely large military group.

If we have to say there are any shortcomings, it is that the 108th and 109th divisions are special divisions. Recently, due to repeated losses, many second-line soldiers have been supplemented, and their combat effectiveness is far less than that of the 5th Division. A standing division.

But don't forget, the 16th Division is a standing division, with a total strength of 28,000, and there is also the 2nd Mixed Brigade of Yamashita Fengfumi. Yamashita Fengfumi is a famous general on the Japanese island, and his The 2nd Mixed Brigade has a strength of 13,000.

The so-called mixed brigade is equipped with everything including cavalry, artillery, and transport. It is also a small division, and its combat effectiveness far exceeds that of an ordinary Chinese infantry division.

Facing such a strong enemy, it is useless to just be strong in the Four Lines Regiment. All the troops stationed in the Taihang Mountains must be strong.

It was not that the Second War Zone failed to respond. For the first time, it allocated 1 million rounds of ammunition and 3,000 artillery shells to the 80th Group Army, the main force in the theater, as well as 20,000 grenades. It also asked the 80th Army to send its other main force, the 511th Division, to one The troops were transferred back from northwest Shanxi.

It's just that these 1 million rounds of ammunition look like a lot, but if allocated to the various units of the 80th Army, which has more than 50,000 troops, it will only be an average of a few dozen rounds of ammunition per person.

A battle usually lasts ten and a half days or even longer, with dozens of rounds of bullets used.

But this is probably the limit of the old man in Shanxi. At this point, he probably has to rub his chest for a long time at night before he can fall asleep.

The boss is too stingy. If Tang Dao wants to protect itself, he can only do it by himself and spend a lot of money to buy weapons and ammunition to strengthen his allies.

Moreover, Tang Dao doesn't believe that they are soft-mouthed and short-handed in handling others, and they are not willing to cooperate with themselves in a small way.

Of course, Tang Dao is also selective. Not to mention the 683rd Brigade, the 104th Division also belongs to the Sichuan Army. Even for the sake of sending them baggage last time, they have to give them some face, and Commander Zhao of the 17th Division , Tang Dao has never seen it before, but how could such a heroic figure not see the current situation clearly?

While talking, Commander Li of the 104th Division arrived, and naturally the two chief officers, Tang Dao and Brigadier Cheng, had to go and greet him personally.

This Hechuan native has a somewhat different image. He is tall and fat, and has a loud voice. He is still on the horse, and the voice calling Brother Tang came from dozens of meters away.

When you get closer, your thick eyebrows and strong body are quite eye-catching. If he were to play Lu Zhishen in Water Margin, it would not be out of place.

However, his personality is a typical Sichuan man. He and Tang Dao exchanged greetings and gave Tang Dao a bear hug: "I've wanted to thank you for a long time, Tang Dao. The equipment sent by your Four Elements Group after traveling thousands of miles is really a timely help. , Without this batch of weapons and ammunition, my brother, I, and more than 10,000 brothers from the 104th Division would have been completely killed by the Japanese!"

Fortunately, Tang Dao was also a big man, so he was not too disadvantaged. If he had been in Zhuang Shisan's small frame, he would have probably broken several ribs in such a warm bear hug.

Even before we even got to the regiment headquarters, the signal soldiers riding fast horses over there had already come to report that Commander Zhao of the 17th Division would be arriving soon.

Hence, a lieutenant general, a major general and Tang Dao were waiting at the spot.

The security company of the Fourth Line Regiment's Special Agent Battalion, nearly 200 people, lined up in two lines along the mountain road, each holding a torch in their hands to illuminate the general who was about to arrive.

Not long after, in the bright firelight, a soldier rode a big green donkey and led a group of infantry slowly over.

That was the only general Tang Dao saw today who was not riding a horse.

Although he is wearing a military cap, his white hair on his temples is very conspicuous.

Needless to say, this person is the powerful general of the Northwest Army whom Tang Dao has long wanted to meet—Zhao Shoushan.

“Belonging to the Si Xing Regiment, salute to Chief Zhao!” Tang Dao stood up straight.

The surrounding four groups all stood at attention solemnly.

Even the two generals beside Tang Dao looked serious and saluted the general who jumped off the donkey's back and walked over.

They are not because of the superior-subordinate relationship.

The battle at Fululing of the 17th Division became famous in the entire theater.

They are paying tribute to the heroic 17th Division!

Dignity is never given by others, but earned through one's own efforts.

ps: It's New Year's Eve again, and thousands of families gather together to celebrate! Happy New Year to all book friends who support genuine reading.

(End of this chapter)

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