Rise From Eight Hundred

Three carriages, escorted by a fully armed cavalry platoon, slowly entered the mountain pass from the mountain road.

Seeing Tang Dao, dressed in military uniform, walking quickly, the leading cavalry platoon leader quickly jumped off his horse and saluted with a few big steps: "Hello, Commander Tang!"

"Tang Dao would like to express his gratitude to you brothers for coming from afar to protect Tang Dao's relatives!" Tang Dao raised his hand to return the salute and looked around.

"It's my duty, you are polite!" The cavalry platoon leader looked terrified.

More than 30 cavalrymen did not dismount, but all sat upright on the horseback to return the salute.

Even though Tang Dao had arrived, it was still during the mission, and the cavalrymen still did not dismount and kept a vigilant posture at any time, which showed that they were all elite.

That was because this cavalry platoon belonged to the 17th Division Headquarters, was the most personal guard unit of the white-haired general, and was also familiar with Tang Dao.

"Ama!" Tan Tai Mingyue rushed towards a woman with a bun and a light blue jacket skirt who got off the carriage.

"My dear daughter!" The woman hugged Tan Tai Ming Yue who rushed over, tears welling up in her eyes.

Although she still had news about her daughter and saw special articles signed by her daughter in the newspaper from time to time, as a mother, how could she feel at ease as if she saw her daughter in person and held her in her arms? Especially in such a wartime.

"Let me take a good look at my dear daughter. She has become darker and thinner! Is there nothing to eat here? Mom brought you your favorite mung bean cake, which Mom made herself." The woman touched her daughter's face, feeling distressed.

"No, although we are in the mountains, we have vegetables and meat, and the food is still good. Mom, you will know after living here for a while." Tan Tai Ming Yue couldn't let her mother have this impression as soon as she came, so she quickly refuted.

"By the way, where is your father, that old bastard? He said before he left that he would give money to his daughter, but he didn't come back after the money was delivered. He left a whole family of hundreds of people to me, and he was lazy." The woman looked into the distance, but she didn't see the shadow of the handsome old man Tan Tai, and her willow eyebrows immediately stood up.

The woman's eyebrows and eyes were actually 70% similar to Tan Tai Mingyue, but she was much more plump. When she showed anger, the momentum of the mistress of the family was fully revealed.

The heart of a certain regiment commander standing not far away was tense again. Looking at this posture, the future mother-in-law is very powerful!

"Ahem! Madam, your husband is here!" The handsome old man Tan Tai came over from the other side of the carriage with a frown, followed by a handsome young man who looked like he hadn't woken up yet.

The handsome young man looked over everyone and looked curiously at Tang Dao who was standing straight like a pine tree. Tang Dao sensed the boy's curious gaze and smiled at him from a distance.

The unique demeanor of a soldier shocked the young man.

If this is my brother-in-law, my dress and temperament should be okay. I feel good about myself.

Perhaps Tang Dao has not realized a problem at this time. Young men have always been passionate!

"Huh? My daughter is dark and thin, but you are white and fat. Did you run out to hang out with your friends instead of your daughter?" The woman glanced at the handsome old man Tan Tai who came over, and her eyes were almost rolled up to the sky.

"How could it be? Madam, you don't know! I am now the director of the Military Industry Department of the Four-line Regiment. I led soldiers to fight the Japanese a while ago. If you don't believe me, go and ask." Tan Tai Yunshu cried out in grievance. "Is it, Mingyue, my daughter!"

The handsome old man Tan Tai probably feared his wife to the bone, and for a moment he didn't even notice the reminder of Tan Tai Mingyue's eyebrow squeezing.

Originally, she was only worried about her daughter, but now, both father and daughter have joined the army, and Tang Dao, the future mother-in-law, has something to worry about.

"You" When the woman heard her husband say that he had actually joined the front line, her face turned pale.

"Madam, let's talk about it when we get back. The man over there is our future son-in-law and my current boss. I have to obey him in everything, otherwise I will lose my head in a moment. See if you like him first. If you say no, we still have time to change him now. I will go home with you tomorrow." The handsome old man Tan Tai pointed at Tang Dao, who was standing straight a few meters away as if he was meeting his superior, and started to play the trick of diverting trouble.

Tan Tai Mingyue's eyes almost rolled up. If she had known that her father would play the trick of "I would rather die than die", she would have reminded him. She would have asked her mother to kill him tonight.

"Mom, I'm Tang Dao. It's hard for you to come all the way here!" Tang Dao suppressed the urge to kick away the future Lao Taishan who was eager to get away but didn't hesitate to put his son-in-law in trouble, and hurried forward to greet him.

"Haha, Tang Dao! I've seen your photo in the newspaper several times, but this is the first time I've seen you in person. It's really like what Gua Nan said in the letter, a great man! Although I've traveled thousands of miles this time, it's a bit hard for my body, but seeing Gua Nan and you, this little hardship is nothing!" Unexpectedly, the woman's attitude towards Tang Dao was particularly gentle.

Tan Tai Yunshu was stunned. With his understanding of his old wife's personality, it shouldn't be like this!

For the person who snatched her precious daughter, shouldn't the old wife with a strong personality give a cold face to express her dissatisfaction?

Just like when he married his wife thirty years ago, Lao Taishan and his mother-in-law began to look down on him anyway!

Old Tan Tai was obviously overthinking it. He didn't even think about his reputation before he got married. He was a well-known playboy in the circle of famous families in Jiangnan. If Madam Tan Tai hadn't insisted on marrying him, how could her family, who were also from a big family, be willing?

Compared with the reputation of the young Tan Tai, the anti-Japanese hero, Tang Dao's reputation is far different from that of the young Tan Tai. Moreover, Tang Dao did the work first.

The Tan Tai family is a large family. When the Battle of Songhu started, more than 200 people in the family moved from Jiangnan to Jiangcheng.

After Tang Dao and Tan Tai Mingyue expressed their feelings to each other, Tang Dao asked Tan Tai Mingyue to tell his family that Jiangcheng was not safe, and going south was not the best choice. They should go to the southwest.

Tan Tai Mingyue always believed in Tang Dao's judgment, so he wrote a letter to ask his parents who had already purchased a property in Jiangcheng to go to the southwest. This kind of big event of moving the whole family could not be decided by Tan Tai Mingyue?

Fortunately, after Tan Tai came to the Four Lines Group, he saw with his own eyes that his future son-in-law was invincible all the way. What was important was his invincible military talent. He immediately sent a telegram to let the clan move to the southwest.

In the end, the Tan Tai family chose Rongcheng instead of Shancheng, which is why Tang Dao did not visit Tan Tai's family when he went home to visit his relatives. Otherwise, he would have met his future mother-in-law long ago.

However, when Tang Dao and Tan Tai Mingyue set the wedding date and sent a telegram to the Tan Tai family, Mrs. Tan Tai replied by telegram that she would come to attend her daughter's wedding no matter what, otherwise, she would definitely regret it in the second half of her life.

This is understandable. Since the war began, Mrs. Tan Tai has not seen her precious daughter for almost two years. As a result, her daughter is going to become someone else's wife. That's fine, but even her husband hasn't returned home for almost a year. Would that woman be happy?

When this telegram came, both Tan Tai and his daughter couldn't help but have a headache. They knew that it was still wartime in the army. Not to mention that Mrs. Tan Tai would be in danger if she went thousands of miles away. If the battlefield was stalemate, even the wedding that was scheduled to be held on time in the New Year was still unknown.

Moreover, once they crossed the Yellow River, they would enter the war zone. Who would guarantee their safety? If they were attacked by the Japanese army, the father and daughter would probably never get out of this life.

It was Tang Dao, the son-in-law, who made the final decision. If you want to come, then come!

However, the itinerary and the escort personnel had to be arranged by him.

Mrs. Tan Tai set out from Rongcheng. The commander of the 22nd Army Group personally telegraphed and ordered to use two infantry platoons to go through northern Sichuan to Hanzhong and then to Chang'an. There, except for a few servants of the Tan Tai family, the main escort personnel would be taken over by the 28th Division under the 10th War Zone to be responsible for the security of Shaanxi Province.

In fact, the Tan Tai family, who set out from Rongcheng in early December, moved very slowly to ensure safety because Japanese planes invaded Shaanxi Province from time to time during the Tongguan Battle. When they arrived in Chang'an, it was already after New Year's Day.

But at that time, the Zhongtiao Mountains and Taihang Mountains were rumbling with artillery fire, and the war was unclear. The 28th Division Commander Dong, who had ensured that Tongguan was safe, went to Chang'an to entertain the Tan Tai family and his party in person to avoid Mrs. Tan Tai's anxiety.

That wait lasted for more than 20 days. The 28th Division, grateful for Tang Dao's help, not only sent a guard platoon to protect the safety of the Tan Tai family, but also a colonel from the 28th Division's Chang'an Office often accompanied the Tan Tai family to visit many scenic spots in Chang'an.

During this period, I don't know how much Tang Tuanzuo was praised.

When the battle of Zhongtiao Mountain ended, even the commander of the 10th War Zone sent an adjutant to see him off on his behalf, and sent him to the Yellow River by military truck. Only then was the cavalry platoon of the 17th Division Guard Battalion, who had been waiting for a long time, responsible for taking over.

After arriving at Zhongtiao Mountain, let alone the brigade commander and division commander, even the group army-level general commander Tan Taijia had met two of them. It goes without saying how high Tang Tuanzuo's reputation in the army was. The importance of the various armies along the way was fully reflected.

Anyway, this is definitely not the treatment that the Tan Tai family deserves for its reputation. With the reputation of the old Tan Tai, there will be receptions in various places, but the military will never go to such lengths to mobilize so many troops.

With this premise, if Mrs. Tan Tai, the future mother-in-law of Tang Dao, does not have a good impression of Tang Dao, then there is really no one else.

In addition, Tang Tuanzuo’s dress is not for nothing. Mrs. Tan Tai, who comes from a big family, may value talent more, but personal appearance and temperament are not dispensable.

Tang Tuanzuo is wearing a new military uniform today. The three golden triangles on the collar badge of the army colonel were also polished by Tan Tai Mingyue, who knows his mother's temperament very well, for half a day. In addition, Tang Dao’s 1.8-meter tall figure shows the unique toughness and handsomeness of a soldier to the fullest wherever he stands.

Madam Tantai has lived in Jiangnan for a long time and has seen all kinds of talented men. She has long been tired of seeing those weak scholar-type pretty boys. Suddenly seeing a tough guy like Tang Dao, she naturally feels fresh. In addition, her daughter has already decided that she will get married, so she may have a bad attitude towards her future son-in-law.

The cavalry platoon of the 17th Division was responsible for sending the convoy to be protected to the mountain pass 60 miles away from Dakouzidong Town, and then said goodbye to Tang Dao and returned.

Tang Dao did not stay either. After asking Long Yan, who was accompanying him, to send canned beef and fine grains for the horses to the cavalry platoon, he bowed and said goodbye to them.

The white-haired general was one of the witnesses of his wedding this time. He will set off to rush here tomorrow. This cavalry platoon is probably also responsible for the task of reconnaissance along the way, and will never stay here for long.

The 4th Regiment came with him this time, in addition to a platoon of the cavalry battalion, there was also a platoon of the mountain infantry company. In the area controlled by the 80th Army, the defense force was sufficient.

If Tang Dao had not refused, there would have been an infantry company of the 683rd Brigade. But even so, Tang Dao actually knew that in order to ensure the safety of his mother-in-law and her entourage, Brigade Commander Cheng had already sent a main infantry battalion of the 772nd Regiment to deploy defenses along the way dozens of miles away, and informed the regiment headquarters at any time through signal trees. Otherwise, even Tang Dao could not accurately know that they would arrive this morning.

This favor was not small, and Tang Dao had no choice but to accept it.

It just so happened that the Czech light machine guns that were eliminated by the four regiments this time were as high as 128, plus the 60 Type 24 heavy machine guns and dozens of Type 82 mortars brought by the new recruits, and they were divided among the 683rd Brigade and the 17th Division. These two big brothers should be satisfied.

Tang Dao had already made plans. The MG42 was used as a squad light machine gun, and all the MG34s were replaced with tripods and long barrels to become company-level heavy machine guns to support vitality, while the 7mm heavy machine guns were still assigned to the battalion artillery company, which could be used for both air defense and long-range firepower.

In this way, the Four-Line Regiment can form three levels in terms of machine gun support firepower, and the fire support for infantry can be called a qualitative leap.

The only disadvantage is that it consumes a little bullets!

But after more than half a year of development, Mr. Xiao He's military factory has also developed into four major workshops, one department and one branch factory.

The workshops are gunpowder workshops, light weapons manufacturing workshops, ammunition workshops, and mechanical workshops. The first department is the equipment design department, and the branch factory is the steel plant!

The ammunition workshop alone can produce 400,000 rounds of various types of bullets and 3,000 small-caliber artillery shells in a month, which can basically meet the needs of the Four-Line Regiment for one battle.

This does not include the No. 1 weapons laboratory in Handan. Although it is led by Grunov to design and test and manufacture new weapons provided by Tang Dao, there are also many machine tools and raw materials provided by Krupp. In line with the principle of not wasting production capacity, some ammunition can also be produced.

These outputs have basically been digested by the 80th Army. They are responsible for providing raw materials, and Handan is responsible for providing them with 150,000 machine rifle bullets and 1,000 small-caliber artillery shells per month.

Of course, for this batch of ammunition, the 80th Army also used regular troops for a long time to provide transportation and escort for various materials transported from Handan to Taihang Mountain, so it was not just for nothing.

The Four-Line Regiment alone does not have such a strong force, which is the importance of cooperation.

In order to avoid suspicion, the 80th Army Headquarters may not have big figures attending Tang Dao's wedding this time, but the 921st Division has sent out all its elites, giving Tang Dao enough face.

Tang Dao also made a decision that he would give them a bigger surprise at that time, in addition to the batch of light and heavy machine guns.

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Not many people came from the Tan Tai family this time, except for Mrs. Tan Tai and Tan Tai Mingyue's younger brother Tan Tai Mingjing, the boy that Tang Dao recognized at a glance.

The boy was a little shy, but he was quite generous to Tang Dao, his future brother-in-law, but his eyes full of admiration made Tang Dao a little confused.

This kid should not be foolish enough to join the army, otherwise, with the momentum of his future mother-in-law, his life will definitely not be easy.

The other two people are Madam Tan Tai's personal maids, and the other four are the guards of the Tan Tai family. Everyone carries a Mauser pistol and a narrow knife on their backs, looking quite tough.

There are not many people, but there are a lot of things, which are enough to fill a whole carriage. Although the things are some silk and soft things commonly used in the Jiangnan area, some household quilts made of new cotton, and even exquisite porcelain from Jingdezhen, they are not like the gold, silver and jewelry of some wealthy families as dowry, but this can better reflect Madam Tan Tai's care for her daughter.

She was afraid that her daughter would not live well in such a mountain, and she wanted to move some household utensils here.

Especially when the red wedding dress was taken out, Tan Tai Mingyue's eyes were red, because it was woven and sewn by Madam Tan Tai herself.

Since receiving the news from his daughter last year, Old Tan Tai took the money from selling his family property to help his daughter, while Mrs. Tan Tai, who stayed at home, turned her longing for her daughter into this stitch, even though the whole family had to migrate to the distant southwestern mountainous area because of the war, and the whole year of 1938 was turbulent.

But the thread in the hands of the loving mother never stopped, until she finally received the news that her daughter was going to get married, and this red wedding dress made of mulberry silk was finally woven.

On the way back to Dakouzidong Town, the mother and daughter who had not seen each other for a long time sat in the carriage and talked, but Tang Dao's brother-in-law, who was less than 17 years old, resolutely refused to take the carriage, but rode a war horse to follow Tang Dao.

"Brother-in-law, did you really fight five Japanese soldiers alone and kill five?"

"Brother-in-law, can you tell me how you chased my eldest sister? With her not-so-gentle personality, I thought she would never get married."

"Brother-in-law, tell me how you beat the Japanese soldiers! I want to beat them, too."

Along the way, Tan Tai Ming Jing asked Tang Dao a million questions, which made him dizzy.

Tang Tuan Zuo finally discovered that the most terrifying person in the Tan Tai family was not the future mother-in-law, but the curious brother-in-law.

In the end, the collapsed Tang Tuan Zuo simply took off the 'Black Star Pistol' from his waist and threw it directly to the boy: "Do you want to shoot? Let Dayu teach you."

"Yes, yes, it has to be you, brother-in-law. No wonder my sister loves you so much." Tan Tai Ming Jing, who finally achieved his wish, smiled with a smile, and the flattery was as endless as the Yellow River.

Xia Dayu

Let you, who has a hundred thousand questions, know what a real soldier is first! Looking at the deep meaning in the eyes of his frail peers and the commander of the regiment, the little bald man smiled brightly.

When they camped at night, they would go to shoot guns whenever they had a rest. During the day, he was still very interested and had emptied 10 magazines. His wrist was swollen like a steamed bun. Under the massage of Tang Dao, the boy's screams were comparable to the howling of wolves in the mountains.

The Black Star pistol is powerful enough, and the recoil is amazing. Not to mention a young man like Tan Tai Mingjing, even an old gunman rarely shoots so many bullets a day.

Tan Tai Mingyue didn't know how many times she rolled her eyes at Tang Dao, but Mrs. Tan Tai was getting more and more fond of her son-in-law.

The woman who had experienced nearly fifty years of worldly affairs didn't know that Tang Dao was telling the young boy who was not familiar with the world with facts that war was much more cruel than you imagined, and it was also an opportunity to dispel some of the boy's unrealistic impulses.

Unfortunately, once the stubborn gene of the Tan Tai family awakens, it cannot be stopped by human power.