Rise From Eight Hundred

After the merit-granting meeting, Tang Dao announced that all members of the regiment, except for those on combat duty, would have a three-day holiday from now on!

The whole audience cheered!

This means that from the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month to the New Year's Eve and then to the first day of the new year, the soldiers of the regiment no longer have to get up at 6 o'clock every morning to run exercises, train for 4 hours in the morning, 3 hours in the afternoon, and do more than two hours of cultural and political studies in the evening.

Most people may not be afraid of physical fitness, gun shooting and other training, but the 2 and a half hours of reading and writing after dinner are really life-threatening, especially the mathematics, physics, and chemistry taught by Teacher He, which made a bunch of big-headed soldiers full of questions. They didn't understand at all, what was the use of those twists and turns of symbols?

But the fact is that the guns and bullets in their hands are the creations of these symbols.

Perhaps only a very small group of people can understand what Teacher He is saying.

Of course, this does not prevent the soldiers from respecting the teachers very much, and it has nothing to do with whether they can understand or not and whether they are very painful.

Fortunately, in addition to a certain assessment mechanism for literacy, the regiment has no restrictions on test scores for other subjects, so that contestants like Long Yan, who got 6 points by blind guessing, are all boasting about it all over the world. Who made his cheap brother-in-law, a rough guy, get an egg?

And what makes Lieutenant Long most proud is that his military rank is now a match for his sister and future brother-in-law. In formal occasions, the 'greasy middle-aged man' who snatched his sister away has to salute him.

Unfortunately, the happiness of the sister is not subject to the will of Lieutenant Long. The 'greasy middle-aged man' has been busy marrying the female leader of Yeyue Village a few days ago, which resulted in Lieutenant Long not being able to be idle during the rare three-day holiday.

He wants to send the sister off to marry!

The only thing that makes Lieutenant Long happy is that this time, his Long family does not have to follow the rules of Yeyue Village to give a crazy dowry, but it saves a lot of money.

Because the sister chose a new-style wedding!

For most of the troops of the Four-Line Regiment, the greatest happiness is that they don't have to train or study, and finally have free time to go to the town restaurant to eat hot pot and drink some wine with their fellow villagers or close comrades.

Although everyone is in the same regiment, the distance between their garrisons is far apart. On weekdays, they are either training or on the way to the training ground. When the war starts, everyone has to pack their backpacks and rush to the battlefield.

Even many times, those familiar names will appear on the list of casualties. The brief encounter and waving greetings a few days or months ago will become forever.

This three-day vacation is a rare opportunity to reunite and talk.

For the officers and soldiers whose families are in Dakouzidong Town, it is even more rare. They rarely have time to spend with their families, and these three days and 72 hours are precious.

"Director Ye, are you letting the sheep go now? What if the Japanese take advantage of the gap when we relax our vigilance during the New Year to launch a sneak attack?" A colonel of the 46th Brigade, who still lacks some understanding of the Four-Line Regiment, asked curiously.

"Brother, don't worry, just drink and eat meat. Let's not talk about whether the 108th and 109th divisions dare to come. Even if they dare to come, Taihang Mountain is our Taihang Mountain. If they dare to come, don't leave. Give us a New Year's dinner." Wang Xiaoqiang on the side answered directly for his old superior.

"Besides, brother, do you think the Four-Line Regiment really put their horses in the mountains and put their weapons into storage? I guess even the Japanese themselves don't believe it!"

This is the truth. Sakai Naotsugu, who was far away in Changzhi, held the information sent by the secret agent in Taihang Mountain: "The Four-Line Regiment's base celebrated the New Year in a big way, and the defense was empty!"

"Asshole! Can't you see such a simple trap? Tang Dao is really a big threat to the empire. He is always thinking about harming the empire." Sakai Naotsugu angrily threw the information that the secret agent risked his life to send back to the division headquarters into the garbage dump.

The more gay you are, the more easily you will be frustrated!

The first thing that the new division commander, Naotsugu Sakai, did was to establish his authority in the entire division. This fire burned vigorously. Seeing the fat and thick thigh of a certain prince behind him, the major general brigade commander and colonels of the 108th Division gave him enough face.

But the second fire of beating the Four-Line Regiment was just lit, and it almost roasted Naotsugu Sakai himself. What does it mean that an infantry regiment is trapped in the vast mountains?

Counting the Russo-Japanese War decades ago, this is probably the only one in the history of the Japanese Army!

If there were no more miserable Major General Motoichi Nishimura and Lieutenant General Shigeru Suematsu as the bottom, Naotsugu Sakai would have had the urge to draw his command knife to make his intentions clear several times.

Especially when he thought that his 108th Division might be facing only one of the Four-Line Regiment, Naotsugu Sakai felt that Kikuka was nervous and he couldn't beat even half of it, not to mention that the main force was now gathered.

Finally, during the Chinese New Year, the Four-Line Regiment stopped attacking several counties. Naotsugu Sakai thought he should just say Amitabha, and the defense of the Shenba Ga was empty.

After complaining about this in his heart, Naotsugu Sakai's eyes suddenly condensed, as if he suddenly grasped something important.

Could it be that Tang Dao, the confidant of the empire, played another trick of "secretly crossing Chencang"! It seems that they are celebrating the New Year, but in fact they sent their main force out of the mountains to attack several counties!

"Order the garrisons in each county to strengthen their vigilance, especially in the past few days, double the number of night patrols!" Naotsugu Sakai ordered.

Therefore, the colonel commander of the 46th Independent Brigade was worried that the 108th Division, which had retreated to the county towns, would be on high alert, with double sentries at night. This year was much more tense than usual.

Of course, the Four-Line Regiment was not as relaxed on the outside and tight on the inside as the guests saw on the surface.

The four major infantry battalions, the security battalion, the baggage battalion, the cavalry battalion, the artillery battalion, the special service battalion, and other units, including the mountain infantry company directly under the regiment, all had one company on full alert.

The total number of troops on New Year's alert duty was about 1,800!

The rest of the units also had enough duty personnel.

Except for special reasons, the actual company commanders and school-level officers must stay at the garrison.

The combat duty troops were divided into three shifts according to 24 hours a day, with two companies in each shift, maintaining a rapid response of more than 500 troops.

Moreover, with the response speed of the Sixing Regiment when the whole regiment sounded the alarm, except for the more than 2,000 people who returned home, the 8,000 officers and soldiers still in the garrison could gather and rush to the battlefield within 5 minutes.

Even the officers and soldiers who had already returned home could return to the garrison and assemble within 1 hour when they received the emergency return signal.

The officers and soldiers who returned home were no more than 10 miles away from the garrison. Tomorrow, on New Year's Eve, the regiment will have a big party, and all military families have been invited to the garrison by the Sixing Regiment.

At that time, there will be food and drink, as well as the legendary lottery. Who would not come with their family?

Of course, more importantly, at noon on New Year's Eve, there will be the wedding of Tang Tuanzuo and Tan Tai Mingyue. To be more precise, it is the first collective wedding held by the Sixing Regiment, led by the commander of the regiment himself.

The officers of the Four-Line Regiment are all quite old, especially veterans like Shen Laoliu who have been in the army for five or six years. They are about to turn thirty. Chinese people believe that "the three unfilial acts are not having descendants, the greatest of which is not having descendants". It's not easy to find someone who likes you, so why not hurry up?

And last year on New Year's Eve, there was a large-scale blind date in the suburbs of Zhengcheng. Over the past year, there have been many ladies who followed their parents to this poor mountain valley. They have already liked each other, and with the help of their parents, seven or eight couples have settled down.

For example, Wei Donglai, a captain infantry company commander with both talent and appearance, his girlfriend's father is the brother-in-law of Mr. Qian. For the happiness of his daughter, his family, which is not very wealthy, invested nearly 80,000 yuan to open a cotton clothing factory in Dakouzidong Town.

The scale is not that large, but in the past six months, more than 60,000 sets of winter clothes and 40,000 sets of quilts have been provided to the Four-line Regiment and the Eighth Army, greatly alleviating the pressure of the Eighth Army's new recruits not having suitable winter clothes to wear. This time, Brigade Commander Cheng went to this cotton clothing factory to thank the boss Leng.

And the eldest daughter of the Leng family is also a woman who is as brave as a man. She did not stay at home in Dakouzidong Town, but organized a group of sisters and opened a mutual aid association for widows and widows, specifically to provide help for women whose husbands died or whose husbands were fighting on the front line, which greatly relieved the pressure of the logistics department of the Four-line Regiment.

The logistics department led by Zhuang Shisan has the function of assisting these women, but these soldiers are rough and will send some rice and flour regularly. How can they know what these sisters-in-law need besides food and drink?

The elderly need to be taken care of when they are sick, the children need to eat when they are hungry, and they have to do farm work and earn money to support the family. Who can the women who have lost their pillars of support tell about their pain?

The mutual aid association, which had more than 50 female volunteers and more than 3,000 registered members within four months of its establishment, perfectly made up for the shortcomings of the logistics department of the Four-Line Regiment in caring for women.

Not to mention that Zhuang Shisan was very grateful, Tang Dao, who heard about this, took time out of his busy schedule to visit the mutual aid association after returning, and gave it a high evaluation, and allocated 50,000 yuan for its later operation.

If Wei Donglai doesn't hurry up to grab such a wife, he is not stupid, but a big fool!

This wedding must be held quickly, and the duck in the pot cannot be allowed to fly again!

However, it is too troublesome to hold a wedding one by one, and the chief officers of the Four-Line Regiment have to act separately, which is not lively at all.

Tang Dao suddenly thought of the collective wedding in the future military camp. Although this is almost non-existent in this era, there must be a first time for everything, right?

Tang Tuanzuo is the kind of person who often breaks the rules. It is not surprising that the soldiers of the Four-Line Regiment heard the new word "collective wedding", and all the soldiers who plan to get married during this New Year are still very excited.

Being a groom with the regiment commander is not an opportunity that everyone can get. Besides, there will be so many generals watching the ceremony. Who can get this treatment normally?

But the newlyweds themselves do not object, but it does not mean there is no resistance, especially those traditional families, who are willing to marry their precious daughters so easily?

It would be fine if they did not go to the girl's house to marry, but they did not even pretend to do it. The girl came to the regiment directly, and the two sides exchanged wedding tokens. Then the wedding host announced that the ceremony was over, and the daughter was married. The parents of that family had to agree!

Not to mention those who were bound by old traditional ideas, even the open-minded couple like Tan Tai and his wife had reservations when they heard the term collective wedding for the first time.

The reason why Mrs. Tan Tai came across thousands of mountains and rivers was that she had imagined countless times in her mind the scene of her and her husband sending their daughter to the sedan chair. Wouldn't the mother and daughter hug and cry for a while?

The result was great, the mother was here, the sedan chair was gone, and her daughter didn’t have to say goodbye to her. She could just stand on the stage with that brat and give a wedding speech, and that was it.

How does it feel to be a parent when your sweetheart of more than 20 years simply gets married?

This knot in the heart cannot be solved by the soldiers who are the sons-in-law, so they can only rely on the women to do the work!

"Don't think that your daughter's marriage is easy. My parents-in-law are still in my hometown thousands of miles away. My son can't even have a cup of tea with his wife when he gets married! When we hold wine in my hometown, my son and his wife can't even arrive. "Where do you want them to go to reason with me?" Tantai Mingyue's words made Mrs. Tantai speechless, and she could only raise her hands in hatred to hit her daughter.

"You stinky girl, you're not even married yet! Why do you call me the father-in-law and the mother-in-law, so that others can't hear and laugh at me, the daughter of the Tantai family, who is in such a hurry to get married?"

"Mom, you are right. My sister is not in a hurry to get married! I came here but I heard that someone is thinking about my brother-in-law! I heard that he is still a foreign girl." Tantai Mirror smiled. 'Explain' to my own mother.

"Foreign girl? Then dear girl, what do you have to worry about? Let me tell you! Your father also met a blond and blue-eyed foreign woman in Jinling City back then. I heard your father praise his ink paintings, although I guess he You can’t even understand the Chinese, but those green eyes are shining. Your father is playing harder and harder, spitting all over your Uncle Nie’s face. "Mrs. Tantai But she didn't take it seriously, and digressed thirty-eight thousand miles away to reassure her daughter.

"Madam, that's all happened in the Year of the Monkey. Why are you bringing this up?" The old handsome man from Tantai said weakly as the sweat started to fall from his forehead.

That’s it! It's okay for the couple to quarrel with each other, but in front of their grown-up children, the old handsome guy from Tantai is still a little embarrassed.

After all, who doesn’t want to maintain the image of a father as tall as a mountain in front of his children?

"Mom, what happens next?" Tantai Mingyue almost broke her belly laughing as she looked at her father who suddenly became cautious.

"You were only one year old at that time, and you weren't even a little bastard like Tantai Mingjing! When I heard about this, I took you in a carriage to Jinling City to see how the foreign iron pickaxe from there dared to pry the corner of my wall. , guess what the result is?" When Mrs. Tantai mentioned this past event 20 years ago, she was as high-spirited as a female general.

"That golden hair, like tiger hair, and those green eyes, my mother, is just the female ghost in the picture book! This is not your father's aesthetic point, what should I worry about? ? I took you to live at Jinling University for half a month. You see, it’s different since you were exposed to spiritual energy since you were a child. You are much better than this little bastard Tantai Mingjing, and you are still worrying about me. "

The old handsome man from Tantai, who was exposed to the embarrassing incident in his youth, glared at Tantai Mingjing, who was suffering from an unreasonable disaster. The subtext did not need to be translated: "Let you talk too much, you little bastard, and I will wait for you!"

who I am? Where am I? Tantai Mingjing was confused.

Aren’t we talking about my sister’s marriage? Why did one of them scold me and the other want to beat me?

It was his unlucky fate. Ever since he arrived at the Si Xing Tuan station, the hot-blooded young man had gone to Xia Dayu to practice his marksmanship at dawn every day. He also ran 3 kilometers with a sandbag tied on his back, as if he had abandoned literature and embraced martial arts.

It's strange that the Tantai couple could like him now. Now Lao Tantai finally found an opportunity to get rid of this unlucky child.

Only Tantai Mingyue sighed in her heart, blond hair and blue eyes were not in her father's taste, so how could he be so eloquent?

If a man is not interested in a certain woman, he doesn't even bother to say a word.

If Grandma can successfully repel her opponent, she probably has to be able to frighten the foreign men and women who are thinking about it by running for 300 miles!

As for Laura, she had seen it with her own eyes. Although her appearance could not be called extremely beautiful, the temperament of a noblewoman from a big family would make it difficult for even Tantai Mingyue to be hostile to her, let alone as a man. What about Tang Dao?

But Tang Dao is better than she imagined. No matter who is in front or behind, they all keep a distance from this proud woman with billions of wealth and breathtaking beauty. This may be why she feels a deep sense of security in Tang Dao. One of the reasons for the feeling!

After all, Dantai Mingjing is too young. She is in a hurry to get married, not because of the so-called external threats. She simply loves that man and shares his fate with him. Even if one day the husband and wife die on the battlefield, for Dan For Tai Mingyue, she has no regrets.

Those who have not experienced love, or love in the flames of war, will not understand.

Tantai Mingyue convinced her parents, but one person was extremely hesitant and had been wandering back and forth on the cold mountain road for many days carrying homemade toys and carrying a cloth bag.

Even the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month is no exception!

Lieutenant Colonel Leng Feng Leng, who is extremely courageous on the battlefield and has thousands of capable troops charging into battle at the first command. He is known as the cold-faced Yama in the Four Elements Regiment. From the moment Tang Dao announced the mass wedding, he was entangled.

"If you want to marry Qingru, you can report here to me for a purpose. Why, you have to ask me, the leader of the regiment, to help you propose? I am in charge of heaven and earth and killing Japanese devils, but I can still control Qingru." For example, does your sister-in-law want to marry you?

I'll tell you, Leng Feng, the collective wedding will be held on New Year's Eve. If you don't fight for it, then you can just keep waiting until you two are old, you have no teeth, and your voice is leaking. "Tang Dao was furious at Leng Feng's inexplicable retreat.

Didn't Li Jiujin say that he would propose to her after the battle on the eve of the Black Dragon Pond Battle? Why is he dragging his feet now?

"But, but I've been back for many days, and Qingru is hiding from me." The courageous Leng Dayu on the battlefield is not as green as Xia Dayu in this regard.

"Isn't it! Then think about it yourself, and make your own decision after you think it through. "Tang Dao said this and was too lazy to talk to him anymore.

The merit-granting ceremony was over, and there were less than 24 hours left for the collective wedding. The other 20 couples were either in the army and could decide for themselves, or had already talked to their parents-in-law in Dakouzidong Town. Battalion Commander Leng had been dawdling for several days and hadn't even found a wife.

To be more precise, he hadn't even seen the person.

This was probably the most bizarre existence of the Four Lines Group.